Re: unable to amcheck, amdump

2001-01-11 Thread Harri Haataja
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Takayuki Murai wrote: I was trying to do "amcheck" and "amdump", however, the error came up: Could you tell me what is going on??? = [root@backup test1]# /usr/local/sbin/amcheck test1 Amanda Tape Server Host

Amanda vs. AIX

2001-01-11 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
Hi, anyone with experience "Amanda on IBM AIX"? Any troubles to be afraid of?

Re: unable to amcheck, amdump

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Karakas
Takayuki Murai wrote: ERROR: running as user "root" instead of "amanda" Don't run AMANDA as root. Run it as the AMANDA user (which I hope you have specified). If your AMANDA user is, say, amanda, then do su amanda -c "amcheck test1" WARNING: program /usr/local/libexec/planner: not

Re: Help replacing tapes

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Karakas
Andrew Robinson wrote: ... I figured it was time to replace them. The question is exactly how do I do that? Suppose you want to replace DAILY0. Then do amrmtape config DAILY0 throw away old DAILY0 tape amlabel config DAILY0 (put your new tape in the drive) do the scheduled backup for

Re: Disaster Recovery Recipe

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Karakas
"Bort, Paul" wrote: If you can't append, you could write your indexes to a separate tape, as a separate backup set. Or to a MO/Zip/ORB disk. You just have to cp -auv /var/lib/amanda/Set1 MO/Zip-directory It may not be "vital" for the backups to save the index, but I insist on having it

Re: taper: FATAL shmctl: Invalid argument

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Karakas
"Shane T. Ferguson" wrote: I checked ipcs and it doesn't list anything in the shared memory segments (i am running RH6.1 with 2.2.18 kernel). I read somewhere on this list that ipcs -l ipcrm might help. I also found the following on this list: Shared memory is a kernel feature

Re: Help replacing tapes

2001-01-11 Thread David Lloyd
Yikes! You can actually relabel the tape just after you have amrmtaped it. For AMANDA, after "amrmtape" the tape is "new", even if for you it is "old" ;-) I refuse to immediately reuse a tape after it's been amrmtaped because one of my other fellow system administrators amrmtaped a real

Re: Help replacing tapes

2001-01-11 Thread Brandon Peskin
David Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I say, even if you do amrmtape a tape, leave it alone for at least one day before you reuse it. At least then you have time to realise you shouldn't have...call me paranoid, but when data is money... I agree. I usually leave it alone for one full

Trying generating tapetype

2001-01-11 Thread Adolfo Pachón
I've an HP-COLORADO 8G tape (4G real, 8G compressed). I want to execute: ./tapetype -e XXX -f /dev/st0 -t hp-colorado for generating the right tapetype def. My dude is if with the "-e" parameter. Have I put 4g or 8g?

tapetype detection doubt

2001-01-11 Thread Adolfo Pachón
I have an HP-COLORADO 8GB (4GB real / 8GB compressed) with scsi emulation (/dev/st0). For detecting the correct tapetype, What have I put? A) ./tapetype -e 4g -f /dev/st0 -t hp-colorado B) ./tapetype -e 8g -f /dev/st0 -t hp-colorado Thanks.

Problem with amcheck

2001-01-11 Thread Jürgen Knott
Hi! I have a little Problem with amcheck. I have changed the domain on the server from medienwerft to medienwerft.de. The name of the server ist fileserver and the domain is medienwerft.de. At the installation from the server i given as domain only medienwerft, but sendmail have some problems to

Re: HP COLORADO 8GB tapetype

2001-01-11 Thread Joi Ellis
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Adolfo Pachón wrote: Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:12:14 +0100 From: "[iso-8859-1] Adolfo Pachón" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HP COLORADO 8GB tapetype ¿Have someone the tapetype definition for an HP COLORADO 8GB streamer? Thanks. Perhaps

strange dump summary - can you explain this?

