Re: Extracting amanda tapes without amanda ...

gs happen with tapes and tapedrives, but I would not feel comfortable knowing the tape is rewound and written to somewhere in the beginning, and then hope the rest of the tape (with *ALL* the backups) are not affected. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Tech

Re: 3ware 8506-4 raid1 hotswap

wanted to avoid when choosing a mirror-raid system :-) ). Just make sure that a disk you insert is really really completely blank, or has never been inserted into that raid-system. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BE

Re: amrecover with file: driver

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Eric, on Montag, 26. Jänner 2004 at 21:11 you wrote to amanda-users: ED> That s a bit strange. ED> my amrecover can change tape and find the good. ED> you have to put the following parameter in amanda.conf ED> amrecover_changer "/dev/null" ED> and to launch amrecov

Re: amrecover with file: driver

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Could you point us to the spot where this is explained in the docs? I suppose there is some reason to make this function with ANY string. From "man amanda": amrecover_changer "string" Default: ’’. Amrecover will use the changer if you use ’settape ’ and

Re: Encryption

/ but I never tried it myself... -- 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: How to omit holding disk?

Josef Wolf wrote: Yes, I know. This is the reason that I asked whether it would be possible to change the copy operation into a rename operation for the file: output driver. It's not as easy as that: the header on a holdingdisk file is different from that on a tape file (even a tape file on disk).

Re: AMANDA mail report header

ormed like: "daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR SITE XYZ, January 31, 2004" or similar. There is the "org" string in amanda.conf. Setting it to e.g.: org "Daily Site XYZ" produces a mail header like: "Daily Site XYZ AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 2, 2004"

Re: Amanda tape error

available, using 851940 KB WARNING: skipping tape test because amdump or amflush seem to be running WARNING: if they are not, you must run amcleanup amcheck sees the logfile, left behind by amflush, and not yet cleaned up by amcleanup. First kill the processes, then run amcleanup. -- Paul Bijnens,

Re: Problem with amflush

nd specify that subdir as holdingdisk directory in amanda.conf. -- 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: changed from hw comp to sw comp

tape moving is the only limiting factor -- if CPU, bus contention etc limit the delivery of bytes to the tape drive, then you also better off using software compression, because now the tapedrive can keep streaming). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511

Re: Problem with amflush

$ ulimit -c unlimited $ amflush and in another window, as amanda or root: $ kill -3 pid-of-amflush and then, cd to where the core file is found (current directory, or /tmp/amanda or ~amanda/TheConfig, I'm not sure), and get a stacktrace: $ gdb /usr/sbin/amflush core gdb>

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

tar-no-compress include append "./[A-K]*" exclude append "./[!A-K]*" } 2 local (actually that last exclude is not necessary. You may find yourself why as homework :-) ) Verify what would the parameters of a host:/DLE with $ amadmin Theconfig disklist Ho

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

stan wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:16:09PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: stan wrote: /foo/bar/[A-J]* /foo/bar/[K-z]* Don't mix uppercase and lowercase in the character maps. It depends on the current LANG and/or LC_* settings what they expand to. Probably not what you want. Is there a w

Re: Problem with amflush

048868 , argc=2, ubp_av=0xb694, init=0x8048584, fini=0x8048bfc , rtld_fini=0x4000a534 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xb68c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129 (gdb) quit And if we had the source, we have maybe a clue what was going on (satisfaction *not* garanteed, but f

Re: amrmtape question

delete the amanda tapelabel and all other data from the tape, so amnda doesn't touch it anymore? -> use dd to overwrite the first block on the tape with 0 or random data. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BE

Re: does amanda count in days or in tapes?

om another image than the first of that day, you need to use position the tape yourself and use amrestore instead of amrecover. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xpla

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

You still seem to be referencing user-tar-no-compress (not included in your mail), and you still have the entries in the wrong sequence. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://ww

Re: amrecovering extremely slow

gnutar program accepts only the useful bytes. And while you have built your expertise, you could do the same for all the dump variants. :-) ) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www

Re: How can I split up a large disk partition?

what amanda believes. you can find out all the expanded options of a disk list entry with: amadmin YourConfig disklist black adse1/ak Does that show what you think it should be? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven,

Re: How does the amanda server identify itself to clients?

you can still recover using "amrestore ..., amanda won't let you down.) -- 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: The Top Ten

the FOM would be nice too). Let me know what you think. Nice work already... -- 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: How to setup amanda with Hotbackup

Yung Le wrote: I want to setup amanda to backup a database in hotbackup mode. Have anybody know how to setup this or know to work around? The second time in less than 12 hours :-) http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/348.html -- Paul @ Home

Re: Problem with amflush

Rohit wrote: And, more generally: Should amcheck complain about that? Yes, I think it should with appropriate message. If you don't put cruft in the amanda holdingdisk directory, then there is no problem. (It did complain about the cruft, didn't it?) -- Paul Bijnens,

