Re: Backups running fine, but getting empty reports

2002-03-05 Thread Johannes Niess
Graham Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The body of the daily backup report is always empty. Is there a > /tmp/amanda/ file I can poke into to see if there's some file > permission problem? > > Graham Graham, Did you change your "columnspec" parameter? Especially "-1" values seem to be buggy

Problem after upgrading OS

2002-03-05 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! Last week I upgraded the OS of my backup-server from FreeBSD 4.3 to 4.5. After that there has been one unpleasant change in the way that Amanda 2.4.2p1 behaves on that server. I'm using the chg-manual script with HP DDS-3 drive (HP C1537A) which the system sees as /dev/nsa0. The probl

Build dies trying to make amoverview

2002-03-05 Thread Ruth Anne
I am attempting to make amanda 2.4.2p2 on a NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA system The make dies with the following message: cat amcheckdb.sh > amcheckdb chmod a+x amcheckdb cat amcleanup.sh > amcleanup chmod a+x amcleanup cat amdump.sh > amdump chmod a+x amdump make: don't know how to make amoverview. Stop **

Re: difference in tape devices question

2002-03-05 Thread Eric Trager
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Davidson, Brian wrote: > Can anyone tell me the difference between the following no-rewind tape > devices on Linux? I can't seem to find any info anywhere. > > /dev/nst0 > /dev/nst0a > /dev/nst0l > /dev/nst0m I think the -l and -m notations instruct the system to send inform

Re: Can you build amanda on one computer and move it to another?

2002-03-05 Thread Wayne Richards
If you're talking about making a client, why not just use the binary you created for the first box? We have 53 boxes of different genre running amanda. Our backup server is a Sun box running Solaris 6. A bunch of our clients are Sun boxes running Solaris 8 and we automount the amanda directo

Re: Tapelist

2002-03-05 Thread Jan Boshoff
Sorry, I just found my question in the FAQ. Please ignore and forgive me for asking before reading! Thanks Jan Jan Boshoff wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Again a general question. I added some tapes to our cycle, but in such > a way that my tapelist looks as follows: > > 2002

difference in tape devices question

2002-03-05 Thread Davidson, Brian
Can anyone tell me the difference between the following no-rewind tape devices on Linux? I can't seem to find any info anywhere. /dev/nst0 /dev/nst0a /dev/nst0l /dev/nst0m Thanks, Brian Davidson 11710 Plaza America Drive Reston, Virginia 20190 703.261.4694 703.261.5086 Fax

Re: Can you build amanda on one computer and move it to another?

2002-03-05 Thread Stephen Carville
I did something similar for all my Sun boxes. I built amanda in an NFS shared home directory and installed it from there using "make install" on all of the Solaris boxes. So far it has worked fine. On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Davidson, Brian wrote: - I have a sun box with all the necessary tools to bu

Re: amdump failed, Request to test.ru timed out.

2002-03-05 Thread Doug Silver
Check in /tmp/amanda for debugging files. Also do a 'kill -HUP' on the inetd process to make sure it rereads its configuration, and then run 'amcheck -c test'. Did you compile Amanda to use fully qualified hostnames -- if so make sure that you have that in the amandahosts file, you can even put

Re: Question about amreport.....

2002-03-05 Thread Don Potter
I figured out the second question...it was dumping the postscript file in the log directory...big time goof...and aopon further reflection...I'm blowin smoke So ignore the idiot that resides in the Big Green Pickle Don Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 at 11:00am, Don Potter

Re: Question about amreport.....

2002-03-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 at 11:00am, Don Potter wrote > Since my backups span two tapes..I would of expected to seperate tape > labels to be printed. Instead there was one label with the tape label > divided by a comma. Is this correct It's certainly not desired behavior... > Second when I a

Re: Can you build amanda on one computer and move it to another?

2002-03-05 Thread Doug Silver
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Davidson, Brian wrote: > I have a sun box with all the necessary tools to build amanda (been there, > done that and it works great!). The second sun box does not have the tools > needed. If I edit config.status to change the host name can I build amanda > for the second box? >

Tapelist

2002-03-05 Thread Jan Boshoff
Hi Everyone Again a general question. I added some tapes to our cycle, but in such a way that my tapelist looks as follows: 20020305 Weekly1 reuse 20020302 Weekly6 reuse 20020228 Weekly5 reuse 20020226 Weekly4 reuse 20020223 Weekly8 reuse 20020221 Weekly7 reuse 20020218 Weekly3 reuse 20020216

help for tape changer problem

2002-03-05 Thread Zhen Liu
Zhen Liu Via Webmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message --- From: Zhen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 12:03:21 -0500 Hi, I am working on the amanda backup project now, and I am a newbie for both amanda and linux... right now, I have some proble

Re: Question about amreport.....

2002-03-05 Thread Don Potter
BTW..it is defined in my amanda.conf as a label type Don Potter wrote: > I did a full backup for production and I'mn working on the estetics > right now. > > Since my backups span two tapes..I would of expected to seperate tape > labels to be printed. Instead there was one label with the

OnStream ADR2.60ide

2002-03-05 Thread Patrice Hamelin
Hi, Here is the result of tapetype for the OnStream ADR2.60 ide tape drive. define tapetype unknown-tapetype { comment "just produced by tapetype program" length 28100 mbytes filemark 57 kbytes speed 638 kps -- Patrice Hamelin, ing. M.Sc.A. Systems Analyst Cray Canada Corp.

