Re: Samba loses files from directories, backups defective

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
hanged KD> estimate to server will be better, but fixing samba is my preference. KD> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2271 Thanks for pushing this, Kevin ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Storage Options

2005-02-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
more about them. GH> Would anyone like to step forward and speak to Mike? Who is meant by "these guys"? The amanda-users or the team? What does he want to know? Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: Backup image tape spanning, a look back and a look ahead...

2005-02-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, John, just now (on 02/23/2005 at 16:27) you wrote: JS> Just a note, on the expectation that people will ask after the status of my JS> span/split patch. The most recent release is a patch against 2.4.5, and works JS> pretty well for me. I've had one report of amrecover troubles with it

Re: SV: Problems restoring files with amrecover on my backup client!

2005-02-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
quot; or "How things COULD be with AMANDA" ... Thanks for that smile, Paul ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amdump: timeout

2005-02-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
timate did take. This one goes into the "100 AMANDA Hacks" ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dumplevel only 0 or 1

2005-01-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
levels of backups -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, Gene, just now (on 01/27/2005 at 20:58) you wrote: GH> I do hope he was able to find gainfull employment, hopefully not GH> around computers? Errm, AFAIK he is some kind of admin for this, errm, big institution ... It's always fun to see what jobs I could have ... -- Bye, Stefan

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
ronjob ... everyday. And he wondered why there were no working indexes. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
run make install as root to get the binaries > installed with the proper permissions. [...] > Run `ldconfig' as root to update the paths to the recently installed > shared libraries. If this is OK with you, I will commit it to the CVS later today. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Data loss if configuration of amanda.conf is not right.

2005-01-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
s I hope that the new explanation will be easier to understand. > Questions? More questions?? ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
- run ldconfig afterwards. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
ssue soon, sounds much better already ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

AMANDA-docs, manpages

2005-01-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello amanda-users, more updates at http://www.amanda.org/docs/AMANDA-docs.html : http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.8.html : More fixes. http://www.amanda.org/docs/install.html : Added infos about GNUtar-versions (thanks to Paul Bijnens ...). http://www.amanda.org/docs/exclude.html : More form

Re: Backups failing on Solaris 9 with GNU tar

2005-01-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Gene Heskett, on Sonntag, 16. Jänner 2005 at 02:23 you wrote to amanda-users: GH> On Saturday 15 January 2005 17:26, Kurt Raschke wrote: >>On Jan 15, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>> First thought here: >>> Look for the GNUtar-version. >>

Re: Backups failing on Solaris 9 with GNU tar

2005-01-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
ve us your Report-email. >From your mail I see: > Total bytes written: 60436480 so there is data dumped ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backups failing on Solaris 9 with GNU tar

2005-01-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
to cause problems. Apart from that we could need more infos: Did you do any changes/updates on this client lately, has it worked before? In short: More infos would help us to help you. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Meaning of "bump"

2005-01-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
p for "bump" in the docs-tree showed that there REALLY is no explanation anywhere. Thanks for showing me that ... Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Meaning of "bump"

2005-01-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
mply think that people KZ> enjoy reading the docs more when this is clearer. Yep, goes onto my to-fix-list. >> This as a quick-n-dirty-explanation, hope this helps. KZ> perfectly - that's what i was looking for :-) So I will just cut and paste. ;-) just kidding ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Meaning of "bump"

2005-01-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Erik, on Samstag, 15. Jänner 2005 at 13:59 you wrote to amanda-users: EPO> On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 10:03 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Have you read the description of those parameters at >> http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.8.html ? EPO> Yes, I have (and am) readi

Re: Meaning of "bump"

2005-01-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
to avoid high backup-levels. There is also "bumpdays" to keep the lev down as well. --- This as a quick-n-dirty-explanation, hope this helps. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Meaning of "bump"

2005-01-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
read the description of those parameters at http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.8.html ? If there are any questions left then, please let us know. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DLT tape streaming and amanda blocksize

2005-01-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
amanda.8-manpage at http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.8.html, the html-version contains the most up-to-date version. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amanda.8 manpage

2005-01-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
NE> on...), and I just can't get any HTML files NE> (reconfigure, configure, make html...) so I'd rather let you manage this NE> part :o) I assume that you have various packages missing ... NE> And let's start a private thread to ask you some help off list. Yep. Than

