Re: Replacing a partially bad tape

2003-01-22 Thread Alexander JOLK
> I would like to replace this tape with a new one, however I don't want > Amanda to forget about the old one yet. I was told in very similar circumstances that `amadmin no-reuse ' was made exactly for this case. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 /

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-22 Thread Simon Young
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:13:14AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:14:55AM +, Pavel Rabel wrote: > > > > > > >Can amanda send a signal to my DLT IV to unload the tape after > > > > >backups are finished, so whoever goes back to swap tapes can > > > > >just do it witho

Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-22 Thread hochenaw
Hi, we have an HP Surestore dlt vs80e and use hp dlt IV tapes (capacity 40/80GB) under linux. But the backup is to slow, we should have a backup rate of 10.8 GB (native)/20.6 (comprimized), but we do not have :-( So i have some questions, to which i did not find answers until now! In the file tap

Tape error problems

2003-01-22 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
I've been successfully using amanda for over a year now and all of a sudden it's all screwed up! I'm using amanda 2.4.2p2 on a RH7.2 box. amcheck is happy when it runs daily at 3 pm before I leave: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 13770716 KB

amrestore: could not stat

2003-01-22 Thread yahoogroups
Hello there, I've managed to get a tapeless backup running OK on 2.4.3 on RedHat 7.2 (and GNUTAR 1.13.19) but when I try an amrecover extract I get the following messages: [QUOTE] EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on pc3690.asm.psi.ch. amrecover: short block 0 bytes UNKNOWN file amrecover: Can't

Re: Replacing a partially bad tape

2003-01-22 Thread Chris Karakas
Anthony Valentine wrote: > > I would like to replace this tape with a new one, however I don't want > Amanda to forget about the old one yet. This is also interesting in this context, although probably not exactly what you want: http://www.storagemountain.com/amanda-18.html -- Regards Chris

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:31:06PM +, Simon Young wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:13:14AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:14:55AM +, Pavel Rabel wrote: > > > > > > > > >Can amanda send a signal to my DLT IV to unload the tape after > > > > > >backups are f

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 at 3:05pm, hochenaw wrote > But the backup is to slow, we should have a backup rate of 10.8 GB > (native)/20.6 (comprimized), but we do not have :-( GB is not a rate, it's a size. I assume you mean GB/hour? > In the file tapelist we have following entry (i dont know why): >

: does not support optional exclude (2.4.3 server & 2.4.2p2 client)

2003-01-22 Thread Toralf Lund
I've just updated my amanda server to version 2.4.3, and adjusted the config for new options etc. Notably, I've inserted the new "optional" keyword into my exclude list spec as exclude lists won't always exist. After this, I get a lot of: WARNING: : does not support optional exclude Not very s

Re: Tape error problems

2003-01-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 at 8:17am, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote > But that same night when my cron job tried to kick off the backup: > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [rewinding tape: No medium found]. > Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. > Run amflush to flush them to tape. > The next tape Am

Re: Tape error problems

2003-01-22 Thread Martin Hepworth
Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote: I've been successfully using amanda for over a year now and all of a sudden it's all screwed up! I'm using amanda 2.4.2p2 on a RH7.2 box. amcheck is happy when it runs daily at 3 pm before I leave: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk

Amanda correct hostname resolution

2003-01-22 Thread Santiago
Hello. I am new to amanda, so please forgive any newbie questions. I have done my best to RTFM for all of the docs I can find googling amanda. My question relates to the hostname lookup performed by amanda - I have put the correct machine name/IP in /etc/hosts. There is no DNS resolution for th

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-22 Thread Simon Young
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:28:12AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > The original OP did not specify a changer and I, perhaps incorrectly > formed my answer based on a single drive with no changer. That's what I thought, but I was hoping it would be just as easy :-) > My experience with changers is

When amanda begins to flush?

2003-01-22 Thread hochenaw
Hi, thank you for your first answer. One question again: Amanda creates the files in the holding disk, when does Amanda begin to write it out to tape? When the first file is created or when all files are created? In the first case, there can be a short time period where the tape has to be stop

Re: Amanda correct hostname resolution

2003-01-22 Thread Simon Young
Hi Santiago, On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:03:43AM -0700, Santiago wrote: > > Hello. I am new to amanda, so please forgive any newbie questions. I > have done my best to RTFM for all of the docs I can find googling > amanda. My question relates to the hostname lookup performed by amanda > - I have

Re: Amanda correct hostname resolution

2003-01-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:03:43AM -0700, Santiago wrote: > Hello. I am new to amanda, so please forgive any newbie questions. I > have done my best to RTFM for all of the docs I can find googling > amanda. My question relates to the hostname lookup performed by amanda - > I have put the correct

Re: When amanda begins to flush?

