Re: [Amanda-users] amcheckdump output - questions :)

2008-11-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-11-04 17:45, rory_f wrote: Hi guys, any ideas?? My crystal ball is broken currently. It would help to spell out the question. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.

[Amanda-users] amcheckdump output - questions :)

2008-11-04 Thread rory_f
Hi guys, any ideas?? +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--

Re: [Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-10-31 13:49, rakesh wrote: Hi Thanks a lot your recomendations worked, atlast amrecover has started but i haven't recovered any files till now.I would like to share some entries of the same , what am i missing in here ? Maybe you missed reading a manual? Maybe you missed learning so

Re: [Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
rakesh wrote: Hi Thanks a lot your recomendations worked, atlast amrecover has started but i haven't recovered any files till now.I would like to share some entries of the same , what am i missing in here ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/amanda_hold/DailySet1# amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p1

[Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-31 Thread rakesh
Hi Thanks a lot your recomendations worked, atlast amrecover has started but i haven't recovered any files till now.I would like to share some entries of the same , what am i missing in here ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/amanda_hold/DailySet1# amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p1. Contacting se

Re: [Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
rakesh wrote: Hi I have tried to apply the recommended changes and after doing so i started to get the error, i have copied syslog along with ".amandahosts" contents and xinetd config details for "amanda" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/amanda_hold/DailySet1# amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p1. Co

[Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-30 Thread rakesh
Hi I have tried to apply the recommended changes and after doing so i started to get the error, i have copied syslog along with ".amandahosts" contents and xinetd config details for "amanda" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/amanda_hold/DailySet1# amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p1. Contacting server

[Amanda-users] amcheckdump output - questions :)

2008-10-30 Thread rory_f
hi guys. we're run amcheckdump on a backup we just did and it has given us a few outputs we're not sure about -whether it is tar being non-understanding of a backup using spanned tapes, or something else? we're a bit lost so hopefully someone can help ps. ignore the file paths below, i just c

Re: [Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-10-29 13:26, rakesh wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/xinetd.d# cat amanda # default: on # description: The amanda service service amanda { only_from = BackUp-Host-Server BackUp-Client BackUp-Client BackUp-Client BackUp-Client BackUp-Client I guess the above line was

Re: [Amanda-users] How to read and interpret completed job emails from Amanda

2008-10-30 Thread Brian Cuttler
g00f, Don't know if this appies to you but... but for my site we have a number of configs where we use HW rather than SW compression. We have the tape length set to the tape capacity and have not altered it to account for the (somewhat unpredictable) value of HW compression at the drive. So w

[Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-30 Thread rakesh
Hi I am unable to find any new logs and syslog does't show much details regarding xinetd config all i could secure some logs are below when i run "amdump DailySet1" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/amanda/server/DailySet1$ cat taper.20081030114710.debug taper: debug 1 pid 15851 ruid 34 euid 34: start a

Re: [Amanda-users] How to read and interpret completed job emails from Amanda

2008-10-30 Thread C.Scheeder
Hi, looks all prety fine as Mark already told you, and now my 2 cents for the last Question: you see, the first disk got dumped to holdingdisk very fast, then it took relative long to get it written to tape, while the second disk was slowly writing to holdingdisk, but fast getting from there to

Re: [Amanda-users] Easiest way to create a full TOC of each tape?

2008-10-30 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
rory_f schrieb: How can this (see title) be done? If you have indexes enabled, you can unpack all index files of all servers/filesystems and combine them to one large file. With a few lines of shell scripting it should be easy. -- Marc Muehlfeld (Leitung IT) Zentrum fuer Humangenetik und

Re: [Amanda-users] How to read and interpret completed job emails from Amanda

2008-10-30 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
g00f schrieb: > Tape Size (meg)1446225.1 1446225.10.0 Here is where it gets fuzzy... and not in logic. Tape size... the > amount that was put to tape? Yes. > Tape Used... 359%? Habe a look at your tapetype definition. There is a length of the tape defined, and I'm sure i

[Amanda-users] Easiest way to create a full TOC of each tape?

