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2004-05-11 Thread Gavin Henry
Anyone know where I can get an RPM with ufsrestore/ufsdump in it, so I can search through a tape as per the RESTORE file in the Amanda docs? Gavin. ** Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. BEng (Hons) MIEE Engineer Invsat Ltd.

Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Dave Ewart
Hi, Many months of happy activity and then suddenly, last two nights, the AMANDA job has failed to finish properly - the error in the AMANDA report says: These dumps were to tape Daily-014. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]]. Some dumps may have been left in the

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Martin Hepworth
Dave Being the person you are I presume you've... cleaned the heads, reseated the connectors, sounds like a drive issue to me - there are some utils on the HP web site for diagnosis they will has you run, but you'll have to dig out a windows box to run them I've got a DLT1 (same drive

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Dave, on Dienstag, 11. Mai 2004 at 11:02 you wrote to amanda-users: [...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 2 [...] kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x16 0x00 0x00 +0x4f 0xc8 0x15 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x82 0x01 0x55 0x00 0x00 0x25 0x3b 0x00 0x96 0x32 0x50 0x00 [...]

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 11.05.2004 at 11:24 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: [...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 2 [...] kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x16 0x00 0x00 +0x4f 0xc8 0x15 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x82 0x01 0x55 0x00 0x00 0x25 0x3b 0x00 0x96 0x32 0x50 0x00 [...]

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Dave Ewart, on Dienstag, 11. Mai 2004 at 11:47 you wrote to amanda-users: DE blackhole: ~ # mt -f /dev/st0 status DE drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape DE drive status = 1073741824 DE sense key error = 0 DE residue count = 0 DE file number = 0 DE block number = 0 DE Tape block size 0 bytes.

Re: your mail

2004-05-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 8:44am, Gavin Henry wrote Anyone know where I can get an RPM with ufsrestore/ufsdump in it, so I can search through a tape as per the RESTORE file in the Amanda docs? Err, by RPM I'm assuming you mean for a Linux system, and by ufsrestore/ufsdump I'm assuming you mean

RE: your mail

2004-05-11 Thread Gavin Henry
Sorry, forgot to put in a subject. Yes, Fedora. Is there anything else like it for Linux? -Original Message- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2004 11:29 AM To: Gavin Henry Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: your mail On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 8:44am, Gavin

RE: your mail

2004-05-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
Please put responses below quoted text -- it makes the conversation much easier to follow. Fixed below. On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 11:36am, Gavin Henry wrote From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Err, by RPM I'm assuming you mean for a Linux system, and by ufsrestore/ufsdump

RE: your mail

2004-05-11 Thread Gavin Henry
If you need cross-platform capabilities, then use tar for your backups rather than dump. oh, I do use gnutar for my backups. I should just replace ufsrestores with tar then. Silly me. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Phil Homewood
Dave Ewart wrote: [...] kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x8000, Deferred st09:00: sns = f1 4 [...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 1 [...] kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x1, Current st09:00: sns = f0 3 [...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 2 [repeated] What looks like the problem

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Re: Unable to amlabel a tape

2004-05-11 Thread Matthias Andree
Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 2.6.5 etc kernels also have some configuration switches you can build in for the OnStream stuff, I noticed them in passing just a few days ago. This might, in the long run make your life a lot more enjoyable if you are comfortable building your

FW: unsubscribe please

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Hi, I was re-subscribed magically for some reason. I have also tried to unsubscribe and also get an error back. Could you also unsubscribe me from this list as well? Thanks, Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Copeland Sent: 11

Re: your mail

2004-05-11 Thread Jonathan Dill
Gavin Henry wrote: Sorry, forgot to put in a subject. Yes, Fedora. Is there anything else like it for Linux? I have periodically searched for ufsrestore-compatible software for Linux, but have been unable to find any yet. In my case, I wanted to be able to index dumps from a Solaris amanda

Re: FW: unsubscribe please

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how to write outside of amanda

2004-05-11 Thread fredjame
-- first time with scsi tape and amanda -- for testing: how do I read write to a scsi tape outside of amanda? (Linux OS) Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer. -- ...we are fellow passengers...

RE: FW: unsubscribe please

2004-05-11 Thread Hughes John
Same here. Automagically resubscribed and the majordomo is broke. Please remove me On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:38:03PM +0200, Mark Le Noury wrote: Hi, I was re-subscribed "magically" for some reason. I have also tried to unsubscribe and also get an error back. Could you also

Re: how to write outside of amanda

2004-05-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 8:24am, fredjame wrote for testing: how do I read write to a scsi tape outside of amanda? (Linux OS) You don't want to write to amanda tapes outside of amanda. To read, see the instructions in docs/RESTORE and/or 'man mt'. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of

Re: FW: unsubscribe please

2004-05-11 Thread Jonathan Dill
As a stopgap, perhaps there is a way to turn off receipt of mail? On LISTSERV it was something like set nomail Technically, you would still be subscribed, but you would not receive any messages. On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 08:57, Bryan K. Walton wrote: I'm another person who was magically

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Re: your mail

2004-05-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 08:50:53AM -0400, Jonathan Dill wrote: Gavin Henry wrote: I have periodically searched for ufsrestore-compatible software for Linux, but have been unable to find any yet. In my case, I wanted to be able to index dumps from a Solaris amanda client on a Linux amanda

Re: unsubscribe

2004-05-11 Thread Jonathan Dill
OK just for fun, I gave it a shot, and it looks to me like someone used RCS (ci, co, rcsdiff etc.) to manage something within the Majordomo tree and Majordomo is unhappy about having an RCS directory within the tree because it is not a valid list. That's what I suspect. You're probably going to

