Re: amanda+Samba problem

2002-09-10 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, such efects have shown up in the past for samba-shares where (AFAIR) the estimation phase took longer then the normal timeouts in amanda would allow. I guess at the time amanda stoped working, the E$ share has grown over the triger line for this problem. There was a solution a few weeks/month

Re: Amanda Server go BOOM!

2002-09-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:12:10PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > Bummer. > > > Is it possible to configure Amanda from scratch on a seperate server and > > use the failed servers tapes to restore data? > > Absolutely. > > There are two possible scenarios here: [ suggestions snip

thanks

2002-09-10 Thread Galen Johnson
I'd like to thank all those who have helped me in my quest to get amanda going. I have successfully backed up a file system and restored some files. Now the bigger part begins...the rest of the network... =G=

Re: bug in amgetconf

2002-09-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:13:55PM -0400, Galen Johnson wrote: > Ok...this is really bugging me...is the config_dir supposed to be > compiled into amgetconf? A preliminary look at the code seems to infer > that it is as well as config. I'm having an issue with amgetconf > (currently) in that i

Re: Amanda Server go BOOM!

2002-09-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 at 6:12pm, Jose A Medina wrote > Im still an Amanda Rookie so please bear with my ignorange in this matter > Our internal amanda server had its main HDD just die. Bummer. > Is it possible to configure Amanda from scratch on a seperate server and > use the failed servers tap

Amanda Server go BOOM!

2002-09-10 Thread Jose A Medina
To Anyone: Im still an Amanda Rookie so please bear with my ignorange in this matter Our internal amanda server had its main HDD just die. My question: Is it possible to configure Amanda from scratch on a seperate server and use the failed servers tapes to restore data? If so what would be the

Re: Working with multiple tape drives----- Ammended

2002-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 16:36, Quinn, Richard C. - Collinsville IT wrote: >Hi again, > >I think I've narrowed it down just a spell. >Gene was helpfull with some advice regarding the "tapedev" > variable in amanda.conf. >Unfortunately that didn't seem to fix the issue, which I think MAY > be

bug in amgetconf

2002-09-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Ok...this is really bugging me...is the config_dir supposed to be compiled into amgetconf? A preliminary look at the code seems to infer that it is as well as config. I'm having an issue with amgetconf (currently) in that it expects amanda.conf to be in whatever directory it is run from or yo

Re: Hi

2002-09-10 Thread Larry Dunham
Personally, my largest source of "delete-able" mail by far is this list. That is not a comment upon its overall value, just that most of what I get on a daily basis does not apply to me. Typically either I do not have the configuration being inquired about (for example, we do not use tape changer

spam to amanda-users

2002-09-10 Thread Todd Kover
Please, please, please, let's take discussion of what to do about spam on amanda-users offline. It does nobody any good to debate dealing with spam on the list and it's unquestionably off-topic as much as the spam itself is. If it will make people feel better, I'll setup an unmoderated open lis

chg-zd-mtx

2002-09-10 Thread Galen Johnson
ok...I've determined that the best change script to use (for me) is chg-zd-mtx. Now, for some reason when I try to run the chg-zd-mtx -info I get the error ' changerfile must be specified in amanda.conf'...now, this file is defined in my amanda.conf file (/home/amanda/config/daily/chg-zd-mtx.

Re: amlabel question

2002-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 14:29, Galen Johnson wrote: >woohoo...I'm actually making progress...amcheck actually completed >mostly without errors (mainly because I stupidly left the disklist > at the default that came with amanda...silly...silly). I also > forgot to label my tapes (I am current

Re: Spam's a sacrific, at least there's no viruses.

2002-09-10 Thread Samuel Nicolary
Whenever people start doing this on a list I am on (obnoxiously post off-topic messages) I take their addresses and use them when I am required to supply registration information on a website. Of course, I _also_ check those nasty little check boxes like "Send me email announcements and news". I

Re: Spam's a sacrific, at least there's no viruses.

2002-09-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, September 10, 2002 at 13:09:36 (-0500), Frank Smith wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Spam's a sacrific, at least there's no viruses. > > > Some general observations on this and previous related threads: > > Amanda is free software. > The amanda-users mailing list is free. > Someone (not me)

Re: Spam's a sacrific, at least there's no viruses.

