Re: personal request - no need for double mail

2002-09-12 Thread Trevor Fraser
I, as a culprit, Agree. Trevor. - Original Message - From: Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 4:00 PM Subject: personal request - no need for double mail I'm moderately active on the list, both posting and through

Re: win32

2002-09-12 Thread JC Simonetti
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:02:09 -0400 (EDT) Samuel Nicolary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote: Hello gang, A while back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines without having to deal with samba. Someone had responded with the win32

Newbie HOWTO

2002-09-12 Thread Mozzi
Hallo all As mentioned earlier I am busy writing a newbie HOWTO. Will anybody mind if I post it to the list ? I want evereybody to look it to check if I didn't make any major mistakes ;-) I have only done the prelimenary setup procedures sofar (no config files) If anybody minds please let me

Re: Working with multiple tape drives----- Ammended

2002-09-12 Thread Tien That Ton
Reply With History On the library, sometimes due to transportation (and the library was not Park properly), the robot arm tends to miscalculate its Y position. That is when you need to re-calibrate. By re-calibrate I meant accessing the menu on the library and manually calibrate. On the

raw device permissions

2002-09-12 Thread Mozzi
Hi This is my stupid question of the week ;-) Sorry but my brain has deflated. Please bear with me for when my newbie howto is finished I hope it will stop questions like this. This is a direct quote from the INSTALL file B. Set up your raw disk devices so that the dumpuser can read

A nightmare of failures

2002-09-12 Thread Jason Greenberg
I'm wondering if someone could have a look at this log file, and give me an idea of what to do here. Almost half of my backups are failing. I either get FAIL planner mur3.lb.backbone /usr 0 [Request to mur3.lb.backbone timed out.] on some partitions, or FAIL dumper fido.lb.backbone /var/www 0

Re: Tape technology

2002-09-12 Thread Brian Jonnes
First off, thanks to all for the info; I at least now have a base from which to start. the small business with say 5-10 major machines to backup, a dedicated software raid server with a rack of big drives, running rsync, also has a cost and speed advantage. I know of one such setup with a

Tape DDS-3 values

2002-09-12 Thread Kablan BOGNINI
Hello, I am using HP DDS-3 tapes for my backup. I've tried to get the correct values for my tape. But tapetype gives this result: define tapetype HP-DDS3-DAT { comment just produced by tapetype program length 9860 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 840 kps } I think this is not

Re: Tape DDS-3 values

2002-09-12 Thread Conny Gyllendahl
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Kablan BOGNINI wrote: Hello, I am using HP DDS-3 tapes for my backup. I've tried to get the correct values for my tape. But tapetype gives this result: define tapetype HP-DDS3-DAT { comment just produced by tapetype program length 9860 mbytes filemark 0

Re: Tape technology

2002-09-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 September 2002 04:28, Brian Jonnes wrote: First off, thanks to all for the info; I at least now have a base from which to start. the small business with say 5-10 major machines to backup, a dedicated software raid server with a rack of big drives, running rsync, also has a

Re: Tape DDS-3 values

2002-09-12 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, September 12, 2002 15:54:43 +0200 Kablan BOGNINI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using HP DDS-3 tapes for my backup. I've tried to get the correct values for my tape. But tapetype gives this result: define tapetype HP-DDS3-DAT { comment just produced by tapetype program

Re: Newbie HOWTO

2002-09-12 Thread Eric Bergeron
Mozzi wrote: Hallo all As mentioned earlier I am busy writing a newbie HOWTO. Will anybody mind if I post it to the list ? I want evereybody to look it to check if I didn't make any major mistakes ;-) I don't mind. I want to see where I messed up on configurating Amanda. *grin* I have

Re: Tape DDS-3 values

2002-09-12 Thread Niall O Broin
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:13:53PM +0300, Conny Gyllendahl wrote: Also, tar+gnuzip gives you alot better compression than the internal hardware of the drive, at least from what I've read on this list. This is true but as a friend pointed out to me recently when I was having some tape reading

Correction to SOLVED: amlabel: Operation not permitted

2002-09-12 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, everyone, Correction: that should read /dev/nst0, not /dev/st0 I changed the device to /dev/st0 and everything worked, including amlabel. Apparently the problem is with vxaTool reporting the wrong device and not amanda. I'll report the bug to Exabyte. Thanks again, Caity

SOLVED: amlabel: Operation not permitted

2002-09-12 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, everyone, I changed the device to /dev/st0 and everything worked, including amlabel. Apparently the problem is with vxaTool reporting the wrong device and not amanda. I'll report the bug to Exabyte. Thanks

Re: Tape DDS-3 values

2002-09-12 Thread Galen Johnson
Kablan BOGNINI wrote: Hello, I am using HP DDS-3 tapes for my backup. I've tried to get the correct values for my tape. But tapetype gives this result: define tapetype HP-DDS3-DAT { comment just produced by tapetype program length 9860 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 840 kps } I

Re: Tape DDS-3 values

2002-09-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 September 2002 09:54, Kablan BOGNINI wrote: Hello, I am using HP DDS-3 tapes for my backup. I've tried to get the correct values for my tape. But tapetype gives this result: define tapetype HP-DDS3-DAT { comment just produced by tapetype program length 9860 mbytes

Tapetype

2002-09-12 Thread Mozzi
Hi Watch out for tapetype!!! I have a Tandberg VS80 DLT 40/80 Gig drive I gave it the command #./tapetype -e 40960 -f /dev/nst0 -t TandbergVS80 It has been going for 26 hours now,and no end in sight. Mozzi

HOWTO-here it is !!!!

2002-09-12 Thread Mozzi
Hi all Please note this is just phase 1 basis for discussion ;-) It should cover all setups to be done on the server prior to the final amanda setup. So hopefully ;-) If you have done this you can just edit your amnda config files and off you go !!! Please look the following. Is evereything in

Re: win32

2002-09-12 Thread Tony Shadwick
Care to share what you went through? I remember there's an exe you have to run to turn any program into a service (anyserv.exe?) as I've had to do it for a perl script before. Would be nice to get it all under the same backup system. On 9/12/02 2:35 AM, JC Simonetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Tape DDS-3 values

2002-09-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 September 2002 10:43, Galen Johnson wrote: Kablan BOGNINI wrote: Hello, I am using HP DDS-3 tapes for my backup. I've tried to get the correct values for my tape. But tapetype gives this result: define tapetype HP-DDS3-DAT { comment just produced by tapetype program length

Re: win32

2002-09-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:35:57AM +0200, JC Simonetti wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:02:09 -0400 (EDT) Samuel Nicolary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote: I downloaded this package but have been unable to get it to work - anyone using it successfully?

Re: Tapetype

2002-09-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 September 2002 10:48, Mozzi wrote: Hi Watch out for tapetype!!! I have a Tandberg VS80 DLT 40/80 Gig drive I gave it the command #./tapetype -e 40960 -f /dev/nst0 -t TandbergVS80 It has been going for 26 hours now,and no end in sight. Mozzi It will get done at some point. It

Re: SOLVED: amlabel: Operation not permitted

2002-09-12 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, sorry to correct you, but you must not use /dev/st0 with amanda, the correct device for amanda is /dev/nst0, as this device does not rewind when it is closen. /dev/st0 rewinds the tape at close which is a nono with amanda. vxa tools are reporting a correct device for your tape, but not for

Output of tapetype

2002-09-12 Thread rmckeever
Hello, Im learning amanda so thanks for your time. What does this mean when running tapetype: # ./tapetype -f /dev/rmt/1ln wrote 2266437 32Kb blocks in 6931 files in 28845 seconds (short write) wrote 1826089 32Kb blocks in 11203 files in 27217 seconds (short write) define tapetype

Re: Too many taper retries

2002-09-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 28 April 2020 05:33, Gene Heskett wrote: I just noted that my clock was foobar, set for something in april 2020! As I have a daily rdate, is there any way to ascertain that the rdate request to the server returns a sane result before it blindly resets everything? It happened

HELP : amlabel - no tape online

2002-09-12 Thread Vivek Singh
Hi, I am a newbie to Amanda. I have set up version 2.4.2.p2 on a RedHat Linux 7.3 system with a HP SureStore 24x6 external drive (HP C1557A). Installation of amanda went on fine. Here are relevant portions from the amanda.conf file : **

RE: Working with multiple tape drives----- Ammended

2002-09-12 Thread Quinn, Richard C. - Collinsville IT
Tien, if recalibration is what I need then, looking at my manual, it'd seem that this might be what I wanna do: Uncal Drive Target Allows the operator to uncalibrate a drive target. The next time a tape mount operation is called for that drive, the library recalibrates the target

Re: win32

2002-09-12 Thread JC Simonetti
I'll post here a little howto as soon as I find time. Don't hesitate to remind me of that if I forget. (one week could be a correct timeout for me I think if I have not too any problems...) On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:01:18 -0500 Tony Shadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Care to share what you went

