On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:54:55AM -0500, Guy Dallaire wrote:
> 2005/11/14, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 03:53:57PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger enlightened
> > us:
> > > Maybe we can define a new wish on the AMANDA-wishlist:
> > >
> > > A new functionality, that
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 07:22:23PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> >Might not be the last file on the tape. Suppose you collected things
> >on the holding disk, possibly several days of dumps, before taping.
> >
> >If the metadata were to
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:52:24AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can someone help me out on how to restore
> amanda.conf from tape? I can't see any way to do it.
>
Sure it is possible, that is a reason I use amanda.
You can recover without having amanda.
Do you have printed reports showing
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:50:17PM +, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
>
> What exactlty means the "sleep" configuration parameter in the
> changer.conf file? I notice some lag in the tape commands (it seems
> the tape is doing nothing, and the amtape is just sleeping...), so
> maybe the default value o
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:41:04AM -0500, Rodney Johnson wrote:
> I am able to successfully back up Solaris and Red Hat clients. I can not
> back up the Debian client. The server is running on Red Hat.
>
> This is the error message in the log:
>
> STRANGE dumper 0 [sec 3057.777 kb 9339610 kps
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 08:06:50AM +, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> I've just installed Amanda (Debian Sarge, Amanda 2.4.4). Everything
> seems to work except that the mail report sent after an amdump is empty.
>
> When I had the default "mailto root" in the appropriate amanda.conf, the
> report wa
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:17:58PM -0500, Rodney Johnson wrote:
> The version of tar that is installed on the debian client is 1.13.25
>
> When I manually create and extract the tar I do not get any errors.
>
>
> >From: Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
>
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:05:15PM +, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
>
> But are all tapes operations non-blocking? The most efficient way
> seems to be to perform all operations in blocking mode, meaning that
> the next operation is performed after finnishing the current one.
The problem is correct
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:55:31PM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote:
>
> Although it still occurs for me now and then, it's my understanding
> (unless this has been changed in newer versions of AMANDA) that zero
> level dumps should never be written to holding disk.
Level 0 dumps can, and should, go to
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:03:08PM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> H, I set the server side etimeout to 2600s. Still get (from an
> amstatus)
>
> pjmac:/0 planner: [Estimate timeout from pjmac]
>
> and the amanda report now gives this (mind you, this client
> is the only entry in this
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:42:04PM -0500, Joe wrote:
> I just set up a new CentOS 4.2 server with Amanda 2.4.4p3. I can't seem
> to get a level 0 backup. I want a level 0 M-F and when I'm not there S-Sun
> it is for a degraded backup. I have tried to set everything up
> correctly and
> what fol
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:52:38PM -0500, Joe wrote:
> Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> >
> >Where is your amdump log file (amdump.1)?
> >Amanda write in this file why it did a level 3.
> >
> >Jean-Louis
> >
> Whoops! Bad example. I forgot to change the tape last night.
> (This server isn't in produ
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:03:43PM -0500, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:38:34AM -0800, Paul Yeatman enlightened us:
> > ->>In response to your message<<-
> > --received from Paul Bijnens--
> > >
> > > Paul Yeatman wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> > > I think the firewall is the cullprit.
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:30:12PM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:
> Christoph wrote:
>
> >
> >2.) the main reason for the error above:
> >you are trying to use dump to backup the subdirectory /home/mysql.
> >Dump is designed to work on complete devices, like /dev/hda1 or so,
> >it can not do what you as
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:48:14PM +0100, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
> hello
> I use amnda to backup several servers, unfortunatly since a few weeks
> ago, indexes for amrecover don't work anymore.
> I check the faq-o-matic
> http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/24.html and I am not in
> an
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:12:39AM -0500, Salada, Duncan S. wrote:
> I hit an error with "make install" with amanda-2.4.5p1 on Solaris 10. I'm
> wondering if anyone else has seen this or if I should open a bug. It looks
> like it installed everything ok, too. Seems to be looking for amanda.con
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:10:12PM +0100, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:48:14PM +0100, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
> >
> >
> >>hello
> >>I use amnda to backup several servers, unfortunatly since a few weeks
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 05:44:03PM +0100, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> Anyway .. we found the solution :-)
> It's just a question of rights modes on /tmp on the client stations.