Re: amanda.8 manpage

2005-01-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amanda.8 manpage

2005-01-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
mple documentation. NE> So instead of re-writing a new doc in french, it could be wiser to NE> translate your xml files into french. NE> Could you tell me the % of files formated in xml ? As Gavin noticed, 100% are available in Docbook/XML. There is a CVS-branch, browse it at: http://

amanda.8 manpage

2005-01-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, amanda-users, enjoy the updated version of the main amanda.8-manpage at http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.8.html (The updates are NOT YET available as pdf ...) There were quite a few things to correct, check the CVS-diff if you want ... ;-) Let me know if there are still things to corr

Re: spaces in share/directory names

2005-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
s-Programs ... Just to let you know ... Sure it is much easier to just create a new share called "Programs". -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Antwort: Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
ral re-writing before, maybe. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Antwort: Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
to overflow, and use #>>dd of=/path/to/device if=dev/zero bs=32768 count #howmany The thread is named "amrestore problem, headers ok but no data" and is rather huge right now ... SKsdd> Again sorry for my confusing posts, but I am working on SKsdd> this quite a few days

Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
an 32 Kbytes? PB> If the blocksize if 32 bytes, then, yes, that is incredebly slow. Errrm, yes ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
; Here is an example: SKsdd> 10.0.1.5:/                    1    55424k writing to tape (12:20:40) SKsdd> Now its 13:42 and it is still writing. SCSI-errors? Assuming Linux as your OS, what does /var/log/messages tell you? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
tion. But as I see from the other thread, Brian is on another path right now ... maybe he'll come back to blocksizes later. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hey Brian, just now (on 01/07/2005 at 19:20) you wrote: >> Humm, are you saying that amlabel works and can read the label >> written, but that dd doesn't/cannot? Back to 'man dd' as it exists >> on that Irix system would be my next suggestion. BC> Remembering that I'd set the blocksize on the

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
o lose a working config. I would do a copy to a second config and substitute the config-name where it has to be done (amanda.conf, the paths and stuff, you know that). Then you can fiddle around with that second config until you figure something out. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, Brian, I thought of your problems this morning ;-) Just now (on 01/07/2005 at 17:17) you wrote: BC> Oddly trying to dd if=/dev/rmt/tps... read no data BC> samar 85# mt -f /dev/rmt/tps1d4nrns rewind BC> samar 86# dd if=/dev/rmt/tps1d4nrns of=scratch BC> Read error: Invalid argument "Inv

manpages updated

2005-01-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
work will be done Regards, Stefan G. Weichinger

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2004-12-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
nd have been able to write and recover data. Besides the >> amrestore listing is out there. >> >># mt commands seem to run progressively longer as I read the tape, >> I'm apparently writing lots of something between EOF marks, I'm >> just hoping that its actual data. >> >># ls -las /dev/sdlt2 >>lrwxr-xr-x1 root sys 20 Nov 22 14:45 /dev/sdlt2 -> >> /dev/rmt/tps1d4nrnsv >> >>ie, bus 1, target (SCSI id) 4, non-rewinding, non-bytes-wapping, >> variable length records. Similar to what I run on other systems. Seems ok so far, let's debug the upper points first. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing

2004-12-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
py before xmas, enjoying successful backups done by AMANDA ;-)) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samar amanda output (with holding area)

2004-12-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
dump on the raid, too big. As said before, OK. As I wrote this I did not know your partitioning so I thought that some overlapping DLEs could bite you with GNUTAR .. BC> Thank you all for your time on this, I apreciate it. It's always a challenge to get things right with big installations. Nice problem to chew on ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Several large partitions, no spool

2004-11-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
on, you also see the >> active exclusions in the output of the mentioned command. BC> This should be a non-issue though, since I am using dump on /root ? If /root is a separated partition ... I tend to use one "program" for the whole config as it is easier to configure (and wrap

Re: Samar amanda output (with holding area)

2004-11-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
uration (like your Samar) gives a few NOTEs and WARNINGs before it develops a fitting schedule. I think you should give AMANDA some more runs to "get the picture", apart from the fact that you have pretty much data to backup your reports look good to me so far. See the reply to your

Re: Several large partitions, no spool

2004-11-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
;From your report it seems to be clear that gnutar is run, but I don't know if you know and want that. Gene is right with pointing at the missing exclusion, you also see the active exclusions in the output of the mentioned command. BTW, also have a look at your "columnspec"-parameter to pretty up your reports. ;-) That much for a start, keep us informed. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Permission denied on runtar - only when called via amcheck

2004-11-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
ook very mysterious break down to FAQ-kind-of-things in the end. Ever noticed that? As the de-facto-maintainer of the AMANDA-docs I wonder how we could avoid more of this by improving the docs. (I don't want to say that you shouldn't have asked things, Fran ;-) ) -- best regards, Stefan St

Re: Several large partitions, no spool

2004-11-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
are as well as what config you run to be more specific. "taperalgo" helps you to get things in order on tapes (and maybe avoiding and optimizing "smaller DLEs before big ones"). -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multi-line columnspec?

