Re: Help w/ Solaris

2000-12-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 09:53:36PM -0500, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Dave Stracher wrote: specifying dump. It may not be possible to do subdirs with dump. It definitely depends on the dump that came with your OS. (I don't have Solaris experience and for some odd

Re: GNU-Tar vs dump/restore ...

2000-12-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 08:26:58PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: what are ppl more partial to using? ... This comes up here every once in a while and is basically a religious issue. The points you bring up, as well as being able to do subsets of an entire file system and portability,

Re: AMFLUSH

2001-01-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:46:03AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jan 2, 2001, Joshua E Warchol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, that seems to go counter to what I believe Amanda wants to do. During a normal amdump session it will not write to tape 10 if it expects tape 9 If tape 10

Re: config file problems

2001-01-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:44:53PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: I have additional information; perhaps someone can now figure out what is going on. Oh, **that** problem. :-) The bulldog in me! Whenever you define a dumptype, a set of initial values are stored which may then be

Re: tar question

2001-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:41:24PM -0400, Ray Shaw wrote: I'm using amanda 2.4.1p1 (the version included in Debian potato). Currently, the /home partition on our main user system is too large to back up fully (we have only a small tape drive). Rather than completely leave users out in

Re: New to amanda

2001-06-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:06:04PM +0200, Thomas Hepper wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:41:09PM +0200, Michael Aronsen wrote: Hello, I've been fighting my way through setting up amanda on backup server, my current problem is finding out which chg-* script to use for a HP 24x6 dds

interesting auction

2001-06-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
Just peeked at egghead.com's auctions. They have an HP SureStore DLT Tape Library available. 40 tape / 6 drive capacity (none supplied). Item is listed as new, est. list price $40K (1 bid at $1.4K) Not something I need for my home lan, but someone on the list might be interested in 3.5 TB

Re: Location of files

2001-06-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:02:09PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Jobst, Well I was more after: /home/amanda/configs #or whatever - the backup configs /home/amanda/logs /home/amanda/gnutar-lists Whatever, instead of making an amanda subdirectory here and there, make ONE

fs snapshots and amdump wrappers

2001-06-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
Solaris 8, which is running on some systems I'm backing up, has a new feature file system snapshots. It sounds like one could put a wrapper around amdump something like: - Create the file system snapshot. If using gnutar, mount it (readonly) on an available directory - dump the

Re: Compression with /dev/rmt/0n?

2001-07-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:18:37AM +0200, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: * Drew Raines [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:26:30PM -0500) This might be a question better suited for sunmanagers, but I'll try it here. I'm running Solaris 2.7 on an E450, with a DDS-3 changer.

naive question about restores

2001-07-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
Never had to do a complete file system restore so forgive the naivety of this question. If one restores from a full backup plus one or more daily incrementals, files that were deleted after the full backup would be retained during the restore. Correct? I mean, the daily incrementals don't

Re: chg-multi with hard drive backups

2001-09-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:53:14AM -0400, Alex Muc wrote: In order to contribute something back I wrote up a little cooksheet of how to get tapeless backups setup with and Amanda and using the chg-multi tapechanger. I've attached the file to this message. I hope it is of some use to

yahoogroups archive restoration

2001-10-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
The archives at yahoogroups were not recording postings for most of the third quarter (~200 articles when the normal flow is 2000). I have a pretty complete set of list articles covering the last 9 quarters (for this need, nicely grouped by Q). Has anyone information as to whether the missing

archives at yahoogroups

2001-09-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
As many know, the archives at yahoogroups for this list and the amanda-hackers list are not current. I could not find an appropriate email address at yahoogroups to ask about this but I finally got through to the right person(s). I sent it to abuse with a big I APOLOGIZE. The following is the

Re: ...finally seem to have tapeless operation working...

2001-11-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:24:32AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 at 4:09pm, someone else wrote Is there any chance that real documentation (other then the FAQ-O-MATIC) will ever be produced for Amanda? I had a hell of a time figuring things out, and I'm far from

Re: How can I verify that Indexing is working?