> Certainly due to misse use of amrecover on clients /tmp , the "restore
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 03:16:14PM +0100, Francesc Guasch wrote:
> Hi. I restored from amanda before without problems,
> even a full server that crashed.
>
> Now I'm trying to restore a directory. When I browse
> it from amrecover I see the files that were in the
> date I want to restore it. I mar
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 03:47:31PM +, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
> > "Inaki" == Inaki Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Inaki> No problem doing amlabel ISR006 right now, amanda will let
> Inaki> you do the backup in ISR005 or ISR006, it is up to you.
>
> But how can I choose whi
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:32:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have an amanda user account. I don't know what password the portage
> install used for it, so I stomped on it using the passwd command. No
> doing an:
>
> su amanda
>
> appears to work (there is no login error), but when I
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 04:14:50PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I created a configuration in a folder named "sandbox", which should
> simply backup my .emacs file in my user area.
>
> Running "amdump sandbox" runs for a minute or so, then returns to the
> prompt with no output messages. /med
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:22:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> * Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-27 19:08]:
> >
> > Did the "mailto" target get a report from amdump?
>
> Probably not.. I'm not running a local mail server, and it was set
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:16:55AM -0400, Josh Sholes wrote:
> My organization is considering upgrading from a pair of ancient DLT8000
> standalone drives to a library system. We'd love to use Amanda, but I can't
> find any documentation on whether or not the Quantum PX206 or M2500 (our
> front
Correcting my own reply:
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:41:41AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 05:22:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > and amreport seems to require an MTA.
>
> You didn't read the man page closely enough. It will generat
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:43:12AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
> I am using a VXA-1 tape drive.
>
> I've been testing
>
> mt -f /dev/nst0 load
>
> which appears to work, returning 0 if the tape is loaded and 2 if it is
> not
>
On a request like this it would be good to know the
OS you are
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:16:54AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:
> >
> >
> OK, that's what my man page says too status returns
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] yan]# mt -f /dev/nst0 status
> SCSI 2 tape drive:
> File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
> Tape block size 1024 bytes. Density code 0x80 (DL
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:54:19PM +0900, David Leangen wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm having some trouble getting data from a remote host. Amanda works
> fine on the local network, just not remotely.
>
> I believe that the problem is due to my firewall, so I'm hoping that
> somebody can explain whic
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:18:37PM -0500, todd zenker wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have exhausted all means in trying to resolve this. I need you're help.
> My diskpool is 200 GB and my tape is 160 GB.
>
> What I need to know is what are some of the parameters in the
> amanda.conf file do I need to ch
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:43:58PM -0500, todd zenker wrote:
>
> define tapetype SDLT-320{
> length 138443 mbytes
> filemark 0 kbytes
> speed 13998 kps
> }
>
> Even when I don't use the tape I get this error.
> Let me know what I can to.
>
> Thanks for you're help
>
>
>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:53:26AM +0100, Montagni, Giovanni wrote:
> I have a problem with tapelist file (shown below)
>
> 20051123 bkalfa-all07 reuse
> 20051123 bkalfa-all06 reuse
> 20051116 bkalfa-all04 reuse
> 20051110 bkalfa-all03 reuse
> 20051110 bkalfa-all02 reuse
> 20051109 bkalfa-all00 re
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:15:09PM +, Tom Brown wrote:
>
> >What OS and dump version was the data backed up from? What OS and dump
> >version are you trying to restore to?
> >
> >In general, the dump type (xfsdump, vdump, etc.) and sometimes even the
> >version must be the same for backup an
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:15:04PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 at 8:05pm, C Shore wrote
>
> >I'm wondering if amanda can handle having two different configurations
> >which are used on alternating two week periods. I know I could set up
> >DailySet1 and DailySet2 and a
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:46:57AM +0100, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
> Ram Krishnamurthy wrote:
>
> >Hi Jehan
> >What do you mean by
> >> Since then, I fsck.ext3 -f the /var partition which caused me the
> >> problems, it works fine now (last 3 days) ,
> >
> >What works fine? The restore? Are you not
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:15:08PM +0100, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> >Do your client OS/filesystem combos support ext3 snapshots?
> >Some recent ones do? If so, you could set things up to make a
> >snapshot just before the amdump, use dump on that
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:13:01AM -0700, Richard Pyne wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2005 at 8:16, Richard Pyne wrote:
>
> > I'll give chg-zd-mtx a try.
>
> Well, I have chg-zd-mtx working. In the process, I remembered
> why I had chosen chg-scsi originally. The main reason is that it
> detectes when a dri
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:36:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been reading the documentation on amanda.org, and it seems the
> authors have this terminology flipped. Servers always passively
> *listen* for a connection, while clients are active initiators. In
> the Amanda model, the c
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:14:44PM +, Will Partain wrote:
> I asked:
>
> >>> dd if=foo.verilab.com._.1 bs=32k skip=1 | tar tfv - | sort +2nr | head
> >>>
> >>>What if, instead, my dump blob is "chunked", as in this case (1GB chunks):
>
> Alexander Jolk suggested (one of two possibilities):
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:06:19PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got this amanda client (server and client at v2.4.5) with a 1.5TB
> raid splitted/chunked in ~70 DLEs (using gtar) and some of them don't
> make it to tape as the planner timeouts. Now, would someone be kind
> en
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:07:09AM -0800, Kevin Till wrote:
>
> Yes, the reference encrypt script program provided is based on symmetric
> encryption.
> I'm working on the asymmetric (public/private) encryption solution. The
> infrastructure will support asymmetric encryption just fine.
>
> Sin
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:00:18PM +0100, Thomas Grieder wrote:
> Hi
>
> How is it possible to use more than one drive?
>
> Is it possible to run two backup jobs at the same time to different
> drives in the same backup library?
>
> I could not find any information in the documentation.
>
This
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:18:24PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Montagni, Giovanni wrote:
> >I'm wondering if there's a command or a way to check if files backed up
> >were written to tape cerrectly.
> >
> >The amverify command, as explained in the docs, "determines if the tape
> >is readable, bu
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:48:41AM -0700, Jason Gose wrote:
> the maillist archive doesn't seem to be at
> ftp://ftp.amanda.org/pub/amanda/maillist-archives
>
groups.yahoo.com has a fairly complete record back to 1997
Also check out under their networking category:
marc.theaimsgroup.com
-
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:20:56PM -0500, Paul Seniuk wrote:
>
> For some reason, one of my clients returns this:
>
> ERROR [can not read/write /etc/dumpdates: Permission denied]
>
> The file permissions are proper and user amanda can access the file.
>
> Any ideas of what else could be thorwin
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:37:57PM +1100, Geoff Crompton wrote:
> Hi, I'm running a Debian (Sarge) server with an SDT-11000 driver. I'm
> having problems with the tape drive. Other people have suggested it
> might need a service, but I thought I'd ask if anyone else has had
> problems with this tap
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:58:05AM -0800, Keith Nicewarner wrote:
> I'm new to backups (much less Linux or AMANDA), so forgive me if I'm
> missing some basic concepts.
>
>
> I think I've resolved the last issue, but here's the
> annoying thing: It keeps wanting me to put in a new tape -
> e
Josef,
If I've not followed this thread accurately accept my apologies.
My own personal summary is Greg suggested five combinations
of encryption were easily conceivable and when amanda adds
encryption each of the various combos should be accomodated.
Your view seems to me to be the combo's tagg
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:04:30PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I set up amanda to backup some of my workstations. Now I encountered some
> strange issue: On one workstation amanda can backup /home but not /. The
> permissions in /dev are the same. The user amanda is in the disk group.