Re: win32

2002-09-12 Thread JC Simonetti
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:16:11 -0400 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:35:57AM +0200, JC Simonetti wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:02:09 -0400 (EDT) Samuel Nicolary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote: I downloaded this

Re: Output of tapetype

2002-09-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:28:29AM -0700, rmckeever wrote: Hello, Im learning amanda so thanks for your time. What does this mean when running tapetype: # ./tapetype -f /dev/rmt/1ln wrote 2266437 32Kb blocks in 6931 files in 28845 seconds (short write) wrote 1826089 32Kb blocks in

Re: HELP : amlabel - no tape online

2002-09-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 September 2002 11:35, Vivek Singh wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Amanda. I have set up version 2.4.2.p2 on a RedHat Linux 7.3 system with a HP SureStore 24x6 external drive (HP C1557A). Installation of amanda went on fine. Here are relevant portions from the amanda.conf file :

Re: Output of tapetype

2002-09-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 September 2002 11:28, rmckeever wrote: Hello, Im learning amanda so thanks for your time. What does this mean when running tapetype: # ./tapetype -f /dev/rmt/1ln wrote 2266437 32Kb blocks in 6931 files in 28845 seconds (short write) wrote 1826089 32Kb blocks in 11203 files in

Re: win32

2002-09-12 Thread Galen Johnson
JC Simonetti wrote: amrecover is possible. You extract the tarball archive on your backup server and upload it to the Windows box, and there you untar it with the WinTar provided with Win32 Amanda (different of course from the GNU tar, due to NT file rights...). amrestore is possible, but I

Re: raw device permissions

2002-09-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:42:57PM +0200, Mozzi wrote: Hi This is my stupid question of the week ;-) Sorry but my brain has deflated. Please bear with me for when my newbie howto is finished I hope it will stop questions like this. This is a direct quote from the INSTALL file B.

Re: Tape technology

2002-09-12 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, September 12, 2002 at 10:28:13 (+0200), Brian Jonnes wrote: ] Subject: Re: Tape technology about 1600 USD at the time. Is it as dependable as tape? Time will tell. Can you take it offsite? In a sense, yes, by cycling enough drives thru each slot in the array and letting

Re: HELP : amlabel - no tape online

2002-09-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:35:16AM -0700, Vivek Singh wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Amanda. I have set up version 2.4.2.p2 on a RedHat Linux 7.3 system with a HP SureStore 24x6 external drive (HP C1557A). Installation of amanda went on fine. Here are relevant portions from the amanda.conf

Re: Output of tapetype

2002-09-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 September 2002 12:07, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 12 September 2002 11:28, rmckeever wrote: Hello, Im learning amanda so thanks for your time. What does this mean when running tapetype: # ./tapetype -f /dev/rmt/1ln wrote 2266437 32Kb blocks in 6931 files in 28845 seconds

DEBRA Wagy/St Louis/IBM is out of the office.

2002-09-12 Thread D03NM032/03/M/IBM%IBMUS
I am out of the office from 09/06/2002, returning 09/23/2002. You will receive only this notification of my absence prior to my return, at which time I will respond. I am out of the office from9/02/2002 thru 9/20/2002. I will be returning on 9/23/2002. I will respond to your message when I

Re: amverify only on most recent set

2002-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Andrew, I include a patch to amverify that add a third argument, the number of tape you want to verify, it will take runtapes if the argument is absent. I also include a new program (amverifyrun) which verify the tape written in the latest run (amdump or amflush), this script grep the log

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Re: samba dumps no worky

2002-09-12 Thread Galen Johnson
Galen Johnson wrote: Hi folks, I'm moving forward with backing up my windows machines amanda. I've gotten samba talking to my windows boxes and can run 'smbclient -Uamanda%herpasswd -L windows_host' just fine.. .I see all the shares, etc...I can also see my samba server on the windows

Re: Tapetype

2002-09-12 Thread Brian Jonnes
Not so sure about this. I had a Travan-4 tape whizzing away for 24 hours. Now, I've had full tapes before, and the dump time... lemme pull out the reports: Output Size (meg)3863.3 3829.7 33.6 ... Tape Time (hrs:min)2:15 2:05 0:10 Tape Size (meg)

Re: Tape DDS-3 values

2002-09-12 Thread Brian Jonnes
On Thu 12 Sep 02 16:38, Niall O Broin wrote: This is true but as a friend pointed out to me recently when I was having some tape reading problems - if you get some bit errors reading a tar file from a tape, most likely asll you will lose is the affected file. If OTOH you get bit errors