Re: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-02-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:24:59PM +0100, Stefan Herrmann wrote: > > > >Does amcheck pass all tests? > > yes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ amcheck hourly > Amanda Tape Server Host Check A config named "hourly". Do you actually run amdump each hour? If so, might there be some extraneous, old, stuc

Re: amandad can't be started

2006-02-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:34:19PM +0100, Patrick Mania wrote: > Dear group, > > > > The problem is, that the amandad canŽt be started. > > I execute $Prefix/libexec/amandad, this takes a while (30 secs) and breaks. > > amandad is not intended to run continually nor to be run from the comma

Re: Host down message on localhost client

2006-02-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:11:47PM -0800, Wayne Thorpe wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to get the functionality of AMANDA down and during the > initial testing locally. I am discarding tape data by putting 'tapedev > "null:" ' in amanda.conf. When I run amcheck, I receive the a "host

Re: encryption with 2.5.0b2

2006-02-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:50:11PM -0800, Kevin Till wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:34:44PM -0800, Kevin Till wrote: > > > >>Amanda users have used aespipe in the past, so it's there. > >Hmmm, AFAIK is aespipe part of loop-aes and loop-aes is deprecated > >because the kern

Re: Problems building 2.5 B2

2006-02-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:24:34PM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm trying to compile 2.5 beta 2 on Solaris 10 X86. The build is failing in > the man subdirectory. It's complaining about this line in the generated > Makefile: > The actual complaint is often a big help to those answering. > > $(man_MANS

Re: Problems building 2.5 B2

2006-02-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:59:06PM -0500, Ian Turner wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2006 22:38, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > The actual complaint is often a big help to those answering. > > > > > $(man_MANS): %: $(MANPAGEDIR)/%.proc.xml xslt/man.xsl > > >

Re: amrecover says "Host is not in your disklist"

2006-02-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:25:37PM +0100, Foro Linux wrote: > Hi list: > I'm trying to recover some file from my recentrly created tape with > amdump, and as amrecover says, I'm have tryed to "set config,host before > setting disk", but when I run sethost rasillo.pl.local, I get "501 Host > ras

Re: Host down message on localhost client

2006-02-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:45:43AM -0800, Wayne Thorpe wrote: > Jon or anyone, > > Do you have any suggestion on how you used inetconv for smf usage > with amanda, I'm looking through the man page, however if you have any > specific application on how this is used with amanda, that would be >

Re: Problems building 2.5 B2

2006-02-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:59:49PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:59:06PM -0500, Ian Turner wrote: > > > > Try the attached patch, and let me know what happens. Implicit rules hurt > > make's performance (especially global ones like this), but there are not > > many > > targets

Re: Self check failing - what happens when you have duplicate amanda UID's

2006-02-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 06:09:21AM -0500, Lengyel, Florian wrote: > This is a success story, in case anyone moves their NIS server and finds, > to their dismay, duplicate amanda entries in their passwd file. One of them > has to go. The problem is that one of the servers may have depended on it...

Re: amrecover says "Host is not in your disklist"

2006-02-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:22:45AM +0100, Foro Linux wrote: > On 24/02/06, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:25:37PM +0100, Foro Linux wrote: > > > Hi list: > > > I'm trying to recover some file from my recentrly

Re: Strange amverify behaviour with amanda 2.4.5

2006-02-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 06:36:55PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 27 Feb, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you > wrote: > ... > This fails: > > define dumptype root-tar { > global > program "GNUTAR" > comment "root partitions dumped with tar" > compress none > exclude fi

suprising amtapetype error

2006-03-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
Playing with Fedora Core 4's prebuilt version, seems to be 2.4.5p2. I confirmed I could write to the tape by doing a small tar and recovery. I setup stinit to give me a non-compressing device, /dev/nst0l with a fixed block size of 32KB. Then, using the same tape I ran: amtapetype -b 32k -e 12

Re: suprising amtapetype error

2006-03-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:07:03AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > >Uhh, yeah, I used it for a tar. And you used it after that for > >the "-c" check. But you didn't complain for the -c check. > > > > > Amanda was not a

question about external drives

2006-03-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
Some of you are undoubtedly using external hard drives that are USB or FireWire connected. Perhaps as your holding disk or for virtual tapes. These drives seem to come formatted with FAT-32 file systems. I wonder how people handle them. Do you leave your external drives as FAT-32 or do you refo

Re: question about external drives

2006-03-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
Ahh, foo on M$ and its progeny. I think I'll do an ext file system. My only concern there is migrating to other UNIX OS's. Wish there were a reasonably universal, reasonably featured, reasonably secure FS type other than FAT. Well at least one of those reasonably applies to FAT. -- Jon H. LaBa

Re: question about external drives

2006-03-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:12:25PM -0500, Ian Turner wrote: > On Thursday 02 March 2006 12:31, you wrote: > > Does UDF support a modern permissions system though? I thought it > > didn't, because it was designed for optical media... > > Yes. It is designed to be a superset of all common filesystem

Re: Amflush Problem - Again!

