tapeless with amanda-242-tapeio problem

2002-08-12 Thread Stelar
Hi, I'm intending to use tapeless backup to my hard drive. From the mailing list, I see that I can use 2.4.2 (CVS amanda-242-tapeio) or 2.4.3 method. Which one is a better choice for production? Due to some mail that explained the 2.4.2 method in detail, I'm currently trying to use it. I've s

Re: amdump and tar don't work

2002-08-12 Thread thomas holstein
> Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > > > You must give tar directory names, not disk devices. Rather than > /dev/da0s1e you need to tell tar to backup /var or whereever that > partition happens to be mounted. Modify your disklist to reflect this. > I also tried using the mountpoint, but I get the s

[[writing file: Input/output error]]. [out of tape]

2002-08-12 Thread adi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello I have been using amanda for a few months without any problems but suddenly i encountered a few. I do a level 0 dump everyday for all the machines on the local network. There was no problem of "out of tape" before. I was hit with the "out of

Re: [[writing file: Input/output error]]. [out of tape]

2002-08-12 Thread Scott Sanders
Sounds a lot like when my DLT failed last week. I got a few of the same errors. I has Sun replace it and all is well once again. Good Luck! adi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello > I have been using amanda for a few months without any problems but suddenly i > enc

SGI IRIX xfsrestore

2002-08-12 Thread Anne M. Hammond
The header at the beginning of the amanda dump file says to restore use dd if= bs=32k skip=1 | /sbin/xfsrestore -f... - However, this is producing errors from xfsrestore. If you have used a dd into a piped xfsrestore under SGI IRIX, could you email me the command? amanda 2.4.1p1 TIA, Anne Ha

Re: using Netcat as a wrapper on solaris

2002-08-12 Thread Anthony A. D. Talltree
>On Thursday 08 August 2002 14:07, Adam D. Read wrote: >>Inetd, Xinetd are not options for me to use on my solaris boxen. >Sorry, I missed that solaris thing. Huh? xinetd should run just fine on SunOS 5.

Re: SGI IRIX xfsrestore

2002-08-12 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Anne M. Hammond ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020812 18:54] thus spake: > The header at the beginning of the amanda dump file says > to restore use > dd if= bs=32k skip=1 | /sbin/xfsrestore -f... - > > However, this is producing errors from xfsrestore. and these would be? > >