version 2.4.2 and NT

2001-01-02 Thread Alexander von Homeyer
Since now we have installed Amanda 2.4.1p1 which doesn't support exclude lists in Samba backups. Because I thought the current version 2.4.2 does we've downloaded it. But after reading the docs I coudn't find any hint in there. Just to be sure once again the question: does version 2.4.2 support

Re: GNU-Tar vs dump/restore ...

2001-01-02 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Hrmmm ... could you set this on a directory and have it ignore all files/directories under that directory too? And, the --with-dump-onor-nodump option .. is that enabled on client or server, or both? Thanks ... On 2 Jan 2001, Greg Troxel wrote: With BSD dump on 4.4BSD-derived systems, one

Re: GNU-Tar vs dump/restore ...

2001-01-02 Thread Greg Troxel
A quick perusal of the documentation (src/sbin/dump/traverse.c) indicates that dump walks the inode list and performs the nodump flag check on each file individually. grep HAVE_HONOR */*.c client-src/sendbackup-dump.c:#ifdef HAVE_HONOR_NODUMP client-src/sendbackup-dump.c:#ifdef

AMFLUSH

2001-01-02 Thread Joshua E Warchol
I have a problem. Because of the newyear I was not in to flip tapes on monday night. Like a good girl Amanda dumped to the holding disk just fine. When I got in this morning I grabbed my tapes and ran amflush. Needless to say, it was a good newyear so I'm not all there right now. I put in tape

updated mtx script?

2001-01-02 Thread Mike Cathey
Someone was going to release an updated mtx script on the list...did I miss it? Thanks, Mike

nasty % bug during backup

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher McCrory
Hello... I setup amanda this past week. I had several questions, all of which were answered by looking at the list archives. Thanks to all. Amanda RULES! I did run into a bug though. While I was doing test backups this is what happened: All scsi drives DLT-8000 tape

Re: AMFLUSH

2001-01-02 Thread Jens Bech Madsen
Joshua E Warchol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Needless to say, it was a good newyear so I'm not all there right now. I put in tape 10 in our rotation, while amadmin was expecting tape 9. It said "Expecting tape 9 or new tape". It then said "do you want to flush these images to tape?" I

Re: nasty % bug during backup

2001-01-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Christopher, On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:19:32AM -0800, Christopher McCrory wrote: All the small partitions went first and taped fine. The rest of the larger partitions taped fine. Then the last two. Two ~20 gig partitions with ~10 gigs used. The amstatus showed an estimate size of

Re: Files after AMFLUSH

2001-01-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 08:29:43AM -0800, Wang Chen wrote: Hi, Amanda did not finish for a unknow reason on Dec.29,and I did amflush in the same day afternoon. After it done, I found a .tmp file left on holding dir. On Dec. 30, the backup did not get done either. There was also a same

Wrong tape / amdump question

2001-01-02 Thread Shane T. Ferguson
Hi, how do I get Amanda to dump the filesystems to holding disk if it finds the wrong tape in the drive (which I can manually flush them to tape at a later time)? I am running Amanda 2.4.2 on RH6.1 (2.2.18). The dumps work fine when the 'proper' tape is in the drive. It is almost like the dumps

creating and index after the fact

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher McCrory
Hello... I started to test the issue with my previous email. I thought to myself, "self, I need more stuff on the holding disk, why not use this as an opertunity to test a restore". I left "index no" in my config from my testing. :( Is there a way to create an index from the

RE: Wrong tape / amdump question

2001-01-02 Thread Shane T. Ferguson
When the wrong tape is in the drive, the dump suspends - it gets all the estimates from the other servers but when I check amstatus, I get "wait for dumping" for each filesystem (even after manually putting the correct tape in the drive). I ended up killing each process and running amcleanup.

amcheck errors

2001-01-02 Thread Mike Windbigler
Help- Here are the problems that I am currently having. All help is greatly appreciated. Mike [amanda@host238 sbin]$ ./amcheck Daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 6564604 KB disk space available, that's plenty NOTE: skipping

Re: Backup of soft-raid device?

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Karakas
Rainer Hofmann wrote: Is it possible to backup a device /dev/md0/, which is a software raid level 0, at all? Yes, I use tar (1.13.18) for that without any problems. In the disklist, I use directory names, instead of devices. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5:

Why selfcheck does not go to raw disk

2001-01-02 Thread Wang Chen
Hi all, I add a new client, did what I did as last time. From backup server , run amcheck Daily. I got Permission denied for new adding. Checked the /tmp/amanda/selfcheck.debug, the line as following: checking disk c0t0d0s1: device /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1: Permission denied . Why the selfcheck goes

Re: AMFLUSH

2001-01-02 Thread Joshua E Warchol
Hmm, that seems to go counter to what I believe Amanda wants to do. During a normal amdump session it will not write to tape 10 if it expects tape 9, so why do this during a flush? Hmm. On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:34:09PM +0100, Jens Bech Madsen wrote: Joshua E Warchol [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: updated mtx script?

