Re: client server nfs question

2002-02-27 Thread Johannes Niess
John Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it correct that an AMANDA client (on the same host as the AMANDA tape server) will still use the mechanisms as a remote host (inetd.conf and amandad program) to communicate with the tape server? I believe this to be yes... If the tape server

filetype

2002-02-27 Thread Vegard . Hanssen
I have a Tandberg SLR100 tapedrive and didn't find the tapetype for this, so I ran the filetype program. First time with compression: define tapetype unknown-tapetype { comment just produced by tapetype program length 45461 mbytes filemark 165 kbytes speed 1777 kps } Then I ran

Re: filetype

2002-02-27 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello! I have a Tandberg SLR100 tapedrive and didn't find the tapetype for this, so I ran the filetype program. First time with compression: [...] Why are all the numbers different? Is that right? Can I trust those numbers? Which ones should I use? SLR drives do read-after-write

i can not backup / with GNUTar, so then recover

2002-02-27 Thread Javier.Fernandez
hi, this is my problem. I have the next disklist -- sc01us0105 / user-tar

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-27 Thread Jesús Moya
Well, we have tried this but with no result. Here is the output of the process: machine:~ # cd /home machine:/home # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 8.2G 4.3G 3.5G 55% / /dev/sda1 23M 4.5M 17M 21% /boot /dev/sdb1

Amanda make error

2002-02-27 Thread Davidson, Brian
I've already compiled amanda 2.4.2p on two BSDI 4.1 computers and am working on the third but I'm getting the following error that I didn't on the other two BSDI boxes: make: don't know how to make amoverview. Stop Do I need to grab a different make? This is the standard make that comes with

Re: amrecover doesn't mount tape

2002-02-27 Thread John Dalbec
Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote: solution to this? I sure hope 'amrecover' doesn't require me to load the tape manually. It does. You have to insert the tape as directed. I can see why amrecover does this when no changer is defined. But why can't it issue 'amtape ... slot ##' commands

Re: filetype

2002-02-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 at 9:48am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I have a Tandberg SLR100 tapedrive and didn't find the tapetype for this, so I ran the filetype program. First time with compression: Don't Do That. tapetype writes random data to the drive, which, when compressed, actually expands.

Re: i can not backup / with GNUTar, so then recover

2002-02-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 27 Feb 2002 at 10:53am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote hi, this is my problem. I have the next disklist sc01us0103.cf.jcyl.es / user-tar sc01us0103.cf.jcyl.es /global/datos2/esri-web user-tar 200 Dump host set to

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 at 12:39pm, Jesús Moya wrote Well, we have tried this but with no result. Here is the output of the process: machine:/home # /usr/local/sbin/amrecover nuevomundo AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on machine ... 220 machine AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2)

Re: amrecover doesn't mount tape

2002-02-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:27:14AM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote: solution to this? I sure hope 'amrecover' doesn't require me to load the tape manually. It does. You have to insert the tape as directed. I can see why amrecover does this when no

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-27 Thread Jesús Moya
thanks for replaying!! :) Well, my disklist: # sample Amanda2 disklist file, derived from CS.UMD.EDU's disklist # # If your configuration is called, say, csd2, then this file normally goes # in /etc/amanda/csd2/disklist. # # File format is: # # hostname diskdev dumptype [spindle

Resolved - Multi-tape question

2002-02-27 Thread Eric Trager
Thank you to those that wrote back yesterday, especially Don. I used the non-compressed device (in this case, /dev/rmt/1n), and amanda did indeed write filesystems until it hit EOT and rewrote that specific interrupted filesystem to the next tape. Does anyone here have a changer working with

Re: Resolved - Multi-tape question

2002-02-27 Thread Mark Lin
Perhaps add another configuration, use the second drive as your tapedev parameter and change the first and last slot number in your changer conf file. So first conf will have slots 1-15 and second conf will control 16-30. Have them backup different filesystem. Althought I dont know if it would

Re: amrecover doesn't mount tape

2002-02-27 Thread Mark Lin
Well, at least I would like to see an option to choose from, manual load or changer load. I for one, have my backup device at remote location. I usually can't find anyone to mount the tape for me, so using a changer is a must. I understand I can issue mtx command when 'amrecover' asks for

ftp to central tape library instead of local tape?

