Re: file locking, 2.4.1 vs. 2.4.2

2001-02-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 20, 2001, "John R. Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This appears to be caused by someone getting a little too enthusiastic with ssize_t (signed size type), which apparently your OS does not provide, at least in the normal include files. It would probably be sufficient to add

Re: Failure and strange dump summary

2001-02-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 20, 2001, "FFx" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my exact version is : amanda 2.4.2-19991216-beta1 Then yours pre-dates the patch. Time to upgrade :-) -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com,

AW: SCSI-Error with Onstream ADR50i while amdump

2001-02-20 Thread christian . weiss
---/var/log/messages--- Feb 20 04:19:39 fordprefect kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1653712, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Write (6) 01 00 00 40 00 Feb 20 04:19:41 fordprefect kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 1653712) timed out - resetting Feb 20 04:19:41

Re: SCSI-Error with Onstream ADR50i while amdump

2001-02-20 Thread Remy Chibois
Adapter is an AHA2940U2W, only internaly connected to the ADR50i. So cable length ca. 30cm. - SCSI cabling and terminator are OK. Ok, now if I remember, this adapter has 2 buses (1 Fast/Ultra and 1 LVD/SE) and 4 connectors, 3 internal et 1 external. How is the ADR50i connected to the board.

cruft directory

2001-02-20 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi, I have just upgraded from amanda 2.4.1 to 2.4.2. After an amflush I received the following warning: Scanning /dump... lost+found: skipping cruft directory, perhaps you should delete it. Could not find any Amanda directories to flush. Not sure what to do with thing (English not

Re: Problems with amanda 2.4.2p1

2001-02-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 20, 2001, Patrick LIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can i know where i can find gnu tar 1.3.19 See docs/INSTALL in 2.4.2p1 -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com} CS PhD student at

Re: Amanda MACs

2001-02-20 Thread Ben Kochie
macintosh clients have been discussed before, but as far as what I've seen, the best way to keep mac files on an amanda backup schedual is to keep the mac files on a unix based (linux+netatalk) fileserver "F.M. Taylor" wrote: I know not of MAC, but have been asked "Can this new backup system

slow backups

2001-02-20 Thread Ben Kochie
I've been wrestling with some fairly slow backups for a while now. I have amanda 2.4.2 server, running a dual 733 dell rack server, (256mb ram, UW scsi disk) with a 3com 100mb switch stack. the network is far from saturated. the only thing that gets me are the clients.. I have 3 SGI's, a

Amtape not reqinding after a label lookup

2001-02-20 Thread Jason Hollinden
I've found a message in teh archives (# 25664) that describes my problem, but it doesn't seem to be answered there. When doing an amrecover, I load a tape using 'amtape conf label tapelabel' which loads the tape fine, then this happens: Load tape SMGDR1-06 now Continue? [Y/n]: Y EOF, check

Re: Failure and strange dump summary

2001-02-20 Thread José Carreiro
Yop again! i sucessfully upgraded to amanda 2.4.2 but my original path to the am* binaries changed from /usr/sbin to /usr/local/sbin so i copied my /etc/amanda/conf files to /usr/local/etc/amanda/conf when i run the "new" amcheck utility "/usr/local/sbin/amcheck conf" i got the error:

Problem with a Seagate tape drive

2001-02-20 Thread Trevor Linton
I have a SEAGATE DAT (DDS-3) tape backup drive, it holds around 1 gig of info, i'm having some errors with the amanda amdump First off, which I think is the largest error is in the /var/log/amanda/DailySet1/log.20010220.0, in which it gives this error message: ERROR taper no-tape [rewinding

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Re: Amanda MACs

2001-02-20 Thread Michael D. Walker
Well, MacOS-X is UNIX (FreeBSD), so should probably wait for the upgrade :-) On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Ben Kochie wrote: macintosh clients have been discussed before, but as far as what I've seen, the best way to keep mac files on an amanda backup schedual is to keep the mac files on a unix based

Tapetypes for Wangdat 3900 (Tecmar)

2001-02-20 Thread Victor R. Cain
These are tapetypes obtained with old 90-meter tapes and a new 125-meter tape purchased from Tecmar. Cheers, -- --- " Plus you have the wonderful narrative of how [Dubya] got where he now is. It took his brother, his father, his father's friends, the Florida secretary of

Re: Newbie help please with amdump error message

2001-02-20 Thread Dirk Webster
Sorry about the etiquette.. I was expecting to converse via the mailing list but got a number of direct responses. nocomp-user program is set to DUMP Dirk - Original Message - From: "John R. Jackson" In the future, you might want to respond to the whole list. They're used to it

Re: Newbie help please with amdump error message

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
The 'program' listed was DUMP so I added program 'GNUTAR' to my disklist ... amadmin now says GNUTAR but the same error comes up in the report. Huh? Amdump still complains about /etc? Is amcheck still happy? What's in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug on the client? What version of GNU tar do you

Re: Failure and strange dump summary

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
when i run the "new" amcheck utility "/usr/local/sbin/amcheck conf" i got the error: /usr/local/etc/amanda/conf/amanda.conf", line 85: configuration keyword expected "/usr/local/etc/amanda/conf/amanda.conf", line 85: end of line expected "/usr/local/etc/amanda/conf/amanda.conf", line 88:

Re: questions on DLT7?