2004-11-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
t" (kilo | mega | giga | tera) Please note that this parameter is not yet available in the 2.4.4p4-release (I noticed that you tried this with 2.4.5b1, this note is for the thousands of users digging through the archives looking for precious answers ;-) ). -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multi-line columnspec?

2004-11-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
able in the 245-branch already. Thx to JLM. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Got a bug, what can I do?

2004-11-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
edge stuff GH> marked as beta, you are going to bleed occasionally. No need to say then that it would be interesting to check this behavior with 2.4.4p4. GH> Jean-Louis has been notified. He is the one to notify, yes ;-) Glad you're up again. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G.

Re: Using Amanda to Backup Amanda

2004-11-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
rrent maintainer plans to hand things over to me). Please see the mentioned script and let me know your thoughts. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

AMANDA:docs -- now with manpages integrated

2004-11-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
integration of the whole documentation. All the official AMANDA-Documentation is now available in a one-file-format (pdf or ps, online-html version also available). Have a look at http://www.amanda.org/docs/AMANDA-docs.html . Regards, Stefan G. Weichinger.

Re: amcheck not saying "expecting tapeno. or a new tape"

2004-11-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
my mailer to sort mails that go to a list and also directly to me via CC: ... email isn't that trivial at all. -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger

Re: Chg-disk question

2004-11-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
ybe "another curious cat" could do some cleanup to your scripts now (as I am pretty busy right now with some projects ...) best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Chg-disk question

2004-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
st fwd GH> these, with the usual "I'm not responsible if you cat has a litter of GH> Dalmations" warnings? You mean the "append meta-data"-scripts? Haven't found the time yet to improve them, sorry. Another curious cat, maybe ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Chg-disk question

2004-11-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
cycle. You could create some more vtapes, this does not matter to AMANDA. So if you want to mark up to 3 vtapes as "no-reuse" at a time and have a tapecycle of 10, go and create at least 13 vtapes. Just make sure that you have at least "tapecycle" vtapes that are marked reusable

Re: Fedora upgrade Amanda slowed

2004-10-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
o where they were. Thank you for your JS> suggestion. The question is, why didn't this increase the dumptimes of the linux-boxes (this was the reason for me not suggesting duplex-debugging ...) ? Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I run multiple parallel samba DLEs?

2004-10-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Kevin, on Freitag, 29. Oktober 2004 at 20:53 you wrote to amanda-users: KD> There was a bug in the amanda.conf, which I will correct, but the KD> amanda disklist parsing code could be stricter. Patch is coming soon. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: failure and strange dump summary -- disk offline

2004-10-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
rsion" say? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fedora upgrade Amanda slowed

2004-10-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
le. Without further knowledge I would also think this. Jonathan, has anything changed in the smb.conf of that machine? Maybe the update-procedure has modified this file. Also the contents of /var/log/samba might tell you more. -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I run multiple parallel samba DLEs?

2004-10-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
the spindle-parameter was introduced first. (CVS fine here) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I run multiple parallel samba DLEs?

2004-10-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
define an interface. So I don't think this behavior is a bug. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I run multiple parallel samba DLEs?

2004-10-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Kevin, on Freitag, 29. Oktober 2004 at 01:21 you wrote to amanda-users: KD> "Stefan G. Weichinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> PLEASE GET AWAY FROM USING LOCALHOST !!! KD> Don't worry, change from localhost is on my list of things to change, KD> but

Re: Please help: amrecover says file is there, amidxtaped says its not!

2004-10-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
r genetics /home/root 1 [dump to tape failed, will try again]" DT> have caused the problem? This does not affect /home/scrozier. /home/root failed. DT> Most importantly, is the any way to get the data? Yes. Rewind the tape, then re-run amrecover. Should help. -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger.

Re: How do I run multiple parallel samba DLEs?

2004-10-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
t;inparallel" to 4. Increase this parameter (I have used a value of 12 on a PentiumII happily) and PLEASE get rid of using "localhost". ;-) best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger

AMANDA Docs - Update

2004-10-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
of the PDF-version http://www.amanda.org/docs/AMANDA-HOWTO-Collection.pdf should now work OK (Acrobat Reader 6.0.2 gives no more errors). More updates and additions to come. Regards, Stefan G. Weichinger, AMANDA Core Team.

