EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file [..]

2003-02-27 Thread Odd Rune Dahle
Hi, I can't seem to get amrecover to restore any files. I've just installed amanda, and just backed up files for a few days to get something on the tapes. Now I'm trying a restore-test, and it's not exactly successful. Any hints? ns1:/# amrecover daily -t ns1 -s ns1 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2.

Test

2003-02-27 Thread Mozzi
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Re: Two more amanda questions

2003-02-27 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, i think all of you are right, but... lets state a few things amanda does: 1.) you amlabel your tapes for use, and amanda put's them with a date of 0 in its tapelist. 2.) the date of 0 in tapelist means: this tape has never been written a backup to, it is a so called new tape. 3.) amanda will

Using only one tape, full dump delayed

2003-02-27 Thread forster
Hi all amanda keeps using only one tape per day but always delays full dump for the same disk (/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s08758612 6866287 180473980%/ora) Why cant it use a second tape? There are 6 Tapes in the changer; dumpcycle 1 weeks runspercycle 5 tapecycle 6 tapes runtapes 3 tapetype

test

2003-02-27 Thread Alessandro Prete
test

whitespaces in disk names

2003-02-27 Thread Gilles Bourcy
Hello, My problem is the following : I wish to save a directory in which there is a whitespace : /usr1/home/document/Ingenierie SYNLOG So in the disklist file I tried different possibilities, first by using Linux usual means to deal with whitespaces in directory names :

test

2003-02-27 Thread Alessandro Prete
test

Re: Using only one tape, full dump delayed

2003-02-27 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:20:41AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us: Hi all amanda keeps using only one tape per day but always delays full dump for the same disk (/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s08758612 6866287 180473980%/ora) Why cant it use a second tape? There are 6 Tapes in

Re: linux, lvm, and snapshots

2003-02-27 Thread Christopher Odenbach
Hi, I was thinking about backing up using snapshots. Is there any best-practices way to do this cleanly? TMTOWTDY - there's more than one way to do it I was going to just script the lvcreate/lvremove stuff around the amdump, but figured someone may have a more comprehensive approach. I

Re: Using only one tape, full dump delayed

2003-02-27 Thread forster
From: Christoph Scheeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, first : simple answer, simple question, and amanda is telling it to you: amanda thinks the level 0 dump of this filesystem will not fit on a single tape. That's understood. Amanda can not span a single disk-list entry over multiple tapes. you'll

Re: EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file [..]

2003-02-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 at 9:13am, Odd Rune Dahle wrote Load tape daily10 now Continue? [Y/n]: y EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on ns1. And did you do this? What's in that file? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

RE: whitespaces in disk names

2003-02-27 Thread D. Keith Higgs
I would try a couple of other things. * Replace with %20 so you have /usr1/home/document/Ingenierie%20SYNLOG * Double quote the name * Single quote the name (some shells treat the different quotes differently) D. Keith Higgs mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x0559 Case Western Reserve University,

Re: Using only one tape, full dump delayed

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
I believe the paramaters you give are not the real parameters of the config that is running, or I must be very stupid. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... tapetype SURESTORE-1200E define tapetype SURESTORE-1200E { comment HP AutoLoader length 3900 mbytes filemark 100 kbytes speed 500

Re: test

2003-02-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thu February 27 2003 05:28, Alessandro Prete wrote: test You've sent more than enough of these to prove you can post to the list, please desist unless you really do have something to say. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.23% setiathome rank, not too

Re: Using only one tape, full dump delayed

2003-02-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thu February 27 2003 04:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all amanda keeps using only one tape per day but always delays full dump for the same disk (/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s08758612 6866287 180473980%/ora) If the above is in bytes, I'm stumped, if its in kilobytes, it looks as if its too

Re: Using only one tape, full dump delayed

2003-02-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thu February 27 2003 07:53, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:20:41AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us: Hi all amanda keeps using only one tape per day but always delays full dump for the same disk (/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s08758612 6866287 180473980%/ora) Why cant

Re: whitespaces in disk names

2003-02-27 Thread Gilles Bourcy
Well, the problem I have is particular : When I try to describe my directory name with a whitespace in it, amcheck considers that the word following the whitespace is the dumptype. For example, when I try (with or without simple or double quotes) /usr1/home/document/Ingenierie SYNLOG amcheck

Re: Using only one tape, full dump delayed

2003-02-27 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:43:31AM -0500, Gene Heskett enlightened us: On Thu February 27 2003 07:53, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:20:41AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us: Hi all amanda keeps using only one tape per day but always delays full dump for the same

tapetype ultrium1

2003-02-27 Thread Mats Blomstrand
Hi All I have just started a 'tapetype' on a ultrium1-tape. I guess that it will take a while to complete. Have anyone allready done this? //Mats

Re: Using only one tape, full dump delayed

2003-02-27 Thread forster
I believe the paramaters you give are not the real parameters of the config that is running, or I must be very stupid. Ok, you got me. I never said it's 3.9G. Actually the tape holds 12.0G. Sorry Guys, I'm not joking, just trying hard. The config below was just the example and I did not change

Re: Two more amanda questions

2003-02-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:28:02PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:26:59PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: Just a guess, but I'd say it's because 0 is not a valid date, so those lines are being ignored completely. Those lines are what results when you amlabel a tape. If

Re: Using only one tape, full dump delayed

2003-02-27 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, now let's get some information to sort out varios things: 1.) what length are the tapes you use: 120 meter or 125 meter? 2.) how often do you want amanda to take level0 dumps of your data? once a week? 3.) how many data do you need to backup? 4.) is hardwarecompression active in your

