Re: same tape reused?

2003-02-18 Thread rb
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 08:15:05AM +0100, Dietmar Goldbeck wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:04:49PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ~$ amadmin DailySet1 find localhost Scanning /data/backup... date host disk lv tape or file file status 2003-02-17 localhost

Re: Error after installing/configuring amanda

2003-02-18 Thread Madhvi Gokool
Hello I added the /usr/local/sbin to the Path variable of user amanda. I can successfully execute the amanda commands. I ran amdump without running amlabel. I want to label the tape now- Running the command gives the following error [amanda@backup admin]$ amlabel -f DailySet1 DailySet10

Re: LTO tape tapesize?

2003-02-18 Thread Dave Ewall
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 parameters. I

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

Confirmation for subscribe amanda-users

2003-02-18 Thread Majordomo
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Re: same tape reused?

2003-02-18 Thread Dietmar Goldbeck
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:27:44AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have indeed a tapecycle 4 configuration Is there a way to make sevral backup a day but still have the same behaviour as if those backups were made one per day? (without playing wit the date of the computer) You can run

Re: my understanding on how amanda works (newbie)

2003-02-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 6:50pm, Qian Chen wrote 1. crontab entray like 45 0 * * 2-6/usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1 to start the amanda server. server reads /etc/amanda/DailySet1/disklist to find which client/dir needs backup? Yep, and reads amanda.conf for all the other config parameters. 2.

Re: Amanda 2.4.3 needs readable exclude files

2003-02-18 Thread Sven Rudolph
Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Sven Rudolph wrote: With Amanda 2.4.2 the exclude files didn't need to be readable by the amanda user. The exclude files are only used by tar which runs as root anyway. In 2.4.3 the exclude files

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?

2003-02-18 Thread Dave Ewall
It should take about: 2 passes * (101632 * 1024 kbytes / 13884 kbytes/sec) /pass = 14990 sec or about4 hours 10 min. + some time to rewind and stop/start at filemarks. The stop/start at filemarks is what makes it slower than expected. The more files it has to

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 05:44 am, Paul Bijnens wrote: 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

Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Potts, Ross A.
Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added? It is dated today.

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Lars Segerlund
I have. / Lars Segerlund. Potts, Ross A. wrote: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added? It is dated today.

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, February 18, 2003 06:58:18 -0800 Potts, Ross A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added? It is dated today. Yes, someone evidently tried to subscribe the list to

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Russell Adams
Under Linux you can call the following to disable compression. mt -f /dev/st0 nocompression The other method would be the disable a DIP switch or jumper on the tape drive. I include the above line in my startup scripts. It would appear it only needs to be set at boot. Russell On Mon,

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Broderick Wood
It looks like someone tried to register [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a member of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not a pretty concept... :-) Unless someone replies to it and verifies the addition we should be fine. Hopefully the moderator/administrator caught it and cancelled it... X-Authentication-Warning:

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:58:18AM -0800, Potts, Ross A. enlightened us: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added? It is dated today. Yeah, it looks like someone tried to subscribe the list to itself...

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Axel Haenssen
yes, some burb in the listserver I guess. cheers Axel On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 09:58, Potts, Ross A. wrote: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added? It is dated today. -- Axel Haenssen Department of

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread barryc
Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added? It is dated today. Yup.

RE: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Nigel Barker
Looked to me like it was sent to the entire list. Now, if anyone replies to that email, I guess the entire list is going to get a second copy of every single email :( Maybe time to unsubscribe Nige -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lars

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Christoph Scheeder
yes, i've got it, it was adressed to amanda-useres, so i think someone stupid tryed to register amanda-users to amanda-users. Christoph Potts, Ross A. schrieb: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added? It

RE: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added? It is dated today. Yes, I have, I was wondering about it myself...

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Gordon Pritchard
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 06:58, Potts, Ross A. wrote: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added? It is dated today. I got this also (timestamped 3:28am). I'm ignoring it, because I am continuing to

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Richard Morse
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 09:58 AM, Potts, Ross A. wrote: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added? It is dated today. From the message, it looks as though someone tried to register the

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:23:01AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:51:16PM -0500, 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

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread marc . bigler
Just for your information, on my Linux mtx's version (Slackware 8.1 with a 2.4.18 kernel) there is no such option nocompression to mtx... But there are the options defcompression and compression which can be set to 0 then it looks like that compression is disabled... PS: thanks Joshua for your

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Russell Adams
My bad, I was having an OpenVMS moment. :P Its really... mt -f /dev/st0 compression off Russell On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 05:52:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for your information, on my Linux mtx's version (Slackware 8.1 with a 2.4.18 kernel) there is no such option

Re: Problem with using include list on 2.4.3-FreeBSD server with 2.4.4b1-Cygwin client

2003-02-18 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I realize that it's bad form to follow-up to yourself, but nobody else seems to be, so... On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 11:26 AM, Richard Morse wrote: Hi! I have a 2.4.4b1 client, compiled on Cygwin. I'd like to use the include list feature, so I upgraded my server from 2.4.2p2 to

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 09:58 AM, Potts, Ross A. wrote: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added? It is dated today. I've notified the list manager in case they are unaware. -- Jon

