Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I checklevel 1 sizes?)

2000-12-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
vfat with samba is better than ext2 with samba on the server? -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Amanda reinstall issues

2000-12-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
it takes 5 seconds to execute following three lines: $ cd /opt/local/stow $ sudo stow -D amanda-2.4.2 $ sudo stow amanda-2.4.1p1 and I'm back in the situation before the trouble began (amanda-2.4.2 works just fine here, it's theoretical :-) -- Paul Bijnens, Lant

Re: AIT-1 tapetype, FAQ-O-Matic, and compression

2001-02-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
$ gendata -v /dev/st0 # uncompressable data, ... # feedback every 10 Mbytes ^C # you may interrupt it anytime $ gendata -cv /dev/st0 # now again with compressable data ... -- Paul Bijnens, Lant

Re: tapetype for AIT-2 50Gb native?

2001-02-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
apt the file /kernel/drv/st.conf to define your tapedevice? If not, that's probably the reason why you have hardware compression on. -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61

Re: AW: Backing up WIN NT-Server with Amanda

2001-03-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
simple, but at least you have something! Run one or both just commands just before the normal daily backup and amanda will pick them up in the next run. -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61

Re: want only full dumps (strategy noinc)

2001-04-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
it decides to switch to incrementals for some of the disks. It warns you then with a "planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of ... delayed". (It seems indeed the best thing it can do given the constraints of a overflowing tape and the order to keep as much as it

Re: Location of files

2001-06-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
binaries, you'll have to live with the decisions of someone else for using Amanda. But recompiling amanda is easier than changing the source... -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http

Re: tapetype for hp surestore dat 40x6

2001-07-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
software compression, then you may increase the tapelength, depending on the type of files you plan to back up. -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com

Re: Newbie and not quite understanding ...

2001-09-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
was not about your problem, but about the hint that you probably use software AND hardware compression, which is counterproductive (tapespeed and tapespace), but correcting that would not solve the problem you have now ofcourse. -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16

Re: tapetype recommendations

2001-12-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
with 33000 mb capacity in your tapetype. I would investigate the details, and see if you got any new disks, or if any disk changed it's contents and compression ratio suddenly. -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM

Re: Amanda and smbclient

2001-12-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
* Phone: (+46) 90 132134 Västra Norrlandsgatan 11D Fax : (+46) 90 132102 903 27 Umea, Sweden PGP-KeyID: 0x46ACEB37 -- -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel

Re: [data write: File too large]

2002-01-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
it right, but this makes sense. -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problem with amoverview: Bad interpreter?

2002-01-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
the first line in amoverview. It looks like: #!/bin/perl at me, and it should point to the perl executable. -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-02-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
of the systems. (Yes, I have no spare disks anymore now, if something crashes today, they will have to wait till I have new disks :-) -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com

Re: Share Access

2002-02-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
again. YMMV. -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: character translations with smbclient (was Share Access)

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
), you get different errors on filenames with non-USascii characters. ps. I'm not on the Samba list, please CC me too. -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com

Re: incremental backups and one full

2002-03-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
backup of 4 partitions everyday? But you said the dumpcycle was 4 days! -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: amanda reporting nearly-empty tape as full?

2002-03-08 Thread Paul Bijnens
... resulting in LESS native capicity on tape. Or you ran into an error somewhere halfway the tape (bad tape? drive? computer?) Look into the system logs to find out (dmesg, syslog, etc). -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven

Re: amanda reporting nearly-empty tape as full?

2002-03-08 Thread Paul Bijnens
kernel to some experimental version :-) -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [data write: File too large]

2002-06-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
it right, but this makes sense. -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Who uses Amanda?

2002-06-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
of the systems. (Yes, I have no spare disks anymore now, if something crashes today, they will have to wait till I have new disks :-) -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com

Re: a bit off topic (mt command)

2002-07-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
assume these two commands do some writes to the tape: mt weof # Write eof marker to tape mt erase# Erase the tape (maybe the question was about how safe is the mt command in regarding overwriting data on a tape) -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: Sending mail.

