Re: simple directory in disklist file and amrecover

2002-02-25 Thread Frederic Saincy
: stream_client_privileged: connected to 172.16.16.17.10083 amrecover: stream_client_privileged: our side is 0.0.0.0.866 amrecover: try_socksize: receive buffer size is 65536 Started amidxtaped with arguments 6 -h -p file:/usr/local/amanda/backup/tape2 panda.baobab.home ^/home/olivier$ 20020225 Exec'ing

Problem restoring old backups

2002-02-25 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I have a setup of two machines: 1. Backup server: Amanda 2.4.2p1 running on FreeBSD 4.3 2. Webserver: Amanda 2.4.2p2 running on Linux 2.4.12 (Slackware 8) The backup server backs up itself and the webserver. Backups are done with dump. I have two Amanda configurations defined, DAILY

Dump a Cluster with AMANDA.

2002-02-25 Thread Javier.Fernandez
Hi, I have two machines in CLUSTER, How can i use AMANDA to dump the root fs with gnuTar? When i execute AMANDA, only backup /opt and /usr. Does anybody know why? and the solution. --- Javier Fernández Pérez Servicio de

Incoherente saving when moving a directory

2002-02-25 Thread BRINER Cedric
Hi, One of my users changed the name of one of his directory one day ,and few days and few backups later, he deleted some files that it would like to recover. But amanda didn't save them again... why ??? I still had an older backup where the data are saved, but I'm wondering why amanda did'nt

Changers

2002-02-25 Thread Ignacio Dosil Lago
Hi, everybody! I´m testing Amanda (without tape device) and shurely this will become my new backup suite. My questions are: What tape changers do you un/recommend me? What should I know about this kind of devices? Thanks!

Step-by-Step guide for amanda backups

2002-02-25 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
Hello, I never got amanda to work on my hp colorado 5gb ide internal tape drive. I tried a lot of distribution versions (all latest redhat and mandrake ones) but still can't get amanda to work. Can someone please point me to a step by step guide, from choosing backup strategy with amanda to

Re: Step-by-Step guide for amanda backups

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 at 3:58pm, Fathi Ben Nasr wrote I tried a lot of distribution versions (all latest redhat and mandrake ones) but still can't get amanda to work. Were you compiling amanda from source? Pre-packaged versions are Bad. Can someone please point me to a step by step guide,

Re: Step-by-Step guide for amanda backups

2002-02-25 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
Joshua Baker-LePain a écrit : The two best are: 1) The Chapter at www.backupcentral.com (a book chapter entirely on amanda). I am getting a look at it now. 2) docs/INSTALL from the distribution To answer specific questions, there's FAQ-O-Matic, linked from www.amanda.org.

Re: Step-by-Step guide for amanda backups

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 at 4:41pm, Fathi Ben Nasr wrote As for web/browser-based, well, I'm not sure what you mean there. Amanda is command line driven. Though there was a gui/web-based front end/wizard (like the one that comes with linuxconf) that people could use instead of ssh and

hardware vs software compression

2002-02-25 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
I've got an AIT-2 tape drive, which supposedly will hold 50-100GB. the tapetype that I found, seems to say that it's 43GB: define tapetype AIT2 { comment AIT-2 with 230m tapes length 43778 mbytes filemark 3120 kbytes speed 5371 kps } but what happens when the data is compressible? I'm doing

Re: Changers

2002-02-25 Thread Juanjo
Well, if this can be useful: I got it running with an HP SureStore AutoLoader (9 slots)... Regards. -Original Message- From: Ignacio Dosil Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:49:53 +0100 Subject: Changers Hi, everybody! I´m testing Amanda (without

Re: hardware vs software compression

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 at 10:11am, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote I've got an AIT-2 tape drive, which supposedly will hold 50-100GB. the tapetype that I found, seems to say that it's 43GB: define tapetype AIT2 { comment AIT-2 with 230m tapes length 43778 mbytes filemark 3120 kbytes speed

2.4.3b2 fail on /bin/tar returned 2

2002-02-25 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
due to permission problems, we've had repeated cases of tar returning error message '2', even tho amanda uses the --ignore-failed-read option (tar 1.3.25). as I understand it, amanda should still accept the backup data that tar got, but it doesn't. it simply ignores the backup. is there an

Re: hardware vs software compression

2002-02-25 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
define tapetype AIT2 { comment AIT-2 with 230m tapes length 43778 mbytes filemark 3120 kbytes speed 5371 kps } That was on somebody's particular hardware. You may want to run tapetype yourself, or just put length 5 mbytes and see if you hit EOT. since the box is