2001-10-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:41:30PM +0200, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote: - 07361347544/./ - 07361242311/./prodexp101001.dmp.Z - 07361242640/./prodexp101001.log - - Bingo! OK, I've upgraded to 1.13.19. Now is there anyway I can fix the bad index files? Maybe some sed'ing would

Solaris file system snapshots

2001-10-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
Has anyone attempted to perform amanda backups on Solaris 8 systems by first taking a static snapshot (new Sol8 feature) of the file system? I can see conceptually how it would be done. But as the snapshots have a different device name and are mounted on a different directory I am concerned

Re: Testing excludes

2001-11-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:38:15AM -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: $ gtar -c -v -X exclude-file -f /dev/null /path on the amanda client On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 04:33, Stephen Carville wrote: Is there any way to test the patters in the exclude list for a disklist entry? End of included

Re: I don't understand this

2001-12-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:15:05AM -0500, Chris Dahn wrote: On Friday 14 December 2001 06:51 am, Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez wrote: This is my FIRST tapelist file: 0 Diaria-000 reuse 0 Diaria-001 reuse 0 Diaria-002 reuse 0 Diaria-003 reuse 0 Diaria-004 reuse 0 Diaria-005 reuse

samba backups offline

2001-12-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
I'm backing up a single W2K machine to my tape server. There are 4 partitions on the windows box. Some nights al 4 partitions are processed normally. Most nights 1 or more of the partitions fail with the query host offline? which obviously it is not as the other partitions are backing up. I've

samba excludes

2001-12-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
A while back I asked: I'm using an exclude list with some tar backups on unix. Now I'm trying to use samba for windoze backups, but I'm unable to exclude anything from those shares.. Is it feasible? Different syntax? and got one reply: Yes.

debug file overwrite

2001-12-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
My /tmp/amanda debug files seem to get overwritten during each entry in the disklist so only one entry remains the next after an amdump run. sendsize.debug is the only file showing the results for each entry. Where is the control of whether these get opened for append or truncate? -- Jon H.

Solved -- samba backups offline

2001-12-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
About 2 weeks ago I asked the following: I'm backing up a single W2K machine to my tape server. There are 4 partitions on the windows box. Some nights al 4 partitions are processed normally. Most nights 1 or more of the partitions fail with the query host offline? which obviously it is

ok to insert correct tapes during amdump run?

2002-01-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
What would happen IF ... Situation: I do 6 dumps a week, changing a 6 tape cartridge each weekend. When I forget to change it, I change the cartridge on Monday and amflush so everything is ok. Weeks and tapes are in sync. Last night I realized I had forgotten to change cartridges when the dump

Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-01-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:05:19AM +1100, Tim Tuck wrote: Hi Don, I've been following this discussion and you might have what my Solaris boxs did firts time I ran Amanda ; your /tmp is not writable by the user Amanda is running as. Amanda needs to build an amanda dir inside /tmp - check

samba backup - sometimes yes, sometimes no

2002-02-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
I'm doing 4 W2K partitions (single client) to a Solaris host using Samba shares. Generally all 4 work fine, but too frequently the largest partition, C, fails with smbclient received signal 13. A broken pipe, remote end terminated early I guess. This happens on both full and incremental. My

Solved -- samba backups offline

2002-02-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
About 2 weeks ago I asked the following: I'm backing up a single W2K machine to my tape server. There are 4 partitions on the windows box. Some nights al 4 partitions are processed normally. Most nights 1 or more of the partitions fail with the query host offline? which obviously it is

Re: amrecover doesn't mount tape

2002-02-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:27:14AM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote: solution to this? I sure hope 'amrecover' doesn't require me to load the tape manually. It does. You have to insert the tape as directed. I can see why amrecover does this when no

