How can I tell what's happening?

en't caught it doing anything when I walk into the next room. I attached amdump and the log file, if they help. Any suggestions for this amanda newbie? Thanks in advance for your help and efforts. -Kevin Zembower E. Kevin Zembower 410-659-6139 ÿWPCL

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Re: How can I tell what's happening?

a or owned by amanda, such as taper or dumper? Should I then manually remove any files, or will amcleanup do all this for me? Anything else I should do to kill it completely, so that I can work with amcheck without any interference? Thanks, again, for all your help. Have a happy New Year. -Kevin Zembower

Re: Newbie: Can't get amanda user to work

/libexec/amidxtaped amidxtaped admin:/home/amanda # Any additional suggestions? Thanks for continuing to think about this. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410

Re: Newbie: Can't get amanda user to work

are okay. Is this a good assumption? Thanks, again, for taking the time to write. -Kevin Zembower Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/11/01 11:30AM On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:02:36AM -0500, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: Thank you to all the generous folks who have given me suggestions. Unfortunately, I still

Newbie: Tape doesn't eject?

want to run amdump over again right away. Should I manually eject the tape (with mt) and insert a new one, or just start amdump again with the same tape in the drive? Thanks, again, for all your help. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center

Re: Newbie: Tape doesn't eject?

runs? Would this do anything positive, like push forward a more extensive dump that might be normally scheduled for the next day? Or, would amanda just see that not much has changed in the hour or two since the last dump, and not do much of anything? Thanks for your thoughts. -Kevin Zembower

Need exact settings for firewall with amanda

you requested? Thanks for your help. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

What to do about the holidays?

? Is this what most folks are doing? I could also comment out the cron jobs for Monday and Tuesday easily enough. Would this be better? Thanks for your suggestions. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market

Re: What to do about the holidays?

Joshua, thank you for your advice. That's exactly what I'll do. -Kevin Zembower Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/19/01 11:29AM On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 at 10:55am, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote It just dawned on me that I won't be in the office next Monday or Tuesday. I have a backup cronned

Problems with Amanda through a firewall with NAT

the traffic and the NAT is working properly. Anyone have any further suggestions for things I can change or other diagnostic methods I can use to fix this? Thank you all very much for your time and thoughts. Have a happy and safe New Year. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator

Problems with Amanda through a firewall with NAT

Sorry if this is a duplicate. I can't remember seeing it on the listserv output, and no one offered any suggestions, but it was over the holidays. Any ideas of things I can try? -Kevin Zembower —--- I'm

Tapetype for Python with DDS-3 in Dell PowerEdge 2300

to send it in. Hope this helps someone. -Kevin Zembower define tapetype Python-DDS3 { # Created by Kevin Zembower on 10-Dec-2001 from data from tapetest # for built-in tape drive on Dell PowerEdge 2300 server # with hardware compression turned off comment Dell Python with DDS-3

Tapetype for Python tape drive using DDS-2 tapes in DellPowerEdge 2450

, please ask, and I'll be glad to send it in. Hope this helps someone. -Kevin Zembower wrote 122625 32Kb blocks in 375 files in 4448 seconds (short write) wrote 122413 32Kb blocks in 751 files in 4446 seconds (short write) define tapetype Python-DDS2 { #Created by Kevin Zembower on 4-Jan-2002

RE: [data write: File too large]

I see! said the blind carpenter, who picked up his hammer and saw. -My ninth grade science teacher, Brother Paul, a terrible punner. -Kevin Pedro Aguayo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/15/02 09:45AM Ahh! I see said the blind man. Pedro -Original Message- From: Adrian Reyer

Re: Amanda and firewall

the --without-server. The errors I was getting referred to the 4 range (Sorry, don't have an exact copy. Will try to generate one tomorrow.). We use an Elron firewall here. Odd that we're both JHU, too. -Kevin Zembower Nevin Kapur [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/15/02 04:15PM I'm having some

Does this amverify indicate problems?

this is my first amverify, I have no experience reading and interpreting this report. Is this as bad as it looks? Would I be able to recover anything from these tapes? I know the true test is to try to recover something, which is what I'll do today. Thanks for your thoughts. -Kevin Zembower

Re: Tapetype when utilizing hardware compression

IIRC, the tapetype test uses random data, so hardware compress may (?) actually increase the amount of the data. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

Problem with amoverview: Bad interpreter?

by Amanda 2.4.3b1) amanda@admin:~ I also got what looks like a normal backup off the system last night. I searched the archives for interpreter but got no hits. Anyone seen this problem before? Any suggestions for fixing it? Thanks for your thoughts and time. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower

Re: Problem with amoverview: Bad interpreter?