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread rb
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:00:26AM -0600, Russell Adams wrote: My bad, I was having an OpenVMS moment. :P Its really... mt -f /dev/st0 compression off I don't have this either; I only have (from the manpage) a datcompression that take 1(show) , 0 (disables) or nothing (enables) as

downgrading

2003-02-18 Thread rwong
I still haven't been able to determine why amanda reports success after amdumps while amrecover still cannot read the file headers on the tapes. Does anyone know why when I downgrade, the local host's filesystems being backed up fail with missing estimates? thanks robin

ip address problem

2003-02-18 Thread Qian Chen
Hi Both computers are on the private network. 192.168.1.100 is the amanda server and 192.168.1.47 is the client. $amcheck DailySet1 gave this error Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: 192.168.1.47: [addr 192.168.1.100: hostname lookup failed] Client check: 1

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Todd Kover
Looked to me like it was sent to the entire list. Now, if anyone replies to that email, I guess the entire list is going to get a second copy of every single email :( Maybe time to unsubscribe As several folks figured out, someone messed up a subscription request FOR amanda-users

Re: downgrading

2003-02-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 at 2:25pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I still haven't been able to determine why amanda reports success after amdumps while amrecover still cannot read the file headers on the tapes. Can you read them manually? What amanda version? Does anyone know why when I downgrade,

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 02:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:00:26AM -0600, Russell Adams wrote: My bad, I was having an OpenVMS moment. :P Its really... mt -f /dev/st0 compression off I don't have this either; I only have (from the manpage) a datcompression

Re: downgrading

2003-02-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
the estimates from all the other remote clients. log.1 has lines for each of the failed filesystems: FAIL planner hostname /disk/blah/restore 20030218 0 [missing result for /disk/blah/restore in hostname response] And what's in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug or /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug for those backups

Re: downgrading

2003-02-18 Thread rwong
disks but it can get the estimates from all the other remote clients. log.1 has lines for each of the failed filesystems: FAIL planner hostname /disk/blah/restore 20030218 0 [missing result for /disk/blah/restore in hostname response] I could put the other dozen filesystems listed in the logs here

NAK: amandad busy

2003-02-18 Thread Shawn Sanders
I am adding a new system to our amanda backup system. The system has a LARGE filesystem so I have to use tar to divide it up some. amcheck runs fine, but when amdump runs I get the following error in the email report : Request to hostname timed out The problematic client (Intel Solaris 8) gets

Re: holding disk need

2003-02-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 at 10:13pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote My tape is on the same server that I want to back-up. Maybe this is not optimal, but I can't change it... Nothing wrong with it, really. Due to this, I want to use a little holding disk, or even not use any (I read that if the file to

Re: hosts timing out on amdump but not amcheck

2003-02-18 Thread justin m. clayton
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Paul Bijnens wrote: For the record, I also had that problem with errors like Bad file number and dgram_recv: timeout just after I upgraded to 2.4.3. I had the problem for 3 consecutive nights, each night on different hosts. I then recompiled and reinstalled the Amanda

Re: ip address problem

2003-02-18 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:55:40PM -0500, Qian Chen enlightened us: Hi Both computers are on the private network. 192.168.1.100 is the amanda server and 192.168.1.47 is the client. $amcheck DailySet1 gave this error Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR:

Re: LTO tape tapesize?

2003-02-18 Thread Murray Taylor
Thanks Dave and Paul, Help much appreciated. BTW I know tapetype, what is amtatype?? On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:22, Paul Bijnens wrote: Dave Ewall wrote: I ran Tapetype on my Ultrium drive (came with a Dell Poweredge server), and got this: define tapetype Ultrium { comment Ultrium

RE: ip address problem(fixed)

2003-02-18 Thread Qian Chen
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote: _Does the server have the client in /etc/hosts? _Does the client have the server in /etc/hosts? Thanks. I changed these two files and /etc/amanda/DailySet1/disklist (server side). It was 192.168.1.47 /root comp-root-tar, changed it to client

Re: Disabled hw compression

2003-02-18 Thread Niall O Broin
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 20:42, Gene Heskett wrote: mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression 0 has worked as wanted (tapeinfo is showing the change). A Side comment here in case the mt folks are watching. I would be VERY nice if mt had the same syntax across all the platforms it runs on. But

Re: Why is the estimates off?

2003-02-18 Thread Vytas Janusauskas
Hi Folks, I have been trying to archive about 20 Window's machines (Win95/98/NT). Overall things seem to be working. Can anyone explain why the estimates and real size vary so greatly? I have checked the hosts and no new files are being created between the time the estimate is done and the

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VXA AutoPak(TM) 1x10 Tape definitions

2003-02-18 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm going to post the following to the Wiki as well. This was a VXA-1 tape drive with V17 tapes. (My memory is a little fuzzy actually, I can't remember if it's V10 or a V17...the numbers below seem to indicate it's a V17). [root@Galaxy Linux]#

Re: Amanda 2.4.3 needs readable exclude files

2003-02-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:21:25PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had only-root-readable index files, and the generated exlcude file was empty. IMHO amcheck should check that the exclude files on the client are readable. It should, unless you specified them to be

Re: Amanda 2.4.3 needs readable exclude files

2003-02-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:04:46PM +0100, Sven Rudolph wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Sven Rudolph wrote: IMHO amcheck should check that the exclude files on the client are readable. It should, unless you specified

Re: Problem with using include list on 2.4.3-FreeBSD server with 2.4.4b1-Cygwin client

2003-02-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:16:16PM -0500, Richard Morse wrote: Hi! I realize that it's bad form to follow-up to yourself, but nobody else seems to be, so... On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 11:26 AM, Richard Morse wrote: Hi! I have a 2.4.4b1 client, compiled on Cygwin. I'd like to use