Re: 2.4.3b2 fail on /bin/tar returned 2

2002-02-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:51:33PM -0500, Chris Dahn wrote: On Monday 25 February 2002 11:29 am, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: due to permission problems, we've had repeated cases of tar returning error message '2', even tho amanda uses the --ignore-failed-read option (tar 1.3.25). as I

only dir names in index

2002-03-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
I'm trying something out and wonder if anyone has seen this problem before. Before I investigate too much more :) Just added a gnutar client (first one) and the index's for that client contain only directory names. None of the files names. Based on the size of the image dumped to tape it does

amanda article in SysAdmin magazine

2002-03-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
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 -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ

Re: admanda problem

2002-03-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:56:55PM -0800, Nageshwar Rao Shetty Vutukuri wrote: hello all, where can i find samba user's group. could u please write me the exact path of that site. Did you consider a 5 second search on google? The first entry returned is: SAMBA Web Pages

Re: Make gives error on HP....????

2002-03-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:29:18AM -0500, Kaan Saldiraner wrote: Hello Everbody, I have a HP-UX 10.20. The configure works fine but when i do the make I get the errors below... Whats going on? Thanks cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../config -I./../regex-src -Ae -c

Re: amrecover pb

2002-03-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:42:54PM +0800, Robert SHEN wrote: I got the following error when I tried to test the amrecover command After executed amrecover, it showed Can't determine disk and mount point fr om $CWD Normal, CWD = current working dir CWD is not one of the dirs in your disk

Re: Make problem on Solaris 2.8

2002-03-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 04:56:00PM -0800, Anthony A. D. Talltree wrote: Thank you all for the advice, I got through make successfully after setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. However, after I've installed Amanda, there's a new problem. When I try to run any amanda executables, I get the following

Re: amflush and irc?

2002-03-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:16:10PM -0600, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: You won't. After running a while amanda will spread the level 0's over all the dump days. So if your once a week tape now gets 40GB and your daily incrementals now get 2, each

Re: newbie questions

2002-03-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:57:38PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote: +[ John R. Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) dijo sobre Re: newbie questions: | | One possibility (although I know zip about FreeBSD) might be to set the | shell to /bin/false and add /bin/false to /etc/shells (or whatever file |

Interesting gtar observation, [ was: restore/tar problem ]

2002-03-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 08:54:11AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 at 7:20pm, Andy Zhang wrote So, basically, a file looked like '74550524305 7550414032 /./scripts/driver' Each file has this preceeding directory. It's hard, if not impossible to access these

Re: small holdingdisk, large FS

2002-04-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:24:17PM -0500, Dan Debertin wrote: One of my client hosts has a drive that is larger than my holding disk -- drive is 18G, holdingdisk is only 4G. No, I can't swap them, and no, I'd rather not buy a bigger disk right now. I would have thought that Amanda would

Re: Estimates - 7 hour 50mins

2002-04-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:29:57AM -0400, Uncle George wrote: I presume u are using tar?! From My experience, 17gigs of a (few) large files does not take a long time. On the other hand, backing up a large amount of files in a (single) directory takes a long time. The orig tar that came with

Re: what's this??

2002-04-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:49:44AM -0400, Axel Haenssen wrote: Hi Guys, can someone tell me what this (except from my daily report) means? NOTES: planner: Full dump of node8:/scratch promoted from 10 days ahead. planner: Full dump of node6:/scratch promoted from 10 days ahead.

Re: amcheck output

2002-04-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:43:13PM -0600, Trevor Morrison wrote: HI, I am running amcheck on my backup called Daily and I am getting the following output: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - ERROR: tapelist dir /usr/local/share/amanda/Daily: not writable

Re: amdump problem

2002-04-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:35:18PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just setup amanda on a test installation for a sparc 5. It has mounted partitions as follows: Filesystemkbytesused avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s01778230 694298 103058641%/

Re: gnu tar option --ignore-failed-read?

2002-04-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:49:42PM +, David Trusty wrote: Hi, In looking at the debug logs, I see that the gnu tar option of --ignore-failed-read is set. Is this a problem? Would there ever be a time when tar had a problem reading a file, and I would not get notified in a report?

