A server rebuild question
Title: A server rebuild question Hi guys, I am falling in love more and more with amanda now. Got a new server and all set. Just a quick one. I remember that before, when running amcheck, I used to get an e-mail after. I don't seem to be getting this, but I do get my completed backup email from amdump like normal. Gavin. PS. Are there any better amanda documentation resources out there? I feel the restore one needs to be redone/added too. May I? P.P.S> it will be posted also on may page at http://FedoraNEWS.ORG/ghenry when I'm done, as I have been meaning to do the restore howto for a while now.
Re: A server rebuild question
Gavin Henry wrote: Just a quick one. I remember that before, when running amcheck, I used to get an e-mail after. I don't seem to be getting this, but I do get my completed backup email from amdump like normal. You probably have "amcheck -m Config" in your crontab. In that case, no news is good news. You only get a mail if something is wrong. Using "amcheck -am Config" will send mail always. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Re: A server rebuild question
probably you'll have to run "amcheck -a YourConfig"? regards, -rodi. On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 11:18, Gavin Henry wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am falling in love more and more with amanda now. > > Got a new server and all set. > > Just a quick one. I remember that before, when running amcheck, I used > to get an e-mail after. I don't seem to be getting this, but I do get > my completed backup email from amdump like normal. > > Gavin. > > PS. Are there any better amanda documentation resources out there? I > feel the restore one needs to be redone/added too. > > May I? > > P.P.S> it will be posted also on may page at > http://FedoraNEWS.ORG/ghenry when I'm done, as I have been meaning to > do the restore howto for a while now. >
Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)
Hi! I'm trying to use amanda with HP Storageworks MSI5030 library. It uses C7971A tpaes (100GB/200GB), but I can't find any amanda tapetypes in th Net. So, I ran amtapetype. It was working for about 12 hours with the folloeing results: $ /usr/sbin/amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 -t "HP-C7971A" Writing 1024 Mbyte compresseable data: 26 sec Writing 1024 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 71 sec WARNING: Tape drive has hardware compression enabled Estimated time to write 2 * 1024 Mbyte: 142 sec = 0 h 2 min wrote 3174843 32Kb blocks in 9709 files in 46846 seconds (short write) wrote 847763 32Kb blocks in 5201 files in 20794 seconds (short write) define tapetype HP-C7971A { comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on)" length 1107 gbytes filemark 74466560 kbytes speed 1736 kps } amtapetype: could not rewind /dev/nst0: Input/output error I think length and filemark are too large for this tapes. Does anybody uses same tapes with amanda? P.S. Right now I figured how to turn HW compression off (with mt utility) and started amtapetype again... -- Regards, Alexey I. Froloff AIF5-RIPN, AIF5-RIPE --- Inform-Mobil, Ltd. System Administrator http://www.inform-mobil.ru/ Tel: +7(095)504-4709, Fax: +7(095)513-1006 pgpM3YZlHNS0u.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: A server rebuild question
Title: RE: A server rebuild question Thanks. -Original Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 7/7/2004 10:49 AM To: Gavin Henry Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A server rebuild question Gavin Henry wrote: > Just a quick one. I remember that before, when running amcheck, I used > to get an e-mail after. I don't seem to be getting this, but I do get my > completed backup email from amdump like normal. You probably have "amcheck -m Config" in your crontab. In that case, no news is good news. You only get a mail if something is wrong. Using "amcheck -am Config" will send mail always. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Customising e-mails
Title: Customising e-mails Hi all, Me again ;-) Anyone know if you can tailor the e-mails that are sent? I had a good search through the list archives, but can see anything. Gavin.
Amanda RPM for SUSE Enterprise Server 8
Title: Amanda RPM for SUSE Enterprise Server 8 Anyone know if/where I can get one? I won't have time to do a compile on site. Thanks, Gavin.
