Re: tapetype recommendations

Brandon D. Valentine wrote: My quarrel seems to be with the fact that amanda is attempting to backup more data than will fit on a single tape. This might not be a tapetype problem, but it seems the logical place to start twiddling. It may be that planner is unable to get good estimates

Verifying backups

Hello, How do people verify their backups? Are there some nifty scripts or tools available somewhere. Restoring 20GB+ of data just to find out that tar or dump has trashed some of the data is a tediuos task. Especially because you know you have to do it again when the problem is fixed to ensure

RE: Shit

If you know how to read...and I'm assuming you do since you can type...go to www.amanda.org and read the instructions. If that is too difficult I've pasted them below. (And in the future keep your profanity to yourself, it's unprofessional and uncalled for) pasted from amanda site Please note:

Re: amrestore open the tape RW

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:20:19PM +0100, Nicolae Mihalache wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:37:08PM +0100, Nicolae Mihalache wrote: Hello! I'm using amanda for tapeless operation (using file: types) and write the data created on DVD. When I try to

RE: Problem with windows 2000 Professional

Hi, I have problem with Win2k Server SP2 also. My environment is: Amanda 2.4.2p2 server running on Solaris 8 Samba 2.2.2 running on same Solaris 8 box Win2k Server version SP2 (Japanese) GNU tar 1.3.23(?) I can see the amdump pulling file names

Re: [Amanda-users] Re: amverify failing alot.

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:35:32PM -0800, Dan Wilder wrote: Maybe I missed your earlier post. What error messages are you seeing? What happens if you try just dding a big file to a tape then reading it back in the same way, and checking its integrity? I can dd a file say 200MB and read

Re: Shit

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 11:22, Roy Andrè Tollefsen wrote: For the last time ... I call this spam I call it incompetency. ;) http://www.amanda.org /dab -- david a. brooks * systems administrator * stayonline.net * voice: .. 770/933-0600 x217 * email: .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] * :wq!

Help needed, problems with amrecover: weird no index messages on the tape server and never connects from Linux client

Greetings, My backups are running now, but i'm having problems using amrecover; I added all the amanda services on the /etc/inetd.conf (/etc/xinetd.d/amanda on the linux client) and in the /etc/services. Here are the tests i performed: On the Solaris Tape Server (Solaris 7): #

Re: skipping cruft file

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 at 8:40am, Steve wrote Hi all. I've installed amanda from the latest source after removing the SuSE 7.3 rpm version. When I run amcheck it passes server test and dies on client: WARNING: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Did you go through the steps

Re: Verifying backups

On 6 Dec 2001 at 2:29pm, Ole Barnkob Kaas wrote How do people verify their backups? Are there some nifty scripts or tools available somewhere. Restoring 20GB+ of data just to find out that tar or dump has trashed some of the data is a tediuos task. Especially because you know you have to do

RE: Shit

Well the bright side to all of this is that he is unsubscribing. *grin* -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rebecca Pakish Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:29 AM To: 'Roy Andrè Tollefsen' Cc: Amanda Users (E-mail) Subject: RE: Shit If

amrecover help

Hi, I've been having quite a bit of difficulty getting amrecover to work properly. I've been getting the Unexpected server end of file error, and the logs in /tmp/amanda/ are not being updated, even though they exist. tapeserver is the server, and client is the client. Amanda runs as operator

changing the /tape/dev

hi, My question is quite simple... can we enable the hard-compression of the tape after using the soft compression in amanda for a while. soft compression = comp-user in the disklist and /dev/rmt/0bn hard compression = nocomp-user in the disklist and /dev/rmt/0cbn One of the problems that I

Re: Shit

I knew this would erupt into a flame war :) He deserved it. wab - Original Message - From: Christopher Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Rebecca Pakish' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Roy Andrè Tollefsen' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Amanda Users (E-mail)' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06,

RE: Verifying backups

Right now we use a shell script to gather information about date, file size, uid, gid and permission. We run teh script on the server and on the restored replica. We filter both lists with a python script and parses the through diff to see how much they differ. This is very time consuming

Re: amrecover: No index records for host?

Hello, --- Stavros Patiniotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hello, Hi! What i did was to recompile the amanda server and also added the option index to the dumpiles type (for example comp-user) in the amanda.conf file. I got it working for Tar, and i let you know if that

Re: Problem with windows 2000 Professional

Problem fixed after I created one empty file /etc/amandates and one empty directory /usr/local/amanda/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/ .. Found this problem by using amcheck . Thanks, Shu Liu Shu Liu wrote: Hi, I have problem with Win2k Server SP2 also. My environment is: