confused by .amandahosts (was Re: Client problem)

2001-02-13 Thread m . krips
Dear reader, I read something about the .amandahosts file here. I found in the amanda man page about the config file parameters: dumpuser "string" Default: backup. The login name Amanda uses to run the backups. The backup client hosts must allow

more than one tape reusable

2001-02-13 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
This is probably something trivial. in my amanda.conf I have dumpcycle 1 week# the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 5 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just #

Re: more than one tape reusable

2001-02-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 13, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have indeed 25 tapes in my tapelist. Im lazy, and Id like to have a list of 5 tapes (so that I can take the tapes for a whole week, stack them, next to the tapedrive, and use them in whatever order I please. What is the

Re: more than one tape reusable

2001-02-13 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:39:21AM -0200) On Feb 13, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have indeed 25 tapes in my tapelist. Im lazy, and Id like to have a list of 5 tapes (so that I can take the tapes for a whole week, stack them,

Re: more than one tape reusable

2001-02-13 Thread Simon Mayr
Gerhard den Hollander wrote: * Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:39:21AM -0200) On Feb 13, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have indeed 25 tapes in my tapelist. Im lazy, and Id like to have a list of 5 tapes (so that I can take the tapes

Re: more than one tape reusable

2001-02-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 13, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # amadmin lto tape The next Amanda run should go onto tape LTO020 or a new tape. Am I missing something ? Just because Amanda tells you it wants LTO020, it doesn't mean it won't accept one of the other 4 recyclable tapes. Just

Amrecover Problem, amandahostauth problem in amidxtaped.debug

2001-02-13 Thread Friedrich Clausen
Hi all! I wish to restore a file on the client (stanley) and the server is hall. When I run : amrecover -C stanley -s hall.domain.org -d /dev/nst0 It does not complain about anything and lets me specifify which files to restore but then when I try and extract them this happens : amrecover

Mixed output in amdump.n file

2001-02-13 Thread Michael Russell
I have noticed that the amdump.n log file has mixed output from multiple sources in it at times - like from 'setup_estimate' a 'dumper.' Is this a known problem? Any plans to fix it? FYI, this is using amanda 2.4.2 on an SGI running IRIX 6.5.9f. Here's an example: mtisun:/export/home

Re: DLT 40/80 Gb setting

2001-02-13 Thread Joseph Del Corso
I'll try that -- felt a little foolish though, because the reply from Alexandre Oliva about the alternate way to get to the "faq-o-matic" site answered a lot of questions I'm having. Thank you though for your suggestion Joe On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: * Joseph Del

switching to TAR for large partition

2001-02-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hello, We are running Amanda 2.4.1p1 on an SGI running IRIX 6.5.3m and have problems backing up a 'large' partition (aprox 70gig) to our DLT drive. We though to use TAR rather than dump for this partition and modified amanda.conf and disklist in what we believe are the correct ways.

Re: Submitting a chg-zd-mtx, with barcode support, and 9 slot support

2001-02-13 Thread Jason Hollinden
Ok, I've changed over to the new version that was suggested, and I have also incorporated the suggestions of several people who's name escape me (sorry). This now has the 'mt offline' variable of the newest chg-zd-mtx, and tests whether your drives provides an 'offline', or an 'ONLINE' when

Re: switching to TAR for large partition

2001-02-13 Thread Yura Pismerov
Brian Cuttler wrote: Hello, We are running Amanda 2.4.1p1 on an SGI running IRIX 6.5.3m and have problems backing up a 'large' partition (aprox 70gig) to our DLT drive. We though to use TAR rather than dump for this partition and modified amanda.conf and disklist in what we believe

REF: Start and stop time

2001-02-13 Thread Robert McGraw
How can I tell when a dumper and taper starts and stops. I have it set up so that a particular dump start 3 hours later, which I set in the disklist file. In what logs can I see when it started and stopped. I am looking for the time of day start and stop. thanks Robert

Re: Submitting a chg-zd-mtx, with barcode support, and 9 slot support

2001-02-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello Jason, This patch is required. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834 --- chg-zd-mtx.sh.in.orig