2008-10-29 Thread rory_f
Hey guys, How can this (see title) be done? We need to have a full list of all directories sent to the tape for easy and quick restore process. Would a simple `dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 |/bin/gtar -tvf -` output a full listing? Is there a program within amanda to do so? I know the

[Amanda-users] How to read and interpret completed job emails from Amanda

2008-10-29 Thread g00f
Hi, I was hoping I could get a little help in reading the output of Amanda (2.6) when I get the completion emails from it. Its a new install and I find it confusing on why it makes some statements in the information email after it completes the backup. Here is the information from the email a

Re: [Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
rakesh wrote: Hi amandad.*.debug is not generating any new logs Then check your xinetd config and system log. Jean-Louis

[Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-29 Thread rakesh
Hi amandad.*.debug is not generating any new logs configuration details for xinetd as below [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/xinetd.d# ls -la total 40 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-10-08 19:46 . drwxr-xr-x 83 root root 4096 2008-10-08 19:58 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 338 2008-10-08 19:43 amanda -rw

Re: [Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do amandad get executed? What's the xinetd config? Post the amandad.*.debug file. Jean-Louis rakesh wrote: Hello every one, I am able to back-up data from different partitions on different machiens from LAN I am getting this error when ever i am running "amrecover" on "BackUp-Host-Server" mac

[Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-29 Thread rakesh
Hello every one, I am able to back-up data from different partitions on different machiens from LAN I am getting this error when ever i am running "amrecover" on "BackUp-Host-Server" machine [EMAIL PROTECTED]@BackUp-Host-Server:/tmp/amanda/amandad# amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p1. Contactin

[Amanda-users] Question corrupt amanda backup / tape speed / etc..help!

2008-10-28 Thread rory_f
We actually made some changes on our system we're using for backing up(bigger holding disk, sata2 instead of sata1) and we're backing up fresh again (using the same tapes again) Asssuming the tapes themselves are not broke (they are new tapes), hopefully this will work this time. if it does g

Re: [Amanda-users] Question corrupt amanda backup / tape speed / etc..help!

2008-10-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Amanda writes data to tape as quickly as the tape drive will allow. The tapespeed is not currently used. The data may be in local cache, explaining some of the high speed. I don't know SATA-1 rates off the top of my head to know if that's too fast. Whatever goes on, data corruption should not re

[Amanda-users] Question corrupt amanda backup / tape speed / etc..help!

2008-10-28 Thread rory_f
This is an edited version of a previous post Hi, We managed to up our speed of dumping and writing a whole lot by using a holding disk, which is great. However, the data we wrote, around 245gb, failed a amcheckdump and i couldnt, therefore, not amrestore anything. After the amtapetes

Re: [Amanda-users] Question corrupt amanda backup / tape speed / etc..help!

2008-10-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:39 PM, rory_f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We managed to up our speed of dumping and writing a whole lot by using a > holding disk, which is great. However, the data we wrote, around 245gb, > failed a amcheckdump and i couldnt, therefore, not amrestore anything. What wa

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 October 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Amanda accept a hostname "localhost" that is comming over the network? If >>> this is possible, shouldn't this be fixed? I think not the posibility to >>> configure it

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 October 2008, dceola wrote: >> And the rpm's force amanda into a different configuration when compared to >> what you would get from the (recommended) tarball install. > >im confused, through the reading i had done (with relation to installing > amanda) i never saw anything that said a

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-24 Thread Paul Yeatman
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 09:09 -0400, dceola wrote: > > > And the rpm's force amanda into a different configuration when compared to > > what you would get from the (recommended) tarball install. > > > im confused, through the reading i had done (with relation to installing > amanda) i never saw

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Amanda accept a hostname "localhost" that is comming over the network? If >> this is possible, shouldn't this be fixed? I think not the posibility to >> configure it is the security hole itself. > > I don't know & will let D

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-10-24 15:09, dceola wrote: And the rpm's force amanda into a different configuration when compared to what you would get from the (recommended) tarball install. im confused, through the reading i had done (with relation to installing amanda) i never saw anything that said anything othe

[Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-24 Thread dceola
> And the rpm's force amanda into a different configuration when compared to > what you would get from the (recommended) tarball install. im confused, through the reading i had done (with relation to installing amanda) i never saw anything that said anything other than to simply download one

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 October 2008, Marc Muehlfeld wrote: >Gene Heskett schrieb: >> Also one should never have a 'localhost' in this list file as its a >> security hole. All machine are localhost, and you sure don't want somebody >> to recover your stolen tape to their machine, or for you to get confused >>

