Re: new to me

2004-08-27 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jon, I love living on the cutting edge. I once coded a routine that referenced itself... explained to my manager that you'd need to screw up 16 times before the interpreter (DCL interpreter under v4.x) would reach its limit and that that would never happen in practice. He say down at my keyboard

Re: new to me

2004-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:57:45AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > I'm not concerned about the /usr14 error, the disk isn't currently > spinning, however the "fatal buffer mismanagement bug" error is > interesting, especially since we only have amanda configured to use > a single tape (the server

new to me

2004-08-27 Thread Brian Cuttler
I'm not concerned about the /usr14 error, the disk isn't currently spinning, however the "fatal buffer mismanagement bug" error is interesting, especially since we only have amanda configured to use a single tape (the server does not have a jukebox). Server is Solaris with a DLT Client is IRIX A

Re: How to get rid of unflushed dumps?

2004-08-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Jukka Salmi wrote: > Greg Troxel --> amanda-users (2004-08-27 08:38:13 -0400): > > rm'ing the holding dir should work fine. run amadmin config find > > before and after and you'll note that the disks are recorded as being > > in the holding dir, but not assigned to a tape. > >

Re: How to get rid of unflushed dumps?

2004-08-27 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hi, Greg Troxel --> amanda-users (2004-08-27 08:38:13 -0400): > rm'ing the holding dir should work fine. run amadmin config find > before and after and you'll note that the disks are recorded as being > in the holding dir, but not assigned to a tape. Worked fine, thanks! > The only issue I can

Re: How to get rid of unflushed dumps?

2004-08-27 Thread Greg Troxel
rm'ing the holding dir should work fine. run amadmin config find before and after and you'll note that the disks are recorded as being in the holding dir, but not assigned to a tape. The only issue I can see is getting amanda's dump levels and /etc/dumpdates out of sync, but if these are old and

Re: Amrecover

2004-08-27 Thread andreas
Hi, On Friday 27 August 2004 13:31, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > When i am running the below command i get the below error > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaushal]# amrecover -s indus.mumbai.redhat.com > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p1. Contacting server on indus.mumbai.redhat.com ... > Trying disk /home ... > Trying

How to get rid of unflushed dumps?

2004-08-27 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hi, if for some reason dumps have been left in the holding disk Amanda recommends to run amflush. That works fine, but sometimes - especially if those dumps are already very old - I don't want to flush them to tape, because I don't need them anymore. What should I do in such a situation? Is it saf

Re: Amrecover

2004-08-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: When i am running the below command i get the below error [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaushal]# amrecover -s indus.mumbai.redhat.com AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p1. Contacting server on indus.mumbai.redhat.com ... 220 indus AMANDA index server (2.4.4p1) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore

Amrecover

2004-08-27 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi All ! When i am running the below command i get the below error [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaushal]# amrecover -s indus.mumbai.redhat.com AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p1. Contacting server on indus.mumbai.redhat.com ... 220 indus AMANDA index server (2.4.4p1) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to toda

Re: Compression using gzip

2004-08-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: I wanted to enable gzip compression on my backups since i want to accomodate lots of data on to a 40GB tape, At present I am using define dumptype root-tar { global program "GNUTAR" comment "root partitions dumped with tar" compress none index priori

Re: Compression using gzip

2004-08-27 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi change to compress line from none to server or client depending on where you want the compression to actually be done... or look at a different dumptype that already does this for you... -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Kaushal Shriyan wrot

Compression using gzip

2004-08-27 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi I wanted to enable gzip compression on my backups since i want to accomodate lots of data on to a 40GB tape, At present I am using define dumptype root-tar { global program "GNUTAR" comment "root partitions dumped with tar" compress none index priority low } So I wou