RE:

2001-03-10 Thread Ben Hyatt
> Can anybody tell me what is going on? > What is this taper: FATAL shmget: Cannot allocate memory message mean? use ipcs to list resources allocated by user 'amanda' ; ipcrm to remove. -Ben

data write: File too large

2001-03-10 Thread Carey Jung
We just ran across this error, because we hit the 2GB filesize limit on ext2 filesystems. After reading the man pages, we've cranked down the holdingdisk chunksize to 2000MB, which should alleviate the problem in the future. However, the behavior after this error seems a bit odd. Amanda flushed

Re: amrmtape and /etc/{aman,dump}dates

2001-03-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 10, 2001, Albrecht Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: Do I have to edit all /etc/{aman,dump}dates files on my clients > by hand to remove the datestamps which refer to the broken tape? Nope. As soon as you `amrmtape'd the broken tape, Amanda won't schedule any incrementals b

amrmtape and /etc/{aman,dump}dates

2001-03-10 Thread Albrecht Gebhardt
Hi, recently one of my amanda tapes has been damaged and I had to remove it from my backup cycle with "amrmtape". Now I labeled a new one (with the same label) and want to continue in my backup schedule. Question: Do I have to edit all /etc/{aman,dump}dates files on my clients by hand to remov

Re: taper: FATAL shmget: Cannot allocate memory

2001-03-10 Thread John R. Jackson
>I've inherited two UNIX systems that use Amanda for backups. I haven't been >fully trained on using Amanda so I'm trying to read through all the MAN >pages and FAQs. You might also take a look at http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html. >Here is the message I get after the backup fails on on

No Subject

2001-03-10 Thread Anthony Tassarott
I've inherited two UNIX systems that use Amanda for backups. I haven't been fully trained on using Amanda so I'm trying to read through all the MAN pages and FAQs. I haven't found the cause of this problem and was wondering if someone here could tell me what is going wrong. Here is the messag

Re: new tape backup system

2001-03-10 Thread John R. Jackson
>Do I then need to run "make tapetype" from /amanda/tape-src even though >the tapes are the same? The tapetype program is only used for determining characteristics of new tape hardware (as in, some vendor just announced a new box). If you already know the right values, either from your previous

new tape backup system

2001-03-10 Thread Melissa M. Thrush
Hi, We currently have Amanda 2.4.1p1 running on a Solaris 8 box attached to a single CY8050 AIT tape drive. We recently received a new tape backup system with dual CY8050 50GB AIT tape drives and a 15 tape stacker. I plan on shutting down the amanda server and removing the old tape drive and at