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 October 2008, Marc Muehlfeld wrote: >dceola schrieb: >> localhost.localdomain root amindexd amidxtaped >> localhost.localdomain amandabackup amdump > >You don't need this two lines. The first two are enough in this case, > because "localhost" is resolveable without a FQDN. But it

Re: [Amanda-users]

2008-10-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Paul Bijnens schrieb: > We've all started like that once. (Even if >20 years ago.) > > This dates from 1986: > > http://groups.google.com/group/net.jokes/browse_thread/thread/60a9444026076c90/c49a0c0849fe8bb6 Oh my, I am ashamed ... ;-) Stefan

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 October 2008, dceola wrote: >haha, well i'm good at following instructions, typically ;) > >i definitely have yet to understand program paths (and rpm's i guess) here.. > >i downloaded the server RPM file that is listed for fedora7 on the amanda > download page, and used the command

Re: [Amanda-users]

2008-10-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-10-23 16:34, dceola wrote: This is an edited version of a previous post haha, well i'm good at following instructions, typically ;) Then follow these instructions here: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Quick_start i definitely have yet to understand program paths (and r

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-23 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
dceola schrieb: i have no idea where it installed amdump, i've just been following > the instructions to install/config everything per the amanda qikc > start guide.. so, past that i dont know... Have a look with # less ...rpm into the archive (Something in the back of fedora create the filelis

[Amanda-users]

2008-10-23 Thread dceola
This is an edited version of a previous post haha, well i'm good at following instructions, typically ;) i definitely have yet to understand program paths (and rpm's i guess) here.. i downloaded the server RPM file that is listed for fedora7 on the amanda download page, and used the

[Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-23 Thread dceola
haha, well i'm good at following instructions, typically ;) i definitely have yet to understand program paths (and rpm's i guess) here.. i downloaded the server RPM file that is listed for fedora7 on the amanda download page, and used the command /bin/rpm -ivh when installing it (per the "Ins

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-10-23 14:19, dceola wrote: please excuse my lack of knowledge.. Ensure that the file is there. If it is, add "/usr/local/sbin/" to the path of the user that is running amdump (in your case "amandabackup"). If not, then maybe you didn't compiled client AND server (without any special c

[Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-23 Thread dceola
i'm starting to feel really stupid- i didn't really understand at all what you're saying i need to do. here's my newness to linux showing through! lol... +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-23 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
dceola schrieb: How do i do this? Do what? - Ensure that amdump is there? # ls /usr/local/sbin/amdump - Add "/usr/local/sbin/" to the path of the user? If you use bash for that user, then you can add the following line to the users ~/.bashrc: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin/ -- Marc M

[Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-23 Thread dceola
please excuse my lack of knowledge.. > Ensure that the file is there. If it is, add "/usr/local/sbin/" to the path > of > the user that is running amdump (in your case "amandabackup"). If not, then > maybe you didn't compiled client AND server (without any special configure > options, client

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-22 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
dceola schrieb: localhost.localdomain root amindexd amidxtaped localhost.localdomain amandabackup amdump You don't need this two lines. The first two are enough in this case, because "localhost" is resolveable without a FQDN. But it doesn't disturb if they stay inside. It's just the same.

RE: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-22 Thread Paul Crittenden
Simpson College Phone: 515-961-1680 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dceola Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:19 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amand

[Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-22 Thread dceola
Thanks for your help, Marc. I've been going through the 'Quick Start' guide (slowly) trying to make certain that i'm doing everything correctly. I'm currently confused on two similar parts... Creating the .amandahosts file and creating the disklist file. I only intend to backup files from thi

Re: [Amanda-users] need advices on install/configure amanda on solaris 10

2008-10-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:11:34PM -0400, conandor wrote: > > ya. i running it on smf instead of xinetd. > any idea how can i configure it to work? If I understand the issue... I add the amanda entries to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf, then when I hup inetd and check the system messages fil

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-21 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
dceola schrieb: With regards to the specific 'how to' guide i posted a link to > that i had been using, i made it through that guide up to the point > of editing the changer.conf file and commenting out 4 specific > lines in the /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx file. I believe my confusion > lies in t

[Amanda-users]

