Re: Amrecover, Invalid directory error

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:05:47PM -0500) Sure enough, GNU tar 1.13. Will version 1.11.8, or 1.12 work? I don't think 1.11.* will work. 1.12 will work if you apply the patches from www.amanda.org. 1.13.19 is reported to work. Could this be added

Re: Amrecover, Invalid directory error

2001-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As in docs/INSTALL? Ehm, docs INSTALL sais, use 1.12 w/ patches. I assumed (incorrectly) that 1.13 would work as well. It's fixed in 2.4.2p1. Will 1.13.17 work ? Yep, but there's a (rare?) bug in 1.13.17 that may cause it

Re: Amrecover, Invalid directory error

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:07:59AM -0200) Ehm, docs INSTALL sais, use 1.12 w/ patches. I assumed (incorrectly) that 1.13 would work as well. It's fixed in 2.4.2p1. So I noticed ;) Will 1.13.17 work ? Yep, but there's a (rare?) bug in 1.13.17 that may

Re: why | ufsrestore?

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 08:20:30PM -0500) I have always wondered .. why does amanda pipe ufsdump output to ufsrestore before sending it to the tape device? It's collecting the index data. The dump (or tar) output pipeline is rather complicated. The image

Where is tar 1.13.19

2001-01-29 Thread Josh Kuperman
I saw that tar (gtar?) 1.13.19 is the right version to use. I checked both the Free Software Foundations's site as well as rpmfind.net (just in case my life would be easy.) and 1.13.17 seemed to be the latest. Where should I be looking? -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL

Re: why | ufsrestore?

2001-01-29 Thread Marc W. Mengel
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: But you're comparing apples and oranges. As you've noted, going from disk to tape on the same machine gets 3 MBytes/s whether you are using ufsdump or Amanda is using taper to copy a holding disk image. But that's not what happens when Amanda

amanda 2.4.2

2001-01-29 Thread Clem Kumah
Hi, I have decided to upgrade amanada 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2 When I try to do a make command I get the following error: make: don't know how to make amoverview. Stop *** Error code 1 I seem to recal that it needs gnu make. Is this correct, and where can I get a copy? I am runing it on a freebsd

RE: amanda 2.4.2

2001-01-29 Thread Ben Hyatt
I am runing it on a freebsd 4.2-Release On my openbsd box I see gmake in my ports tree here. (bhyatt)@kawasaki:/usr/ports/devel/gmake:[115] HTH -Ben Clem Kumah [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator / Teamleader

Re: amanda 2.4.2

2001-01-29 Thread David Wolfskill
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:02:38 + From: Clem Kumah [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have decided to upgrade amanada 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2 When I try to do a make command I get the following error: make: don't know how to make amoverview. Stop *** Error code 1 I seem to recal that it needs gnu make. Is this

Re: amanda 2.4.2

2001-01-29 Thread David Wolfskill
From: "Patrick M. Hausen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:49:46 +0100 (CET) Doesn't installing Amanda from /usr/ports/misc/amanda24 work for you? I started with amanda from "ports" back in '98, but it became rather too awkward to ensure that the Solaris boxen also had amanda

Re: amanda 2.4.2

2001-01-29 Thread John R. Jackson
I have decided to upgrade amanada 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2 Version 2.4.2p1 has been released and you should probably use it. There is at least one fairly important bug fix. Clem Kumah[EMAIL PROTECTED] John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist,

Re: Where is tar 1.13.19

2001-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 2001, Jonathan Dill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know how to build binary RPMs optimized for other architecture eg. i586 and i686? I think you have to do something to the spec file, but I'm not sure what. I think it's enough to build it with -march=i686 -mcpu=i686. I believe

|ufsrestore .. also for tar ?

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
sidenote: since egroups went yahoo, I haven';t eben able to access the searchable archives .. Is this just Konqueror, or is it broken ? Anyway, When dumping with ufsdump, amanda pipes through ufsrestore to get an index .. fair enough However, when dumping via tar, we dont need this, right ?

Re: |ufsrestore .. also for tar ?

2001-01-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 29, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: doing a tar cvf .. should give you a full list of everything being backed up ? The problem is that you wouldn't be able to tell error messages from the actual file list. So we do throw a `tar tf' in the pipeline. -- Alexandre

Re: |ufsrestore .. also for tar ?

2001-01-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: * Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:59:16PM -0200) On Jan 29, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: doing a tar cvf .. should give you a full list of everything being backed up

Interpretation please

2001-01-29 Thread Andrew Robinson
On a recent backup report, we received the following message: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: amanda sd0e lev 1 FAILED [nak error:unexpected ack packet] amanda is the name of the backup server. I dump'ed the partition by hand, and saw no problems. Anyone know what went wrong? Thanks!

Re: |ufsrestore .. also for tar ?

2001-01-29 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:45:03PM -0500) It will require to much work to the sendbackup process. It will be possible to do it with the DUMPER-API, is you have time, you should work on the DUMPER-API. Time, yeah, heard about that .. seems to be very

RE: why | ufsrestore?

2001-01-29 Thread Grant Beattie
How does one configure the blocksize? What about the blocksize used on the tape? perhaps that can be tuned, too... g. -Original Message- From: Marc W. Mengel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 30 January 2001 3:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Grant Beattie; [EMAIL

I/O error on tapetype program, help.

2001-01-29 Thread Tanniel Simonian
Hello, I've been getting weird errors on my nightly amanda job and saw that there was a problem. I currently use an EXABYTE EZ 17 Autoloader drive and had used the TAPETYPE value given from this email group. After a few weird errors and thinking that I had fixed them, I finally fell short when

Re: Error msg interpretation

2001-01-29 Thread John R. Jackson
Can anyone help me diagnose what this error message precisely means? FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: mars sda7 lev 3 FAILED [data timeout] It means dumper on your server stopped getting data for 30 minutes (or whatever you set dtimeout to in amanda.conf). That, in turn, could be caused

Re: Error msg interpretation

2001-01-29 Thread Ben Elliston
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: mars sda7 lev 3 FAILED [data timeout] It means dumper on your server stopped getting data for 30 minutes (or whatever you set dtimeout to in amanda.conf). That's interesting, considering `mars' is the tape server. Ben

Restore without amanda...

2001-01-29 Thread Suman Malla
Hi, How can I restore files without Amanda? Thanks for your time. Regards, SMalla __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com

Re: Restore without amanda...

2001-01-29 Thread John R. Jackson
How can I restore files without Amanda? Thanks for your time. Have you read docs/RESTORE? What about: http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html Both cover this topic. SMalla John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Restore without amanda...

2001-01-29 Thread Mack Earnhardt
Ben Hyatt wrote: How can I restore files without Amanda? Thanks for your time. use dd along with ufsrestore. There's good online docs on this. http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-24.html I've had a problem using dd with skip=1, though. For some reason, dd on my system (Debian 2.2)

Re: Restore without amanda...

2001-01-29 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
Suman Malla wrote: While using dd with ufsrestore i.e. dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | gzip -d | /usr/sbin/ufsrestore -ivh - /dev/nst0 sounds like Linux but ufsrestore sounds like Solaris. Are you trying to read from the right device?