Re: character translations with smbclient (was Share Access)

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
Thomas Robinson wrote: > > > > $ becomes oe ('dollar sign' becomes 'oe' diphthong) > > > ½ becomes « ('1/2' becomes '<<' double left chevrons) > > I upgraded to samba 2.2.3a and that helped. The bad news is that it only > solved some of the problems. The file link to the floppy ba

Question about amreport.....

2002-03-05 Thread Don Potter
I did a full backup for production and I'mn working on the estetics right now. Since my backups span two tapes..I would of expected to seperate tape labels to be printed. Instead there was one label with the tape label divided by a comma. Is this correct Second when I attempted to

Re: make fails building krb4 support

2002-03-05 Thread Ruth Anne
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Ruth Anne wrote: I know it's bad form to followup your own message, but... > > I am attempting to make Amanda 2.4.2pl2 with krb4 support > server/client on NetBSD1.5.1_ALPHA; KerberosV 1.2.3 > > While Making all in common-src: > > ... > gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/krb5/include >

Exabyte 210

2002-03-05 Thread Arunav Mandal
Hello, I am using Exabyte 210 with EXB 8900 as the tape drive in debian 3.0. I can configure the Exabyte 210 libary but failed to configure the EXB 8900. So does anybody know how to configure the tape drive in linux. I am running 2.4.18 kernel. I cannot see the tape device in /proc/scsi/sc

summary: my experience of Spectra Logic treefrog on E250 running Solaris 8

2002-03-05 Thread Mark Lin
Amanda on Solaris 8 with Spectra Logic Treefrog(2000). Hardware: Sun Enterprise 250, Spectra Logic Treefrog with AIT-1 tape(SCSI interface). Software: Solaris 8, amanda 2.4.3b2, tar 1.13.19, mtx 1.2.16rel This document shows how I got Treefrog to work under solaris 8. Big thank to Stephen Carvi

Can you build amanda on one computer and move it to another?

2002-03-05 Thread Davidson, Brian
I have a sun box with all the necessary tools to build amanda (been there, done that and it works great!). The second sun box does not have the tools needed. If I edit config.status to change the host name can I build amanda for the second box? Brian Davidson 11710 Plaza America Drive Reston, Vir

Re: FileTooLargeError-2.4.2p2

2002-03-05 Thread Frank Smith
Perhaps your system has a 2 GB file size limit. Try setting chunksize to 1 Gb in the holding disk section of amanda.conf. Frank --On Tuesday, March 05, 2002 05:44:35 -0800 ThomasRatliffDDS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /usr partition fails to write to tape although it seems to dump to the >

character translations with smbclient (was Share Access)

2002-03-05 Thread Thomas Robinson
Hi, Thanks for the tip. I went to the Netherlands last week so didn't get a chance to try this out until this week. I upgraded to samba 2.2.3a and that helped. The bad news is that it only solved some of the problems. The file link to the floppy backs up now as the translation of the link is co

Backups running fine, but getting empty reports

2002-03-05 Thread Graham Dunn
The body of the daily backup report is always empty. Is there a /tmp/amanda/ file I can poke into to see if there's some file permission problem? Graham

Re: amdump failed, Request to test.ru timed out.

2002-03-05 Thread Mary N Koroleva
According to Ignacio Dosil Lago: > I see ... .amandahosts is correctly filled but ... > Where is the amanda user home directory? Is .amandahosts there? It should. > (Hope this questions not to be too silly but I am a newby :-)) Yes, certainly ;-) test.ru:/etc/amanda | 599 >amcheck test Amanda T

Re: amdump failed, Request to test.ru timed out.

2002-03-05 Thread Mary N Koroleva
According to Ignacio Dosil Lago: > I see ... .amandahosts is correctly filled but ... > Where is the amanda user home directory? Is .amandahosts there? It should. > (Hope this questions not to be too silly but I am a newby :-)) Yes, certainly ;-) test.ru:/etc/amanda | 599 >amcheck test Amanda T

Re: Requested to client timed out?

2002-03-05 Thread Jeffery Smith
Roger, I am relatively new to Amanda, but I think I might be able to point you in the right direction. If you look in /tmp/amanda on lexus you should find a series of ".debug" files. You will know them when you see them. These are log files that the client keeps and are really handy when somet

Re: FileTooLargeError-2.4.2p2

2002-03-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 at 5:44am, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote > > /-- buddies/usr lev 0 FAILED ["data write: File too large"] > sendbackup: start [buddies:/usr level 0] > sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/gtar > sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gtar -f... - > sendbackup: info end > \ You're prob

FileTooLargeError-2.4.2p2

2002-03-05 Thread ThomasRatliffDDS
/usr partition fails to write to tape although it seems to dump to the holding disk OK. Nothing is left in the holding disk (/var/local/storage/hold_amanda). amanda 2.4.2p2 Travan 10/20Gb uncompressed/compressed tape The tape definition received from running tapetype define tapetype TRAVAN {

Re: amdump failed, Request to test.ru timed out.

2002-03-05 Thread Mary N Koroleva
According to Ignacio Dosil Lago: > Strange. > Was inetd up when you ran amdump? Yes, certaily. > Did you grant access to the tape server at the client via .amandahosts? test.ru:/etc/amanda | 554 >less .amandahosts test.ru amanda Have I filled .amandahosts correctly? > Have you check

Re: amdump failed, Request to test.ru timed out.

2002-03-05 Thread Mary N Koroleva
According to Ignacio Dosil Lago: > Strange. > Was inetd up when you ran amdump? Yes, certaily. > Did you grant access to the tape server at the client via .amandahosts? test.ru:/etc/amanda | 554 >less .amandahosts test.ru amanda Have I filled .amandahosts correctly? > Have you check