Thank you so much, Paul. Yes, it was that simple. I did change a symlink for perl, but I just didn't realize that amoverview was a perl program until I looked at it. Thanks for your help. -Kevin Zembower Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/24/02 10:40AM KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: I just

Who uses Amanda?

. Thanks for your patience. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

Re: Who uses Amanda?

Thank you, Scaglione, for a clever possible solution that I wouldn't have thought of on my own. -Kevin Zembower Scaglione Ermanno [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/02 11:48AM On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: - (This might seem like a stupid question to this group, but) I'm being

My firewall problems with amanda (long)

firewall. I hope this isn't the case here. Thank you all for your interest. If anyone has any suggestions or questions, I'd love to hear them. When this problem gets resolved one way or the other, I'll report back to the list. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns

Suggestion for next amanda: put tcpportrange in amadminversion output

. Wasn't sure if I could or should submit this to the amanda-dev list, since I don't subscribe to it. -Kevin Zembower amanda@admin:~ amadmin DailySet1 version build: VERSION=Amanda-2.4.3b1 BUILT_DATE=Fri Jan 4 11:18:53 EST 2002 BUILT_MACH=Linux admin 2.4.4-64GB-SMP #1 SMP Fri May 18 14:54

Alternative solutions to my firewall problems with amanda

. It works like a champ. Thanks to everyone on this list for their suggestions and patience with my problem. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

Amanda install reality check

For-what-it's-worth dept.: In the year that I've been a full-time Unix system administrator, I guess I've installed 40-50 different packages, mostly from source. Amanda was the second most time-consuming and difficult; only Xwindows was harder for me. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower

Problems with Amanda through a firewall with NAT

the traffic and the NAT is working properly. Anyone have any further suggestions for things I can change or other diagnostic methods I can use to fix this? Thank you all very much for your time and thoughts. Have a happy and safe New Year. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator

Restoring Samba files?

, versus restoring with amrecover or amrestore? Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions on this. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

Re: Amanda through translated addresses

mention this error message at all, this explanation may not relate to his problem. Sorry if this doesn't apply. If it does, and you have further questions, please write. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market

Problem solving error: amandad: dgram_send_addr:sendto(0.0.0.0.948) failed: Invalid argument

and get amanda back working on this client? Thanks for your time and help with this. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

Re: Amanda and firewall

the --without-server. The errors I was getting referred to the 4 range (Sorry, don't have an exact copy. Will try to generate one tomorrow.). We use an Elron firewall here. Odd that we're both JHU, too. -Kevin Zembower Nevin Kapur [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/15/02 04:15PM I'm having some

Re: Amanda through translated addresses

mention this error message at all, this explanation may not relate to his problem. Sorry if this doesn't apply. If it does, and you have further questions, please write. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market

SOLVED: Newbie: Can't get amanda user to work

# cat .amandahosts # admin:/home/amanda/.amandahosts created by Kevin Zembower on 11-Dec-2001 admin.jhuccp.orgamanda virtual.jhuccp.org amanda centernet.jhuccp.orgamanda admin:/home/amanda # It's still puzzling to me why the .amandahosts file, with the two

Re: How to determine cause of Amanda slowdown?

-negotiation, but couldn't explain why, so I just ignored it. I'll let folks know tomorrow whether this speeded things up or not. Thanks, again, for all your help. -Kevin Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/08/02 12:32PM On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 at 12:15pm, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote admin:/proc/net

Re: How to determine cause of Amanda slowdown?

Well, so much for the NIC and switch causing the amanda slowdown. I changed the settings on my NIC last night before the amanda run to 100baseT-FD. However, the dump is still running now, 15 hours later. I'm going to examining the switch shortly to see if there were many errors or collisions.

