Re: DLT 8000 on Linux

2002-05-06 Thread Elmar Kolkman
* Elmar Kolkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:43:49PM +0200) We are trying here to make backups of a Linux File Server on a DLT 8000 tapedrive, but we can not get it to streaming mode. We tried everything we Does anyone have a clue ? to get the obvious out of the way, are

Re: DLT 8000 on Linux

2002-05-06 Thread Elmar Kolkman
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Elmar Kolkman wrote: Hi, We are trying here to make backups of a Linux File Server on a DLT 8000 tapedrive, but we can not get it to streaming mode. We tried everything we could think of, but it only streams when running 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/st0 bs=64k'. It also

Re: Invalid Argument with amlabel

2002-05-06 Thread Elmar Kolkman
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:19, Cory Visi wrote: I have checked an double-checked and the tapes I use are not write-protected. In fact, when I attempt to label a write-protected tape, I receive the error Read-only device Well, I was thinking more along the lines of: bldlinux71 mt -f

Re: problems with some failing backups

2002-05-06 Thread Niall O Broin
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 01:36:16PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: Niall serv1 /boot lev 0 FAILED [Request to serv1 timed out.] serv1 / Niall lev 0 FAILED [Request to serv1 timed out.] Bingo. What is the firewall? A Linux box with 2.4.x (10, I think) and iptables (using SuSE's

Re: forcing a degraded backup

2002-05-06 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 03:23:06PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to force a backup to degraded mode, to holding disk with 2.4.3b3. Reading the docs I didn't find anything obvious yet. Here's what I'm trying to do: I have a 14 slots DLT changer. With a runspercycle

Newbie problem with amcheck

2002-05-06 Thread Peter Normann
Hi everybody, I am trying to set up Amanda for the first time. I have a ADIC FastStor DLT 7 on Suse 7.2 box, with the latest mtx (from sourceforge) and gnu tar 1.13.25 installed. I have downloaded the mtx-zd-chg.sh.in-243 script, compiled and installed amanda-2.5.0-20020502. My problem is

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Re: Expanding tapecycle

2002-05-06 Thread Greg Troxel
Be careful - this is more complicated than it seems. If Amanda always put exactly one full of each filesystem on every week, and nothing were ever delayed (because no nightly dumps were ever missed due to tape problems, and no clients were ever down), then this might work. You might want to

RE: Newbie problem with amcheck

2002-05-06 Thread Peter Normann
Sorry, I just found out that the amanda user did not have permission to access /dev/sg0 and /dev/nst0. Problem fixed... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Peter Normann Sent: 6. maj 2002 13:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbie problem

BSD restore can restore Solaris ufsdumps?

2002-05-06 Thread Dan Debertin
Just to see if it would work, I tried to restore a Solaris (2.5.1) ufsdump using NetBSD's restore. To my surprise, it worked, modulo Solaris ACLs, of course. Amanda's amrecover won't restore them, however -- it complains that it can't find ufsdump/ufsrestore, and symlinking them to dump/restore

Re: BSD restore can restore Solaris ufsdumps?

2002-05-06 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi all! Dan wrote: Just to see if it would work, I tried to restore a Solaris (2.5.1) ufsdump using NetBSD's restore. To my surprise, it worked, modulo Solaris ACLs, of course. Amanda's amrecover won't restore them, however -- it complains that it can't find ufsdump/ufsrestore, and

First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-06 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello, Well, last week I set up AMANDA and I'm pretty sure that I got it done correctly. However, how do I know that it actually ran as I thought it would? I followed instructions for creating a cron job (under Linux RH 7.2) for the user AMANDA, and set it to run on Friday night only.

Re: BSD restore can restore Solaris ufsdumps?

2002-05-06 Thread Darin Perusich
a work around i've used on systems where amrestore is not avialable is to us dd to get to the restore archives on the tape. works well when booting off of cd's into single user mode on solaris systems. dd if=tape device bs=32k skip=1 | ufsrestore -ivf - Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi all!

