Re: amanda installation problem.

2000-11-17 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, reading the first line of the errormakes me ask what shell you have installed on your system, is it the so called "small-shell"? if yes, it looks to me as if the makefile uses some shell-scripts which are not compatible with your shell. install bash and all should work Christoph Hien Vie

Which version?

2000-11-17 Thread Michael Hall
First off I'd just like to say hello. Been lurking on the list for a couple of weeks now and have found it to be very informative and professional. Finally decided my data is worth enough to start actually backing it up instead of all the various hacks, etc. to copy cfg's, etc. to extra disks, C

Re: amanda installation problem.

2000-11-17 Thread Harri Haataja
"Sash is a simple, standalone, statically linked shell which includes simplified versions of built-in commands like ls, dd and gzip. Sash is statically linked so that it can work without shared libraries, so it is particularly useful for recovering from certain types of system failures. Sash can

Re: amanda installation problem.

2000-11-17 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, Harri Haataja schrieb: > > "Sash is a simple, standalone, statically linked shell which includes > simplified versions of built-in commands like ls, dd and gzip. Sash > is statically linked so that it can work without shared libraries, so > it is particularly useful for recovering from cert

Re: bzip2 support?

2000-11-17 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > On Nov 16, 2000, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The compressed representation of each block is delimited by a > > 48-bit pattern, which makes it possible to find the block > > boundaries with reasonable certainty. Each block also carrie

Re: bzip2 support?

2000-11-17 Thread Sven Rudolph
Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some people have tried bzip2 before. Invariably, they'd come back and > agree it was indeed way too slow to be worth the extra compression of > back ups. IMHO it is more important how long a restore may take. AFAIK with gzip uncompressing is way fas

Re: Debian Amanda-2.4.1p1 and firewall...

2000-11-17 Thread Espen H Wiborg
"John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I just read the recipe for amanda through a firewall, and was > >wondering if there is a way to avoid having to use the compile time > >options to specify port ranges. ... > Sure. Write the code to get the values out of amanda.conf and submit > the

2.4.2 port not secure

2000-11-17 Thread Ralf Palmisano
Friends, still desperate! Installed 2.4.2 as client on the webserver outside the firewall. 2.4.1 runs on the tapehost as server. Configured everthing (I would say yes) as needed including the firewall. see the config for the client: #! /bin/sh # Generated automatically by configure. # Run t

Backing up Oracle database

2000-11-17 Thread Fredrik Persson P (QRA)
Hi! I've been assigned the task to back up an Oracle database w/ amanda. I'm also told (by the db administrator) that a have to read the files under /u02 (a directory in the root of the file hierarchy) in a certain order. Let me explain with an example; I'm backing this directory up: /my/dire

ejecting amanda tape - after dump finishes

2000-11-17 Thread Denise Ives
Can Amanda be configured to automatically eject the tape from the tape drive when a dump to tape is finished? Or should I write a perl or shell script to automate the both the dump and eject tape process? -- Denise E. Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Engineer

Re: ejecting amanda tape - after dump finishes

2000-11-17 Thread David Wolfskill
>Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:48:40 + (GMT) >From: Denise Ives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Can Amanda be configured to automatically eject the tape from the tape >drive when a dump to tape is finished? >Or should I write a perl or shell script to automate the both the dump and >eject tape process? I

Re: ejecting amanda tape - after dump finishes

2000-11-17 Thread Johannes Niess
Denise Ives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can Amanda be configured to automatically eject the tape from the tape > drive when a dump to tape is finished? > > Or should I write a perl or shell script to automate the both the dump and > eject tape process? I do it via crontab: ... nice /path/am

Re: ejecting amanda tape - after dump finishes

2000-11-17 Thread stanonik
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Denise Ives wrote: > Can Amanda be configured to automatically eject the tape from the tape > drive when a dump to tape is finished? When I had only one tape drive, I ran a script which contained amdump $config amtape $config eject (I don't remember who sug

Re: ejecting amanda tape - after dump finishes

2000-11-17 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:48:40 GMT Denise Ives said: >Can Amanda be configured to automatically eject the tape from the tape >drive when a dump to tape is finished? Well, there's not much to it, in amanda's crontab entry, just do something like: 55 23 * * 0 amdump DailyS

Re: Which version?

2000-11-17 Thread John R. Jackson
>First off I'd just like to say hello. ... Welcome! >Finally decided my data is worth enough to start actually backing it up ... :-) >I'm currently using 2.4.2b2 but was interested in CVS and checked out the >'amanda' module but noticed thats 2.5.0. ... To get the 2.4.2 branch, add -ramanda

Tweaking reserve

2000-11-17 Thread Denise Ives
Will this work? Right now a cron job runs amdump every day of the week in the AM. I just forced amanda to do a full dump on Sat AM. I am leaving the tape out of the tape drive. The full dump image should go directly to my holding disk. Still leaving the tape drive empty, Amanda runs again

Re: ejecting amanda tape - after dump finishes

2000-11-17 Thread John R. Jackson
>Now I have two drives configured as chg-multi, but >sometimes backups only require one tape. amtape doesn't >know how many tapes were used. ... I also use a script around amdump (et al) and just run that from cron. It's available at: ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/run-amanda if any

error message in my report

2000-11-17 Thread brian
i have implimented dump on to my linux machines, but for some reason, one of my linux boxes does not want to back up using dump. it is running slackware 7.0, and it only has a 500 meg partition. this is the error message generated: FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- moxa hda2 lev 0 FAI