Updating to SuSE 8.0 breaks amanda

on the tapehost no longer causes an error on these two amanda clients. Don't know why this works, or why upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 should break it, but it's working now and I'm off to put out another fire. I'll write back to this list if the actual backup of these two hosts fails tonight. -Kevin

Re: sites using amanda - possible survey

in any way. -Kevin Zembower Toni Schlichting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/26/02 03:59PM Meanwhile I prepared a list of projects in which Amanda was used. As F-O-M doesn't provide much information I followed a recommendation of Dietmar Goldbeck who suggested to search google like this: http

Debian amanda: changing backup operator?

this is a FAQ, but the www.amanda.org site seems to be down, and I'm anxious for a solution. Thanks for your time, help and patience. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202

Never mind: Debian amanda: changing backup operator?

situation. I'd normally check the archives for this, as I'm pretty sure this is a FAQ, but the www.amanda.org site seems to be down, and I'm anxious for a solution. Thanks for your time, help and patience. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center

Re: not secure port

Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139 Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/12/02 09:01AM Hi there. I have a problem for which I have done research on using google

Dump larger than tape problem

desperate; it's just been making level 1 backups for a week now. Thanks for all your help and suggestions. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

Re: Dump larger than tape problem

doesn't seem to ignore the exclude file for the full-share backup. -Kevin eric a. Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/17/03 10:59AM On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:41:28AM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: I have had similar problems, and what i've found is that the smallest unit that amanda will back up through

Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

{ comment 10 Mbps ethernet use 400 kbps } [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/amanda/DailySet1 Thanks for any suggestions on what's happening, and how to fix it. Please let me know if there's some other diagnostic I should run to further define this problem. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

suggestions. I won't make any changes right now, until you've had a chance to look at the daily report. I appreciate all your help. It still hasn't ended and it's 5:03 and I'm hungry and tired, so I'm going home. I'll talk with you all again tomorrow. -Kevin Zembower [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dumps2

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

Ohh, it ended just as I pressed 'send.' Here's the daily report: These dumps were to tape DailySet104. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet105. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: admin //db/f$/inetsrv/webpub/images lev 1 STRANGE admin //db/e$ lev 1 STRANGE admin

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

Frank, thanks, again, for your analysis. When you mentioned the connection speed, I remembered that I had to ask our network administrators to change the speed and auto-negotiation properties on the Cisco switch that the old centernet host was plugged into to fix the speed at 100baseTx-FD and

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

:43PM KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: I don't know why the 33G of holding disk space doesn't seem like enough or isn't getting used. I'll reverse the order of holding disk hd1, which is only 8G, with hd2, 33G, so maybe it'll use the larger one first. Any other parameters in the config for holding disk

Re: Troubleshooting a slowdown problem?

:( On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 01:12:35PM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: Paul, thanks for your thoughts. I don't think so. The whole amanda.conf concerning the holding disks is: holdingdisk hd1 { comment main holding disk directory /var/amanda # where the holding

Dealing with a dump too big

term solution to this problem? Have I done something wrong in the amanda.conf or disklist files? 2. Is there anything I can do right now, before the nightly normal run, to get a level 0 backup of just this share? Thanks for all your help and suggestions. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower

Re: Dealing with a dump too big

Stefan, hi, thanks for your suggestions. Here's the output before any changes are made: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ amadmin DailySet1 disklist admin //db/ snip of info for admin //db/c$ and admin //db/e$ line 100: host admin: interface default disk //db/f$: program GNUTAR

Re: Dealing with a dump too big

Hi, Stefan, Thanks for pointing out the option on amdump to just backup a single host or partition; I never used that, and overlooked what you were trying to tell me in my original response. I've been working since yesterday to implement your suggestions. I'll modify the slashes to

And ignoring other SAMBA errors (Was: Re: changing strange SAMBA message to error)

I have the exact opposite problem. I have some error indications that I'd like to ignore, as they consistently happen and don't mean that there's a problem, if I understand them correctly. Here's two examples: /-- admin //db/f$ lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [admin://db/f$ level 0]

Erroneous Last full dump overwritten message

amanda system, this is usually filled in by the tape name. Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions. -Kevin - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

Re: problems when ejecting tapes

I always get this message when I amlabel a brand new tape. I think it's caused by trying to read an unformatted, unused tape. But, as Paul says, it can also be caused by trying to read the tape too soon after inserting it. -Kevin Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/17/04 12:43PM CPH wrote:

Another 'Amanda through firewall' problem

. -Kevin Zembower = [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat configure_amanda.sh #!/bin/sh # since I'm always forgetting to su amanda... if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then echo echo Warning echo Amanda needs to be configured and built by the user

Re: AMANDA Documentation at www.oops.co.at

Stefan, thank for taking the time to do this. In the spirit of bug-finding, I am unable to print page 93 of today's version of the postscript file. Don't know if this is related to the error below. I'm using Adobe Acrobat 6.0 inside of IE 6.0 on a Windows XP platform (no flames; required on the

Amplot on letter-size paper?