Re: amanda still doesn't have EOT properly?

2004-10-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 01:32) Frank Smith wrote: FS> --On Tuesday, October 26, 2004 15:09:21 -0700 Joe Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What I meant was: why does your statement differ so extremely from the >> documentation? Or am I misreading it? FS> The documentation

New AMANDA-Wishlist

2004-10-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
can find the WISHLIST in the docs-subdir of the current AMANDA-tarball or you can read it online at http://www.amanda.org/docs/wishlist.html Best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger, AMANDA-Core-Team.

Re: (was: Re: newb: getting started) : AMANDA-docs

2004-10-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
ill go into one new chapter of the new AMANDA-docs. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

(was: Re: newb: getting started) : AMANDA-docs

2004-10-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
ble in the AMANDA-CVS. Check out the current xml-docs-tree : cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda co xml-docs There have been some updates through the last week ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newb: getting started

2004-10-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
l ??) I will commit more formatted files soon. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need to recover from vtapes

2004-09-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
dd extract amrecover asks for the tape ... In terminal2 you do amtape label In terminal1 you continue ... This does the trick for me ... Is this what you needed? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda Client

2004-09-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Jason, on Dienstag, 28. September 2004 at 23:44 you wrote to amanda-users: JM> Totally Cool, first time I have ever been put in for knowledge on official JM> docs. I do what I can do. If you dig up more ... ;-) (Do you think the note would have helped you from the start?) -- best regard

Re: Amanda Client

2004-09-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
fan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

AMANDA.docs -- another update

2004-09-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
orrections/suggestions/updates/patches ... Currently I am just into formatting-work, but the content needs an update badly in some chapters. Just share your experiences, this is the time ... Check out the current xml-docs-tree : cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda co xml-docs Regards,

Re: Amanda Client

2004-09-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
system.notes in the AMANDA-docs. Just send it to me offline ... Thanks. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: autoflush not working, found amgetconf isn't either

2004-09-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
conf will write "BUGGY" to stdout as the value. --- GH> The last time I actually looked at that autoflush code, at least a GH> year ago, it appeared that just the presence of the keyword was all GH> it took to set that variable, but the docs then said it was ye

Re: amtapetype deleting label?

2004-09-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
t out a warning or decline running until the user >> specifies --force or something. >> Also, it should be mentioned in the man page. JLM> The latest amanda snapshot fix this. Tested this, updated amtapetype-manpage and the tapetype-chapter in the docs. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: puzzling results using file: output format

2004-09-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
nning in the low 40's celcius according to smartctl. Never mind low 40s ... Having only Master-devices helps sometimes, as the Slave always brakes down things. Although the 40k you mentioned are way too slow even for a master-slave-config. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: puzzling results using file: output format

2004-09-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
2: rewinding tape: Input/output error GH> --- Why don't you just use amtape to position the changer and choose tapes? Why not just name the slot-dirs slot1, slot2, slot3, as described in the HOWTO, this is how JC designed chg-disk ? This worked out for quite a few people so far. If you NEED this, let's look at the code. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

docs-update :: manpages added

2004-09-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, AMANDA-users and -hackers, just to let you know: I just added the HTML-version of the manpages to www.amanda.org. Suggestions and patches welcome. Thanks for all the flowers. Regards, Stefan

Re: amanda with files

2004-09-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
is. Nothing to do for you. GH> Thanks Stefan. You really did save a lot of time in re-inventing GH> this. I am not sure, do you think I wrote chg-disk? I did not, it was JC Simonetti ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amanda with files

2004-09-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
1-${n} slot slot${n} Usage: amlabel [-f] [slot ] Should be amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-${n} slot ${n} AFAI see. (So that it expands to: amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-01 slot 1 Still don't know if these leading "0" doesn't bite you, too.) Note my comments and changes i

Re: Converting to FILE

2004-09-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
fore ... GH> and a run of amcheck gets this: GH> --- GH> [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda-2.4.5b1-20040831]$ amcheck DailySet1 GH> amcheck: error while loading shared libraries: GH> libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040831.so: cannot open shared object file: GH> Nosuch file or directory GH> GH> The library does indeed exist: Run "ldconfig". -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