2002-09-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, September 10, 2002 at 14:04:58 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Spam's a sacrific, at least there's no viruses. > > Its a fact of life these days, and one sets up filtering accordingly > using whatever facilities are available on ones own platform. There's no reason not

amlabel question

2002-09-10 Thread Galen Johnson
woohoo...I'm actually making progress...amcheck actually completed mostly without errors (mainly because I stupidly left the disklist at the default that came with amanda...silly...silly). I also forgot to label my tapes (I am currently in the process of this). Now the question...I have a 7

Re: Spam's a sacrific, at least there's no viruses.

2002-09-10 Thread Frank Smith
Some general observations on this and previous related threads: Amanda is free software. The amanda-users mailing list is free. Someone (not me) administers the list and pays for it. When someone gets something for free, they can suggest changes to the person(s) responsible for providing it

Re: Spam's a sacrific, at least there's no viruses.

2002-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 13:15, Greg A. Woods wrote: [...] >Spam is not a sacrifice I'm willing to make to freely help out > other users of any free software, nor even to get free help for > software I use. Sorry, you just pulled this old mans trigger. Its a fact of life these days, and one

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Recommendation

2002-09-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
Let's return to discussions of amanda. No replies, agreements, or follow-ups needed. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)

amanda+Samba problem

2002-09-10 Thread Robert Haskins
We have had amanda and Samba working for about a year now. Mysteriously a couple of weeks ago, the Samba (and local drive) backups stopped working. I can SMBOUNT the shares fine from the amanda server, but the backups fail. The error from the nightly report is: newbackup. //NETALERT/E$ lev

RE: hi

2002-09-10 Thread Rebecca Pakish
ENOUGH ALREADY... Take this battle off list, please. -Original Message- From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: hi On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:08:22PM +0100, Spicer, Kevin wrote: > One possibility is

Re: Spam's a sacrific, at least there's no viruses.

2002-09-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, September 10, 2002 at 10:57:41 (+0200), Trevor Fraser wrote: ] > Subject: Spam's a sacrific, at least there's no viruses. > > I've read through a few mails titled "Hi", and I wanted to encourage people to be a >little tolerent. The concept of not having to be on the list to post to

Re: hi

2002-09-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 12:38:03PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > [ On Tuesday, September 10, 2002 at 09:14:54 (-0500), Dave Sherohman wrote: ] > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:46:37PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > I beg to differ. List servers should be no more tolerant of accepting > > > e-mai

Re: hi

2002-09-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:08:22PM +0100, Spicer, Kevin wrote: > One possibility is to allow anonymous users to post through a web page, but only >list members to post via email. If a non-member attempts to post via email they >should recieve a polite bounce referring them to the website. Seem

Re: hi

2002-09-10 Thread Brian Morris
Multiple people have mentioned similar ideas: procmail and a filter. I just set up spamassassin (http://www.spamassassin.org/) a week or so ago and it has correctly identified all spam to this list, and almost all spam vs. non-spam I've received on the rest of my accounts, too. It sets up very ni

Re: crontab

2002-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 11:55, Brian Jonnes wrote: >On Tue 10 Sep 02 16:32, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> Either way, one backup will be 2 days worth of activity. I >> follow Chris' scheme -- btw it is Monday to Saturday, not M-F. >> So I (and Chris) would collect Sat+Sun on the Monday 2AM backup.

RE: hi

2002-09-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, September 10, 2002 at 16:08:22 (+0100), Spicer, Kevin wrote: ] > Subject: RE: hi > > One possibility is to allow anonymous users to post through a web > page, but only list members to post via email. If a non-member > attempts to post via email they should recieve a polite bounce >

Re: hi

2002-09-10 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, September 10, 2002 at 09:14:54 (-0500), Dave Sherohman wrote: ] > Subject: Re: hi > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:46:37PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > I beg to differ. List servers should be no more tolerant of accepting > > e-mail from known abusers, dial-up/DSL/cable addresses,

Re: crontab

2002-09-10 Thread Brian Jonnes
On Tue 10 Sep 02 16:32, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Either way, one backup will be 2 days worth of activity. I follow Chris' > scheme -- btw it is Monday to Saturday, not M-F. So I (and Chris) would > collect Sat+Sun on the Monday 2AM backup. Your scheme would collect > Sun+Mon on the Tuesday backup.

