progress... slowly

2001-02-02 Thread Chris Herrmann
Well I'm not getting the tapelist error any more, after fixing owners of files, setuid bits etc, but now get this after amdump finishes running... Where should I start looking? I can't see anything obviously different between the partitions... Lot's of diskspace, tape space... arggh!!! If I look i

Re: Followup information regarding our problem with L280 disk changer and amanda

2001-02-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>System configuration: >Sun E450 >Solaris 7 >... >I downloaded the drivers that were provided by John the beginning of this >month and installed the 32 bit version in /usr/kernel/drv Umm, isn't an E450 an Ultra? Are you running a 32 bit or 64 bit kernel? If 64 bit, you need to use the 64 bit sst

Followup information regarding our problem with L280 disk changer and amanda

2001-02-02 Thread ABEDINI Annadiana T
I was asked for some additional information regarding the configuration of the system System configuration: Sun E450 Solaris 7 StorEdge L280 tape drive Amanda 2.4.2 As I said in my previous message, we have been using the L280 with NetBackup for several months, but have decided that it isn't the

Having trouble with configuring an L280 on an E450

2001-02-02 Thread ABEDINI Annadiana T
Hello. I have been reading through the archive of messages and just can't find what I need to know We have been using NetBackup with the L280 changer and reference the tape drive as the nrmt0 device. The changer is sg device c3t6l0: /dev/sg/c3t6l0: Changer: "HP C6280-7000" but there i

Re: Problems with amdump

2001-02-02 Thread John R. Jackson
> I read in the archives that this error is usually caused by bad >tapes, or write protect etc. I know that the tape is in good condition, >because I tar'd to it before labeling. This particular problem would not be caused by a bad tape. > On the client, the sendbackup.debug file say

Re: Problems backing up NT/W2K computers

2001-02-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>... So >I edited my dgram.h file and set MAX_DGRAM from 8kb to 64 kb like in >version 2.4.2 >and compiled all on out tapeserver again. ... I assume you also installed the result on "tapeserver"? :-) It's been a while since this problem has surfaced, but I think you have to update Amanda on

Re: Barcode support outside of chg-scsi

2001-02-02 Thread Jason Hollinden
Ok, I'm a few steps closer to adding barcode support to a modified chg-zd-mtx script. I have a two questions for some people in the know. chg-scsi has the following params: ./chg-scsi-slot ./chg-scsi-info ./chg-scsi-reset ./chg-scsi-eject ./chg-scsi

Re: non-rewinding?

2001-02-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>... It tells me to check my >amanda.conf file to verify that the drive is "non-rewinding". And did you? Amanda **must** have a non-rewinding device. For Solaris, that means you need the name with an 'n' in it, e.g. /dev/rmt/0mn (as compared with just 0m). >... is there a way to work around i

RE: Missing e-mail reports

2001-02-02 Thread Ben Hyatt
> and in your /etc aliases put this: > > backup: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and you get what you want.. > at least, thats the way we do it. > Christoph don't forget to run 'newaliases' -Ben

Re: Strange dump summary...

2001-02-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>Thank you all for your prompt reply. ... BTW, your E-mail address to reply to is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", but that seems to be bouncing: ... while talking to mta.excite.com.: >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <<< 550 Invalid recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown You

Re: Strange dump summary...

2001-02-02 Thread David Wolfskill
>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:51:37 -0800 (PST) >From: smallA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >/usr/local/libexec/sendsize: version 2.4.1p1 >calculating for amname '/etc', dirname '/etc' >sendsize: getting size via dump for /etc level 0 >sendsize: running "/sbin/dump 0sf 1048576 - /etc" >running /usr/local/libex

non-rewinding?

2001-02-02 Thread Adams, Christopher
Title: non-rewinding? Hi all, I finally got my changer working with the stctl driver SCSI II (Exabyte 10H with EXB 8500 series drive/tapes).  Running on Solaris 7 (sparc).  My changer finally sees all the tapes in it and now I have moved on to the point where I begin to  'amlabel' each of t

Re: Strange dump summary...

2001-02-02 Thread smallA
Thank you all for your prompt reply. Here comes the output of /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug - /usr/local/libexec/sendsize: version 2.4.1p1 calculating for amname '/etc', dirname '/etc' sendsize: getting size via dump for /etc level 0 sendsize: running "/sbin/dump 0sf 1048576 - /etc" running /usr/lo

Re: Strange dump summary...

2001-02-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>got result for host mogadon disk /etc: 0 -> -1K, -1 -> -1K, -1 -> -1K What's in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug on mogadon? >smallA John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange dump summary...

