Re: about setting up the disklist.conf

2000-12-18 Thread richard
Dear sir, I can use the amtape, amrestore and tar now. But when I try the following: tar -xvf ns6.newsbook.net._home.20001219.0 for the file. It starts the tar process until: . . . ./sunecard/public_html/cards/cards/xmas004.gif ./sunecard/public_html/cards/cards/xmas005.gif ./sune

Re: about setting up the disklist.conf

2000-12-18 Thread richard
Dear all, Thanks. I can successfuly use the command: tar -xvf 202.85.165.88._home.20001215.0 to restore the file created by amrestore. Yours, Richard Ao - Original Message - From: "Alexandre Oliva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "am

Re: dump/tar taking forever on solaris machine

2000-12-18 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Michael Lea wrote: > * Mitch Collinsworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > The first thing I check when I see this is the network connection. > > Make sure the system and the ethernet switch port it's connected to > > are in agreement on half or full duplex. Amanda has h

New issues w/ a new client

2000-12-18 Thread Phil Davis
Okay, thanks for all the input last time, I have now switched to user operator again and it is happy and working... somewhat... now I get an even more ambiguous error... here is the error: dhcp /dev/ida/c0d0p7 lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] dhcp /dev/ida/c0d0p8 le

Re: DLT Changer Recomendations

2000-12-18 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
Well don't let that stop you. Get on amanda-users and ask. Someone will know how. I haven't done it on Linux myself yet, but plenty of people have. -Mitch On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, George Kelbley wrote: > Yeah, several people have suggested that. Problem is we can't figure > out how to create

Re: DLT Changer Recomendations

2000-12-18 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Lisa Becktold {CADIG STAFF} wrote: > Hi, Mitch: Hi Lisa, > We're thinking of getting a new Sun server/workstation and a tape library, > and using amanda to automate dumps. I was curious about your experience > with amanda. Well first off you'd be better off asking this

Re: dump/tar taking forever on solaris machine

2000-12-18 Thread Michael Lea
* Mitch Collinsworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The first thing I check when I see this is the network connection. > Make sure the system and the ethernet switch port it's connected to > are in agreement on half or full duplex. Amanda has helped me > discover a number of these mis-matches th

Upgrade with --with-testing option

2000-12-18 Thread Jonathan Knowles
I am trying to upgrade from Amanda 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 and would like to test the two versions concurrently. There is some info on docs/UPGRADE on how to do this. It does mention that specifying "-- with-testing" in "configure" the amanda service name will be called amanda-test. However Do

Re: HP SureStore DLT Autoloader 818

2000-12-18 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:48:08 +0100 Juan Jos Ferrer said: > >Hi > Has anybody a HP SureStore DLT Autoloader 818 ? >I have problems with the tape changer (HP C6280-8000) in linux (2.2.16). >If you know an easy form to change tapes... please tell me. Ayup, works just dandy for m

Re: about setting up the disklist.conf

2000-12-18 Thread Chris Karakas
richard wrote: > > Dear sir, > I have tried the -h -c > tar -hc 202.85.165.88._home.20001215.0 > with my file amrestored from the tape. > Then it shows a lot of strange characters in front of my monitor for a > long time. > May I ask what is wrong? > Richard, nothing is going wrong. Al

Re: DLT Changer Recomendations

2000-12-18 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:54:52 MST Greg Skafte said: >I'm looking at getting a couple of DLT Changers, and seeking advice >on peoples preferneces and opions. I'm using the HP SureStore 818 w/ DLT7000 drive. I've had it for about 8 months now, and it's rock solid. I've also used

Re: DLT Changer Recomendations

2000-12-18 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, George Kelbley wrote: > Hi, I saw your post on the mailing list, we just bought an Overland and > trying to make it work on linux 2.2.17 (debian dist), was wondering > which o/s your running? The Overland I was referring to is running on HP-UX 10.20. (Don't go there.) For L

newby

2000-12-18 Thread Monserrat Seisdedos Nuñez
> > Hello : > i'm a newby users of amanda. > I'm testing the amanda utility and i just want to backup the > /home fs in > /home/amanda which is the holding disk but not dumping it to > the tape, (i > haven't got any yet),so i typed /dev/null in the configure file field > tapedev > > i want

HP SureStore DLT Autoloader 818

2000-12-18 Thread Juan José Ferrer
Hi Has anybody a HP SureStore DLT Autoloader 818 ? I have problems with the tape changer (HP C6280-8000) in linux (2.2.16). If you know an easy form to change tapes... please tell me. Thanks in advance = Juan Jose Ferrer Lugea

Re: about setting up the disklist.conf

2000-12-18 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 18, 2000, "richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried the -h -c > tar -hc 202.85.165.88._home.20001215.0 -h and -c would be flags for amrestore, not GNU tar. Since you didn't use these flags when you run amrestore, now all you need is `tar -[tx]vf 202.85.165.88._home.20001215.0

Infinite loop in amdump (errata corrige)

2000-12-18 Thread Vincenzo Marchese
Sorry, in the output from amstatus /artis/... must be read as /myfs/... (obviously) Sorry again, Vincenzo --  "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.  We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy Anderson  -

Infinite loop in amdump

2000-12-18 Thread Vincenzo Marchese
Hello all, I'm trying to backup a system with the following fs structure Filesystem Type 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda2 ext2 4059408 1467617 2381742 38% / /dev/hda3 ext2 3656718 728352 2739201 21% /opt /dev/rd/c0d0p2 reise

Re: about setting up the disklist.conf

2000-12-18 Thread richard
Dear sir, I have tried the -h -c tar -hc 202.85.165.88._home.20001215.0 with my file amrestored from the tape. Then it shows a lot of strange characters in front of my monitor for a long time. May I ask what is wrong? Yours, Richard Ao - Original Message - From: "Alexandre Oli