Re: dumper: FATAL error [dumper FILE-DUMP

2002-11-28 Thread Francesc Guasch
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Your exclude list is badly formated It should be: exclude list "./b3_backup" "./backup" "./lsi_backup" "./soft" "./srcwww_old" Space are not allowed in exclude expression. yeah, it worked. merci. -- frankie

Re: Newbie and backup scheme... comments pls

2002-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 28 November 2002 19:22, Joffer wrote: >I just got 7 tapes and an old scsi tape streamer from a friend. I > will be installing Amanda and was thinking I would use the > following backup scheme. > >The 7 tapes are "devided" into: >2 Tapes OFF-Site >4 tapes = 4 weeks , mon-sat = incred, su

Re: host timed out

2002-11-28 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, November 28, 2002 16:56:09 +0200 Mozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo all > > I installed amanda and I backup with it daily. > Evereything looks just wonderfull. > > a week or so ago I had to cut over to a new mailserver(more powerfull) but now when >I tried to get amanda bac

Tape server migration question

2002-11-28 Thread Christian Lavoie
The setup: serverA (Tru64 4.0) used to provide backup services to serverA (itself) and clientB (Tru64 4.0). I've migrated the tape from serverA to clientB, towards a shutdown of serverA. Everything seems to work fine (from the hardware side), the database has been successfully copied over (/etc

Re: Large partitions (2 Gigabyte +)

2002-11-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:09:44PM -0500, Vytas Janusauskas wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am trying to backup about 20 Windows (Win95/Win98/Nt6) computers using > Amanda version 2.4.2p2. > > > Looking at the Google listings it would seem to fail due to the holding > disk which has 26 Gigabytes of f

Tapetype - 90m DDS-1?

2002-11-28 Thread Joffer
I haven't been able to find a tapetype for my DDS-1 streamer..   I compiled the 'tapetype' program and started it as shown below:   root@budbringeren ~/filer/amanda-2.4.3/tape-src# ./tapetype -e 2g -t "HP 90 meter DDS-1 Data Cartridge" -f /dev/st0wrote 13100 32Kb blocks in 20 fileswrote 163

Newbie and backup scheme... comments pls

2002-11-28 Thread Joffer
I just got 7 tapes and an old scsi tape streamer from a friend. I will be installing Amanda and was thinking I would use the following backup scheme.The 7 tapes are "devided" into:2 Tapes OFF-Site4 tapes = 4 weeks , mon-sat = incred, sun = full dump1 - backup tape just in caseThe backup-sch

Re: recovering smoebody elses file format

2002-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 28 November 2002 12:21, Lars Segerlund wrote: > Have you tried extracting the 'file chunk' and running file on > it ? > > If I remember corectly, Amiga's didn't use tar , they hade a > couple of other popular archivers. That they did, they were rather fond of .lha, .lzx, bzip2 and f

Re: Re:Large partitions (2 Gigabyte +)

2002-11-28 Thread Steve Loughran
http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-12.html read the section under the heading "Configuring the Holding Disk". You can set chunksize to >2Gb and the backup will be split up into chucks of less than size into the holding disk, but will be put onto tape as one continuous image (i.e. the chunks will

RAIT and chg-manual

2002-11-28 Thread Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There has been alot of discussion lately on how to use RAIT. I have attempted to setup rait on my site and I haven't had much success. I have and AIT-3 Overland library system that can hold 38 tapes. My setup is like this I split the library system in have the first 18 slots and its drive belon

Re:Large partitions (2 Gigabyte +)

2002-11-28 Thread Vytas Janusauskas
Hi Folks, I am trying to backup about 20 Windows (Win95/Win98/Nt6) computers using Amanda version 2.4.2p2. I mount the Windows drives via Samba without any problem. When I try to backup a mount point ie. \Dosworld\Pent14\e which is 4.1 Gb in size. I get the following log output: START pla

Re: recovering smoebody elses file format

2002-11-28 Thread Lars Segerlund
Have you tried extracting the 'file chunk' and running file on it ? If I remember corectly, Amiga's didn't use tar , they hade a couple of other popular archivers. Also perhaps you can run a restore under an Amiga emulator ? ( works for x86 ... I have run it ) might be the easiest solution.