Re: hardware vs software compression

2002-02-25 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
Here's what I'm using with my AIT-2 drive: define tapetype AIT-2 { comment SDX-500C length 46700 mbytes # This is a safer uncompressed length filemark 1541 kbytes speed 2920 kps# Not used with the current Amanda lbl-templ /usr/local/pkg/amanda/example/3hole.ps

Re: hardware vs software compression

2002-02-25 Thread Chris Marble
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: I've got an AIT-2 tape drive, which supposedly will hold 50-100GB. the tapetype that I found, seems to say that it's 43GB: define tapetype AIT2 { comment AIT-2 with 230m tapes length 43778 mbytes filemark 3120 kbytes speed 5371 kps } Here's what I'm

Strange failure to connect to client

2002-02-25 Thread Graham Dunn
amcheck shows no errors, but the amdump log reports a problem... ideas? dumper log : DISK planner oshaberi ad0s1a DISK planner oshaberi /usr/local/mailman START driver date 20020225 DISK planner axp500 da0a DISK planner tsuyoi ad0s1a START planner date 20020225 INFO planner Adding new disk

Re: 2.4.3b2 fail on /bin/tar returned 2

2002-02-25 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
due to permission problems, we've had repeated cases of tar returning error message '2', even tho amanda uses the --ignore-failed-read option (tar 1.3.25). as I understand it, amanda should still accept the backup data that tar got, but it doesn't. it simply ignores the backup. let me

Re: Strange failure to connect to client

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 at 12:06pm, Graham Dunn wrote amcheck shows no errors, but the amdump log reports a problem... ideas? FAIL driver oshaberi /usr/local/mailman 0 20020225[could not connect to oshaberi] FAIL driver oshaberi ad0s1a 0 20020225[could not connect to oshaberi] INFO taper

os x 10.1 server

2002-02-25 Thread Soo Hom
Hello, Has anyone run amanda on os x 10.1 server? I would like to run it on that platform but I need help with the configure options and the make. Soo

Re: Problem restoring old backups

2002-02-25 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi Bernhard! On 25 Feb 02 at 19:07 Bernhard R. Erdmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you enable indexing? Check for dirs/files in ~amanda/WEEKLY/index. Yes, I should have mentioned that indexing *is* enabled. The fact that one (most recent) backup does show up should support that point :-)

Re: Problem restoring old backups

2002-02-25 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
I can see no problems with DAILY backups, but for some reason amrecover doesn't see older WEEKLY backups. Did you enable indexing? Check for dirs/files in ~amanda/WEEKLY/index.

Re: Incoherente saving when moving a directory

2002-02-25 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
One of my users changed the name of one of his directory one day ,and few days and few backups later, he deleted some files that it would like to recover. But amanda didn't save them again... why ??? I still had an older backup where the data are saved, but I'm wondering why amanda did'nt

Re: Strange failure to connect to client

2002-02-25 Thread Graham Dunn
:06pm, Graham Dunn wrote amcheck shows no errors, but the amdump log reports a problem... ideas? FAIL driver oshaberi /usr/local/mailman 0 20020225[could not connect to oshaberi] FAIL driver oshaberi ad0s1a 0 20020225[could not connect to oshaberi] INFO taper tape DailySet103 kb 320

sendsize.*.debug reports negative value

2002-02-25 Thread Jeffery Smith
Dear Amanda-Users, I have been scouring the list archives and google for an answer to this problem, but can't seem to figure it out. I have a few clients that are having a problem in the nightly backup. Last week I started fresh and installed the client from sources, brand new, on to a

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2002-02-25 Thread Henning Bertelsen

Broken Pipe errors

2002-02-25 Thread Matt Galer
it out there. Here are some (hopefully!) appropriate log files (they dont tell me too much): = log.20020225.0 from server = START planner date 20020225 START driver date 20020225 ERROR taper no-tape [no tape online] FINISH planner date 20020225 STATS driver

stalled amdump run

2002-02-25 Thread peanut butter
Hi, I started an amdump of a configuration containing a few laptops and which was still running when I left for the weekend on Friday. One of the laptops was shutdown while a dump was actively being performed to tape. Coming in this Monday, amdump is still running but (as the machine is

Re: Bad read from input disk file

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 at 2:49pm, John Peter Gormley wrote | dump: Bad read from input disk file: /dev/rrz10d, block number: -555823496, bytes wanted: 5120, bytes got: 0 *snip* ? dump: More than 16 block read errors from /dev/rrz10d ? dump: This is an unrecoverable error. *snip* I don't know

