Re: Error: can not access sda1: No such file or directory

2001-07-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
ERROR: rajiv [can not access sda1 (sda1): No such file or directory] Your directory is /dev/sda1, it is NOT sda1 Olivier

Re: selfcheck request timed out.

2001-07-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
since a reboot of the firewall, amanda reports selfcheck request timed out. for some (up to four) servers. some servers are never reported (they seem to repsond to the selfcheck request), the other servers change (i.e., servers a,b,c,d are reported to time out, 1 hour later servers c,d,e,f are

amcheck: permission denied

2001-07-10 Thread J. I. Sendoro
Hi I will appreciate if somebody can spare his/her time to help me making sure that the amanda-2.4.2p2 is working. I have configured amanda.conf by following the docs and FAQ. However running amcheck through crontab gives me this error. amcheck: could not open

Amanda on RH7.1

2001-07-10 Thread Desmond Lim
Hi Sir, How do I backup my Samba server running on Redhat 7.1 using Amanda? There' s a part in the INSTALL which mentions about inetd.conf. But Redhat 7.1 don't use inetd.conf, is there a problem? Thanks. warmest regards, Desmond Lim System Administrator http://www.kikuze.com/ AP

Re: Amanda on RH7.1

2001-07-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 at 6:28pm, Desmond Lim wrote How do I backup my Samba server running on Redhat 7.1 using Amanda? There' s a part in the INSTALL which mentions about inetd.conf. But Redhat 7.1 don't use inetd.conf, is there a problem? Redhat 7.x uses xinetd rather than inetd. Config

Re: Redo amdump

2001-07-10 Thread Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 04:17:15PM +0100, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: During this nigth, some machines crashed during the backup and I don't trust the backup that amanda have done. I think it could have taped garbage. How do I redo the amdump of this nigth, as it have never

Problems backing up

2001-07-10 Thread Robert Hoekstra
Hi, I still have problems backing up.. I backup more directories from one machine over the internet. I check the status as the process progresses and I found that one directory got dumped okay, but the next one hangs at 100.04% :-? The directories being backed up are cobalt01.somewhere.nl:

Re: Amanda on RH7.1

2001-07-10 Thread Harri Haataja
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Desmond Lim wrote: Hi Sir, We are a list, not a sir ;) How do I backup my Samba server running on Redhat 7.1 using Amanda? There' s a part in the INSTALL which mentions about inetd.conf. But Redhat 7.1 don't use inetd.conf, is there a problem? RH upgraded to xinetd

Re: Amanda on RH7.1

2001-07-10 Thread coregan
If you use the amanda package that comes with RedHat 7.1, it will set itself up in xinetd automatically. You will need to edit the xinetd file for amanda to enable it. Note that if you are using high security, you will need to add rules to ipchains for the backup server. In particular, you

Newbie neeed Help

2001-07-10 Thread Patrick Lanphier
) setting up estimates took 0.001 secs GETTING ESTIMATES... taper: pid 13781 executable taper version 2.4.2p2 driver: pid 13780 executable /usr/libexec/driver version 2.4.2p2 driver: send-cmd time 0.069 to taper: START-TAPER 20010710 changer: opening pipe to: /usr/libexec/chg-manual -info got

Re: Amanda on RH7.1

2001-07-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
How do I backup my Samba server running on Redhat 7.1 using Amanda? There' s a part in the INSTALL which mentions about inetd.conf. But Redhat 7.1 don't use inetd.conf, is there a problem? Don't use Linux :) Why those people always want to do things diferently? Well I think it is called

Re: Multiple tape drives config

2001-07-10 Thread Johannes Niess
Matteo Centonza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I'm trying to set up a backup server with two tape drives: - Tandberg SLR 100 - Sony SDT-5000 (DDS-2 DAT Tape Drive) is it possible to force the planner in order to use smallest tape to perform incrementals and SLR for full dumps,

tapetype for hp surestore dat 40x6

2001-07-10 Thread Paolo Borsa
hello all i am new to this list and i just finished tapetype on an hp dat40x6 here is the result : define tapetype SureStore-DAT40x6 { comment HP SureStore DAT 40x6 autoloader length 17004 mbytes filemark 399 kbytes speed 1584 kps } regards Paolo Borsa IT Manager Promelit

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question: multi DLT drive Linux (RH v7.1)

2001-07-10 Thread Rivera, Edwin
hello all, i have a PowerStor L200 DLT tape-changer unit connected via an Adaptec 29160 controller, and am running my amanda server (v2.4.2p2) on a Linux RH v7.1 box. i can read/label/write to a tape in the drive, and if i use 'amtape conf eject', my L200 automatically unloads the tape

Re: Redo amdump

2001-07-10 Thread John R. Jackson
What I am asking is: What I should have done, to redo the backup of the day, if for some motive I have lost it. My guess (but I have not thought this through entirely) would be to leave the tape alone (do not do the amrmtape) but use force-no-bump with amadmin for all the clients. I think that

