Re: amrestore problem

2001-03-12 Thread David Lloyd
Hi There! root@fileserver:/usr/local/sbin ./amrecover Daily AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2-19991216-beta1. Contacting server on fileserver ... 220 fileserver AMANDA index server (2.4.2-19991216-beta1) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2001-03-12) 200 Working date set to

Re: amrestore problem

2001-03-12 Thread Juergen Knott
Am Montag, 12. März 2001 09:25 schrieben Sie: Hi! Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD amrecover What is wrong? In short NOTHING. When you start amrecover it assumes that you want to recover directly into your current working directory. You need to sethost, then setdisk. So,

Re: Amanda Newbie

2001-03-12 Thread Ben Elliston
"Casey" == Casey Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Casey Hi all. I am new to Amanda, so please forgive the newbie question. Casey How do I blank a tape? amlabel -f ? When I attempted my first real Casey backup, it finished sucessfully but was a mix of Level 0 and 1. Casey

Re: Amanda Newbie

2001-03-12 Thread Casey Scott
Sorry, I should I have clearer in my description. Yes, it is very possible, in fact probable that a full Level 0 was performed before killing amanda. So I am correct in thinking that all should be Level 0? I will check the FAQ to flush the database. Thanks Casey On 12 Mar 2001 21:48:23 +1100,

Re: Amanda Newbie

2001-03-12 Thread Casey Scott
Does doing amlabel -f reset the tape? I only have one tape right now, and I have completed the procedure for flush out the database. I would like the tape to be reset also On 12 Mar 2001 21:48:23 +1100, Ben Elliston wrote: "Casey" == Casey Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Casey Hi

start

2001-03-12 Thread Alain Muls
Hello, I had a look at the amanda readme and help files but I have no idea about 1. how to set up my tape drive (/dev/hdb as seen by dmesg). I have a hdb: OnStream DI-30, ATAPI TAPE drive 2. how to do tests to check whether the configuration is working? 3. how to make the first fullbackup

Re: start

2001-03-12 Thread Casey Scott
Setting up the tape drive is done in amanda.conf, as well the backup types and amount of tapes. amcheck [conf] will check your configuration without doing a backup. You can also try a back up with the tape drive set to /dev/null, amanda will go through everything w/o actually writing to the tape.

RE: Level of backup

2001-03-12 Thread Dave Stracher
dumpcycle 0 in your amanda.conf dumptype definition for the appropriate dumptype being used Dave Stracher -Original Message- From: Dr Prabhakar Ganapathy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:01 AM To: Amanda Users Subject: Level of backup Folks , I am trying

Re: dtimeout

2001-03-12 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from changer: ""amanda.conf", line 32: configuration keyword expected" and in line 32 in amanda.conf there was exactly the following keyword: dtimeout 3600 Maybe you have a newline problem.

problem with mtx and 2.4.2

2001-03-12 Thread Riccardo Cozzani
Hi all, I've downloaded, compiled and installed 2.4.2 on my linux 2.2.16 (RH 6.1). I've then used the old configuration from 2.4.1 with mtx and chg-zd-mtx support for my HP SureStore 24x6. amcheck give me the following error: amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result

Re: Amanda Newbie

2001-03-12 Thread Ben Elliston
"Casey" == Casey Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Casey Does doing amlabel -f reset the tape? I only have one tape right now, Casey and I have completed the procedure for flush out the database. I would Casey like the tape to be reset also You can relabel the tape if you want. Just to be

Problem killing bad dump

2001-03-12 Thread Kusznir, James
Hello all: I recently had a dump die for reasons unknown on one of my clients. Future dumps of this hard drive have NOT been sucessful (Data timeout reported in amanda reports). I logged into the box and discovered a number of processes owned by amanda attempting to backup that disk. I was

Re: start

2001-03-12 Thread Ben Elliston
"Alain" == Alain Muls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alain 2. how to do tests to check whether the configuration is Alain working? Once you've configured Amanda, you run `amcheck conf' to test the configuration. This is documented in the `amcheck' manual page. To *really* test the

Re: Problem killing bad dump

2001-03-12 Thread John R. Jackson
I logged into the box and discovered a number of processes owned by amanda attempting to backup that disk. I was able to kill all but two: root 29202 0.0 2.2 2672 1700 ?DMar08 3:26 gtar ... root 30706 0.0 2.2 2672 1700 ?DMar09 3:41 gtar ... I tried

Re: problem with mtx and 2.4.2

2001-03-12 Thread Joe Rhett
This is an issue with mtx, and with the chg-zd-mtx script or amanda. On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:52:55PM +0100, Riccardo Cozzani wrote: Hi all, I've downloaded, compiled and installed 2.4.2 on my linux 2.2.16 (RH 6.1). I've then used the old configuration from 2.4.1 with mtx and

hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread Charlie Zhu
Hi all, I encounter following error from my CNCBACK in 192.168.0.83 [root@CNCBACK DailySet1]# su backup -c "amcheck DailySet1 -c" Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: office: [addr 192.168.0.83: hostname lookup failed] Client check: 1 host checked in 0.109

Re: hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread David Lloyd
Charlie! Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: office: [addr 192.168.0.83: hostname lookup failed] Client check: 1 host checked in 0.109 seconds, 1 problem found (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2) But 'office' is really pingable in fact, What does: *

Re: dtimeout

2001-03-12 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 12, 2001, Alexander von Homeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from changer: ""amanda.conf", line 32: configuration keyword expected" Looks like the changer program is from some older release of Amanda. -- Alexandre Oliva

Re: hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread Ben Elliston
"David" == David Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David If that doesn't work, try dig 83.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa dig -x 192.168.0.83 is less of a mouthful. :-) Ben

Re: hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread Charlie Zhu
But how can I disable it, I meaning not using reverse DNS lookup? --Charlie - Original Message - From: "David Lloyd" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Charlie Zhu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Amanda Users" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 1:56 PM Subject: Re: hostname lookup failed

Re: hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread David Lloyd
Hmmm.. To disable it completely, I think you'd need to hack the source. DSL

Re: hostname lookup failed

2001-03-12 Thread David Lloyd
Oops! To disable it completely, I think you'd need to hack the source. Obvously you don't need to but I wouldn't if I were you :-) DSL -- CWA - Chin Waggers Association "Let's sit around and complain about something. Our topic for today is: ADSL...h...that `L' stands for Linux