Re: Strange failure to connect to client

2002-02-25 Thread Ignacio Dosil Lago
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Strange failure to connect to client On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 at 12:06pm, Graham Dunn wrote amcheck shows no errors, but the amdump log reports a problem... ideas? FAIL driver oshaberi /usr/local/mailman 0 20020225[could not connect to oshaberi] FAIL driver oshaberi ad0s1a

Re: Strange failure to connect to client

2002-02-25 Thread Graham Dunn
/usr/local/mailman 0 20020225[could not connect to oshaberi] FAIL driver oshaberi ad0s1a 0 20020225[could not connect to oshaberi] INFO taper tape DailySet103 kb 320 fm 2 [OK] FINISH driver date 20020225 time 366.114 Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check Client

RE: Disaster Recovery on Windows

2002-02-25 Thread Matt Galer
my personal strategy is as follows: - I have Imagecast images for our 4 generic server types (NT/2000 web and db). this allows me to quickly deploy the OS and necessary applications. There are several products like Imagecast out on the market for imaging windows partitions. - change the

RE: Disaster Recovery on Windows

2002-02-25 Thread Bort, Paul
Backup only the data. Keep a copy of the install CDs and install instructions on site and off site. Practice your re-install. (We can re-install a box in under four hours with Citrix and all apps.) -Original Message- From: Jan Boshoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday,

RE: Disaster Recovery on Windows

2002-02-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
-Original Message- From: Jan Boshoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I just had a thought and would like to probe the great minds of this list. Would anyone do a disaster recovery type of restore of a Winbox that was backed up using smbclient?I'm currently backing up the

Re: Problem restoring old backups

2002-02-25 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
I can see no problems with DAILY backups, but for some reason amrecover doesn't see older WEEKLY backups. [...] -rw--- 1 amanda wheel 25574 Jan 18 22:07 20020118_0.gz -rw--- 1 amanda wheel 25737 Jan 25 22:07 20020125_0.gz -rw--- 1 amanda wheel 25752 Feb 2 14:07

Re: Disaster Recovery on Windows

2002-02-25 Thread Kasper Edwards
At 15:58 25-02-2002 -0500, Jan Boshoff wrote: Hi all I just had a thought and would like to probe the great minds of this list. Would anyone do a disaster recovery type of restore of a Winbox that was backed up using smbclient?I'm currently backing up the complete winbox, but it occured to

Re: hardware vs software compression

2002-02-25 Thread peanut butter
I've been told (I'm sure on this list) that generally hardware compression is better than software compression. I throw that out for whatever it is worth. Paul (It would be great to get ~47G on a tape. I get about ~14G, being a different--DDS3--type tape, of course.) -In response to your

Re: Problem restoring old backups

2002-02-25 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
I can see no problems with DAILY backups, but for some reason amrecover doesn't see older WEEKLY backups. [...] -rw--- 1 amanda wheel 25574 Jan 18 22:07 20020118_0.gz -rw--- 1 amanda wheel 25737 Jan 25 22:07 20020125_0.gz -rw--- 1 amanda wheel 25752 Feb 2 14:07

Re: Merry Christmas and a happy New Year

2002-02-25 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, James wrote: Thus spake Bill Sidhipong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It could just be misconfigured mail server :-) Seems innocuous enough, and though I've seen a marked increase in junk mail I receive (is any spammer harvesting amanda-* lists?) I've not seen the original

Re: adding options to rundump for XFS

2002-02-25 Thread Jason Henry Parker
John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is similar to the -h flag for dump on Linux. Look at how dump-honor-nodump in configure.in for is handled and add something similar. Then find the XFSDUMP code in client-src/sendbackup-dump.c and add a couple of lines to insert -e if

Re: Problem restoring old backups

2002-02-25 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi Bernhard! Thanks for your help so far. It's highly appreciated. On 25 Feb 02 at 22:57 you wrote: I can see no problems with DAILY backups, but for some reason amrecover doesn't see older WEEKLY backups. [...] -rw--- 1 amanda wheel 25574 Jan 18 22:07 20020118_0.gz -rw---

Re: Problem restoring old backups

2002-02-25 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
It seems that for some reason amrecover thinks that all these backups were done to tape WEEKLY03, although they most definitely were not. Whatever it is, it explains why amrecover doesn't show older backups. It thinks they have been overwritten. Now I have to figure out *why* amanda thinks