2006-03-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
I have no suggestion Rohit, But a question for developers. > > Amflush output: > -bash-2.05b$ /usr/sbin/amflush -f DailySet1 > Scanning /backup/amanda_hold/DailySet1... > 20060216: found Amanda directory. > 20060223: found Amanda directory. > 20060302: found Amanda directory. > > Multiple

Re: to configure or not to configure this is the question

2006-03-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:07:23AM -0600, gil naveh wrote: > > Recently I was requested to use Amanda to backup some of our Window server. > > In order to do so, I have to configure Amanda with Smbclient. > > Does it mean that I have do - reconfigure + make + make install from start - > or is th

Re: Strange amverify behaviour with amanda 2.4.5

2006-03-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:14:21PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 09:25, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > > Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >

Re: Strange amverify behaviour with amanda 2.4.5

2006-03-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:50:16PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [snip] > > Clarification please. Does it always seem corrupted on the first taped > > image? Is that the only c

Re: Strange amverify behaviour with amanda 2.4.5

2006-03-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 01:11:35PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > > I did a dump to the holding disk, without a tape mounted, to get the > > > image. I then stripped of the first 32k bytes to lose the tape he

Re: Setting filetape sizes

2006-03-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:34:50AM -0800, Wayne Johnson wrote: > I am using filetapes for backups. I have a 120GB Raid array that > I back up to another 120GB single drive. Unfortunately, I've > started getting an error during the nightly backup: > > taper: tape daily20 KB 4194272 fm 8 wri

Re: holding disk when using HD backup ?

2006-03-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:07:25PM -0800, Ram TK Krishnamurthy wrote: > You generally do not use holding disks when backing up to disks. > > tk > > FM wrote: > >Hello, > > > >Do I need a holdingdisk when I using hard drive backup ? > > > >I have a lots of iowait because of the copy from holding d

Re: holding disk when using HD backup ?

2006-03-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 03:41:19PM -0500, FM wrote: > Sorry if I was no clear enough :-) > > My setup : > 1 amanda server with virtual tape (hard disk) > 20 remote clients > > My problems : my server is overloaded during the backup. I suppose that > I can play with those parameters to reduce the

Re: If most recent backup is not level 0, recovery fails to bring back all files when directories have been renamed

2006-03-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:21:42PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Wednesday, 08.03.2006 at 10:27 -0500, Ian Turner wrote: > > > This does not appear to happen with CVS tar in listed-incremental mode. > > Please > > try upgrading your tar and check if you still see this behaviour. > > > > OK, yo

Re: Which is the correct way to backup windows servers using amanda? Is there one?

2006-03-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 02:43:19PM +0100, Moritz Both wrote: > > Which is the correct way to backup windows servers using amanda? Is > there one? > > First of all, I think this must have been discussed a lot of times on > the list - probably. Unfortunately, I did not have much luck searching >

Re: hardware gzip accelerator cards

2006-03-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:17:50PM +0100, Kai Zimmer wrote: > Hi all, > > has anybody on the list experience with hardware gzip accelerator cards > (e.g. form indranetworks)? Are they of any use for amanda - or is the > disk-i/o the limiting factor? And how much are those (generally > pci-based

Re: FreeBSD mt versus Linux mt

2006-03-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 11:59:03AM -0500, stan wrote: > I had 2 Amanda instances, one hosted on FreebSD, and the other on and > Progeny Linux machine. I lost the root disk on the Linux server, and I'm > building a replacement machine. > > Looking at the script that is run on the FreebSD machine I

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:05:00PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:57 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > On 2006-03-13 15:45, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > We have a rather old workstation running tao 1 (is RHEL 3) with amanda > > > amanda-2.4.4p1-0.3E.1 . Since t

Re: Sizes don't fit?

2006-03-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:45:31PM +0100, . wrote: > Paul Bijnens wrote: > > >>How can a _full_ dump of a 93 MB partition (/) make for an > >>uncompressed size of 40 MB? The dump of the /home partition is > >>likewise weird. > >> Is your root FS used for other, non-file storage, things as well?

