Re: amanda tar and star again

2005-01-27 Thread Claus Rosenberger
> Related to your original post on the subject, it was suggested that > you see if star supported all the arguments and options that amanda > expected to see supported by gnutar and if it was compatible with > the formats and error messages that gnutar generates. Were you > able to do that? If st

Re: amanda tar and star again

2005-01-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:54:34PM +0100, Claus Rosenberger wrote: > hi, > > it would be nice if amanda will be packaged with a compiled in wrapper tar > script instead of running tar from /usr/bin. perhaps it's possible to run > /usr/lib/amanda/tar-wrapper wich is calling /usr/bin/tar again. that

Re: infofile partition out of space, trashed file

2005-01-27 Thread Kevin Dalley
Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kevin Dalley wrote: > >> Oops. I forgot to mention the version number >> I am using a CVS release of amanda, which is named Amanda-2.4.5b1, > > should be fine, but... > >>>Kevin Dalley wrote: >>> Last night, my amanda run had a problem. The partitio

Re: infofile partition out of space, trashed file

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kevin Dalley wrote: Oops. I forgot to mention the version number I am using a CVS release of amanda, which is named Amanda-2.4.5b1, should be fine, but... Kevin Dalley wrote: Last night, my amanda run had a problem. The partition on which infofile is stored ran out of space. With infofile set to

Re: infofile partition out of space, trashed file

2005-01-27 Thread Kevin Dalley
Oops. I forgot to mention the version number I am using a CVS release of amanda, which is named Amanda-2.4.5b1, with CVS date as of about Thu Nov 18 16:50:15 PST 2004 using tag amanda-245-branch, with an additional change which I made regarding the , which is probably unrelated to the problem at

Re: Problems with amrestore and sparse files

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kevin Dalley wrote: I used amrestore to recover a file and received error message which look like this: Extracting from file /backup/20050125170301/condor._.5 tar: ./var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 head

Re: infofile partition out of space, trashed file

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kevin Dalley wrote: Last night, my amanda run had a problem. The partition on which infofile is stored ran out of space. With infofile set to /var/lib/amanda/normal/curinfo, the file: /var/lib/amanda/normal/curinfo/condor/__redbird_l$ had 0 length, which meant that all history for this partition

Problems with amrestore and sparse files

2005-01-27 Thread Kevin Dalley
I used amrestore to recover a file and received error message which look like this: Extracting from file /backup/20050125170301/condor._.5 tar: ./var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin: invalid sparse archive member tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: ./var/cach

infofile partition out of space, trashed file

2005-01-27 Thread Kevin Dalley
Last night, my amanda run had a problem. The partition on which infofile is stored ran out of space. With infofile set to /var/lib/amanda/normal/curinfo, the file: /var/lib/amanda/normal/curinfo/condor/__redbird_l$ had 0 length, which meant that all history for this partition was lost. I resto

Re: Re[2]: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 January 2005 14:59, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hello, Gene, > >just now (on 01/27/2005 at 20:58) you wrote: > >GH> I do hope he was able to find gainfull employment, hopefully not >GH> around computers? > >Errm, AFAIK he is some kind of admin for this, errm, big institution Hoo bo

Re[2]: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, Gene, just now (on 01/27/2005 at 20:58) you wrote: GH> I do hope he was able to find gainfull employment, hopefully not GH> around computers? Errm, AFAIK he is some kind of admin for this, errm, big institution ... It's always fun to see what jobs I could have ... -- Bye, Stefan

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 January 2005 13:20, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hi, Eric, > >on Donnerstag, 27. Jänner 2005 at 18:23 you wrote to amanda-users: > >ES> DON'T DON'T DON'T give all your tapes the same label! > >In once had a customer who ran amlabel as part of his daily >backup-procedure. > >Change ta

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-27 Thread Nina Pham
Thanks folks. Now I need to learn how to configure run amanda client. Thanks again. Mike Delaney wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:01:31AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 at 4:27pm, Nina Pham wrote The files we are backing up are resigned on more than 1 servers, and

Re: Amanda and Qualstar lib with AIT-3

2005-01-27 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, January 27, 2005 19:32:42 +0100 Franz-Heinrich Massmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, > > In July 1999 we bought a Qualstar lib TLS-4220 with one AIT-2 Tape > Drive LVD. Until mid of last year we have operated this lib successfully > on a Solaris 7 platfo