RE: hi

2002-09-10 Thread Spicer, Kevin
One possibility is to allow anonymous users to post through a web page, but only list members to post via email. If a non-member attempts to post via email they should recieve a polite bounce referring them to the website. -Original Message- From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: crontab

2002-09-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:25:02AM +0200, Brian Jonnes wrote: > On Mon 09 Sep 02 22:14, Chris Bourne wrote: > > 0 14 * * 1-6/usr/sbin/amcheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] DailySet1 > > 0 1 * * 1-6/usr/sbin/amtape DailySet1 slot next > > 0 2 * * 0/usr/sbin/amtape DailySet1 clean > > 0 2 * * 1-6

Re: hi

2002-09-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
There is such a thing as being overly paranoid... On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:46:37PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > I beg to differ. List servers should be no more tolerant of accepting > e-mail from known abusers, dial-up/DSL/cable addresses, ITYM "ISP DHCP pools". A static IP address is a sta

Re: Xinetd

2002-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 07:50, Mozzi wrote: >Hi all > >In the doc/README I have to enter the following line in inetd.conf >amandaidx stream tcp nowait USER AMINDEXD_PATH amindexd > >How will I do it for xinetd ? >I know it is a file in xinetd.d >looking @ the basic structure of other files th

Re: HP Colorado, ide-scsi

2002-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 03:09, Brian Jonnes wrote: >I'm assuming it is from the head of the tape; this was an amdump. > >..Brian Oh, I was thinking that report came from the winderz box, my mistake. Flush that theory... Back to a bad drive maybe??? >On Mon 09 Sep 02 20:43, Gene Heskett w

Xinetd

2002-09-10 Thread Mozzi
Hi all In the doc/README I have to enter the following line in inetd.conf amandaidx stream tcp nowait USER AMINDEXD_PATH amindexd How will I do it for xinetd ? I know it is a file in xinetd.d looking @ the basic structure of other files there { type= INTERNAL UNLISTED

Re: SAP R/3 backup with amanda

2002-09-10 Thread Amon Ott
(Posted to both lists, because it might lead to some development) On Monday, 9. September 2002 12:31, Hauke Fath wrote: > Am 09.09.2002 um 9:51 Uhr +0200 schrub Amon Ott: > >I am currently investigating how to backup SAP R/3 systems on Oracle / Linux > >with amanda. So far I have found no refere

Re: crontab

2002-09-10 Thread Brian Jonnes
On Mon 09 Sep 02 22:14, Chris Bourne wrote: > 0 14 * * 1-6/usr/sbin/amcheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] DailySet1 > 0 1 * * 1-6/usr/sbin/amtape DailySet1 slot next > 0 2 * * 0/usr/sbin/amtape DailySet1 clean > 0 2 * * 1-6/usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1 Just one suggestion: You are running amchec

Spam's a sacrific, at least there's no viruses.

2002-09-10 Thread Trevor Fraser
Hello all.   I've read through a few mails titled "Hi", and I wanted to encourage people to be a little tolerent.  The concept of not having to be on the list to post to it helps far more people all over the world than hinders a couple of irritated subscribers.    I'm not generally an except

Re: tapeless and amverify

2002-09-10 Thread Niall O Broin
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:04:33PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > amverify use ammt and amdd which understand the file: driver. > They must be installed at the same place as your amverify program. > 'make install' do it. > > If amverify dont' find them, it will use the system mt and dd p

Re: gtar wrapper script (was SAP R/3 backup with amanda)

2002-09-10 Thread Amon Ott
On Monday, 9. September 2002 18:00, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 10:10:30AM -0400, Bort, Paul wrote: > > There is a tar-wrapper script for people who don't have GNUTar or need to do > > something non-tar, like dumping a database. Search the amanda-users list > > archives for it. I

Re: HP Colorado, ide-scsi

2002-09-10 Thread Brian Jonnes
I'm assuming it is from the head of the tape; this was an amdump. ..Brian On Mon 09 Sep 02 20:43, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 09 September 2002 12:14, Brian Jonnes wrote: > >On Mon 09 Sep 02 14:26, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Monday 09 September 2002 02:39, Brian Jonnes wrote: > >> >Just a b