Re: How to setup amanda with Hotbackup

last amanda clien too. (Maybe not too bad if it is only hotbackup mode.) -- 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: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

rameter in amanda.conf. It avoids running the columns together. When going production, you numbers will even be larger. (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1) 2.4.4p2 is out too :-) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3

Re: an annoyance from amdump...

up the half-finished logfiles and statusfiles (it's these left over files that amdump complains about.) Just run "amcleanup TheConfig" as indicated. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32

Re: The Top Ten

only one machine where server = client, then why don't you just execute this from crontab: #!/bin/sh dbstop amdump TheConfig dbstart No need at all to change amdump in this case. Or did I miss something? -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: The Top Ten

Allen Liu --- work wrote: I can't open your file after winrar decompress it. It's not winrar. It's bzip2. I'm not even sure there exists a decompressor for windows (aside from the one with cygwin). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Tech

Re: enable backup xp through samba after amanda installed

Allen Liu --- work wrote: I didn't have samba installed when I installed amanda, is there any way to add it without re-configure/make amanda ? No, you have to recompile. This is one of those hardcoded features in amanda that some people complain about. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplan

Re: no incremental backups when using gnu tar

te you when you move your tapedrive to another computer (e.g. after a crash) and you want to restore files from the previous one. Use the real DNS name. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax

Re: no incremental backups when using gnu tar

ow big are your tapes? Or do you make backups in degraded mode to holdingdisk (hence your other question on the list)? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/

Re: dumptypes

Dege, Robert C. wrote: So my question is, why am I seeing all of these gzip processes on the amanda server? I thought they were supposed to be residing on the client. Is It's the "gzip --best" of the indexes. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel

Re: amverify fails for large (?) samba share

amverify (tar ?) can handle ? The amanda server runs RHS 7.3, amanda 2.4.2p2, gnu tar 1.13.19, samba 2.0.7. Could it be a 2 Gbyte filesize limit in samba, which gets gzipped into a 1.2 Gbyte image? The samba is really really old! -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16

Re: Changing Amanda server

host. I've migrate from SunOS 4.1.3 to Solaris 2.6, and a few years later from Solaris 2.6 to Linux (slackware). No problems encountered. I have no experience with Irix though. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELG

Re: Backups that don't fit on the tape....

size: amtapetype -e 35g (and amtapetype will tell you too, if you still have compression enabled). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/

Re: Backups that don't fit on the tape....

sion would take a few days (and it will not warn about compression on or off). Upgrading would be nice (after you solved your hardware problems). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 39

Msg for Joel C.

pient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.7.1 Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.7.1 Access denied Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:25:08 +0100 Subject: Re: Backups that don't fit on the tape From: Paul

Re: dump incremental level not greater than 1

anyone who has experience with such behavior ? The backup on that system is performed via "dump". Have a look in ~amanda/YourConfig/amdump.* and see what planner gets back for the different levels, especially level 2. If the savings are not big enough, amanda will not bump a higher leve

Re: how to fit backup on >1 tape

r question. -- 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 thin

Re: nfs mounted executable

DK Smith wrote: I was experimenting with a different installation strategy... That is, in order to not install amanda on every host... I am attempting to place a single amanda installation on a file server; making it available via an NFS share. The nfs-clients of the same architecture (in this c

Re: amrecover

lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] amandahostsauth failed my /root/.amandahosts is: mymachine.mydomain.com.br root,amanda "localhost root" is not in your .amandahosts files (but it's a bad idea to use "localhost" in the long run! use the FQDN is best.) -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: amrecover

all). -- 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: amrecover

(it seems your client is your server too, otherwise "localhost" wouldn't work.) -- 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: Amanda compile question.

am (except maybe "hello.c", and that proves only you have a C-compiler). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com

Re: dtimeout maximum?

r dtimeout accordingly. Or did it die? -- 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: my tape drive

rom my experience this is usually a hardware problem (or a kernel bug, but then why should you the first one to encounter this?) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com

Re: Problems manually restoring from tape

gain a file. In non-bsd mode, the dd reads the first record, and the tapedrive keeps positioned as is. A fsf is needed to skip to the next file. Solution: drop the "mt fsf" in the script, or find a way to specify non-bsd behavior for your tape driver. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: Amanda-Autoeject after dump

erates an Table-of-contents for each tape and ejects those drives which have been used. The executables may be installed in different places on your server. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +

Re: level 0 backups nightly

or. in amanda.conf general parameters and/or define dumptype : dumpcycle 0 (and a big tape) Rather than doing a lot more trial and error, I was hoping someone here could quickly tell me what values I need or what documentation to look at so amanda does a full backup every night. -- Paul

Re: Dumps too big ??

