Re: DLT8000, IRIX, Indy

2001-08-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
Gerhard, In order to run the DLT8000 on irix (pre-6.5.12) I did modify the device tables, changed the device recognition string but didn't mess with the parameters so the DLT8000 was treated as a 7000. Mods where to the /var/sysgen/master.d/scsi file. SGI suggested I might do this under 6.5.12

combined amflush & amdump

2001-08-02 Thread Frank Strauss
Hi! I have quite small number of quite huge and expensive tapes (6 * LTO 100GB). My plan is to let amdump write level 1-n dumps to the holding space on weekdays and insert the next tape only during the weekend dump which would have enough space to flush the holding space *and* to run the regular

Re: disk vs tape sizes

2001-08-02 Thread amuser
i am *really* sorry if there is another very similar message that got sent to the list... i am having serious problems with my web-based email system... >>am i correct that amanda will not dump a disk that has an >>estimate larger than the tape size, correct? ... > >No, that's not quite correct.

Re: DLT8000, IRIX, Indy

2001-08-02 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Brian Cuttler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:13:44AM -0400) > Gerhard, > In order to run the DLT8000 on irix (pre-6.5.12) I did modify > the device tables, changed the device recognition string but > didn't mess with the parameters so the DLT8000 was treated as > a 7000. > Mods w

tar + solaris 2.6

2001-08-02 Thread Yannick LeBlanc
Hello, i'am using Solaris 2.6 + Amanda 2.4.2p2. The backup server is on linux. When i'am trying to backup a partition (around 5.5 Gigs) using tar (gnutar 1.3.19) for cross-platform backup, i just get a time out and tar seem to run forever. For the others partitions, i don't have the problem, a

Re: SKSP1 AMFLUSH MAIL REPORT FOR August 2, 2001

2001-08-02 Thread Christoph Sold
Harri Haataja wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Amanda backup user wrote: > > > The dumps were flushed to tape sksp_018. > > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]]. > > Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. > > Run amflush again to flush them to tape. >

Re: problem after changing amanda server IP address

2001-08-02 Thread Christoph Scheeder
hi, > jcarreiro schrieb: > > hi, > > i have linux debian 2.2r3 and amanda 2.2.4-?? > > > after changing ip address of my amanda server got following error : > > server1 / lev 0 FAILED [Request to server1 timed out.] > server2 /archive lev 0 FAILED [Request to server2 timed out.] > >

Script for tape usage statistics

2001-08-02 Thread Johannes Niess
Hi, This little script can be used to keep track of number of tape usages. I use it with recent GNU tools on a Linux machine. Multiple skript calls per configuration and day do no harm thanks to "uniq" and file time comparison. The calling user needs write access to the config dir in /etc/amanda

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2001-08-02 Thread Travis Rail
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Re: combined amflush & amdump

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>Unfortunately, amflush is designed to be run manually and to a >separate tape, and amdump leaves the older dumps in the holding space >untouched even if there's the right tape in the drive. > >Do you have any suggestions to this situation? Two possibilities come to mind: 1) Get enough holding

Re: amanda + tape changer + solaris 8

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>i am using the latest source tarball from amanda.org - i.e. 2.4.2p2 You may want to get the amanda-242-branch CVS source instead. It includes the chg-scsi that Thomas (the other Thomas :-) is more used to working with, and has certainly enhanced beyond what comes with the tarball you're working

Re: disk vs tape sizes

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>... If you have a changer and runtapes > 1 ... > >i change tapes manually, and amanda should ignore this value, i >believe. Probably true. You could use chg-manual to have a "manual" tape changer which would let you set runtapes > 1, but that's probably not what you

Re: SKSP1 AMFLUSH MAIL REPORT FOR August 2, 2001

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>> tunkki /usr/home lev 2 FAILED [out of tape] >> taper: FATAL syncpipe_get: r: unexpected EOF > >I've gotten this on two tapes now and various other errors since I >upgraded to 2.5 (CVS) branch in hope of getting the file target to work. You've got to be nuts to run the 2.5 branch of cod

Re: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>I do a special configuration with only the host that I'm having a >problem with (atalante). >and amanda success to do this. >So i'm kind of puzzled about it. That could just mean whatever made ufsdump upset doesn't happen to be active at the moment. > -atalante is the "backup client host"

Re: tar + solaris 2.6

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>i'am using Solaris 2.6 + Amanda 2.4.2p2. The backup server is on >linux. > >When i'am trying to backup a partition (around 5.5 Gigs) using >tar (gnutar 1.3.19) for cross-platform backup, i just get a time >out and tar seem to run forever. What kind of timeout? In other words, what is the exact

Re: problem after changing amanda server IP address

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>after changing ip address of my amanda server got following error : > >server1 / lev 0 FAILED [Request to server1 timed out.] >... If Christoph's idea about hosts.allow/hosts.deny does not help (and that's the first thing I thought of, too), look in the FAQ at www.amanda.org for this message

Re: "index tee broken pipe" problem again

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>... I haven't touched something since weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've all heard that story before :-). >Here is, what amanda report says: >? sendbackup: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] What else was in the Amanda report, in particular about this disk or from taper? This typically means t

several incremental backup on one tape, then full back up on weekend

2001-08-02 Thread Yoshiaki Ueda
Hi, I'm now trying to set up amanda-2.4.2p2 at Solaris 7 with DLT drives. The DLT drive doesn't have changer feature. I'd like to do something like: -- level 1 dump on Monday thru Thursday night without tape change -- 4 incremental back up jobs at one tape -- weekly full

Re: disk vs tape sizes

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
>using linux (deb potato). ... Sorry. I thought I saw something about Solaris in your E-mail. Anyway, on Linux, I think it's done with the "mt" command, something like "mt -f /dev/nst0 compress off" (or it might be "datcompression"). Take a look at the man page. >-c John R. Jackson, Technica

Re: disk vs tape sizes

2001-08-02 Thread Christoph Sold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > am i correct that amanda will not dump a disk that has an > estimate larger than the tape size, correct? Partially. amanda cannot split dumps larger than tape size. amanda _can_ split tar archives. > i presume this is > because amanda has no way of reliably predi

several incremental backup on one tape, then full back up on weekend

2001-08-02 Thread Yoshiaki Ueda
Hi, I'm now trying to set up amanda-2.4.2p2 at Solaris 7 with DLT drives. The DLT drive doesn't have changer feature. I'd like to do something like: -- level 1 dump on Monday thru Thursday night without tape change -- 4 incremental back up jobs at one tape -- weekly full d

Re: amanda + tape changer + solaris 8

2001-08-02 Thread thomas graichen
[btw. i was not able to send you an email to the adress below: "user unknown" - ok but now to the content ...] Thomas Hepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:13:15AM +0200, thomas graichen wrote: > [...] >> use inside of amanda ... any help would be appreciated > Fi