Following symlinks

2002-05-07 Thread Peter Normann
Title: Message Hi, I have 2 problems on my hand with Amanda, and I was wondering if any of you would care to help a clueless newbie. First prob: I have a raid system running ReiserFS (which is why I am turning to Amanda, ditching ARCserve) where Mac users(via netatalk)would create tons

Re: forcing a degraded backup

2002-05-07 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:18:08PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: 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

Question in case of disaster

2002-05-07 Thread Radu Filip
Hi, I'm not in a disaster situation, fortunatelly, but I would like to test how to proceed, just in case. I run amanda-2.4.2p1-2. Supose an intruder break somehow the system and perform a rm -rf /. From this point, after a fresh reinstall of the system, how I can restore from tape, if no

RE: Backup NT share with amanda

2002-05-07 Thread martin . bobbert
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 --

Re: Question in case of disaster

2002-05-07 Thread David Flood
My interest is to know ow to restore an entire directory and all it's subdirectories and all their files content in the shortest time possible after an unwanted disaster may occur. To do this in the shortest time possible the answer must be back up the amanda database files onto floppy disk

Re: Seagate 4586 changer vs compression settings

2002-05-07 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, one last resort would be using a big magnet on the tape and after that relabeling it. But be aware this erases every single bit ever written to the tape. one other thing i would try before is to look at the drive itself and check if there is a hardware switch to turn off compression. Many

Re: Question in case of disaster

2002-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 11:18am, Radu Filip wrote (1) dd if=$TAPE bs=32k skip=1 of=/tape_content produce what in /tape_content? An ISO image that I can mount it with mount -o loop? It is a file containing a backup image of a single disklist entry. What type of image depends upon what backup

Re: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 6 May 2002 at 3:14pm, Andrew Falanga wrote Ok, something definitely happened. I can tell this by all the directories and files created under areas such as: /var/amanda/log and so forth. However, when I run amcheck config I get and error message that says, /var/amanda/log/log no

Re: forcing a degraded backup

2002-05-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:18:44AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:18:08PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: 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

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

2002-05-07 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Yes, the Amanda user has permissions to read the raw devices (remember, the backup is working correctly on the server itself); Strangely, the dump sizes (and the size of the dump images) are consistent with the df output ... which would seem to indicate the data is there ... so why can't I see

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

2002-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 7:59am, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote Yes, the Amanda user has permissions to read the raw devices (remember, the backup is working correctly on the server itself); Whether or not the backup is working on the server is immaterial (in this case) to whether or

RE: Backup NT share with amanda

2002-05-07 Thread Doug Johnson
Do you by chance have a /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug file from the client? Looking where the failure comes from it may be when planner sends the sendsize request and the result was not what it was expecting to see. This may be one option to look at. Doug -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Question in case of disaster

2002-05-07 Thread Don Potter
I have an rsync running to an alternate server so the index files are replicated to once the backup is completed. So I always have a fall back server. David Flood wrote: My interest is to know ow to restore an entire directory and all it's subdirectories and all their files content in the

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

2002-05-07 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Yes, all the files are listed, both using restore -tf and amrecover. Another thing I discovered is that the backup is not entirely good, on the server as well as the client. I can restore some files, but not others, even though these others may be listed in the index. I'm getting checksum

Re: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Andrew Falanga
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 May 2002 at 3:14pm, Andrew Falanga wrote Ok, something definitely happened. I can tell this by all the directories and files created under areas such as: /var/amanda/log and so forth. However, when I run amcheck config I get and error message that

Re: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 8:38am, Andrew Falanga wrote Sorry, typo. I run amcheck with NO errors. I was running amreport as you'd suggested yesterday when I got that error. You need to specify the log file, e.g. 'amreport Daily -l /usr/local/adm/amanda/DailySet1/log.20020507.0 -f

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

2002-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 10:17am, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote Yes, all the files are listed, both using restore -tf and amrecover. Another thing I discovered is that the backup is not entirely good, on the server as well as the client. I can restore some files, but not others, even

Re: Following symlinks

2002-05-07 Thread Michael Richardson
Peter == Peter Normann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter I have 2 problems on my hand with Amanda, and I was wondering if Peter any of you would care to help a clueless newbie. Peter First prob: Peter I have a raid system running ReiserFS (which is why I am turning Peter

RE: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 12:08pm, Morse, Richard E. wrote U... are you sure that it didn't send you the email? Try this: log on to your backup server, then su to the amanda user (you may need to be root to do this). Then type 'mail'. The report should be there. If it is, then you need

RE: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Morse, Richard E.
U... are you sure that it didn't send you the email? Try this: log on to your backup server, then su to the amanda user (you may need to be root to do this). Then type 'mail'. The report should be there. If it is, then you need to set up a .forward file, or create an alias in

File: driver problems

2002-05-07 Thread Ben Snyder
Hi I'm still trying to get the file: driver stuff working, but I think the docs aren't telling me everything I need to know... I'm not exactly clear on how this is supposed to be set up. I have a directory /tapes/, inside of which resides the directories tapes01 to tapes20 My amanda.conf

RE: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Morse, Richard E.
Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Actually, the easiest way to control who gets the amreport at the end of the run is via the mailto parameter in amanda.conf. Of course, you may still want to set up a .forward for the amanda account to get CRON errors, but you

RE: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 12:19pm, Morse, Richard E. wrote Hmmm... but what if I want the report to go to many different people? Or people on different machines? I'm guessing that the amanda.conf method would work for From the sample amanda.conf: mailto $USER# space separated list

Re: Seagate 4586 changer vs compression settings

2002-05-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 07:08 am, Christoph Scheeder wrote: Hi, one last resort would be using a big magnet on the tape and after that relabeling it. But be aware this erases every single bit ever written to the tape. one other thing i would try before is to look at the drive itself and check if

Re: File: driver problems

2002-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 12:16pm, Ben Snyder wrote runtapes 1 changerfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/foo/changer.conf changerdev file:/tapes/ tapedev contains the file: line, not changerdev, at least according to amanda(8). -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke

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

2002-05-07 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Okay I've narrowed down the problem. Orginally I was having problems restoring data (checksum errors; missing files). I was using dump, so I switched to gnutar. Gnutar worked better, in that I was able to restore files. But when I went and did a diff or a cmp, many of the restored files do

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

2002-05-07 Thread Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
In reference to this thread, in which it has been determined that writing to/from my tape drive is producing some loss of integrity, (mis-translation of random bytes, occurs both with tar, and dump, and using amanda) does anyone here know how to troubleshoot a SCSI tape drive or whether it is in