tape control and amanda

2000-11-06 Thread Clem Kumah
hello, I need some help. I have installed amanda-2.4.2-19991216-beta1 on Freebsd 4.1 I have a Breecehill tape robot with 15 cartridges in it. I have noticed the changer device is set to /dev/ch0. The actual device is listed as /dev/pass1. How can I change this? Secondly, is it possible to use

HP 1557A configuration

2000-11-06 Thread Yann PURSON
Hi, I'm trying to install Amanda on a Solaris 2.6 system, with an HP 1557A tape changer...Here is my pb : I'm not sure which type of configuration I need to specifie in the amanda.conf for the HP 1557A systeme...I've found on the web this configuration : [] tpchanger

Windows client

2000-11-06 Thread Alessandro Chiauzzi
I need to back up a Windows pc with Amanda. I didn't find appropriate documentation about "how configure amanda to backup Windows client". Could someone help me? Tank you very much. Alessandro ChiauzziSystem EngineerDialogos3 s.r.l. BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Chiauzzi;Alessandro

Re: HP-UX 11.00 client not responding

2000-11-06 Thread Austin Chamberlain
I have an unusual problem with an HP-UX 11.00 client running Amanda 2.4.1p1. The backup server is running FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE. amcheck returns the following: heri2000.u /usr lev 0 FAILED [Request to heri2000.uct.ac.za timed out.] The same client configuration works successfully on

Re: HP-UX 11.00 client not responding

2000-11-06 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
I have an unusual problem with an HP-UX 11.00 client running Amanda 2.4.1p1. The backup server is running FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE. amcheck returns the following: heri2000.u /usr lev 0 FAILED [Request to heri2000.uct.ac.za timed out.] The same client configuration works

Re: amdump hangs -- caveat hacker...

2000-11-06 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I got my self pretty hosed with this (no fault of jrj's his directions for twiddling the hme settings are essentially correct, just be sure to `man ndd` first as there's some subtle variations between Solaris releases) I suspect the switch might have gotten confused by the changing

Re: Windows client

2000-11-06 Thread Pierre Volcke
I need to back up a Windows pc with Amanda. I didn't find appropriate documentation about "how configure amanda to backup Windows client". Could someone help me? Tank you very much. Alessandro Chiauzzi System Engineer Dialogos3 s.r.l. You may use both Samba Amanda to backup your

Re: Failure to allocate memory

2000-11-06 Thread Eric Wadsworth
"John R. Jackson" wrote: Finally got everything set up right (I think). Ran my first test dump, and it mailed me a report saying it failed: taper: FATAL shmget: Cannot allocate memory Shared memory is a kernel feature that you may have to enable or turn on in some way. Try "ipcs -a",

Re: Compiling

2000-11-06 Thread Rolf Olsen
The RH 6.1 gcc compiler is in the egcs package. You may also need cdecl, cproto and flex. I used ./configure pentiumii on one of my early attempts. R. Olsen - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 7:45 AM Subject: Re:

Re: Compiling

2000-11-06 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:45:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to Amanda and I cannot compile it. ./configure says to me: "can't guess host type. you have to specify one". I plan to use amanda 2.4.1.p1 on a RedHat 6.1 system. Thanks in advance. And are you building it on

y2k issue in amtoc perl script

2000-11-06 Thread Eric Wadsworth
I don't know if this has been noticed, but amtoc -v returns 19100 as the year instead of 2000. Here's a fix I came up with: Modify line 141 of the amtoc file to read: printf ("\t%d-$mon-$mday",$year+1900); This seems to fix it. -- Eric

Re: tape control and amanda

2000-11-06 Thread Yura Pismerov
Clem Kumah wrote: hello, I need some help. I have installed amanda-2.4.2-19991216-beta1 on Freebsd 4.1 I have a Breecehill tape robot with 15 cartridges in it. I have noticed the changer device is set to /dev/ch0. The actual device is listed as /dev/pass1. How can I change this?

daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR November 4, 2000 (fwd)

2000-11-06 Thread Denise Ives
Just sda10 failed this time. There have been no changes made to any of the config files since I reported this problem last Thursday. Last Thursday's amanda dump reported that sd9 and sda10 Failed Nov 4th - amanda dump reported that only sda10 Failed Nov 5th - amanda dump reported that only

Re: where am i going wrong.

2000-11-06 Thread brian
I have not tried the permissions thing, but yes, i have successfuly run amlabel. Then that makes absolutely no sense. It's the same code. I assume you ran amlabel as the Amanda user and not root? I don't know what I did, but after a weekend of doing nothing, amcheck and amdump sees the

Re: tape control and amanda

2000-11-06 Thread David Wolfskill
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 10:45:11 + From: Clem Kumah [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need some help. I have installed amanda-2.4.2-19991216-beta1 on Freebsd 4.1 I have a Breecehill tape robot with 15 cartridges in it. I have noticed the changer device is set to /dev/ch0. The actual device is listed as

daily AMFLUSH MAIL REPORT FOR November 6, 2000 (fwd)

2000-11-06 Thread Denise Ives
To get my full backup - Should I force a level 0 to tape tonight? When I finish running tonight's level 0 to tape will amanda know to run the next dump as an incremental? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:55:28 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: tape control and amanda

2000-11-06 Thread Yura Pismerov
David Wolfskill wrote: Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 10:45:11 + From: Clem Kumah [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need some help. I have installed amanda-2.4.2-19991216-beta1 on Freebsd 4.1 I have a Breecehill tape robot with 15 cartridges in it. I have noticed the changer device is set to /dev/ch0.

Re: Windows client

2000-11-06 Thread Chris Karakas
Alessandro Chiauzzi wrote: I need to back up a Windows pc with Amanda. I didn't find appropriate documentation about "how configure amanda to backup Windows client". Could someone help me? Download http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html and read it all. For information on configuring

RE: AMDump Reporting Results Missing

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Schaffrath
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Nathan Bird wrote: In disklist I was under the impression that you had to write the following. hostname diskdev dumptype [spindle [interface]] The diskdev that it is referring to is the tape device isn't it? Nice idea :-) No, "diskdev" is the harddisk (sig!) on the

backup windows systems - file list in email report

2000-11-06 Thread Eric Wadsworth
When a window box is backed up, the email report is monstrous! It seems to contain the complete listing of files that were backed up. Any ideas how to prevent this list from being included in the report? Here's the first 0.1% of the report: These dumps were to tape DailySet1-000. Tonight's

Re: I have some tribal wisdom to give back to the tribe

2000-11-06 Thread Yura Pismerov
If I had Linux as a backup server I'd rather use chg-scsi. It gives you much more flexibility than other scripts. Most important feature that is useful when you have large number of slots, you can split the changer into few independant tape pools and use them in different configurations.