RE: Strange Amandad problem using xinetd and RedHat 8.0

2003-01-17 Thread Michael Lang
-Original Message- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Freitag, 17. Jänner 2003 01:06 To: Michael Lang; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Strange Amandad problem using xinetd and RedHat 8.0 On Thursday 16 January 2003 13:17, Michael Lang wrote: using the default

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

2003-01-17 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi again. Quick summary of the thread: Replaced the tape drive in backup server. After that, got problems with amrestore: 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

Amanda with TL890 tape library on RedHat Linux 8.0

2003-01-17 Thread Leonid Mamtchenkov
Dear All, I'd like to ask if anyone managed to configure amanda to work with TL890 (specifically TL892) tape library on RedHat Linux 8.0. I have tried to use both chg-scsi and chg-multi, but failed with both. chg-scsi did better though. I could load a tape from any slot to a tape drive, label

DLT8000 Strangeness

2003-01-17 Thread Simon Young
Hi, I'm setting up amanda on a Compaq Proliant DL380 with three Compaq DLT8000 tape drives. Having run tapetype a few times (using DLT IV tapes), I'm getting the following: define tapetype unknown-tapetype { comment just produced by tapetype program length 38301 mbytes filemark 23

Re: Amanda with TL890 tape library on RedHat Linux 8.0

2003-01-17 Thread Owen Williams
Leonid, I've attached the configs I used on Compaq ML370, TL891, DLT8000. You need mtx installed too. As an aside: If anyone thinks there's glaring mistakes in my setup... Its been working well enough for me stop paying for Arkeia though :) Owen. On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Leonid Mamtchenkov

Re: SCSI or amanda trouble?

2003-01-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 10:38am, Hery Zo RAKOTONDRAMANANA wrote Somehow, I now have this in my kernel messages (which didn't happen when I only had one SCSI controller): Jan 16 16:17:09 parasy kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x2, Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error Jan 16

Re: SCSI or amanda trouble?

2003-01-17 Thread heryzo
Somehow, I now have this in my kernel messages (which didn't happen when I only had one SCSI controller): Jan 16 16:17:09 parasy kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x2, Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error Jan 16 16:17:09 parasy kernel: Additional sense indicates Write

Compile error 2.4.3 on hp10.20

2003-01-17 Thread Henk Martijn
Hi, I found a problem with compiling the changer-src: I run configure with the following parameters: ./configure --prefix=/opt/local/amanda --program-suffix=2.4.3 --with-user=amanda --with-group=sys --with-config=daily --with-tape-device=/dev/rmt/0n chg-scsi-chio.c: In function

Re: Amanda with TL890 tape library on RedHat Linux 8.0

2003-01-17 Thread Leonid Mamtchenkov
Owen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OW I've attached the configs I used on Compaq ML370, TL891, DLT8000. Thanks a lot! Those are helpful in proving myself being on the right track. :) OW You need mtx installed too. Stupid me ;) Thanks. OW As an aside: If anyone thinks there's glaring

Re: SCSI or amanda trouble?

2003-01-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:38:43AM +0300, Hery Zo RAKOTONDRAMANANA wrote: 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]. Thinking this could

problem recognizing tape label amdump/amflush vs amcheck

2003-01-17 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hello Amanda users. I'm seeing something rather odd in last night's dump attempt, the amcheck and the attempted (but failed) flush. I'll include extracts of all three messages - but the short of it is that some amanda programs see and accept the current tape in the drive and others don't. FWIW

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

2003-01-17 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, AFAIK you'll have to rewind the tape explicitly between amdump and amverify, as neither amdump nor amverify do that for you. Christoph Toomas Aas schrieb: Hi again. Quick summary of the thread: Replaced the tape drive in backup server. After that, got problems with amrestore: The

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

2003-01-17 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! Christoph Scheeder wrote: AFAIK you'll have to rewind the tape explicitly between amdump and amverify, as neither amdump nor amverify do that for you. Christoph I tried running mt rewind and then amverify from command line. Still the same errors... -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

