AW: Problem: cannot overwrite active tape

Hi! I don't use real tapes. It's 680GB Raid-System and so these tapes are virtual. I created one tape and made a test-backup. It is the first time that I use Amanda and I don't know how to create another blank tape on my raid. Hope this explanation is better? -Ursprüngliche

Re: AW: Problem: cannot overwrite active tape

Hi, Sebastian, on Montag, 07. Juni 2004 at 10:16 you wrote to amanda-users: SK Hi! SK I don't use real tapes. It's 680GB Raid-System and so these tapes are SK virtual. I created one tape and made a test-backup. It is the first time SK that I use Amanda and I don't know how to create another

sporadic errors - could not connect ...

Hi List ! Were great anyone could help ... We are experiencing strange errors at the time. We have an amand-server that backs up about 30 hosts a night. Most of the time it went well, but now there are very often etrange errors. It sais: x /opt lev 0 FAILED 20040606[could not connect to x]

Re: sporadic errors - could not connect ...

Oliver Simon wrote: x /opt lev 0 FAILED 20040606[could not connect to x] ... Would it be an idea to set (if existent) a higher debug-level at the amanda-server, and where should i do that ? I would look in the client(s) in the directory /tmp/amanda and there should be files with a

/dev/null caused backups to fail

All file systems on one of my backup clients failed over the weekend. The dump summary thinks the system was offline, but it wasn't, and the amadad debug log had this in it: amandad: time 0.016: amandahosts security check passed amandad: time 0.016: running service /usr/lib/amanda/sendsize

Re: sporadic errors - could not connect ...

Hi, Oliver, on Montag, 07. Juni 2004 at 13:18 you wrote to amanda-users: OS It sais: OS x /opt lev 0 FAILED 20040606[could not connect to x] OS And that on about 15 of 30 hosts. The more interesting is, that the OS first filesystems (or dle´s) are fine, only some of them are failing.

Re: /dev/null caused backups to fail

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All file systems on one of my backup clients failed over the weekend. The dump summary thinks the system was offline, but it wasn't, and the amadad debug log had this in it: amandad: time 0.016: amandahosts security check passed amandad: time 0.016: running service

Re: Problem: cannot overwrite active tape

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:16:29AM +0200, Sebastian Kösters wrote: Hi! I don't use real tapes. It's 680GB Raid-System and so these tapes are virtual. I created one tape and made a test-backup. It is the first time that I use Amanda and I don't know how to create another blank tape on my

Re: /dev/null caused backups to fail

In a message dated: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:15:47 +0200 Paul Bijnens said: Besides the fact that a LOT of programs will fail mysteriously when /dev/null has been tampered with, here is a patch for sendsize.c . Thanks! ps. Ever replaced /dev/null with a plain file by accident? :-) M, can I

Re: sporadic errors - could not connect ...

--On Monday, June 07, 2004 13:18:49 +0200 Oliver Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List ! Were great anyone could help ... We are experiencing strange errors at the time. We have an amand-server that backs up about 30 hosts a night. Most of the time it went well, but now there are very

Re: /dev/null caused backups to fail

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 04:15:47PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: + error(%s: open /dev/null returned: %s, cmd, strerror(errno)); May I suggest a wording change in the message: failed instead of returned. Besides the nit-picky observation that what was *returned* was -1, it's better to state

what is this

I found these files and directory being created upon boot, in the /tmp directory. Do they have anything to do with Amanda? Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer. Regards Fred James [where am i]$ ls -ltr /tmp total 40 -rw-r--r--1 root root 62 Jun 7 16:56