Re: host timed out

2002-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 28 November 2002 09:56, Mozzi wrote: >Hallo all > >I installed amanda and I backup with it daily. >Evereything looks just wonderfull. > >a week or so ago I had to cut over to a new mailserver(more > powerfull) but now when I tried to get amanda back up it is just > not happening!!! I di

recovering smoebody elses file format

2002-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
Hi folks; This here is about as off the wall a question as you'll get on this list, but I'm having crawlies troubles with the x10 program 'heyu', which occasionally goes berzerkers, hogging the whole machine to its knees and making a 200 megabyte addition to its logfile in about a minute, an

host timed out

2002-11-28 Thread Mozzi
Hallo all I installed amanda and I backup with it daily. Evereything looks just wonderfull. a week or so ago I had to cut over to a new mailserver(more powerfull) but now when I tried to get amanda back up it is just not happening!!! I did not change a single thing on the tapehost and I still us

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:44:03AM -0600, C. Chan wrote: > Also Sprach Paul Jakma: > > > > > ooh wow. RAIT can do RAID1 aswell as RAID3 (or is it 4?)? yippee! > > > > Yes, it can. Do a search on Marc Mengel's posts on the Amanda > list from about a month ago. Just list two tape drives using > the

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-28 Thread C. Chan
Also Sprach Paul Jakma: > > ooh wow. RAIT can do RAID1 aswell as RAID3 (or is it 4?)? yippee! > Yes, it can. Do a search on Marc Mengel's posts on the Amanda list from about a month ago. Just list two tape drives using the rait: driver. If you list a third it will do RAIT 4, if the third tape dev

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, C. Chan wrote: > Also Sprach Paul Jakma: > > Depending on your network bandwidth you may be able to use remote > mirroring of the holding disk with iSCSI or another IP block device > channel. iSCSI can also do char devices, and Amanda 2.4.3 can do > RAID 1 tape mirroring with

Re: dumper: FATAL error [dumper FILE-DUMP

2002-11-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
hing like this. > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > dumper: FATAL error [dumper FILE-DUMP: too many args: 19 != 14] > dumper: FATAL error [dumper FILE-DUMP: too many args: 19 != 14] > CLIENT_HOSTNAME /home lev 0 FAILED 20021128 [dumper1 died] > amreport: FINISH no printer

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-28 Thread C. Chan
Also Sprach Paul Jakma: > we have a disaster recovery site, and we would like somehow to get our > daily backups sent over to our DR site and onto the tape library > there (in addition to our local library). > > however, i'm stumped as to the best way to do it. I'd really like for > dumps in the h

dumper: FATAL error [dumper FILE-DUMP

2002-11-28 Thread Francesc Guasch
RANGE DUMP SUMMARY: dumper: FATAL error [dumper FILE-DUMP: too many args: 19 != 14] dumper: FATAL error [dumper FILE-DUMP: too many args: 19 != 14] CLIENT_HOSTNAME /home lev 0 FAILED 20021128 [dumper1 died] amreport: FINISH no printer command defined driver: dumper0 pid 29764 is messed up, i

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Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-28 Thread Niall O Broin
On Thursday 28 November 2002 09:12, Paul Jakma wrote: > driver: > - dump of file x finished > - launches script (and registers event for when it > exits) > ...does all its other stuff... > > - wait for all tapers and 'sc

Re: backups mirrored to remote tape (or just host)

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Paul Jakma wrote: > there was some kind of API to allow driver to launch a > programme when a dump to holding disk finishes, so that > i could write something to copy/etc.. the file. ie: > > driver: > - notified that dumper X finishes >