Re: Encryption

2004-02-09 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Eric Siegerman on Fri 6/02 18:54 -0500: > Looking at it now, I see that the basic approach is to have the > Amanda client do compression, with the "compression" program > (GZIP= environment variable to "configure") being a script that, > during backups, does essentially "gpg -e | gzip", and during

Making two copies of a backup

2004-02-09 Thread Eric Siegerman
[I'm CCing amanda-hackers because the answer to my question might depend heavily on Amanda internals; but the discussion doesn't belong there, so please reply to amanda-users.] I want to make two identical copies of an Amanda backup. This is a one-off thing -- archival backups of a client that's

Re: SGI amanda install

2004-02-09 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
I didn't see any follow up on this one. Which version of GNU make/automake/autoconf? I remember hitting this but that was years ago on a O200 with irix-6.5.x, x small with a beta amanda regards, jf * Brian Cuttler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20040206 11:41]: > > SGI 6.5.19 (both build and install

Re: suggestions for a backup scheme?

2004-02-09 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:37:23AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > Then, have a cron job that copies in either amanda.conf.full or > amanda.conf.incr to amanda.conf before the dump runs. Our approach is to have multiple Amanda configurations, with the same disklist (using symlinks). The crontab entry

Re: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 February 2004 12:59, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 12:51pm, Gene Heskett wrote > >> Actually, I've heard that if its only off by point double ought >> zip, "thats close enough for the girls I go with!" :) > >Around here we can say "good enough for gov't work" and me

Re: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 12:51pm, Gene Heskett wrote > Actually, I've heard that if its only off by point double ought zip, > "thats close enough for the girls I go with!" :) Around here we can say "good enough for gov't work" and mean it, given that most of our grants come from the gov't. > With

Re: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 February 2004 12:21, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:58:03AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 11:51am, Jon LaBadie wrote >> >> > I also go into the source and change the columns with single >> > decimal digits to having zero decimal digits and n

Re: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 12:21pm, Jon LaBadie wrote > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:58:03AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 11:51am, Jon LaBadie wrote > > > > > I also go into the source and change the columns with single decimal digits > > > to having zero decimal digits an

Re: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 February 2004 11:09, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hi, Gene, > >on Montag, 09. Februar 2004 at 17:03 you wrote to amanda-users: (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1) >>> >>>2.4.4p2 is out too :-) > >GH> So is 2.4.5p1, works great here. :-) > >I only see 2.4.5b1 here ... are yo

Re: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:58:03AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 11:51am, Jon LaBadie wrote > > > I also go into the source and change the columns with single decimal digits > > to having zero decimal digits and no decimal point. Do I really care if > > the tape rate w

Re: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 11:51am, Jon LaBadie wrote > I also go into the source and change the columns with single decimal digits > to having zero decimal digits and no decimal point. Do I really care if > the tape rate was 975.8 KB/sec as compared to 976? Or that u07's /var FS > compressed to 43.2

Re: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:57:31PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Amanda users, > > do you see anything in below report that raises your eyebrows? > This is just test, no production cycle yet. > > -- - > u03 -xport/home

Re: amrecover with interactive tape changers

2004-02-09 Thread Dr. Christoph Pospiech
On Monday 09 February 2004 16:09, John Stange wrote: > (honest question, because I have no idea) If you have to manually change > tapes anyway, what does the changer script do for you? Hi John, the changer tells amdump, that it is searchable. Then it receives from amdump the label of the next ta

Re: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Gene, on Montag, 09. Februar 2004 at 17:03 you wrote to amanda-users: >>> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1) >> >>2.4.4p2 is out too :-) GH> So is 2.4.5p1, works great here. :-) I only see 2.4.5b1 here ... are you ahead of us? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[E

Re: Problem with amflush

2004-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Paul Bijnens, on Montag, 09. Februar 2004 at 13:56 you wrote to amanda-users: PB> Rohit wrote: >>>And, more generally: Should amcheck complain about that? >> >> Yes, I think it should with appropriate message. PB> If you don't put cruft in the amanda holdingdisk directory, PB> then there

Re: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 February 2004 10:57, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Eugen Leitl wrote: >> do you see anything in below report that raises your eyebrows? >> This is just test, no production cycle yet. > >All fine. > >> planner: Full dump of u03:/var promoted from 25 days ahead. > >Are you sure you want to run

Re: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 February 2004 09:57, Eugen Leitl wrote: >Amanda users, > >do you see anything in below report that raises your eyebrows? >This is just test, no production cycle yet. > > Original Message >Subject: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004 >Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004

Re: Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
Eugen Leitl wrote: do you see anything in below report that raises your eyebrows? This is just test, no production cycle yet. All fine. planner: Full dump of u03:/var promoted from 25 days ahead. Are you sure you want to run with a dumpcycle that large? Dumpcyle != tapecycle. Actually tapecycl

Does this report look okay? ---> [Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004]

2004-02-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
Amanda users, do you see anything in below report that raises your eyebrows? This is just test, no production cycle yet. Original Message Subject: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR February 9, 2004 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:36:20 +0100 (MET) From: Amanda Operator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amcheck Host Down?????

2004-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 February 2004 08:31, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 8:28am, todd zenker wrote > >> I've read the FAQ's on this and still nothing seems to work. I >> get Host down. What I need is a checklist to make sure I'm not >> missing anything. Amandad does pooop out after I ru

Re: amcheck Host Down?????

2004-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 February 2004 08:28, todd zenker wrote: >I've read the FAQ's on this and still nothing seems to work. I get > Host down. What I need is a checklist to make sure I'm not missing > anything. Amandad does pooop out after I run the amcheck command. > >I'm trying to test my backup machine

Re: amrecover with interactive tape changers

2004-02-09 Thread John Stange
> This works fine for amdump, but fails for amrecover. I got beyond the point > that amrecover uses the tape changer. By inspecting various log files in > /tmp/amanda I found out that the tape changer indeed is called to search for > a specific tape, but bails out saying "Cannot open TTY". > >

Re: amcheck Host Down?????

2004-02-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 8:28am, todd zenker wrote > I've read the FAQ's on this and still nothing seems to work. I get Host down. > What I need is a checklist to make sure I'm not missing anything. > Amandad does pooop out after I run the amcheck command. > > I'm trying to test my backup machine b

Re: How to setup amanda with Hotbackup

2004-02-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
Yung Le wrote: I already read this FAQ before I post this question. Since my database spread to many mount points in system. If I follow the instruction from FAQ to setup a differnet tar program to backup a few partitions. I need to stop/start or enable/disable hotbackup mode many times when amand

amcheck Host Down?????

2004-02-09 Thread todd zenker
I've read the FAQ's on this and still nothing seems to work. I get Host down. What I need is a checklist to make sure I'm not missing anything. Amandad does pooop out after I run the amcheck command. I'm trying to test my backup machine before I start testing others machines. * Running Redhat 9.

Re: Problem with amflush

2004-02-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
Rohit wrote: And, more generally: Should amcheck complain about that? Yes, I think it should with appropriate message. If you don't put cruft in the amanda holdingdisk directory, then there is no problem. (It did complain about the cruft, didn't it?) -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

RE: How to setup amanda with Hotbackup

2004-02-09 Thread Yung Le
Hi, I already read this FAQ before I post this question. Since my database spread to many mount points in system. If I follow the instruction from FAQ to setup a differnet tar program to backup a few partitions. I need to stop/start or enable/disable hotbackup mode many times when amanda call the G

Re: Problem with amflush

2004-02-09 Thread Rohit
> Rohit, I don't remember that exactly: > > Didn't amcheck complain about that? No, it didn't > And, more generally: Should amcheck complain about that? Yes, I think it should with appropriate message. Thanks! Rohit

amrecover with interactive tape changers

2004-02-09 Thread Dr. Christoph Pospiech
Hi all, I am using amanda with IOmega disks and a home grown tape changer that I announced earlier in this forum. As there is no robot for this kind of backup media, a warm body is needed to get the IOmega disk into the slot. So the tape changer tells amanda, that it is searchable. It is doing

Re: Problem with amflush

2004-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Rohit, on Montag, 09. Februar 2004 at 11:39 you wrote to amanda-users: R> Finally caught the culprit: R> 1) Changed group permissions for backup directory to 'disk' R> 2) Changed permissions for 'windows' directory to 'amanda.disk' R> Now amflush runs fine. R> Thanks a lot group for assist

Re: Problem with amflush

2004-02-09 Thread Rohit
> # pwd > / > > # ls -l > drwxrwxr-x 10 amanda root 4096 Feb 5 00:30 backup > > # cd backup/ > # pwd > /backup > > # ls -l > drwxrwx---4 root root 4096 Oct 23 12:26 windows > > > PS. to avoid complaints about cruft concerning the lost+found > > directory, make a subdir

Re: How to setup amanda with Hotbackup

2004-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Paul, on Montag, 09. Februar 2004 at 01:14 you wrote to amanda-users: PB> Yung Le wrote: >> I want to setup amanda to backup a database in hotbackup mode. Have anybody >> know how to setup this or know to work around? PB> The second time in less than 12 hours :-) PB> http://amanda.sourcefo