RE: Losing it, need help with amrecover

2015-10-07 Thread Joi L. Ellis
and then run amrecover. The recovered files will be placed in the temporary directory and its then up to you to move them where they belong. > -Original Message- > From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] > On Behalf Of Gene Heskett > Sent:

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

2015-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
ake a temporary directory in /tmp, cd there, and then run amrecover. > The recovered files will be placed in the temporary directory and its > then up to you to move them where they belong. > > > -Original Message- > > From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org > &g

RE: Losing it, need help with amrecover

2015-10-07 Thread Joi L. Ellis
[snip] > > Which is sort of what I did Joi. > > amrecover bothers me because that is no apparent way to strip the leading > part of the path from what you want to recover, and from the messages it > presents, if you don't just give up and use a scratch directory, then move > what it recovers,

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

2015-10-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 12:04:34AM +, Joi L. Ellis wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > Which is sort of what I did Joi. > > > > amrecover bothers me because that is no apparent way to strip the leading > > part of the path from what you want to recover, and from the messages it > > presents, if

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

2015-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 07 October 2015 20:04:34 Joi L. Ellis wrote: > [snip] > > > Which is sort of what I did Joi. > > > > amrecover bothers me because that is no apparent way to strip the > > leading part of the path from what you want to recover, and from the > > messages it presents, if you don't just

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

2015-10-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 06 October 2015 09:54:41 Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On 06/10/15 09:20 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have been following the recomendations spit out by amcheck as I am > > needing to restore a machine after the machine in that spot failed. > > > > I am now down

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

2015-10-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 06/10/15 09:20 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have been following the recomendations spit out by amcheck as I am needing to restore a machine after the machine in that spot failed. I am now down to this error, and apparently something in the installer did setup the amanda-client

Losing it, need help with amrecover

2015-10-06 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have been following the recomendations spit out by amcheck as I am needing to restore a machine after the machine in that spot failed. I am now down to this error, and apparently something in the installer did setup the amanda-client correctly. gene@GO704:/etc$ sudo

I need help!

2013-08-02 Thread Alexander Geronymakis
Thank you all so much for your lightning-fast responses, your examples and comments have helped me a great deal and I have been able to move own with my configuration.I have also done my homework and I think I wont bother you anymore with such trivial questions.

Fwd: I need help!

2013-08-01 Thread Alexander Geronymakis
Original-Nachricht Betreff:I need help! Datum: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:39:46 +0200 Von:Alexander Geronymakis a.geronyma...@portunity.de An: amanda-users-requ...@amanda.org Hi, I'm new to IT , I' m currently doing my internship in a firm in germany.I

Fwd: I need help!

2013-08-01 Thread Alexander Geronymakis
Original-Nachricht Betreff:I need help! Datum: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:47:30 +0200 Von:Alexander Geronymakis a.geronyma...@portunity.de An: amanda-users-requ...@amanda.org Thank you so much for the quick response,now my only obstacle left ,is how to set

Re: I need help!

2013-08-01 Thread Markus Iturriaga Woelfel
My example may be more or less complex than what you need in your setup. I hope that gets you started. Grüße nach Deutschland, Markus On Aug 1, 2013, at 6:38 AM, Alexander Geronymakis a.geronyma...@portunity.de wrote: Original-Nachricht Betreff: I need help

Re: I need help!

2013-08-01 Thread Debra S Baddorf
: Original-Nachricht Betreff: I need help! Datum: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:39:46 +0200 Von: Alexander Geronymakis a.geronyma...@portunity.de An: amanda-users-requ...@amanda.org Hi, I'm new to IT , I' m currently doing my internship in a firm in germany.I

Re: Need help with new architecture for NAS/NFS setup

2011-11-07 Thread Leon Meßner
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 11:53:46AM -0400, Brendon Martino wrote: Thus, it was proposed that I mount some NFS space from another system (a NAS, for all intents and purposes, though it has a WORM architecture and is only used for archiving data with retention periods that delete old archives).

