Re: amrestore question

2001-10-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 at 10:59am, Len Pikulski wrote I am trying to restore a failed drive from backup, and am getting an error message stating: --- amrestore: 7: restoring gateway.hdb1.20010919.0 File size limit exceeded -- Then back to the prompt.

Re: what's your capacity/hardware?

2001-10-08 Thread Gael Lepetit
Here's my system : 42 Sun stations with Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7 8 2 RH 7.1 linux PC. == 275 Go Tape/Index server : Sun Ultra-1 with solaris 7 Tape changer : Exabyte E230 with 30 DLT70 = capacity 2.1 To The tape changer works perfectly, but i can't attach it to a Solaris 8 station. Anyone's

Re: dell powervault 128t TLO drive

2001-10-08 Thread Jeff Pratt
What is the actual drive beneath the hood? Dell just rebadges all of the tape drives as far as I can tell. Jeff Jeremy Hanmer wrote: Does anybody have any experience with this drive? They say it's supported under redhat and that linux has 3rd-party software available, but don't specify

Tape drives and pemissions.

2001-10-08 Thread Troy Nachtigall
I am having a hard time installing amanda. I keep getting the message following message when I run amcheck ERROR: vault.rubberducky.net: [could not access /dev/vinum/mirror (/mirror): Permission denied] I am also having a problem with the tape drive. I get the message: rewinding, reading

Exabyte 8505XL tape type

2001-10-08 Thread Jeremy Wadsack
I am using an Exabyte 10h changer with an 8505XL drive. I have been using the existing tapetype for EXB-8505, but those are only 5GB tapes. The XL drive have 7GB tapes and we need all the space we can get (took 7 dumps to get 10 servers). So I ran the tapetype program and it produced this (with

Re: How to nice an Amanda dump/compression

2001-10-08 Thread Marc W. Mengel
1) configure amanda to use an alternate gzip, as with: configure ... --with-gzip=/usr/local/amanda-gzip 2) make a shellscript /usr/local/amanda-gzip which does a nice --19 /usr/local/bin/gzip $@ Marc On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Gael Lepetit wrote: Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:52:40 +0200 From:

Re: help :: advfs patch

2001-10-08 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
i would like to extend my amanda backup capabitities to one of my DEC v5.1 boxes. the problem is it's running advfs. I've downloaded the patch and tried to install it unsuccessfully for about a week now. however, i've never used `patch` and i'm running into a wall on this one. could