Samba backup with excludes ...

2004-01-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, amanda-users, welcome back to another round of discussing Samba-excludes ... I set up an AMANDA server these days. Its job is to backup one Windows-Server. This Win-box shares one big directory which contains several directories which should not be backed up due to their size and the fact

AMANDA in the holidays

2004-01-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, amanda-users, another question I find the time to ask because I am at home at last ;) --- In the last days I get problems at one client´s site when AMANDA runs into degraded mode. This happens more often right now because of all the holidays ... When there is no tape inserted, AMANDA get

D'oh! Disklist file gone.

2004-01-05 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I made one of those ironic little glitches today: I was deleting old disklist files, when someone asked me an unrelated question, and wound up deleting "disklist*". Wups. And the ironic factor, of course, is that the amanda directory, itself, isn't backed up. [We've been working on getting

Re: D'oh! Disklist file gone.

2004-01-05 Thread Frank Smith
--On Monday, January 05, 2004 12:08:03 -0500 Ken D'Ambrosio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made one of those ironic little glitches today: I was deleting old disklist files, > when someone asked me an unrelated question, and wound up deleting "disklist*". > Wups. And the ironic factor, of cour

Re: AMANDA in the holidays

2004-01-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, Jon, Montag, 05. Jänner 2004, 18:56 you wrote: JL> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:39:57PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> In the last days I get problems at one client´s site when AMANDA runs >> into degraded mode. This happens more often right now because of all JL> Not really degrade

Re: AMANDA in the holidays

2004-01-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:39:57PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > 0 13 * * 1-5 /usr/local/sbin/amcheck -m daily > 30 2 * * 2-6 /usr/local/sbin/amdump daily && /usr/local/sbin/amverify daily && > /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/st0 offl > > I noticed that I try to take /dev/st0 offl instead of /dev/n

Re: What is a 'chunker' ?

2004-01-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:11:25AM +0100, Georg Rehfeld wrote: > Dear group, > > in 'amstatus.pl.in' from the CVS 1.56 there is handling for _chunkerN_ > (besides dumperN and taper). > > What might that be? Possibly a dumper splitting large dumps, to be > distributed over more than one tape? It'

Re: proper way to re-run dump

2004-01-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:58:15AM -0600, Fran Fabrizio wrote: > > One of my filesystem dumps failed last night - it was a new one that I > added, biggest one yet, and the estimate timed out. Is this the proper > thing to do? > > - bump up the timeout (was 300 seconds, this was a 50Gig filesyste

Re: dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?

2004-01-05 Thread John Dalbec
Georg Rehfeld wrote: Hi Kurt, John and all others, Kurt Yoder wrote: John Dalbec said: So the dumper immediately reports 'connection refused' when attempting to connect to the taper process. Wrong permissions? Wrong permissions on what? It's a TCP connection over the loopback. What permiss

tar question

2004-01-05 Thread Charlie Wiseman
We've been using amanda 2.4.4 for a while now, but we are still having a few problems with tar and solaris. We had been getting this error on a few of solaris machines: --snip-- /-- homes01 /disk1/homes lev 0 FAILED [/usr/local/sfw/bin/gtar returned 2] sendbackup: start [homes01:/disk1/homes lev

Re: dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?

2004-01-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:31:18PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: > It just occurred to me that maybe this is a side effect of /etc/hosts cache > poisoning (courtesy of Red Hat Linux 7.3 NSCD). We've been getting e-mail > from a netblock in Vietnam that reverse-resolves to "localhost". NSCD > cache

Re: tar question

2004-01-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 at 2:37pm, Charlie Wiseman wrote > We were using a slightly older version of gtar, so we installed > 1.13.92. Now we are getting this for nearly all of our solaris machines: 1.13.25 is what you want. The newer versions are not compatible with amanda. -- Joshua Baker-LePain

Re: dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?

2004-01-05 Thread John Dalbec
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:31:18PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: It just occurred to me that maybe this is a side effect of /etc/hosts cache poisoning (courtesy of Red Hat Linux 7.3 NSCD). We've been getting e-mail from a netblock in Vietnam that reverse-resolves to "

Re: AMANDA in the holidays

2004-01-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger, on Montag, 05. Jänner 2004 at 19:44 you wrote to amanda-users: SGW> Hello, Jon I am sorry, somehow my reply to Jon LaBadie fell into amanda-users. Sorry for the noise. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMANDA in the holidays

2004-01-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Jean-Louis, on Montag, 05. Jänner 2004 at 19:57 you wrote to amanda-users: >> Why does amverify start when there is no/the wrong tape inserted? JLM> You should use amverifyrun instead of amverify. >> Shouldn´t amcheck/amdump notice that there is still some >> amdump/amverify active? JLM> a

Re: dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?

2004-01-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:00:34PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: > > > >>Would upgrading to the current version change this? > > > > > >No, it's a problem with your system configuration, not an amanda bug. > > Well, I turned off /etc/hosts caching so that should fix the system problem. > What would

amanda.conf error

2004-01-05 Thread Brian Cuttler
We are running amanda 2.4.2p2 on Solaris 8. Rather than cutting and pasting our usual (which in vi requires a joint and removal of white space (at least at 80 columns)) columnspec "HostName=0:7,Disk=1:14,OrigKB=1:9,OutKB=1:9,DumpRate=1:6,TapeRate=1:6" I entered columnspec "HostName=0:10,TapeR

Re: dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?

2004-01-05 Thread John Dalbec
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:00:34PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: Would upgrading to the current version change this? No, it's a problem with your system configuration, not an amanda bug. Well, I turned off /etc/hosts caching so that should fix the system problem. What would I

RE: D'oh! Disklist file gone.

2004-01-05 Thread donald . ritchey
Ken: 1. Look at your last e-mail reports from Amanda and get the disklist from the list of DLEs backed up. 2. Another way is to grovel through the reports in the "logdir" directory listed in your configuration's amanda.conf file. 3. Yet another is to go to the index directory in your "l

Re: What is a 'chunker' ?

2004-01-05 Thread Georg Rehfeld
Moin (good morning), Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: in 'amstatus.pl.in' from the CVS 1.56 there is handling for _chunkerN_ (besides dumperN and taper). What might that be? Possibly a dumper splitting large dumps, to be distributed over more than one tape? It's the process in amanda 2.5.0 that write t

backing up machine over slow line fails every time

2004-01-05 Thread Palle Girgensohn
Hi, One of the machines we backup is on a different network, so I've set it up with amanda just like all our local machines, and instead of dump I used tar and created a list of the most important files. Problem is, almost everytime it fails. A full backup is supposed to take around 3:50 hours

Re: backing up machine over slow line fails every time

2004-01-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:25:14AM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi, > > One of the machines we backup is on a different network, so I've set it up > with amanda just like all our local machines, and instead of dump I used > tar and created a list of the most important files. > > Problem is,