XML-docs committed to the AMANDA-CVS

2004-09-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
a! This buildtree is the current development-tree of the future official AMANDA-documentation. The official release of the documentation is still the docs-directory in the current stable release of amanda-2.4.4-p3 !!! -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger

Re: Converting to FILE

2004-09-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Gene, on Mittwoch, 08. September 2004 at 19:27 you wrote to amanda-users: >>The loop to create the vtapes runs from 1 to 12, the loop to label >>starts with 01, 02, ... GH> I made them by hand, and chown-ed everything after. I fixed the HOWTO anyway. GH> Let me save the fixed amanda.conf a

Re: Converting to FILE

2004-09-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
12, the loop to label starts with 01, 02, ... This should be the cause. I will correct this in a minute (gets in the online-docs). Sorry for the problem, thanks for digging it up. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exclude file issues..

2004-09-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
ago. What is still missing is that AMANDA makes use of these new capabilities of smbclient. patches welcome ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMANDA-docs ::: Updated version online

2004-09-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Gavin Henry, on Freitag, 03. September 2004 at 10:25 you wrote to amanda-users: GH> Stefan G. Weichinger said: >> >> Hello, amanda-users, >> >> I just put up a current version of my AMANDA-docs-branch. >> >> The pdf-version now prints fine here, please

AMANDA-docs ::: Updated version online

2004-09-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, amanda-users, I just put up a current version of my AMANDA-docs-branch. The pdf-version now prints fine here, please report any problems to me (off-list). http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html. -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dump ordering optimisation documentation

2004-08-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
O ... As always, suggestions are welcome -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need help with backup plan

2004-08-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
your brakes failed. What if THIS light fails? Dumping to the holdingdisk provides an additional layer of security in the case you put in the wrong tape, your drive eats the tape or something similar. AMANDA is not designed to take care of harddisks. Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

AMANDA-docs ::: Updated version online

2004-08-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Find the current version of my AMANDA-docs-branch at http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html. -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMANDA Documentation at www.oops.co.at

2004-08-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
reason to get those pagenumbers correct ... Thanks, best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMANDA Documentation at www.oops.co.at

2004-08-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Paul, on Dienstag, 24. August 2004 at 15:34 you wrote to amanda-users: papc> In a message dated: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:15:31 +0200 papc> "Stefan G. Weichinger" said: >>Just get the file at: >> >>http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html papc> Hm

Re: AMANDA Documentation at www.oops.co.at

2004-08-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Didn't understand at first, now I do: Have a look at the manpages at http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html As always, corrections are welcome (and necessary). Thanks, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMANDA Documentation at www.oops.co.at

2004-08-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Paul, on Montag, 23. August 2004 at 15:58 you wrote to amanda-users: >>>>>> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, "Stefan" == Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: papc> Stefan> about one month has gone now, since I put a pre-release papc> Stefan> of "The Official A

Re: Backups without a tape drive (yep, flogging that horse)

2004-08-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Kirk, on Mittwoch, 18. August 2004 at 00:07 you wrote to amanda-users: KS> How would I go about configuring Amanda to not use a tape drive? Just look into the docs: docs/HOWTO-FILE-DRIVER in the current tarball. I think you should not configure the Samba-share as holdingdisk, but as the di

Re: Archiving With Amanda?

2004-08-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
hings like monthly-archive-tapes or similar things. Better solution: Setup a config for archiving, with dumpcycle 0, record no, and put your files onto the tapes of this config. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMANDA Documentation at www.oops.co.at (SGI Irix additions)

2004-08-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
ks. LL> Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>Hi, Luc, >> >>on Donnerstag, 05. August 2004 at 15:59 you wrote to amanda-users: >> >>LL> Hello Stefan, >> >>LL> Here's a few corrections (in blue): The email was the only blue thing in my email-reader

AMANDA Documentation at www.oops.co.at

2004-08-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I will try the best to transform your input into contributions to AMANDA. best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Joshua Baker-LePain, on Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2004 at 02:28 you wrote to amanda-users: JBL> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 12:00am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote >> KV> sendsize[27747]: time 4.784: Total bytes written: 429923983360 (400GB, >> 37MB/s) >> >> ok ... &g

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Kris, on Dienstag, 20. Juli 2004 at 23:14 you wrote to amanda-users: KV> The box is running redhat 9 with 2.4.20 kernel and ext3 filesystem. KV> Below is the most recent sendsize.debug KV> sendsize[27747]: time 4.784: Total bytes written: 429923983360 (400GB, 37MB/s) ok ... KV> sendsiz

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