. I also can't figure out how to cause my printer to use legal paper. I've tried using 'mpage -bLegal' but it didn't work, but that's another problem. Thanks for any suggestions. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs

Re: Restore buffer?

to. In this sense, amanda can do what you require. This is done by a (skilled?) administrator, however. If users needed to do this, it might be too complex and done too infrequently for them to do without error. Hope this helps. -Kevin - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins

Interpreting amplot for newbies

. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

Amanda through a VPN?

of getting the firewall to work properly in the first place? Any recommendation on specific VPN solutions to use? Anyone done this before? I tried searching on 'vpn' in this list's archives, but didn't turn up anything. Thanks for all your help and suggestions. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin

Re: Amanda through a VPN?

, September 08, 2004 14:41:34 -0400 KEVIN ZEMBOWER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone ever set up Amanda to work through a VPN as an alternative to working correctly through a firewall? I'm not sure a VPN is even the right tool to use. Yes, we use VPNs to backup some of the data at our remote

Errors in amstatus output

I just noticed these errors in the output of amstatus, from a run last night: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/amanda/Outside$ amstatus Outside Using /var/amanda/Outside/amdump.1 from Fri Sep 10 00:45:02 EDT 2004 www:sda1 10k finished (0:51:14) www:sda10 2 1919k finished (0:51:51) www:sda11

Amcheck and amdump port usage?

this and letting me know whether I've got it right. I appreciate your patience and help. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Internet Systems Group manager Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202

Re: Amcheck and amdump port usage?

Michael, thank you for taking the time to try to help me. Please see my further questions below. Michael Loftis [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/13/04 03:04PM --On Monday, September 13, 2004 14:24 -0400 KEVIN ZEMBOWER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The tapehost makes a 'start backup' request

Re: Amcheck and amdump port usage?

that this is a significant security risk. However, I have to spell out exactly what I need, in this format, for the firewall administrators to act on it. Thanks again for your thoughts. -Kevin Andreas Putzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/13/04 05:07PM On Monday 13 September 2004 22:54, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote

Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

) [to|from] my client(s). That sentence may have to be completed more than once for each different range, protocol or direction. Thanks, again, for any help. -Kelvin - E. Kevin Zembower Internet Systems Group manager Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Center

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

Hi, Frank, thanks for your work and efforts to help me with my problem. Please see my remarks, preceded by *** (stupid GroupWise email client won't quote correctly), below. -Kevin Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/15/04 07:34PM --On Wednesday, September 15, 2004 15:28:21 -0400 KEVIN ZEMBOWER

Re: Still hoping for answer for amanda port usage

didn't understand or even consider that until now. Thanks so much. -Kevin Eric Siegerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/16/04 12:57PM On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:28:21PM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: There was one comment that ports 10080-10083 are fixed, no matter what --with-???portrange switches are used

Status of --with-portrange?

. Is this correct? Any subtleties I should include? Thanks. -Kevin - E. Kevin Zembower Internet Systems Group manager Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

Re: Amanda Compression

'Kosher for Passover', I think. -Kevin Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/23/04 10:51AM Brian Cuttler wrote: ...Unless of course the K is within a circle. Then it means something else entirely. K within a circle??? I already know C, R within a circle, but not heard of K with a circle.

Re: turn off hardware compression

See 'man mt'. On my Linux Debian system, mt datcompression 1 #prints DAT compression mt datcompression 0 #disables DAT compression mt datcompression x #where x is anything other than 0 or 1 enables DAT compression Hope this helps. -Kevin Nina Pham [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/01/04 07:11PM I

Need help diagnosing hostname problems

of them seemed to contain any information regarding this failure. Thanks for any suggestions or advice in working on this problem. -Kevin Zembower - E. Kevin Zembower Internet Systems Group manager Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communications

Re: Need help diagnosing hostname problems

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

Don't understand what's happening specifying Samba shares to amadmin find

I don't understand what's happening when I try to specify Samba shares on the command line: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ amadmin DBackup find centernet Scanning /dumps/amanda2... Scanning /dumps/amanda... Scanning /dumps/amanda2... Scanning /dumps/amanda... date host

Re: Problems with flush-thresholds

on, or are there any pointers for doing this on the web? Thanks, again, for all your help. -Kevin On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 07:14 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Kevin, Can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Kevin Zembower wrote: Sorry this has taken so long. Thank you for any