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:22:08AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 08:54, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > >> > > >> > dumpcycle 8 days. amanda run from a script within crontab every > >> > day. > >> > >> There was an "etc." up there. > >> Presumably your runspercycle is also 8? > > >

Re: backups on file:

2006-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:56:05PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Jochen Kaechelin schrieb: > > how must I use amlabel when I will store my backups on > > a harddisk? > > > > amlabel aaa.hostname.de prefix-001 > > and amdump aaa.hostname.de > > > > works fine and everything is backup-ed. >

Re: backups on file:

2006-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:25:20PM +0100, Jochen Kaechelin wrote: > > - > My configuration: > - > > amanda.conf: > ... > labelstr "^mail.wlanhacking.de-[0-9]*$" > Just to be sure you are aware, your label s

Re: Tape Type

2006-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:23:17PM -0500, Carl Holzhauer wrote: > Just wanted to post this incase some one else has the same backup > device. > > Backup device is a Comapq Storage Works SSL2020 > Tapes are Compaq AIT 50GB > amtapetype returns the following: > > define tapetype unknown-tapetype {

Re: One DLE too many!

2006-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:44:50PM -0500, Vytas Janusauskas wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Listed below is what I get when I try to define a DLE with the > include statement. However last night I ran it with the include line > commented out and it backed up the complete Deforest3 data set as > expected

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 01:03:51PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 22:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > > > If that didn't solve your issues you maybe share your config with us. > > This would help to get the picture. > > Here are the 2 parts of the config: > I took

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 09:45 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 01:03:51PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > > > > > > Here are the 2 parts of the config: > > > > > >

Re: Ultrium tapetype

2006-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:04:53AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 at 4:14pm, Alexander Jolk wrote > > >Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > >>For amdump and friends, blocksize is set in the tapetype. For > >>amtapetype, you can set it on the command line. 'man amanda.conf' and

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 06:05:05PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. März 2006 17:27 schrieb Jon LaBadie: > > > I know you are not using tape now, but whenever you run > > amcheck (you do don't right?) it will complain tapecycle > > less than runsper

Re: Is my tape drive "shoe shinning" ?

2006-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:48:57AM -0500, Guy Dallaire wrote: > There was a recent discussion on the list regarding ultrium LTO3 tape > speed/performances. > > According to my vendor, the LTO2 drive I'm about to buy is capable of > 80Gb/Hour, that is approx 50 Mb/Sec if I'm right. > > I'm current

Re: Tape Type

2006-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
nother amtapetype run without HW compression to check the actual > capacity. > > Is there a way that I can turn off hardware compression in Amanada? I do > not have that option on the tape loader I use. > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [m

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:10:15PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. März 2006 18:13 schrieb Paul Bijnens: > > On 2006-03-15 17:27, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > I don't think this is the problem, but I do not see a "record yes" > > > setting. I

Re: backup just on holding disks makes many level 0

2006-03-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:43:30AM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 10:32 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > On 2006-03-16 09:12, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# amadmin IS balance > > > > > > due-date #fsorig KB out KB balance > > >

Re: Installation Configuration: disk definitions & general questions

2006-03-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:23:47AM +, Peter Farrell wrote: > Hi all: > > Env - Fedora Core 4 > Amanda Version: amanda-2.4.5p1 > ... > Thanks very much for any input. > It's fun - but the learning curve feels similar to Nagios at this > point. (aka 'fiddly' :-) Peter I'll try to reply to you

Re: how to split partitions

2006-03-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 02:55:53PM +0100, listrcv wrote: > > >See "man amanda.conf" for the syntax of a disklist entry. > > That is what I was looking for, a description of the disklist format. > But I'm lacking the manpage: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man amanda.conf > No manual entry for aman

Re: Installation Configuration: disk definitions & general questions

2006-03-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:10:11PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-03-16 18:06, Peter Farrell wrote: > >*Matt - sorry didn't mean to respond to your personal address. > >-pf > > > >On 16/03/06, Peter Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Nice one Matt :-) > >>I compiled from source... but I'l

Re: One DLE too many!

