Amanda backups suddenly slowed down

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Johnston
Hi I've been using amanda for some time now, generally with great success. However, a couple of weeks ago the backups started taking much, much longer to run. To give you an idea, a typical run time was between 3 and 4 hours. It's now taking anywhere between 15 and 25 hours! Obviously the questi

Re: Amanda server on MacOSX

2004-12-13 Thread josh
I meant to ask this a little earlier. but was hoping that if your success was do to changes that the release would make it into the stable releases first. My last attempt was with 2.4.4p4, the last stable realease, and this was built from a beta release, I wanted to ask three questions. 1. Is it w

Re: Amanda backups suddenly slowed down

2004-12-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:55:22AM -, Peter Johnston wrote: > Hi > > I've been using amanda for some time now, generally with great success. > However, a couple of weeks ago the backups started taking much, much longer > to run. To give you an idea, a typical run time was between 3 and 4 hour

Re: using Amanda remotely

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
The remote system, /etc/services, /etc/inetd.conf (and HUP the daemon) ? On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:01:46PM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote: > hello, > > We have servers(Solaris 9) on two different locations and when I am running > amcheck I get the following error message: > WARNING: host2name.com: sel

using Amanda remotely

2004-12-13 Thread Gil Naveh
hello, We have servers(Solaris 9) on two different locations and when I am running amcheck I get the following error message: WARNING: host2name.com: self check request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 30.029 seconds, 1 problem found I can ssh remotely the server. I already

RE: using Amanda remotely

2004-12-13 Thread Gil Naveh
Thanks guys, It might be a firewall issue. gil -Original Message- From: Frank Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 12:21 PM To: Gil Naveh; Amanda-Users Subject: Re: using Amanda remotely --On Monday, December 13, 2004 12:01:46 -0500 Gil Naveh <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: a problembacking up a window machine

2004-12-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:27:41PM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote: > > hello, > > For the last couple of days I am unsuccessfully trying to backup a window > machine(Win 2000) with Samba server(Solaris 9). > I installed Samba on the Solaris server and successfully run and tested > smbclient. > Yet, I am

RE: a problembacking up a window machine

2004-12-13 Thread Gil Naveh
Thanks for the responce. I don't have much experience working with Samba. My test on the Unix server was: # cat testfile.txt | smbclient -M window-name I received a pop up with testfile.txt contant. however when I type: # smbclient -L window-client-name -N I get the following error message: Anon

Re: Amanda backups suddenly slowed down

2004-12-13 Thread Gavin Henry
Peter Johnston said: > Hi > > I've been using amanda for some time now, generally with great success. > However, a couple of weeks ago the backups started taking much, much > longer > to run. To give you an idea, a typical run time was between 3 and 4 > hours. > It's now taking anywhere between 15

Re: using Amanda remotely

2004-12-13 Thread Frank Smith
--On Monday, December 13, 2004 12:01:46 -0500 Gil Naveh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > We have servers(Solaris 9) on two different locations and when I am running > amcheck I get the following error message: > WARNING: host2name.com: self check request timed out. Host down? > Client

a problembacking up a window machine

2004-12-13 Thread Gil Naveh
hello, For the last couple of days I am unsuccessfully trying to backup a window machine(Win 2000) with Samba server(Solaris 9). I installed Samba on the Solaris server and successfully run and tested smbclient. Yet, I am unable to backup the 'Shared folder' on the window box. When running amchec