Re: amcheck auth problem (was: amcheck Host Down?????)

2004-02-10 Thread Sören Edzen
* Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-09 22:02]: Hi! I'm a newbee on amanda and haven't yet managed to get amanda to work. The problem in this thread is similar to the one I have. I've tried the solution sugested by Gene Haskett. I have made the changes you sugested in the files amanda,

Re: amcheck auth problem (was: amcheck Host Down?????)

2004-02-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Sören, on Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 at 10:41 you wrote to amanda-users: SE I have the following in SE [amanda home]/.amandahosts(indented here only for visability): SE localhost amanda SE [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda SE [EMAIL PROTECTED] root SE [EMAIL PROTECTED]root SE

Re: amcheck auth problem (was: amcheck Host Down?????)

2004-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 04:41, Sören Edzen wrote: * Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-09 22:02]: Hi! I'm a newbee on amanda and haven't yet managed to get amanda to work. The problem in this thread is similar to the one I have. I've tried the solution sugested by Gene Haskett. I have

Re: Making two copies of a backup

2004-02-10 Thread JC Simonetti
New Amanda conf - yes Hardlink HD and so on - no (quite dirty / heavy solution; in France we call that using a power hammer to crush a fly) I think about 2 solutions: 1. RAIT that would allow you to point 2 different tape devices to write onto 2. if you're using 'disk' driver, you may find some

an annoyance from amdump...

2004-02-10 Thread Allen K. Bailey
Hello Group, I am new to amanda-users. I've search the mailing list archive and have not been able to find an answer. Please forgive me is a new question with an old answer. What is happening here? The configuration: Server:Solaris 2.8 Amanda Version:

Re: The Top Ten

2004-02-10 Thread Yu Chen
I think it is easier just modify the amdump script to run scirpts before/after backups, so no recompiling, no testing, plain shell scripting. Just put whatever you want at the beginning and end of amdump. Chen On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: This is

Re: an annoyance from amdump...

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
Allen K. Bailey wrote: amdump: amdump or amflush is already running, or you must run amcleanup Needless to say there are no other instances of amdump or amflush running. Running amcleanup does not fix the troublem. If you verified there is indeed nothing running, you must run amcleanup to clean

Re: The Top Ten

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
Yu Chen wrote: I think it is easier just modify the amdump script to run scirpts before/after backups, so no recompiling, no testing, plain shell scripting. Just put whatever you want at the beginning and end of amdump. Yes, but amdump runs on the server, not on the client. And if it's only

Re: The Top Ten

2004-02-10 Thread Brian Cuttler
Our solution for (client != server) has been to still use a cron job to stop/restart the database. Since I manage amanda (usually as user=amanda) and can restart (Oracle) from a script running as root I can easilly shutdown - because I schedule the amanda job on the server; startup is slighly

Re: The Top Ten

2004-02-10 Thread Yu Chen
Sorry, I missed the original message, only saw part of it. My mistake. On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote: Yu Chen wrote: I think it is easier just modify the amdump script to run scirpts before/after backups, so no recompiling, no testing, plain shell scripting. Just put whatever

Re: The Top Ten

2004-02-10 Thread Allen Liu --- work
I can't open your file after winrar decompress it. Thanks Allen Liu - Original Message - From: Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 11:32 AM Subject: Re: The Top Ten On Saurday, 07. Februar 2004 at 14:28 I wrote to

Re: The Top Ten

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
Allen Liu --- work wrote: I can't open your file after winrar decompress it. It's not winrar. It's bzip2. I'm not even sure there exists a decompressor for windows (aside from the one with cygwin). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus

Re: The Top Ten

2004-02-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:53:20PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Allen Liu --- work wrote: I can't open your file after winrar decompress it. It's not winrar. It's bzip2. I'm not even sure there exists a decompressor for windows (aside from the one with cygwin). There is a GnuWin32 project

enable backup xp through samba after amanda installed

2004-02-10 Thread Allen Liu --- work
Hi experts, I didn't have samba installed when I installed amanda, is there any way to add it without re-configure/make amanda ? Thanks Allen Liu

Re: The Top Ten

2004-02-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Allen Liu, on Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2004 at 01:30 you wrote to amanda-users: ALw I can decompress it, I got a file 'TOP-TEN-0.5' without any suffix. ALw What type file is it ? how to read it ? This is commonly called ASCII-text. Use a text-editor of your choice. Even MS Notepad will help.

no incremental backups when using gnu tar

2004-02-10 Thread Madhvi Gokool
Hello I do not want to run any incremental backup using gnu tar. How would I do this ? Excerpt from amanda.conf define dumptype high-tar { root-tar comment partitions dumped with tar priority high dumpcycle 0 compress none index } excert from disklist localhost /etc/mrtg