Permission Question

2001-02-28 Thread James Stevens
I posted earlier about a sendsize problem. > sendsize.debug has a line in it that say: > could not lock /etc/amandates: Invalid argument The owner and group was amanda and disk respectively. The amanda services is setup to run as user amanda and as group disk in xinetd.d/amanda. When I chown roo

Re: installed succesfull - but...

2001-02-28 Thread Helmut Joachim Kammler
Hello Juergen! > Is there any (simple :)) howto? In German language? I've found a little FAQ in german language at the university of Chemnitz. This was my first help which You can use for problems in the beginning. http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/urz/system/b.../backupdienst/amanda_chemnitz_faq.html

Re: amrestore problem

2001-02-28 Thread John R. Jackson
>Where must i start the recovery? On the Server or on the client? Typically on the client. >On the fileserver (Tapeserver) amrecover give me no output ... Huh? No output at all??? >and on the client (king) an amrecover gives me: > >root@King:/usr/local/sbin > ./amrecover -C Daily -s fileserve

Re: FW: amrecover: XFSRESTORE fails

2001-02-28 Thread John R. Jackson
>>From the debug files I draw the conclusion that the arguments for >XFSRESTORE are not properly generated. >... >Exec'ing /sbin/xfsrestore with arguments: >restore >-f >- >-v >silent >-s >/usr/people/u762440 As I recall, I **begged** someon

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Re: tapelist question

2001-02-28 Thread John R. Jackson
>... I changed my amanda >configuration to use the DDS3 tape and I would like to know if i can >relabel my new tapes or if I have to create another tapecycle. ... I'm not sure I fully understand your question, but if you just want to replace the existing tapes with the new ones, you can

Re: amanda port question

2001-02-28 Thread John R. Jackson
>I use amanda 2.4.2p1 I just applied some changes to the CVS sources last night that do a better job of logging what is going on. If you can at least temporarily upgrade to them, it will be a whole lot easier to debug. >the critical programs: >-rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 367198 Feb 27 13

Re: question about report output

2001-02-28 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:26:20PM -0300) > On Feb 28, 2001, "Paul D. Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > planner: Incremental of pds:/usr bumped to level 3. > > taper: tape DailyBackup-009 kb 2986656 fm 4 [OK] > > > Yet I saw that /usr was dumped as

Re: DailySet1 AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE

2001-02-28 Thread John R. Jackson
>> ERROR: /dev/nst0: rewinding tape: No medium found. >>... >Tape drive is OnStream ADR50. The problem is the server is far away from >me and I even don't know if any tape there is in, but I assume it is. Why would you assume it has a tape in it when the OS specifically told Amanda it didn't? >A

Re: amanda reports BogusMonth 0, 0

2001-02-28 Thread John R. Jackson
>but amreport says it can't open disklist... what do I do? How did you try to run amreport? From what directory? Are the log.* files zero length? Any chance your Amanda user is running into a quota problem? >Alex John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A question about chg-zd-mtx

2001-02-28 Thread Jason Hollinden
Inside the chg-zd-mtx, it sets the TAPE environment variable, which works the same as the CHANGER that's listed in the mtx docs. On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm trying to get my first tape changer working, and I'm a little confused. > > It appears that I need to use the chg-zd-mtx

Re: question about report output

2001-02-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 28, 2001, "Paul D. Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > planner: Incremental of pds:/usr bumped to level 3. > taper: tape DailyBackup-009 kb 2986656 fm 4 [OK] > Yet I saw that /usr was dumped as level 0: If pds:/usr had got an incremental, it would be a level 3. But planner ended u

Re: Index issue with amrecover

2001-02-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 28, 2001, Eric Helms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > follows: /sbin/restore -ivf /data/hope > Verify tape and initialize maps > /data/sbin/restore: /data/hope: File too large try cat /data/hope | /sbin/restore -ivf - -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva

Re: Index issue with amrecover

2001-02-28 Thread Eric Helms
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > > backup server. I ran the restore on a Linux box with the 2.4 kernel, hoping that >this > > > > would alleviate the 2GB file size limitation, but so far the output/errors >continue. > > > > Once again, thanks for your help. > > Each chunk contains the absolut

question about report output

2001-02-28 Thread Paul D. Schmidt
I saw this in my report output: NOTES: planner: Incremental of pds:/usr bumped to level 3. taper: tape DailyBackup-009 kb 2986656 fm 4 [OK] Yet I saw that /usr was dumped as level 0: DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK

Re: about amRecover + empy mail report

2001-02-28 Thread John R. Jackson
>my xinetd.conf for amandaidx & amidxtape is: > >service amandaidx >{ >... >server = /usr/local/amanda/libexec/amindexd >server_args = amindexd >} I don't think you want any server_args. Note: >xinetd state-dump gives: > >Service = amandaidx >... >

A question about chg-zd-mtx

2001-02-28 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to get my first tape changer working, and I'm a little confused. It appears that I need to use the chg-zd-mtx scriptm but the version of mtx that I have is used like this: mtx -f /dev/sg0 next for instance. Now it appears to me that chg-zd-mtx just runs mtx like this: mtx next That

Re: amrecover and RedHat 7

2001-02-28 Thread John R. Jackson
>The important part is the strace of amrecover. Should amanda be >binding to fd3 and then try to connect with fd3? ... No, it shouldn't. This is fixed in the latest 2.4.2 sources with the following patches. Here's the log message: * common-src/stream.h: Move DATABUF_SIZE to stream.h.