Question about tapetype program

2003-02-27 Thread Damon LaCaille
Hi everyone, I am configuring an HP JetStore 6000 C1533 DDS-2 tape drive. I have 4 of them in a SpectraLogic 1 (BullFrog) tape library, with 60 slots. I am running tapetype like this: # ./tapetype -e 4g -f /dev/rmt/0bn -t HP JetStore 6000 C1533 It's been running for about 90 minutes and

Re: Using only one tape, full dump delayed

2003-02-27 Thread forster
Hi, now let's get some information to sort out varios things: 1.) what length are the tapes you use: 120 meter or 125 meter? 125m / 410 feet (12.0GB) 2.) how often do you want amanda to take level0 dumps of your data? once a week? Does not matter, as long as at least one full dump is on

Re: tapetype ultrium1

2003-02-27 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:01:54PM +0100, Mats Blomstrand enlightened us: Hi All I have just started a 'tapetype' on a ultrium1-tape. I guess that it will take a while to complete. Have anyone allready done this? //Mats This is what I have...now I can't remember if I ran that tapetype myself

Re: Two more amanda questions

2003-02-27 Thread John Oliver
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:39:49AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:28:02PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:26:59PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: Just a guess, but I'd say it's because 0 is not a valid date, so those lines are being ignored

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dumpdates

2003-02-27 Thread bao
Hi, Could anyone please tell me what this means?? Thanks *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [new tape not found in rack]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

my notes are online

2003-02-27 Thread rb
Hi, I learnt to use amanda some weeks ago, and sent some questions to this ML. I promised I would put my notes online. Here it is: http://www.raphinou.com/amanda The layout isn't great, not sure it is appropriate, but at least it's available :-) Comments are welcome. I'll update it as I

Re: dumpdates

2003-02-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 at 11:52am, bao wrote FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- barracuda /junk lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1] sendbackup: start [barracuda:/junk level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/sbin/restore -f... - sendbackup: info end |

RE: my notes are online

2003-02-27 Thread Seth, Wayne (Contractor)
Raph, I tried the web site you mention below. I couldn't connect. Am I doing something wrong? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: my notes are online Hi, I learnt to use amanda

Re: dumpdates

2003-02-27 Thread Jay Lessert
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:39:51PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 at 11:52am, bao wrote /-- barracuda /junk lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1] | DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory You can't use dump to backup anything that

Re: my notes are online

2003-02-27 Thread rb
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:21:18PM -0700, Seth, Wayne (Contractor) wrote: Raph, I tried the web site you mention below. I couldn't connect. Am I doing something wrong? strange. I see in my logs other access To what IP does it resolve? Raph -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

holding disk and full dumps

2003-02-27 Thread bao
Hello everyone, First, I'd like to thank you all for answering my previous questions. I almost got amanda to run. Now, for testing, I set the dumpcycle 0 days, runspercycle 0 days, so that every time I call amdump, it will do a full dump. In someone's post and even in the amanda doc, it says

And a couple more questions

2003-02-27 Thread John Oliver
1) To exclude a directory that isn't on the host running the amanda server, is it sufficient to touch .amanda.exludes in that directory? 2) How does amanda react to symlinks in a directory? Will it follow the link and back up what it finds, or ignore it, or ??? -- John Oliver, CCNA

Re: Using only one tape, full dump delayed

2003-02-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thu February 27 2003 11:05, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:43:31AM -0500, Gene Heskett enlightened us: On Thu February 27 2003 07:53, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:20:41AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] NOTES: planner: pbrazor1.tszrh.csfb.com /ora

Re: holding disk and full dumps

2003-02-27 Thread Jay Lessert
[posted and Cc'ed] On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:09:33PM -0800, bao wrote: Now, for testing, I set the dumpcycle 0 days, runspercycle 0 days, so that every time I call amdump, it will do a full dump. In someone's post and even in the amanda doc, it says Amanda will choose when it will do a

amrecover: Indexes and gtar-list files exist but amrecover doesn't show files and most dirs

2003-02-27 Thread Hughes John
Hope someone can help with this: ls from within amrecover does not list any files and most dirs. The files were backed up level 0, index files exist, gtar-list files exist. They both contain lists of all files. But amrecover does not show them, only a small portion of directories and no files.

Re: amrecover: Indexes and gtar-list files exist but amrecover doesn' t show files and most dirs

2003-02-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thu February 27 2003 18:48, Hughes John wrote: Hope someone can help with this: ls from within amrecover does not list any files and most dirs. The files were backed up level 0, index files exist, gtar-list files exist. They both contain lists of all files. But amrecover does not show them,

Re: holding disk and full dumps

2003-02-27 Thread Dietmar Goldbeck
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:09:33PM -0800, bao wrote: 1. If I want to do a full dump of the entire selected folder every week, and incremental dumps every other days (1 full, 6 inc. per week), does it mean I have to rely on amanda in choosing what to do with load balancing?? Yes. This

Re: EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file [..]

2003-02-27 Thread Odd Rune Dahle
Joshua Baker-LePain: On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 at 9:13am, Odd Rune Dahle wrote Load tape daily10 now Continue? [Y/n]: y EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on ns1. And did you do this? What's in that file? I'm sorry. I forgot to mention that this file doesn't exist. ns1:~# updatedb;locate

tip for handling multiple dumps in the holding disk

2003-02-27 Thread Mark Stosberg
directory. 20030227: found Amanda directory. Multiple Amanda directories, please pick one by letter: A. 20030220 B. 20030227 Select directories to flush [A..B]: [ALL] B Sometimes it's not easy to guess which directory is the correct one, especially since two tape sets share the same holding