2002-02-27 Thread Jon Stearley
i've loved using amanda for 5 years to backup ~50 partitions from various OSes (including netapps) to dat, dlt, and autoloaders, but here's a new one: i've changed jobs and now have access to a central tape-library, which you just ftp stuff into and it takes care of all the taping operations.

RE: Amanda make error

2002-02-27 Thread Davidson, Brian
Figured it out myself that it's a bad make, installed gnu make and amanda compiled fine. -Original Message- From: Davidson, Brian Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 8:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Amanda make error I've already compiled amanda 2.4.2p on two BSDI 4.1 computers

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 at 4:10pm, Jesús Moya wrote thanks for replaying!! :) Well, my disklist: mordor.nuevomundo.es /home/compartido/Alberto/mp3_einar/ user-tar Then you need to 'setdisk /home/compartido/Alberto/mp3_einar' to get amrecover to mount the right disk. *However*... less

Re: Problems with amrecover

2002-02-27 Thread Jesús Moya
Thank you very much. Yes, i understand, i was making a test backup in /home/compartido/Alberto/mp3_einar. I was wrong, ok We have been using tar 1.13.17. I'm going to download and compile tar 1.13.19, thanks again :) Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 at 4:10pm, Jesús Moya

Re: Amanda install reality check

2002-02-27 Thread Tanniel Simonian
Use debian, can't go wrong with the installation. All you'll have to do is custom build your config and make sure that your hosts.allow allow amandad connection to go through. Total installation Time for Amanda on Debian was 5 minutes. Total installation time for Debian, 5 hours =) But its

Re: ftp to central tape library instead of local tape?

2002-02-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 at 9:33am, Jon Stearley wrote i've changed jobs and now have access to a central tape-library, which you just ftp stuff into and it takes care of all the taping operations. my role here is not one of sysadmin, but rather i'm just Uh oh, be careful. If you show too much

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

2002-02-27 Thread Chris Dahn
On Monday 25 February 2002 11:29 am, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: 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

question: failure with dumping

2002-02-27 Thread Jure Menart
Hi, I'm configuring simple backup system and I configure it.. when I try to run: amcheck normal there are no errors, and even when I run amdump nothing occurs to be wrong... until I got my mail report: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: odin.hide. ad0s1a lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to

RE: Resolved - Multi-tape question

2002-02-27 Thread Tuthill, Ed
What I did here is not the second drive with the changer at all -- I change that tape by hand twice a week, and use it to generate an archival level-0 backup (stored in the tape safe) for long-term storage. I can use the tapes in the changer (on drive 1) to restore any file system to any day in

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

2002-02-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:51:33PM -0500, Chris Dahn wrote: On Monday 25 February 2002 11:29 am, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: 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

amanda.conf

2002-02-27 Thread Davidson, Brian
I'm running amanda 2.4.2p2 on 3 BSDI 4.1 boxes. The first two are setup and running fine. I'm configuring the third box and I get the following error running amcheck: relay# su amanda -c /usr/local/sbin/amcheck tig /usr/local/etc/amanda/tig/amanda.conf, line 26: configuration

Re: amanda.conf

2002-02-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:01:51PM -0500, Davidson, Brian wrote: :26 dumporder sssS# specify the priority order of each dumper 150: autoflush no # The identical amanda.conf file runs fine on the other two Amanda/BSDI boxes. Any

RE: amanda.conf

2002-02-27 Thread Davidson, Brian
Works like a charm now that I compiled the correct version!! Many, many thanks!!! -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 2:28 PM To: Davidson, Brian Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: amanda.conf On Wed, Feb 27, 2002

Re: Schedule question.....

2002-02-27 Thread Don Potter
That is what I was thinking about doing initally..but I was concerned with introducing tapes into the rotation for my expected full backup (of the archive variety)I'm assuming that you don't add them arbitrairlly into your tapelist... I would guess that you add them before you do a full

Using cvs to checkout amanda

2002-02-27 Thread John Koenig
Here are the instructions from the sourceforge page: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=120 ### cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda co modulename ### My question is: what module name do I use?