Re: Tapelist

2001-03-09 Thread Ross Macintyre
On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 17:18:37 -0500 "John R. Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other backup systems I've used, I have always kept certain level 0's out of the rotation so's that I could alway go back quite a bit if necessary. That's harder to do with Amanda because when a level 0 is

Re: Amdump failed ?

2001-03-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:51:29PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: driver: send-cmd time 89.294 to taper: QUIT writing taper command: Broken pipe driver: FINISHED time 89.296 Is it normal ? the broken pipe. No, it's not normal and it's not right. Since you didn't say what version of

Re: amrestore problem

2001-03-09 Thread John R. Jackson
Yes, i changed the lines so you given me. OK, that´s fine. Amanda finds the Indexfile. Great! That's good progress. 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]] amandahostsauth failed ... Should i make a fileserver.medienwerft.de root king.medienwerft.de

Re: Tapelist

2001-03-09 Thread John R. Jackson
one last question (promise) ... Oh, sure. How many times have we heard **that** line? :-) :-) :-) ... how does amanda figure out what to dump and when to dump? I mean what is the algorithm? I haven't been able to figure this out and yet it must be documented somewhere. There are really

Amanda and inetd

2001-03-09 Thread Raymond Bramwell
Hi there! I'm new to amanda and have just been trying to install it from source, unfortunately I don't know what entries need to go into /etc/inetd.conf on either the server or client machines. Could somebody let me know what I need to put there on the client and on the server (which will also

Re: Amanda and inetd

2001-03-09 Thread John R. Jackson
I'm new to amanda and have just been trying to install it from source, unfortunately I don't know what entries need to go into /etc/inetd.conf on either the server or client machines. Have you read docs/INSTALL and http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html? In brief, you need amanda/amandad on

Re: Amanda and inetd

2001-03-09 Thread Raymond Bramwell
That's an excellent suggestion... read the docs! Don't I feel like a bean! Thanx =) "John R. Jackson" wrote: I'm new to amanda and have just been trying to install it from source, unfortunately I don't know what entries need to go into /etc/inetd.conf on either the server or client

Amanda-newbie: Which tape changer config should I use?

2001-03-09 Thread Silvan Kok
Greetings, I am trying to set up Amanda to make backups on a Dell PowerVault 130T (STK9730) Tape-library with 2 DLT-7000 TapeDrives in it. The Library is directly attached to our Fileserver (Dell PowerEdge 2450) from which the backups have to be made. The Fileserver runs RedHat Linux

Re: Error during tapetype

2001-03-09 Thread John R. Jackson
amlabel: no label found, are you sure /dev/st0 is non-rewinding? That's the wrong device name. You need to use /dev/nst0 (note the 'n'). --Charlie Zhu John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda-newbie: Which tape changer config should I use?

2001-03-09 Thread Jeff Bearer
You might want to checkout the amanda-2.4.2 rpm's on Redhat's rawhide site: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ If chg-scsi is new in 2.4.2 then that should help you. The package is also happier with xinetd, and has fixed several other glitches that made it so I couldn't use the

Re: Amdump failed ?

2001-03-09 Thread John R. Jackson
It's always there after a: driver: result time 5480.183 from taper: TAPE-ERROR [cannot overwrite activ e tape DIRO-INCR-046] because the taper do an exit(1). It should wait for the QUIT command. Thanks for the info. I've just applied a patch to fix this problem: Log message:

Cannot switch to incremental dump when trying to do a FULL dump!

2001-03-09 Thread Shreedeep Bhachech
. -- log.20010309.8 -- START planner date 20010309 INFO planner Adding new disk fbsd:/usr. START driver date 20010309 ERROR taper no-tape [no tape online] FINISH planner date 20010309 STATS driver startup time 1.655 FAIL driver fbsd /usr 0 [can't switch to incremental dump] FINISH driver

Re: Cannot switch to incremental dumpwhen trying to do a FULL dump!

2001-03-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 at 8:10pm, Shreedeep Bhachech wrote -- amanda.conf -- ... tapedev "/dev/doesntexist"# the no-rewind tape device to be used; for # TAPELESS config - using a nonexistant tape drive. ... holdingdisk hd1 { comment

Re: Cannot switch to incremental dump when trying to do a FULL dump!

2001-03-09 Thread John R. Jackson
I have been trying to do a tapeless configuration of amanda, to use holding disk. (JRJ: If you're reading this: I couldn't find amanda-242-tapeio on CVS that you suggested to someone else on 3/7/2001. Any more info on that?) This works for me: d=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda