Re: amrecover not listing all files in backup.

2005-01-11 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, January 11, 2005 21:55:45 -0700 Dwight Tovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Frank Smith said: >> --On Tuesday, January 11, 2005 18:12:55 -0700 Dwight Tovey >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> Are you sure your index files are good? Do the files look like: >> /somedir/file1 >>

Re: amrecover not listing all files in backup.

2005-01-11 Thread Dwight Tovey
Frank Smith said: > --On Tuesday, January 11, 2005 18:12:55 -0700 Dwight Tovey > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you sure your index files are good? Do the files look like: > /somedir/file1 > > or is it more like: > > 8945983969/somedir/file1 > > > If your index files contain the large random

Re: amrecover not listing all files in backup.

2005-01-11 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, January 11, 2005 18:12:55 -0700 Dwight Tovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all - > > I've recently started using Amanda for my backup strategy, and I'm having > a problem with amrecover. > > I set up my tape/index server on a RH 7.3 system with a 20G holding disk > and a 4mm

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 16:40, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:40:47PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: >> Amanda user list, >> >> I've spoken to Harry at Condre systems and he confirmed what we >> where seeing. The jukebox robot is a narrow bus so that are two >> changes we need to ma

amrecover not listing all files in backup.

2005-01-11 Thread Dwight Tovey
Hello all - I've recently started using Amanda for my backup strategy, and I'm having a problem with amrecover. I set up my tape/index server on a RH 7.3 system with a 20G holding disk and a 4mm DAT drive (DDS-2). Backing up the server itself seemed to be working, so I next added a client system

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jon, Recommended buying an additional scsi card more than once to the system's owners, haven't made the case yet (maybe now). I would really have liked the raid array on a separate bus from the tape drives. I have to trust that the proper cabeling to terminate the additional lines is present in

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:40:47PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > Amanda user list, > > I've spoken to Harry at Condre systems and he confirmed what we > where seeing. The jukebox robot is a narrow bus so that are two > changes we need to make. > > 1) We want to move the jukebox/SDLT to be the

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
Amanda user list, I've spoken to Harry at Condre systems and he confirmed what we where seeing. The jukebox robot is a narrow bus so that are two changes we need to make. 1) We want to move the jukebox/SDLT to be the last device on the daisy chain. 2) We want to terminate the jukebox-robot,

Re: amanda-client

2005-01-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jason Davis wrote: Hello, I have installed amanda-client on a Debian box via apt. I have this entry in /etc/inetd.conf amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amandad however , when I restart inetd and run netstat -tap I do not see any amanda daemons listening. Anyone know what

amanda-client

2005-01-11 Thread Jason Davis
Hello, I have installed amanda-client on a Debian box via apt. I have this entry in /etc/inetd.conf amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amandad however , when I restart inetd and run netstat -tap I do not see any amanda daemons listening. Anyone know what I am doing wrong

Re: Antwort: Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 09:16, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hi, > >on Dienstag, 11. Jänner 2005 at 15:12 I wrote to amanda-users: > >SGW> There has been a thread lately in which Gene Heskett described > how to SGW> do that. I paste the relevant part in here: > >Forgot to note that I think this p

Re: Antwort: Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 09:12, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hi, Sandra, > >on Dienstag, 11. Jänner 2005 at 14:50 you wrote to amanda-users > >(in english, obwohl wir beide Deutsch schreiben könnten, aber dann >versteht hier keiner was ;-) ): > >SKsdd> Hi Stefan, > >SKsdd> errrm, stupid and confu

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:11:31AM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > The minimum blocksize value > is 32 KBytes. The maximum blocksize value is 32 > KBytes. The man pages have configure variables, which are expanded during "make". Presumably the

Re: Backup priorities and initialization of backup

2005-01-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gil Naveh wrote: Hello, I am quit new with Amanda and I don’t understand an important concept regarding Amanda. I realize that Amanda decides what type of backup to perform (level 0 , level 1 etc) according to its algorithm. However, how does it knows which backup level to perform when a user

Re: Backup priorities and initialization of backup

2005-01-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:11:06AM -0600, Gil Naveh wrote: > Hello, I am quit new with Amanda and I don't understand an important concept > regarding Amanda. > > I realize that Amanda decides what type of backup to perform (level 0 , > level 1 etc) according to its algorithm. > > However, how doe

Backup priorities and initialization of backup

2005-01-11 Thread Gil Naveh
Hello, I am quit new with Amanda and I don’t understand an important concept regarding Amanda. I realize that Amanda decides what type of backup to perform (level 0 , level 1 etc) according to its algorithm. However, how does it knows which backup level to perform when a user have a tape

Re: spaces in share/directory names

2005-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Paul, on Dienstag, 11. Jänner 2005 at 16:02 you wrote to amanda-users: >> Is it possible? I heard that recent versions of Samba accept >> share/directory names with spaces. What about Amanda? >> If it must be hacked, could anybody point me where to start? PB> Two possibilities; both not very

Re: spaces in share/directory names

2005-01-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Filip Rembiałkowski wrote: I've started using Amanda instead of prioprietary software to backup whole NT domain. I'd like to have disklist entries with spaces, like: smbhost"//WKS001/C$/Program Files/Filthy App"nocomp-user-smbtar Is it possible? I heard that recent versions of Samba accep

spaces in share/directory names

2005-01-11 Thread Filip Rembiałkowski
Hello, I've started using Amanda instead of prioprietary software to backup whole NT domain. I'd like to have disklist entries with spaces, like: smbhost"//WKS001/C$/Program Files/Filthy App"nocomp-user-smbtar Is it possible? I heard that recent versions of Samba accept share/directory n

Re: Antwort: Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, on Dienstag, 11. Jänner 2005 at 15:12 I wrote to amanda-users: SGW> There has been a thread lately in which Gene Heskett described how to SGW> do that. I paste the relevant part in here: Forgot to note that I think this procedure should go into the docs somewhere. Needs some general re-writi

Re: Antwort: Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Sandra, on Dienstag, 11. Jänner 2005 at 14:50 you wrote to amanda-users (in english, obwohl wir beide Deutsch schreiben könnten, aber dann versteht hier keiner was ;-) ): SKsdd> Hi Stefan, SKsdd> errrm, stupid and confused as I was I actually changed SKsdd> it to 32 bytes (!), but now I cor

Antwort: Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread S . Krumme
Hi Stefan, errrm, stupid and confused as I was I actually changed it to 32 bytes (!), but now I corrected it, setting a value of 32768. Sorry for messing this up. I now started a new try with this setting. My fault, that I didn´t made a written notice when I changed the blocksize on the old mach

Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Paul, on Dienstag, 11. Jänner 2005 at 14:14 you wrote to amanda-users: >> These problems I had resolved by using fresh tapes and by setting the >> default block size of the tape device to 32, which was the original >> setting. PB> blocksize of 32 bytes? Or do you mean 32 Kbytes? PB> If the

Antwort: Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread S . Krumme
Hi Paul, no, no. 32 Kbytes of course not 32 bytes. I am using a Compaq 40/80 DLT drive and as far as I can remember I had to do this setting to get the whole thing working. Kind regards Sandra Krumme Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11.01.2005 14:14 An [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie am

Antwort: Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread S . Krumme
Hi, this is what /var/log/messages tells me: Jan 11 12:20:41 XX kernel: application bug: dumper(20882) has SIGCHLD set t o SIG_IGN but calls wait(). Jan 11 12:20:41 XX kernel: (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaro und activated. Jan 11 12:22:16 XX kernel: application bug

Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after moving my backup hard- and software to another machine, I encountered several problems. One was due to faulty tapes, the other due to the fact that I didn´t knew the blocksize I set the tape device on the old machine. These problems I had resolved by using fresh ta

Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Dienstag, 11. Jänner 2005 at 13:41 you wrote to amanda-users: SKsdd> Now my backup is up an running again. But when I start SKsdd> amdump, the filesystems are dumped quickly as usual, but when SKsdd> the taper starts writing it takes extremly long. SKsdd> Here is an exam

Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

2005-01-11 Thread S . Krumme
Hi all, after moving my backup hard- and software to another machine, I encountered several problems. One was due to faulty tapes, the other due to the fact that I didn´t knew the blocksize I set the tape device on the old machine. These problems I had resolved by using fresh tapes and by setting

Re: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 17:00:00

2005-01-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Eric Siegerman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Jason Davis wrote: > > tar: ./2005-01-07_17-00-57/ibdata01.ibz: implausibly old time stamp > > 1969-12-31 17:00:00 > > For some reason, tar thinks the file's timestamp is 0, or else > the timestamp recorded in t

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Jon, on Montag, 10. Jänner 2005 at 22:19 you wrote to amanda-users: JL> In recent versions, amanda can work with blocksizes other than 32k. JL> I forget if it is a configure option needed during the build or JL> a parameter that can be set in amanda.conf. I've never used it. The parameter b