Re: error message in my report

2000-11-17 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, brian wrote: > ? /dev/hda2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read > while converting > directory #122401 > ? Have you fsck'ed this filesystem lately? That seems like some piece of the disk is not where the filesystem thinks it is. -- Nate Eldredge H

Mac OS X Beta

2000-11-17 Thread Sandra Panesso
Hi everyone: I am trying to install amanda on Mac OS X Beta but when i ran ./configure something wrong happened because after ./configure checked my system and the options that i used , the report from config.status was "unescaped newline inside substitute pattern creating amplot/amplot" " un

Re: aborting a level 0 dump

2000-11-17 Thread peanut butter
> > >My uncertainty is whether this partial, interupted level 0 backup > >on a removed tape will have any effect on future incremental backups of > >this disk. > > I wouldn't think so. The database only gets updated after dumper > completes. Do an "amadmin info " and I'll bet > it's all old d

RE: 2.4.2 port not secure

2000-11-17 Thread Bort, Paul
Title: RE: 2.4.2 port not secure This is happening because of Network Address Translation. Search the archives for "network address translation" to see what your options are. -Original Message- From: Ralf Palmisano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 5:16 A

RE: error message in my report

2000-11-17 Thread Bort, Paul
Title: RE: error message in my report My previous experience with 'short read' on a hard disk (under RedHat 6.2) was that the first line of defense is an FSCK of the volume. If that doesn't turn up any problems, start saving up for a new hard drive. P.S. I just bought a 20Gb drive for $104, s

Reinstall of amanda-2.4.1p1 with Samba patches on Suse 7.0

2000-11-17 Thread Thomas Gutzmann
Version of Suse 7.0 doesn't include the latest Amanda patches, especially those regarding Samba. To add them you must - download amanda-2.4.1p1.tar.gz - unload and untar it - download samba2-2418.diff - extract all four patches from samba2-2418.diff - run these patches against the direct

Re: Backing up Oracle database

2000-11-17 Thread John R. Jackson
>I've been assigned the task to back up an Oracle database w/ amanda. I'm >also told (by the db administrator) that a have to read the files under /u02 >(a directory in the root of the file hierarchy) in a certain order. Ummm, that's very odd. I've talked with my Oracle admin and we're not sure

Re: bzip2 support?

2000-11-17 Thread Richard C Bond
Hmm - how about linking bzip2 to zip/compress whatever you call you get bzip2 ?? On 16 Nov 2000, John Goerzen wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to use bzip2 with amanda for two reasons: > > 1. It compresses a lot better than gzip > > 2. More importantly -- data recovery is possible from a damaged tape

Re: error message in my report

2000-11-17 Thread John R. Jackson
>? /dev/hda2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read >while converting >directory #122401 >? In addition to the other suggestions of fsck, making sure your disk geometry/partitioning is correct, etc, this might also indicate an active file system. Dump saved this inode away

Re: aborting a level 0 dump

2000-11-17 Thread John R. Jackson
>... I remembered to check the /etc/dumpdates, as I'm using ufsdump >to back up this disk, and this looks as I would hope so this probably >means everything is fine both with Amanda and the host. I suspect so. /etc/dumpdates (and the corresponding GNU tar file) are not updated until the dump co

make fails: "don't know how to make amoverview"

2000-11-17 Thread Eric Wadsworth
Installing amanda-2.4.2-20001025-beta2.tar.gz like this: ./configure --libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec/amanda --with-smbclient --with-fqdn --with-dump-honor-nodump --with-amandahosts --with-user=operator --with-group=operator --disable-libtool make results in: make: don't know how to make amoverv

Re: Sony TSL-11000

2000-11-17 Thread Jonathan F. Dill
John, YOU DA MAN! and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I did even more poking around on Sony but didn't find anything more detailed on SCSI error codes, just some page saying "no further information is available" and that I could send e-mail to tech support. I checked their faxback system

"mismatch" interpretation

2000-11-17 Thread peanut butter
Hi, anyone have an interpretation of this: "planner: isengard:/isen1/iraf mismatch: no tapelist record, but curinfo next_level0: 59." seems to have run ok but . . . doesn't seem like a nice message. -- Paul Yeatman(858) 534-9896 [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: make fails: "don't know how to make amoverview"

2000-11-17 Thread John R. Jackson
>Installing amanda-2.4.2-20001025-beta2.tar.gz like this: ... >results in: > >make: don't know how to make amoverview. Stop There was a problem with that beta release. As I recall, using GNU make should get around it. >Eric Wadsworth John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: "mismatch" interpretation

2000-11-17 Thread John R. Jackson
>anyone have an interpretation of this: > >"planner: isengard:/isen1/iraf mismatch: no tapelist record, but >curinfo next_level0: 59." I didn't poke around real hard, but it seems like Amanda tried to look up the tape label listed in the curinfo database for the last backup and didn't find it in

Re: "mismatch" interpretation

2000-11-17 Thread peanut butter
> I didn't poke around real hard, but it seems like Amanda tried to look > up the tape label listed in the curinfo database for the last backup > and didn't find it in your tapelist file (which might be because of the > amrmtape you did yesterday) and it notices that it's going to be a while > bef