Need help with new architecture for NAS/NFS setup

2011-11-03 Thread Brendon Martino
I'm having trouble figuring out what type of new architecture to go with for an NFS share dir on a NAS. I'm running Amanda version 2.6.0p2-14 on Fedora 10. My current architecture for Amanda is as follows: I'm running a set called DailySet1. My holding disk/vtapes are: /amanda/day0x/data/

Re: Need help with new architecture for NAS/NFS setup

2011-11-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:53:46 -0400 Brendon Martino brendon.mart...@hds.com wrote: I'm having trouble figuring out what type of new architecture to go with for an NFS share dir on a NAS. I'm inclined to think you can't, short of a messy script that plays with symlinks and rsync. I wouldn't touch

re: Need help with new architecture for NAS/NFS setup

2011-11-03 Thread Olivier
Hi Brendon, I'm having trouble figuring out what type of new architecture to go with for an NFS share dir on a NAS. You could run two dumps in parallel, one with tapecycle of 7 onj your local disk and one with tape cycle of 30 or 60 on your NAS. Best regards, Olivier I'm running Amanda

Re: Need help with new architecture for NAS/NFS setup

2011-11-03 Thread John Hein
Brendon Martino wrote at 11:53 -0400 on Nov 3, 2011: I'm running Amanda version 2.6.0p2-14 on Fedora 10. My current architecture for Amanda is as follows: . . How do I implement my architecture to only keep about a week (or even a day) of backups in the holding disk (locally on

I accidentally ran chown and need help

2008-12-03 Thread Matt Burkhardt
I'm trying to set up a backup for a client machine running 8.10 Ubuntu using an Ubuntu 8.04 server running 2.6.1b1 - but the version on the client machine is an earlier one. Anyway, I fat fingered something and changed the ownerships on all the files in /usr/libexec/amanda and I'm now getting an

Re: I accidentally ran chown and need help

2008-12-03 Thread Chad Kotil
Here are my permissions. Notice all the files owned by root have the setUID permission set. [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]$ ls -alrth total 1.5M -rw-r--r-- 1 amandabackup disk 956 Jun 25 18:11 amanda-sh-lib.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 amandabackup disk 48K Jun 25 18:11 amandad drwxr-xr-x 3 root root

Re: I accidentally ran chown and need help

2008-12-03 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Matt Burkhardt schrieb: Anyway, I fat fingered something and changed the ownerships on all the files in /usr/libexec/amanda ... If you installed by rpm, reinstall it. Or use the rpm command to have a look at the files inside to see the filelist and permissions. If you installed by source, -

Re: [Amanda-users] Need help setting up Amanda on Sles10

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-05-21 15:25, bperrotta wrote: When Installing go message couldn't create Amanda user. Using root user instead. Manually created Amanda user later on but don't know which groups to add it to. Got errors saying home directory was not created had other trouble with user rights. No sure

[Amanda-users] Need help setting up Amanda on Sles10

2008-05-21 Thread bperrotta
When Installing go message couldn't create Amanda user. Using root user instead. Manually created Amanda user later on but don't know which groups to add it to. Got errors saying home directory was not created had other trouble with user rights. No sure what to do at this point help

Need help backing up RHEL4 client with Debian tapehost

2006-12-05 Thread Zembower, Kevin
I'm trying to backup my RHEL4 host 'www' using my Debian amanda server 'centernet.' Centernet backs up itself successfully, but can't back up the remote host www. I installed amanda-common, amanda-server and amanda-client from the Debian sarge packages on centernet, and amanda-client-2.4.4p3-1 and

Re: Need help backing up RHEL4 client with Debian tapehost

2006-12-05 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:07:56AM -0500, Zembower, Kevin enlightened us: I'm trying to backup my RHEL4 host 'www' using my Debian amanda server 'centernet.' Centernet backs up itself successfully, but can't back up the remote host www. I installed amanda-common, amanda-server and

RE: Need help backing up RHEL4 client with Debian tapehost

2006-12-05 Thread Zembower, Kevin
as 'service xinetd restart' Thanks, again, for your insightful help. -Kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Hyclak Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:31 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Need help backing up RHEL4 client

Re: Need help backing up RHEL4 client with Debian tapehost

2006-12-05 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:50:52AM -0500, Zembower, Kevin enlightened us: Matt, you're amazing. I don't know which of the two commands did it, but it works now, at least minimally. I didn't know about the chkconfig command; I'll have to investigate it. It configures which services start on

Need help converting to Debian amanda package

2006-11-30 Thread Zembower, Kevin
I've had an Amanda system running successfully and mostly problem-free for the last five years. Because of some firewall issues, I compiled Amanda from source with some specific flags for ports used. About a year ago, the firewall issue were removed, and amanda continued to work without any

Re: Need help converting to Debian amanda package

2006-11-30 Thread Frank Smith
Zembower, Kevin wrote: I've had an Amanda system running successfully and mostly problem-free for the last five years. Because of some firewall issues, I compiled Amanda from source with some specific flags for ports used. About a year ago, the firewall issue were removed, and amanda continued

RE: Need help converting to Debian amanda package

2006-11-30 Thread Zembower, Kevin
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p3) cn2:/etc# Thanks, again, Frank for your response. -Kevin -Original Message- From: Frank Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:24 PM To: Zembower, Kevin Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Need help converting to Debian

RE: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

2006-07-26 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 at 8:24am, Sean Noonan wrote What does mt stat say before you run amrestore? Is the tape positioned mt start gives an error. start doesn't seem to be a valid command for ^ Erm, start != stat. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of

Re: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

2006-07-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:24:19AM -0700, Sean Noonan wrote: snip That looks like amrestore isn't finding the dump file on the tape and is running off the end of tape. I'm puzzled by the missing file header block. That implies that the tape isn't positioned at the start of a

RE: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

2006-07-26 Thread Sean Noonan
freebee# amrestore -p /dev/nsa0 freebee aacd0s1f | gzip -d | restore - ivf - Verify tape and initialize maps amrestore: missing file header block amrestore: 2: skipping freebee.aacd0s1e.20060721.0 amrestore: 10: reached end of information gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file

Re: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

2006-07-26 Thread Kevin Till
Sean Noonan wrote: freebee# amrestore -p /dev/nsa0 freebee aacd0s1f | gzip -d | restore - ivf - Verify tape and initialize maps amrestore: missing file header block amrestore: 2: skipping freebee.aacd0s1e.20060721.0 amrestore: 10: reached end of information gzip: stdin: unexpected end of

RE: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

2006-07-26 Thread Sean Noonan
What does mt stat say before you run amrestore? Is the tape positioned mt start gives an error. start doesn't seem to be a valid command for ^ Erm, start != stat. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

SOLVED! (WAS: RE: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work)

2006-07-26 Thread Sean Noonan
responded! --Sean Noonan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Noonan Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:23 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Cc: 'Paul Haldane'; 'Joshua Baker-LePain' Subject: RE: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

2006-07-25 Thread Sean Noonan
Hello, Hoping someone can help me with the magical incarnation to restore files. Box is running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. Amanda is v2.5.0p2,1 installed from the ports collection. Server name is freebee. Disk name is aacd0s1f. Tape device is /dev/nsa0 (which is a LTO-2 drive). When I try to

Re: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

2006-07-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:15:55PM -0700, Sean Noonan wrote: Hello, Hoping someone can help me with the magical incarnation to restore files. Box is running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. Amanda is v2.5.0p2,1 installed from the ports collection. Server name is freebee. Disk name is aacd0s1f. Tape

RE: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

2006-07-25 Thread Sean Noonan
snip Suggestions anyone? Use the -h option of amrestore to confirm if it was compressed, probably with gzip. If that is the case you will have to put a gzip -d command in the pipeline between amrestore and restore. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing

RE: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Haldane
-Original Message- From: Sean Noonan Sent: 25 July 2006 22:45 snip Use the -h option of amrestore to confirm if it was compressed, probably with gzip. If that is the case you will have to put a gzip -d command in the pipeline between amrestore and restore. My

Re: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

2006-07-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
freebee# amrestore -p /dev/nsa0 freebee aacd0s1f | gzip -d | restore -ivf - Verify tape and initialize maps amrestore: missing file header block amrestore: 2: skipping freebee.aacd0s1e.20060721.0 amrestore: 10: reached end of information gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file End-of-tape

Re: Need help restoring: -p doesn't seem to work

2006-07-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:35:13AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: freebee# amrestore -p /dev/nsa0 freebee aacd0s1f | gzip -d | restore -ivf - Verify tape and initialize maps amrestore: missing file header block amrestore: 2: skipping freebee.aacd0s1e.20060721.0 amrestore: 10: reached

Re: Need help diagnosing hostname problems

2005-10-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: Thank you, Olivier, Scott and Matt, for all your suggestions. Your helpfulness is part of what makes Amanda a truly great solution. AMANDA-users take care of each other ;-) The problem, as you all suggested, seems to be the lack of a reverse DNS look-up capability

Re: Need help diagnosing hostname problems

2005-10-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm betting this might be a fairly common problem that some of you all have solved before. What's your preferred solution? I can think of a couple of alternatives, such as: I have not seen any answer but I'd try to use IP address in disklist file... Olivier

Re: Need help diagnosing hostname problems

2005-10-20 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
Thank you, Olivier, Scott and Matt, for all your suggestions. Your helpfulness is part of what makes Amanda a truly great solution. The problem, as you all suggested, seems to be the lack of a reverse DNS look-up capability: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.jhuccp.org www.jhuccp.org has address

Need help diagnosing hostname problems

2005-10-19 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
I had an amanda setup that worked fine until two weeks ago, when I had to change the network addresses of all my hosts and move them into a separate DMZ, using a different, new DNS. Now, I'm not able to get one host to respond, and the output is puzzling: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/amanda-dbg$

RE: Need help diagnosing hostname problems

2005-10-19 Thread Scott R. Burns
: www.netcontech.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of KEVIN ZEMBOWER Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:57 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Need help diagnosing hostname problems I had an amanda setup that worked fine until two weeks ago, when I

Re: Need help diagnosing hostname problems

2005-10-19 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:56:52AM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER enlightened us: I had an amanda setup that worked fine until two weeks ago, when I had to change the network addresses of all my hosts and move them into a separate DMZ, using a different, new DNS. Now, I'm not able to get one host to

Re: Need help diagnosing hostname problems

2005-10-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, ERROR: www.jhuccp.org: [addr 10.253.192.205: hostname lookup failed] Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.702 seconds, 1 problem found That seems like network issue to me, rather than amanda issue. Did you make sure that your amanda server can ping to www.jhuccp.org? After renumbering did

Re: Still need help with amflush!!!

2004-12-12 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, Sorry for the long Delay. There seem to be some very strange and not reproduceable situations where a specific combination of dump-files in the holdingare, Moonphase and such things lead to the effect you see. I had this happen on two different configs, on two different machines a few

Still need help with amflush!!!

2004-12-10 Thread James Marcinek
Does anyone have experience dealing with issues regarding the amflush not working properly? The system in a RH9 box. I know there's more recent versions than what's being used but I cannot find the later rpm's that are necessary. I can provide what ever information is necessary to help: The

Re: Still need help with amflush!!!

2004-12-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 05:47:22PM -, James Marcinek wrote: Does anyone have experience dealing with issues regarding the amflush not working properly? The system in a RH9 box. I know there's more recent versions than what's being used but I cannot find the later rpm's that are necessary. I

Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Joe Konecny
Right now I back up my Netware server with Arcserve to a single tape. I have 10 tapes. The system is set up to accept any tape and run a full backup. What we do is keep the tapes in rotation and if someone forgets to bring a tape back from off site it is no big deal we just use the next one.