Re: crontab entries, Amanda and interdependencies

2002-04-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:16:46PM +0200, Arvid Grøtting wrote: ... . Also, I *think* I've found a way to work around this while keeping amverify in my crontab: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.31807 installed on Sat Apr 27 13:21:02 2002) # (Cron

Re: Amanda increment level?

2002-04-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 06:13:21AM +0300, Alexander Belik wrote: :) Will Amanda ask me for a new type when new dumpcycle begin? Or I must do it manualy? End of included message Alexander, Amanda uses a different model/concept than you are trying to fit on her. First, amanda expects

Re: infofile and multiple configs...

2002-05-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:54:15AM -0400, Chris Noon wrote: I was reading through my amanda.conf and I saw this line: #You need a separate infofile and # logdir for each configuration, so create subdirectories for each conf and # put the files there. Specify the locations below.

Re: Tape rotation problem?

2002-05-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:41:03AM -0500, Michael Davis wrote: however, what I am trying to achieve is a 1 week cycle where there is a full backup on Sundays and incremental throughout the week. Amanda's standard way of operating is to spread the full backups of all your disklist entries

Re: Using Multiple Tape Sizes

2002-05-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:36:12PM -0400, Brook Hurd wrote: We currently use 20 8 gig tapes for our backup in amanda. We have obtained some 20 gig tapes and we would like to add these to the backup schedule. Do we need to replace the 8 gig tapes with the 20's or can we intermix them? I

Re: Expanding tapecycle

2002-05-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:08:26PM -0700, Brandon Moro wrote: Hello again all, Now that I have amanda running in a somewhat reliable manner, its time to make her a part of the disaster revovery plan. I run about 8 tapes a week and this config: dumpcycle 1 week runspercycle 5 days

Re: True Tape Overflow

2002-05-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 02:10:53PM -0500, Jim Summers wrote: Hello All, I am preparing to re-configure my amanda system. I noticed while reading the man pages that the version (2.4.2p2) of amanda I am using will not do true tape overflow. I have an old DDS3 tape changer I am going to

Re: Getting old mails ?

2002-05-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:22:24AM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote: Is it just me, or have other people on the list been getting old mails again - I just got one from Michael Richard about problems with firewalls. I was sure I'd read it before and sure enough - date in header was May 5. Looking at

Re: mtx

2002-05-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:02:03PM -0400, fil krohnengold wrote: Next question - folks using chg-mtx with it? I'm sure some 1 or 4 of the 8 who said yes to the first query are. Myself, I use both the freeware version and HP's version of mtx. I got both of them working with chg-mtx, did

Re: Tape and dump cycles

2002-05-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:45:27AM -0700, adi adi wrote: ... I have no choice but to stick with the labelling, will there be much of a problem if i'd use the friday1 saturday1... kinda labelling? Guarantee: they will not stay matched with the day of the dump. If you gotta label that way

Re: more level 0 dumps?

2002-05-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:22:31AM -0700, Soo Hom wrote: Hello, I want more level 0 dumps in the tapecycle. Currently we get about 2 level 0's every six weeks. dumpcycle 6 weeks tapecycle 30 tapes tapedev /dev/nrst0 tapetype SDT1 infofile /var/amanda/eceadm/curinfo

Re: 24 gig Tape Settings

2002-05-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:28:06PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote: You must bear in mind that a DDS-3 tape holds 12GB and NOT 24 GB of data, despite what the marketing scum might like you to think. They assume a compression ratio of 2:1 which I've never heard of ANYONE achieving (apart from

Re: 24 gig Tape Settings

2002-05-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:34:41AM +0300, Alexander Belik wrote: On 17 May 2002, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: BH == Brook Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BH I am about to use the following tape type: HP C5708A DDS-3 Data BH Cartridge, 24GB I've used: define tapetype DDS-3 {

Re: Setting compression on Sony AIT2 drive from host?

2002-05-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:52:06AM -0400, David Chin wrote: In message 008d01c202b0$6149c780$062b96d5@PETE, Peter Normann writes: Have you tried (using GNU mt): mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression 0 # turns compression off mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression 2 # turns compression on mt -f

Re: Any automagic exclusion of filesystems?

