Re: amrestore question
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 at 10:59am, Len Pikulski wrote I am trying to restore a failed drive from backup, and am getting an error message stating: --- amrestore: 7: restoring gateway.hdb1.20010919.0 File size limit exceeded -- Then back to the prompt. The file size is 2147483647 Any help on this error message would be appreciated. The drive receiving the data is an almost empty 20Gb disk amrestore is pulling the image off the tape and trying to put it into one file on the hard drive. But your system has a 2GB filesize limit, and amrestore is hitting that. You have a couple of options: 1) Pipe the output of amrestore straight into your restore program 2) Pipe the output of amrestore into 'split' and put the image into multiple chunks. You'll have to 'cat' them together and pipe that into your restore program to get the data out. Obviously, 1 is the more direct path. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: what's your capacity/hardware?
Here's my system : 42 Sun stations with Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7 8 2 RH 7.1 linux PC. == 275 Go Tape/Index server : Sun Ultra-1 with solaris 7 Tape changer : Exabyte E230 with 30 DLT70 = capacity 2.1 To The tape changer works perfectly, but i can't attach it to a Solaris 8 station. Anyone's have the same problem ??? -- Gael LEPETITLinux Registred User #176381 Intervenant Systeme OSIATIS http://www.osiatis.com Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Departement MShttp://www.cnes.fr
Re: dell powervault 128t TLO drive
What is the actual drive beneath the hood? Dell just rebadges all of the tape drives as far as I can tell. Jeff Jeremy Hanmer wrote: Does anybody have any experience with this drive? They say it's supported under redhat and that linux has 3rd-party software available, but don't specify what software it is. We use amanda now, and it's support will dictate whether we buy this nifty piece of hardware. Thanks in advance, Jeremy Hanmer System Administrator New Dream Network/DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com)
Tape drives and pemissions.
I am having a hard time installing amanda. I keep getting the message following message when I run amcheck ERROR: vault.rubberducky.net: [could not access /dev/vinum/mirror (/mirror): Permission denied] I am also having a problem with the tape drive. I get the message: rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label Tape01, checking label amlabel: no label found, are you sure /dev/sa0 is non-rewinding? The tape drive is an Ecrix VXA attached to a freeBSD box. Thanks in advance for the help. -- Troy Nachitgall Arces Network 877.473.0736
Exabyte 8505XL tape type
I am using an Exabyte 10h changer with an 8505XL drive. I have been
using the existing tapetype for EXB-8505, but those are only 5GB
tapes. The XL drive have 7GB tapes and we need all the space we can
get (took 7 dumps to get 10 servers).
So I ran the tapetype program and it produced this (with my own
comments, of course):
define tapetype EXB-8505XL {
comment Exabyte 8505XL tapes (works with Exabyte 10h changer)
length 9584 mbytes
filemark 917280 kbytes
speed 667 kps
}
1] I'm fairly certain these are 7GB tapes (and even gave -e 7g to
tapetype when I ran it). Why does tapetype come back saying they are
9.5GB?
2] When I run Amanda with the new tape type, it dumps about 2GB on
each tape, not 5GB or 7GB or 9GB. Could this be because there was
already 5GB of data on the tape and now it's filling in the last two?
This is the second dump cycle on these tapes. Do I have to erase or
rewind the tapes or something between dump cycles to get it to use the
whole tape or does this mean that Amanda is having some other problem
with the tape or drive?
TIA,
--
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
Re: How to nice an Amanda dump/compression
1) configure amanda to use an alternate gzip, as with: configure ... --with-gzip=/usr/local/amanda-gzip 2) make a shellscript /usr/local/amanda-gzip which does a nice --19 /usr/local/bin/gzip $@ Marc On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Gael Lepetit wrote: Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:52:40 +0200 From: Gael Lepetit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amanda-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to nice an Amanda dump/compression It's not what I want. I've made a mistake about my problem (and my poor english as not helped me). I want to nice the compression of the dump (the ufsdump|ufsrestore|gzip) on the clients. Jon LaBadie wrote: Assuming you use something like a crontab entry for your amdump call, put it there. Or have your crontab entry start a shell script that does the nice -5 amdump ... -- Gael LEPETITLinux Registred User #176381 Intervenant Systeme OSIATIS http://www.osiatis.com Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Departement MShttp://www.cnes.fr
Re: help :: advfs patch
i would like to extend my amanda backup capabitities to one of my DEC v5.1 boxes. the problem is it's running advfs. I've downloaded the patch and tried to install it unsuccessfully for about a week now. however, i've never used `patch` and i'm running into a wall on this one. could someone perhaps offer some assistance or point me to a website i could read up on the patch binary some more. for example, DEC includes its own version of `patch`. do i have to use gnu patch? can i use the dec patch? Though I've no idea of DEC's version of patch, but I'd recommend GNU patch. Then you do something like: cd /usr/local/src tar xzf /where/ever/you/stored/amanda-2.4.2p2.tar.gz cd amanda-2.4.2p2 patch -p1 /where/ever/you/lost/advfs-patch.diff The -p option specifies the number of subdir levels to strip off in the diff file, i.e. the might be something like: +++ amanda-2.4.2p2/client/sendsize.c ... --- amanda-2.4.2p2-orig/client/sendsize.c ... So -p1 is to strip off the first level of subdir to apply the diff / to patch client/sendsize.c.