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 31.08.2004 at 10:42 -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: Right now I back up my Netware server with Arcserve to a single tape. I have 10 tapes. The system is set up to accept any tape and run a full backup. What we do is keep the tapes in

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:42:58AM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: The system is set up to accept any tape and run a full backup. What we do is keep the tapes in rotation and if someone forgets to bring a tape back from off site it is no big deal we just use the next one. This is the interesting

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Joe Konecny
Gavin Henry wrote: Amanda is much better than that. It will but the backup in a holding disk i.e. folder/partition until space runs out or hits the limit you set. It will not overwrite another tape unless you force it by hand, which is good. You don't have to figure out which tape, amanda tells

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:49:49PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: Gavin Henry wrote: Amanda is much better than that. It will but the backup in a holding disk i.e. folder/partition until space runs out or hits the limit you set. It will not overwrite another tape unless you force it by hand,

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Joe Konecny wrote: Gavin Henry wrote: Amanda is much better than that. It will but the backup in a holding disk i.e. folder/partition until space runs out or hits the limit you set. It will not overwrite another tape unless you force it by hand, which is good. You don't have to figure out which

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Joe Konecny
Jon LaBadie wrote: So... is amanda really not made for disaster recovery? That's great that it will back up to a holding disk with no tape but if the hard drive dies it's rather meaningless. I don't understand the leap you've made here. The holding disk is a buffer to allow multiple items to be

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:29:43PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: So... is amanda really not made for disaster recovery? That's great that it will back up to a holding disk with no tape but if the hard drive dies it's rather meaningless. How does that imply not for

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:29:43PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: To me that's ideal since the data collection in our factory runs 24-7. Even on Sat and Sun when I'm not there the tape is still over written with the latest data. If Amanda does only copies the data to a holding area and we lose a

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:42:27PM +0200, Andreas Sundstrom wrote: I think that if things are so critical I would seriously investigate in purchasing a tape changer. Indeed! Even better, though perhaps impractical, would be to back the data up across the network to a remote site. Rsync might

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Siegerman
There's a little bit of culture clash going on here, I think :-) On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:29:43PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: Even on Sat and Sun when I'm not there the tape is still over written with the latest data. The *last* thing I would *ever* want to do is to overwrite my most recent

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Joe Konecny
Eric Siegerman wrote: There's a little bit of culture clash going on here, I think :-) On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:29:43PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: Even on Sat and Sun when I'm not there the tape is still over written with the latest data. The *last* thing I would *ever* want to do is to

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:20:29PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: I guess that is my problem. I am currently configured to have the holding disk on the same physical drive. The best option appears to be to purchase a new drive. One question though... I assume the new drive should be at lease

Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-28 Thread Freels, James D.
Title: Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice The problem was my scsi card driver. Reviewing my kernel configuration files, between 2.4.14 and 2.4.15 (now running 2.4.21), I switched to the new sym53c8xx_2 driver. I recompiled my kernel with the older NCR53c7,8xx driver (there is also

RE: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Gregor Ibic
try to read the tape (or chunk - fsf) with dd dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/ bs=1024 count= where NNN is greater than your backup job/disk entry and see what happens i restored some valueable tape (MTF formated) reading this way and putting the pieces together. regards, gregor

Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Freels, James D.
OK. I can do this. Let me summarize: I have a tape labeled fea12. This tape like all the tapes if all filesystems were backed up should contain 40 filesystems + front end + back end. I issued the command mt -f /dev/tape_norewind fsf 1 42 times before the end of tape occured and I received

RE: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Freels, James D.
Gregor, Thanks for responding. I also responded back to Gene Heskett with his suggestion and a little more information. I would like to try this idea. How can I determine from the amanda log files ? Once I output the data from the tape to the drive, how do I conver it back to a .tar

