Re: gnu tar-1.15+ for RHEL4

2006-04-07 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:08:04PM -0400, Christopher Linn wrote: > i am installaing amanda on a RHEL4 workstation. when using > amanda-backup_client-2.5.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm from the zmanda site, > it fails with: > > error: Failed dependencies: > tar >= 1.15 is needed by amanda-backup_cli

Re: /etc/dumpdates

2005-12-20 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:24:33PM -0500, Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:47:15PM -0500, Paul Seniuk enlightened us: > > Matt, > > > > Well you were right and that worked. Annoying story to it ...collegue > > decided to upgrade the box to FC4 and not tell me. > > The upgrade turned

Re: Changing User when using RPMs

2005-11-28 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:48:09PM -0700, Broderick Wood wrote: > Is there anyone out there who is using the RedHat RPMs abut has to change > the user that runs the backups? > > ie. I want to change the name from "amanda" to "backup" or some other ID > but runtar seems to have the id "amanda" h

Re: Why Oh Why only THIS DLE is giving me those timeout problems ?

2005-08-30 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:15:48PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > 2005/8/30, Graeme Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Guy Dallaire wrote: > > > > >>Perhaps the problem DLE has lots of hard links? > > >> > > >> > > >Hard Links > > > > > > > > As opposed to symbolic links. You'll probably want t

Re: AMANDA+Samba setup...

2005-06-24 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:04:49AM -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:51:13PM +0200, Paul Bijnens enlightened us: > > What is also strange is your statement just before the above > > paragraph: > > > > >When I take a look at the Amanda logs in /var here is what I see: > > > >

Re: holding disk with vtapes?

2005-05-18 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:47:29PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > >Is it normal for some dumps to go directly to tape, skipping the holding > >disk? > > > >I see that happening sometimes, but wonder if it means I have something > >misconfigured. > > > Those DLE's with

Re: Append Files using tar

2005-04-12 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:15:51PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Most modern tapedevices are not random access. > I don't know how to "rewind a little", and neither does the gnutar > programmer which states in the beginning of the "update.c" source > file: "... if [the files] are on raw tape or som

Re: Amanda Client

2004-09-28 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 02:29:16PM -0500, Jason Miller wrote: > Also I do see with a netstat -an the following line > udp4 0 0 *.10080*.* > > After installing the xinetd I got that far, client still times out. I am > running the amcheck -c DailySet1 from the server to t

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-16 Thread Jay Fenlason
I've experienced similar problems backing up a Windows 2000 client (with the Cygwin Amanda client) from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS (Itanium) box. The errors only happen when the Windows box is on the far side of a Fedora Core 2 bridge/gateway. When the Windows box is directly attached to t

Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-14 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:23:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > See subject, Which of course is leading to a 90% failure rate as the > whole system has around 40Gb, but the tapes are only 4Gb's. > > What happened is that I put in a new 120 Gb drive, 2x the size of the > one I

Re: odd problem setting up amanda on Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:59:20AM -0700, Harlan Harris wrote: > Hi, > I'm just starting to set up Amanda, and am having trouble. I've got > two Red Hat 9 Linux boxes, one as the server, and one as a client. The > server backs itself up fine. But the client is timing out. I've > determined that it

Re: problem with dumper in amanda 2.4.4

2003-09-04 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 04:57:52PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 at 4:53pm, Ashwin Bijur wrote > > > When I run amanda backups, I am getting the following message in > > /var/log/messages: > > > > kernel: application bug: dumper(23061) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but > >

Re: maybe this is a dumb question

2003-08-26 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:34:49AM -0500, Chris Barnes wrote: > One of my student workers - who happens to be setting up Amanda, > recently came to me with a concern about how the backup/restore process > handles soft links. I suspect that this is a non-issue in that Amanda > has already figured

Re: Configuration Guide.

2003-08-12 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:43:02AM +0300, rehanann wrote: > Dear All, > I need configuration document for Amanda 2.4.4 p1 if its > available please forward me and I am installing this in Red Hat 8.0. > > "Without any sense you cannot make any sensible things fo

Re: chg-manual bug?

2003-07-28 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:32:19AM +0800, Matthias Bethke wrote: > Hi Gene, > on Monday, 2003-07-28 at 07:25:08, you wrote: > > >| EGREP=grep -E > > > > > >certainly looked wrong to me. Quoting did it: > > >| EGREP='grep -E' > > > > I don't use this but that is how it is in my copy of > > amanda-

Re: xinetd shutting off amanda

2003-07-14 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:29:03PM -0400, Chris Dahn wrote: > Hi all, > I used to have 2.4.2p2 installed. I built an ebuild for Gentoo for it. > Apparently they finally accepted someone's ebuild for Amanda into the CVS > tree, and so my system was automatically updated to 2.4.4 last night. > H

Re: Installation

2003-06-24 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:36:24AM +0200, Mikkel Gadegaard wrote: > Hey people > > I have a problem with installing amanda. Until recently I had Amanda running > on a RedHat 8.0 (amanda installed whith RedHat), that machine wasn't big > enough so I got a bigger machine and installed RedHat 9.0 on