Re: Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)
Alexey I. Froloff wrote: I'm trying to use amanda with HP Storageworks MSI5030 library. It uses C7971A tpaes (100GB/200GB), but I can't find any amanda tapetypes in th Net. So, I ran amtapetype. It was working for about 12 hours with the folloeing results: It runs much faster if you give it a realistic capacity estimate, as the manual page warns you. Something like: amtapetape -e 100g -f /dev/nst0 -t "HP-C7971A" $ /usr/sbin/amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 -t "HP-C7971A" Writing 1024 Mbyte compresseable data: 26 sec Writing 1024 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 71 sec WARNING: Tape drive has hardware compression enabled Estimated time to write 2 * 1024 Mbyte: 142 sec = 0 h 2 min wrote 3174843 32Kb blocks in 9709 files in 46846 seconds (short write) wrote 847763 32Kb blocks in 5201 files in 20794 seconds (short write) define tapetype HP-C7971A { comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on)" length 1107 gbytes filemark 74466560 kbytes speed 1736 kps } amtapetype: could not rewind /dev/nst0: Input/output error I think you ran into a tape write error the second time. The second pass should write about twice as much files as the first pass. (When giving a realistic estimate the first pass writes about 100 files instead of 9709 files. Much much faster.) The size of a filemark is computed as the difference in data written between pass 1 and pass 2 divided by the difference in number of file marks written between pass 1 and pass 2. Because you hit some error, that computation was wrong. The tape length is the average of the two passes included the computed bogus filemarks. I think length and filemark are too large for this tapes. Does anybody uses same tapes with amanda? P.S. Right now I figured how to turn HW compression off (with mt utility) and started amtapetype again... The hardware compression algorithm in the drive is capable of detecting nearly uncompressable data and does not behave as most other drives do (expanding that data by blindly applying the compression algorithm). That means it is not that important to turn off hardware compression for these drives. But it is important to find out where that error came from. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Re: Customising e-mails
Gavin Henry wrote: Anyone know if you can tailor the e-mails that are sent? Which way? The recipients? The space between columns? In amanda.conf (mailto, columnspec). The rest: patch the source :-) Out of curiosity: why would you want to do that? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
RE: Customising e-mails
Title: RE: Customising e-mails -Original Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 7/7/2004 11:38 AM To: Gavin Henry Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Customising e-mails Gavin Henry wrote: > Anyone know if you can tailor the e-mails that are sent? Which way? The recipients? The space between columns? In amanda.conf (mailto, columnspec). The rest: patch the source :-) Out of curiosity: why would you want to do that? I just wanted to add a company sig on the end. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
amcheck -m DailySet1
When I run amcheck -m DailySet1 i dont receive mails in my inbox i have set mailto in the amanda.conf file to my emailid [EMAIL PROTECTED] What could be the reason -- Regards, Kaushal Shriyan Technical Engineer Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. Tel : +91-22-22881326/27 Fax : +91-22-22881318 Cell : +91-9820367783
[Fwd: Sony tape ::newbie questions::]
-Forwarded Message- > From: Sergio A Lima Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sony tape ::newbie questions:: > Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:11:13 -0300 > > Hi my friends, > > I'm enable back-up server in my company and are dificulties in > configuration amanda.conf and tapehcharger. > > The device tape is above description: > > scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.4 > > aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs > > Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-4000E Rev: E326 > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > (scsi0:A:3): 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 8) > > When running amtapetype, receiv this information: > > define tapetype unknown-tapetype { >comment "hardware compression on" >length 2048 mbytes >filemark 0 kbytes >speed 267 kps > } > > Whith configure my amanda.conf and chg-scsi.conf files for correct > executing amanda back-up program? > > Best regards. > Thanks > > P.S.: Please, sorry my bad english. -- Sergio A Lima Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: amcheck -m DailySet1
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 at 5:35pm, Kaushal Shriyan wrote > When I run amcheck -m DailySet1 i dont receive mails in my inbox > i have set mailto in the amanda.conf file to my emailid > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What could be the reason >From the 'amcheck' man page: -m Nothing is printed, but mail is sent if any errors are detected. The mail goes to the mailto address specified in the amanda.conf file or the address value if -M is set. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: amcheck -m DailySet1
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: When I run amcheck -m DailySet1 i dont receive mails in my inbox i have set mailto in the amanda.conf file to my emailid [EMAIL PROTECTED] What could be the reason Different causes, but the most probable is that amcheck did not find errors, so didn't bother you with a mail to say there was no news. (use "amcheck -a DailySet1" to always send mail.) I could also be that mail is not properly configured on that machine, or that the machine is denied delivering mail on the mail server because it looks too much like spam. I guess you did check that the cables are connected right (just solved similar problem here :-) ). PS. I have this strange feeling deja-vu... -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Re: amcheck -m DailySet1