2002-05-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 03:05:12PM +0200, Jens Rohde wrote: Hi I'm changing the dump-method on some of my filesystems from ufsdump to gtar (so I can restore these filesystems on non-Sun hardware/OS). I used to backup via the mount-point, and that worked ok, but will I get double amount

Re: make problem - HP-UX 11i, amanda 2.4.2p2

2002-05-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:47:44AM -0500, Gary Hines wrote: Hi All, I'm having trouble with running make with Amanda. The configure appears to run fine, then when I run make I get the following errors: [ lots of errors I think amhpfixdevs is supposed to fix deleted ] As a side

Re: Not enough space on tape

2002-05-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:59:25AM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote: On a couple of occasions recently, when I added a new machine into the rotation, some incrementals didn't get done because I didn't have enough tape space. However, amanda doesn't even do these dumps and leave them in the holding

Re: level 1 differential backup config

2002-05-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:25:03PM -0400, David Chin wrote: However, I seem to be having trouble with this. I've been running with a 7 tape tapecycle, and a dumpcycle of 5 days, and runspercycle of 5days. I recently changed it to (9 tapes, 7 days, 7 days). After modifying the config

Re: Dump Program Not available

2002-06-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 06:09:07PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: Amanda uses the full path to all the backup/restore programs that it was configured with (and are fixed at compile time). So if Amanda was built with your dump program as /usr/sbin/dump. but now it is /sbin/dump or

Re: Dump Program Not available

2002-06-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 02:08:30PM -0400, Kaan Saldiraner wrote: Hello, Thanks for the responce .. I ran this command while su - to amanda export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin Now amanda user can infact run the dump and restore without doing /sbin/dump ..etc. But

Re: Tape Labelling

2002-06-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:14:10AM +0700, Brad Waugh wrote: Have trouble with trying to label tapes. The drive on ide0. Have tried /dev/ht0 /dev/nht0. Both give; $ /usr/sbin/amlabel iogta Tape1 rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label Tape1, checking label

Re: Tape Labelling

2002-06-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 12:43:17PM +0700, Brad Waugh wrote: On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:14:10AM +0700, Brad Waugh wrote: Have trouble with trying to label tapes. The drive on ide0. Have tried [ lots of data snipped ] End of included message With Linux, I'm out of my realm. Quite

Re: Amrecover connection refused - again!

2002-06-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:15:34AM -0500, Rebecca Pakish wrote: Can you telnet to each of thes ports? $ telent target amandaix (use 'quit' to exit) [root@slaw etc]# telnet slaw.unterlaw.com amandaidx Trying 10.1.7.23... telnet: connect to address 10.1.7.23: Connection refused Not

Re: Amrecover connection refused - again!

2002-06-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:16:11PM -0500, Rebecca Pakish wrote: You're right, that worked. Joshua, I should have tried that sooner when you suggested it. But I'm racking my notes trying to remember why I changed that to yes in the first place. I know I just used this configuration to

Re: tapecyle question

2002-06-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:23:56AM +0200, Marcus Schopen wrote: Hi, I'd like to run a daily backup with a dumpcycle of three weeks. Amanda is started from Monday to Saturday (6 days a week). What tapecycle value do I have to use: dumpcycle3 weeks runtapes 1 runspercycle 18

Re: gnu tar

2002-06-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:11:10PM -0500, Matthew Boeckman wrote: Is it possible to have tar called with -h (follow symlinks) from within amanda? I haven't found a blurb in amanda.conf like TAR_OPTIONS. It will be fun if there happens to be a symlink loop. Many amanda users, myself included,

Re: tar or dump

2002-06-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:37:09AM +0200, BRINER Cedric wrote: hi, I have 2 questions: 1) what are you using as system to back up : tar | dump -tar :advantage: The tar is independent of the FileSystem and it could work also on an active partition -dump: I can't see any advantage?

Re: tapelist issue?

