Re: no-rewind pass0 on FreeBSD

2003-02-24 Thread Konrad Dienst
Does your kernel include device sa? Your tape should be recognized as /dev/.*sa[0-9] For instance : Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 sa0: HP C1533A 9503 Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8)

Amanda email - messages

2003-02-24 Thread Dalton Hubert
Hi, we use Amanda version 2.4.2p2 with HP SureStore DLT. Every night after backup i get an email like this below, where i do not understand all messages (our company name was replaced by company). But the backup seems to work fine, and the speed also. My questions: 1) What does the message

Re: Tapeless backup

2003-02-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gregor Ibic wrote: Ok, I have done some symlinks to data directories and create a few tapes with amlabel. What you say is very confusing. Why did you create symlinks for? Normally symlinks are not followed when making backups. I create backup, first full and then incremental. It works ok.

config.site

2003-02-24 Thread Madhvi Gokool
Hello I have configured amanda on a test server . If I modify a parameter in the config.site file , do I have to go through the following steps before the changes are applied : - run ./configure, make , make install ??? Is there a quicker way Thanx in advance M

Re: Amanda email - messages

2003-02-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:47:05AM +0100, Dalton Hubert wrote: Hi, we use Amanda version 2.4.2p2 with HP SureStore DLT. Every night after backup i get an email like this below, where i do not understand all messages (our company name was replaced by company). But the backup seems to work

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Re: no-rewind pass0 on FreeBSD

2003-02-24 Thread Scott Lambert
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:23:10AM +0100, Konrad Dienst wrote: Does your kernel include device sa? Your tape should be recognized as /dev/.*sa[0-9] For instance : Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 sa0: HP C1533A 9503 Removable

rait attempt

2003-02-24 Thread tobias . bluhm
I've been playing with rait I haven't been successful yet. Is rait touchy about the tape drives being identical? My 3rd exb8505 was dead from the get go so I tried using an ait-1 in it's place. amlabel amdump seem to run fine, but I cannot get amrestore to pull the backups off tape. It

Re: downgrading

2003-02-24 Thread rwong
Hum. I thought the same originally as well. But I have about a dozen tapes reacting the same way. Half are new and half are old. I use vxa-1 v17 tapes. I find it unlikely that so many are defective/went bad all together in one shot. What does your experience say? robin On Thu, 20 Feb

tcpserver

2003-02-24 Thread Casey Shobe
Is there any way to make amanda work in standalone mode or with tcpserver? I really do not want to have to install inetd... -- Casey Allen Shobe / Software Developer Linux Administrator SecureWorks, Inc. / 404.327.6339 x169 / Fax: 404.728.0144 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.secureworks.net

Re: config.site

2003-02-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Mon February 24 2003 05:50, Madhvi Gokool wrote: Hello I have configured amanda on a test server . If I modify a parameter in the config.site file , do I have to go through the following steps before the changes are applied : - run ./configure, make , make install ??? Is there a quicker

Re: downgrading

2003-02-24 Thread Steven Karel
I had many VXA-1 v17 tapes act this way with amanda with 2 different internal VXA drives. I have also tried an older external drive that never showed the behavior. I have since replace the internal drive with VXA-2 (basically, in order to get more capacity out of the tapes I'm reusing) and the

Re: Problem with compression?

2003-02-24 Thread John Oliver
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 05:06:08PM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote: [Posted and Cc'ed] Why? I subscribe... :-) My last posting on this thread, we're in tapeout crunch right now... On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:43:13PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: No, not really... :-) My tapes are 20GB without

Re: no-rewind pass0 on FreeBSD

2003-02-24 Thread Martin hepworth
my kernel config just mentions the sa driver. (no zero or one etc) that way it should detect the sa devices on boot. Once you've got that far you may need to make the /dev/*sa0 devices by cd /dev Makedev sa0 -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865

Re: Problem with compression?

2003-02-24 Thread John Oliver
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:10:35PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:49:32PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:14:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Throw in that marketing is usually a bit optimistic in saying its a 20 gigger without compression,

Re: Problem with compression?

2003-02-24 Thread John Oliver
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:42:31PM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote: See also got result in amdump.1, it'll tell you if there's any difference between a level0 and level1 estimate. planner: time 10.451: got result for host backup disk /dev/hda1: 0 - 21156480K, 1 - 19996640K, 2 - 19996600K

tapeless backup

2003-02-24 Thread bao
I've posted this a few days ago, but I guess it slipped through the list. Here I post it again. I need to backup the first drive to the second hard drive on the same machine (client + server), but encounter this when running amdump. Here're the config. and the error mail Thank you

tapeless backup again

2003-02-24 Thread bao
I've posted this a few days ago, but I guess it slipped through the list. Here I post it again. I need to backup the first drive to the second hard drive on the same machine (client + server), but encounter this when running amdump. Here're the config. and the error mail Thank you Sorry for

Re: Problem with compression?

2003-02-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:03:53AM -0800, John Oliver wrote: Hopefully, this issue will be resolved in a couple of weeks when I get a DLT7000 library in here. But I would like to understand the basic issue here... I don't want to be limited to 35GB with a unit that should be able to

Re: Problem with compression?

2003-02-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Mon February 24 2003 13:03, John Oliver wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:10:35PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:49:32PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:14:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Throw in that marketing is usually a bit optimistic in

Re: Problem with compression?

2003-02-24 Thread Frank Smith
--On Monday, February 24, 2003 10:03:53 -0800 John Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:10:35PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:49:32PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:14:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Throw in that marketing is

Re: Problem with compression?

