Re: Backing up a system twice, simultaneously ?

2001-09-01 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:39:54 CDT "Marc W. Mengel" said: >I have a script that will rsh over to some list of nodes and make a >disklist, and one to check your disklist and tell you if new filesystems >have appeared, and suggest a new disklist. I can post them if >anyone's inter

Re: dump to tape failed

2001-09-01 Thread wanadoo
Mitch Collinsworth ha escrito: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, wanadoo wrote: > > > driver: result time 3.503 from dumper0: FAILED 01-2 [taper port > > open: Resource temporarily > > unavailable] > > driver: result time 123.497 from taper: TAPE-ERROR 00-1 [port > > connect timeout] > > It sounds

Re: Looking for info on freebsd and an HP DAT24x6i changer.

2001-09-01 Thread Douglas K. Rand
grubble> [...] I'm desperately trying to figure out why I can't get an grubble> HP Surestore 24x6i changer to work with freebsd. I've grubble> exhausted all of my resources and mailing lists to no avail, grubble> so I'm resorting to emailing you because of this message I grubble> found in the ama

Getting a TOC from an existing tape?

2001-09-01 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, I just checked the FAQ-O-Matic and docs/, but couldn't find this answer. (btw, looks like that fom needs some clean-up, there are a bunch of empty "New Item" items in there). I have a tape, and want to find out what's on it directly from the tape. I know I've seen this answered some w

Re: Getting a TOC from an existing tape?

2001-09-01 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: > I just checked the FAQ-O-Matic and docs/, but couldn't find this answer. > (btw, looks like that fom needs some clean-up, there are a bunch of > empty "New Item" items in there). Yes, it's getting to be a bit of a mess. > I have a tape, and want to

Re: amverify, can't do tar dumps

2001-09-01 Thread bhlewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Was tar-1.13.17 a known troublemaker? In other words, are the backups > currently on hand, made by tar-1.13.17 all trashed? Yes it's a known troublemaker, and your backups may well be trashed. 1.13.17 created bad Amanda index files, so amrestore won't work correctly.

amrecover trouble

2001-09-01 Thread John Holstein, IS
Unix Linux Trying a "test" of amrecover. using the command: amrecover -C /Inside/ -s backup.x.net -t backup.x.net -d /dev/nst0 I am getting: amrecover: Unexpected server end of file Ok, that's fine, I think it's because I am not running a DNS server inside the firewall and the 10.0.0

Re: Getting a TOC from an existing tape?

2001-09-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 at 10:40am, Paul Lussier wrote > I just checked the FAQ-O-Matic and docs/, but couldn't find this answer. > (btw, looks like that fom needs some clean-up, there are a bunch of > empty "New Item" items in there). > > I have a tape, and want to find out what's on it directly fr

Avoiding zero size dumps

2001-09-01 Thread Robert Minsk
Why is amanda dumping the following directory at level 1 when the estimate returns 0K? setting up estimates for millennium:/shows/vsky/mn/mn065 setup_estimate: millennium:/shows/vsky/mn/mn065: command 0, options: last_level 0 next_level0 6 level_days 0 getting estimates 0 (20) 1 (0) -1 (-

Re: regenerating an amanda report

2001-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Joshua Baker-LePain; JB> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 at 3:51pm, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote JB> Yeah, I did write that on Aug 15. And I *didn't* send it out JB> again... Yeah, I have a regular rash of old messages this morning. ??? Cheers, Gene -- Gene Heskett, CE

Dump failures

2001-09-01 Thread Frank Bertrand
If anyone can give me a clue as to what is going on, it would be greatly appreciated. Help 1: I have a Linux box running RedHat 7.1; Linux sxgate 2.4.2-2smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 8 20:21:34 EDT 2001 i686 unknown FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 13G 3.2G

troubleshooting

2001-09-01 Thread brian
i have been having some trouble with my tape drive.. and in turn, trouble with amanda. what are some simple things i can do to test out my tape drive? any time i try and write to a tape amanda says that there is no tape or that its at the end of the tape. ive got a sony ait-1 drive on a machine

Host down selfcheck error -- new cause for the problem (with solution...)