2003-01-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 04:23:41PM +0100, hochenaw wrote: > Hi, > > thank you for your first answer. > > One question again: > Amanda creates the files in the holding disk, when does Amanda begin to > write it out to tape? > > When the first file is created or when all files are created? > In t

Re: Amanda correct hostname resolution

2003-01-22 Thread Martin Hepworth
Santiago wrote: Hello. I am new to amanda, so please forgive any newbie questions. I have done my best to RTFM for all of the docs I can find googling amanda. My question relates to the hostname lookup performed by amanda - I have put the correct machine name/IP in /etc/hosts. There is no DNS

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-22 Thread Simon Young
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:48:09AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:12:07PM +, Simon Young wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:28:12AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > > > Your experience may differ, if so I'd like to know for future > > > reference. > > > > Well, I'm

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Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:31, Simon Young wrote: >On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:13:14AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:14:55AM +, Pavel Rabel wrote: >> > > > >Can amanda send a signal to my DLT IV to unload the tape >> > > > > after backups are finished, so whoever g

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-22 Thread Simon Young
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:04:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >If you follow amdump with an amtape eject command, will you not be > >ejecting the tape in the 'current' slot? > > Thats how it would work here at any rate. Amanda does not change her > notion of "slot" until the next invocation o

question

2003-01-22 Thread David . Lee
I tried to do a remote restore from the tape server. I got error and the restore was aborted. The fellowing is the error message: [root@cat root]# /usr/local/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 mws02 mws02.sda1.20030121.0 | rsh mws02 -l root /sbin/restore ivbf 2 - /sbin/restore: cannot open /dev/tty: No

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:05, hochenaw wrote: >Hi, > >we have an HP Surestore dlt vs80e and use hp dlt IV tapes > (capacity 40/80GB) under linux. >But the backup is to slow, we should have a backup rate of 10.8 GB >(native)/20.6 (comprimized), but we do not have :-( >So i have some questions,

Re: Tape error problems

2003-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:17, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote: >I've been successfully using amanda for over a year now and all of > a sudden it's all screwed up! I'm using amanda 2.4.2p2 on a RH7.2 > box. >amcheck is happy when it runs daily at 3 pm before I leave: >Amanda Tape Server Host Check >

Re: When amanda begins to flush?

2003-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 10:23, hochenaw wrote: >Hi, > >thank you for your first answer. > >One question again: >Amanda creates the files in the holding disk, when does Amanda > begin to write it out to tape? > When the first disklist entry is complete in the holding disk. >When the first file

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 13:19, Simon Young wrote: >On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:04:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >If you follow amdump with an amtape eject command, will you not >> > be ejecting the tape in the 'current' slot? >> >> Thats how it would work here at any rate. Amanda does not

RE: Tape error problems

2003-01-22 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
Yes and yes. It gets curiouser and curiouser. -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:57 AM To: Amanda Users (E-mail) Subject: Re: Tape error problems Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote: > I've been successfully using amanda for ove

RE: Tape error problems

2003-01-22 Thread Rebecca Pakish Crum
Yes, it has a light...and sometimes it comes on and sometimes it doesn't. After this happened a couple of times I cleaned it even though the light wasn't on. -Original Message- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:00 PM To: Rebecca Pakish Crum

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Windows backups

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Hults
Hi I'm running Amanda 2.4.3 under RH8 backing up a few Linux boxes. This runs well. I now would like to add some of my W2K machines to the backup. As per the instructions - I recompiled Amanda with --with-smbclient --user-amanda --group-disk I created a amanda user with appropriate rights on the W2

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features: append, span tapes, compress?

2003-01-22 Thread Scott Mcdermott
After searching around in the FAQ-O-MATIC, current projects page, and in the mailing list archives, I believe what I understand is that: - the largest filesystem backed up must be smaller than the size of the tapes used (possibly after compression is considered) - amanda can't do hardw

Re: features: append, span tapes, compress?

2003-01-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:53:07AM -0500, Scott Mcdermott wrote: > After searching around in the FAQ-O-MATIC, current projects page, and in > the mailing list archives, I believe what I understand is that: > >- the largest filesystem backed up must be smaller than the size of > the tapes