Re: errors still

2003-06-10 Thread Joseph Sirucka
Hi Gene thanks for the reply. the lo interface is up with the 127.0.0.1 ip. The amandahost files is correct and I am really stuck on what is broken. I have posted a printout of the permissions of my directory incase something in debian linux is not kosher. Also the clients the redhat backup se

cygwin / indexing service

2003-06-10 Thread JC Simonetti
Hi all! I experience quite a strange problem with Amanda on Cygwin: I do not get the index results of dumps. The backups go well (I can amrestore them without error) but the indexes are not generated (the index files on the server are 0 byte...) so I cannot amrecover them. This is not a firewall

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Mike Eldridge
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:31:20PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> There has to be some reason the services won't start, so please > >> post an 'ls -l' of the /usr/local/libexec directory. Also an 'ls > >> -l' of the amanda src directory, and a 'cat' of your configuration > >> script. > > > >/usr/

Re: cygwin & spaces in disklist directory

2003-06-10 Thread Andy Howell
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:08:23PM -0500, Andy Howell wrote: Hello, I am trying to get the amanda client running under cygwin on win2k. amcheck doesn't like spaces in the directory in disklist. I am trying to do something like win2kpc /cgydrive/c/Documents and Settin

RE: NEC autoloaders

2003-06-10 Thread Tien That Ton
This is the changer with one SCSI ID for the drive and one SCSI ID for the robot. It essentially has 10 slots, if barcode reader is installed then it drops to 9 slots (slot number 10 is used for reading the barcode). For the LTO version it has the same specs as the DLT drive. There is also an S

amverify when no tape inserted?

2003-06-10 Thread Mathias Koerber
I have a script which calls amdump, amtoc, amverify in succession for a nightly backup I found that if no tape was inserted, amdump quickly returns, but amverify later keeps hanging around, calling ammt rewind every now and then ad nauseam. why is that? The amdump (and other amanda) man-pages do n

newbie needs tapetype

2003-06-10 Thread Dean A. Hoover
I have a seagate tapestor travan 20 internal scsi on my redhat 9 box. I have amanda 2.4.3-4 installed. What values should I enter for the tapetype? Thanks. Dean

Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 14:03, Ted Cabeen wrote: >Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 10:36am, Ted Cabeen wrote >> >>> If you're using the disk output driver to run backups to a large >>> disk array, is there any reason to use a holding disk? >> >> If you have

Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 13:36, Ted Cabeen wrote: >If you're using the disk output driver to run backups to a large > disk array, is there any reason to use a holding disk? 2 reasons. 1: Useing the holding disk allows amanda to exploit parallel-ization (is that a word ? :) between the clients, spe

RE: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Bernhard Beck
[...] > i had to create the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file as i've installed amanda > from source. i've confirmed, from the syslog (and the syscall trace), > that the service is correctly configured. And the amanda service shows up in netstat -a output as well, I suppose? > ? i don't notice any chan

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Mike Eldridge
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:36:23AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> 1: Are the 3 utilities named in the file I sent present and > >> accounted for, or are we playing mix-n-match here between an rpm > >> install, and a home built install? rpm doesn't put them in the > >> above location IIRC, but its

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Mike Eldridge
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:20:20PM -0700, Bernhard Beck wrote: > I ran into something similar a while back that got me banging my head > against the wall, so here it goes... > > Are you sure you are changing the xinetd config that is actually being used? > Assuming you are on RedHat or similar, ar

Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 Thread Jay Lessert
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:03:37AM -0700, Ted Cabeen wrote: > Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 10:36am, Ted Cabeen wrote > >> If you're using the disk output driver to run backups to a large disk > >> array, is there any reason to use a holding disk? > >>

Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 11:03am, Ted Cabeen wrote > Ahh. So without a holding disk, amanda will only dump one filesystem > at a time. Got it. Thanks. > > How many clients is "lots"? Depends on the size of your backup window and the amount of data you move. If you can get all your data over t

Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 Thread Steven M. Wilson
Ted, I just noticed that you mentioned using the disk output driver. I believe my problem with Amanda dropping into degraded mode was specific to using the tape output driver (I use disk directories that are seen as virtual tapes). Sorry for confusing the issue... Steve Steven M. Wilson wro

Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 Thread Steven M. Wilson
Brian, I don't know much about the rait driver.  Hopefully someone more knowledgeable on the list will respond.  I was unclear what you meant about moving to "diskless backups"... Steve Brian Cuttler wrote: Ted, Steve, Amanda users, Stupid question, how smart is the rait driver for disk

Please help? Greetings...amrecover problem?