What is the configure flag for debug files to have pid numbers

2003-01-17 Thread stan
I can't seem to find thisn in configure --help on .4.3B4, am I missing it? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Upgraded tape server, now lot's of broken pipes

2003-01-17 Thread stan
I'm in the process of upgrading my Amanda machine from an older HP-UX machine to a new faster FreebSD machine. Lot's of machines that used to back up fine ae now failing with the following: sendbackup: spawning /usr/sbin/dump in pipeline sendbackup: argument list: dump 0usf 1048576 -

Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Keith Nasman
What are the amanda.conf settings (dumpcycle, runspercycle, tapecycle) for getting a full backup each night, five days a week, with a four weeks worth of tapes (20)? thanks, Keith

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

2003-01-17 Thread Chris Karakas
Toomas Aas wrote: Hi again. amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: reached end of information ** No header 0+0 in 0+0 out Whenever (very seldomly)I get the not at start of tape error, I ran the vtblc program that lists the contents of the

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2003-01-17 Thread Isabelle
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Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 8:01am, Keith Nasman wrote What are the amanda.conf settings (dumpcycle, runspercycle, tapecycle) for getting a full backup each night, five days a week, with a four weeks worth of tapes (20)? dumpcycle=0,runspercycle=1 (doesn't really matter), tapecycle=20 -- Joshua

Re: problem recognizing tape label amdump/amflush vs amcheck

2003-01-17 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hey, guess what. SUN StorEdge 9 tape jukebox does not operate properly with 2.4.2p2. The really good news is updating chg-zd-mtx script with the one in amanda 2.4.3 fixes all the problems. Thank you for all the input over the last couple of weeks. Hello Amanda users. I'm seeing

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:01:17AM -0800, Keith Nasman wrote: What are the amanda.conf settings (dumpcycle, runspercycle, tapecycle) for getting a full backup each night, five days a week, with a four weeks worth of tapes (20)? dumpcycle is how often you want a full. runspercycle is the number

Re: question

2003-01-17 Thread Chris Karakas
[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? http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html -- Regards Chris Karakas http://www.karakas-online.de

Re: DLT8000 Strangeness

2003-01-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:27:28PM +, Simon Young wrote: Hi, I'm setting up amanda on a Compaq Proliant DL380 with three Compaq DLT8000 tape drives. Having run tapetype a few times (using DLT IV tapes), I'm getting the following: define tapetype unknown-tapetype { comment

RE: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Jeremy L. Mordkoff
Okaywhat are the settings for getting a full once every 3 days with backups 5 nights a week and 16 tapes? I tried dumpcycle 3 days runspercycle 3 tapecycle 16 tapes but that gives me fulls of everyone on Monday and what I want Tues thru Friday. I think the problem is when it fires up on

re-install of client results in error

2003-01-17 Thread wab
Greetings... another hitch I'm trying to get past... Recently, one of my servers (a Linux RH machine) had its hard drive crash. We installed a new drive, Red Hat, then re-installed the AMANDA client, and just kept the same disklist, etc. on the backup server. After re-installing the client,

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Keith Nasman
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 8:01am, Keith Nasman wrote What are the amanda.conf settings (dumpcycle, runspercycle, tapecycle) for getting a full backup each night, five days a week, with a four weeks worth of tapes (20)? dumpcycle=0,runspercycle=1 (doesn't really matter), tapecycle=20 --

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 01:15:17PM -0500, Jeremy L. Mordkoff wrote: Would dumpcycle 1 week runspercycle 3 tapecycle 16 tapes work better? Interesting question... I assume that amanda would make a point of getting a full on each filesystem at least once every runspercycle runs as well as

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Keith Nasman
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 8:01am, Keith Nasman wrote What are the amanda.conf settings (dumpcycle, runspercycle, tapecycle) for getting a full backup each night, five days a week, with a four weeks worth of tapes (20)? dumpcycle=0,runspercycle=1 (doesn't really matter), tapecycle=20 --

amrecover and index

2003-01-17 Thread Buster Lipps
Hello, We are running Amanda-2.4.2p2 on Redhat8.0 installed via RedHat RPM. When running amrecover, the index server is not able to find index records for the date specified, even though those index records exist and appear to be well-formed. The basic procedure is: amrecover -C config setdisk