Re: Error: can not access sda1: No such file or directory

2001-07-10 Thread John R. Jackson
ERROR: rajiv [can not access sda1 (sda1): No such file or directory] I think what Olivier was suggesting is that you change that to /dev/sda1. Or, what I would do, is use the mount point, /. What does the / entry look like in /etc/fstab? Is the client also running 2.4.1p1 or is it running

Re: Change Amanda Client

2001-07-10 Thread John R. Jackson
I am running amanda-2.3.0.4. ... You're probably going to have a tough time finding help with such an ancient release. Hint, hint :-). Does anyone who knows how to change amanda clients. Such as delete an existing client and add another new client. This is all purely guesswork, but I'd

Re: changer problems

2001-07-10 Thread Thomas Hepper
Hi, On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:41:12AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The chg-scsi in 2.4.2p2 and 2.5.0 cvs does not work right with this changer - after loading 10th tape won't do anything else Huh, if have an EXB library here as my development equipment and it works great. (yes, I have

Re: Samba

2001-07-10 Thread John R. Jackson
I am new to amanda back up ... Then welcome to the Amanda mailing list! I heard that Loading Samba on win2k unix boxes, and configuring amanda will enable to take backup of both win2k and unix servers.. It doesn't quite work this way (but close). Samba is a package that runs on Unix

Re: Problems backing up

2001-07-10 Thread John R. Jackson
I check the status as the process progresses and I found that one directory got dumped okay, but the next one hangs at 100.04% :-? As Olivier said, the value being larger than 100% is not a problem. The hang, of course, is :-). To find out, I made a second config for backing up (and send the

Re: Newbie neeed Help

2001-07-10 Thread John R. Jackson
I believe with this log file need for someone to be able to help me. The status report (below) looks like this when I attempt to run amdump and stays like this. I'm attempting to do a tapeless backup with version 2.4.2p2 of amanda. ... In the log it says this: changer: opening pipe to:

Re: amcheck: permission denied

2001-07-10 Thread John R. Jackson
amcheck: could not open /tmp/amanda/amcheck.temp.1501: Permission denied permision on this folder is as follows. 1 drwx--S---2 amanda amanda 1024 Jul 10 09:27 . Are you sure you ran amcheck as user amanda? That temp file is built by amcheck itself (as compared to something amandad

supported libraries database?

2001-07-10 Thread Frank Smith
Is there a section in the FAQ-O-Matic that I didn't see containing lists of tape libraries known to work (or known not to work) with Amanda? Something along the lines of the linuxprinting.org database of how well various models of printers work with linux

amcheck bug(?)

2001-07-10 Thread Jason Brooks
Hello, amcheck is reporting an incorrect number of hosts checked for windows backups, though the backups themselves operate correctly. I am running amanda 2.4.2p1 on a linux redhat 7.0 system (streak). In addition to unix, I am also backing up windows servers. I have a test configuration

Re: upgrading from DAT to DLT

2001-07-10 Thread Jason Brooks
Hello, i'm sorry as this is definitely a newbie question, however, i don't have much experience with backup devices. I understand. I recommend you pick up the book unix backup and restore. this book also has a HUGE section on amanda. This is the same section online whose link can be found

Re: amcheck bug(?)

2001-07-10 Thread John R. Jackson
... does it only check the client streak as shown in the disklist? ... Yes, hence the count of one. Amanda on the server side doesn't distinguish between that machine doing itself (if it did that) or it reaching out to one or more PC's. if amcheck only shows the machine that smbclient is run

2.5 chg-scsi now part of 2.4.2 CVS

2001-07-10 Thread John R. Jackson
For those of you mixing the 2.5 chg-scsi changer into your 2.4.2* Amanda build, the 2.5 chg-scsi code has been back-ported into the various 2.4.2 CVS branches. This means it will be in the next 2.4.2 based release (if there is one), and it also means that if you work from CVS you can build a

Re: amcheck bug(?)

2001-07-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
Why? or does it only check the client streak as shown in the disklist? if amcheck only shows the machine that smbclient is run on, From amanda point of view, there is only one client: streak On streak you have two disks: \\pond\c$ and \\trask\d$ remember in disklist, first field is machine

RE: Amanda on RH7.1

2001-07-10 Thread Srdjan Nikolic
How do I backup my Samba server running on Redhat 7.1 using Amanda? There' s a part in the INSTALL which mentions about inetd.conf. But Redhat 7.1 don't use inetd.conf, is there a problem? Don't use Linux :) Why those people always want to do things diferently? Well I think it is called

Re: Problems backing up

2001-07-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
I check the status as the process progresses and I found that one directory got dumped okay, but the next one hangs at 100.04% :-? Dn't worry about the 100.04 %, it just means that the estimate was a bit over optimistic. So when it comes to transfer real data, there are more than what it

backing up to blockdevs?

2001-07-10 Thread Dan Debertin
I have this Jaz drive and a stack of 10 disks for it. I'd like to use this as my tape drive, and am wondering if amanda supports strange strategies like this. It's just my home network, so I'm quite willing to use code from experimental CVS branches. I'd rather not do something