Inexplicable amandahostsauth failure

I've had auth problems with one of the hosts I'm backing up for some time; amcheck says # amcheck -c ks Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: bmw: [access as amanda not allowed from root@server] amandahostsauth failed However, .amandahosts seems correct to

Re: Trouble tar'ing large filesystems

OK, thanks to both. Of course I knew that really :-) At least I had considered it when I set up the backup regime in the first place. For some reason I had forgotten it and got it into my head that the limit was that a tar archive couldn't span a tape. Gareth Christoph Scheeder [EMAIL

Re: Inexplicable amandahostsauth failure

I've had auth problems with one of the hosts I'm backing up for some time; amcheck says # amcheck -c ks Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: bmw: [access as amanda not allowed from root@server] amandahostsauth failed I found out what was going on after all;

Re: Inexplicable amandahostsauth failure

Hi, in your .amandahosts you have typed the servername exactly as in the errormessage you get, do you? and the permisions of the file are 0600 are they? and it is owned by user amanda correct? Christoph Toralf Lund schrieb: I've had auth problems with one of the hosts I'm backing up for some

Problems with labelstr

Hello all, I am new to Amanda and have been following http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html to the T to get Amanda setup and working. In chapter 12 it says to run # su amanda - c amlabel Daily Daily-123 slot 123 when I do I get: [root@ZEUS /named]# su amanda -c amlabel config

Re: Problems with labelstr

Please send only ascii messages, html unappreciated. On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:50:35AM -0600, Dan Spray wrote: Hello all, I am new to Amanda and have been following http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html to the T to get Amanda setup and working. In chapter 12 it says to run # su

Re: Problems with labelstr

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 at 9:50am, Dan Spray wrote [root@ZEUS /named]# su amanda -c amlabel config Daily-123 slot 123 amlabel: label Daily-123 doesn't match labelstr ^DailySet1[0-9][0-9] *$ My labelstr in my config file is: labelstr ^DailySet1[0-9][0-9]*$ Not sure what I am doing wrong

Re: Problems with labelstr

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:50:35AM -0600, Dan Spray wrote: Hello all, I am new to Amanda and have been following http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html to the T to get Amanda setup and working. In chapter 12 it says to run # su amanda - c amlabel Daily Daily-123 slot 123 when I do I

Re: Problems with labelstr

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:50:35AM -0600, Dan Spray enlightened us: Hello all, I am new to Amanda and have been following http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html to the T to get Amanda setup and working. In chapter 12 it says to run # su amanda - c amlabel Daily Daily-123 slot 123 when

RE: Problems with labelstr

Your label pattern is 'DailySet1[0-9][0-9]' Your new pattern is 'DailySet-123' Notice the '-' between 'DailySet' and '123'. Be careful what you wish for, the computer will attempt to do whatever you told it to, NOT what you THOUGHT you told it to. Yes, we all do it. That's what code

RE: Problems with labelstr

Thanks to all who helped with this problem. I assumed that it was something along those lines, I guess I need to understand regular expressions better. Now I am getting another error, I pasted it below if anyone knows what needs done differently. Thanks in advance, Dan

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

Hi! Yesterday, I wrote about my problems after replacing the tape drive: The backup ran for the first time tonight. The output that amdump sent me after the backup looked entirely normal, and also I could restore some files from the tape with amrecover. However, amverify is not happy (see

Strange Amandad problem using xinetd and RedHat 8.0

Hi to all, i encounter a strange problem with amandad on a client using RedHat 8.0 kernel 2.4.20 xinet 2.3.7-5. I´ve setup the xinetd config as described in the INSTALL it also works 2 times fine but as i try a third amcheck BackupSet the requested Host times out and there´s one amandad

Re: Problems with labelstr

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:09:14AM -0600, Dan Spray wrote: Thanks to all who helped with this problem. I assumed that it was something along those lines, I guess I need to understand regular expressions better. Now I am getting another error, I pasted it below if anyone knows what needs

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Excluding files question

Hi all, Does anybody knows how to exclude files (by file size) during the dump process? Thanks Adnan Olia

Re: Excluding files question

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:54:20PM -0600, Adnan Olia wrote: Hi all, Does anybody knows how to exclude files (by file size) during the dump process? No builtin way I know of. You could run a find dir -size arg to generate a list of files to exclude and put that into the exclude file before

Re: Problems with labelstr

On Thursday 16 January 2003 11:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't post html messages to this mailing list. The fonts you have chosen are so small that the majority of us cannot read it on a high resolution screen without resorting to a magnifying glass. It might be ok on an 800x600

Re: Problems with labelstr

On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:09, Dan Spray wrote: Please don't post html messages to this list, we expect plain old ascii text so we have a choice in the displayed font size, this is truely tiny and hard to read. Thanks to all who helped with this problem. I assumed that it was something

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I installed and configured Amanda in our system (client/server). How do a back up? Could you please show me an example? Thanks! David

Re: Strange Amandad problem using xinetd and RedHat 8.0

On Thursday 16 January 2003 13:17, Michael Lang wrote: Hi to all, i encounter a strange problem with amandad on a client using RedHat 8.0 kernel 2.4.20 xinet 2.3.7-5. I´ve setup the xinetd config as described in the INSTALL it also works 2 times fine but as i try a third amcheck BackupSet the

Re: question

On Thursday 16 January 2003 18:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed and configured Amanda in our system (client/server). How do a back up? Could you please show me an example? Thanks! David First, we have to assume that you've become the user 'amanda' and that you've used the error

Re: Excluding files question

Thanks Jon, I think I can work something out based on your suggestion..thanks again Adnan Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:54:20PM -0600, Adnan Olia wrote: Hi all, Does anybody knows how to exclude

Re: compile error on 2.4.3-20030104

Hi, The newer amidxtaped need the server library which is not build if you set --without-server The fix is not build amidxtaped and amrestore if --without-server is set. The next snapshot will be available soon. Jean-Louis On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:22:49PM -0800, DK Smith wrote:

Re: amrecover tapeless-mode

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:44:01PM +0100, Thomas Bex wrote: Hi, I set up amanda in tapeless mode with an external firewire disk on debian woody. Amdump runs fine but most time I try to restore data, I get errors being not at the beginning of the tape. amrestore: WARNING: not at start

SCSI or amanda trouble?

Hi all, by the way, wish all of you all the best things for this new year. My problem is that I frequently have these messages: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [reading label: Input/output error]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape