Error while running amcheck/amdump

2003-03-17 Thread Madhvi Gokool
Hello I have encountered the error below while testing the amanda backup software. Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: osama: [could not access hda6 (hda6): No such file or directory] Client check: 1 host checked in 0.026 seconds, 1 problem found Excerpt of

badly formatted response from localhost

2003-03-17 Thread Matthias Unger
Title: Nachricht Hello, on my SUSE 8,0 Backupserver runs Amanda 2.4.4. Unix Clients become also perfectly secured. Problems emerge with files on the server. After dump appears the following message: localhost /etc/test lev 0 FAILED [badly formatted response from localhost] What does it

Re: recovery problme using amrestore

2003-03-17 Thread Laas Toom
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:26:14AM +0530, T. Bhaskar Reddy wrote: Hi there, I am using amanda 2.4.4. Using amanda i have dumped a directory on localhost. While i am trying restore it displays the following message amrestore: 0: restoring

Fw: Error while running amcheck/amdump

2003-03-17 Thread Madhvi Gokool
The client is running Linux 8.0 (ext3 filesystem) as shown below : LABEL=/ / ext3defaults1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3defaults1 2 none/dev/ptsdevpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0

Re: Fw: Error while running amcheck/amdump

2003-03-17 Thread Madhvi Gokool
The /dev/hda6 mountpoint is / I have added the mount point to the disklist file . The dumptype was set to tar and then dump. amcheck detected no errors on the client host. When amdump was run , a level 0 dump was done on /dev/hda6 ( as seen in /etc/dumpdates). If I put back hda6 in the disklist,

Re: Fw: Error while running amcheck/amdump

2003-03-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
Madhvi Gokool wrote: The /dev/hda6 mountpoint is / I have added the mount point to the disklist file . The dumptype was set to tar and then dump. amcheck detected no errors on the client host. When amdump was run , a level 0 dump was done on /dev/hda6 ( as seen in /etc/dumpdates). So, you mean,

Re: Fw: Error while running amcheck/amdump

2003-03-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 at 4:56pm, Madhvi Gokool wrote The /dev/hda6 mountpoint is / I have added the mount point to the disklist file . The dumptype was set to tar and then dump. amcheck detected no errors on the client host. When amdump was run , a level 0 dump was done on /dev/hda6 ( as seen

[HELP] amverify fails restoring

2003-03-17 Thread Fabio Corazza
Sorry for the [HELP] prefix, but I can't determine now what is really going wrong. I've setup Amanda for daily backups. The backup process seems to go fine, but amverify fails restoring as the message below says: Tapes: PROSADAILY04 Errors found: PROSADAILY04

Dumping mounted windows partitions?

2003-03-17 Thread Andreas Hallmann
Hello, I'm dumping 2 windows partitions via gnutar on an amanda 2.4.3 system. Curiously even a level 1 dump has same size as a full dump. Is this a 'normal' , due to some 'shit' in those W98SE partitions? Dumping reiserfs-partitions via gnutar work perfectly and as expected. Any hints how to

RE: [HELP] amverify fails restoring

2003-03-17 Thread Ron Bauman
It looks like amverify is not rewinding the tape. I ran across the same thing this morning using amrecover to verify that I could restore files. If you use 'mt -f /dev/tape rewind' before amverify, perhaps it will work. I'm using amanda-2.4.2p2. Ron Bauman -Original Message- From:

Re: amrecover tar error.

2003-03-17 Thread Vytas Janusauskas
Hi, I am trying to restore a Windows 95 directory to an NT drive connected via Samba and get the following error. /1895-102.tif ./1895-103.tif tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers Tape drive being used is Eliant 820 drive with the following definition

Re: fixed day backup

2003-03-17 Thread Chris Dahn
On Thursday 13 March 2003 04:36 pm, Wayne Richards wrote: Well, there are a couple of options I can think of off the top of my head. 1. Use a second config file for the weekend backups and add the line: strategy noinc in the dumptype definition 2. Do a: amadmin config

Re: Dumping mounted windows partitions?

2003-03-17 Thread Richard Morse
On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 11:20 AM, Andreas Hallmann wrote: Hello, I'm dumping 2 windows partitions via gnutar on an amanda 2.4.3 system. Curiously even a level 1 dump has same size as a full dump. Is this a 'normal' , due to some 'shit' in those W98SE partitions? Dumping

problems whth chg-scsi on Linux with AIT scalar 480

2003-03-17 Thread Michael Scaglione
Greetings, this is my first posting to this list. Please excuse any oversights on my part. I am attempting to configure an ADIC SCALAR 480 auto changer. This is an OEM auto-changer with a single tape changer, 2 AIT-2 drives and 80 tape slots. While attempting to configure Amanda I run the

Re: problems whth chg-scsi on Linux with AIT scalar 480

2003-03-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 at 1:58pm, Michael Scaglione wrote Greetings, this is my first posting to this list. Please excuse any oversights on my part. Getting Outbreak to put in some line breaks would be nice. Not using it would be even nicer. I am attempting to configure an ADIC SCALAR 480

Re: problems whth chg-scsi on Linux with AIT scalar 480

2003-03-17 Thread Michael Scaglione
Have been playing with the chg_zd_mtx script. Seems to work fine against one tape drive, but I don't understand how to configure it to be 'aware' of both tape drives. Any ideas? Thx again - Original Message - From: Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Scaglione [EMAIL

Re: Ad-Hoc backup?

2003-03-17 Thread Steven karel
One way to force a full ad-hoc backup of diskentry bar on server foo is by: amlabel backupsetname newtapename amadmin backupsetname force foo bar amdump backupsetname foo bar On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 02:38 PM, wab wrote: I want to back up one filesystem on one server, to a new tape, now.

amandad error

2003-03-17 Thread bao
Hi list, I tested with Amanda-2.4.4 on a test machine and it is ok. But when I moved to the production machine, i get some errors. Backup server RH 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-19.8.0 Everything was set according to the test machine. When I run amcheck Weekyly, I get a selfcheck request timed out. Host

RE: amandad error

2003-03-17 Thread Thomas Hu
Same Amanda id on both machines? Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bao Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:29 PM To: amanda Subject: amandad error Hi list, I tested with Amanda-2.4.4 on a test machine and it is ok. But when I moved to the

Re: amandad error

2003-03-17 Thread bao
Yes, this may be a big clue. Let me try shutting the other one off first. :) Thomas Hu wrote: Same Amanda id on both machines? Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bao Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:29 PM To: amanda Subject: amandad

amandad error

2003-03-17 Thread bao
Hi list, I tested with Amanda-2.4.4 on a test machine and it is ok. But when I moved to the production machine, i get some errors. Backup server RH 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-19.8.0 Everything was set according to the test machine. When I run amcheck Weekyly, I get a selfcheck request timed out. Host

Re: amandad error

2003-03-17 Thread bao
Yes, same id. I thought that there might have been a collision, because syslog on the production machine says something like Deactivating service amanda due to excessive incoming connections. Restarting in 30 seconds. But after I had turned off amanda on the test machine, the error still

two tape stackers

2003-03-17 Thread Joseph Sirucka
Hi All I have two hp dds3 six stack tape units. My question is, recently I have read about amanda rait where I can simultaneously use two units as like one unit in a ala raid style fashion. My tape units are /dev/sg0 and /dev/sg1 for the stacker and the tape units itself are /dev/nst0,

amrecover failing, Unexpected EOF

2003-03-17 Thread Hal Lynch
after a successful: amcheck Daily_1 amdump Daily_1 from my.amanda.server. From my.amanda.client: amrecover -C Daily_1 -s my. amanda.server -t my.amanda.server -d /dev/nrsa0 fails with the following message: amrecover: Unexpected end of file, check amindexd*debug on server

Backing up Windows XP Home Clients

2003-03-17 Thread philo vivero
I am setting up Amanda to back up a heterogenous Linux/Win32 network including several XP Home clients. It looks like Microsoft has completely stripped the concept of security out of Windows shares on XP Home. You can share something, but you cannot set a password or, so far as I can tell, in any

Re: amrecover tar error.

2003-03-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
Op ma 17-03-2003, om 18:05 schreef Vytas Janusauskas: I am trying to restore a Windows 95 directory to an NT drive connected via Samba and get the following error. /1895-102.tif ./1895-103.tif Does this mean that it restored 1 file? tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains

Re: amandad error

2003-03-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
Op ma 17-03-2003, om 22:57 schreef bao: xinetd[...]: execv( ../usr/libexec/amandad ) failed : Permission denied (errno = 13) Are the directory usr and libexec also accessible as amanda? Can you try: su amanda -c /usr/libexec/amandad This command should just sit there for about 30

amrecover: Can't read file header

2003-03-17 Thread Francisco de Asís Miralles Argente
$ amidxtaped: time 0.001: 20030317 amidxtaped: time 0.001: Ready to execv amrestore with: path = /usr/local/sbin/amrestore argv[0] = amrestore argv[1] = -h argv[2] = -p argv[3] = ex.xxd:DailySet103 argv[4] = ^localhost$ argv[5] = ^//sambapc/sharedfolder$ argv[6] = 20030317 amrestore: could not stat