Re: What features should I look for in a new library?

2002-10-22 Thread Sven Rudolph
Gary Algier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Multiple tape drives: > Our old library had only one drive installed. I could have added > a second one, but I could not see how amanda would use it to advantage. > Can amanda use a second (or third...) drive? > Is there any benefit?

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Re: Quick Multiple Tape Question

2002-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 18:04, Chad Morland wrote: >I am trying to backup a 100G file onto tape. I am wondering if I > can use amanda for this. Will it span the archive across more > than one tape? I am using a DLT 7000 drive. If not, what are you > recommendations? Yikes! For that, you will h

error message with chg-scsi

2002-10-22 Thread Chris Bourne
Hello, I have been using amanda on this system for about 2 months and all has been working graet until today. I ran these commanda today and this was the result.     1)   bash-2.05a$ /usr/sbin/amtape DailySet1 resetamtape: could not reset changer: could not read result from "/usr/l

amdump ignoring portrange and udpportrange

2002-10-22 Thread Marvin Davenport
i am using amanda-2.4.3b4 , I have recompiled with options --with-portrange=850,860 --with-udpportrange=850,860 it passes amcheck but when I run amdump I get the following error in the amdump.log dumper: stream_client: connect to 209.123.168.230.49833 failed: Connection timed out it appears to

Re: parse of reply message failed

2002-10-22 Thread Chris Marble
Chris Marble wrote: > > Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > > > Amanda-2.4.3b4 on client is broken and will not talk correctly with > > older server, upgrade your client to 2.4.3 > > Okay, upgrade done. I'll find out tonight. Dumps appear to have gone sucessfully. If only I'd asked before spendin

Re: problem with restore

2002-10-22 Thread Max Kamenetsky
Jerry, Same problem. I've tried omitting it AND setting it to other values, and none of it helps. Thanks, Max * Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10/22/02 11:14] wrote: > Are you sure you have the right blocking factor? > Try omitting the -b and see if it works. > > Jerry > > --- Max Kam

Quick Multiple Tape Question

2002-10-22 Thread Chad Morland
I am trying to backup a 100G file onto tape. I am wondering if I can use amanda for this. Will it span the archive across more than one tape? I am using a DLT 7000 drive. If not, what are you recommendations? -CM

Re: What features should I look for in a new library?

2002-10-22 Thread John Koenig
Maybe if I can help by formulating a question. (I am not addressing your other concerns) Multiple tape drives: Our old library had only one drive installed. I could have added a second one, but I could not see how amanda would use it to advantage. Can amanda use a second (or third.

Server down for 2 days

2002-10-22 Thread Wayne Byarlay
Greetings, quick easy question: My amanda machine was down for 2 consecutive backup days. What can I expect when I bring it back online? Will Amanda automatically compensate? or do I need to manually do the last 2 tapes? ~wab~

Re: problem with restore

2002-10-22 Thread Jerry
Are you sure you have the right blocking factor? Try omitting the -b and see if it works. Jerry --- Max Kamenetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! >I'm looking for some help on my restore problem. > Everytime I > attempt to restore, I get an error that says "tape > is not a dump > tape".

Re: Amanda recommendations, please.

2002-10-22 Thread Jerry
Keep in mind, the reason tapes are still a good way to back things up: 1) Large capacity. You can get tapes with 150GB per tape compressed for example. This is handy. 2) Removeable. You can store a few offsite... or if the backup server goes belly up due to a hardware failure, you can move the tap

What features should I look for in a new library?

2002-10-22 Thread Gary Algier
It is time to get a new tape library. We are outgrowing our old one. (30 DLT IV tapes, 1 drive, 29 hosts & 521Gbytes to be backed up). I now wonder what features I should look for. Perhaps someone can comment? Multiple tape drives: Our old library had only one drive installed. I could have

Re: Amcheck not emailing

2002-10-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 11:49, Thom Paine wrote: >I have a plain jane RedHat 7.3 server with amanda running. > >For some reason amanda is not sending out the mail report from > amcheck -m DailySet1. I get the report after the backup has run. > >Anyone know where I should start to look at trouble

Re: Amcheck not emailing

2002-10-22 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 12:20:15 -0400 Thom Paine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:03, Martin Schwarz wrote: IMO you are experiencing perfectly normal behaviour: - amcheck -m doesn't find any errors, thus is keeping quiet. You will only get mail from amcheck -m if i

Re: Amcheck not emailing

2002-10-22 Thread Thom Paine
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:09, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > At 11:49 22/10/2002 -0400, Thom Paine wrote: > >I have a plain jane RedHat 7.3 server with amanda running. > > > >For some reason amanda is not sending out the mail report from amcheck > >-m DailySet1. I get the report after the backup has run.

Re: Amcheck not emailing

2002-10-22 Thread Martin Schwarz
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:20:15PM -0400, Thom Paine wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:03, Martin Schwarz wrote: > > "Nothing is printed, but mail is sent if any errors are detected." > > (amcheck manpage) > > Oh, well then. I thought it would email with an okay similar to the > amcheck DailyS

Re: Amcheck not emailing

2002-10-22 Thread Thom Paine
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:03, Martin Schwarz wrote: > IMO you are experiencing perfectly normal behaviour: > > - amcheck -m doesn't find any errors, thus is keeping quiet. You will > only get mail from amcheck -m if it has encountered some errors: > > "Nothing is printed, but mail is sent if

Re: Amcheck not emailing

2002-10-22 Thread Martin A. Brooks
At 11:49 22/10/2002 -0400, Thom Paine wrote: I have a plain jane RedHat 7.3 server with amanda running. For some reason amanda is not sending out the mail report from amcheck -m DailySet1. I get the report after the backup has run. You'll only get a mail if there's a problem detected during amc

Re: Amcheck not emailing

2002-10-22 Thread Martin Schwarz
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:49:31AM -0400, Thom Paine wrote: > For some reason amanda is not sending out the mail report from amcheck > -m DailySet1. I get the report after the backup has run. IMO you are experiencing perfectly normal behaviour: - amcheck -m doesn't find any errors, thus is keepi

Amcheck not emailing

2002-10-22 Thread Thom Paine
I have a plain jane RedHat 7.3 server with amanda running. For some reason amanda is not sending out the mail report from amcheck -m DailySet1. I get the report after the backup has run. Anyone know where I should start to look at trouble shoot this? Thanks, -- -=/>Thom Red Hat Linux release 8

Re: pb with large dump & exclude list (SOLVED)

2002-10-22 Thread Brunet Eric
ok sorry, I found the example in example/disklist it work fine :) howener, I have noticed that server AND client machine must be in 2.4.3 version. Brunet Eric wrote: are you sure of this functionnality, because I tested the 2.4.3 with multiple same disklist entry, like this: 80.65.xxx.yyy /hom

Re: pre and post scripts

2002-10-22 Thread Jerry
Thanks, I figured as much. Would be nice to see amanda have a "pre" and "post" script in the amanda.conf... but a wrapper should work. Jerry --- jordivi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > You can write a wrapper, I'm doing so with smbclient > but should work for > gtar or dump. I use it to di

Re: multiple homedirs

2002-10-22 Thread Michael Mayer
Hi list, my problem is solved for now. It's been more related to automount issues. I'm doing the mount of the [0-2] dirs via submount now. Thanks anyways Michael Mayer -- Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System -> R

Re: permission problems

2002-10-22 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 15:37:54 +0200 Mozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I run amcheck I get the following: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: earth.mydomain.net: [Can't open exclude file '/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar': No such file or direc

Re: Planner note inconsistent with stats & summary

2002-10-22 Thread Martin Schwarz
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:04:41AM -0300, Doug Meredith wrote: > I have seen this a couple of times now. In the notes section of the report, > planner claims "Incremental of filet:/platoon/v1.1 bumped to level 2.". > According to the dump summary, a level 0 was done for this directory. The > stat

permission problems

2002-10-22 Thread Mozzi
When I run amcheck I get the following: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: earth.mydomain.net: [Can't open exclude file '/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar': No such file or directory] ERROR: earth.mydomain.net: [Can't open exclude file '/usr/local/lib/amand

Planner note inconsistent with stats & summary

2002-10-22 Thread Doug Meredith
I have seen this a couple of times now. In the notes section of the report, planner claims "Incremental of filet:/platoon/v1.1 bumped to level 2.". According to the dump summary, a level 0 was done for this directory. The statistics section shows two level 0 and six level 1 dumps. Has anyone see

Re: multiple homedirs

2002-10-22 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, Moment, i think i don't understand your problem, so lets clarify a bit: you have installed amanda-client on all the hosts in question. so why do you want to automount the directory's via nfs? i guess they are local filesystems to the clients, aren't they? you should install amanda on the nfs s

Re: pb with large dump & exclude list

2002-10-22 Thread Brunet Eric
are you sure of this functionnality, because I tested the 2.4.3 with multiple same disklist entry, like this: 80.65.xxx.yyy /home/test comp-user-tar-incr-adherent_a 80.65.xxx.yyy /home/test comp-user-tar-incr-adherent_b (only excluding rule change in these 2 dumptypes) but I

Re: multiple homedirs

2002-10-22 Thread Michael Mayer
Hi, amanda is installed on each client. My problem is how to mount them via automounter in /home/$host including the subdirs [0-2] which are diferent filesystems. Michale -- Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System -> Repartit

Re: multiple homedirs

2002-10-22 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, Why do you want to nfs-mount these dirs to the amanda server? It is much better to install the amanda-client part on all these machines and tell amanda to get the backups direct from these hosts. This way you can let them do compression localy, saving time, bandwith and cpu-power on your amanda

Re: pre and post scripts

2002-10-22 Thread jordivi
Hi You can write a wrapper, I'm doing so with smbclient but should work for gtar or dump. I use it to display a Windows popup saying the user to close applications for a while, sleep 20 seconds, back it up, and a second popup notifying we are finished. Per machine. My /usr/bin/smbclient look some

dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps

2002-10-22 Thread Torsten Rosenberger
Hello i get always this error during backup. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: db2/izo0/mysql lev 1 FAILED [dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps] fs1 /izo0/home/taoweb lev 1 FAILED [dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps] fs1 /izo0/home/mup lev 1 FAILED [d