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-27 Thread Mike Delaney
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:01:31AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 at 4:27pm, Nina Pham wrote > > > The files we are backing up are resigned on more than 1 servers, and we > > want to store that archive on the same place. Therefore we need to mount. > > As other folks hav

Amanda and Qualstar lib with AIT-3

2005-01-27 Thread Franz-Heinrich Massmann
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, In July 1999 we bought a Qualstar lib TLS-4220 with one AIT-2 Tape Drive LVD. Until mid of last year we have operated this lib successfully on a Solaris 7 platform with the Legato Networker 5.5 software. Last year we have updated the system from AIT-2 to AIT-3 by exchangi

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Eric, on Donnerstag, 27. Jänner 2005 at 18:23 you wrote to amanda-users: ES> DON'T DON'T DON'T give all your tapes the same label! In once had a customer who ran amlabel as part of his daily backup-procedure. Change tape, run "amlabel -f ...", wait for cronjob ... everyday. And he wondered

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:08:01PM +0100, Sebastian Kösters wrote: > if I want to restore a > tape/backup older than the last one this fails. I’am only able to restore > the last Backup from tape. I wanted to use the same amlabel for every Sunday > because I don’t want the tapelist file become that

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 at 6:08pm, Sebastian Kösters wrote > At Sunday we want Amanda to backup on real tapes. These tapes should not be > overwritten every Sunday. We want to archive the tapes. > > Now the problem. The Backup on tape works fine. But if I want to restore a > tape/backup older than t

archiving tapes?!

2005-01-27 Thread Sebastian Kösters
Hi, i have a problem. For weekly backups we use Amanda with v-tapes. These tapes get overwritten every week. No problems. Works fine. At Sunday we want Amanda to backup on real tapes. These tapes should not be overwritten every Sunday. We want to archive the tapes. Now the problem. The Backup

Re: amanda tar and star again

2005-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:42, Claus Rosenberger wrote: >>>it would be nice if amanda will be packaged with a compiled in >>> wrapper tar script instead of running tar from /usr/bin. perhaps >>> it's possible to run /usr/lib/amanda/tar-wrapper wich is calling >>> /usr/bin/tar again. that script

Re: amanda tar and star again

2005-01-27 Thread Claus Rosenberger
> I don't know about .debs, but with .rpms I can rebuild the source RPM > after > modifying the spec file so I get the best of both worlds...customized > build > and package management. it's the same with debs. only use apt-get source amanda and the dpkg-buildpackage with changed configure setting

Re: amanda tar and star again

2005-01-27 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:42:27PM +0100, Claus Rosenberger enlightened us: > >>it would be nice if amanda will be packaged with a compiled in > >> wrapper tar script instead of running tar from /usr/bin. perhaps > >> it's possible to run /usr/lib/amanda/tar-wrapper wich is calling > >> /usr/bin/ta

Re: pre- and post-script

2005-01-27 Thread Claus Rosenberger
> > I've found its best to do the pre and post stuff seperate from amanda, > as when amanda is running, it has a few file locks and those files > cannot be backed up by amanda so you lose the most vital info of the > backup, what is it and where is it. My method works without this > limitation. I

Re: amanda tar and star again

2005-01-27 Thread Claus Rosenberger
>>it would be nice if amanda will be packaged with a compiled in >> wrapper tar script instead of running tar from /usr/bin. perhaps >> it's possible to run /usr/lib/amanda/tar-wrapper wich is calling >> /usr/bin/tar again. that script could be changed then to call >> /usr/bin/star. >> > If buildin

Re: pre- and post-script

2005-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 January 2005 08:59, Claus Rosenberger wrote: >hi, > >as the response at this mailinglist i set up a script now which do > some pre stuff then start the backup and do some post stuff after > the backup. but the besser way would be an integration of these > scripts into the backup proc

Re: amanda tar and star again

2005-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 January 2005 08:54, Claus Rosenberger wrote: >hi, > >it would be nice if amanda will be packaged with a compiled in > wrapper tar script instead of running tar from /usr/bin. perhaps > it's possible to run /usr/lib/amanda/tar-wrapper wich is calling > /usr/bin/tar again. that script

pre- and post-script

2005-01-27 Thread Claus Rosenberger
hi, as the response at this mailinglist i set up a script now which do some pre stuff then start the backup and do some post stuff after the backup. but the besser way would be an integration of these scripts into the backup process because the logfiles will be at one single place. the solution c

amanda tar and star again

2005-01-27 Thread Claus Rosenberger
hi, it would be nice if amanda will be packaged with a compiled in wrapper tar script instead of running tar from /usr/bin. perhaps it's possible to run /usr/lib/amanda/tar-wrapper wich is calling /usr/bin/tar again. that script could be changed then to call /usr/bin/star. regards claus

RE: Amanda can back up open files?