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 12:22:36AM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 25. Dezember 2005 23:57 schrieb Jon LaBadie:
> > On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:04:30PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I set up amanda to backup some of my
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 02:37:41PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote:
>
...
>
> Maybe you have some more hints.
>
Time to get more detailed info so you, I, and others can
look for less obvious things. I'd suggest you do another
posting to the list with a body that describes your environment
and prob
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 08:57:01AM +0100, Montagni, Giovanni wrote:
> Yesterday I've setup a new config with chg-manual and runtapes 2. Both
> yesterday and tonight, amverifyrun had failed with this error:
>
> Tapes:
> Errors found:
> amtape: could not load slot : /usr/lib/amanda/chg-manual: ill
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 04:13:25AM -0600, Hommersom, Gerrit (G) wrote:
> I've followed with great interest the discussion on this topic as it
> pertains to my backup system
>
> The problems with premature end-of-tape failures persist with big DLE's.
> (order 30-35 GB). The problem gets more severe
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:01:36PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
> I added about half a dozen or so DLEs (splitting an existing one) and since
> that time I get estimate timeout errors for some other DLEs on this host
> (daily run snippet attached) ... i suspect I'm hitting a UDP packet limit
>
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:38:56PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
>
>
> --On January 4, 2006 4:30:53 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> >You can find comments on the problem here:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/ca7pv
>
>
> OK
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:54:51AM +1100, Ong Loeng Seng wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> It does say that it can contact the index server.
> This is the output when I run "amrecover -C DailySet1"
>
> AMRECOVER Version 2.4.5p1. Contacting server on myhost.mynetwork.com ...
> 220 myhost AMANDA index server
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:41:51PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
> OK maybe I should get flogged, but today I had/have to split a GNUTAR DLE
> into a couple of pieces. The problem is I'm just cutting this dir in
> half [a-m]* in one, and [n-z]* in another What I'm drawing a blank
> on i
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:57:58AM +, chuck.amadi wrote:
> Hi Is there doc's for setting up ainternal and extrenal tape drives As
> I have a DDS-4 drive and need to commission a second external drive to
> backup a total of 80gb server and I would like to backup a minmum 300gb
> eventually I
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:27:49AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:57:58AM +, chuck.amadi wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Is there doc's for setting up ainternal and extrenal tape drives As
> >>I have a DDS-4 drive an
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 07:47:27AM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I get from gnutar the following error messages:
>
> ? gtar: ./media/floppy: Cannot savedir: No medium found
> ? gtar: ./media/floppy: Warning: Cannot savedir: No medium found
> | gtar: ./tmp/.X11-unix/X0: socket ignore
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 04:11:40PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:52:45AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> > Are you sure the dump was discarded? Or are you assuming that based
> > on the above messages?
>
> The dump was neither in the holding di
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 12:31:38PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:44:47AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> > >> > and put "/media" into /.amanda.exclude on that host, but this
> > >> You need to put "./media" into the exclude file.
> > >Huh? How comes that this makes a differe
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 03:55:33PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:04:26PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > > In the above case the DLE in question was the root-directory. In
> > > filesystem semantics "/media" and "./media" is aequi
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 05:24:00PM +, Jens Theisen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is there a way to control what in a disk given in the disklist should be
> backed up, when only access to this disk is given?
>
> I'm thinking of a user controlling what should be backed up by putting
> something in his ho
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:56:18PM +, Nuno Dias wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I compiled the amanda-2.4.5p1 and when I try to run the command
> "amtapetype" I'm get this error.
>
> # amtapetype -o -f /dev/nrst10
> Estimate phase 1...
>
> Writing 4096 Mbyte compresseable data: 260 sec
> Estimate pha
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:58:11AM -0500, Scott R. Burns wrote:
> NetBSD/i386 is my platform (think of it as FreeBSD only better :-)).
Just an observation;
nearly all who responded to Ian query saying they still use chg-scsi
and who mentioned their OS, indicated it was one of the BSD variants.
Is
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 01:22:52PM -0600, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
>
> Jon LaBadie writes:
> - On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:58:11AM -0500, Scott R. Burns wrote:
> - > NetBSD/i386 is my platform (think of it as FreeBSD only better :-)).
