RE: Frontend , UI for amanda ?
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 14:00, Thomas Hu wrote:
> Amanda is client-server based product. This means, while its client
> might be in "bare" OS, amanda server is not. The server has to be fully
> functioning to provide the data recovering/restoring service.
More heretical musings :-)
More and more, as my servers improve in horsepower, I'm moving from
command-line minimalist environments to GUI. I mean, having X sitting
there doing nothing takes a pretty light toll on a 3GHZ server with 1GB
or more DDR...
Much of my day-to-day admin *is* in fact done via SSH and a console
window, but when I go to the server-room, it's a lot friendlier and
nicer to have a full-blown GUI... Indeed, there are times I Ctrl-Alt-F2
to a console view, as an option.
Imagine having a GUI view, when the heat's on, to drag-and-drop restore
a user's files. Imagine having a graphical tool to show you clients,
directories, scheduled times, etc. Kind of like a commercial Windows
backup tool, except that it works :-)
> I am not initiating a fire. Forgive me if it would irritate some of you.
I am not intending to diminish the huge efforts of the Amanda
developers either... it must be a good tool - I'm using it both at home
and at work.
But I am looking at Bacula now also...
--
Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and
Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers
Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America
phone: 604.268.7509 | Amateur Radio: VA7SFU, VA7GP
Re: tape drive opinions
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 19:58, Jeremy L. Mordkoff wrote: > I need a 80 GB+ tape drive for a Dell Poweredge 2500 running Redhat 8.0 > and Amanda > Any suggestions? Here's my $0.02: HP 230E Ultrium LTO. This gives 100GB before compression, and is SCSI-attached. Roughly $5,000, with each tape ~$60 I think. -Gord
RE: Pornography
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 05:43, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 at 8:02am, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote > > > I think you should implement a spam prevention policy and a moderated list. > > Are you volunteering to be moderator? My $0.02: unmoderated. I very clearly hear and understand the concerns of those worried about their employer reaction... However, on other moderated lists I'm on, I find that the response-time is 'way slow (if the admin gathers/vets/approves all postings before they go out), and there is notably less open discussion. Also, as pointed out, the claim on the moderator's time can be *huge*. I really, really hate spam, but I think this "cure" may be even worse... -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.268.7509 | Amateur Radio: VA7SFU
Re: raw device ownership & permissions on SGI machine
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 03:02, Harri Haataja wrote:
> I believe the /hw filesystem is created on the fly like /proc or a
> devfs.
> Nice to know this. I have not used amanda and dump on Irix so I haven't
> come across this.
I use amanda to back up Irix clients (Onyx racks). However, I have
chosen to back up filesystems, not devices:
b52 /data/cvsroot/ nocomp-user eth0
b52 /etc/ nocomp-user eth0
b52 /usr/people/nocomp-user eth0
It works fine, although I couldn't get the SGI freeware working right,
so I compiled from source.
-Gord
--
Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and
Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers
Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America
phone: 604.586.6186
Re: Xinetd not starting amanda
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 06:44, Mozzi wrote:
> Hallo all
> when checking if amanda is listening on the correct ports.
> netstat -a | grep -i amanda
>
> any ideas how I can trouble shoot further?
> According to me evereything there must work
Here are some thoughts - I hope they help you. I'm making many rash
assumptions here, like your operating system (!) and exactly *what* your
problem is!!! It would be helpful to have had a bit more info to go
on...
1) First, compare your xinetd startup-file with mine (I'm using
RedHat8.0, and my file is /etc/xinetd.d/amanda):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root-> cat /etc/xinetd.d/amanda
# default: on
# description: Amanda tape backup
service amanda
{
disable = no
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
user= amanda
group = backup
server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
wait= yes
}
2) Restart xinetd, mostly just for good measure. As root, on my
RedHat8.0 system, this goes like:
/sbin/service xinetd restart
If you issue "ps aux" (again, RH8.0 and similar) you should see a line
that looks something like:
root 544 0.0 0.3 2100 912 ?SMar04 0:00 xinetd
-stayalive -reuse -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
This shows that xinetd is running. Remember, xinetd is a
'super-server', which launches other programs (like amandad). Your
"netstat" command will NOT show amanda listening, because it's not; it's
xinetd that listens and starts amanda.
3) Verify that xinetd is able to "see" your amanda. For me, I invoke a
console-based configuration tool, and simply see that amanda shows up in
the listing:
ntsysv
4) At this point, you should be ready to try amcheck. Read the
documentation. Find where your amanda logs are stored and read them.
On my RH8.0 system, my amandad lives in /usr/local/libexec, and I find
it handy to use this to see if amandad is getting started by xinetd:
ls -ul /usr/local/libexec/amandad
The time that shows will be the last access-time; if it doesn't match
when you just tried your amcheck run, then it's not amanda that's
failing - it's not even getting started! Check (or temporarily remove)
firewalling. If you're using tcpwrappers, take those out of the picture
too (ie blank /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny).
There - I've tried to help you. But again, it's hard when you don't
provide your OS, and your problem!! Usually I would simply hit "delete"
upon seeing a posting like yours...
-Gord
--
Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and
Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers
Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America
phone: 604.586.6186
Re: Re-registering?
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 06:58, Potts, Ross A. wrote: > Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone > (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added"? > > It is dated today. I got this also (timestamped 3:28am). I'm ignoring it, because I am continuing to receive postings (presumably from my orig. 'subscribe'). Server-fart? -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.586.6186
html reports (Was: columm widths)
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 09:47, Don Carlton wrote:
> Has anyone changed the mail report to produce html?
Now, this is interesting!
Currently, I'm e-mail bound, so currently when I have html reports, I
used wget and sed/awk to reduce the data to an email.
However, we're moving to a web-info page, which will be loaded with
tons of mrtg graphs and all sorts of GUI info-at-a-glance. So, in 6
months time, amanda with html out, or snmp capability, would be cool!
-Gord
--
Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and
Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers
Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America
phone: 604.586.6186
Re: columm widths in daily mail report
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 08:46, stan wrote: > I remember getting an answer on it, but unfortunately, I can't > find the answer :-( > > I've got a situation where some of the fields reported in the daily mail > report, are bigger that there is space for. I need to know how to make > these columns wider. I am also interested in this. Much of the data (statistics) smush the 'time' into the KB/s field; my mail-client will accept *much* longer lines (although the stock width is probably an excellent default). -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.586.6186
Re: Problem with /etc/xinetd.d/amanda
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 23:14, Jeff Borders wrote:
> # /etc/xinetd.d/amanda
> #
> # default: off
> #
> # description: Part of the Amanda server package
> service amanda
> {
> socket_type = dgram
> protocol= udp
> wait= yes
> user= amanda
> group = disk
> server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
> }
For comparison, Jeff, here's my /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file. Note the
key line disable=no; I wonder if this is the root of your trouble? My
system is RedHat 7.3.
[gordonp@oilslick gordonp]$ cat /etc/xinetd.d/amanda
# default: off
# description: The client for the Amanda backup system.\
# This must be on for systems being backed up\
# by Amanda.
service amanda
{
disable = no
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= amanda
group = backup
server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
}
--
Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and
Research Labs Manager| Electronics Engineers
Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telephone Pioneers of America
phone: 604.586.6186
