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2002-02-19 Thread Monserrat Seisdedos Nuñez
Hello everybody: two questions: * i have a linux box doing amanda backups (amanda:as user bin) to an aix box (amandad:as user root), when linux does the backup in aix, which user run the program in aix machine?. * amanda runs tar in the aix machine, but i have

planner fails, dumps too big

2002-02-19 Thread Juanjo
Hello, Seems that only 4 out of 6 dumps are backed up. Two of them are skipped giving error message: dumps too big What I see is that it starts estimating sizes of every disk, therefore total size exceeds single tape size, but I'm using an autoloader, so It should jump on to a new tape,

Backup to HD

2002-02-19 Thread m . todeschini
Hi, this is the first posting I made to this list: I hope not to be asking a faq. I'm trying amanda right now, but I don't have a tape drive (I'm gonna buy one soon): is it possible to backup on a HD partition? Any hints or links to docs about it? I've been searching in list archives but

Windows backup messages

2002-02-19 Thread Gene Matthews
Below is what I am getting on the two windows (Win2k Pro) I am backing up with amanda. It appears to be backing everything else up. On the first one, I have a user on the win box that is an Administrator that is getting the sharing violations. The second one the win user is in the backup

Re: Samba Question

2002-02-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 19 Feb 2002 at 7:27am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote You're exactly right -- that's the swap file, and you can't open it. You could exclude it in your dumptype, or just ignore the error. I would like to exclude it, but the sample amanda.conf file (from which I derived the one I am using)

Re: disk offline ?

2002-02-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 at 7:56am, Martin Oehler wrote I got the same problem with one of my boxes. Are there known problems with amanda and ReiserFS? My log entries messages look like: got result for host pc20 disk /: 0 - -1K, -1 - -1K, -1 - -1K 0: pc20 / planner: FAILED pc20 / 0

Re: your mail

2002-02-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 at 10:08am, Monserrat Seisdedos Nuñez wrote two questions: * i have a linux box doing amanda backups (amanda:as user bin) to an aix box (amandad:as user root), when linux does the backup in aix, which user run the program in aix machine?. It runs as whatever

Amcheck reports no tape online

2002-02-19 Thread Kyle S. Allender
I'm having a problem with the following: RedHat 7.1, Amanda 2.4.2p2. Tape drive is an Ecrix device. Amanda user = amanda Amanda group = backup Dump is working to this device, but amanda is failing. Here is the output from the latest amcheck: [amanda@cluster1 /home]$ amcheck Daily Amanda

Re: Amcheck reports no tape online

2002-02-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 at 10:30am, Kyle S. Allender wrote I see the other errors about setuid-root, but the one that has me puzzled at this point is the /dev/nst0: Permission denied above. The device is writable by root - as I mentioned, dump is working fine. But amanda can't see the tape.

Re: Amcheck reports no tape online

2002-02-19 Thread John Dalbec
Fix the setuid-root errors first, then run amcheck again. You may find that your permissions problems are gone. John Kyle S. Allender wrote: I'm having a problem with the following: RedHat 7.1, Amanda 2.4.2p2. Tape drive is an Ecrix device. Amanda user = amanda Amanda group =

Trouble with tape changer

2002-02-19 Thread Eric Trager
Hi all. If you think you might be able to help me get Amanda working with a Sun server and tapechanger, please read on and let me know what you think. I inhereted a project to configure Amanda to back up a Sun E6500 with an attached StorEdge 30-slot changer, which includes two Quantum DLT

Re: Amcheck reports no tape online

2002-02-19 Thread Kyle S. Allender
On 19.02.2002 10.41 Uhr, Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 at 10:30am, Kyle S. Allender wrote I see the other errors about setuid-root, but the one that has me puzzled at this point is the /dev/nst0: Permission denied above. The device is writable by root -

Re: Amcheck reports no tape online

2002-02-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 at 10:53am, Kyle S. Allender wrote *hmm* That's odd as I did the build as root. Unfortunately, if at all possible, re-installing is something to be avoided due to management and time constraints... I will work on the setuid issues manually and see if that clears

Re: Amcheck reports no tape online

2002-02-19 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann
Amanda user = amanda Amanda group = backup [...] ERROR: /dev/nst0: Permission denied (expecting a new tape) chown amanda:backup /dev/nst0

chg-zd-mtx

2002-02-19 Thread Mark Lin
I'm using mtx in solaris to work with amanda. mtx command to the changer all works fine. But when I tried it with chg-zd-mtx -info or use it in changer glue script in amanda.conf then use amcheck, I get the same error messag: /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx: test: argument expected can someone

Re: amanda and gpg still

2002-02-19 Thread Will Aoki
to tape correctly. The issue is that I am unable to restore. If I attempt to restore from tape, it finds the dump and then errors like so: archivehost:/tmp# amrestore -p /dev/nst0 hostname /tmp | tar tvpf - amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20020219 label CheckTape0 amrestore: 1