RE: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Freels, James D.
OK. I went to the amdump log file and found that the first file should have 352 1k blocks written to the tape. Then I issued mt rewind mt -f /dev/tape_norewind fsf 1 dd if=/dev/tape_norewind of=./first_file bs=1k count=352 Then the following was received at the console: dd: reading

RE: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Freels, James D.
OK. I am learning from this. The number of 1k blocks on the first stored file on this tape is actually 384 and not 352. I should have looked at the taper output and not the dumper output. I issue the following multiple times: mt rewind mt -f=/dev/tape_norewind fsf 1 dd if=/dev/tape_norewind

Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 July 2003 18:31, Freels, James D. wrote: OK. I am learning from this. The number of 1k blocks on the first stored file on this tape is actually 384 and not 352. I should have looked at the taper output and not the dumper output. I issue the following multiple times: mt rewind mt

amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-19 Thread Freels, James D.
Hello I have used amanda for a long time and have used the amrecover command to recover files/directories in the past without problems. Recently, I accidently deleted a large chunk of my home directory (you don't really want to know how this happened do you--long story). Normally, if something

Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 July 2003 10:46, Freels, James D. wrote: Hello I have used amanda for a long time and have used the amrecover command to recover files/directories in the past without problems. Recently, I accidently deleted a large chunk of my home directory (you don't really want to know how this

Re: need help with amanda

2003-03-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 at 10:14am, liam pace wrote I'm trying to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I don't see my message in the list. My problem is that I use user-tar as the backup type, The correct address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] owner just annoys the list manager. however I can't restore

Fwd: Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-12 Thread Eric Webb
On Sunday 10 November 2002 07:32 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Eric Webb wrote: On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:30 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's configure

Re: Fwd: Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:17:13AM +, Eric Webb wrote: On Sunday 10 November 2002 07:32 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Eric Webb wrote: On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:30 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Frank Smith wrote: --On Saturday, November 09, 2002 23:20:07 -0500 Eric Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) If I attempt what I believe to be labelling a tape, I get: labeling tape in slot 0 (/dev/nst0): rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label test00

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Eric Webb
Okay, tape labelling issues were related to device node permissions. Silly me. Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's configure (/usr/local/sbin/dump). amdump logs indicate problem

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Eric Webb wrote: Okay, tape labelling issues were related to device node permissions. Silly me. Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's configure (/usr/local/sbin/dump). amdump logs

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Eric Webb
On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:30 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's configure (/usr/local/sbin/dump). amdump logs indicate problem getting results back

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Eric Webb wrote: On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:30 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's configure (/usr/local/sbin/dump). amdump logs indicate problem

Need help getting started.

2002-11-09 Thread Eric Webb
Howdy folks. To keep it short: 1) Can someone point me to online docs that I have seen allusions to in the archives but haven't found online yet? 2) amcheck reports the messages below. Is there a requirement to label tapes prior to usage? The tapes in my changer are used:

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-09 Thread Frank Smith
--On Saturday, November 09, 2002 23:20:07 -0500 Eric Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy folks. To keep it short: 1) Can someone point me to online docs that I have seen allusions to in the archives but haven't found online yet? www.amanda.org Useful links near the bottom include the

Re: need help urgently!!!

2002-07-21 Thread dirkx
when i run the command amrestore -p /dev/nst0 filezzz /var | tar -cV restore.tar it starts to read through the tape, it finds the directory i'm looking for, but then it stops and i can't get it to put the file on my hard drive, obviously i am running the wrong command can anyone help me out

RE: need help urgently!!!

2002-07-18 Thread Bort, Paul
failing memory. -Original Message- From: Carlos White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 9:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: need help urgently!!! my server just lost a drive this drive contained just about everything i have been doing backups

Re: need help urgently!!!

2002-07-18 Thread Carlos White
in regards to my earlier message need help urgently!!! i am able to use amrestore to read the tape, it goes through the various files, however i can't get it to extract anything, when i originally made th tapes i just used plain old compression with tar comp-user-tar or something like that when

I need help getting amanda working

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
Ok, I don't quite understand things I guess. The week before last, I couldn't get amanda to work because it didn't want to overwrite the tape I had used to run amcheck with. So, I relabeled the tape, and set things up to run again. This time, I get back in to work today and go

Re: I need help getting amanda working

2002-05-13 Thread Doug Silver
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Andrew Falanga wrote: Ok, I don't quite understand things I guess. The week before last, I couldn't get amanda to work because it didn't want to overwrite the tape I had used to run amcheck with. So, I relabeled the tape, and set things up to run again.

Re: I need help getting amanda working

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
It sounds like you're in a testing mode right now. It would also help us to figure out the exact problem if you included the error message and what your dumpcycle and tapecycle are in your amanda.conf file. If you want to remove the tape in a brute force manner, you could remove it out of

Re: I need help getting amanda working

2002-05-13 Thread Doug Silver
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Andrew Falanga wrote: That's just it. I'm not getting any error's. Nothing. I'm not getting any mail sent to user amanda. I've thined out the comments from my conf file, and I'm pasting that in to this message. I don't get it. Andy org TestSet1 #

Re: I need help getting amanda working

2002-05-13 Thread Frank Smith
Is '0' a valid number for runspercycle (that's a rhetorical question for the developers on the list)? You're telling planner that Amanda is run 0 times during the 5 days of your dumpcycle. It might not be the reason you get no output, but if you're trying to do what I think you are (i.e. run

Re: need help on how to config root partition in disklist

2002-04-10 Thread Marc W. Mengel
You can certainly put / in your disklist as the drive name. Probably /dev/hda6 isn't working because that is not how the drive is mounted in /etc/fstab, rather it is mounted by LABEL=/ or some other such thing. On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am a relatively new amanda

need help on how to config root partition in disklist

2002-04-01 Thread ZLiu
Hi, I am a relatively new amanda users. I got a problem where I could not find answers in the exsiting mail archive. The problem is: in my disklist file I listed machinename /dev/sda6 root-tar /dev/sda6 is my root partition and the mount point is / and I always get the error message about

Re: need help on how to config root partition in disklist

2002-04-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 at 2:06pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I checked the sendsize.*.debug file. It looks like that amanda didn't translate the filesystem names to the right dirname. A working case will be like: calculating for amname '/dev/sda1' dirname '/boot' the failed case looks like

Need help..

2001-10-23 Thread ajit k jena
Hello Amanda Users, I describe my problem below and need your suggestions: The environment: I have compiled amanda 2.4.2p2 on a Sun Ultra with RedHat Linux 6.2. This has a Quantum DLT 4000 tape unit attached and is our server. I have installed amanda (version

RE: Need help figuring out why these don't complete

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Holm
Please try the following patch. It will not fix anything, but will log the exit code of all the processes driver starts, in particular, the messed up dumpers. Actually, it will only log them if they indicate some kind of failure, but I'd be surprised if they are going away cleanly. The

RE: Need help figuring out why these don't complete

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Holm
- From: John R. Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 10:57 AM To: Mark Holm Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Need help figuring out why these don't complete ... that tells me that it is not partition dependent at least. ... Agreed. Not sure if that's good

Re: Need help figuring out why these don't complete

2001-09-18 Thread John R. Jackson
... that tells me that it is not partition dependent at least. ... Agreed. Not sure if that's good or bad :-). I am not getting any core files ... OK. Please try the following patch. It will not fix anything, but will log the exit code of all the processes driver starts, in particular, the

Re: Need help figuring out why these don't complete

2001-09-18 Thread John R. Jackson
Patch Server and Clients, or just the Server? The patch goes against driver, which is just the server side. The lines I was referring to were these and they start at line 888: driver: dumping ns3-backnet.inherent.com:/var directly to tape driver: no idle dumpers for

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