Sun storEDGE L280

2002-05-01 Thread Lee Fellows
Hi, Searching the archives, I found messages from Don Potter concerning using the L280 on a Sun and that he had it working. I am attempting to use an L280 on a Linux system. The hardware is recognized by the OS and I am able to load/unload tapes manually at the console and using mtx.

Re: Compiler errors

2002-05-01 Thread Lee Fellows
Conor, Do you have the GNU binutils installed? Some projects compile on Solaris better using the GNU binutils as opposed to Sun's native implementation. The error message indicates Sun's 'as' assembler is choking on the assembler files. If you do have GNU binutils installed, try checking

Backup up to files

2002-05-01 Thread John D. Bickle
Hi folks. I would like to back up several Linux servers RedHat/Slackware to an NFS-mounted partition on the amanda server using files instead of tapes. It seems to me that gtar should support this... has anyone tried it and how did they go about it? thanks, john.

DLT 8000 on Linux

2002-05-01 Thread Elmar Kolkman
Hi, We are trying here to make backups of a Linux File Server on a DLT 8000 tapedrive, but we can not get it to streaming mode. We tried everything we could think of, but it only streams when running 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/st0 bs=64k'. It also streams with other block sizes, but as soon as we

Re: Backup up to files

2002-05-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 1 May 2002 at 9:48am, John D. Bickle wrote I would like to back up several Linux servers RedHat/Slackware to an NFS-mounted partition on the amanda server using files instead of tapes. Version 2.4.3 (still in beta) supports this via the file: tapedrive. Look in the amanda(8) man

Re: DLT 8000 on Linux

2002-05-01 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Elmar Kolkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:43:49PM +0200) We are trying here to make backups of a Linux File Server on a DLT 8000 tapedrive, but we can not get it to streaming mode. We tried everything we Does anyone have a clue ? to get the obvious out of the way, are you

Re: Invalid Argument with amlabel

2002-05-01 Thread Marc Mengel
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 21:28, Cory Visi wrote: I searched the list archives and read all the documentation and I cannot find this error anywhere. $ amlabel gcs DailySet1 insert tape into slot 0 and press return labeling tape in slot 0 (/dev/nst0): rewinding, reading label, not an amanda

amrestore problem

2002-05-01 Thread Soo Hom
Hello, Is there a limit on the length of the path when using amrestore? I attempted to restore a partition but kept getting errors. When I went down a few subdirectories the restore worked. Amrestore seems to fail to restore files when the path is over 80 characters long. Soo

Re: DLT 8000 on Linux

2002-05-01 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Elmar Kolkman wrote: Hi, We are trying here to make backups of a Linux File Server on a DLT 8000 tapedrive, but we can not get it to streaming mode. We tried everything we could think of, but it only streams when running 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/st0 bs=64k'. It also

Re: need AIT-3 tapetype entry

2002-05-01 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Grant Basham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:31:56AM -0400) I would like a tapetype entry for a Sony AIT3 tape drive. I can just modify an AIT2 entry, but would like to see the results of a run of the tapetype utility on an AIT-3 drive. S Do you have an AIT-3 ? If so, you can

Re: Invalid Argument with amlabel

2002-05-01 Thread Cory Visi
I have checked an double-checked and the tapes I use are not write-protected. In fact, when I attempt to label a write-protected tape, I receive the error Read-only device As for the block size, the Linux SCSI tape driver is very flexible. Here are some exerpts from the README.st included with

Re: Invalid Argument with amlabel

2002-05-01 Thread Marc Mengel
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:19, Cory Visi wrote: I have checked an double-checked and the tapes I use are not write-protected. In fact, when I attempt to label a write-protected tape, I receive the error Read-only device Well, I was thinking more along the lines of: bldlinux71 mt -f

Re: Incremental and Full backups

2002-05-01 Thread James Ganong
John R. Jackson wrote: You can also just tell Amanda not to do full dumps during the period you just want to be using DDS2's. How would you tell amanda to do this? Would you change the disklist file? Would you use strategy no-full? Then do a SDLT run once in a while and tell it to do

runtape question, probably a FAQ

2002-05-01 Thread Robert Kearey
Is there a way to configure amanda so that runtapes is calculated dynamically to fit in that partciular amdump? Using two or more tapes for a dump is wasteful when there's only 10% of tape used for that dump. -- Rob KeareyWebsite: http://apac.redhat.com Red Hat Asia-Pacific

Re: runtape question, probably a FAQ

2002-05-01 Thread Mike Delaney
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:49:00AM +1000, Robert Kearey wrote: Is there a way to configure amanda so that runtapes is calculated dynamically to fit in that partciular amdump? Using two or more tapes for a dump is wasteful when there's only 10% of tape used for that dump. The runtapes

Re: ./configure error with amanda 2.4.2

2002-05-01 Thread Frank Smith
Make sure you also have the readline 'development' package installed, as Amanda needs to find the header files so it can properly link to the libraries. Also, if it is installed in an odd place configure won't find it, so you would need to add some configure options. Frank --On Thursday, May