Re: I'm stuck

2001-02-28 Thread Radu Filip
It worked! (you just cannot imagine how happy am I in this very moment) I had to upgrade to amdanta 2.4.2-p1-2. I build by own rpms from src.rpm grabbed from RawHide. I also have to made some tricks since that src.rpm is builded against xinetd. Now it runs with inetd and I finally succeded to b

Re: amanda reports BogusMonth 0, 0

2001-02-28 Thread Aleksandr Vladimirskiy
they aren't really duplicate entries - they are different hosts with the same disk designation being backed-up. Thank you for the help, but amreport says it can't open disklist... what do I do? Alex Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > > * Aleksandr Vladimirskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Feb 28, 2001

Re: amanda reports BogusMonth 0, 0

2001-02-28 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Aleksandr Vladimirskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:36:12AM -0500) > I am getting a results missing message from amanda as well as the date > is being reported to be "BogusMonth 0, 0". I ran amcheck and it went > through fine. I am including the report amdump generates in the hop

amanda port question

2001-02-28 Thread Dennis Hammer
Hi, I am sorry for restating the question that is seemlingly the most wanted on this list, but I cannot get it to work. I use amanda 2.4.2p1 the critical programs: -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 367198 Feb 27 13:49 ../sbin/amcheck* -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk93040 Feb 27 13:49 calc

amanda reports BogusMonth 0, 0

2001-02-28 Thread Aleksandr Vladimirskiy
I am getting a results missing message from amanda as well as the date is being reported to be "BogusMonth 0, 0". I ran amcheck and it went through fine. I am including the report amdump generates in the hopes someone might suggest a way to troubleshoot. Thanks in advance... *** THE DUMPS DID NOT

Re: about amRecover

2001-02-28 Thread Pierre Volcke
> >> did you check /tmp/amanda/amrecover.*.debug ? > > > > amrecover.debug shows only 1 line: > > amrecover: debug 1 pid 16190 ruid 0 euid 0 start time Wed Feb 28 > > 12:13:55 2001 > > And are you running this on the server ? > if not, you have to specify the server > amrecover -C daily1 -s

Re: sednsize problem

2001-02-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:05:04PM +0100, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > * Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:22:10AM -0300) > > On Feb 28, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > GNUTAR sda6 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1 exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda

Re: sednsize problem

2001-02-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 28, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:22:10AM -0300) > I did ^C a test amdump for this config during the estimate phase. > Could it be that amandates is corrupt ? Well, it might be, but it certainly woul

Re: sednsize problem

2001-02-28 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:22:10AM -0300) > On Feb 28, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > GNUTAR sda6 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1 exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar > > GNUTAR sda6 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1 exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/a

Re: sednsize problem

2001-02-28 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 28, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GNUTAR sda6 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1 exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar > GNUTAR sda6 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1 exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar > Which I take to ask (twice ?) for a level 0 dump Yep. Which is

Re: about amRecover + empy mail report

2001-02-28 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Pierre Volcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:03:06PM +0100) >>> When I try to run 'amrecover' to check file index & >>> recovery, here's what it says: bash$ /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover -C daily1 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on * amrecover: U

Re: about amRecover + empy mail report

2001-02-28 Thread Pierre Volcke
> > When I try to run 'amrecover' to check file index & > > recovery, here's what it says: > > >> bash$ /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover -C daily1 > >> AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on * > >> amrecover: Unexpected server end of file > > did you check /tmp/amanda/amrecover.*.deb

Re: sednsize problem

2001-02-28 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:36:20PM -0300) > On Feb 27, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What is the easiest way to debug sendsize ? > Get the request from amandad.debug and feed it to sendsize's stdin. OK, full output of the amandad.de

Re: about amRecover + empy mail report

2001-02-28 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Pierre Volcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:26:46AM +0100) > > hello, > > this question was already posted yesterday, but I > got no answer! ;) > > 1/ > > When I try to run 'amrecover' to check file index & > recovery, here's what it says: >> bash$ /usr/local/amanda/sbin/am

about amRecover + empy mail report

2001-02-28 Thread Pierre Volcke
hello, this question was already posted yesterday, but I got no answer! ;) 1/ When I try to run 'amrecover' to check file index & recovery, here's what it says: > bash$ /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover -C daily1 > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on * > amrecover: Unexpected s

Re: I'm stuck

2001-02-28 Thread Johannes Niess
Radu Filip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, Johanness! > > Thank you very much for your answer. > > On 27 Feb 2001, Johannes Niess wrote: > > > 1) Amanda sets options for gnutar to stop at partition boundaries. > > >From the logs I see that it's not this one... > > > 2) If your holding d