Backups fail on new client: too many dumper retry

2006-06-21 Thread Charles Curley
that the file is /dev/null. Is that correct? -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key

Re: Backups fail on new client: too many dumper retry

2006-06-21 Thread Charles Curley
the runtar log files; they all indicate the same output file. Where do I look to see the results of a backup, if any? The amandad...debug files seem to be the right place, but the sizes are all way too small. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: Backups fail on new client: too many dumper retry

2006-06-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:05:35AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:11:36AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: Looking at the log files, I see a typical runtar log as follows: -- runtar: debug 1 pid 6507 ruid 33 euid

Re: Backups fail on new client: too many dumper retry

2006-06-21 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: Backups fail on new client: too many dumper retry

2006-06-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:51:45PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:05:35AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:11:36AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: Looking at the log files, I see a typical runtar log as follows

Re: Backups fail on new client: too many dumper retry

2006-06-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:55:15PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:05:35AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:11:36AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: Forgot to mention, I looked through some old reports, from last month when I was setting up a FC4

Re: Backups fail on new client: too many dumper retry

2006-06-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:06:28PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:43:31AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:51:45PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: runtar is called from other programs and they write debug info to things like sendsize

Re: Backups fail on new client: too many dumper retry

2006-06-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:50:58PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:31:01AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:55:15PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: Forgot to mention, I looked through some old reports, from last month when I was setting up a FC4

Re: Backups fail on new client: too many dumper retry

2006-06-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:24:49PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Charles Curley schreef: Nothing other than the problem I've already asked about to which I've gotten no answer: Is the client trying to connect to 0.0.0.0.50509? And if so, where is that set up? 0.0.0.0 means the amandad

Re: Question about amanda client

2006-06-23 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: Backup server disaster recovery

2006-07-21 Thread Charles Curley
; see Jon's reply for that. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint

Re: using disk instead of tape

2006-09-02 Thread Charles Curley
partition, and you would need special tricks or possibly special software to read it. That alone looses my interest. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML

Re: using disk instead of tape

2006-09-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 04:09:05AM -0500, Phil Howard wrote: On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 05:42:01PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: | In addition, it would make bare metal recovery more difficult. If you | back up to a file system any Linux live CD (finnix, knoppix...) can | read, recovery is easy

Re: Amanda on USB disks

2006-10-02 Thread Charles Curley
mke2fs :) Ouch. The only thing I'll add to this is that Amanda won't mount the esternal drive, so yu have to see to that. I mount mine during the boot process. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards

Re: Problems with gtar

2006-10-13 Thread Charles Curley
back to the previous version of tar; deleting the offending files. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com

Re: Problems with gtar

2006-10-13 Thread Charles Curley
? Or is it corrupt? ... In my case, no. The two offending file systems in my case are /var itself, which is on /, and /home. In /home's case, the available space in /var is greater than the total space used in /home. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine

Re: Problems with gtar

2006-10-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:57:05PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Have you recently upgraded tar to 1.15? In my case, no. Fedora Core 5 comes with tar-1.15.1-12.2.i386.rpm, dated Mar 6 2006. But as I said earlier, I did recently upgrade to tar-1.15.1-15.FC5. -- Charles Curley

Re: Problems with gtar

2006-10-13 Thread Charles Curley
amanda 2.5. Arggh. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645

Re: Problems with gtar

2006-10-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 07:20:42AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:57:05PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Have you recently upgraded tar to 1.15? In my case, no. Fedora Core 5 comes with tar-1.15.1-12.2.i386.rpm, dated Mar 6 2006. But as I said earlier, I did

Recovery problem with virtual tapes: can't read file

2007-01-01 Thread Charles Curley
extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 Continue [?/Y/n/r]? -- The data symlink is pointing to the correct virtual tape. Judging by file names there, that is the correct tape to look at. Ideas? -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon

Re: timeout waiting for ACK

2007-06-23 Thread Charles Curley
which is slow or up and down?? Pls guide. If you are using Fedora 7, see bugzilla 244916. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http

