Re: amlabel returning Read-only file system error

2003-03-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 at 2:09pm, Ron Bauman wrote amlabel: writing label: Read-only file system It's indeed very weird. Two possibilities: 1. Are you sure you are specifying the correct tapedevice in the amanda configuration? There is no file system on a tape, maybe you specified file:... or

Confirmation for subscribe amanda-users

2003-03-14 Thread Majordomo
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Re: compiling 2.4.4 on Mac OS X

2003-03-14 Thread Steven Karel
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Why the configure script didn't found the `initgroups' declaration? Look at configure.log file. Jean-Louis here's the bit from config.log for 2.4.4, let me know if you want the whole files. There is no corresponding error in configuring

results missing

2003-03-14 Thread Laas Toom
Hello, I use amanda to back up my whole site: freebsd workstations as well as windows samba shares. recently my backup server chrashed and i had to reinstall the operatingsystem (in the way upgrading it from freebsd 4.6 to 4.7). After what i copied amanda config files to the locations they

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial company ( 250 employees), a hospital or a university and if so how much it's used (whole institution, small department, single server etc). How many Gb do you back up (don't answer that if you feel its

Re: results missing

2003-03-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
Laas Toom wrote: Now amanda backs up only the freebsd workstations, but for all samba shares amanda says: RESULTS MISSING. We need more information (like the /tmp/amanda/* debug files), but one thing that comes to mind is, have you restored the /etc/amandapass file on your samba client host (the

The Million Dollar amcheck Question (host down)

2003-03-14 Thread Lauren Bridges
Hi folks! I know this question is asked a lot, and I've looked through various solutions, and the FAQ but can't seem to solve my problem. When I run amcheck, I get the following error: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk

Re: The Million Dollar amcheck Question (host down)

2003-03-14 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 at 3:02pm, ljrsnn wrote Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: snitch: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 30.024 seconds, 1 problem found I assume snitch is both client and server? -However, NO

Re: The Million Dollar amcheck Question (host down)

2003-03-14 Thread Chris Dahn
I have had this happen when I did not have the proper FQDN in .amandahosts. For my situation, we are changing over the Math and Computer Science domain (mcs.drexel.edu) to a strict Computer Science domain (cs.drexel.edu). The result is that Drexel decided to alias all of the new cs.drexel.edu

Re: The Million Dollar amcheck Question (host down)

2003-03-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Fri March 14 2003 10:02, ljrsnn wrote: Hi folks! I know this question is asked a lot, and I've looked through various solutions, and the FAQ but can't seem to solve my problem. (I'm trying to run this on Linux) When I run amcheck, I get the following error: Amanda Tape Server Host Check

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial company ( 250 employees), a hospital or a university and if so how much it's used (whole institution, small department, single server

compiler options

2003-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
Quick check, does anyones C compiler NOT support the -E option to output the results of the C preprocessor to stdout? I know lots of compilers follow the ATT lead and have the option, I'd like to hear about ones that DO NOT. Maybe they have an alternative? -- Jon H. LaBadie

Re: The Million Dollar amcheck Question (host down)

2003-03-14 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, March 14, 2003 15:02:22 + ljrsnn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks! I know this question is asked a lot, and I've looked through various solutions, and the FAQ but can't seem to solve my problem. (I'm trying to run this on Linux) When I run amcheck, I get the following error:

pleasant observation

2003-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
Just a nice observation. I have been running version 2.4.2 for a long time. Yesterday I decided to upgrade. As you know there have been a lot of changes in the interim. I was slightly concerned how they would affect my system. I downloaded the 3/08 snapshot, configured with my old script,

amrecover permission problem

2003-03-14 Thread Stephen Carville
I am having a permission problem with amrecover that makes no sense to me. Please cc me on any replies. I am a memebr of the list but I haven't seen any mail in a while $ sudo amrecover -C daily1 -s chena AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3b2. Contacting server on chena ... 220 chena AMANDA index server

Re: pleasant observation

2003-03-14 Thread Chris Dahn
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: Good job Core Team of developers in maintaining backward compatibility!! Am I mistaken, or did they change the indexing method? Is both backing up and restoring backwards compatible?

Re: pleasant observation

2003-03-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:59:39PM -0500, Chris Dahn wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: Good job Core Team of developers in maintaining backward compatibility!! Am I mistaken, or did they change the indexing method? Is both backing up and restoring backwards compatible? Did

amrecover permission problem -- followup

2003-03-14 Thread Stephen Carville
I don't know if this was the cause or not but: The machine thames has two IP addresses. One on eth0, the other on eth0:1. Once I added both addresses to the host file on _both_ machines, amrecover happily restored the file. I'll admit I have no idea why this should make a difference, tho.

Re: fixed day backup

2003-03-14 Thread Bao Ho
Hi David, Jay, and Wayne, Thanks for replying. I had tried the options strategy noinc and strategy nofull as Jay has mentioned. In fact, we can get away with only one config with two dumptypes and have to call the correct one on the correct day with cron. We just override the dumpcycle options

Address Change

2003-03-14 Thread kurt
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