Re: Backup History question

2003-07-23 Thread Niall O Broin
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 04:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: How can I easily and quickly get a list of the last n backup tapes which were used? I need to be able to identify the tapes for rotation to an offsite storage facility. tail -'n' tapelist ? No - that gets you the OLDEST n tapes.

Q: amanda, samba and winpc

2003-07-23 Thread Raúl Wild-Spain
Hi, I've decided to add a winpc into my backup planning. I've followed the doc amanda-common/doc/SAMBA.gz from my Debian. Thus, into my disklists appears xaloc//garbi/H$comp-user-tar - the amanda server xaloc must to connect through Samba to //garbi/H$ and into my /etc/amandapass

Re: Backup History question

2003-07-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:08:25AM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2003 04:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: How can I easily and quickly get a list of the last n backup tapes which were used? I need to be able to identify the tapes for rotation to an offsite storage facility.

How could amflush NOT flush ? :o)

2003-07-23 Thread Nicolas Ecarnot
Hi, My Amanda setup keeps improving tests after tests and I still have so many questions. Today is : How could I do to make automatic flushes (autoflush) but without deleting the holding disk directories ? What I'd like to have is this situation : - cron launches amdump - the autoflush option

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o)

2003-07-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: I first thought about a script that would launch amdump without the option autoflush, then copy the last created directory, then launch amflush. But that copy is way too large for my not-so-small 120Go holding disk. Instead of a copy, make hard links to the original files.

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o) [OFF TOPIC]

2003-07-23 Thread Nicolas Ecarnot
Selon Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: I first thought about a script that would launch amdump without the option autoflush, then copy the last created directory, then launch amflush. But that copy is way too large for my not-so-small 120Go holding disk.

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o)

2003-07-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:53:13PM +0200, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: Hi, My Amanda setup keeps improving tests after tests and I still have so many questions. Today is : How could I do to make automatic flushes (autoflush) but without deleting the holding disk directories ? What I'd like to

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o) [OFF TOPIC]

2003-07-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:36:31PM +0200, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: Selon Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: I first thought about a script that would launch amdump without the option autoflush, then copy the last created directory, then launch amflush. But that

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o) [OFF TOPIC]

2003-07-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: Selon Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: I first thought about a script that would launch amdump without the option autoflush, then copy the last created directory, then launch amflush. But that copy is way too large for my not-so-small 120Go holding

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o) [OFF TOPIC]

2003-07-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens wrote: #!/bin/sh cd /bigdisk/amandahold/Config1 amdump Config1 cd /bigdisk/amandahold/Config1 find . | cpio -pl /bigdisk/amandahold/Config2 Better add a -d option to cpio like: ... cpio -pdl ... so that is does automatically create the directory named after the

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o) [OFF TOPIC]

2003-07-23 Thread Niall O Broin
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 15:36, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: The doc (under FreeBSD 5.1) also says that the hard links can't be used for directories, but only for files. I tested it, and indeed, I'm stuck. A little search on google explained me that the filesystem limits that because every file

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-23 Thread Kurt Yoder
More information about this problem: Looking more closely in /tmp/amanda/sendsize...debug, I see something strange: sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: calculating for amname '/', dirname '/', spindle -1 sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: getting size via dump for / level 0 sendsize[7578]: time 0.020:

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-23 Thread Marc Mengel
Kurt Yoder wrote: Weird errors here. The root user is definitely in the passwd file. Could this be part of the problem? Thanks for any ideas on fixing this... Maybe a silly question, but, can your amanda backup user read the passwd file on that system? Marc

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o)

2003-07-23 Thread Kurt Yoder
Nicolas Ecarnot said: Hi, My Amanda setup keeps improving tests after tests and I still have so many questions. Today is : How could I do to make automatic flushes (autoflush) but without deleting the holding disk directories ? What I'd like to have is this situation : - cron launches

Re: Estimate tieouts

2003-07-23 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:15:39AM -0400, Jason Edgecombe wrote: Hi everyone, I am having estimate timeouts from an amanda client. The client's logs for amandad have the following error messages at the end: amandad: time 81.782: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad:

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o)