tape, e.g. 200 Gbyte. -- 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: fake install path

ure prefix like: make install prefix=/tmp/amanda-2.4.4p2 -- 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: ? amrecover doesn't see index contents

$ gzip 2004*[0-9] (remove the .bak files afterwards if it's fixed) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ ema

Re: fake install path

Brandon D. Valentine wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:10:13PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Jonathan Dill wrote: >> make install VARIABLE=/tmp/amanda-2.4.4p2 The prefix= can be specified to override the configure prefix like: make install prefix=/tmp/amanda-2.4.4p2 This is not what yo

Re: ? amrecover doesn't see index contents

Allen Liu --- work wrote: What's the meaning of leadining number in the path ? ... spike:root:#more 20040301_0 10020721223/./cfgadm That number is the bug. It shouldn't be there. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3

Re: gnutar in configure

t look for; therefor I had to specify the option "--with-gnutar=/.../amgtar" ) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ emai

Re: How to use a hard disk??

&w=2 (notice the date: that was posted today!) Short, yes. No, it's not difficult to chage the source. As a matter of fact, it's already builtin. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +

Re: amreport

's the one from today) $ amreport TheConfig -l log.20040304.0 (this will send the report again by mail $ amreport TheConfig -l log.20040304.0 -f /tmp/mail-report (this will store the report in that file, instead of mailing it) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel

Re: Resend: ? path of config file for amrecover

tc/amanda ( see below), it ceitainly failed. I wonder why it tried that way ? and how to make it search my new installation location ? If you change the install path, you'll have to recompile. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-

Re: Error while doing amlabel

too) like: amlabel Diaria Diaria01 slot 1 (and fix your NIS setup -- maybe remove /etc/domainname, and do not run ypbind if you don't have a NIS server). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM

Re: retrieving 1 year old file

daily5 slot 6: date 20040310 label daily6 slot 1: date 20040311 label daily1 -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http:

Re: emailing the correct report.

/opt/amanda/$CONFIG/log.2* | head -1` /opt/local/sbin/amtoc -a -t $LOGF grep '^START taper .* label ' $LOGF | while read line do /opt/local/sbin/amtape $CONFIG eject /opt/local/sbin/amtape $CONFIG slot prev done ---cut--- -- Paul Bijnens,

Re: amdump problem

our tape indeed labeled "mylabel"? Post exact error messages, then we'll be much better able to guess what's wrong. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://

Re: amdump problem

n given. And they all need to have a different label. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/

Re: amrestore fails

l on (available since 2.4.3 I believe), and then amanda does this for you. The thing is, if I'm running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]# amrestore /dev/nst0 ^iulian$ ^/$ 20040317 The dumpfile is restored corectly on the amanda-server machine. Probably after you (accidently?) rewound th

Re: amdump again

cal compatibility. Nothing in a recent man page talks about this. Better use the modern syntax (see man page): define dumptype allways-full { compress none index } -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technolo

Re: amdump (one more question)

is in the disklist? amanda.conf? Files in /tmp/amanda/debug* files? etc. etc. -- 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 PROT

Re: Firewall and Portrange Settings

lf (like iptables), can handle amanda when you open up the 10080/udp and 1024-and-up/tcp to the amanda server. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/

Re: amrestore fails

next new tape already labelled is: DailySet1-0. ... All my tapes are labeled. What is that label of each tape? -- 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: I don't think Amanda is going to work for my environment...

-tar exclude append "core" } 1 this means that the logical directory is referred to as /my/dir, but the backup is made from the device (directory) /snap/my/dir. People who like to have a look at the scripts for Linux and Solaris may contact me. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: I changed something in my disklist

file when dumping a subdirectory | DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. You switch from gnutar to dump. Gnutar can do subdirectories, dump cannot do. Add "program GNUTAR" to the dumptype "nocomp-high" (and better name it "high-tar" if that one do

Re: I changed something in my disklist

t; and "comp-user-tar". It are only examples, it's up to you to define your own. If you blindly copy the examples and then add 'program "GNUTAR"' to "high-tar", then the next person looking at the config with the 5 dumptypes will probabl

Re: flush full dumps only

-a \! -name "*.0.[0-9]" \ -a \! -name "*.0.[0-9][0-9]" \ -print | tee /tmp/amanda/flushonly | cpio -pdml $i rm `cat /tmp/amanda/flushonly` and you should avoid DLE's with confusing names... -- Pau

Re: file sizes in amrecover

ile reading the image from tape. -- 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: I still have timeouts

le, or you notice that gnutar/gzip dies prematurely etc. Upgrading amanda won't help when it's the gzip in the pipe that dies. You can always compile a recent amanda version yourself. It's actually quiet easy. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511

Re: I still have timeouts

d not hire me for my multilingual capacities...) ;-) ;-) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EM