2001-02-02 Thread Jonathan Dill
Hi Suman, Did you check on the client to see what's in the debug files of the /tmp/amanda directory? Check the permissions on /usr/local/libexec/runtar--it must be owned by root and SUID like this: -rwsr-x---1 root amanda 78334 Nov 13 15:32 /usr/local/libexec/runtar I had a proble

Re: Missing e-mail reports

2001-02-02 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, a short suggestion: put this in your amanda.conf: mailto "backup" and in your /etc aliases put this: backup: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] and you get what you want.. at least, thats the way we do it. Christoph "Victor R. Cain" schrieb: > > Gerhard den Hol

Re: Estimate not timing out using tar

2001-02-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>Any ideas, thoughts, suggestions, admonishments? What's in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug on the client? If you don't see anything running for your Amanda user on the server, then it must have died since you can run amstatus (i.e. the amdump file has not been renamed to amdump.1, unless you explici

Strange dump summary...

2001-02-02 Thread Suman Malla
Hi there, Could someone pls enlighten me? I am trying to backup a filesystem on redhat server (mogadon) but in vain. amcheck doesn't complain at all though. Amanda is backing up 8 other servers without any problem for the last 4-5 months but with this server somehow it fails. Messages from log

Estimate not timing out using tar

2001-02-02 Thread Oscar Ricardo Silva
I've been having trouble backing up one client, where I changed the dumptype to use tar on one of its filesystems (and I'm using tar 1.13.17 on the client). All other clients use dump, and while I left the etimeout setting to the default of 600, the backup ran fine except for the client using

Re: Missing e-mail reports

2001-02-02 Thread Dan Poirier
"name@IP Address" is not a valid address to send email to. You must use either "name@hostname" or "name@[IP address]". This is in an RFC somewhere. I'd use name@hostname if I could; I'd not trust the mail software to handle name@[IP address] correctly since it's used so seldom.

Re: Missing e-mail reports

2001-02-02 Thread John R. Jackson
> mailto "[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]" ... >Amcheck reports no errors, and the runs appear to be happening, >but I'm getting no e-mail reports. Is there something wrong >with my "mailto" line? Gerhard was mistaken with his suggestion. The "mailto" parameter must be a

Re: Output formatting

2001-02-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>Also, while I have your attention, is this sort of message expected > in the NOTES section for each run? ... > taper: tape mti-bk04 kb 45482304 fm 23 [OK] It's normal and tells you how much taper wrote (~45 GBytes in this case). This is particularly useful when it bangs into end of tape becau

Re: Barcode support outside of chg-scsi

2001-02-02 Thread Doug Munsinger
Jason - Yes - [amanda@ford amanda]$ amtape daily slot 13 amtape: could not load slot 0: illegal request But with the change in code this now works. Much thanks for pointing this out. --doug At 08:04 AM 2/2/2001 -0500, you wrote: >On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, Doug Munsinger wrote: > > > I'm testing

Re: Missing e-mail reports

2001-02-02 Thread Victor R. Cain
Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > > * Victor R. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 10:36:20AM -0500) > > The beginning of my configuration file looks like: > > # /etc/amanda/Config1/amanda.conf > > org "Config1" # your organization name for reports > > mailto "[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Missing e-mail reports

2001-02-02 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Victor R. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 10:36:20AM -0500) > The beginning of my configuration file looks like: > # /etc/amanda/Config1/amanda.conf > org "Config1" # your organization name for reports > mailto "[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]" #

Missing e-mail reports

2001-02-02 Thread Victor R. Cain
The beginning of my configuration file looks like: # /etc/amanda/Config1/amanda.conf org "Config1" # your organization name for reports mailto "[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]" # list of message recipients dumpuser "backup" # the user to run dumps under

Re: Output formatting

2001-02-02 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Michael Russell wrote: > I'm using 2.4.2 and have noticed that the mailed output has some problems > with some of the big disks' columns of info running together. The column > for the tape speed is too small too, since the advent of faster tape > drives: You can adjus

Output formatting

2001-02-02 Thread Michael Russell
I'm using 2.4.2 and have noticed that the mailed output has some problems with some of the big disks' columns of info running together. The column for the tape speed is too small too, since the advent of faster tape drives: DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS

Problems backing up NT/W2K computers

2001-02-02 Thread Alexander von Homeyer
Hi, we are using amanda 2.4.1p1 on a Suse Linuxas tapeserver for half a year now. It worked quite fine, dispite some problems which I mostly solved without to much efforts. Recently I added other pc disks to our disklist (using samba) which resulted in those strange result: FAILURE