Re: Connection reset by peer

>Here is the result from the amdump log: >driver: result time 559.820 from dumper0: FAILED 00-1 [data read: >Connection > reset by peer] >driver: QUITTING time 559.841 telling children to quit OK, now that I understand you're not splitting clients among multiple servers, what time did dumper0

Re: Connection reset by peer

>I am running amanda 2.4.1-p1 on some Compaq tru-64 boxes attached to DLT's. >The number of systems I have been backing up has grown dramatically >recently, so I have split the backups up to run to two different Amanda >servers. > >The problem I have is that I can run backups from 2 of my clients

Connection reset by peer

Hi, I've checked out the archives and found this problem has occurred for several people for different reasons, unfortunately I can't find an answer here for my own problem. I am running amanda 2.4.1-p1 on some Compaq tru-64 boxes attached to DLT's. The number of systems I have been backing up ha

Re: write to tape order ?

Hello... John R. Jackson wrote: >> >> backup all the small partitions >> several local partitions start >> one of the partitions across the T1 starts >> the local partitions end at various times >> ... >> >> remote partition ends (about 4 hours later) and writes to tape >> holding area dumps

Re: write to tape order ?

>There is no tape activity for any backups started after the remote >(slow) backup started. I'd need to see the amdump. file to diagnose this any further. It doesn't make any sense and I've never seen Amanda defer writing to tape. When taper gets done with one file driver always gives it someth

Re: amrecover problem on linux

>Mar 13 13:23:55 nuthatch inetd[17275]: execv >/usr/local/libexec/amindexd: No such file or directory This seems pretty obvious to me. Do you have this file? Are all the directories down to it searchable by the Amanda user listed in inetd.conf? >RLE John R. Jackson, Technical Software Special

Re: Best config for a single large root partition

On Mar 13, 2001, "Carey Jung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My recollection is that exclude files are not supported for 'dump' > and 'smbclient' dumps. Am I right? Almost. In 2.4.2(p1?), exclude patterns (but not exclude lists, IIRC) are supported in smbclient too. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy

Re: large filesystem failing

>i have a huge filesystem (64Gig) that amanda is refusing to back up. ... Are you using dump or GNU tar? >... i tried increasing the etimeout to 3000, but no luck (and it's for SU >RE not waiting an hour!). The sendsize.debug file has an estimate in it for t >hat filesystem. ... Why do you t

Re: Best config for a single large root partition

>... My recollection is that exclude >files are not supported for 'dump' ... Correct. >and 'smbclient' dumps. ... Not correct. You may use "exclude", but not "exclude list", to get rid of one file from an smbclient backup. Yes, this is almost useless, but it's all smbclient gives Amanda to w

Re: write to tape order ?

> >backup all the small partitions >several local partitions start >one of the partitions across the T1 starts >the local partitions end at various times >... > >remote partition ends (about 4 hours later) and writes to tape >holding area dumps start writeing to tape Are you saying no tape activi

RE: Best config for a single large root partition

> > 2.4.2 makes it possible to define dump types directly in the > disklist. And since dump types can define the filename for an exclude > file you can have seperate exclude files for each disk entry (of > course you could also define the dump types in amanda.conf and use > different dump types fo

Re: Amrecover connection refused

>AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on CNCBACK ... >amrecover: Error connecting to server: Connection refused Assuming it's not a TCP wrappers issue or something like that, there is a problem with the 2.4.2 amrecover and how it connects to the servers that is fixed in the current source t

large filesystem failing

i have a huge filesystem (64Gig) that amanda is refusing to back up. it's only 23% full, but when i try to back it up, i get [no estimate] on the failure message. i tried increasing the etimeout to 3000, but no luck (and it's for SURE not waiting an hour!). The sendsize.debug file has an est

Re: Amanda Newbie

>How do I blank a tape? amlabel -f ? ... It depends on what you mean by "blank". Once you amlabel a tape, you may continue to use it with Amanda (as long as you don't change labelstr). You do not need to re-amlabel it every time it comes back around in the cycle. Why did you want to "blank

Re: Best config for a single large root partition

On Mar 13, 2001, Yura Pismerov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can't setup a separate exclude list for each entry in disklist file. Sure you can! Even in 2.4.1. You just need different dumptypes, each with its own exclude list. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.

RE: Best config for a single large root partition

> 2.4.2 makes it possible to define dump types directly in the > disklist. And since dump types can define the filename for an exclude > file you can have seperate exclude files for each disk entry (of > course you could also define the dump types in amanda.conf and use > different dump types for

Re: Best config for a single large root partition

Yura Pismerov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can't setup a separate exclude list for each entry in disklist file. > In this particular case you just need to put ./home and ./var into > exclude file and make 3 separate entries for /, /home and /var in the > disklist. I assume you don't have ./h

write to tape order ?

Hello... I have several machines that I back up using amanda. All but one are on the same network (100Mbit). The other one is across a T1(1.5Mbit) line. I noticed the following behavour: OS: linux (redhat 6.x) amanda: 2.4.2 and 2.4.2p1 DLT changer lots of room on the holding disk

Re: Best config for a single large root partition

"Woodcock, Steve" wrote: > > My disk is split thusly: > > /dev/sda6 on / type ext2 (rw) > none on /proc type proc (rw) > /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda6

amrecover problem on linux

Hi, I'm having some unusual problems using amrecover on a Redhat box. The message I get is : AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2-19991216-beta1. Contacting server on backup.poptel.org.uk ... amrecover: Error connecting to server: Invalid argument And in the logs : Mar 13 13:23:55 nuthatch inetd[17275]:

Re: dtimeout

Alexandre Oliva wrote: > 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 relea

Re: dtimeout

> > > 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. Yep, we still have used the old changer script. With the new one it works fine

Best config for a single large root partition

My disk is split thusly: /dev/sda6 on / type ext2 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 16G 2.9G 13G 18% / /dev/sda1

Amrecover connection refused

Hi all, Thanks for helping on 'hostname lookup failure' issue. But now I have another trouble. AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on CNCBACK ... amrecover: Error connecting to server: Connection refused and it seems having response from amandaidx via tcpdump, 17:43:21.497311 lo > CN

Re: start

Hi, your tape-drive is detected as /dev/hdb during boot, but you should use /dev/nht0 to acess it, as it is a tape and not a diskdevice... Christoph Alain Muls schrieb: > > 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