2003-07-23 Thread Nicolas Ecarnot
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 à 10:36:42AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: [...] # make LinkDir if needed [ -d ${LinkDir} ] || mkdir ${LinkDir} # should do error processing, but I'm lazy # link to dump file ln ${Dfile}

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 at 10:57am, Kurt Yoder wrote sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: calculating for amname '/', dirname '/', spindle -1 sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: getting size via dump for / level 0 sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: calculating for device '/' with '' sendsize[7578]: time 0.022: running

Re: amrecover remotely: TCP/IP connection stalls

2003-07-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 at 2:07pm, Andreas Ntaflos wrote Hello list(s), First of all, sorry for crossposting but I think this is both a question for -users as well as -hackers. I hope I get some response since I've been through the archives so thoroughly I get a headache only from

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o) [OFF TOPIC]

2003-07-23 Thread Nicolas Ecarnot
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 à 04:41:12PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: You have two configs; Config1 reserve 100 and a bogus tapedev /no/such/tape and holdingdisk set to /bigdisk/amandahold/Config1/. The other, Config2, tapedev /dev/nst0 (or whatever is the real tapedev) and holdingdisk

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o) [OFF TOPIC]

2003-07-23 Thread Nicolas Ecarnot
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 à 03:54:40PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote: A little thinking here would help I sure need advices :o) - in your script which runs amanda, all you have to do is hardlink every file in the last holding directory to a similarly named file in another directory and you're done.

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o) [OFF TOPIC]

2003-07-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: But I really can't admit there is no way to tell to amflush not to remove the holding disk files ! Should I ask the dev mailing list if the patch exist ? No, there is no patch. (But I still think there is some way in the hard-link-files-method. The changes to the config

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o) [OFF TOPIC]

2003-07-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:53:22PM +0200, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: I'm absolutely confuse to appear as asking too much, but I sure would prefer not to touch my amanda configuration, so the Kurt's solution seems nice (apart the ressources considerations). That may not be as bad as you imagine.

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o)

2003-07-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:34:59PM +0200, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 à 10:36:42AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: [...] # make LinkDir if needed [ -d ${LinkDir} ] || mkdir ${LinkDir} # should do error processing, but I'm lazy

Re: How could amflush NOT flush ? :o)

2003-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 11:03, Kurt Yoder wrote: Nicolas Ecarnot said: Hi, My Amanda setup keeps improving tests after tests and I still have so many questions. Today is : How could I do to make automatic flushes (autoflush) but without deleting the holding disk directories ? What I'd

newbie problems

2003-07-23 Thread Yogish
Hi I am a newbie with amanda, I have configured amanda according to a book, However when I try to amdump it gives me following error.I have also attached the amanada.conf and disklist files.Can anyone please help me This was the error I ran into when I checked the log files START planner

The old GnuTar vs. Dump topic

2003-07-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, amanda-users, is there a brief comparison between using dump or tar with amanda anywhere? I´d like to have the dis/advantages in a compact form. Thank you, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie problems

2003-07-23 Thread Jason P.Pickering
Hi Yogish. It would seem that the permissions on you holding disk are not correct. Did you try chown amanda:amanda /home/tmp to give amanda permission to write to the disk? Regards..JPP On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Yogish wrote: Hi I am a newbie with amanda, I have configured amanda according to a

Re: newbie problems

2003-07-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Yogish wrote: I am a newbie with amanda, I have configured amanda according to a book, However when I try to amdump it gives me following error.I have Did you see the excellent explanation in docs/INSTALL too? also attached the amanada.conf and disklist files.Can anyone please help me This was

Re: newbie problems

2003-07-23 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:12:02 -0600 Yogish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am a newbie with amanda, I have configured amanda according to a book, However when I try to amdump it gives me following error.I have also attached the amanada.conf and disklist files.Can anyone please help

Re: newbie problems

2003-07-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:12:02AM -0600, Yogish wrote: Hi I am a newbie with amanda, I have configured amanda according to a book, However when I try to amdump it gives me following error.I have also attached the amanada.conf and disklist files.Can anyone please help me That is a very

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AW: Problems with amflush

2003-07-23 Thread Jörn Rübel
Hi John, -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 19:13 An: Jörn Rübel Betreff: Re: Problems with amflush On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:51:51AM +0200, Jörn Rübel wrote: Hello, i've got a problem with amflush. I