newbie question

2002-03-08 Thread kamel
Hi all, I'm interresting to use amanda for backbup my network. We do not have tape support but we have a NetApp File Server. So, can Amanda makes backupsand restore of servers through network on File Server. thank, bye kamel latrach [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disklist Piority

2002-03-08 Thread Johannes Niess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there are way of forcing amanda to backup the directories in the disklist in a certain order or at least tell it to back up a thew directories first? David, There is a priority parameter for dumptypes. But it does not work for your purpose. priority string

Re: amanda reporting nearly-empty tape as full?

2002-03-08 Thread Paul Bijnens
Dave Sherohman wrote: *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY! *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing filemark: Input/output error]]. *** PERFORMED ALL DUMPS TO HOLDING DISK. ... FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: ... catmd1 lev 0 FAILED [out of tape] taper: FATAL

SUMMARY: amrecover: did not get a reserved port: 50059

2002-03-08 Thread Jordi Vidal
Thanks: John Dalbec, Jason Thomas It worked! I comented the lines in stream.c and amrecover goes fine. Regards, On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, John Dalbec wrote: This is fixed in CVS. The following patch fixed the problem for me, but YMMV. In particular, if your firewall is picky about source

Re: netusage, high or low?

2002-03-08 Thread Martin Hepworth
Brandon From what I've read on this list the netusage parameter is merely advisory to help with the planner. -- Martin Brandon Moro wrote: Also, as to my original question, I am still wondering whether I should bump these numbers up or down in order to increase the amount of traffice (or

Re: netusage, high or low?

2002-03-08 Thread Don Potter
If I remember corredctly the defined interfaces are only needed if you are specifying that a given disklist entry is to backed up directly via an specific interface (I.E. Private backup networks). When you look at the report do you see any client contention (I'm sure you do but is it

corrupt tape label

2002-03-08 Thread Brad Tilley
Hello, I had an amanda tape (DLTIV) that all of a sudden became corrupt. AMANDA kept returning these errors in amreport: These dumps were to tape daily0_tape3. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing filemark: Input/output error]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to

Solution: errors during make

2002-03-08 Thread Jeffery Smith
Greetings all, I was having difficulting getting the Amanda client compiled on a Solaris 6 workstation and subsequently found the solution on Google. Here's what I was getting when trying to run make: --- Snip: begin error --- ar cru .libs/libamanda.a alloc.o amflock.o debug.o dgram.o error.o

tapedev=otherhost:/dev/nst0 ?

2002-03-08 Thread Jordi Vidal
Hi Can I build amanda server in a host without tape and use some other host tapes? The goal is to save the tapeserver (the machine that has the tape device) from CPU load when using compression best Just like tar cf otherhost:/dev/nst0 /disk2dump Regards

Re: amanda reporting nearly-empty tape as full?

2002-03-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:36:11AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: You broke the report off just too early :-) Ah, well... First Amanda said that it was writing md1 from host cat to tape while it ran out of tape. In the NOTES section of the Amanda report you'll find something like: (cut from my

Re: tapedev=otherhost:/dev/nst0 ?

2002-03-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 at 4:23pm, Jordi Vidal wrote Can I build amanda server in a host without tape and use some other host tapes? The goal is to save the tapeserver (the machine that has the tape device) from CPU load when using compression best Why not just use compress client best? That

Re: amanda article in SysAdmin magazine

2002-03-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 at 7:13pm, Jon LaBadie wrote New SysAdmin issue has an article titled Configuring Amanda by David T. Smith. Article is online at: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7033/sam0204a/sam0204a.htm The mailing lists that form the primary support vehicle for Amanda are

Re: amanda reporting nearly-empty tape as full?

2002-03-08 Thread Paul Bijnens
Dave Sherohman wrote: taper: tape Daily08 kb 0 fm 0 writing filemark: Input/output error Which indicates it could write anything to tape yet! It had a problem just after writing the label already, seems to me. Is hardware compression controlled by the host or the drive? I'm currently

Barcode reader

2002-03-08 Thread Eric Trager
Hi all, I'm happily using chg-scsi with our StorEdge and backups are going well. Thanks to you all for helping me sort out a couple of things. I've tried to find an answer to this in the archives but to no avail. The StorEdge we use has a barcode reader, and the tapes are physically labelled.