2006-03-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 11:20:20AM -0500, Vytas Janusauskas wrote: > Hi Paul, > > This e-mail thread has produce quite a bit of response. All > appreciated. However I am still not clear if I can split my DLE's > using the include and exclude commands. I am under the impression > that amdump

Re: tapetype w/compression for a HP Ultrium LTO 1 drive

2006-03-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:00:04PM -0500, Salada, Duncan S (Titan) @ TITAN wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having trouble getting amtapetype to give me a 200gb tapetype for a HP > Ultrium LTO 1 drive. It tells me that hardware compression is on, and I've > tried using "-e200g" with "-f/dev/rmt/0ubn" a

Re: External HD as backup yapes

2006-03-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 08:40:50PM +0200, Nathanel wrote: > I would like to setup 3 external HD (USB) as backup tapes. > > > What should be done to setup this setting? > Along similar a similar vein, has anyone set up the equivalent of tape changer magazines with vtapes? For example, my DDS c

mail problems

2006-03-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
Not directly amanda related, but affecting amanda. On two linux systems, SuSE 10.0 and FC4, I'm trying to use the distro's version of amanda. However I can't get mail delivered to the amanda user. It is not specific to amanda, seems to be any system user (i.e. a user with uid below 500 or some ot

Re: mail problems

2006-03-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 01:45:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 19 March 2006 01:22, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >Not directly amanda related, but affecting amanda. > > > >On two linux systems, SuSE 10.0 and FC4, > >I'm trying to use the distro's version

Re: mail problems

2006-03-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
system > accounts to root - you can remove the amanda entry from this file and be > good to go. I changed this about a year ago so my memory is a little fuzzy. > > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > >On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 01:45:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >

Re: dumps always too big to dump

2006-03-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:43:23PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Bijnens wrote: > > On 2006-03-23 12:40, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Now I have another problem. I just post it into

Re: Best filesystem type for larg (500G) dumpdisk

2006-03-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:43:03PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 11:40:44AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 at 11:30am, stan wrote > > > > >Sorry (hides face in shame). I'm using Ubuntu Breezy. I plan on building > > >my own 2.6.16 kerenel. So my choices ar

Re: Tape changer is not sending mail notification

2006-03-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:53:47AM +0200, Nathanel wrote: > Ye, /usr/bin/Mail are correct. > -bash-2.05b$ /usr/bin/Mail > No mail for Amanda. > > > -Original Message- > From: Ian Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 12:45 AM > To: Nathanel > Cc: amanda-users@am

Re: Whats next after Amanda 2.5

2006-03-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 05:20:15PM -0800, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: > We need to decide on the release version? 2.6? 2.5.1? > > Following is the list of features that have been requested: > ... > > If you have feature requests or if you find bugs, please post them in > sourceforge.net bug tracker

Re: Whats next after Amanda 2.5

2006-03-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:12:00AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote: > stan wrote: > > Right, spaces in filenames is a disease. > Why? > > The vector for spreading this disease has largely been microsloth, and all > > of the uneducated users they > > brought to the party. > > > Why does spaces in

Re: Whats next after Amanda 2.5

2006-03-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:47:34AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote: > stan wrote: > >> IMO there's nothing intrinsically wrong with any character in a file > >> name, as long as it makes sense with regards to your naming conventions. > >> The only difficulty it causes is if your tools can't handle th

Re: sendbackup fails after upgrading server to 2.5.0

2006-03-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:54:14AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I'm having troubles after upgrading the amanda server to 2.5.0 (while the > client is still 2.4.x) > > The Report says: > > cms.ebewe.at sda6 lev 0 FAILED [index read: Connection reset by peer] > ... > PARTIAL chunker cms

Re: bandwidth limits

2006-03-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:37:22PM -0500, stan wrote: > > I'm still struggling with bandwidth limits on a new installation. I cna't > seem to get they new server to come anywhere close to using the bandwidth > I've told it to use, and amstatus still says it has spare dumpers because > it's bandwid

Re: Whats next after Amanda 2.5

2006-03-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 08:38:12AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote: > Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: > > Joshua, > > > > I understand your concerns. Schily tar support (when implemented) will > > be one of the supported dump programs and will be configurable for > > DLE. > > > So, if I understand it cor

Re: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:01:29PM -0800, Kevin Till wrote: > Lengyel, Florian wrote: > >An amanda client that used to work on a debian host, before > >an apt-get update and an apt-get upgrade, and an installation > >of opennms (which installed the silly daemon identd for postgres) > >now gives me

Re: disk + tape

2006-03-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:11:17PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 05:55:02PM -0600, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: > > I am trying to set up an amanda b/u system here at Texas A&M. This > > would be the first time for me. > > > > I has been suggested to me to use a daily b/u to

