backing up huge partitions (100G) / full backups

2002-01-24 Thread Raphael H. Becker
Hello *, we're going to set up a backup-server running Amanda and using a 'HP SureStore Autoloader 1/9' with FreeBSD. We're planning to use a 73GB (ok, technically it's 70GB) (dedicated) holding disk. One of our Servers has a 140GB Partition (on RAID) and has almost uncompressable data. As I

Re: Confirmation for subscribe amanda-users

2002-01-24 Thread rwk
I am getting the following error from amdump: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: wookie.int /boot lev 0 FAILED [disk /boot offline on wookie.internal.americom.com?] On wookie, the file sendsize.20020124035422.debug says:

Re: Confirmation for subscribe amanda-users

2002-01-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 24 Jan 2002 at 11:10am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I am getting the following error from amdump: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: wookie.int /boot lev 0 FAILED [disk /boot offline on wookie.internal.americom.com?] On wookie, the file sendsize.20020124035422.debug says: running

Re: backing up huge partitions (100G) / full backups

2002-01-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 at 11:42am, Raphael H. Becker wrote Is it possible to run a multi-volume tar as a full backup manually and just use dump to get the incrementals (in amanda)? It would need 3 /9 of our tapes, and the other 6 tapes will be available to use with Amanda. dump would need

Re: backing up huge partitions (100G) / full backups

2002-01-24 Thread Steve Feehan
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:11:46AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 at 11:42am, Raphael H. Becker wrote Is it possible to run a multi-volume tar as a full backup manually and just use dump to get the incrementals (in amanda)? It would need 3 /9 of our tapes, and

Problem with amoverview: Bad interpreter?

2002-01-24 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
I just noticed a problem this morning. When I run amoverview, I get: amanda@admin:~ amoverview DailySet1 bash: /usr/local/sbin/amoverview: bad interpreter: No such file or directory amanda@admin:~ I could have sworn I've run amoverview on this system before without problems. The listing

End of tape errors

2002-01-24 Thread Michael P Campfield
Hello all. We have been experiencing some very strange errors on our Sun StorEdge L20 system and were wondering if anyone had similar problems or knew of a solution. Originally, we had the tape settings to high, allowing the DLT 7000 drive with DLT IV tapes, 34,000 megs with a filemark of 8k.

Re: End of tape errors

2002-01-24 Thread Chamby
Did you add those patches ??? 111972-02 112068-01 Chamby - Original Message - From: Michael P Campfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:10 AM Subject: End of tape errors Hello all. We have been experiencing some very strange errors on

amanda fails after upgrade

2002-01-24 Thread Ted Sariyski
Hi, I upgraded one of the i386 hosts to RedHat 7.2 and now the server running amanda amanda-2.4.1p1 returns an error: WARNING: xtreme19: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? The amanda client log file amandad..debug ends with: amandad: error [getpwuid(33) fails] error [getpwuid(33)

Re: Problem with amoverview: Bad interpreter?

2002-01-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: I just noticed a problem this morning. When I run amoverview, I get: amanda@admin:~ amoverview DailySet1 bash: /usr/local/sbin/amoverview: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Somebody moved perl to another place, or simply renamed it (or removed it?) See

GNUtar instead of dump, no time estimate

2002-01-24 Thread Sascha Wuestemann
Hi all, maybe this is no problem but lack of information: I use GNUtar instead of dump. There is no time estimation done: ---cut-on--- STATISTICS: Total Full Daily Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:00 Run

Re: amanda fails after upgrade

2002-01-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 at 10:26am, Ted Sariyski wrote The amanda client log file amandad..debug ends with: amandad: error [getpwuid(33) fails] error [getpwuid(33) fails] Did you remember to add the amanda user? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Problem with amoverview: Bad interpreter?

2002-01-24 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
Thank you so much, Paul. Yes, it was that simple. I did change a symlink for perl, but I just didn't realize that amoverview was a perl program until I looked at it. Thanks for your help. -Kevin Zembower Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/24/02 10:40AM KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: I just

amrecover can't find index files...

2002-01-24 Thread Chris Noon
Hello all, I'm having a problem restoring from tape. Here's what it spits back: amrecover setdate 2002-01-09 200 Working date set to 2002-01-09. amrecover sethost host1 200 Dump host set to host1. amrecover setdisk c1t6d0s7 Warning: no log files found for tape user-week-3 written 2002-01-09 200

Re: amrecover can't find index files...

2002-01-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:14:11PM -0500, Chris Noon wrote: Hello all, I'm having a problem restoring from tape. Here's what it spits back: amrecover setdate 2002-01-09 200 Working date set to 2002-01-09. amrecover sethost host1 200 Dump host set to host1. amrecover setdisk c1t6d0s7

Re: amanda fails after upgrade

2002-01-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 at 11:03am, Ted Sariyski wrote Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Did you remember to add the amanda user? Yes, Even I can rsh from the server to the client without a password. And is the UID the same as it was before? Did you do a upgrade install, or did you wipe the

RE: amrecover can't find index files...

2002-01-24 Thread Chris Noon
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jean-Louis Martineau Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:00 PM To: Chris Noon Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: amrecover can't find index files... I found the log file in $logdir/oldlog . I don't know if

Re: End of tape errors

2002-01-24 Thread John R. Jackson
Originally, we had the tape settings to high, allowing the DLT 7000 drive with DLT IV tapes, 34,000 megs with a filemark of 8k. ... Those numbers seem reasonable. Why do you think they are too high? Are you using hardware compression (put a different way, what device name are you using for

Re: GNUtar instead of dump, no time estimate

2002-01-24 Thread John R. Jackson
There is no time estimation done: ... Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:00 What version of Amanda? In the corresponding log.MMDD.NN file, what does the STATS driver startup time line say? Sascha Wuestemann John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: amrecover can't find index files...