2002-07-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
On Friday 26 July 2002 10:25, Trevor Fraser wrote: I have a fairly good understanding of the basic amanda proceedure. I understand that who ever is written in the mailto line in the conf file will get mail, but now lets say I want this mail to go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , do I just write the

Re: tapetype problem (now)

2002-09-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
, and gives an estimate after a few minutes how long it will take for the total run (so you can plan to go fishing if you like). -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http

Re: tapetype problem (again)

2002-09-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
Mozzi wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: Mozzi wrote: HI Yes it is updateing I am now on the second set of numbers [root@ais-back01 tape-src]# ./tapetype -e 40960 -f /dev/nst0 -t TandbergVS80 wrote 1235460 32Kb blocks in 102955 files in 275434 seconds (short write) wrote 701742 32kb blocks

Re: Comments in .amandahosts

2002-09-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
you intended. 192.168.200.201 # WRONG! only the user named '#' is allowed! 192.168.200.201 # # even double hashes is wrong. Well you could just as well have the comments in a file named README in the amanda home directory. That makes it safer when the source changes. -- Paul Bijnens

Re: How long does it take?

2002-09-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
that the patched tapetype program I posted last week on this list, gives you an estimate of the total run time after just a minute or so. (And it detects if your tape drive has hardware compression on, a frequent mistake!) -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40

Re: could not access device

2002-10-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
: they used a 64 bit value instead of a 32 bit value for the clock ticks. They are measured in 1/100th of a second and 2^32 / (86400*100) = 497 days. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16

Re: Fwd: DailySet4 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR October 1, 2002 (fwd)

2002-10-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
or drive or cable etc. has serious problems. Or is there another explanation for the differences in numbers? -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.xplanation.com/ email

Re: a quick question

2002-10-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
though. When using dump instead of GNUtar you could get in the minute-range instead of in the hour-range. (But dump has other problems, so sometimes you need to use tar instead. Like me.) -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001

Re: What tapecycle value to use?

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
-4 are written, then sets 1-3 once more, I want to be able to do amlabel ... Mon-4 amlabel ... Tue-4 without being told that those tapes are already active. What exactly do I set tapecycle to in order to allow this? -- - Toralf -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: What tapecycle value to use?

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
, and the last backup was on tape 10, Amanda will ask for tape 11, but accept any of the oldest 16 tapes, like tape 6, or 12 or... If tape 11 and 6 were both marked as no-reuse, then it will ask for tape 12, and if you feed her tape 6, she will refuse to overwrite that tape. -- Paul Bijnens

Re: New tape nonsense

2002-10-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
with hardcompression enabled (and warns you). It did not make in the latest amanda version 2.4.3. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL

Re: What tapecycle value to use?

2002-10-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
, Amanda will refuse to overwrite the data on that tape. It will not be accepted in the future neither, up to the time that you mark the tape reuse again, if you like to. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax

Re: where is the new tapetype.c?

2002-10-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
large tapedrives with large internal buffers... -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: where is the new tapetype.c? CORRECTION

2002-10-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I saw a few days ago a pointer to a new tapetype.c, could somebody please give tell me where I can find it? Here it is in attachment. Can you eventually give me some feedback? Did it detect drives in compressed mode? Especially if you own one

Re: Forcing write to tape (or cleaning up tapelist)?

2002-10-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
/filesys the day before to get a full dump on that tape. You may also combine both methods: use method 2 for one or two tapes that are too much out of sync, and straighten the rest out using method 1. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H

Re: Windows backups

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Bijnens
(but most pc users are not aware of that problem :-). ps. I'm not a windows specialist, I just have many windows users. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.xplanation.com

Re: DAT hardware or software compression

2002-11-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
after a read error. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: incremental backup !!

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
to hold your full backups on sunday, and then Amanda does a better job using only 15 GB each day, and is finishing her daily task in four hours on the low end DDS4 or AIT-1 tape drive... (You can still use your large tapedrive on sunday to make archive backups, always full :-) -- Paul Bijnens

Re: How to restore a raw device ?

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
a GNUTAR-wrapper script that does a dd instead of gnutar when given the device... (I assume, you could just as wel use DUMP wrapper script and rename your dump program and replace it with this script.) -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H

Re: swap out a tape within the rotation

2003-01-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
don't use a new label? Amanda will lose all informations about the first tape: - index - 'amadmin conf find' will not list the dump on it. - You will not be able to use amrecover to restore from it. Jean-Louis -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511

Re: Strange error with tape device.