2002-06-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:01:43AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:45:22PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: What is the purpose of dating the tape. To prevent it from being immediately requested. I presume 0 indicates not yet used. Doesn't amanda accept a new tape

Re: Can AMANDA only backup 24GB partitions???

2002-06-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:42:35PM +0100, Kenny MacPherson wrote: Can AMANDA on the whole only backup 24GB partitions or is this a tape limitation in this case? I have a /home5 partition on a DELL 4400 running RH7.2 and it's failing daily! Other partitions do backup okay. The only issue is

Re: tapelist issue?

2002-06-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:53:00PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:42:23PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: I'm on really shakey ground here, meaning I've never tested it, but I don't think amanda goes looking for new tapes anywhere in the list. I'm on slightly less shaky

Re: amrecover missing files

2002-06-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 01:52:39PM -0500, Ben Kochie wrote: I am using indexing, and gnutar to backup all of my filesystems, I keep the indexes in /etc/amanda/backupset/index/ according to my amanda.conf file. backups are working properly, no errors reported. I can run amrestore on a

Re: ./var/adm not being excluded

2002-06-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:32:47AM -0400, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote: I had posted this msg before, but I had given the wrong info. I'm backing up / on one of my clients. I would like to exclude /var/adm/syslog from the backup. On my server:amanda.conf, I have defined a

Re: incremental bumped to level x incremental? I want full!

2002-06-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:42:30PM +0200, Tom Van de Wiele wrote: Hello list! My objective: to make a FULL backup on tape every weekday. If there is data on the tape, I want it removed and/or overwritten by new data... First of all, I'm using version 2.4.2p2 on a Linux server (Dell

Re: getting further

2002-06-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:57:24AM -0700, Mike Heller wrote: I am getting further with Amanda. I ran a backup last night but had a problem: error [/bin/tar returned 2] My reading of the gtar code shows 2 is the return code when it has been run with the ignore failed reads option and did

Re: Auto-flush during amdump?

2002-06-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
As others have pointed out, it is a new, existing feature. One thing though. you will probably want to make sure there is a sufficient tape capacity, possilby allowing multiple tapes, for both flush and normal dump. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455

Re: 2.4.3 Tapeless file-driver pure-disk backups

2002-06-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:00:58AM -0700, Steve Follmer wrote: I for one am glad that amanda has grown beyond its unix/tape roots to support samba/windows and to support file: disk backups. This does not have to be sacrificed, in adding even more robust support for file: and also, some SWAT

only dir names in index

2002-06-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
I'm trying something out and wonder if anyone has seen this problem before. Before I investigate too much more :) Just added a gnutar client (first one) and the index's for that client contain only directory names. None of the files names. Based on the size of the image dumped to tape it does

Re: crontab entries, Amanda and interdependencies

2002-06-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:16:46PM +0200, Arvid Grøtting wrote: ... . Also, I *think* I've found a way to work around this while keeping amverify in my crontab: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.31807 installed on Sat Apr 27 13:21:02 2002) # (Cron

Re: 2.4.3b2 fail on /bin/tar returned 2

2002-06-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:51:33PM -0500, Chris Dahn wrote: On Monday 25 February 2002 11:29 am, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: due to permission problems, we've had repeated cases of tar returning error message '2', even tho amanda uses the --ignore-failed-read option (tar 1.3.25). as I

Re: Compile error, resolution, confusion

2002-06-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 01:10:24PM -0700, Jason Brooks wrote: Hello, I have been reading through the archives and found a bit of information that helped me. for amanda 2.4.3b3, I received errors while compiling on a solaris8 (bybee) machine. I applied a change I found in reference to

Re: Suggestions please - amanda can't backup remote client.

2002-06-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:47:55AM +0200, klavs klavsen wrote: and then I grabbed this from the amdump file which looks weird to me too.. Haven't used file-based backups, nor with linux, but these caught my eye. Maybe Joshua or someone else can give give better analysis. driver: result

Re: end-of-tape error

2002-06-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:13:32AM -0400, Jesse Griffis wrote: Hello, Briefly, I have an Exabyte EZ-17 with a Mammoth-2 drive inside. I'm running it on a dual-CPU RedHat 7.2 server with plenty of RAM and a holding disk around 25 GB (I can certainly provide more detail when / if needed).