2002-01-24 Thread Chris Noon
Eureka! It seems I had a bit of a compound problem. there *was* an issue with the log files, but after I followed your advice and put the logfile back into $logdir, amanda seemed to dislike the fact that the tape wasn't rewound (but didn't bother to report it :/). after doing an mt r and

RE: amrecover can't find index files...

2002-01-24 Thread Chris Noon
Eureka! It seems I had a bit of a compound problem. there *was* an issue with the log files, but after I followed your advice and put the logfile back into $logdir, amanda seemed to dislike the fact that the tape wasn't rewound (but didn't bother to report it :/). after doing an mt r and

RE: amanda fails after upgrade

2002-01-24 Thread Dan Garthwaite
Sounds like a firewall to me: /etc/init.d/ipchains stop /etc/init.d/iptables stop -dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:30 PM To: Ted Sariyski Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Confirmation for subscribe amanda-users

2002-01-24 Thread rwk
I am getting the following error from amdump: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: wookie.int /boot lev 0 FAILED [disk /boot offline on wookie.internal.americom.com?] On wookie, the file sendsize.20020124035422.debug says: running /usr/local/libexec/killpgrp DUMP: Warning:

advfs.diff

2002-01-24 Thread rwk
Does anyone know if the advfs.diff patch is already included in the redhat release for 7.2, namely: amanda-2.4.2p2-4.rpm amanda-client-2.4.2p2-4.rpm amanda-server-2.4.2p2-4.rmp Thanks, Dick

Remote amrestore

2002-01-24 Thread Kurt
Installed basic amanda on RH7.2 using RH rpm's got basic system running and tried default /etc backup of localhost. amrestore allowed single file restore... interface seems simple enough to use. updated disklist with remote machine this time using comp-root for / on a machine with 15G in use.

Re: Remote amrestore

2002-01-24 Thread John R. Jackson
# amrestore -s tserv.meridian-ds.com -t tserv.meridian-ds.com -d /dev/nst0 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on tserv.meridian-ds.com ... amrecover: Unexpected server end of file. the /tmp/amanda/amrecover.2002datestuff.debug file contains. ... What's in /tmp/amanda/amindexd*debug on

Re: Remote amrestore

2002-01-24 Thread Kurt
# amrestore -s tserv.meridian-ds.com -t tserv.meridian-ds.com -d /dev/nst0 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on tserv.meridian-ds.com ... amrecover: Unexpected server end of file. the /tmp/amanda/amrecover.2002datestuff.debug file contains. ... What's in /tmp/amanda/amindexd*debug

Re: Confirmation for subscribe amanda-users

2002-01-24 Thread rwk
I installed advfs.diff on the client (wookie) and reran the test dump but the sendsize*dump file still says: ** sendsize: debug 1 pid 8615 ruid 33 euid 33 start time Thu Jan 24 17:13:43 2002 /usr/local/libexec/sendsize:

Re: Confirmation for subscribe amanda-users

2002-01-24 Thread Marty Shannon, RHCE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed advfs.diff on the client (wookie) and reran the test dump but the sendsize*dump file still says: ** sendsize: debug 1 pid 8615 ruid 33 euid 33 start time Thu Jan 24 17:13:43

Re: Confirmation for subscribe amanda-users

2002-01-24 Thread rwk
# su -c amanda id uid=33(amanda) gid=6(disk) groups=6(disk) # ls -l /dev/sda2 brw-rw1 root disk 8, 2 Aug 24 2000 /dev/sda2 # ls -ln /dev/sda2 brw-rw1 06 8, 2 Aug 24 2000 /dev/sda2 # grep disk /etc/group disk:x:6:root,rwk,amanda # grep amanda

Input/Output error

2002-01-24 Thread Steven Stanners
I'm getting the following error: ***A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing filemark: Input/output error]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet101. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost/etc

Re: Remote amrestore

2002-01-24 Thread John R. Jackson
amindexd: debug 1 pid 28366 ruid 33 euid 33 start time Thu Jan 24 16:29:08 2002 amindexd: version 2.4.2p2 gethostbyaddr: Success amindexd: pid 28366 finish time Thu Jan 24 16:29:08 2002 That gethostbyaddr: Success line is a problem. I'm pretty sure what it's trying to say (and I'll get the

Re: Confirmation for subscribe amanda-users

2002-01-24 Thread John R. Jackson
I installed advfs.diff on the client (wookie) and reran the test dump but the sendsize*dump file still says: ... sendsize: running /sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - /dev/sda2 running /usr/local/libexec/killpgrp DUMP: Warning: unable to translate LABEL=/ DUMP: Warning: unable to translate LABEL=/boot

Re: Confirmation for subscribe amanda-users

2002-01-24 Thread John R. Jackson
One other thing. Joshua asked what your amandad xinetd entry looked like. In particular, you need groups yes (or something like that) to make xinetd put amandad in all the alternate groups (why they didn't make this the default is beyond me). Without that, amandad will only be run in its

Re: problems with backup to one specific box

2002-01-24 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- John == John R Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I setup a new config for just that system. I ran it with tcpdump watching. I never saw an attempt to connect to backup. ... *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [label DailySet120 doesn't match

Re: GNUtar instead of dump, no time estimate

2002-01-24 Thread Sascha Wuestemann
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:15:56 -0500 John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no time estimation done: ... Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:00 What version of Amanda? In the corresponding log.MMDD.NN file, what does the STATS driver startup time line say? Hi John, The version