On Wed, 07.07.2004 at 17:35:51 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I run amcheck -m DailySet1 i dont receive mails in my inbox > i have set mailto in the amanda.conf file to my emailid > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What could be the reason Most likely your mail configuration is broken. Maybe the Amanda host can't send the email (assumed that your configuration is called "DailySet1"). Best, --Toni++
Re: amcheck -m DailySet1
On Wed, 07.07.2004 at 17:35:51 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What could be the reason My big apologies - the answer from Joshua looks much more plausible than mine. Best, --Toni++
RE: amcheck -m DailySet1
The '-m' parameter will only send you an email if there are errors during the amcheck. If you want to receive an email on any amcheck output, try using '-a' instead. # amcheck -a DailySet1 -Rob > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: amcheck -m DailySet1 > > > When I run amcheck -m DailySet1 i dont receive mails in my inbox > i have set mailto in the amanda.conf file to my emailid > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What could be the reason > > -- > > Regards, > > Kaushal Shriyan > > Technical Engineer > Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. > Tel : +91-22-22881326/27 > Fax : +91-22-22881318 > Cell : +91-9820367783 > > >
Re: [Fwd: Sony tape ::newbie questions::]
Sergio A Lima Jr wrote: -Forwarded Message- Sorry for not replying the first time. Too busy at that time, and later the message got scrolled above the top of my screen (about equal to the horizon of a computer geek). From: Sergio A Lima Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sony tape ::newbie questions:: Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:11:13 -0300 Hi my friends, I'm enable back-up server in my company and are dificulties in configuration amanda.conf and tapehcharger. The device tape is above description: scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.4 aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-4000E Rev: E326 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 (scsi0:A:3): 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 8) When running amtapetype, receiv this information: define tapetype unknown-tapetype { comment "hardware compression on" length 2048 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 267 kps } I don't have any experience with a Sony SDT-4000E, but "2048" seems a bit suspicious as "random" number for capacity, (especially with hardware compression on, which expands random data on all but the most modern drives). Is this more or less in the range that you expect for that kind of hardware? If you really want to use hardware compression, then you have to make a wild guess of how much uncompressed data will fit on the tape. Running amtapetype for getting the numbers is just a weird hobby in that case. If you want Amanda to do accurate calculations with these tapetype numbers, then you better have hardware compression off (and use software compression if you like). Whith configure my amanda.conf and chg-scsi.conf files for correct executing amanda back-up program? I don't have a real changer. Don't know anything about it. Other experts using chg-scsi ? You have to add that tapetype definition (using a better name than "unknown-tapetype") to amanda.conf and change the tapetype to point to that tapetype, like: tapetype my2Gig define tapetype my2Gig { comment "hardware compression on" length 2048 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 267 kps } I guess the real problem is much deeper than tapetype, isn't it? Explain what you try to do (e.g. weekly full backups using 20 tapes, and running each weekday). Also post the amanda.conf you build thus far. Best regards. Thanks P.S.: Please, sorry my bad english. Never mind. Mine is quiet bad, euh, quite bad too (he, Stefan?). -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
amstatus
Hi ! Can anyone tell me how do i know the status of the amanda progress while dumping to the tape #amstatus DailySet1 gives me saying dumping to the tape but what about the progress viz some % like 20 % something like that Any help -- Regards, Kaushal Shriyan Technical Engineer Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. Tel : +91-22-22881326/27 Fax : +91-22-22881318 Cell : +91-9820367783
Re: amstatus
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Can anyone tell me how do i know the status of the amanda progress while dumping to the tape #amstatus DailySet1 gives me saying dumping to the tape but what about the progress viz some % like 20 % something like that Any help That's the limitation of amstatus. (amstatus does give percentages, but they relate to the total number of bytes estimated, and have a granularity of each backup image.) Only if you can find out how to (portably) program to look inside a running process data structure and see where the current filepointer is in some large file. Even "lsof" on Linux is not capable of that! If you really really really want to get more accurate, you can configure a small "chunksize", and then using lsof find out which chunk is being taped from the holdingdisk. (Apart from modifying taper and letting it communicate how many bytes are taped using some e.g. some socket.) Personnally I've never felt the need to know more details. Usually I'm sleeping while Amanda works. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
error: can't switch to incremental dumps