Re: amanda article in SysAdmin magazine

2002-03-08 Thread David T. Smith
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 at 7:13pm, Jon LaBadie wrote New SysAdmin issue has an article titled Configuring Amanda by David T. Smith. Article is online at: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7033/sam0204a/sam0204a.htm The mailing lists that form

root-tar failing

2002-03-08 Thread Jenn Sturm
-- I've configured my Linux box to backup my Irix box using tar, as recommended on this list. It works great for everything but the root paritition. I've tried dumptype comp-root-tar and root-tar, and it continues to fail. I tried creating an exclude.gtar file, and that doesn't seem to be

Re: root-tar failing

2002-03-08 Thread Dan Wilder
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:02:11PM -0500, Jenn Sturm wrote: -- I've configured my Linux box to backup my Irix box using tar, as recommended on this list. It works great for everything but the root paritition. I've tried dumptype comp-root-tar and root-tar, and it continues to fail. I

Re: root-tar failing

2002-03-08 Thread Jan Boshoff
Jenn Sturm wrote: -- I've configured my Linux box to backup my Irix box using tar, as recommended on this list. It works great for everything but the root paritition. I've tried dumptype comp-root-tar and root-tar, and it continues to fail. I tried creating an exclude.gtar file, and that

Re: root-tar failing

2002-03-08 Thread Frank Smith
Look in /tmp/amanda for runtar.*.debug file(s). In the debug file is the command line used to invoke tar, look for --exclude-from and make sure that the path and filename specified are as expected. If not, verify that your dumptype in amanda.conf includes exclude list exclude.gtar Good luck,

Re: root-tar failing

2002-03-08 Thread Doug Silver
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Dan Wilder wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:02:11PM -0500, Jenn Sturm wrote: -- I've configured my Linux box to backup my Irix box using tar, as recommended on this list. It works great for everything but the root paritition. I've tried dumptype comp-root-tar

Re: tapedev=otherhost:/dev/nst0 ?

2002-03-08 Thread Jordi Vidal
Thank for your reply I know the client best option but it dont fit my needs. The clients are Windowses, and I have a spare Linux not in production to carry the load compression. On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Can I build amanda server in a host without tape and use some other

Re: Barcode reader

2002-03-08 Thread Stephen Carville
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Eric Trager wrote: - - Hi all, - - I'm happily using chg-scsi with our StorEdge and backups are going well. - Thanks to you all for helping me sort out a couple of things. - - I've tried to find an answer to this in the archives but to no avail. The - StorEdge we use has a

RE: tapedev=otherhost:/dev/nst0 ?

2002-03-08 Thread Bort, Paul
Then make the spare Linux box the one that uses the Samba client to pull data from the Windows boxes. We've been doing that here for a while with no problems. Sample disklist amandaserver /dev/hda1 amandaserver /dev/hda2 spareserver /dev/hda1 spareserver //win1/cshare spareserver

amanda 2.4.3b3

2002-03-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.4.3b3. It is the third beta release of 2.4.3. All known bugs are fixed. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/ This release include a change in the behavior of the exclude option in a dumptype. It it now possible to

Archive bit not getting reset on Windows clients

2002-03-08 Thread Gene Matthews
I am having a problem with my Windows backups. I have a user 'backup' defined for each Windows system and that user is given full access rights (everything is checked) for the share. It backs up ok, but doesn't reset the archive setting so that it is basically trying a level 0 dump all the time

Re: amanda 2.4.3b3

2002-03-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello John, Maybe libtool doesn't support your OSF1 V5.1 732 alpha. You can debug libtool or configure with --disable-libtool Jean-Louis On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:52:50PM -0800, John Koenig wrote: Thank you for all your (and everyone else involved) hard work... Though... I am having build

Re: amanda 2.4.3b3

2002-03-08 Thread John Koenig
Hello again... I took the advice and inserted --disable-libtool into my configure. (OSF1 V5.1 732 alpha) Files actually started to compile this time instead of dying right at the beginning.. This time... not long after some files *did* compile, it seems the broken libtool invocation