2003-01-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
chickens, I'm not sure which one really helped. :-) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Question about amlabel

2003-02-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
:-) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think

Re: question (if tape server crash)

2003-02-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
server). How solve this problem? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: question (if tape server crash)

2003-02-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
ago. And if I consult those files, I can see the index-files of tapes from 7 weeks ago (which in reality are already overwritten). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http

Re: hosts timing out on amdump but not amcheck

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
(yeekes), Linux (Slackware, Red Hat). Justin Clayton VLSI Research System Administrator University of Washington Electrical Engineering Dept [EMAIL PROTECTED] 206/543.2523 EE/CSE 307E -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 11:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I am using an Exabyte Eliant 820 tape drive on Linux kernel 2.4.18 and would like to make sure the hardware compression is disabled. Does anyone know how I can check that ? For that drive, compression is

Re: LTO tape tapesize?

2003-02-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
Dave Ewall wrote: I ran Tapetype on my Ultrium drive (came with a Dell Poweredge server), and got this: define tapetype Ultrium { comment Ultrium length 101632 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 13884 kbytes } If I remember right, it took about an hour to run if I gave it the right

Re: LTO tape tapesize?

2003-02-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
get the default length of 1 Gb, then amtapetype writes not 1000 but 1 files of 10 Mbyte each in the first pass (because it believes that 10Mbyte * 100 files = 1 Gbyte). etc. etc. On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:22, Paul Bijnens wrote: Dave Ewall wrote: I ran Tapetype on my Ultrium drive (came

Re: Tapeless backup

2003-02-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
reliably iirc). I cant get this file listed. Any sugestions? Regards, Gregor -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Using only one tape, full dump delayed

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
) But if I'm proved wrong, the whole backup community would be very interested in how you can put that much data on such small tapes... You could make a fortune here, if you start you own company! -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus

Re: And a couple more questions

2003-02-28 Thread Paul Bijnens
jupiter /home/john/. comp-user-tar jupiter /home/george/. comp-user-tar jupiter /home/ringo/. comp-user-tar (I've never really understood why they need to do that, but if you really want to, you can.) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan

Re: tip for handling multiple dumps in the holding disk

2003-02-28 Thread Paul Bijnens
the file. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I

Re: Q: troubles / my first backup with amanda

2003-03-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
comp-high-tar furv /bigdisk comp-high-tar FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost /.furvbackup lev 0 FAILED [disk /.furvbackup offline on localhost?] 4. What did amcheck say? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21

Re: Q: NOTE by amcheck

2003-03-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
with the character device of the disk partition. (see client-src/getfsent.c for the definitive answer :-) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL

Re: Problems backing up Windows servers with SAMBA: got 'badly formattedresponse'

2003-03-07 Thread Paul Bijnens
should try to find out what's the cause of this message. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Failed dump details

2003-03-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Mozzi wrote: I it correct that everything on this disk was backed up exept the two files mentioned? They are mrtg temp files du tells me the directory is 12Gb not 11 as stated here The du command tries very hard to say how much diskspace is used by all files, including all the overhead when

Re: drive compression discovery

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
are watching who inserts the tape yourself, no race condition, unless your shadow is faster than you. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL

Re: drive compression discovery

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
sure that the drive did a recognition cycle. Something like: dd ibs=256K if=/dev/your/tapedev of=/dev/null count=1 (blocksize equal to or larger than the first block on tape is fine) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
15116.6 1541.8 Original Size (meg) 42697.537183.0 5514.5 Avg Compressed Size (%)39.0 40.7 28.0 Filesystems Dumped 116 22 94 (1:89 2:5) Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 406.4 491.5 150.7 -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: a bit off topic but ...

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
output to /dev/null, it will actually not read any bytes of files, but just make statistics. For samba clients it uses the builtin du command of smbclient (if your smbclient version is recent enough). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus

Re: problem with amrestore / tar permissions

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
information. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think

Re: The amflush that wouldn't flush

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
have been. I have never encountered this myself, but some people on the list once mentioned that there were no files to flush, even though amanda warned that it could be so. Otherwise, we need more information. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511

Re: drive compression discovery

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
sure you verify the tape drive did not get into some error state (see the syslog), just in case :-). You could also, just as last verification, download the latest amanda and run amtapetype -e 35G to verify that your setup can indeed put that amount of bytes on your tapes. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: level 0 of huge filesystem not working (tar returned 2, and thebackup fails)

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
, but a changing Berkeley DB file is probably more dangerous. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: level 0 of huge filesystem not working (tar returned 2, and thebackup fails)

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
. (The file is taped again completely on the next tape.) What does your report indicate? Is it what you expect for that tape capacity? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http

Re: How to use FULL capacity - cart TRAVAN NS20 ?