> -
> - Just an observation;
> - nea
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 05:18:51PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently gotten the appropriate holes cut in my firewall that allow
> me to backup my mail server. The problem is that Maildirs don't seem to
> want to be backed up... the backups fail, w/ hundreds of errors like
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:52:58AM -0800, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote:
> On 1/26/06, Gordon J. Mills III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm sure this has come up before but I've only been on the list a short
> > while. Has anyone ever looked into backing up the file permissions (ACL's)
> > on windows c
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 01:17:27PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>
> > Also dump can do incremential dumps.
> > Does it do them filewise or just from
> > the uninterpreted disk content?
>
> Actualy that is up to the dump program itself,
> which I did not yet study in detail.
> But I believe it does
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:00:45PM +0100, Kosa Attila wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Environment:
> - server
> - Debian Sarge, amanda-server 2.4.4p3-3;
> - client
> - Debian Sarge, amanda-client 2.4.4p3-3;
> - Debian Woody, amanda-client 2.4.4p3-3 (I made it myself
> backport).
>
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> I saw a similar thing when the disk of my backup server died last month.
> The machine ran Debian testing, and I used an Ubuntu Live CD (the Knoppix I
> had
> lying around didn't support SATA) to do the restore.
>
> After th
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:37:44AM +, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
wrote:
> Sorry if my last post is confusing I have confused myself lately.
>
> Howto get Amanda to back up individual servers large directories as
> seperate Disk List Entries (DLEs) using tar (GNUTAR) to the backup
> ser
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 03:22:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear Listers,
>
> I really hope that I'm not OT.
>
> While successfully using amanda on several machines I have a single
> server/tape drive, which refuses to switch of hardware compression.
>
> I read the threads several weeks
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > I saw a similar thing when the disk of my backup server died last month.
> > > The
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:42:30PM +0100, Kosa Attila wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:48:26PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Kosa Attila wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > On Tue,
r future.
Its a little off topic, but I thought my question and Al's reply
worth posting.
On Tuesday, Jan 31 2006, Al Hooper replied:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> > Al,
> >
> > On another mailing list, dealing with "amanda" backups
> > a poste
Kind of a "best practice" or "common usage" query.
For those of you using vtapes, how have you chosen
to specify the size of a single vtape?
A while ago, perhaps 1-2 yrs when vtapes were starting
to be used more regularly, the comments seemed to be
"divide the available space by the number of vta
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 03:02:11PM +0100, Omer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Sorry if this has been discussed yet (I found some related topics on the
> archive but no real answer) but I'm having problems with amadmin
> reuse/no-reuse.
> First I noticed that if a DLE is backed up on a tape and then fails for
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:35:25PM +0100, Cédric Lucantis wrote:
>
> > If my guess is correct, amanda is working fine. You told it 5
> > tapes were in rotation but only 3 really are. It will not use
> > the 3 again until it gets at least a total of 5 available and
> > used.
>
> Your guess is co
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 07:03:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Matthias Andree gave me some good advice here to use some linux scsi tools
> to circumvent the error message of "mt", which could not write the mode page
> (datcompression off).
>
> As I wrote, I was able to change the compres
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 10:17:17AM -0500, stan wrote:
> I'm preparing to upgrade an existing Amanda installation.
>
> It's been a while since I looked at what Amanda can do, since the existing
> system "just works". I'm considering using virtual tapes, in some fashion
> on the new system.
>
> The
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 05:17:18PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Gene Heskett schrieb:
>
> >ftape-tools are for some jurassic tape drives that attached to a floppy
> >controller. Typically much less than 1GB devices.
> >
> >I dare say zero usage of that rube goldburg contraption for all
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 07:15:35AM +0100, Sebastian Koesters wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have to backup about 80GB of Data from one Server.
>
> As Program i tried DUMP and GNUTAR but if amanda wants to make a level 0
> Backup it always fails.
