Re: streaming

2004-06-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Glenn, on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 06:51 you wrote to amanda-users: GE> Jon implied that hdparm may be just kidding about this. hdparm -Tt gives GE> the following: GE> GE> /dev/hda: GE> Timing buffer-cache reads: 2800 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1399.51 MB/sec GE> Timing buffered disk

Re: streaming

2004-06-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger, on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 09:12 you wrote to amanda-users: SGW> Hi, Glenn, SGW> on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 06:51 you wrote to amanda-users: GE>> I looked at another system: an old Dell server downstairs with a Maxtor GE>> PCI IDE card and a 2 or 3 year old M

Re: streaming

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Rudolph
Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 10:59, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > I doubt there is any tapedrive that is "too fast" for your > > disk drives. > > I thought so too. But when dump is running from one disk to the other, > it reports speeds about 20% higher (~10MB/s)

Re: streaming

2004-06-03 Thread Martin Hepworth
Glen I'd check the logic in the kernel code that checks for 80 way cables etc etc. When I last looked at 2.4.19 it was doing some weird stuff - do the checks then reset the flag where the bit table for the capabilities of the drive is set. As opposed to reset, then do the checks! I know you sai

Re: Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-03 Thread Javier Sanchez
Hello again, i have just reciompiled amanda using a patch to force the use of bzip2 instead of gzip, i have recreated the tapes, deleted all the logs and database files. I put the no-reuse option on all the tapes using amadmin, but now all the backups are refused because amanda expects a new

Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Javier Sanchez wrote: I put the no-reuse option on all the tapes using amadmin, but now all the backups are refused because amanda expects a new tape, did i miss something to reset ?? 'no-reuse' is exaclty what amanda will do with the tapes: she will refuse to write on them. Amanda needs (v)tapes t

Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-03 Thread Javier Sanchez
So let see if i understood all correctly .-) I created 10 vtapes on a usb disk, as soon as the tapes gets full i must put the tape in no-reuse and add another tape to the tapelist ?? How can i force amanda not to use another tape if theres free space on the actual tape ?? Cheers And again thank

Re: Hard disk backup doubts

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Javier Sanchez wrote: I created 10 vtapes on a usb disk, as soon as the tapes gets full i must put the tape in no-reuse and add another tape to the tapelist ?? ...as soon as the tapes are WRITTEN TO... The number of "reusable" tapes needs to be >= tapecycle parameter. As long as this condition hold

Re: streaming

2004-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 June 2004 03:26, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger, > >on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 09:12 you wrote to amanda-users: > >SGW> Hi, Glenn, > >SGW> on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 06:51 you wrote to > amanda-users: > >GE>> I looked at another system: an old Dell se

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2004-06-03 Thread Tobias
Hi everyone, I've successfully setup Amanda to backup our internal servers. Our setup is the classic DMZ setup: inner network => inner-firewall => DMZ => outer-firewall => internet The Backup Server is in the inner network. The firewalls are both running debian 2.2 potato with ipchains (unfortun

Amanda , the movie Part II

2004-06-03 Thread Marcelo Leão Caffaro
I create one test folder named /backup3/teste, inside this folder i put one file with 5 gb size, today i make one backup this folder ..   my disklist is: nameofserver /backup3/teste root-tar   The backup working fine, but when i go to this folder, move the file to see recover working and i r

Re:

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Tobias wrote: amcheck complains with "port (insert-highport-here) is not secure". I've read the amanda FAQs but the answer given to this problem didn't help because I haven't installed the firewalls and am by far no firewall magician. Why does amanda receive the highport which should have been mapp

Re: Backup Server in DMZ

2004-06-03 Thread Tobias
Zitat von Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > in common-src/security.c: > Comment it out. > The added benefit of this test is not as strong as it used to be, in > these days where everybody can be root on his PC, and connect from a > reserved (<1024) port. thanks for your help. I just tried what

Re: Backup Server in DMZ

2004-06-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Tobias, on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 15:42 you wrote to amanda-users: T> Zitat von Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> in common-src/security.c: >> Comment it out. >> The added benefit of this test is not as strong as it used to be, in >> these days where everybody can be root on his PC,

Re: Managing "out of the office" twits

2004-06-03 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Justin Gombos wrote: > [anti_ooo.msg file] > > My scripts have detected that you posted an out of office reply to a > public forum. Please control your auto-responder. > > If you are receiving this in error, I apologize; please disregard it. At the risk of prolonging t

Compile errors on rh av. server 2.1

2004-06-03 Thread Javier Sanchez
Hi all, im having problems building amanda on a red hat advance server 2.1, heres the output, any hits ??? source='alloc.c' object='alloc.lo' libtool=yes \ depfile='.deps/alloc.Plo' tmpdepfile='.deps/alloc.TPlo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../config/depcomp \ /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -D

Re: Compile errors on rh av. server 2.1

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Javier Sanchez wrote: im having problems building amanda on a red hat advance server 2.1, heres the output, any hits ??? No idea. Never seen. But just verifying: you did do "make distclean" before you did "./configure " ? -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.5

Re: Managing "out of the office" twits

2004-06-03 Thread Justin Gombos
* Mitch Collinsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-03 08:32]: > > At the risk of prolonging this thread even further, it does seem > incongruous for an auto-responder script aimed as mis-behaving > auto-responders to request that if it itself mis-behaves, the > recipient should please disregard. I

ipchains

2004-06-03 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 07:10, Tobias wrote: > The Backup Server is in the inner network. The firewalls are both running > debian 2.2 potato with ipchains (unfortunately kernel doesn't seem to have > port-forwarding capabilities and I don't like to roll my own if there is > another way ...). It's a

Re: Backup Server in DMZ

2004-06-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 16:13 I wrote to amanda-users: SGW> The options I have pasted from that old mail and since then in my SGW> setup: SGW> ./configure --with-tcpportrange=5,50040 --with-udpportrange=890,899 SGW> Have a start at SGW> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=amanda-u

Re: streaming

2004-06-03 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 01:12, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Getting away from AMANDA-topics: > > You should get your IDE-setup straight. That does seem to be the root of the problem. > A main point is the bus-mastering. It is also very important to > performance which device is the master and wh

Re: streaming

2004-06-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Glenn, on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 19:18 you wrote to amanda-users: GE> And I thought that a & b were controller #1, c & d were #2. I'm using GE> the controller(s) on the Intel motherboard. Don't mix up controllers with channels: Your controller supports two channels, which are called p

Good Documentation anywhere?

2004-06-03 Thread Kris Vassallo
Does anyone know of a book or some online docs that explain in detail how AMANDA works, how to use all of its tools, and how to optimize / tweak it for a particular environment? The online chapter of Unix Backup and Recovery doesn't quite do it for me. Thx!

Re: Good Documentation anywhere?

2004-06-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Kris, on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 21:46 you wrote to amanda-users: KV> Does anyone know of a book or some online docs that explain KV> in detail how AMANDA works, how to use all of its tools, and how KV> to optimize / tweak it for a particular environment? The online KV> chapter of Unix B

Re: Good Documentation anywhere?

2004-06-03 Thread Ivan Petrovich
Stefan G. Weichinger a e'crit: > There is no such thing as "The Official AMANDA HOWTO And Reference > Guide". Is anybody working on it?

Re: Good Documentation anywhere?

2004-06-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Ivan, on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 22:52 you wrote to amanda-users: IP> Stefan G. Weichinger a e'crit: >> There is no such thing as "The Official AMANDA HOWTO And Reference >> Guide". IP> Is anybody working on it? I don't know of any current project, no. But I think about doing it mysel

Re: Good Documentation anywhere?

2004-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 June 2004 17:33, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hi, Ivan, > >on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 22:52 you wrote to amanda-users: > >IP> Stefan G. Weichinger a e'crit: >>> There is no such thing as "The Official AMANDA HOWTO And >>> Reference Guide". > >IP> Is anybody working on it? > >I d

Re: Good Documentation anywhere?

2004-06-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Gene Heskett, on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 23:52 you wrote to amanda-users: GH> There was at one time a site called frankenlinux.something that had a GH> somewhat expanded set of manpages/docs. I used them to get started GH> with years ago. They might be somewhat dated in that any new st