Re: disk vs tape sizes

2001-08-02 Thread Christoph Sold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am i correct that amanda will not dump a disk that has an estimate larger than the tape size, correct? Partially. amanda cannot split dumps larger than tape size. amanda _can_ split tar archives. i presume this is because amanda has no way of reliably

Re: disk vs tape sizes

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
using linux (deb potato). ... Sorry. I thought I saw something about Solaris in your E-mail. Anyway, on Linux, I think it's done with the mt command, something like mt -f /dev/nst0 compress off (or it might be datcompression). Take a look at the man page. -c John R. Jackson, Technical

several incremental backup on one tape, then full back up on weekend

2001-08-02 Thread Yoshiaki Ueda
Hi, I'm now trying to set up amanda-2.4.2p2 at Solaris 7 with DLT drives. The DLT drive doesn't have changer feature. I'd like to do something like: -- level 1 dump on Monday thru Thursday night without tape change -- 4 incremental back up jobs at one tape -- weekly full

Re: index tee broken pipe problem again

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
... I haven't touched something since weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've all heard that story before :-). Here is, what amanda report says: ? sendbackup: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] What else was in the Amanda report, in particular about this disk or from taper? This typically means the

Re: problem after changing amanda server IP address

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
after changing ip address of my amanda server got following error : server1 / lev 0 FAILED [Request to server1 timed out.] ... If Christoph's idea about hosts.allow/hosts.deny does not help (and that's the first thing I thought of, too), look in the FAQ at www.amanda.org for this message

Re: tar + solaris 2.6

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
i'am using Solaris 2.6 + Amanda 2.4.2p2. The backup server is on linux. When i'am trying to backup a partition (around 5.5 Gigs) using tar (gnutar 1.3.19) for cross-platform backup, i just get a time out and tar seem to run forever. What kind of timeout? In other words, what is the exact error

Re: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
I do a special configuration with only the host that I'm having a problem with (atalante). and amanda success to do this. So i'm kind of puzzled about it. That could just mean whatever made ufsdump upset doesn't happen to be active at the moment. -atalante is the backup client host and

Re: SKSP1 AMFLUSH MAIL REPORT FOR August 2, 2001

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
tunkki /usr/home lev 2 FAILED [out of tape] taper: FATAL syncpipe_get: r: unexpected EOF I've gotten this on two tapes now and various other errors since I upgraded to 2.5 (CVS) branch in hope of getting the file target to work. You've got to be nuts to run the 2.5 branch of code.

Re: disk vs tape sizes

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... If you have a changer and runtapes 1 ... i change tapes manually, and amanda should ignore this value, i believe. Probably true. You could use chg-manual to have a manual tape changer which would let you set runtapes 1, but that's probably not what you are

Re: amanda + tape changer + solaris 8

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
i am using the latest source tarball from amanda.org - i.e. 2.4.2p2 You may want to get the amanda-242-branch CVS source instead. It includes the chg-scsi that Thomas (the other Thomas :-) is more used to working with, and has certainly enhanced beyond what comes with the tarball you're working

Re: combined amflush amdump

2001-08-02 Thread John R. Jackson
Unfortunately, amflush is designed to be run manually and to a separate tape, and amdump leaves the older dumps in the holding space untouched even if there's the right tape in the drive. Do you have any suggestions to this situation? Two possibilities come to mind: 1) Get enough holding

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Script for tape usage statistics

2001-08-02 Thread Johannes Niess
Hi, This little script can be used to keep track of number of tape usages. I use it with recent GNU tools on a Linux machine. Multiple skript calls per configuration and day do no harm thanks to uniq and file time comparison. The calling user needs write access to the config dir in

Re: problem after changing amanda server IP address

2001-08-02 Thread Christoph Scheeder
hi, jcarreiro schrieb: hi, i have linux debian 2.2r3 and amanda 2.2.4-?? after changing ip address of my amanda server got following error : server1 / lev 0 FAILED [Request to server1 timed out.] server2 /archive lev 0 FAILED [Request to server2 timed out.] DNS FQDN

Re: SKSP1 AMFLUSH MAIL REPORT FOR August 2, 2001

2001-08-02 Thread Christoph Sold
Harri Haataja wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Amanda backup user wrote: The dumps were flushed to tape sksp_018. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush again to flush them to tape. The next

tar + solaris 2.6

2001-08-02 Thread Yannick LeBlanc
Hello, i'am using Solaris 2.6 + Amanda 2.4.2p2. The backup server is on linux. When i'am trying to backup a partition (around 5.5 Gigs) using tar (gnutar 1.3.19) for cross-platform backup, i just get a time out and tar seem to run forever. For the others partitions, i don't have the problem,

Re: DLT8000, IRIX, Indy

2001-08-02 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Brian Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:13:44AM -0400) Gerhard, In order to run the DLT8000 on irix (pre-6.5.12) I did modify the device tables, changed the device recognition string but didn't mess with the parameters so the DLT8000 was treated as a 7000. Mods where to

Re: disk vs tape sizes

2001-08-02 Thread amuser
i am *really* sorry if there is another very similar message that got sent to the list... i am having serious problems with my web-based email system... am i correct that amanda will not dump a disk that has an estimate larger than the tape size, correct? ... No, that's not quite correct. If

combined amflush amdump

2001-08-02 Thread Frank Strauss
Hi! I have quite small number of quite huge and expensive tapes (6 * LTO 100GB). My plan is to let amdump write level 1-n dumps to the holding space on weekdays and insert the next tape only during the weekend dump which would have enough space to flush the holding space *and* to run the