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
Prods6 - AMANDA - Bkp Mannager wrote: Hi frinds and Amanda User's ... Please ... Look ... I'm user of cart model TRAVAN NS20 for Full_bkp's, but I don't know why the taper don't use the full capacity of these tapes (20Gb). The max utilization is in 10Gb ... I'm not a user of travan tapes.

Re: Disklist format

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
Robert Hazbun wrote: Anyway, my problem is that I am doing just this, but am running into the following error: pantera/home/depot-wz lev 0 FAILED [missing result for /home/depot-wz in pantera response] ... Upon looking in the amanda source to attempt to find out what's wrong, I found out

Re: amlabel returning Read-only file system error

2003-03-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
with dd obs= If that one works with blocksize, it's something else. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: results missing

2003-03-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
more information. What do you specify in your disklist? A device or a mount point? The exact cause is probably found in an error message in the /tmp/amanda/* debug files. BTW what is a ccd? I'm not a freebsd user. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511

Re: amdump problem but amcheck is ok...

2003-03-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
Reidar Nordin wrote: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: ns2.tedk.c /etc/named.conf lev 0 FAILED [disk /etc/named.conf offline on ns2.tedk.com?] NOTES: planner: Adding new disk ns2.tedk.com:/etc/named.conf. You cannot specify a plain file as DiskListEntry. It has to be a directory or a

Re: Fw: Error while running amcheck/amdump

2003-03-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
points instead of the disk devices, like: osama.dom.ain /always-full osama.dom.ain /bootalways-full osama.dom.ain /usr always-full osama.dom.ain /var always-full osama.dom.ain /homealways-full -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel

Re: amrecover tar error.

2003-03-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
Op ma 17-03-2003, om 18:05 schreef Vytas Janusauskas: I am trying to restore a Windows 95 directory to an NT drive connected via Samba and get the following error. /1895-102.tif ./1895-103.tif Does this mean that it restored 1 file? tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains

Re: amandad error

2003-03-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
Op ma 17-03-2003, om 22:57 schreef bao: xinetd[...]: execv( ../usr/libexec/amandad ) failed : Permission denied (errno = 13) Are the directory usr and libexec also accessible as amanda? Can you try: su amanda -c /usr/libexec/amandad This command should just sit there for about 30

Re: OS X Client slow estimate phase

2003-03-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
changed also a bit.) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: List of files on tape

2003-03-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
the index yes configuration option in your disktype, then amanda makes an index, that you can browse with amrecover. You can browse yourself through the index files too: $ gzip -dc ~amanda/TheConfig/index/HostName/_Disk_Name/date_Lvl.gz | grep mynobbelpraiseprojekt -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: amrecover without /var/log/amanda*

2003-03-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
them back to the new location (and avoid overwriting existing files): cd /var/lib/amanda/$config/index find . | cpio -pdvm /var/log/amanda/$config/index -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16

Re: Premature overwriting of level 0

2003-03-26 Thread Paul Bijnens
Vytas Janusauskas wrote: Setup: 20 tapes (VXA-2 v-23) Native capacity 67GB. 1 dump cycle. Amanda version 2.4.2p2 Holding disk 105GB All DLE are Samba shares for Win95/98/NT6/Win2000. Problem: I am now 7 tapes into the second rotation and the level 0 backups are being overwritten. It seems to be

Re: FreeBSD-Linux migration problem

2003-04-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
Yura Pismerov wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripts]$ mt -f /dev/nst1 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x31 (AIT-2). Set the tape block size 0 (variable) or 32k. (I had that problem too.) Soft error count since last status=0

Re: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
? :)) On my 333 MHz fileserver with Linux 2.4.18 it even works :-) 2 disks 80 GByte with software RAID 1 and lvm snapshots, all on a pc that nobody wants on his desk! -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32