2008-10-21 Thread dceola
This is an edited version of a previous post Thanks for the response! I went with F7 as i had someone experienced with it assisting me in setting up my server, and at this point i have enough stuff on this server that it wouldn't be very easy to change to a different OS. (edit) in hi

[Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-21 Thread dceola
Thanks for the response! I went with F7 as i had someone experienced with it assisting me in setting up my server, and at this point i have enough stuff on this server that it wouldn't be very easy to change to a different OS. With regards to the specific 'how to' guide i posted a link to that

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-21 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Hi, dceola schrieb: I'm new to these forums, and am also new to Amanda, and still trying > to learn my way around Linux (i'm using Fedora 7). Nothing important for your problem, but if you are new to Linux, I guess you like the easy way to keep your system secure and up to date. Maybe think a

[Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-20 Thread dceola
Howdy Folks! I'm new to these forums, and am also new to Amanda, and still trying to learn my way around Linux (i'm using Fedora 7). When i first came across Amanda and decided to use it as my backup solution, i had found a 'how to' guide for configuring the software (http://robertolitrico.bl

[Amanda-users] need advices on install/configure amanda on solaris 10

2008-10-20 Thread conandor
ya. i running it on smf instead of xinetd. any idea how can i configure it to work? +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +

Re: [Amanda-users] need advices on install/configure amanda on solaris 10

2008-10-20 Thread Charlie Reitsma
Are you running into the change in Solaris 10 from using (x)inetd to smf? I always had trouble with initializing that configuration. If that's what you need then I may have a few notes on getting that going with Amanda on Solaris 10. Quoting conandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This is an e

[Amanda-users] need advices on install/configure amanda on solaris 10

2008-10-20 Thread conandor
This is an edited version of a previous post i would like to have advices on how to install/configure on solaris 10. thank you. i facing this problen when following the 15 min tutorial on amaddclient. > > bash-3.00$ amaddclient --config DailySet1 --client 192.168.1.205 --diskdev >

[Amanda-users] need advices on install/configure amanda on solaris 10

2008-10-19 Thread conandor
i would like to have advices on how to install/configure on solaris 10. thank you. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-

Re: [Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Lines like this don't look right -- Amanda must be installed, not run out of its build directory. On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:06 AM, rakesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > server = /var/lib/amanda/amanda-2.5.1p1/restore-src/.libs/amidxtaped But this is the error preventing your amrecover from working:

[Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-10 Thread rakesh
hello every one, I have compiled Amanda "amanda_2.5.1p1.orig.tar.gz" on debian 4.0 etch [ for h/w and s/w refer "amandad.20081007131445.debug" ] I am able to backup all clients [ amanda-2.4.x ver (old)] and amanda user is reporting back with specified emails for all backed up clients(BackUp-Cl

[Amanda-users]

2008-10-06 Thread drmoque
This is an edited version of a previous post Just as background only: When we had a single office, we had 2 Snap servers (identical models). One was the primary and the other a backup. Each user mapped 3 shares from the primary as X, Y and Z drive. We used the Snap EDR software to cr

[Amanda-users] Seeking advice: is Amanda the right tool for my situation?

2008-10-06 Thread drmoque
Just as background only: W hen we had a single office, we had 2 Snap servers (identical models). One was the primary and the other a backup. Each user mapped 3 shares from the primary as X, Y and Z drive. We used the Snap EDR software to create a "replicate" and a "backup". The replicate was

Re: [Amanda-users] Seeking advice: is Amanda the right tool for my situation?

2008-10-06 Thread Angelo Höngens
drmoque wrote: To clarify, I don't know if I need a mirror or not. It was necessary in our previous strategy in case our primary NAS failed (and of course it did :)). With the Snap Server our backup data was useless because we could not restore it to be usuable on the backup NAS device. Uhm, fi

Re: [Amanda-users] Seeking advice: is Amanda the right tool for my situation?

2008-10-04 Thread Angelo Höngens
drmoque wrote: > Hi, > > Our office uses a Snap Server NAS device to host all of our working > files. The clients accessing the NAS are all WIndows Vista OS. > Recently we opened a second office and the backup strategy we had > with the Snap Server software can't be implemented until our two > off

[Amanda-users] Seeking advice: is Amanda the right tool for my situation?