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
Does anyone know if there is a problem using the DLT7 with amanda or solaris 2.6 or if there are drivers for solaris 8? I don't know what a "DLT7" is, but on the assumption it's a DLT7000, they work fine at 2.6. I've got almost a dozen. Why? Are you having trouble? Denyce John R. Jackson,

Re: Amrecover Problem in 2.4.2pl1

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
i still have a prob with amrecover in 2.4.2pl1 i never have this prob in previous version i run amanda server on a Sun sol 2.6 ... but when i try amrecover on the server , to restore a file or dir i always have : ... error reading tape: Connection reset by peer Is there anything of interest in

Re: slow backups

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
I've been wrestling with some fairly slow backups for a while now. I have amanda 2.4.2 server, running a dual 733 dell rack server, (256mb ram, UW scsi disk) with a 3com 100mb switch stack. ... The first thing that always pops to mind when 100Mbit is involved is a duplex mismatch. If one

Re: Tapetypes for Wangdat 3900 (Tecmar)

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
These are tapetypes obtained with old 90-meter tapes and a new 125-meter tape purchased from Tecmar. Thanks. Would you mind adding those to the FAQ at www.amanda.org? John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tweaking the schedule

2001-02-20 Thread Ben Elliston
"John" == John R Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Planner generates the list of what to do based on size, requests for John special service (forced full dumps, etc) and so on. That's a text "file" John with one line per disk piped into driver. Does the planner consider the

Re: Amtape not reqinding after a label lookup

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
I checked the amidxtaped.debug, and I've figured out what the problem is. After amtape is called with either the 'label blah' or 'current' or any other where it returns the amlabel of the tape, amtape does not rewind the tape when it's finished reading the amlabel. ... Is there a way to have

Re: Problem with a Seagate tape drive

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
ERROR taper no-tape [rewinding tape: Input/output error] FAIL driver fserver /home/accounting 0 [can't switch to incremental dump] I'm not sure what this means ... Did you have any trouble when you ran amlabel on these tapes? Basically, Amanda is just reporting to you what the OS told it.

Re: Newbie help please with amdump error message

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
I've just installed amanda for the first time. A test amdump gives me the foll owing report... FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost/etc lev 0 FAILED [disk /etc offline on localhost?] First, I suggest using the real host name rather than "localhost". You'll be much happier

Newbie help please with amdump error message

2001-02-20 Thread Dirk Webster
Hi I've just installed amanda for the first time. A test amdump gives me the following report... FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost/etc lev 0 FAILED [disk /etc offline on localhost?] Any light-shining would be appreciated thanks Dirk

Re: HP C1553A and chio/pickers

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
I notice: chio params /dev/ch0: 6 slots, 1 drive, 0 picker /dev/ch0: current picker: 0 that it says it has no picker when I suspect it should say it has 1 picker. In the past I've worked around this by hacking libexec/chg-chio to ignore this "situation". ... Where is the "right" place to

Re: tweaking the schedule

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
Wouldn't it be easer to (try and) change the code to use this priority field also for normal operation ? Possibly. I've wondered why the value is not used for this as well. It would be disgustingly easy (which may or may not be a good thing :-) -- we just need to change the sort routine used

Re: amreport Problem

2001-02-20 Thread Juergen Knott
Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2001 00:22 schrieben Sie: Hi! If ./configure cannot find the right program (it looks for "Mail", "mailx" and "mail"), you can set the "MAILER" environment variable to a full path to a mail program that understands "-s subject user". When you're done, run "amadmin xx

Re: amrestore problem

2001-02-20 Thread Juergen Knott
Hi! root@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin ./amrestore /dev/sg5 king /dev/sg5 is a changer. The tape device is /dev/nst0, and that's what amrestore wants. OK, i tested it with this commands: amanda@fileserver:~ cd /usr/local/sbin/ amanda@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin ./amrestore /dev/nst0

RESULT! - (was Newbie help please with amdump error message)

2001-02-20 Thread Dirk Webster
Hi - especially Chris Marble and John Jackson... What a wonderful thing sleep is... Based on various suggestions, I forced amanda to use GNUTAR. Running amcheck again, it complained about a non-existant directory (gnutar-lists) which I created amdump worked! Thanks Chris / John for responding