2001-09-01 Thread John W. Price
Hi all: I just added a new client to my amanda setup, and ran amcheck to make sure it was working. It didn't. Instead, I got the following: = > amcheck DailySet1 Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk {dumpdisk}: {size} disk space available, using {othersi

Undesired tape usage

2001-09-01 Thread David Galveias
Hi there. Here's my situation: I have sets of 4 tapes (one 24 Gb tape + three 2 Gb tapes) to backup my machines. I'll have 4 runs per cycle corresponding to the 4 weeks of the month, meaning that i want to have: 1st run (1st week) - full backup using 24 Gb tape 2nd run (2nd week) - incremental b

Re: Can't start amandad from xinetd on RedHat 7.1

2001-09-01 Thread John R. Jackson
>It did end up being something that Bastille did ... FYI, I don't know what "Bastille" is (not sure I want to), but just get the general idea from your comments. >... we finally determined that it had closed down anything that used UDP >and dgrams. Sheesh! That's kind of excessive. :-) Mor

Re: amrecover trouble

2001-09-01 Thread Chris Pascoe
Hi John, > amrecover -C /Inside/ -s backup.x.net -t backup.x.net -d /dev/nst0 ... leads to... > amrecover: Unexpected server end of file This sounds like you have the "wait" flag set to "yes" for the amandaidx service in /etc/xinetd.d/amandaidx. Try changing it to "no". (Or, if your bo

amcheck ok, but amdump fails with missing result...

2001-09-01 Thread Dail Rowe
Hi Everyone, I have been using amanda to do backups to a tape drive for a while, but we recently decided to start doing backups to a RAID system. I downloaded amanda-242-tapeio from sourceforge, and the compile and install went fine. The only problem is I can't get it to work... Sorry for the le

Re: amrecover

2001-09-01 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Brandon Amundson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 02:58:11PM -0400) > First I want to say thanks to all of you who respond to email like mine. > > I am trying to test amrecover. when I run amrecover daily, I get the > following error. > > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server

Re: Solaris 8 Server hangs during backup

2001-09-01 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Eva Freer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 11:52:48AM -0400) > Amanda Users: > > We have a highly subnetted configuration of Solaris 8 and 2.6 boxes, mostly > E220R's. The subnets are connected via firewalls. Each subnet has its own > Amanda server with an Exabyte Mammoth tape drive. W

Re: Undesired tape usage

2001-09-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 at 7:52pm, David Galveias wrote > 1st run (1st week) - full backup using 24 Gb tape > 2nd run (2nd week) - incremental backup using 2 Gb tape > 3rd run (3rd week) - incremental backup using 2 Gb tape > 4th run (4th week) - incremental backup using 2 Gb tape > > 1st run (1st we

Re: amcheck ok, but amdump fails with missing result...

2001-09-01 Thread John R. Jackson
>... The only problem is I can't get it to work... The output you sent (which was just what was needed to start working on this, btw -- thanks), all looks perfectly correct, with the one minor issue that sendsize didn't do anything :-). Put these two lines: OPTIONS maxdumps=4;hostname=raid1;

RE: Can't start amandad from xinetd on RedHat 7.1

2001-09-01 Thread Mark Holm
John, Bastille is a program distributed by www.bastille-linux.org to tighten the security of Linux. It is now also distributed on the RedHat 7.1 CD's and is one of the three recommended methods of tightening up a system that sits outside the firewall on the Internet. If I get a chance, I'll try i

Re: Reading Indices

2001-09-01 Thread Lorrie Wood
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:21:52PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: > > >amrecover> history > > How many lines are in your tapelist file? That's exactly what it turned out to be. 8-) Not enough lines in tapelist, because I hadn't set tapespercycle large enough. I wanted a hundred tape recy

Re: Reading Indices

2001-09-01 Thread John R. Jackson
>> How many lines are in your tapelist file? > > That's exactly what it turned out to be. ... Yeah, sorry about that. I was cleaning up two weeks worth of E-mail and didn't notice you had already worked out this part of the problem. > So, adding them to tapelist got me up to four w

Multiple tape sets possible?

2001-09-01 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
Hello Amanda People, I'm running amanda with a five-tape DLT changer, and everything seems to work just beautifully so far (well, after I spent two hours trying to label a cleaning tape at least ;). However, I do have some questions regarding how to use the tapes, or how to arrange them in "tap