Re: client stopped getting backed up after June 18

2007-06-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 12:20:43PM -0400, Julian C. Dunn wrote: I have the following strange problem with a FreeBSD amanda server running 2.5.1p3 and a Fedora 7 Linux client running the same. The last See bug 244916 in Redhat's Bugzilla. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon

Re: client stopped getting backed up after June 18

2007-07-02 Thread Charles Curley
in the Fedora repo also works, without the workround line. After you changed the xinetd file for amanda, did you restart xinetd? -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML

Re: client stopped getting backed up after June 18

2007-07-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 08:21:12PM +, Julian C. Dunn wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 13:43 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: After you changed the xinetd file for amanda, did you restart xinetd? Whoops! I guess I'd better try that before complaining... having restarted xindetd, did you know

Re: Status Update for July 2007

2007-08-07 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: Backups and Daylight Savings Time

2007-10-30 Thread Charles Curley
Solaris 9 patches. Mac OS X and Windows systems got theirs by automatic updates. Most Linux distributions should have appropriate updates by now. tzdata is the name of the package on ubuntu and fedora. I believe any 2007 version tzdata will have these patches. Thanks for the writeup. -- Charles

Re: Backups and Daylight Savings Time

2007-11-01 Thread Charles Curley
UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 MST isdst=0 gmtoff=-25200 Any tzdata from 2006 or later should work for the US. As usual the most recent version should be the best. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards

tape_splitsize Problem: Resulting Splits Are Too Small

2007-11-16 Thread Charles Curley
-charlesc.localdomain._home.0 -rw--- 1 amanda disk 10M 2007-11-16 03:35 00024.charlesc.localdomain._home.0 How do I change that to a more reasonable size, like 3 Gb? Thanks -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open

Re: excluding directories for amanda bare metal restores

2007-11-23 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: tape_splitsize Problem: Resulting Splits Are Too Small

2007-12-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 08:37:10PM +0100, Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Charles Curley schrieb: The dump is to cirtual tapes on a hard drive. The resulting splits are all 10 MB in size. E.g.: How do I change that to a more reasonable size, like 3 Gb? The parameters fallback_splitsize default

Re: file changed as we read it

2007-12-20 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: boot image for restores

2008-01-01 Thread Charles Curley
that is on the network or a flash drive. I've had good results with Finnix. ~100MB. You can have it load into RAM, then use the CD drive for data, or get the data over the net. duckincoming vacation messages/duck -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: tapless config, rotating 2 ext hard drives

2008-05-14 Thread Charles Curley
drive (to make it easier to move the backup server). I then use rsync to back up to one of two offsite drives, both external. The two offsite drives rotate between the shop here and my offsite location. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: Tape drives -- Recommendations?

2008-10-17 Thread Charles Curley
. Maybe your server has a more CPU intensive USB controller than mine? -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com

amrestore: NAK: user root from localhost is not allowed to execute the service amindexd

2009-03-01 Thread Charles Curley
= no and server_args = -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs

Re: amrestore: NAK: user root from localhost is not allowed to execute the service amindexd

2009-03-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:11:38AM -0700, John Hein wrote: Charles Curley wrote at 08:29 -0700 on Mar 1, 2009: r...@dragon:/home/ccurley/projects/ror# amrecover -C /etc/amanda/DailySet1 AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2p1. Contacting server on localhost ... NAK: user root from localhost

Re: amrestore: NAK: user root from localhost is not allowed to execute the service amindexd

2009-03-01 Thread Charles Curley
and looking at that, I have no idea. I don't even know how to find out, other than ask on another list. I also don't see any way to override the host name. -o host and -o hostname are rejected. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: amrestore: NAK: user root from localhost is not allowed to execute the service amindexd

2009-03-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:18:27PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 12:50:50PM -0700, John Hein wrote: Do you know how your stock ubuntu build of amanda was configured (the args to configure)? I just noticed that the request came from 'localhost' which does

Re: amrestore: NAK: user root from localhost is not allowed to execute the service amindexd

2009-03-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:49:20PM -0700, John Hein wrote: Charles Curley wrote at 16:53 -0700 on Mar 1, 2009: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:18:27PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 12:50:50PM -0700, John Hein wrote: Do you know how your stock ubuntu build of amanda