2001-01-11 Thread Denise Ives
There was a huge amount of output - so I will only forward you part of the dump summary from the Amanda Mail Report - FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: admin1.cor sda10 lev 1 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 3] STATISTICS: Total Full Daily

Re: Problem with amcheck

2001-01-11 Thread Thomas Stein
Jrgen Knott wrote: ERROR: fileserver.medienwerft.de: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hallo just "touch" the neccassary .amandahosts file and put it to /var/amanda. amanda@himbeere:~ cat /var/amanda/.amandahosts hamburg.bln.innominate.de amanda greetings -- [EMAIL

Re: strange dump summary - can you explain this?

2001-01-11 Thread Jens Bech Madsen
Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was a huge amount of output - so I will only forward you part of the dump summary from the Amanda Mail Report - ? DUMP: More than 32 block read errors from 134577504 ? DUMP: This is an unrecoverable error. ? DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails:

help

2001-01-11 Thread Sandra Panesso
Hi everybody: Since feww weeks ago I have ahd some strange error from amanda Could somebody tell me what happen? The most important is miro.tomandandy because this is my tape server. If somebody can help me thanks a lot? Sandra FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: miro.toman /usr/local lev

Re: strange dump summary - can you explain this?

2001-01-11 Thread Andrew Robinson
At 04:50 PM 1/11/01 +0100, Jens Bech Madsen wrote: Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was a huge amount of output - so I will only forward you part of the dump summary from the Amanda Mail Report - ? DUMP: More than 32 block read errors from 134577504 ? DUMP: This is an

Re: amreport

2001-01-11 Thread Simon Mayr
Monserrat Seisdedos Nuez wrote: hello: does amdump run amreport at the end???. If so, shouldn't it send me a mail with the report???, amverify does send me a mail. when i run amreport myself it gives a segmentation fault. Thanks montse hi there in my amdump (it's a skript!)

Re: Amanda vs. AIX

2001-01-11 Thread David Hayes
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote: anyone with experience "Amanda on IBM AIX"? Any troubles to be afraid of? My tapeserver runs AIX4.3.2, and two of the clients I back up run AIX4.3.3. I back up about 40GBs a night, and everything works great. --david

Question

2001-01-11 Thread Daren Eason
Hello All , I have a slight problem that probably has been answered , though I have not found much on the FAQ about it. I am configuring AMANDA for the first time , and everything has been done according to the docs/INSTALL document. The problem I am running in to is that amcheck is looking

Re: help

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Karakas
Sandra Panesso wrote: ? gtar: ./etc/amanda/miro_daily/index/ernst.tomandandy.com/_Local_Library_CVSRoot/20010111_1.gz.tmp: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory Clear: No such file or directory! But why? Well, have a look at the name: 0010111_1.gz.tmp. This means that it is a

Resolution

2001-01-11 Thread Daren Eason
Hello , Thanks to Dave Stracher for setting me straight. I was taking the conf argument to mean the conf file , not a configuration directory That works fine now. Regards, Daren L. Eason, Sr. Systems Administrator III Client Services Evergreen Internet, Inc. (480)926-4500 x. 2211

Re: failure of amdump

2001-01-11 Thread John R. Jackson
backup.red /home lev 0 FAILED [disk /home offline on backup.red.atr.co.jp?] What's in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug on backup.red? taka John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: /dev/rd/c0d0* on linux

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Herrmann
I'm using a mega-raid controller as well - you shouldn't be using linux to raid it - use the bios setup to define raidxx for the disks. The configured drive(s) should then be referred to as sda1,2 etc. For example, we configured our 3 disks as 1 raid 0 drive, which means that our disk list looks

Skipping Tapes

2001-01-11 Thread Richard Grace
Hi all, I have a dumpcycle of 7 days with 6 runspercycle, and a tapecycle of 30 tapes. I'd like to advance my tapecycle by 6 tapes to fit a delivery schedule, but can't seem to find a way to make amanda skip forward to the nth tape in the cycle before continuing. Once I remember being able to