2008-10-04 Thread drmoque
Hi, Our office uses a Snap Server NAS device to host all of our working files. The clients accessing the NAS are all WIndows Vista OS. Recently we opened a second office and the backup strategy we had with the Snap Server software can't be implemented until our two offices can talk to each oth

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda 2.6.0p2 + S3 results in cURL errors

2008-09-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, dear -- the sourceforge bug tracker is completely unused these > days. If there are others on the list who have submitted things to > the sourceforge tracker, please post to the list. I should find a way > to hid

[Amanda-users] Amanda 2.6.0p2 + S3 results in cURL errors

2008-09-16 Thread moekyle
Your response sounds about right to me. I found that if I manually deleted files that the issue for list keys went away so it really did seem like a buffer size issue. Once you have a patch I will go back and clean out my extra files and basically make the tapes clean. I did not dive real dee

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda 2.6.0p2 + S3 results in cURL errors

2008-09-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:12 PM, moekyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is what I posted to the bug tracker in sourceforge. Oh, dear -- the sourceforge bug tracker is completely unused these days. If there are others on the list who have submitted things to the sourceforge tracker, please post

[Amanda-users] Amanda 2.6.0p2 + S3 results in cURL errors

2008-09-11 Thread moekyle
I have been having this same issue for some time and finally found a fix. Here is what I posted to the bug tracker in sourceforge. While listing S3 keys: CURL error: Failed writing body (CURLcode 23) taper: Error writing label DailySet1/010 to device Had this error any time amanda was attemptin

[Amanda-users] slots increasing every backup

2008-08-18 Thread Debux
Hello, Every execution of my backup, the slots are increasing, this is problematic? I have to set something?, see below: $ amcheck clients Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /amanda_hold_clients: 445477 MB disk space available, using 399360 MB as requested

[Amanda-users] Howto: amanda sata backup server

2008-08-01 Thread schmaustech
You should put it on a Sun Thumper. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--

Re: [Amanda-users] tape spanning config not using holding disk?

2008-07-26 Thread Ian Turner
Mtrento, There are a few different issues here: 1. Setting tape_splitsize affects the way dumps are broken up when writing to tape, but does not affect they way they are stored on the holding disk. So dumps will still be done directly if they are larger than the holding disk, even if you have

[Amanda-users] tape spanning config not using holding disk?

2008-07-24 Thread Mtrento
hello everybody. im running amanda 2.6.0P1 and i try to backup a DLE bigger than my LTO4 tape. (850GB DLE on a 800 GB LTO4 TAPE) when the backup starts , the amdump log says that there's not enough holding disk space and it dump directly to tape. i'am surprised because i defined a tape_splitsiz

Re: [Amanda-users] Full/Incremental and retension

2008-07-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:04:01PM -0400, Debux wrote: > > So if I want one week of retension, I would have to use 15 tapes and change > the value of tapecycle to 15 tapes, correct? > > The parameters below are correct? for 1 full backup per week, with last week > in retension and the rest incr

[Amanda-users] Full/Incremental and retension

2008-07-21 Thread Debux
So if I want one week of retension, I would have to use 15 tapes and change the value of tapecycle to 15 tapes, correct? The parameters below are correct? for 1 full backup per week, with last week in retension and the rest incremental: dumpcycle 1 Weeks runspercycle 14 days (This parameter I

Re: [Amanda-users] Full/Incremental and retension

2008-07-19 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Debux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: correct? Yes. And how does the retention? In the next cycle (next week) will be overridden in the data used tapes or recording sequence occurs? Amanda's retention policy is based exc

Re: [Amanda-users] Full/Incremental and retension

2008-07-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Debux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > correct? Yes. > And how does the retention? In the next cycle (next week) will be overridden > in the data used tapes or recording sequence occurs? Amanda's retention policy is based exclusively on the tape cycle. Data is retai

[Amanda-users] Full/Incremental and retension

2008-07-18 Thread Debux
Well, then so that I can run from Monday to Sunday without missing one day, I would have to include two more tapes and set up thus: dumpcycle 1 Weeks runspercycle 7 days tapecycle 8 Tapes runtapes 1 correct? And how does the retention? In the next cycle (next week) will be overridden in the d