Re: amdump/amcheck disconnect

2006-04-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 05:36:23PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > amcheck has begun saying it can't access some DLEs (permissions), but amdump > claims to have backed them up, and amverify says they're OK. > > All the DLEs are in one partition of a disk -- the other partition gives no > trouble,

Re: More questions anout a RAIT that has physical and vtapes

2006-04-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 03:51:59PM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm in the (hopefully) final stages of setting up my new > Amanda machine. > > I want to use a combination of vtapes, and physical tapes > in a RAIT. At the moment, I have 10 vtapes set up but I > may reduce that to 5. My physical tape is a

Re: More questions anout a RAIT that has physical and vtapes

2006-04-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 10:46:12AM -0400, stan wrote: > On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 10:05:11AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 03:51:59PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > I'm in the (hopefully) final stages of setting up my new > > > Amanda mach

Re: how to split partitions

2006-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:38:57AM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote: > On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:34:59PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > > That would mean that the estimate phase should be smart enough (may > > be add an option "autosplit" for those DLE's where you want that) to > > pick a few large subdir

Re: Repeating Level 0

2006-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:46:05AM -0500, Jim Summers wrote: > Hello List, > > I am experiencing an odd behavior from amanda. I have a client that I have > been backing up for a couple of years now. A while back, I noticed that it > was doing multiple level 0's on one DLE within one backup cyc

Re: amanda deleting files while restoring !

2006-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:52:30PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > This morning, someone goofed and destroyed important files in a > directory. My last level 1 backup was from last friday, and another > full dump from last tuesday. > > I then proceeded to run amrecover and recover the files "in place

Re: amanda deleting files while restoring !

2006-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:34:37PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > 2006/4/3, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > FMI: > > did you attempt to recover specific files, specific directories, > > or the entire DLE root? > > > > That was a subd

Re: amanda deleting files while restoring !

2006-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:22:21AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-04-04 06:12, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:34:37PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > > > >I was hoping that was the case and that you weren't restoring specific > >files.

Re: Experience with LTO2 media

2006-04-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:07:47PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > Just curious - what are people's experiences with different brands of LTO2 > media? I've lost two HP LTO2 tapes within last two months due to the drive > reporting 'media write errors'. Should I switch to some other manufactu

Re: Another setup question...

2006-04-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:00:23AM -0700, Bruce Thompson wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all, thanks Paul for the help with my server's setup. I've > completed a full backup, a test restore, and I'm now burning the > vtapes to DVD (thanks for the capacity note too, I've adjusted my > tapedev a

Re: SOLVED - Re: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts

2006-04-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p3. Contacting server on localhost ... > amrecover: cannot connect to localhost: Connection refused > > $ sudo /usr/sbin/amrecover -C test -s number3 > > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p3. Contacting serv

Re: user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:54:22PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> /"s"bin is supposed to contain programs of interest to > >> "systems accounts", not to ordinary users. T

Re: gnu tar-1.15+ for RHEL4

2006-04-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:04:34PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > 2006/4/7, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I'm told that the 1.14 versions from RH, if fresh, have the backported > > patches that fixed 1.14 so it worked. I think I'd make a softlink & > > see if it works. > > > > Yes the 1

Re: maxpromoteday

2006-04-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 08:02:18AM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to avoid the situation where some DLEs get multiple level0 > backups during the dumpcycle. This is because I'm running with vtapes > that are somewhat "over-drafting" the actual capacity of the > backup-harddisk

Re: Amanda and localhost definition?

2006-04-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:42:44AM -0400, stan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:42:17PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > On 2006-04-12 12:27, stan wrote: > > >Again, I've never done that in the past. I've just made ceratin that the > > >amanda user exists, > > >and done the build/make install as

Re: error processing config file with amcheck

2006-04-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:05:29PM +0200, Thomas Ginestet wrote: > Thanks JL you right. I've made my own dumptype and it's much better. > But amcheck tell me to run it as user backup instead of root and when I > run it with user backup, i've got: > > backup:/$ /usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet > amcheck

Re: amtape update command missing?

