backup of directorys

2003-07-01 Thread Jörn Rübel
hi, i've got the problem, that i can't backup a directory with 700 rights. the problem is on the server and also on the client. any ideas? regards joern Mit freundlichen Grüßen - Jörn Rübel * Firma ITProtect GmbH - Security Solutions - In den Weiden 18 * 58285 Gevelsberg Te

Re: this is what I'd like to do

2003-07-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jeremy Hansen wrote: I've been using Arkeia for a while but recently my license has expired and I'd like to try using Amanda. I'd like to backup all of localhost to a second hard drive in the server. Can Amanda do this? I was looking for some quick start like documentation to get me going but

Re: backup of a mounted smb share

2003-07-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gregor Ibic wrote: I tried to backup a pre-mounted share from some win2k host in disklist I have amanda_server_name/mnt/mounted_smb_share root-tar-full when i try with amcheck, it said that everything is ok. also i can list files on a mounted directory but when i start the backup, and c

Re: backup of directorys

2003-07-01 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Errm, Can you give us a bit more information about what os, filesystem. what exactly you want to do and how it is failing? none of us can read your mind or your logs without having acces to them ;-) Christoph Jörn Rübel schrieb: hi, i've got the problem, that i can't backup a directory

AW: backup of directorys

2003-07-01 Thread Jörn Rübel
uups, here it comes: the machines run under sles7 with reiser fs. the error message i got is something like this ERROR: server.any-host.de: [can not access /data/any-directory/exports/home.nis (/data/any-directory/exports/home.nis): Permission denied] ERROR: server.any-host.de: [can not access /

Re: Optimizing AMANDA in a small environment (1 vxa tape-drive, 3exabyte [80gig] tapes, 3 servers)

2003-07-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
Anwar Ruff wrote: What I want to do is use one tape a week/dumpcycle. Yet, If I were to use one tape per dumpcycle would AMANDA overwrite the tape from one day to the next. (i.e., If AMANDA backed up 3 servers on Monday to one tape, would it rewind and overwrite that tape during Tuesdays dump?)

Re: AW: backup of directorys

2003-07-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jörn Rübel wrote: uups, here it comes: the machines run under sles7 with reiser fs. the error message i got is something like this something "like" this :-) ERROR: server.any-host.de: [can not access /data/any-directory/exports/home.nis (/data/any-directory/exports/home.nis): Permission denied] I

AW: AW: backup of directorys

2003-07-01 Thread Jörn Rübel
i don't backup nfs-mounts anywhere. the /data/any-directory is owned by www and all needed suid-bits are set. at the moment i also backup the complete /etc directory without any problems. on other machines with the same configuration and the rights 770 on the /data/any-directory i can backup it

chg-multi and backup to file

2003-07-01 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I just downloaded amanda-2.4.4p1 and installedit, but after testing this shiny new amanda I still got the same old problem with amanda and the amanda changer. Here is what I've done: amanda.conf tpchanger "chg-multi" amrecover_changer "chg-mul

Getting started with Amanda...

2003-07-01 Thread Forrest Aldrich
New to Amanda here. Looking for a page that might document some getting-started procedures, configuration setup, etc. I'll be using this for my private (home) LAN, mostly to backup the firewall system (where the 4mm DAT is). Thanks, Forrest

Re: Getting started with Amanda...

2003-07-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:32:22PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > New to Amanda here. > > Looking for a page that might document some getting-started procedures, > configuration setup, etc. > go to www.amanda.org there are some pointers to general docs follow pointers to the source, download

TAPE ERROR No space left on device

2003-07-01 Thread Paul English
I've been getting the following error every night for a week. The FAQ is down so the question goes to the list. These dumps were to tape Daily-00. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to

Re: backup to disk problem....

2003-07-01 Thread Scott Petler
I have a backup to disk running now. I did the following: 1) amadmin DailySet1 force localhost 2) changed disklist from: /home/photos /home/scottp /home/travis to: hda1 I would still like to be able to select directories, not sure why this made it start working Scott On Tue, Jul 01, 2

Re: backup to disk problem....

2003-07-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:00:48PM -0700, Scott Petler wrote: > > I have a backup to disk running now. I did the following: > 1) amadmin DailySet1 force localhost > 2) changed disklist from: > > /home/photos > /home/scottp > /home/travis > > to: > > hda1 > > > I would still like to be able t

Re: TAPE ERROR No space left on device

2003-07-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:35:03AM -0700, Paul English wrote: > > I've been getting the following error every night for a week. The FAQ is > down so the question goes to the list. > > These dumps were to tape Daily-00. > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]]. > Som

amrecover problems with indexes

2003-07-01 Thread Bob Zahn
I am having problems using amrecover. I can only see limited number of indexes and then follow them down to a file level. Most indexes do not seem to be there. When I do a 'ls' command I only see the 'opt/' directory or entry from the index files. amrecover> setdisk /hostserver0/root Scanning

Re: amrecover problems with indexes

2003-07-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 at 2:22pm, Bob Zahn wrote > And I also see the following entries in the same index file: > .. > 07665067355/./etc/lu/optfs > 07665067356/./etc/vx/vras/.rdg > 07665067403/./opt/SUNWstade/System/NETCONNECT > .. > 07665067405/./opt/SUNWstade/lib/auto/XML/LibXML/LibXML.bs > 07665067

RE: Getting started with Amanda...

2003-07-01 Thread Joffer
>> Looking for a page that might document some getting-started procedures, >> configuration setup, etc. >> > >go to www.amanda.org there are some pointers to general docs > >follow pointers to the source, download it, unpack, >then read and follow docs/INSTALL. Search the archive from july/2003 f

RE: backup of a mounted smb share

2003-07-01 Thread Gregor Ibic
maybe i will try it. but the plan is to create an install package with precompiled cygwin version of amanda. regards, gregor

Can't find my robot

2003-07-01 Thread Steven J. Backus
I've got a VXA autoloader and I'm using linux, I set the drive for SCSI id 4 and the robot for 5. Then dmesg says: Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 from reading the archives of this list I should see something like: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun

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2003-07-01 Thread Bab Oyun
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Re: Can't find my robot

2003-07-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 at 3:14pm, Steven J. Backus wrote > I've got a VXA autoloader and I'm using linux, I set the drive for > SCSI id 4 and the robot for 5. Then dmesg says: > > Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 > > from reading the archives of this list I should see somethi

More on Robot thing

2003-07-01 Thread Steven J. Backus
Thanks for the answer Joshua. It looks like sg0 and sg1 are drives and sg2 is the changer, mtx -f /dev/sg2 inquiry returns: Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'EXABYTE ' Product ID: 'Exabyte EZ17' Revision: '1.11' Attached Changer: No But mtx -f /dev/sg2 unload says Unloading Data Tran

server will not backup itself ?!?!

2003-07-01 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Hi! I installed amanda on a Debian Woody system, and everything appears to be configured properly. amcheck -lstw runs without incident. However, I am victim to what appears to be the most common problem: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? I have scoured the Faq-O-Matic, and I lis

Re: server will not backup itself ?!?!

2003-07-01 Thread Kurt Yoder
Did you look through the amcheck debug files that you saw in /tmp/amanda? Can you manually connect to the services in question? (eg telnet localhost 10082, etc)? Your /etc/amandahosts has localhost commented out. If you're connecting to localhost this could be a problem. Also, my amandahosts is

Re: server will not backup itself ?!?!

2003-07-01 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Jay Lessert (Tue 01 Jul 02003 at 05:09:21PM -0700): > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:36:34PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > What do you think? > > > > ### > > ### > > # grep -v '^\([# ]\|$\)' /etc/amanda/DailySet

Re: server will not backup itself ?!?!

2003-07-01 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Kurt Yoder (Tue 01 Jul 02003 at 08:46:41PM -0400): > > Did you look through the amcheck debug files that you saw in > /tmp/amanda? Yes, since posting, I found an archived post suggesting this, in which I find new information. However, I cannot understand its meaning: # cat /tmp/aman

Re: server will not backup itself ?!?!

2003-07-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 at 6:36pm, Michael D. Schleif wrote > # grep amanda /etc/inetd.conf > amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amandad > amandaidx stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd > amidxtape stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/ama

Re: server will not backup itself ?!?!

2003-07-01 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Joshua Baker-LePain (Tue 01 Jul 02003 at 10:29:38PM -0400): > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 at 6:36pm, Michael D. Schleif wrote > > > # grep amanda /etc/inetd.conf > > amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amandad > > amandaidx stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/li

Re: server will not backup itself ?!?!

2003-07-01 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Jay Lessert (Tue 01 Jul 02003 at 07:45:50PM -0700): > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:08:33PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Of course, I have tried every combination of hostname and address in > > disklist, and also made certain that that name there is the _same_ as > > that used in a

Index file is empty - cygwin - using latest verion on tar

2003-07-01 Thread Michael Gabriel
Hi everyone, I'm having trouble getting the amanda backups going under cygwin. The server is backing up serveral other linux boxes so I think that's ok. The data is being sent to the server from the cygwin box but the index file is empty. The only thing that is showing any indication of a p

Re: server will not backup itself ?!?!

2003-07-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 22:59, Michael D. Schleif wrote: >Also sprach Jay Lessert (Tue 01 Jul 02003 at 07:45:50PM -0700): >> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:08:33PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: >> > Of course, I have tried every combination of hostname and >> > address in disklist, and also made cer

Re: Index file is empty - cygwin - using latest verion on tar

2003-07-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 00:42, Michael Gabriel wrote: >Hi everyone, > > I'm having trouble getting the amanda backups going under > cygwin. The server is backing up serveral other linux boxes so I > think that's ok. The data is being sent to the server from the > cygwin box but the index fil

[newbie] backup only 2 or 3 type of files

2003-07-01 Thread netman . qos
Hello, Sorry for my (very) poor language I want backup only .xml .pl .pm and .tgz in one directory and his sub dir. Unfortunatly, i have big difficult to read documentation. Can you help me, with a little example ? Thanks a lot by advance (A french speaker's list not exist ?)

backup to disk problem....

2003-07-01 Thread Scott Petler
Hi, I'm trying to configure amanda 2.4.4 to backup to a spare drive, but can't quite get it to work. Where is -1 KB coming from? I've tried changing the length number in the config and don't seem to be able to make it have any effect on the error message. It seems that the tape size is 0 o