Re: [Amanda-users] Full/Incremental and retension

2008-07-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Debux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to help set up the Amanda backup for weekly full, incremental, in the > other day and retensão of two weeks. > I have 6 tapes LTO3. > > This is possible? > > My setup so far is this: > > dumpcycle 1 weeks > runspercycle 7 d

[Amanda-users] Full/Incremental and retension

2008-07-18 Thread Debux
Hi, I want to help set up the Amanda backup for weekly full, incremental, in the other day and retensão of two weeks. I have 6 tapes LTO3. This is possible? My setup so far is this: dumpcycle 1 weeks runspercycle 7 days tapecycle 6 tapes runtapes 1 Tks! +

[Amanda-users] Amanda 2.6.0 spanning

2008-06-18 Thread nbarss
This sounds similar to the problem that I was having...it turned out to be an error in my understanding of the config. Here is the link to the post on the backupcentral forum: http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/amanda-20/confusing-problem-with-no-ne

[Amanda-users] confusing problem with NO-NEW-TAPE

2008-06-10 Thread nbarss
Jean-Louis took a look at my config, and it turns out I had a foolish error. I had used the following lines from the default config: # flush-threshold-dumped, flush-threshold-scheduled, taperflush, and autoflush # are used to control tape utilization. See the amanda.conf (5) manpage for # det

Re: [Amanda-users] confusing problem with NO-NEW-TAPE

2008-06-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's is the runtapes setting? It's hard to read files when many characters are converted to HTML, it's a lot better if you attach a file, they will not be converted. Jean-Louis nbarss wrote: Can you send your whole amflush log, as well as the taper debug log? Sure. Here is amflu

[Amanda-users] confusing problem with NO-NEW-TAPE

2008-06-09 Thread nbarss
> Can you send > your whole amflush log, as well as the taper debug log? Sure. Here is amflush.1, taper.20080609100127.debug follows: amdump: start at Mon Jun 9 10:01:26 MDT 2008 amdump: datestamp 20080609 amdump: starttime 20080609100126 amdump: starttime-locale-independent 2008-06-09 10:0

Re: [Amanda-users] confusing problem with NO-NEW-TAPE

2008-06-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:36 PM, nbarss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > taper: Total dump size should be 130801kb, part size is 21474836480kb .. > It could just be an extra 'kb' tacked on the end, or a serious calculation > error. It is just a typo, but should definitely be fixed. Amanda has a bad h

[Amanda-users] confusing problem with NO-NEW-TAPE

2008-06-06 Thread nbarss
A couple of people have asked me if I have solved this, and I have not. The error seems to be a problem with the taper not being able to write to my tape drive. It sends a REQUEST_NEW_TAPE to the driver, who replies NO_NEW_TAPE. I am unable to figure out what the problem is. What problem is t

Re: [Amanda-users] Need help setting up Amanda on Sles10

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-05-21 15:25, bperrotta wrote: When Installing go message couldn't create Amanda user. Using root user instead. Manually created Amanda user later on but don't know which groups to add it to. Got errors saying home directory was not created had other trouble with user rights. No sure wh

[Amanda-users] Need help setting up Amanda on Sles10

2008-05-21 Thread bperrotta
When Installing go message couldn't create Amanda user. Using root user instead. Manually created Amanda user later on but don't know which groups to add it to. Got errors saying home directory was not created had other trouble with user rights. No sure what to do at this point help appreciate

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda hangs on "Getting Estimate"

2008-04-06 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
ddelcoco schrieb: this is what I see when I type "amstatus DailySet1" isisrv1:/ getting estimate ... > This is the same since 3 hours. All appears to be freezed [Crying or Very sad] Correct tape is loaded. Any idea? Thanks If the filesystems are very big, this could ta

Re: [Amanda-users] Split dumps across tapes (Amanda 2.4.4p3)

2008-04-06 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
ddelcoco schrieb: I think the only solution could be to split dumps one more than one tape, but we are running Amanda v.2.4.4 and tape_splitsize parameter is not implemented in our version (it was introduced in 2.5.0). Any solution to "bypass" this and split dumps on 2.4.4? [Crying or Very sad]

[Amanda-users] Split dumps across tapes (Amanda 2.4.4p3)

2008-04-04 Thread ddelcoco
Hi All, I receive the following message from amreport. Everyday! FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: server5/data lev 7 FAILED [dumps way too big, 88524660 KB, must skip incremental dumps] server3/data0/data lev 5 FAILED [dumps way too big, 70851612 KB, must skip incremental dumps]

[Amanda-users] Amanda hangs on "Getting Estimate"

2008-04-04 Thread ddelcoco
Hi All, this is what I see when I type "amstatus DailySet1" isisrv1:/ getting estimate isisrv1:/boot getting estimate isisrv1:/data0 getting estimate isisrv1:/var/loggetting estimate isisrv2:/ getting

Re: Are there any amanda users running FreeBSD here?