2001-01-02 Thread Joe Rhett
Someone was going to release an updated mtx script on the list...did I miss it? Probably. Here's the latest. -- Joe Rhett Chief Technology Officer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISite Services, Inc. PGP keys and contact

Re: updated mtx script?

2001-01-02 Thread Joe Rhett
That is a horrid, unportable and often failing hack. Sometimes the loaders will simply take longer than other times, especially if your unit is smart enough to auto-clean when necessary. Use the updated chg-zd-mtx script, which checks the drive status until ready. On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at

Re: Why selfcheck does not go to raw disk

2001-01-02 Thread David Wolfskill
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:33:33 -0800 (PST) From: Wang Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I add a new client, did what I did as last time. From backup server , run amcheck Daily. I got Permission denied for new adding. Checked the /tmp/amanda/selfcheck.debug, the line as following: checking disk c0t0d0s1:

Re: updated mtx script?

2001-01-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:04:39PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: Someone was going to release an updated mtx script on the list...did I miss it? Probably. Here's the latest. Hi Joe, Could you send a patch (diff -u) for chg-zd-mtx.sh.in ? Did the new script is compatible with the previous?

Colorado Tape

2001-01-02 Thread Richard Grace
Gregory Propf [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/01/01 04:54am I have an old Travan floppy tape (400mb uncompressed). This makes me wonder if anyone is using Colorado QIC floppy tapes...? I've had no luck with the ft() stuff (FreeBSD 2.2 STABLE) and can't seem to find any more suitable interface/driver.

Re: creating and index after the fact

2001-01-02 Thread John R. Jackson
... I left "index no" in my config from my testing. :( Is there a way to create an index from the tapes? Not easily. In general, you have to read the image and send it back to the client, regenerate the index there and then send that back to the server. This should be easier with what's

Re: Why selfcheck does not go to raw disk

2001-01-02 Thread John R. Jackson
... Why the selfcheck goes to check /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 in stead of raw disk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1? ... Amanda does that conversion via your /etc/fstab (vfstab) file. Do you have c0t0d0s1 listed in there properly? John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why selfcheck does not go to raw disk

2001-01-02 Thread Wang Chen
John, Yes, the c0t0d0s1 is listed in /etc/vfstab. The file systems were mounted form this file. Thanks. Wang --- "John R. Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Why the selfcheck goes to check /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 in stead of raw disk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1? ... Amanda does that conversion via

Re: Why selfcheck does not go to raw disk

2001-01-02 Thread John R. Jackson
Yes, the c0t0d0s1 is listed in /etc/vfstab. ... Please post the corresponding lines from your disklist and vfstab files. Wang John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why selfcheck does not go to raw disk

2001-01-02 Thread Wang Chen
The disklist fw2 c0t0d0s0 comp-root # / fw2 c0t0d0s6 comp-user # /usr fw2 c0t0d0s1 comp-user # /var The /etc/vfstab /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 / ufs 1 no - /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s6 /usr ufs 1 no -

Re: Why selfcheck does not go to raw disk

2001-01-02 Thread John R. Jackson
The /etc/vfstab ... /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1 /var ufs 1 no It's very hard to read this because of line wrapping or cut/paste, but it looks like you are missing a trailing '-' on that line. Some quick experiments on a system here seem to indicate that

Re: RPM Weirdness with amreport

2001-01-02 Thread John R. Jackson
... If I uncomment the "lbl-templ" line amreport can't find the print command; I can't find a place to tell it what command to use. ... That's built in to the binaries, so you'll have to find out where the person who built it had the print package installed. I'd try: strings

Re: amcheck errors

2001-01-02 Thread John R. Jackson
Here are the problems that I am currently having. ... All the NOTE lines about things not existing may be ignored -- they are for a new disk/client/whatever and will be created for you during the normal run. ERROR: slowsrv: could not resolve hostname This says Amanda could not look up host

Re: Bandwidth usage

2001-01-02 Thread John R. Jackson
I think I've gotten myself terribly confused on this. ... Looks just like the way I would have set it up (whether that's right or not is a completely different question :-). ... I see messages in the amdump files that I get bandwidth limited at times. I don't know if I've upped the netusage

Re: amandad looping on FreeBSD 2.2.7

2001-01-02 Thread John R. Jackson
$ cat /etc/xinetd.d/amanda ... wait= no I think this is wrong. It should be "yes" for "wait". I don't know what this "looping" is about, but it appears that the "amandad" service is deactivated ... When inetd/xinetd detects a service mis-behaving (which

is a adic 1200 tape library supported

2001-01-02 Thread Joseph Sirucka
Hi Is the adic 1200 tape library supported. It is a dds2 tape library that hold s12 dds2 tape units. Hope to hear from anyone if it can or can not be , or if someone is using it with amnada. I wish to use it on solaris 8. Joseph

Re: must be run as user amanda

2001-01-02 Thread Isaac Saldana
Try: su - amanda instead of su amanda On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Francois Bradet wrote: Ever since I've upgraded from 2.4.1 to 2.4.2, I can't run amdump if I just "su" to user amanda. ex: ## rei:/usr/local/amanda/sbin# su amanda ## rei:/usr/local/amanda/sbin$