Re: I still have timeouts

ate --file - --directory /var ... \ --etc --etc \ --totals . | cat > /dev/null (Do not simplify this to ... --file /dev/null ... because then gtar will NOT do a normal backup.) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21

Re: I still have timeouts

Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 05:20, Paul Bijnens wrote: You can always compile a recent amanda version yourself. It's actually quiet easy. Quiet? Methinks you meant 'quite' since the installation of amanda from the latest tarball snapshot does not normally make

Re: amanda and firewall

options" (Don't be afraid, you wont hear any noise during compilation, it's quiet and easy :-) ) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/

Re: Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD

ile.gz | head'. If the lines start with a large number, then that is a symptom of a bad version of gtar, probaboy 1.13. Then you'll have a look that the version of gnutar on that client. gtar --version If it is version 1.13 it is not good. You need 1.13.19 or better yet 1.13.25 (a

Re: Lables and Force

, but accepts the last-but-one too, but not one of the 4 most recently used tapes. Thanks for the feedback guys. I would like to see a nicer way around doing a "forced" backup outside of ones cycle. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologiel

Re: Annoying

ind /tmp -depth -print | cpio -ocv /dev/nsa1 (using the familiar cpio way to test things out.) -- 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: amoverview; history database

"stats" line that you want to get rid of. (the "stats" line is the line that shows on which tape/holdingdiskfile the backup is). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http:

Re: amoverview; history database

to be that high! Somwhere amanda remembers the higher number, but where? In ~amanda/ConFig/curinfo/hostname/_disk_name/info To be manipulated with "amadmin ConFig Delete" to delete the entire info for that host/disk or to by editing the info file directly. -- Pau

Re: planner: balance per host?

run without actually performing the backup.. amdump is just a shell script. See about line 99. Maybe you can run, as user amanda, the line: $libexecdir/planner Config I've never tried it myself... -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologiela

Re: amoverview; history database

rt an diese Mailadresse. Wird nicht gelesen. Don't reply to this address. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanatio

Re: amdump failed

pascal thomas wrote: what the hell ist this? FATAL dumper error [dumper PORT-DUMP: too many args: 16 != 12] Spaces in names of include-directive are not (yet) allowed... -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM

Re: amoverview; history database

ne Antwort an diese Mailadresse. Wird nicht gelesen. Don't reply to this address. Sorry, I had to reply to the list, the sender address just bounces. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32

Re: etimeout

f the other hosts. Note that each host answers with estimates for all his DLE's at once. It does not answer for each DLE in a separate message. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 39

Re: getting an index of what's backed up?

ate a TOC using "gtar -tvf -" or "restore -tvf -" , depending on how it was created). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BEL

Re: AIT-2

s from the factory defaults. A lot of settings depend on the OS where the tapedrive is connected to. And of course the quality of the scsi-link (good cables? good terminated?....) -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELG

Re: star and amanda

s up a 30 Gbyte disk to a 4 Gbyte DDS-2 drive.) See the last example in the examples/disklist file from the distribution. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xpla

Re: Amanda time

bject header of the mail, and on the postscript label. PS. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is not interested in these kind of msgs. Use that address only for sending administrative questions about the list itself (like "Why can't I post this 30 Mbyte attachment to the list?"

Re: I still get data timeouts.

manda/*debug files). Does it finish? How long does it take? If this is too much for the list, you may send them to me, if you like. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512

Re: Possible bug in windows/cygwin handling of tar command

ories. (sending to amanda-users, instead of -hackers -- more appropriate I believe.) Just to get enough details: what are the exact contents of the exclude-list and the disklist entry? And what is the exact error message you get? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +

Re: amidxtaped getpeername error

files to others posted on the 'net and see no differences. We can't verify them either, when you don't post them. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation

Re: Report of what's on what tape?

tape, and there is amtoc which does the same, but in a different format, but these two are best run just after the backup. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com

Re: statistic values

nutes of this period were used to do the estimate phase. If all the dumps were run sequentially one after another, it would have taken 3 hours 59 minutes, (3 hours 38 minutes for the full dumps plus 21 minutes for the incremental dumps). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +

Re: amoverview

two tapes in the changer and amanda failed to write to tape the first time because it hit end of tape (resulting in "E0", for a full, "E1" for an incremental etc) or twice with error ("EE"), and may a successfull flush afterwards giving maybe "EE0". (I'v

Re: amoverview

, AND truncates to two characters... That's probably why I never seen three codes like "EE0". Maybe it would indeed be better to see the last two characters instead of the first two: it's the end result that counts. Line 157 could be written as: map(substr("\$level{\$host

Re: "Incremental tape too low" when using amrestore

em in the weekend, the incremental backup from the weekend did not succeed, and the old amanda version would have listed the not-useful tape from the previous incremental. Did you get the same message with the replayed scenario? Or are the error messages from the real restore on monday only?

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