2005-01-27 Thread Lauro, John
Actually, if it's on a windows 2003 server it is possible with the standard "Microsoft Windows Backup", as the Windows 2003 version of NTBACKUP will use shadow copies to do the backup. Any other Windows OS (XP, 2000, etc...) it is not standard. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 at 4:27pm, Nina Pham wrote > The files we are backing up are resigned on more than 1 servers, and we > want to store that archive on the same place. Therefore we need to mount. As other folks have mentioned, no, you don't. However, what I haven't seen clarified yet is what

Re: Amanda can back up open files?

2005-01-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
As an aside, it's considered bad from to "respond" to a list email (and then change the subject) when starting a new thread. Your question gets buried in an unrelated thread (for those of us using threaded mail readers) which a) annoys people, and b) makes it less likely to get answered. --

Re: Samba and single-file DLE

2005-01-27 Thread Filip Rembiałkowski
Dnia 2005-01-27 11:10, Paul Bijnens napisał: Filip Rembiałkowski wrote: This DLE: amandahost //NTSERVER/D$/important.bkf nocomp-user-gnutar expands to whole "D$" volume while estimating and dumping. Surprise for me. Is there any way to create a single-file DLE while using Samba? Not that I know

Re: Amanda can back up open files?

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Leire Cristobo wrote: Hello, I'm new in that list, and I'm looking for a good backup system for my net, with windows clients, I need to back up files although if they are open and been used by the user. It's possible with Amanda? No. It not even possible with the standard "Microsoft Windows Backu

Re: Samba and single-file DLE

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Filip Rembiałkowski wrote: This DLE: amandahost //NTSERVER/D$/important.bkf nocomp-user-gnutar expands to whole "D$" volume while estimating and dumping. Surprise for me. Is there any way to create a single-file DLE while using Samba? Not that I know. There is a trick with gnutar and includes, bu

Re: Reiserfs?

2005-01-27 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Gene Heskett schrieb: On Thursday 27 January 2005 03:48, Christoph Scheeder wrote: Hi, your exclude-list has wrong syntax. it has to be relative to the root of the filesystem you backup. it should read like this ./media ./tmp ./var/spool/postfix Actually, I don't think the last line is correct eit

Re: Reiserfs?

2005-01-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:51:33PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: It has been a couple of years since I looked at tar, but IIRC two things that give a return code of 2 are "file changed as we backed it up" "file disappeared after we made the list of what to backu

Re: Reiserfs?

2005-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 January 2005 03:48, Christoph Scheeder wrote: >Hi, >your exclude-list has wrong syntax. >it has to be relative to the root of the filesystem you backup. >it should read like this > >./media >./tmp >./var/spool/postfix Actually, I don't think the last line is correct either. It shou

Re: Samba and single-file DLE

2005-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 January 2005 03:30, Filip RembiaÅkowski wrote: >Hello, > >This DLE: > >amandahost //NTSERVER/D$/important.bkf nocomp-user-gnutar > >expands to whole "D$" volume while estimating and dumping. Surprise > for me. > >Is there any way to create a single-file DLE while using Samba? > > >T

Amanda can back up open files?

2005-01-27 Thread Leire Cristobo
Hello, I'm new in that list, and I'm looking for a good backup system for my net, with windows clients, I need to back up files although if they are open and been used by the user. It's possible with Amanda? Thanks __ Renovamos el Co

Re: Reiserfs?

2005-01-27 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, your exclude-list has wrong syntax. it has to be relative to the root of the filesystem you backup. it should read like this ./media ./tmp ./var/spool/postfix Christoph Nick Danger schrieb: [snip] Oddly, the sendbackup...exclude tells it to exclude the /var/spool/postfix so Im not sure they a

Samba and single-file DLE

2005-01-27 Thread Filip Rembiałkowski
Hello, This DLE: amandahost //NTSERVER/D$/important.bkf nocomp-user-gnutar expands to whole "D$" volume while estimating and dumping. Surprise for me. Is there any way to create a single-file DLE while using Samba? TIA, -- Filip Rembiałkowski