Re: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 6 May 2002 at 3:14pm, Andrew Falanga wrote Ok, something definitely happened. I can tell this by all the directories and files created under areas such as: /var/amanda/log and so forth. However, when I run amcheck config I get and error message that says, /var/amanda/log/log no

Re: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Andrew Falanga
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 May 2002 at 3:14pm, Andrew Falanga wrote Ok, something definitely happened. I can tell this by all the directories and files created under areas such as: /var/amanda/log and so forth. However, when I run amcheck config I get and error message that

Re: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 8:38am, Andrew Falanga wrote Sorry, typo. I run amcheck with NO errors. I was running amreport as you'd suggested yesterday when I got that error. You need to specify the log file, e.g. 'amreport Daily -l /usr/local/adm/amanda/DailySet1/log.20020507.0 -f

RE: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 12:08pm, Morse, Richard E. wrote U... are you sure that it didn't send you the email? Try this: log on to your backup server, then su to the amanda user (you may need to be root to do this). Then type 'mail'. The report should be there. If it is, then you need

RE: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Morse, Richard E.
: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday 07 May 2002 11:00 AM To: Andrew Falanga Cc: amanda-users Subject: Re: First run, how do I know it happened On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 8:38am, Andrew Falanga wrote Sorry, typo. I run amcheck with NO errors. I was running amreport

RE: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Morse, Richard E.
Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Actually, the easiest way to control who gets the amreport at the end of the run is via the mailto parameter in amanda.conf. Of course, you may still want to set up a .forward for the amanda account to get CRON errors, but you

RE: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 12:19pm, Morse, Richard E. wrote Hmmm... but what if I want the report to go to many different people? Or people on different machines? I'm guessing that the amanda.conf method would work for From the sample amanda.conf: mailto $USER# space separated list

First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-06 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello, Well, last week I set up AMANDA and I'm pretty sure that I got it done correctly. However, how do I know that it actually ran as I thought it would? I followed instructions for creating a cron job (under Linux RH 7.2) for the user AMANDA, and set it to run on Friday night only.

Re: First run, how do I know it happened

2002-05-06 Thread Andrew Falanga
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 6 May 2002 at 9:28am, Andrew Falanga wrote night only. How do I know that it worked? When I got in to work today, amanda had no mail waiting, but the man page for cron said that mail is only sent if cron determines it must be sent. amdump should