Re: Slow dumper

2003-04-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
server fast. (But this will not speed up your process from 434 k/s to 2600 k/s.) Maybe you to investigate a little if there is another reason (besides a slow file server) why the dumping is so slow. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2

Re: Permissions wrong - amcheck -m error - Can't create transcriptfi le ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied

2003-06-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
, invoked by amcheck). Try: echo hallo world | /usr/bin/Mail -s Test [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you probably get the same error. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com

Re: Permissions wrong - amcheck -m error - Can't create transcriptfi le ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied

2003-06-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens wrote: Kevin Passey wrote: bash-2.05$ /usr/sbin/amcheck kdp -m bash-2.05$ Can't create transcript file ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied Can anybody tell me where my permissions are wrong or where amanda is trying to create this file. That seems to be a message from sendmail

Re: exclude list optional broken?

2003-06-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
? What's in the debug files on the client in /tmp/amanda/*exclude? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: out of tape - why?

2003-06-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
the end of tape was hit, like: NOTES: taper: tape ARCHIVE-038 kb 33907744 fm 29 writing file: No space left on device i.e. after writing almost 34 GByte. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512

Re: out of tape - why?

2003-06-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
space on the disk. I'm using a chunk size of 1GB, so after two chunks (actually 2.14GB), it fails. I don't see that as an issue though. Strange. There is no chunking when you don't have a holdingdisk. How do you know it fails after two chunks? -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: amoverview bug?

2003-05-28 Thread Paul Bijnens
multiple lines. Ugh. Not easy to parse with a perl one liner. It's probably better to parse the output of amadmin ConFig disklist, instead of parsing the disklist file itself. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM

Re: Single file backup using SAMBA

2003-05-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Francisco de Asís Miralles Argente wrote: I tried to backup only one file that is in a directory with other files in a windows client, but I don't get any way to do it. The obvious DLE way does not work: your.host/path/to/the/filecomp-user-tar because dump and tar need a

Re: 2.4.4 build/make problem

2003-05-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Brian Cuttler wrote: Amanda users, Build: Complete ! I received the following from John Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delete the 'chg-null' on line 543 and recompile. ... If so is this change to the changer-src/Makefile something that could be accomplished from the configure script ?

Re: human-readable tapelabels

2003-05-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
amflush. Off course, this works only well if you have enough free space on a tape in a normal run. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email

Re: add new clients, lost order scheduleing, tape isn't streaming

2003-05-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
not all 44 dumpers will be active, because you probably have other constraints (maxdumpers per host, per disk, bandwith etc,). Taper starts taping as soon it receives the first file to tape, and that's probably a smaller one. Using less dumpers should work better. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: human-readable tapelabels

2003-05-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
Mathias Koerber wrote: --On Friday, May 30, 2003 11:05:23 +0200 Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the tapelist file is correct, it will not as for a new tape. This is my tapelist after I labeled all the tapes at the beginning # amadmin Daily tape The next Amanda run should go onto a new

Re: infofile update error

2003-05-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
(up to root!!): what's the output of: ls -lLd / ls -lLd /... ls -lLd /.../... down to the infofile directory? Isn't there any hint of the real error in /tmp/amanda/*.debug or in amdump.* ? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B

Re: different backup for sub directory

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
a dumptype inline in your disklist: your.client /usr/local incremental your.client /usr { full exclude ./local } 1 -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM

Re: Dump too big for tape

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
://www.iclear in the message amanda sends you? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Dump too big for tape

2003-05-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
the schedule planner generated. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Configuring RH7.2 Amanda out of the box - error accessing Amanda hosts file.

2003-06-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
struggling with the permissions of .rhosts when running HP/UX 7 and SunOS 4.1.2 (or was that still longer ago?). And indeed, nothing in the source code of Amanda 2.4.4 checks for too wide permissions of .amandahosts. You can learn something new every day :-) -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: client was working, now suddenly is getting self check hostdown? errors

2003-06-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
wanted to investigate it. I've had gtar hanging and unkilleable on Solaris 2.6 sporadically more than a year ago. I installed some patches since then, but don't know if any patch cured such a problem, or if I'm just lucky. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511

Re: Few questions.

2003-06-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
to /sbin/xfsdump.) Wouldn't native dump be the ideal method? I've no experience with xfsdump. Are the permissions of /sbin/xfsdump correct? Is /../libexec/rundump suid root and owned by root? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001

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