>
> These dumps were to tape DailySet166.
> The next tape Amand
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:50:45AM +, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
wrote:
> Hi List
>
> I have another server that I need to add to my current main Amanda
> backup server.
> This server unlike the servers which are within my LAN and thus on the
> same network.
> Sits outside the LAN and
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:27:14AM +0100, Sebastian Koesters wrote:
>>
>> - if a subdirectory, are you using gnutar (program "GNUTAR")
>>
>> - if you clear out the debug files from /tmp/amanda (or where ever it
>> is config'ed to be) on both the server and the client and you comment
>> every
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:45:31AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote:
> >
> We're using an LTO2 and an LTO3 changer, both the Magnum unit from
> Exabyte, and it's working perfectly under Ubuntu/breezy. Note that this
> changer has an IBM LTO drive internally, so I imagine that if you're
> looking fo
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:30:54PM -0600, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote:
> Question 3:
>
> >From reading the documentation it seems that I have to backup a
> complete filesystem and can not simply define a b/u directory like a
> /home/user1
>
> Is this correct?
bru, I think, uses its own prop
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 04:41:34PM -0600, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote:
>
> > This phrase:
> >
> > > do I need to change them after each incremental?
> >
> > tells me you don't yet understand the amanda scheduling. It is
> > definitely not bru. You don't have incrementals today, fulls
> > to
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:38:35PM +0100, Sebastian Koesters wrote:
> Hi
>
> Now i build in the drive but i do not know whats his device name is?!
>
> My old DAT-Drive was nst0 but this does nt work with the DLT!?
>
What have you tried?
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:17:36PM -0700, Donald Murray, P.Eng. wrote:
> On 2/16/06, Mitch Collinsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Guy Dallaire wrote:
> >
> > > Could the list insert it's e-mail address in the "reply-to" header of
> > > it's messages ?
> >
> > Hack the
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:45:32AM +0100, Stefan Herrmann wrote:
> hello list,
>
> i made a fresh install of "Amanda 2.5.0b2" on a debian 3.1 system. then
> i set up amanda for a hourly backup.
> i did some test backups that worked ok. then i mentioned an error in
> the amanda.conf and aborted t
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 07:18:37PM -0500, stan wrote:
>
> I'v got a brand spanking new Ultra 40, just for running Amanda! I',
> trhilled.
>
> But, I seem to be having a problem geting either the stable version, or the
> latest 2.5 bersion to build coreclty. here's a logfile from the stable
> buil
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 07:47:02AM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:31:08PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
>
> > The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda
> > 2.5.0b2. It is stable and we hope to release 2.5.0 soon. test it and
> > report it if you
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:24:00AM -0800, Kevin Till wrote:
>
> >>HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-MB OUT-MB COMP% CRYPT% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS
> >>-
> >>host.do.main /m/b 2 509139 27.3 1:561231.2 N/A N/A
> >>
> >>
> >>The rea
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:27:32PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
...
>
> INMNSO the default precision for the "*Rate" parameters and
>
Really messed up that acronym, s/INMNSO/IMNSHO/ :)
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 07:29:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is just to update the current state.
>
> I replaced the bitchy SLR7 with a brand-new SLR7 (same firmware version) and
> it works without hardware-compression! I replaced the Harddisk in the backup
> machine with a W
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:40:43AM -0700, Ali Moeinvaziri wrote:
>
> I just wonder if anybody has been able to successfully configure
> a solaris 10 client to work with amanda.
>
> I have problems connecting to the client through amanda. The
> amanda inetd.conf entry is converted to solaris 10
Boy I'm fumbling around today!!!
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:46:32PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
> For speed, which amanda does use but is always nice to know,
That should be "... which amanda does NOT use ..."
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I read the list, no need to send me a second copy.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:00:30PM -0500, stan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:33:54PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >
> > The command "false" should have been "ar", the "archive" command
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:23:09PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:27:32PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:24:00AM -0800, Kevin Till wrote:
>
> > INMNSO the default precision for the "*Rate" parameters and
> > maybe
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