Hi, I am using amanda to only backup the tape server host (for now), but I am receiving an error message in my amreport emails: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: 192.168.26 /dev/hda5 lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] 192.168.26 /dev/hda8 lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] amcheck runs fine. Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /home/amanda/dumps: 7789536 KB disk space available, that's plenty amcheck-server: slot 8: date 20040706 label DailySet248 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 9: date 20040628 label DailySet249 (exact label match) NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Tape DailySet249 label ok NOTE: index dir /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet2/index: does not exist Server check took 288.042 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check Client check: 1 host checked in 0.104 seconds, 0 problems found running amflush the next day shows "no file to flush" amrecover does not work either: AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3b3. Contacting server on 192.168.26.100 ... amrecover: cannot connect to 192.168.26.100: Connection refused could the two problems be related? thanks for the advice. Ed
Re: Amanda RPM for SUSE Enterprise Server 8
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 06:23, Gavin Henry wrote: >Anyone know if/where I can get one? > >I won't have time to do a compile on site. > >Thanks, > >Gavin. Well, admittedly I have all the tools here, but I can configure, build, and install a new snapshot of amanda in about 5 minutes if I pay attention. -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: error: can't switch to incremental dumps
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 at 2:22pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I am using amanda to only backup the tape server host (for now), but I > am receiving an error message in my amreport emails: > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > 192.168.26 /dev/hda5 lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] > 192.168.26 /dev/hda8 lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] What's in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug, amandad*debug, and sendbackup*debug on that host for that amanda run? > amcheck runs fine. *snip* > running amflush the next day shows "no file to flush" > amrecover does not work either: > > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3b3. Contacting server on 192.168.26.100 ... > amrecover: cannot connect to 192.168.26.100: Connection refused > > could the two problems be related? No -- the amrecover issue is one of permissions. You need an entry for root (in addition to amanda) in your .amandahosts and/or you need to make sure (x)inetd has entries for amindexd and amidxtaped and/or you need to allow connections for amindexd and amidxtaped in TCP wrappers and/or you need to make sure your firewall allows incoming TCP traffic on ports 10082 and 10083. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Installation problems
Hello, I've recently started trying to get amanda installed (the newest version as of a week ago) on a few of my linux boxes here in the shop and I've come across two problems. The the server install went smoothly on my Debian Sarge install, as well as a client install on 3 Fedora boxes. However, when I did a client install on two of my other debian boxes, amcheck returns that it cannot find DUMP on those machines. I've checked all of the following: 1) Dump is installed 2) The amanda user has priveleges to use dump 3) Permissions are exactly the same as on my my working amanda server as well as the working fedora boxes. I've checked the FAQ on the website as well as the help documents included with amanda and these mainly suggest that if dump works for the user on the client machine, it should for the server. Soo..I'm stuck. If anyone has any ideas about what I should be checking /doing I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks! -Steve
Re: Installation problems
--On Wednesday, July 07, 2004 16:15:34 -0500 Amanda Listserv account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently started trying to get amanda installed (the newest version as of a > week ago) on a few of my linux boxes here in the shop and I've come across two > problems. The the server install went smoothly on my Debian Sarge install, as well > as a > client install on 3 Fedora boxes. However, when I did a client install on two of my > other debian boxes, amcheck returns that it cannot find DUMP on those machines. > I've checked all of the following: 1) Dump is installed > 2) The amanda user has priveleges to use dump > 3) Permissions are exactly the same as on my my working amanda server as well as the > working fedora boxes. Does dump have the same path on all the boxes? Check the debug files (normally in /tmp/amanda) on the non-working client, it should give you the full path for the dump it is trying to run and possibly a more complete error message. Frank > > > I've checked the FAQ on the website as well as the help documents included with > amanda and these mainly suggest that if dump works for the user on the client > machine, it should for the server. Soo..I'm stuck. > > If anyone has any ideas about what I should be checking /doing I'd greatly > appreciate it! > > Thanks! > -Steve > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: Q: HP C7971A tapetype (Ultrium LTO 1)
* Alexey I. Froloff [040707 14:10]: > P.S. Right now I figured how to turn HW compression off (with mt > utility) and started amtapetype again... Thanks to all for your help. amtapetype finished successfully. $ /usr/sbin/amtapetype -e 100g -f /dev/nst0 -t "HP-C7971A" Writing 1024 Mbyte compresseable data: 25 sec Writing 1024 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 72 sec WARNING: Tape drive has hardware compression enabled Estimated time to write 2 * 102400 Mbyte: 14400 sec = 4 h 0 min wrote 3244032 32Kb blocks in 99 files in 7310 seconds (short write) wrote 3244032 32Kb blocks in 198 files in 7666 seconds (short write) define tapetype HP-C7971A { comment "just produced by tapetype prog (hardware compression on)" length 101376 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 13871 kps } -- Regards, Alexey I. Froloff AIF5-RIPN, AIF5-RIPE --- Inform-Mobil, Ltd. System Administrator http://www.inform-mobil.ru/ Tel: +7(095)504-4709, Fax: +7(095)513-1006 pgpgMlQKXSqMB.pgp Description: PGP signature