Re: Problem with setting dumpcycle 0 day

2004-07-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kenny Mok (Wing Fung) wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: When there is no tape, Amanda always falls back to degraded mode. You can't avoid that. But you can control the amount of reserved space for incremental only in case of degraded mode by changing that parameter. Setting like reserve 20 lets amanda

Re: amanda restore

2004-07-15 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: The Command amrestore /dev/nst0 inventory.mumbai.redhat.com oscar.mumbai.redhat.com doesnot retrieve any backup images from the tape, It just says skipping, I mean does not restore the above mentioned backup images Sorry for not understanding the question the first time.

How to back up a directory on a remote linux server

2004-07-15 Thread Kevin Passey
Hi, Can someone point me in the right direction. In my disklist file I have this: dilmom2 /home/cvs always-full amcheck runs ok But the amdump that runs overnight gives this: /-- dilmom2 /home/cvs lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1] sendbackup: start [dilmom2:/home/cvs level 0]

Re: How to back up a directory on a remote linux server

2004-07-15 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, Isn't the message it's giving clear enough? you can not use dump to do incremental dumps of subdirectorys, only from complete devices. configure amanda to use tar and all will work. Christoph Kevin Passey schrieb: Hi, Can someone point me in the right direction. In my disklist file I

Re: Issues with tape changers

2004-07-15 Thread Gaby vanhegan
On 15 Jul 2004, at 03:31, Gene Heskett wrote: bash-2.05b# sudo -u operator /usr/local/sbin/amcheck ltsn Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /home/amanda/holding: 47180616 KB disk space available, that's plenty amcheck-server: could not get changer info: open:

Re: How to back up a directory on a remote linux server

2004-07-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 15 July 2004 05:37, Kevin Passey wrote: Hi, Can someone point me in the right direction. In my disklist file I have this: dilmom2 /home/cvs always-full amcheck runs ok But the amdump that runs overnight gives this: /-- dilmom2 /home/cvs lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1]

Re: Issues with tape changers

2004-07-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 15 July 2004 06:18, Gaby vanhegan wrote: On 15 Jul 2004, at 03:31, Gene Heskett wrote: bash-2.05b# sudo -u operator /usr/local/sbin/amcheck ltsn Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /home/amanda/holding: 47180616 KB disk space available, that's

Still having problems with cygwin...

2004-07-15 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! Since my last request for help, I've updated to the most recent code base (2.4.4p3) and I've applied a patch that was posted to amanda-hackers last year which commented out a number of 'aclose' calls. Neither one solved the problem. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Should I post

disklist and whitespaces

2004-07-15 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hello. On one host I would like to backup the Windows Documents and Settings directory from Linux, but it appears Amanda is bitching about those embedded whitespaces. I've tried both escaping them and quoting the whole path (as above), but still no luck. Has anyone dealt with a similar

amanda - errors with planner during run of amdump missing estimate - why?

2004-07-15 Thread Jeff Schwartz
Title: amanda - errors with planner during run of amdump missing estimate - why? Hi, I have amanda 2.4.2 p2 installed on a linux machine (hostname justin / ip 192.168.110.21) as both a server and a client. I have the same version of Amanda installed as a client only on both a Solaris

Re: disklist and whitespaces

2004-07-15 Thread Michael D Schleif
* Andrea Borgia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:07:15:18:48:50+0200] scribed: Hello. On one host I would like to backup the Windows Documents and Settings directory from Linux, but it appears Amanda is bitching about those embedded whitespaces. I've tried both escaping them and quoting the

Re: amanda - errors with planner during run of amdump missing estimate - why?

2004-07-15 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 at 1:01pm, Jeff Schwartz wrote dumper: pid 27217 executable dumper2 version 2.4.4p2, using port 515 error result for host mike disk /usr1/public/jxs/spdtest.ksh: missing estimate planner: time 0.304: getting estimates took 0.300 secs FAILED QUEUE: 0: mike

Re: disklist and whitespaces

2004-07-15 Thread Andrea Borgia
Michael D Schleif wrote: Assuming that you are backing up over Samba, what I do is share Documents and Settings as something else (e.g., docs), which alleviates this problem. Nope, sorry I forgot that bit: the client is running Linux and I am trying to backup that directory that is located on the

RE: amanda - errors with planner during run of amdump missing estimate - why?

2004-07-15 Thread Jeff Schwartz
I don't seem to have the sendsize*debug file from that test so I just ran it again my amdump.1 log from this test has the same missing estimate messages. Here is the content: sendsize: debug 1 pid 33302 ruid 80 euid 80: start at Thu Jul 15 13:17:20 2004 sendsize: version 2.4.4p2

RE: amanda - errors with planner during run of amdump missing estimate - why?

2004-07-15 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 at 1:20pm, Jeff Schwartz wrote I don't seem to have the sendsize*debug file from that test so I just ran it again my amdump.1 log from this test has the same missing estimate messages. Here is the content: sendsize: debug 1 pid 33302 ruid 80 euid 80: start at Thu Jul

Re: disklist and whitespaces

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Jolk
Andrea Borgia wrote: the client is running Linux and I am trying to backup that directory that is located on the Windows partition on the same disk and mounted read-only. Then create a symlink to that directory with a simple name from somewhere else and backup that symlink (not the directory

RE: amanda - errors with planner during run of amdump missing estimate - why?

2004-07-15 Thread Jeff Schwartz
Please reply below the quoted text -- it makes it easier to follow the conversation. Sorry about that - I haven't used a group like this before. Thanks for letting me know. How about /tmp/amandad*debug then? Here is the amandad.20040715131720.debug file followed by the

RE: amanda - errors with planner during run of amdump missing estimate - why?

2004-07-15 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 at 1:40pm, Jeff Schwartz wrote Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 000-E05F0608 SEQ 1089912054 SECURITY USER amanda SERVICE sendsize OPTIONS features=feff9ffe0f;maxdumps=1;hostname=mike; DUMP /usr1/public/jxs/spdtest.ksh 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 -1 OPTIONS

RE: amanda - errors with planner during run of amdump missing estimate - why?

2004-07-15 Thread Jeff Schwartz
Is /usr1/public/jxs/spdtest.ksh a filesystem, a subdirectory of a fs, or a file? Only the first case will work with dump. For the second case, you'll need to use tar. The third case is just kind of silly. :) I'm going the silly way. I forgot all about dump only working on filesystems (a

Re: list of current live tapes

2004-07-15 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: So I'm wondering if there's a amadmin command or somesuch that we can use that'll tell us which tapes are in the set of tapes required to do a full restore from, i.e. for all DLEs (I think that's the correct term) the tapes that hold that image