Re: archives at yahoogroups

2001-09-27 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Robert Dale wrote: > As long as I don't have to have an account or login to search and browse > the archives, I'm indifferent. Otherwise, I like Mailman and would suggest to > move the list/archives to sf.net. I agree that there are problems with the amanda lists as they a

Re: archives at yahoogroups

2001-09-27 Thread Robert Dale
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Jon LaBadie wrote: > So, the questions are; > > Do we want the list archived at yahoo? > > If so, who can/will add the "listsaver-of" > addresses to the lists? > As long as I don't have to have an account or login to search and browse the archives, I'm indiff

archives at yahoogroups

2001-09-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
As many know, the archives at yahoogroups for this list and the amanda-hackers list are not current. I could not find an appropriate email address at yahoogroups to ask about this but I finally got through to the right person(s). I sent it to "abuse" with a big "I APOLOGIZE". The following is t

Re: Amanda and RH 7.1.1?

2001-09-27 Thread Marc W. Mengel
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I mentioned to Margaret that Amanda uses inetd.conf, and since > FRH 7.1.1 uses xinetd.conf, I didn't think we could upgrade our Linux > installation without breaking Amanda. you just need to build an xinetd.d file for amanda: I'm using: - - - - -

Re: Increasing Client timeout

2001-09-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 at 2:01pm, Lalo Castro wrote > The client sends the reply packet, but the server doesn't seem to > receive them. The server, when called on it's own backup, recieves the > packet fine, which makes me think that the xinetd.conf and services > files are as they should be (t

Increasing Client timeout

2001-09-27 Thread Lalo Castro
Hi, I'm running amanda 2.4.2p2 on two RH Linux 7.1 machines, client and server. I am having problems with the "selfcheck timed out" error. An amcheck for the servers own backup returns success, but when the server begins the client amcheck, the host times out. The client receives the reques

Re: [could not access /dev/hda8 (/dev/hda8): Permission denied]

2001-09-27 Thread Lalo Castro
Mike lemoine wrote: Actually, I had it backwards. In the xinetd.conf I had amandad{ user = root} and that worked. The --with-user=root, was something I tried a few hours ago. I'm a little dizzy from staring at amanda so much trying to solve a different problem. Sorry. > Well, assuming

Re: PROBLEM: Dump is agonizingly slow on one host

2001-09-27 Thread Michael S. Peek
> What amanda proceses are running ? Just ufsdumps ? Well, here's an excerpt from top as I run my latest test: | load averages: 0.03, 0.07, 0.19 14:48:19 | 56 processes: 54 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 on cpu | CPU states: 99.2% idle, 0.6% user, 0.2% kernel,

Re: How to "nice" an Amanda dump/compression

2001-09-27 Thread Douglas K. Rand
** Gael Lepetit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:28:23 +0200 ** in [How to "nice" an Amanda dump/compression] writes: Gael> Hi, Hello! Gael> How to "nice -5" automagically an Amanda gzip/dump ?? On our FreeBSD systems, I do a login class (in /etc/login.conf) called "backup" and set t

Re: PROBLEM: Dump is agonizingly slow on one host

2001-09-27 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Michael S. Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:36:11AM -0400) > Hello all, > I've been using amanda for, well, years now, and I have never run accross this > problem before. I have one brand new host that is taking *WAY* too long to > back up. Here's the skinny: [8<] > The ne

Re: PROBLEM: Dump is agonizingly slow on one host

2001-09-27 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
> I sat down and did some figuring. Dump has been running on this host for > 18:21:27, and has only gotten 1.24% completed by sending 8992k of the dump back > to the tape host. According to a little math, I figure that it's moving about > 139 bytes/sec, and has about 61 days 16:26:36 left until

Re: [could not access /dev/hda8 (/dev/hda8): Permission denied]

2001-09-27 Thread Mike lemoine
Well, assuming that one doesn't want amanda running as root, has anyone else had and solved this problem? On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Lalo Castro wrote: > I had the same problem, but reconfigured it with ./configure --with-user=root, and >that cleared it up. > > Mike lemoine wrote: > > > I've seen

PROBLEM: Dump is agonizingly slow on one host

2001-09-27 Thread Michael S. Peek
Hello all, I've been using amanda for, well, years now, and I have never run accross this problem before. I have one brand new host that is taking *WAY* too long to back up. Here's the skinny: It's a Sun SPARC Ultra-5 running Solaris-2.7 with amanda 2.4.2p2. There are a total of six machines

Re: amandad simply does not like me.

2001-09-27 Thread Dave Brooks
jeremy wadsack writes: >It's run by inetd (or xinetd) so it is started anytime a new >connection comes in. If it doesn't get anything from the connection it >stops. Otherwise, you could end up filling up the memory / process >space with amandad instances by nudging the port and then not >connectin

Re: amandad simply does not like me.

2001-09-27 Thread Jeremy Wadsack
Dave Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >>So you started amandad, which started listening for requests, didn't hear >>any within 30 seconds, and so quit. That's normal. >> > The daemon terminates itself if it doesnt receive any requests within 30 > seconds? So you have to restart it? Surely that ca

Strange problem with selfcheck falling off process list.

2001-09-27 Thread Salvatore J. Guercio
Amanda Users: I have been really lucky so far with using Amanda for the past 3 years without any problems, but I recently ran into a stumper that I cannot figure out. I just built a new Backup server on a RedHat 7.1 machine in which I back up a mixed environment of Linux, Tru64 UNIX, Solaris, IRI

Selfcheck time out on some clients, not others

2001-09-27 Thread Jeremy Wadsack
Ok, I'm getting the selfcheck time out message for two of my 12 amanda clients. They all have exactly the same configuration, as far as I can tell. I have installed the latest amanda source on each client system, using the same config settings. I have checked, double checked and triple checked al