Problem solving error: amandad: dgram_send_addr:sendto(0.0.0.0.948) failed: Invalid argument

2002-05-06 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
I need a hand trying to figure out where to start troubleshooting my Amanda problem. I had an Amanda system which worked fine, until I rebooted one of my clients. Now amcheck says this client times out. The first hint of trouble shows up in /tmp/amanda/amandad.?.debug: amandad: dgram_send_addr:

My client backup is populating directory names, but not files

2002-05-06 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
I've got Amanda installed on a tape server (also a client) and another client. On the tape server/client, backup and recovery are working. On the other client, the backup procedure seems to go well - log files show okay. The problem comes in restoring. When using amrecover, it errors with

tar and level 0,1 backups

2002-05-06 Thread David Meissner
I've been running amanda in a test environment, on a Solaris 8 machine, using GNU tar for backups. So far I am only backing up the amanda server itself. Everything seems to be working: the first night a level 0 backup took place on all the filesystems, followed by level 1 backups on subsequent

Backup NT share with amanda

2002-05-06 Thread
Hello, I am a new amanda-user, and I have a problem whith NT share. I have this configuration RH 7.2 Amanda 2.4.2p2 disklist linux-server //nt-server/share always-full amandapass //nt-server/share user%passwd WORKGROUP when I run amcheck MyConf all its ok, but when I run amdump with the new

Re: My client backup is populating directory names, but not files

2002-05-06 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 6 May 2002 at 1:00pm, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote On the other client, the backup procedure seems to go well - log files show okay. The problem comes in restoring. When using amrecover, it errors with connection reset by peer (as recorder on the server debug file). When

Re: tar and level 0,1 backups

2002-05-06 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 6 May 2002 at 10:16am, David Meissner wrote What is odd is that it looks as though there is no difference between a level 0 and a level 1 backup. On the reports that are emailed each night, the same amount of data is written to tape for both the level 0 and the level 1 backup for all

RE: tar and level 0,1 backups

2002-05-06 Thread David Meissner
Ah, that's it - thank you. I have record set to 'no' while testing, and I haven't created amandates yet. I'll fix this and continue with my test. David M -Original Message- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:42 AM To: David Meissner Cc:

RE: Backup NT share with amanda

2002-05-06 Thread Doug Johnson
I may be wrong, but this is the way I have mine setup. I believe that you must use the tar option when backing up a SAMBA share. I am assuming here that you are using SAMBA to be able to connect to the NT Share. If so then you may want to test the SAMBA connection: smbclient nt-server\\share

RE: Expanding Tapecycles

2002-05-06 Thread Brandon Moro
Mr. Troxel, The system we have in place here brings the offsite storage people to our site once per week. So, every week, the previous week's tapes are sent offsite for six weeks, and the oldest set in the rotation (a week's worth of tapes that was cut 7 weeks before) is brought back. This

RE: Backup NT share with amanda

2002-05-06 Thread
I read the page http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/amanda/docs/SAMBA I run smbclient and I see the directories and amanda is a backup operaotr's account under NT. The dump type is global program ´´GNUTAR´´ comment ´´Full dum always´´ compress client fast dumpcycle 0 From: Doug Johnson [EMAIL

RE: Backup NT share with amanda

2002-05-06 Thread Doug Johnson
I have included my examples on the disklist and the dumptype. Don't forget the amandapass file in etc that must be created by hand which I believe that you had earlier. I cannot recall why I did not use the example of the dumptype in the docs. But I do recall that when I compiled the program it

Re: forcing a degraded backup

2002-05-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:32:09AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 03:23:06PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to force a backup to degraded mode, to holding disk with 2.4.3b3. Reading the docs I didn't find anything obvious yet. Here's what

Re: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-06 Thread Andrew Falanga
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 6 May 2002 at 9:28am, Andrew Falanga wrote night only. How do I know that it worked? When I got in to work today, amanda had no mail waiting, but the man page for cron said that mail is only sent if cron determines it must be sent. amdump should

RE: Backup NT share with amanda

2002-05-06 Thread Ulrik Sandberg
you may want to test the SAMBA connection: smbclient nt-server\\share (The extra slashes are not a mistake. They are used to escape the backslashes under unix.) Just to save you guys some keystrokes, forward slash works equally well: smbclient //nt-server/share -- Ulrik Sandberg

RE: Backup NT share with amanda

2002-05-06 Thread
Two forms its successfully, but I cant backup the files. The error is the same. Thanks. From: Ulrik Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Doug Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Backup NT share with amanda Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 00:56:48 +0200 (Västeuropa,

Seagate 4586 changer vs compression settings

2002-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
Does anyone here have any idea how one would go about converting a DDS2 tape that been written by one of these with the DC on to a format that leaves the DC off? The problem is that once written to the tapes headers, it apparently cannot be switched back off. This appears to be in a header