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 11.05.2004 at 22:00 +1000, Phil Homewood wrote: If it's anything like a DLT4000 drive, Sense4/ASC15/ASCQ1 is Hardware error: Random Mechanical Positioning Error and Sense3/ASC15/ASC2 is Medium error: Position error detected by read of medium. Or so sayeth my DLT4000 manual,

mailing list issues

2004-05-11 Thread Todd Kover
There were problems with unsubscribing from the amanda lists. This has been corrected. As always, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have problems with the mailing list rather than pestering everyone on the list. This isn't in the headers (I'll see about adding it) but it is described on

Re: unsubscribe

2004-05-11 Thread Todd Kover
OK just for fun, I gave it a shot, and it looks to me like someone used RCS (ci, co, rcsdiff etc.) to manage something within the Majordomo tree and Majordomo is unhappy about having an RCS directory within the tree because it is not a valid list. That's what I suspect. You're

Re: how to write outside of amanda

2004-05-11 Thread Rodrigo Pipoli
Good morning. Check this document: http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_computing/buns/tapes.html Regards, Pipoli -- first time with scsi tape and amanda -- for testing: how do I read write to a scsi tape outside of amanda? (Linux OS) Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer.

permission denied. What am I missing?

2004-05-11 Thread Bram Smits
New installation of Amanda 2.4.4p2i (compiled from source) on Mandrake 10.0 Trying to get it running on the local (tape server) host first and I'm getting permission denied errors on the disk I'm trying to back up (root partition) and the /etc/dumpdates file. I checked/fixed permissions,

Re: permission denied. What am I missing?

2004-05-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 12:00pm, Bram Smits wrote $more /etc/xinetd.d/amandad service amanda { disable = no socket_type = dgram wait= yes user= amanda server =

Re: permission denied. What am I missing?

2004-05-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Bram Smits wrote: New installation of Amanda 2.4.4p2i (compiled from source) on Mandrake 10.0 Trying to get it running on the local (tape server) host first and I'm getting permission denied errors on the disk I'm trying to back up (root partition)

Re: how to write outside of amanda

2004-05-11 Thread fredjame
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 8:24am, fredjame wrote for testing: how do I read write to a scsi tape outside of amanda? (Linux OS) You don't want to write to amanda tapes outside of amanda. To read, see the instructions in docs/RESTORE and/or 'man mt'. Why I would

Re: how to write outside of amanda

2004-05-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:38:49AM -0500, fredjame wrote: Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 8:24am, fredjame wrote for testing: how do I read write to a scsi tape outside of amanda? (Linux OS) You don't want to write to amanda tapes outside of amanda. To read, see

Re: Connection refused

2004-05-11 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 17:22:28 +0100 Tony van der Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have successfully installed and configured Amanda, and amcheck runs successfully, as does amdump. However, amrecover (running as root) fails, with the message cannot connect to

Cant estimate and other planner problems

2004-05-11 Thread Pablo Quinta Vidal
Hi! After executing amdump Diaria I get this errors in the log.*.* file: START driver date 20040311 DISK planner 193.144.50.86 /amanda START planner date 20040311 INFO planner Adding new disk 193.144.50.86:/amanda. START taper datestamp 20040311 label Diaria3 tape 0 FAIL planner 193.144.50.86

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 05:02, Dave Ewart wrote: Hi, Many months of happy activity and then suddenly, last two nights, the AMANDA job has failed to finish properly - the error in the AMANDA report says: These dumps were to tape Daily-014. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file:

Re: Connection refused

2004-05-11 Thread Rodrigo Pipoli
Hello, Specify the user that will be requesting a recover in your .amandahosts file. In your example: tony-lx.magpieway.net root Separate the host and the user with a blank space. It works for me. :) Regards, Pipoli Hi, I have successfully installed and configured Amanda, and amcheck runs

Re: how to write outside of amanda

2004-05-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 09:24, fredjame wrote: -- first time with scsi tape and amanda -- for testing: how do I read write to a scsi tape outside of amanda? (Linux OS) Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer. man dd? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense

Re: Cant estimate and other planner problems

2004-05-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 7:02pm, Pablo Quinta Vidal wrote ** planner: time 1.660: got result for host irixoa06.des.udc.es disk /amanda: 0 - -1K, -1 - -1K, -1 - -1K ** planner: time 1.661: getting estimates took

Re: Unable to amlabel a tape

2004-05-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 08:20, Matthias Andree wrote: Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 2.6.5 etc kernels also have some configuration switches you can build in for the OnStream stuff, I noticed them in passing just a few days ago. This might, in the long run make your life a lot more

Re: permission denied. What am I missing?

2004-05-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 7:50pm, Bram Smits wrote On Tue, 11 May 2004, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 12:00pm, Bram Smits wrote $more /etc/xinetd.d/amandad =-= Try adding 'group=disk' to the above. Thanks. That resolved the dumpdates error but not the other one.

Re: Cant estimate and other planner problems

2004-05-11 Thread Pablo Quinta Vidal
Here is the sendsize* sendsize: debug 1 pid 5860 ruid 1001 euid 1001: start at Tue May 11 18:55:54 2004 sendsize: version 2.4.4p2 sendsize[5860]: time 0.081: waiting for any estimate child: 1 running sendsize[5862]: time 0.082: calculating for amname '/amanda', dirname '/amanda', spindle -1

Re: Cant estimate and other planner problems

2004-05-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 11 May 2004 at 8:42pm, Pablo Quinta Vidal wrote sendsize[5862]: time 0.085: running /sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - /amanda sendsize[5862]: time 0.086: running /usr/local/libexec/killpgrp sendsize[5862]: time 0.262: DUMP: Cannot open /dev/hda2 sendsize[5862]: time 0.263: DUMP: The