2003-06-10 Thread Glenn Sieb
If I'm missing some obvious thing, or if I've left out any information needed to troubleshoot this properly, please let me know.. I'm stuck here.. :( I'm running FreeBSD 4.8, with Amanda Server 2.4.4, installed from /usr/ports/misc/amanda-server We've been running some backups just fine, but w

RE: Questions about Amanda - part II

2003-06-10 Thread Bort, Paul
> Hi, > > My questions is: > > > > 2. I need to get the backups of all my > machines. Do I need to > > > create a /etc/amanda/Directory/amanda.conf for each of them ? > > > > Usually, a single machine (the amanda "server") has the > tape drive, and > > all other machines (amanda "

Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 Thread Brian Cuttler
Ted, Steve, Amanda users, Stupid question, how smart is the rait driver for disk ? If you put the spool area on the output disk will it juggle the space ok ? Will it know to move the file from one directory to another (move the file pointer # mv perhaps) rather than having to copy all the bits a

Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 Thread Ted Cabeen
Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 10:36am, Ted Cabeen wrote > >> If you're using the disk output driver to run backups to a large disk >> array, is there any reason to use a holding disk? >> > If you have lots of clients *and* you have the disk space, yes, a

Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 Thread Steven M. Wilson
Ted, I've been using a 2 TB disk array for the past month or so and it's been working great for me without a holding disk. Using a holding disk will require more free disk space plus the additional time to transfer from the holding disk to the backup disk. I recommend getting a patch from Jea

Re: Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 10:36am, Ted Cabeen wrote > If you're using the disk output driver to run backups to a large disk > array, is there any reason to use a holding disk? > If you have lots of clients *and* you have the disk space, yes, as it will increase amanda's efficiency (through parallel

Holding disks and the disk output driver

2003-06-10 Thread Ted Cabeen
If you're using the disk output driver to run backups to a large disk array, is there any reason to use a holding disk? -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen[EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have taken

RE: PREGUNTA

2003-06-10 Thread Deyanira Barreto Osorio
Luisa puedes enviar todos los datos por e.mail pero debes enviarlo al representante para que el autorice la correccion. -Mensaje origin <>

Re: NEC autoloaders

2003-06-10 Thread Jay Lessert
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:38:09PM +0100, Tom Brown wrote: > > Has anyone had any experience using LTO autoloaders from NEC and amanda? > > > > Specifically this one > > > > http://www.nec-cebit.com/products/LL0101H.asp > > if nobisy has had any joy with these autoloaders can anyone recommend a LT

Re: NEC autoloaders

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brown
> Has anyone had any experience using LTO autoloaders from NEC and amanda? > > Specifically this one > > http://www.nec-cebit.com/products/LL0101H.asp if nobisy has had any joy with these autoloaders can anyone recommend a LTO autoloader to work with amanda that has about 8 tapes? Tom

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 10:07, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: >On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:36:23AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> xinetd isn't a pos, its quite a bit more secure, and less >> wastefull of system resources than inetd because things don't get >> started at boot time and left around in case

Re: Problems with taper getting short writes

2003-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 09:16, Tom Yates wrote: >On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Eric Siegerman wrote: >> Well, "SCSI parity error" seems pretty clear -- data being >> received with bad parity by one of your SCSI devices (either the >> tape drive or the SCSI adapter; I'm being carefully agnostic as >> to which

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:36:23AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > xinetd isn't a pos, its quite a bit more secure, and less wastefull of > system resources than inetd because things don't get started at boot > time and left around in case they are needed, they are started on > demand, and killed w

Re: Multiple backup groups (explained)

2003-06-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 at 4:58pm, Daniel Bentley wrote > Groups A, B, and C are collections of samba shares on individual desktops. > As things stand, A, B, and C are defined by the current backup scripts so > that they equal right around 10G each. A total of 30G to be backed up. > It needs to b

Re: "missing size line from sendbackup"

2003-06-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 9:04am, Rainer Hofmann wrote > /-- merten1/datena lev 0 STRANGE > sendbackup: start [merten1:/datena level 0] > sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump > sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/sbin/restore -f... - > sendbackup: info end > | DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Jun

Re: Questions about Amanda - part II

2003-06-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) wrote: 2. I need to get the backups of all my machines. Do I need to create a /etc/amanda/Directory/amanda.conf for each of them ? Usually, a single machine (the amanda "server") has the tape drive, and all other machines (amanda "clients") write their backups

Re: Problems with taper getting short writes

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Yates
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Eric Siegerman wrote: > Well, "SCSI parity error" seems pretty clear -- data being > received with bad parity by one of your SCSI devices (either the > tape drive or the SCSI adapter; I'm being carefully agnostic as > to which way the data's flowing when the errors are detected

Re: Questions about Amanda - part II

2003-06-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:14:43AM -0300, Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) wrote: > > > > 3. If I put 'dump cycle' to 5, the partition that will be > > > backuped wil be divided by 5 and on each day 1/5 of the > > > partition will be backuped, ok ? > > > > No. The partition will get a level

RE: Amanda thru a firewall

2003-06-10 Thread donald . ritchey
All the answers depend on the exact behavior of your firewall, but they should act consistently with other permitted services. To get Amanda through firewalls here, we needed to specify port ranges for both the TCP and UDP ports. We used the TCP range X-X0040 and UDP range of N90-N99 (exact r

Questions about Amanda - part II

2003-06-10 Thread Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA)
Hi, My questions is: > > 2. I need to get the backups of all my machines. Do I need to > > create a /etc/amanda/Directory/amanda.conf for each of them ? > > Usually, a single machine (the amanda "server") has the tape drive, and > all other machines (amanda "clients") write their ba

Re: Multiple backup groups (explained)

2003-06-10 Thread tobias . bluhm
How about running it the other way around? If you're using win2k/xp, use the native windows ntbackup.exe to write it out to file on disk. Setup a samba server with enough disk & share out to the target machines only. Schedule the target machines to run ntbackup to the samba share. On my p3 1ghz

Re: Solaris 9 install

2003-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 00:37, Ray Hernandez wrote: >The changer on the Sun Box with Solaris 9 is a Sun StorEDGE L9 with > a 9 DLT8000 tapes. When I run 'mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status' it says > that it is a quantum drive. Which scripts would you recommend. > Also, How would you set up the device chan

Re: holding disk problem

2003-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 04:05, Markus Dohmann wrote: >Hi, > >I'm using Amanda since two weeks and there is a problem with the > holding disk area. A tape was not changed and I expected that > Amanda dumped the backup to the holding disk. But the error message > was: > >FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMM

Re: errors still

2003-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 02:56, Joseph Sirucka wrote: >Hi All > >I have recently installed two amanda backup servers. > >One is a redhat 8 server with a six stacker dds 3 autoloader, and a > debian unit with a single dds3 unit. > >I compiled amanda on both servers. They both have the same > permissi

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 01:12, Mike Eldridge wrote: >On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:51:38PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 09 June 2003 15:03, Mike Eldridge wrote: >> >On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:29:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> On Monday 09 June 2003 14:10, Mike Eldridge wrote: >> >> >

holding disk problem

2003-06-10 Thread Markus Dohmann
Hi, I'm using Amanda since two weeks and there is a problem with the holding disk area. A tape was not changed and I expected that Amanda dumped the backup to the holding disk. But the error message was: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: b3sn30 /disk9/b3sn30 lev 0 FAILED [no more holding

Bom dia amanda-users

2003-06-10 Thread kandrak
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"missing size line from sendbackup"

2003-06-10 Thread Rainer Hofmann
Hi, I've added a new partition to my disklist: merten1 /datena scomp-user A procedure I did a dozen times before. But now I receive error messages at nightly dumps and I can't right work out what's the reason. What is meant by "missing size line from sendbackup"? Thank you for your help Rainer