2006-04-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:20:43PM -0500, Charles Smith wrote: > Hello, > [snip] > , at least not in 2.5.0. (FYI I'm using the opensuse10 rpms) > Is OpenSuSE 10 really so up to date that they have 2.5.0 which was just recently released? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG

Re: Making certain the correct changer slot is selected before running amdump

2006-04-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:21:22AM -0400, stan wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 05:46:52AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 at 5:24am, stan wrote > > > > >On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:20:16AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > >>You can go ahead and write such a beast, but

Re: Optimising settings

2006-04-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 05:31:39PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 15 April 2006 16:49, stan wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 04:14:29PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I have a working amanda, now, but I'm not sure that it is optimally set > > > up. I'm backing up from hda to hdb on the

Re: Update/Resolved: chg-scsi reports buffer overflow during amcheck

2006-04-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 11:40:25AM -0500, Fran Fabrizio wrote: > > In the meantime I went to see how hard it would be to get > chg-zd-mtx up and running as the changer script instead, > and thanks to the awesome commenting at the beginning of > the script, it is completely painless. OH MY GOSH

Re: Could not open index directory "bla"

2006-04-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:46:15PM +0900, David Leangen wrote: > > I'm still not able to backup one of my local networked hosts. The only > problem I can find in the logs is this: > > could not open index directory "/usr/adm/amanda/daily/index/host/_home/" > > > Could this be a cause of my prob

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:15:07PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > I'm not having any problems with amanda, but the results do seem > 'over-the'top' for my needs, which leads me to wonder whether I need to > change some parameters. > > At the moment there are three DLEs. One is a backup of the whol

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:05:46PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 17 April 2006 16:39, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > - for static data, I have such a beast, a file system of iso images > > of OS installation CDs, I set that DLE to strategy full dump only > > > I&#x

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:00:25PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 17 April 2006 16:47, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > > Another thing you can do that helped me out a lot - change the bump > > parameters! I work with a fairly large Amanda setup where disk space > > is usually at a premium. I w

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 06:50:37PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 17 April 2006 16:47, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:15:07PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > The DLEs are set to a 4-day rotation, but in practice I > > > am seeing level 0 backups almost every other day,

Re: Changing vtape parameters in a live system?

2006-04-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:19:12PM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Is it safe to change the length of a vtape definition on a > live system? One of our system was originally defined with 100GiB > vtapes, and I'd like to bump that size up to 200+GiB. > > I guess if

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:03:29PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > When I add the video directories, I'll put them into two DLEs, which will > > give around 5GB in one and 10GB in the other, and I'll start them on > > different days. That should help the balancing, I thi

Re: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner

2006-04-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:23:58AM -0700, Pavel Pragin wrote: > I run a remote backup on a server, but the backup did not suceed and i > got this warning in the error file. Can someone point me in the right > direction. Here the log file: > > START planner date 20060417 > FINISH planner date 200

Re: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts: incorrect permissions

2006-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:37:48PM +0200, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: > Hi, > > When I run amcheck, I get the following error: > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > > ERROR: NAK bacchus: access as amanda not allowed from > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /var/lib/amanda/.amanda

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:13:39PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 17 April 2006 19:24, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > One of the goals of the amanda planner is to have a consistant > > sized backup each run. That is clearly not going to happen > > with the DLEs you a

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:15:50PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 19:48, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > You shouldn't trust everything said on the mailing list ;( > > > :-) > > According to the manpage for amanda/amanda.conf, it is singular, >

Re: Forcing full backups on a regular basis

2006-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:05:06PM -0400, Gabriel O'Brien wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm using amanda to back up three servers using tpchanger "chg-disk". > > Everything is working fine, however due to the fact that I don't have a > real tape changer I'd like to be able to take a given snapshot of a

Re: Estimate timeouts after upgrade and easy way to test just one backup target

2006-04-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:02:36AM -0500, Fran Fabrizio wrote: > > I recently upgraded the server side to 2.4.5 and a subset of my hosts > are consistently timing out on estimates each night, even after doubling > the time limit for estimates. The affected clients are running > 2.4.4p2. Is th

Re: Dumps performed, but also MISSING ???

2006-04-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:34:47AM -0700, jeffrey d anderson wrote: > The strange behavior described here started when I upgraded my server to > amanda-2.5.0. I was wondering if anyone else had seen this behavior: > > > I run amanda 2.5.0 with a Redhat Linux 9 server attached to an ADIC Scalar

Re: How to read a damaged tape

2006-04-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:36:13PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > OK, this is a bit out of topic, but I really don't know where to ask. > > I have a SLR 100 tape drive (SCSI interface) and a tape cartridge with > 4 files (not an Amanad tape, just plain tar). > > The first file is damaged

Re: problem backing up Windows host

2006-04-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:28:05PM +0100, John Clement wrote: > I've just inherited an amanda setup that has apparently never worked > properly. The specific problem I'm trying to sort at the moment is > summed up below. > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > >

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