Re: amrestore: NAK: user root from localhost is not allowed to execute the service amindexd

2009-03-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:28:32PM -0700, John Hein wrote: Charles Curley wrote at 18:54 -0700 on Mar 1, 2009: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:49:20PM -0700, John Hein wrote: man amrecover (see -s -t). I don't know if there is a run-time configuration option for these (I didn't see one

Re: Backing up to CDR

2009-05-11 Thread Charles Curley
the investment in the disks to try it. How about a blu-ray disk? I see burners and media are coming down in price. Be the first kid on your block to see your /etc/passwd in HD! -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open

Re: strange twist on FAILED [data timeout] -- compress none not working correctly

2009-05-12 Thread Charles Curley
. Perhaps they somehow changed the default for compression? For what it's worth, I have Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on two clients, with amanda 2.5.2p1-4--i386, and the server is running Hardy Heron, (8.04) with amanda 2.5.2p1-1--i386. I have not seen any problems. -- Charles Curley

Re: Amcheck fails

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: [Amanda-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-12 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: [Amanda-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-13 Thread Charles Curley
suspect the bottle neck will be finding drives to read LT04 tapes; maybe keep one or two spares around? Or put two or three complete machines aside and keep them for the purpose. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open

Allocation issues

2009-09-23 Thread Charles Curley
the server to 2.6.1p1 help? Thanks -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key

Re: Allocation issues

2009-09-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:37:50 -0400 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote:  dzur.localdomain     /home  lev 0  FAILED [dump to tape failed]  taper: FATAL tape...@616: memory allocation failed

Re: user amanda on server, user backup on client, access denied to ama...@coyote.coyote.den

2009-10-01 Thread Charles Curley
/home/amanda on such a (broken IMO) installation? Actually, nobody owns it; it doesn't exist on a standard Ubuntu installation. From my unchanged Ubuntu client installation: r...@dzur:/var# grep backup /etc/passwd backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh r...@dzur:/var# -- Charles Curley

Re: user amanda on server, user backup on client, access denied to ama...@coyote.coyote.den

2009-10-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:51:56 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Thursday 01 October 2009, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:58:48 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Thursday 01 October 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: See? Its sort

Re: Amanda's README

2009-12-07 Thread Charles Curley
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Amanda README Draft; Request for comments

2009-12-08 Thread Charles Curley
1.0 Nextstep 3 (*) OpenBSD 2.5 x86, sparc, etc (ports available) SunOS 4.1.x (x = 1) and 5.[567] Ultrix 4.2 HP-UX 9.x and 10.x (x = 01) Thank you. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: Amanda windows client 2.6.1 beta release

2009-12-09 Thread Charles Curley
are available Thank you. I see you have updated the Windows client page. Also, please update the top paragraph on the main page, http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Main_Page. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards

The Return of the README

2009-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
for the wiki, but not immediately. I added a reference to the Amanda Platform Experts: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Platform_Experts. Platform Experts might see that their entry is current. My thanks to everyone for the feedback. It made for a much better document. -- Charles Curley

Re: The Return of the README

2009-12-24 Thread Charles Curley
file is a good idea. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C

Re: Minor installation bug: /etc/amanda not made

2010-04-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:25:42 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: That resulted in:  Configuration: /etc/amanda but the directory wasn't built. It would be nice if the installation

Re: [Amanda-users] Getting started

2010-05-06 Thread Charles Curley
help you. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A

amanda-backup_client conflicts with amanda-backup_server-3.1.0-1.rhel5.i386

2010-06-08 Thread Charles Curley
, I never installed the offending package. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email

Re: ZWC and exclude/include lists

2010-06-09 Thread Charles Curley
://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?t=2701 In short, quote your excluded files, and make the slashes backward slashed (\) and double them (\\). E.g.: exclude E:\\IA\\test -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards

amverify questions

2010-06-14 Thread Charles Curley
chaffee.localdomain._var.20100614.1.1 That dump has two files, 8-chaffee.localdomain._var.1 and 8.chaffee.localdomain._var.1 The tape split size is 1 GB. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards

Recovering from a dead vtape drive

2010-06-14 Thread Charles Curley
south in the middle of a long backup and recover successfully. * Back up your backups. (Paranoids live longer.) * Do your backups assiduously. * Offsite backups aren't just for disaster recovery. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine

Re: Problems restarting zamanda windows service

2010-07-13 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: 3.1.2alpha (latest) won't build

2010-07-21 Thread Charles Curley
jumped out at me, not knowing your setup at all. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs

Re: Restart of /etc/xinetd.d/amanda

2010-07-26 Thread Charles Curley
to no. You might check the log files. See the directory specified for logdir in your amanda.conf. What do you see when you run amdump (as the backup user) from the terminal? -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open

Re: Pre-built binaries

2010-07-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:54:40 -0400 Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: What is the likelyhood of the Fedora 12 binary from Zmanda working on Fedora 13? The client seems to work fine. I haven't tried the server. Similarly, the Ubuntu 9.10 working on 10.4? Haven't tried it. -- Charles

Re: inparallel configuration

2010-07-28 Thread Charles Curley
Amanda server. I suspect the limit is disk and/or memory. I think you can use netusage per DLE to throttle individual DLEs. I haven't tried it, though. If so you can crank up inparallel all you want. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Glossary in the Wiki

2010-07-29 Thread Charles Curley
and suggestions are welcome. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645

Re: Glossary in the Wiki

2010-07-30 Thread Charles Curley
the correction. ;-) Good catch. Fixed it, thank you. I'll keep poking around. Enjoy. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http

Re: Backup Status

2010-08-08 Thread Charles Curley
policy for dealing with laptops, which are transient machines by their nature. If you haven't already done so, set up a cron job to run your backups at night, when your network is not so busy and your machines are likely to be more coherent. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon

Re: New in 3.2: support for simultaneous writes to tape

2010-08-09 Thread Charles Curley
Sorry, my question should have gone to the list. On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:31:43 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: This will be nice for spreading vtapes across multiple hard drives without

Re: Strange Dump Details

2010-08-19 Thread Charles Curley
will indicate. As for the Google Chrome socket, tar ignores sockets, and for good reason. I also ignore that. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email

Re: 3.1.2 - first results

2010-08-23 Thread Charles Curley
is a symlink to bash: # ll $(which sh) lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 7 21:40 /bin/sh - bash On Ubuntu 8.04 (Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, to be pedantic), sh is a symlink to dash. I changed the amanda user to use bash. I think because I didn't like using dash while logged in as the amanda user. -- Charles

Re: My emails are apparently going to a black hole, and amrecover from a client doesn't.

2010-09-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:14:06 -0600 Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:18:24 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Unforch, for pclos, there are no man pages for xinetd. I'll see if my google-fu still works. ;-) man xinetd and man

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Charles Curley
entry points to a non-existent file, in an extant directory. On a 3.1.0 system, I don't have it at all. Both use vtapes. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X

Re: [not a?] Nitpicks - rename DLE

2010-09-14 Thread Charles Curley
, that would let amrecover use DLE names. So you use a new command, setdle, which takes a DLE name. That is one step instead of the current two steps, setting the host and then the path. And less error prone. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-18 Thread Charles Curley
://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-changers.7.html -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email

Re: not a nitpick, feature question

2010-09-22 Thread Charles Curley
are propagated to another machine and to offsite USB drives using rsync. The offsite capability I described at http://www.charlescurley.com/blog/articles/off_site_backups_for_amanda/index.html I haven't written up the metadata stuff yet. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon

Re: Compile time enhancement: make the amanda user directory owned by the amanda user

2010-10-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 13:09:38 -0600 Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: Currently, when you run 'make install', amanda may or may not make the user directory for the amanda user. The default is /var/backups, which already exists on debian systems. It might be nice

Re: Compile time enhancement: make the amanda user directory owned by the amanda user

2010-10-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:52:11 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: It might be nice if the installation process not only made the directory but changed its ownership to the amanda user

3.2.0 beta1 release

2010-10-04 Thread Charles Curley
but no bad file descriptors were found -- I worked around this by restarting xinetd. Nothing in the log files jumps out at me. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards

Re: 3.2.0 beta1 release

2010-10-04 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: 3.2.0 beta1 release

2010-10-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 22:58:29 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: I plan to go back to tcp and auth=bsdtcp once I get this issue solved. Of course it could be that making those changes

Re: Best practice for backups with amanda

2010-10-21 Thread Charles Curley
per cycle if it finds the assets to do so. Be generous with tapes. They are cheaper than your time, and much cheaper than replacing your data. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing

Re: tapecycle and tape order

2010-10-22 Thread Charles Curley
at the file tapelist. Tapes at the bottom are up next. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-23 Thread Charles Curley
set. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A

Re: slightly OT: track following errors?

