Amanda Linux and firewalls

2005-01-19 Thread Neil Marjoram
Can anyone help me with a small problem I have with a firewall. My server has no firewall, but two of my clients have iptables firewalls. Can anyone tell me what rules I should setup on the client firewall to allow the backup from the server. Many thanks, Neil. -- Neil Marjoram Systems Manager

Permission problems with LVM

2005-01-19 Thread Hans van Zijst
Hi, After having spent several hours in vain searching the Internet for a hint, I hope someone here can help. I know it's not an Amanda specific problem, but I hope someone here has run into the same problem... I've used Amanda without problems for quite some time. Most machines here run LVM1

Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Lung
I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3. Everything is great except when I use amrecover. Trying to restore an old file I will get tar errors like this: tar: ./dir/somefile: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64

LTO 3 Devices

2005-01-19 Thread Gavin Henry
Dear all, Am I correct in thinking, that as long as I can get a amtapetype and use mtx tools, then a LTO 3 tape/tapedrive is compatible with Amanda? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-19 Thread Andreas Sundstrom
Matt Lung wrote: I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3. Everything is great except when I use amrecover. Trying to restore an old file I will get tar errors like this: tar: ./dir/somefile: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains

Re: Permission problems with LVM

2005-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:26, Hans van Zijst wrote: Hi, After having spent several hours in vain searching the Internet for a hint, I hope someone here can help. I know it's not an Amanda specific problem, but I hope someone here has run into the same problem... I've used Amanda without

Re: Amanda Linux and firewalls

2005-01-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 at 10:28am, Neil Marjoram wrote Can anyone help me with a small problem I have with a firewall. My server has no firewall, but two of my clients have iptables firewalls. Can anyone tell me what rules I should setup on the client firewall to allow the backup from the

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:25, Matt Lung wrote: I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3. Everything is great except when I use amrecover. Trying to restore an old file I will get tar errors like this: tar: ./dir/somefile: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
Matt Lung wrote: I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3. Everything is great except when I use amrecover. Trying to restore an old file I will get tar errors like this: tar: ./dir/somefile: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Lung
Quoting Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:25, Matt Lung wrote: I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3. Everything is great except when I use amrecover. Trying to restore an old file I will get tar errors like this: tar: ./dir/somefile:

Re: LTO 3 Devices

2005-01-19 Thread Gavin Henry
On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 14:41, you wrote: Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, Am I correct in thinking, that as long as I can get a amtapetype and use mtx tools, then a LTO 3 tape/tapedrive is compatible with Amanda? yup. At least, I don't see why not. But I can't speak from experience. I

Re: Amanda Linux and firewalls

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:28:15AM +, Neil Marjoram enlightened us: Can anyone help me with a small problem I have with a firewall. My server has no firewall, but two of my clients have iptables firewalls. Can anyone tell me what rules I should setup on the client firewall to allow the

Re: Data loss if configuration of amanda.conf is not right.

2005-01-19 Thread Vicki Stanfield
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 10:10 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:39:56AM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote: I have set up an alternate amanda.conf to run with two tape drives instead of the one that I currently have. I am wondering whether there is some way to rerun an

Re: Permission problems with LVM

2005-01-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
Hans van Zijst wrote: Now that I'm switching to Debian Sarge, which uses LVM2 instead of 1, the following problem arises. No matter in what group amanda is and what permissions the lvm special files have, Amanda can't backup directories to which it has no access, according to the permissions

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
Matt Lung wrote: Quoting Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If not that, then back up to 1.13-19 or 1.13-25, both are known good with amanda. Roll back to that RPM version build for Fedora, or abandon the RPM and go with source? Personnally, I dislike RPM's. Compiling gnutar from source is easy. (

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Lung
Quoting Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matt Lung wrote: Quoting Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If not that, then back up to 1.13-19 or 1.13-25, both are known good with amanda. Roll back to that RPM version build for Fedora, or abandon the RPM and go with source? Personnally, I

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Lung
Quoting Andreas Sundstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matt Lung wrote: I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3. Everything is great except when I use amrecover. Trying to restore an old file I will get tar errors like this: tar: ./dir/somefile: invalid sparse archive

Re: Data loss if configuration of amanda.conf is not right.

2005-01-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:57:22AM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote: Thanks. I was unsure of whether this was a potential problem or not. As long as Amanda tells me that there was a problem and dumps to the spool, I am happy. Make sure your holding disk space is sufficiently large and that your

Re: Level clarification.

2005-01-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
Erik, Levels are doing to be explite in the man dump pages for your OS. Amanda is a scheduler/driver that uses OS native tools for backups and the actual meaning of levels will be OS specific - in general, level 0 is a complete backup of a 'partition' (see Amanda DLE, originally a partition but

Configuration clarification.

2005-01-19 Thread Scheuerman, James
I'm in the process of configuring Amanda 2.4.4 on Tru64 5.1b and have a question about the config.site file. The instruction tell me to copy this file to the $prefix/etc or $prefix/share directory. When I invoke the configure command I'm assmuming I need to add the --prefix=/cmrf/alpha/amanda

RE: Configuration clarification.

2005-01-19 Thread donald . ritchey
Jim: We have Amanda installed at /usr/local/amanda and /var/local/amanda on our Tru64 systems here. The key thing is that all the Amanda systems should use a consistent $prefix so that managing the menagerie of systems does not become a burden also. This is especially important if you have

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
Info update only. Ok we've shutdown the Origin 300 and swapped the scsi daisy-chain around a little. At this point the SDLT in the shoebox was able to restore a large tar file without causing a SCSI reset and hanging the system. I then set the blocksize on the SDLT in the jukebox and

Re: Data loss if configuration of amanda.conf is not right.

2005-01-19 Thread Vicki Stanfield
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 10:38 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:57:22AM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote: Thanks. I was unsure of whether this was a potential problem or not. As long as Amanda tells me that there was a problem and dumps to the spool, I am happy. Make sure

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

2005-01-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Brian, on Mittwoch, 19. Jänner 2005 at 22:02 you wrote to amanda-users: BC Major imporvement though still below the acceptable threshold. BC Definitely looking like it was never an amanda issue, this looks to BC be an underlying architecture problem. I hope that you spot the issue soon,

Re: Data loss if configuration of amanda.conf is not right.

2005-01-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:13:36PM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 10:38 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:57:22AM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote: Thanks. I was unsure of whether this was a potential problem or not. As long as Amanda tells me that

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 09:43, Matt Lung wrote: Quoting Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:25, Matt Lung wrote: I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3. Everything is great except when I use amrecover. Trying to restore an old file I

RE: Data loss if configuration of amanda.conf is not right.

2005-01-19 Thread donald . ritchey
Vicki: The reserve percentage works this way, as I understand it. Someone please correct me if I have the details wrong: The reserve setting is the amount of available holding disk to hold back to do degraded mode incremental dumps if Amanda cannot write to a tape. For example, say you have a

Re: Data loss if configuration of amanda.conf is not right.

2005-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 16:13, Vicki Stanfield wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 10:38 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:57:22AM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote: Thanks. I was unsure of whether this was a potential problem or not. As long as Amanda tells me that there was a

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Lung
Quoting Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 January 2005 09:43, Matt Lung wrote: Quoting Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:25, Matt Lung wrote: I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3. Everything is great except when I use

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

2005-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 18:28, Matt Lung wrote: Quoting Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 January 2005 09:43, Matt Lung wrote: Quoting Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:25, Matt Lung wrote: I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora