Re: files larger than tape

2004-03-04 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! I need to backup a 18G directory(/terrasky/tslibrary) which contains 12 subdirectories. Currently, using the disklist example in the documentation for large files, my disklist looks like this : - #sa03 /terrasky/tslibrary/ { # All directories that start with [h-z] # user-tar

Re: Amanda, MTX, L25 changer

2004-03-04 Thread Seth Rothenberg
Thanks to the people who offered to think more about this. Your questions will probably lead us to the answers. I appreciate everyone's help. Seth (One person asked what script I was using for Amanda. I didn't investigate that yet, because mtx won't run. Is it a mistake to think that way?)

amreport

2004-03-04 Thread Brian Cuttler
Good morning, I've a Solaris 8 system running amanda 2.4.2p2 (Yes, yet another amanda server, have about 14 now...) We changed an smtp gateway yesterday and blocked ourselves from getting mail from one of the systems in our own DMZ. I'd like to regenerate the amanda report and know I need to

Re: amreport

2004-03-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
Brian Cuttler wrote: I'd like to regenerate the amanda report and know I need to run # amreport config but the input for amreport must have been (properly) renamed by amlogroll (I'm on track here, right ?) $ su - amanda $ cd ~amanda/TheConfig $ ls log.* (Choose your logfile, lets asume it's

? path of config file for amrecover

2004-03-04 Thread Allen Liu --- work
Hi experts, I installed amanda in my Solaris box with configuration 'snd' like : /myapp/am1/etc/amanda/snd But when I run amrecover , it tried to to search config file from my old installation path /myapp/am/etc/amanda ( see below), it ceitainly failed. I wonder why it tried that way ? and how

AMANDA scheduling algorithm

2004-03-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, amanda-users, I once found a document describing the scheduling algorithm of AMANDA. It contained pics of how full and incremental dumps are combined to meet the goals, for example. I tried to find it in my bookmarks and my archive of AMANDA-related stuff but I can't find it anymore ...

Solaris 8 and L200

2004-03-04 Thread Glenn Zenker
I have amanda installed when I run the following command as the user amanda /usr/local/sbin/amverify DailySet1 0 I get this: Tapes: Errors found: amtape: could not load slot 1: chg-multi: slot is empty amverify DailySet1 Thu Mar 4 13:18:52 EST 2004 Loading 1 slot... ** Error loading slot 1

Strange DNS lookup problems ... I think ...

2004-03-04 Thread Geoff Swavley
hi All, I run 25 schedules per night, and only 1 ... this one ... gives me some heart-ache. I know it must be something other than DNS but all of the error messages are trying to send me down that garden path. The amanda host machine is windamere, and schedule6 backs up intrap. I can log onto

Re: Solaris 8 and L200

2004-03-04 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, You have configured amanda to use chg-multi as changer script. i don't think this is what you want. chg-multi is used with multiple tapedrives to form a virtual tape-robot. use one of the other chg-scripts, depending on which software you use to move your robot. Christoph Glenn Zenker schrieb:

Re: Strange DNS lookup problems ... I think ...

2004-03-04 Thread R.M. Evers
hi geoff, i've had a similar problem about a week ago. look at this report-snippet (i've taken out the hosts and ip's): -- These dumps were to tape daily09. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. The next new tape already labelled

Re: Strange DNS lookup problems ... I think ...

2004-03-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Geoff, on Freitag, 05. März 2004 at 04:44 you wrote to amanda-users: GS NOTES: GS planner: tapecycle (4) = runspercycle (4) GS driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner GS taper: tape schedule6-THU kb 0 fm 0 [OK] I would try to correct the issue mentioned here first. Add tapes