Re: end-of-tape error

2002-06-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:14:12PM -0400, Jesse Griffis wrote: taper: tape DailySet1-17 kb 5373824 fm 4 writing file: Input/output error Does this mean that it only managed to write 5 MB before the I/O error? No, I think that is in KB, so 5.37 GB was written at the time of the error. I

Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem

2002-06-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 03:47:41PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: Hi all well I've been fiddle with my new shiney iMac G4 trying to get amanda to back the thing up. Currently I'm getting this from the backup report.. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: stuartdmg4 / lev 0 FAILED

Re: 2 problems with Amanda

2002-06-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:49:23AM -0500, Robert Renzetti wrote: The Unix admin quit a few weeks ago and I have been trying to pickup the pieces, with little Unix experience. So, if possible, could someone please help me out here with Amanda? I have tried to figure it out on my own to no

Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem

2002-06-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:30:17AM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: Jon Well it's not happy - amanda is constantly trying to do a level 0. So it's seeing this as a fail. I find it is generally easier to follow a thread if new comments are added at the bottom. -- Martin Jon LaBadie

Re: help with amdump

2002-06-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:11:34AM -0300, Eduardo Ceva wrote: Hi this is the first time I use Amanda. I read every documentation, and I installed AMANDA as documentation says. I created a label on a tape and after that I runed amdump. I noted that I am having a problem of authentication.

Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem

2002-06-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:02:55PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: The client/server are both using amanda 2.4.2.p2 Maybe I;m being totally stupid but I couldn't find anything above 1.13 (ie I couldn't find the beta's anywhere, just mentions of it.). I'll have another dig tomorrow

Re: help with amdump

2002-06-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 04:18:49PM -0300, Eduardo Ceva wrote: Hi Joshua, becouse it become to hard do find out the problems with my amanda I did what follow I reinstall all my OS, I am running Mandrake Linux 8.2 after, I logged as root and install Amanda as documentation says Whoops,

Re: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 09:07:53PM -0700, robinsom wrote: Michael C. Robinson 100 gigabyte hard disk is less than $200 while the last check on high capacity tape drives turned up prices exceeding 4 times that for maybe a quarter the capacity because advertised tape capacity is compressed

Re: permission problem

2002-07-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:31:29PM -0700, Soo Hom wrote: Hello, I am getting this error on a new client I added: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: song3: [can not access /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 (c0t0d0s7): Permission denied] ERROR: song3: [can not access

Re: Long numbers running together in amanda output

2002-07-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:23:46AM -0700, Doug Silver wrote: Joshua - Is this for a particular rev of Amanda, i.e. will this work in 2.4.2p2? Thanks! Look for columnspec in amanda.conf. Here's one I use that stays under 80 columns (it's 79, I think): Should be pretty easy to

Re: How to restore unknown tapes

2002-07-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 08:37:05PM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Hello all, I have a complete amanda generated backup consisting of eight daily1-8 tapes (SLR100). Now I need to look into these tapes. How do I do that? Alternatively I could also restore the complete set, I have enough

Re: Problems with amanda

2002-07-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 09:43:08AM +1000, Robert Kearey wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: The majority opinion of those on this list is that any rpm's for amanda probably should be subjected to an intentional rm -f, they ... Incorrect. Where did you get that idea? ... A little research

Re: Archival tape backup configuration help

2002-07-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:57:07PM -0400, Cory Visi wrote: Ok, I have my daily tape backup set configured and working perfectly. Now I want to setup an archival (available for offsite storage) backup strategy. Here is how I want it to work: Week 1: Full backup to tapes 1 and 2

Re: gaphical frontend (GUI) for amanda?

2002-07-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:54:14PM +0200, Lorenzo Canovi wrote: Hi there. Anyone is working on this topic? I know that we are all command-line oriented, here :-) but when I try to propose amanda to my customers this is the main question (not reiable? or scalable? ... strange people)

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