2008-01-02 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
John E Hein wrote: Gene Heskett wrote at 14:50 -0500 on Jan 1, 2008: > I just got bit by the volatile device major number getting moved > again, and one of the kernel developers is asking me how FreeBSD > users cope with this since FreeBSD's device majors are all dynamic. Well, it's not re

Re: Are there any amanda users running FreeBSD here?

2008-01-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 January 2008, John E Hein wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote at 18:58 -0500 on Jan 1, 2008: > > Which of course, since Murphy is alive and well, is not included in > > any of the rpm versions of tar. Gotta love it. Is this available > > on the zmanda site someplace? > >It seems that it's n

Re: Are there any amanda users running FreeBSD here?

2008-01-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >On Jan 1, 2008 6:58 PM, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Which of course, since Murphy is alive and well, is not included in any of >> the rpm versions of tar. Gotta love it. Is this available on the zmanda >> site someplace? > >FSF

Re: Are there any amanda users running FreeBSD here?

2008-01-01 Thread John E Hein
Gene Heskett wrote at 18:58 -0500 on Jan 1, 2008: > Which of course, since Murphy is alive and well, is not included in > any of the rpm versions of tar. Gotta love it. Is this available > on the zmanda site someplace? It seems that it's not in the source tarball. Sorry. But the gtar info p

Re: Are there any amanda users running FreeBSD here?

2008-01-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Jan 1, 2008 6:58 PM, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which of course, since Murphy is alive and well, is not included in any of the > rpm versions of tar. Gotta love it. Is this available on the zmanda site > someplace? FSF is hosting it: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html

Re: Are there any amanda users running FreeBSD here?

2008-01-01 Thread John E Hein
Gene Heskett wrote at 14:50 -0500 on Jan 1, 2008: > I just got bit by the volatile device major number getting moved > again, and one of the kernel developers is asking me how FreeBSD > users cope with this since FreeBSD's device majors are all dynamic. Well, it's not really the major device,

Re: Are there any amanda users running FreeBSD here?

2008-01-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 January 2008, John E Hein wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote at 14:50 -0500 on Jan 1, 2008: > > I just got bit by the volatile device major number getting moved > > again, and one of the kernel developers is asking me how FreeBSD > > users cope with this since FreeBSD's device majors are all

Are there any amanda users running FreeBSD here?

2008-01-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I just got bit by the volatile device major number getting moved again, and one of the kernel developers is asking me how FreeBSD users cope with this since FreeBSD's device majors are all dynamic. So if there are any FreeBSD users running amanda here, please respond and describe ho

Re: [amanda-users] amverifyrun problem

2007-02-07 Thread Guy Dallaire
2007/2/7, C R Ritson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >5. Re: amverifyrun problem >Posted by: "Guy Dallaire" [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed Feb 7, 2007 5:37 am ((PST)) > >2007/2/1, Guy Dallaire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> If I try to run: >> >> amverifyrun DailySet1 >> >> I get: >> >> Tape changer is c

Question for the german-speaking amanda-users ....

2006-04-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I am currently considering to offer a training-course on Amanda later this year. This training would be given in Germany and held in german language : Deshalb möchte ich die deutschsprachigen Amanda-Users mal nach dem vorhandenen Interesse befragen, um abschätzen zu können, ob so ein Kurs

mail.vh.org is re-sending old mail to amanda-users list

2005-04-22 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
Todd, mail.vh.org is re-sending old messages (from earlier today) to the amanda-users mailing list. Example below. It should probably be blocked from posting until this is fixed. vh.org postmaster, please fix your system. -Mitch -- Forwarded message -- Return-Path: [EMAIL

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