2010-11-23 Thread Charles Curley
solution is a bit different: three drives, one of which stays put and the other two of which rotate to the offsite location. http://www.charlescurley.com/blog/articles/off_site_backups_for_amanda/index.html And encrypt the files using ecryptfs. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-11-23 Thread Charles Curley
by spreading them across multiple tapes. The rest of the time you use fewer tapes. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com

Re: slightly OT: track following errors?

2010-11-23 Thread Charles Curley
\ var/log/amanda/ --exclude=*~ I think that gets everything. The naming scheme should work with multiple configurations. It also ensures a week's worth of backups. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards

Re: Upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 broke Amanda

2010-11-30 Thread Charles Curley
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Re: selinux context for mysql user's home directory in MySQL server for zrm backup

2010-12-07 Thread Charles Curley
is a unable to access the It's been a while since I worked with selinux, so I may be talking out of my hat. Doesn't selinux have a tool that lets you run something in permissive mode, then the tool figures out what changes to apply? -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign

Re: Backup the same data to two vTapes

2010-12-30 Thread Charles Curley
not to loose all backups if the storage breaks down. http://charlescurley.com/blog/articles/off_site_backups_for_amanda/index.html -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X

Backing Up Amanda Metadata

2011-01-03 Thread Charles Curley
. But this is a proof of concept. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint

Re: [Amanda-users] Making sure AMANDA does not run over tapesize

2011-01-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:19:42 -0500 rory_f amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Perhaps what i'm looking to do is guarantee the most economical way of filling the tapes. Which is more valuable, a few terabytes of tape space, or your time? -- Charles Curley /\ASCII

Re: Need new backup system.

2011-01-28 Thread Charles Curley
Oops, I should have sent my reply to the list. On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:35:05 -0500 Joe Konecny jkone...@rmtohio.com wrote: On 1/28/2011 2:11 PM, Charles Curley wrote: For now, with 100 GB of data going to a 1 TB hard drive, you can probably back up to that hard drive. But not for long. Two

Re: Need new backup system.

2011-01-28 Thread Charles Curley
would benefit much from another vtape. Thanks for bring that up. This with Amanda 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 10.10 on a dual core AMD 64 and two SATA disks, with data and holding on one, and the vtapes on the other. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: Error: disk /usr, all estimate failed

2011-02-07 Thread Charles Curley
in their mail reader won't see your query, so you reduce the number of possible responders. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http

Re: impressive :)

2011-02-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:53:21 -0500 Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: Turns out there was a file full of nuthin', only null bytes, that was over 10.7 GB. In that case, I would be sparse with my praise. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: impressive :)

2011-02-25 Thread Charles Curley
suspect that would be very compute intensive at backup time, but these days -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com

Re: Amanda vs Bacula

2011-03-01 Thread Charles Curley
/main/main/New_Features_in_3_0_0.html#SECTION008245000, http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Current_State_Bacula.html For me, the lack of vtapes in Bacula would be a show stopper. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: Amanda vs Bacula

2011-03-01 Thread Charles Curley
a configuration value to the maximum number of tapes to span. E.g.: I allow two. Most of the time Amanda uses one. However I have a few large DLEs. Those span two tapes when they get a full backup. It works just fine on vtapes. With physical tapes, you would need a changer or a human attendant. -- Charles

Re: Amanda vs Bacula

2011-03-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 21:22:32 +0100 Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 13:01:28 -0700 Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: Nope. You leave virtual tapes on the hard drive. You don't bother with tapes at all. Ahh...but I want to continue using my LTO-2

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