RE: Have 2.4.4p1 RAIT over file: working sort of...

2003-11-18 Thread Dana Bourgeois
Is there no one who has an idea of what's wrong here? I followed the examples but used the chg-multi changer rather than the chg-mtx. Any help? Can I use chg-multi with a /dev/null tape device? I don't really have any hardware, its all the file: driver writing to disk. Dana Bourgeois > -

RE: Another amcheck question

2003-11-18 Thread Dana Bourgeois
Title: Message Offhand I think networking.  ping the other from each, both client and server.  Check that all interfaces are up with proper netmasks, addresses, default routes and gateways.  The usual suspect when there is no firewalling or router ACLs, VPN or NAT between client and server is

Re: Another amcheck question

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Harper
The server side gets a timeout.  They are on the same IP subnet, so I don't think a firewall would come into play here.  Both boxes are redhat 9 boxes with no system firewalling.  If there's any other information that would help, let me know. thanks, Greg Frank Smith wrote: --On Tuesday, N

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2003-11-18 Thread Malcolm Bader

Re: Another amcheck question

2003-11-18 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, November 18, 2003 15:35:11 -0800 Greg Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm sure that people on the list are tired of amcheck questions, but > I've searched everywhere I could think of and haven't been able to > find a similar problem. I don't get anything usefu

Another amcheck question

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Harper
Greetings, I'm sure that people on the list are tired of amcheck questions, but I've searched everywhere I could think of and haven't been able to find a similar problem. I don't get anything useful from the server side, but here's what I get from the client amandad logs: amandad: time 0.000: got

Another amcheck question

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Harper
Greetings, I'm sure that people on the list are tired of amcheck questions, but I've searched everywhere I could think of and haven't been able to find a similar problem. I don't get anything useful from the server side, but here's what I get from the client amandad logs: amandad: time

Re: Re: DL-0101H (DLT8000) on RH7.3

2003-11-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:31:07PM +0100, Ismaël BALLO wrote: > Hi Jon, > > I thank for your advices. I'm not familiar with file devices. > > In fact, sg0 is the changer(autoloader) Looked like if from your mtx output > sg1 is the tape drive How do you know that? > > So my no rewind tapedri

Re: Re: DL-0101H (DLT8000) on RH7.3

2003-11-18 Thread Ismaël BALLO
Hi Jon, I thank for your advices. I'm not familiar with file devices. In fact, sg0 is the changer(autoloader) sg1 is the tape drive So my no rewind tapedrive is /dev/nst0, right ? Message d'origine >Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:16:37 -0500 >De: Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >A: [EMAIL

Re: DL-0101H (DLT8000) on RH7.3

2003-11-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:15:51PM +0100, Ismaël BALLO wrote: > Hi, > > Before using my tape changer, I would like to check the DLT > but i don't find good results. Is this me or my hardware is not good ? > How could I find simply that harware works ? > Here are the file devices > /dev/sg0 et /de

Re: changing tapes with barcode and no amlabel..

2003-11-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:46:55PM +1100, Charlie Allom wrote: > I found this :( > > http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/273.html > > I suppose I can amlabel each tape before I dump to it. In fact it is required. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing

RE: data write: File too large

2003-11-18 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Never Mind, I was under the impression that, for some reason, the holdingdisk {} section of amanda.conf could not exist in my version. But I put it there, with an appropriate Chunksize, and ... amcheck did not complain at all. In fact it said "4096 size requested, that's plenty." If you don't hea

RE: data write: File too large

2003-11-18 Thread Byarlay, Wayne A.
Thanks for the responses... Upgrading at this time would be GREAT. Unfortunately this is not going to happen anytime soon. I have another hard drive with RH9 and 2.4.4 on it, but it's only half-configured, and it took a while to get to that point. As per the current, Irridum-dust, ancient setup,

Re: Re: DL-0101H (DLT8000) on RH7.3

2003-11-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 at 12:47pm, Ismaël BALLO wrote > Hi, > > I've put chmod 777 for trying. It's the same thing ! > > ls -l /dev/sg0 > crwxrwxrwx1 root disk 21, 0 avr 11 2002 /dev/sg0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mt -f /dev/sg0 offline > /dev/sg0: Permission denied mt works on tap

Re: Re: DL-0101H (DLT8000) on RH7.3

2003-11-18 Thread Ismaël BALLO
Hi, I've put chmod 777 for trying. It's the same thing ! ls -l /dev/sg0 crwxrwxrwx1 root disk 21, 0 avr 11 2002 /dev/sg0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mt -f /dev/sg0 offline /dev/sg0: Permission denied Thanks. Message d'origine >De: "Tom Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >A: "Ismaël

Re: DL-0101H (DLT8000) on RH7.3

2003-11-18 Thread Tom Brown
and if I try mt -f /dev/sg0 offline /dev/sg0: Permission denied Thanks for the help. Bye what happens if you ls -l /dev/sg* who owns and what perms are on /dev/sg0? thanks

DL-0101H (DLT8000) on RH7.3

2003-11-18 Thread Ismaël BALLO
Hi, Before using my tape changer, I would like to check the DLT but i don't find good results. Is this me or my hardware is not good ? How could I find simply that harware works ? Here are the file devices /dev/sg0 et /dev/sg1 1st command : mtx -f /dev/sg0 status Storage Changer /dev/sg0:1 Dri

Re: changing tapes with barcode and no amlabel..

2003-11-18 Thread Charlie Allom
I found this :( http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/273.html I suppose I can amlabel each tape before I dump to it. C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Melbourne, Australia http://rubberduck.com/~yeled/ PGP: 0x14AA7941 || finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signatu

RE: data write: File too large

2003-11-18 Thread Dana Bourgeois
I had this error when trying to put dump files larger than 2 Gig on a non-BigFile supporting OS (RedHat 7.0). I had chunk size set correctly but forgot about what would happen when I used the file: device to write the coalesced dump files to disk tapes. Got a modern kernel and the problem went aw

changing tapes with barcode and no amlabel..

2003-11-18 Thread Charlie Allom
Hi, I was wondering if I can operate without Amanda on-tape labels at all. ie. Can I just use the VolumeTag= entries from my changer? chg-zd-mtx (looking at the script) seems to want to match them up - so I'm just asking for confirmation I guess. adm1:/etc/amanda/daily# su backup -c /usr/sbin/am