2003-02-24 Thread Richard Morse
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 01:03 PM, John Oliver wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:10:35PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:49:32PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:14:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Throw in that marketing is usually a bit

Re: tapeless backup

2003-02-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:51:06AM -0800, bao wrote: I've posted this a few days ago, but I guess it slipped through the list. Here I post it again. I need to backup the first drive to the second hard drive on the same machine (client + server), but encounter this when running amdump.

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2003-02-24 Thread Karl Hudnut
Has anyone seen a situation in which amcheck succeeds yet amdump fails with the following: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: mail /home lev 2 FAILED [could not connect to mail] mail /var/spool/mail lev 2 FAILED [could not connect to mail] I know that this is an iptables problem.

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2003-02-24 Thread Karl Hudnut
info help end -- Dr. Karl Hudnut System Administrator UCAR - COSMIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu303 497 8024

Re: Problem with compression?

2003-02-24 Thread John Oliver
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:27:18PM -0500, Matt Hyclak wrote: You're getting your math confused, I think. If your tapetype defines compression, then what is in your holding disk is already compressed. Your tape drive should be in non-compression mode then and should hold 20GB of *already

Re: your mail

2003-02-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 at 1:52pm, Karl Hudnut wrote Has anyone seen a situation in which amcheck succeeds yet amdump fails with the following: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: mail /home lev 2 FAILED [could not connect to mail] mail /var/spool/mail lev 2 FAILED [could not

Re: Binding amanda to specific interface

2003-02-24 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Sunday, February 23, 2003 at 23:14:37 (-0500), Mark Radabaugh wrote: ] Subject: Binding amanda to specific interface I'm trying to run Amanda on FreeBSD on a machine with multiple IP's bound to the ethernet interface. Amanda seems to insist on picking the alias interface rather than the

Re: Problem with compression?

2003-02-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:43:12AM -0800, John Oliver wrote: The sudden jump in the size of this backup was caused when I moved the holdingdisk. It didn't occur to me that I was moving it on to the filesystem I was backing up... :-) I just added /hold to the exclude file. So, backups will

Re: your mail

2003-02-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
CCed back to the list for the archives... On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 at 3:01pm, Karl Hudnut wrote Thanks for your help. I don't seem to have that documentation in any of the rpms I have here. It doesn's seem to be in the tarballs from amanda.org either. Can you help me find it? ?? I just

amrecover and changer with amanda-2.4.4b1

2003-02-24 Thread Eric . Doutreleau
Hi I have seen something very interesting on the changelog of amanda2.4.4b1 it s the ability of amrecover ( and related servers ) to use the changer. i have setup successfully amanda with a tapeless configuration with the chg-multi script. then i m trying to configure the amrecover to use the

Re: your mail

2003-02-24 Thread Karl Hudnut
Joshua: You are correct, there is a docs directory in the 2.4.3 tarball and it has the PORTS.USAGE document. Thanks again. And sorry for disseminating missinformation. -- Dr. Karl Hudnut System Administrator UCAR - COSMIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu303 497

Spam/Bounce-Mail

2003-02-24 Thread Joerg Frings-Fuerst
Hallo, first I say sorry for your trouble with my bounce-mails. This weekend I setup my new Mail-Backupserver. After this work I test a new version of my Spamcheck-script. In this script I call rblcheck. My mistake was the test via list.dsbl.org. The big prob by my was that the powerline

RE: tcpserver

2003-02-24 Thread Casey Shobe
Well, I'm using xinetd as a (hopefully) temporary solution. The security issues are my primary concern for not wanting to use it. I prefer to run everything as a standalone daemon if possible (i.e. sshd, httpd, xfs, etc.). xinetd was easy enough to get working though, and I've currently got

Re: Binding amanda to specific interface

2003-02-24 Thread Mark Radabaugh
BTW, it's not really that hard at all to keep your reverse DNS fully consistent for multi-homed hosts reachable on multiple subnets, though of course it does help to have a well considered naming plan. -- Greg A. Woods The problem is the forward lookup rather than the reverse DNS. If you

Re: Binding amanda to specific interface

2003-02-24 Thread Mark Radabaugh
BTW, it's not really that hard at all to keep your reverse DNS fully consistent for multi-homed hosts reachable on multiple subnets, though of course it does help to have a well considered naming plan. -- Greg A. Woods The problem is the forward lookup rather than the reverse DNS. If you

release of amanda-2.4.4

2003-02-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.4.4. It is the latest stable release of amanda. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/ Here's a list of the changes for release 2.4.4 (from the NEWS file): Look at the ChangeLog file for more details. * New -a

linux, lvm, and snapshots

2003-02-24 Thread Rupa Schomaker
I was thinking about backing up using snapshots. Is there any best-practices way to do this cleanly? I was going to just script the lvcreate/lvremove stuff around the amdump, but figured someone may have a more comprehensive approach. -- -rupa

Re: Binding amanda to specific interface

2003-02-24 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, February 24, 2003 at 20:09:07 (-0500), Mark Radabaugh wrote: ] Subject: Re: Binding amanda to specific interface The problem is the forward lookup rather than the reverse DNS. If you give 2 different IP addresses to the same hostname BIND will round-robin the 2 addresses -

RE: tcpserver

2003-02-24 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Monday, February 24, 2003 at 19:36:46 (-0500), Casey Shobe wrote: ] Subject: RE: tcpserver Well, I'm using xinetd as a (hopefully) temporary solution. The security issues are my primary concern for not wanting to use it. I prefer to run everything as a standalone daemon if possible