Re: buggy gnutar

2003-01-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 4:17pm, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote So after going through some index files and cleaning them and verifying that amrecover can deal with them I wonder what else might have gone wrong using this gnutar version. ISTR that the backups themselves are actually fine. Does

Samba access error

2003-01-17 Thread Keith Nasman
It must be an amanda day for me :-/ My amanda server backs up two Windows shares on an MS Small Business Server, and has been doing so for many months. The day before yesterday my backup failed and amcheck returns this: ERROR: localhost: [samba access error: //server/share: INFO: Debug class all

Re: buggy gnutar

2003-01-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 January 2003 16:17, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, [...] Does someone knows which sub-version of gnutar 1.13 are affected with this bug? Its generally agreed that 1.13-19 and 1.13-25 do _not_ suffer from this bug. The newest, 1.13-25 version you have to get from

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 January 2003 16:04, DK Smith wrote: In this discussion, talking about discounting days of of the week etc... is there an inherent assumption here that the amdump is invoked once per day? Or is that not a factor in the behavior of the system? Thats the generally accepted practice,

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Deb Baddorf
At 05:26 PM 1/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Friday 17 January 2003 16:04, DK Smith wrote: In this discussion, talking about discounting days of of the week etc... is there an inherent assumption here that the amdump is invoked once per day? Or is that not a factor in the behavior of the system?

Mac OS X 10.2 client support?

2003-01-17 Thread John Martinez
Does Amanda support OS X clients? I plan on installing Amanda on a Solaris server. In particular, I'd like to know if there is support for multi-forked files in HFS+ filesystems. thanks, -john

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread DK Smith
There is an inherent assumption that Saturday and Sunday really exist ... so when you say dumpcycle of ... well, any number, amanda continues to count Saturday and Sunday.The question here is can we ask amanda to bend reality and ignore Sat and Sun entirely. We're asking to define a

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread DK Smith
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 01:15:17PM -0500, Jeremy L. Mordkoff wrote: Okaywhat are the settings for getting a full once every 3 days with backups 5 nights a week and 16 tapes? I tried dumpcycle 3 days runspercycle 3 tapecycle 16 tapes but that gives me fulls of everyone on Monday and

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Jay Lessert
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:06:09PM -0800, DK Smith wrote: Do most amanda configs (with changers) run amdump every weekday (M-F) and skip running amdump on weekends? I see this sort of idiom stated as the way for Amanda, however I am not so sure this well-documented idiom is actually used in

tapelist and tape order

2003-01-17 Thread DK Smith
MAIL REPORT FOR January 16, 2003 These dumps were to tape DailySet1-05. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet1-06. ## After (finally) taking a look at my tapelist in the configuration, I realized the reason for change in order of use that I observed: 20030117 DailySet1-06 reuse

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Deb Baddorf
My understanding was that the OP just wanted to run 3-out-of-7, and I have *no* idea why that should be any problem at all. -- Jay Lessert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Accelerant Networks Inc. (voice)1.503.439.3461 Beaverton OR, USA

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:53:12PM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote: I haven't followed this thread closely (and am not sure why the OP is having problems), but I've used 5-out-of-7, 6-out-of-7 and 7-out-of-7 configurations configurations with Amanda. My current config is 6-out-of-7. On the 7th

Re: Full Backup Configuration

2003-01-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:15:19PM -0600, Deb Baddorf wrote: My understanding was that the OP just wanted to run 3-out-of-7, and I have *no* idea why that should be any problem at all. -- Jay Lessert [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wasn't the one raising the question. I

Re: tapelist and tape order

2003-01-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:13:31PM -0800, DK Smith wrote: I finally determined why my tape order is not what I expected. (by looking at the tapelist file). I do not recall why my tape order managed to get into this state... When I originally set things up, *i thought* the tapes were in