Re: Can Amanda use an Iomega REV drive as a tape?

2005-02-02 Thread Mike Delaney
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:42:19PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 01 February 2005 18:42, Tom Simons wrote: > >Can/should Amanda use an Iomeg REV drive as an output tape? > > > >We've got 2 servers both running RedHat AS 3.0, with 35gb & 70gb > > hard drives on each, and we're intersted in

Re: Can Amanda use an Iomega REV drive as a tape?

2005-02-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Mike Delaney wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:42:19PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Whats the rated read/write speeds on that drive Tom? For amanda to be > > useable, it needs to be able to do a more or less normal backup in > > not more than 3-4 hours total elapsed time.

Running multiple instances of amanda

2005-02-02 Thread Vicki Stanfield
I am testing a new version of amanda before putting it into play here at work. The old version was 2.4.2p2. I can do the backups fine (I think), but when I try to check them with amrecover, I get the following error: morimoto:/usr/local/src/amanda-2.4.4p4/sbin# ./amrecover -C Progeny01 AMRECOVER V

Re: Running multiple instances of amanda

2005-02-02 Thread Gavin Henry
-- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ > morimoto:/usr/local/src/amanda-2.4.4p4/sbin# ./amrecover -C Progeny01 AMRECOVER Version 2.4

Re: Can Amanda use an Iomega REV drive as a tape?

2005-02-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 04:12, Mike Delaney wrote: [...] >> >Has anyone used a REV drive with Amanda? >> >> I can imagine that it may be possible, with some variation of the >> FILE: device, and as Jon mentioned, they have a 10 disk changer >> available which to me, would make it *much* more

Re: Can Amanda use an Iomega REV drive as a tape?

2005-02-02 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:43:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett enlightened us: > I don't *think* the FILE: driver has made it to the 2.4.4 release yet, > but Jean-Louis can straigthen me out if it has. I've been using the > 2.4.5 stuff almost since it was first added to the snapshot > repository with o

Trouble with amrestore

2005-02-02 Thread Steve H
Hi Everyone. I am having some touble doing a restore from a client. I backed up /root on a remote debian box as a test, and it was a success. When I login to the remote debian box, and try to do a amrecover, the client says: AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3. Contacting server on ... amrecover: can

Re: Trouble with amrestore

2005-02-02 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:13:06AM -0800, Steve H wrote: > What I am confused about, is the client thinking itself is the server. One way to change this is "amrecover -s -t ". Maybe the default can be changed by an option to configure; not sure about that. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman,

Re: Trouble with amrestore

2005-02-02 Thread Gavin Henry
> Hi Everyone. >I am having some touble doing a restore from a client. I backed up > /root on a remote debian box as a test, and it was a success. When I > login to the remote debian box, and try to do a amrecover, the client > says: > > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3. Contacting server on > ... >

Re: Can Amanda use an Iomega REV drive as a tape?

2005-02-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:03, Matt Hyclak wrote: >On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:43:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett enlightened us: >> I don't *think* the FILE: driver has made it to the 2.4.4 release >> yet, but Jean-Louis can straigthen me out if it has. I've been >> using the 2.4.5 stuff almost si

Re: Running multiple instances of amanda

2005-02-02 Thread Vicki Stanfield
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 15:38 +, Gavin Henry wrote: > -- > Kind Regards, > > Gavin Henry. > Managing Director. > > T +44 (0) 1467 624141 > M +44 (0) 7930 323266 > F +44 (0) 1224 742001 > E [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). > > http://www.suretecsystems.com/ > > > morimo

AIX guru's please

2005-02-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
Kevin Alford started a thread about losing his amanda server crashing, needing to rebuild it, not having indexes and needing to do a restore. The system details pre-crash were Amanda 2.4.2p2 on AIX 5.1 ML6 When Kevin wasn't getting very far I started an email dialog with him, but we have hit a st

Re: AW: archiving tapes?!

2005-02-02 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:44:47PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Paul Bijnens wrote: > >Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > >>what are some good options for long term archival storage? > >Someone stole my crystal ball... > Or did he mean "amanda.conf options" ? I was inqu

Re: AIX guru's please

2005-02-02 Thread c-chan
Hopefully there are some other people on the list with AIX 5 experience, mine stops at AIX 4. Yes, backup is the AIX name for dump, it is a block level backup utility rather than file level. One of its features is the ability to backup by file name or by i-node, but most other versions of dump ca

Re: Exabyte VXA-2 PacketLoader

2005-02-02 Thread James D. Freels
I finally have time to work on this new tape drive (vxa-2-packet-loader).  I am having difficulty since this is my first autoload-type system.  I have amanda running fine for years with a single manually-loaded tape drive.  Here are a few questions: 1) it appears that I must get mtx to respond

Re: Trouble with amrestore

2005-02-02 Thread Steve H
Eric, Thanks, That worked great. Now I am having a different problem. When I go into the restore menu: As a test, I backed up the /root directory. Now, when I do a setdisk /root /root/.restore it doesn't have any files available to add to the extract list. I created the .restore director

Re: Can Amanda use an Iomega REV drive as a tape?

2005-02-02 Thread Mike Delaney
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:43:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 04:12, Mike Delaney wrote: > [...] > >> >Has anyone used a REV drive with Amanda? > >> > >> I can imagine that it may be possible, with some variation of the > >> FILE: device, and as Jon mentioned, they h

Re: Can Amanda use an Iomega REV drive as a tape?

2005-02-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Mike Delaney wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:43:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 04:12, Mike Delaney wrote: > > [...] > > >> >Has anyone used a REV drive with Amanda? > > >> > > >> I can imagine that it may be possible, with some variation of

Re: Exabyte VXA-2 PacketLoader

2005-02-02 Thread James D. Freels
Progress. My main problem was the library is at sg3 not sg6.  sg6 is the tape drive...duh ! My next problem was that the scsi driver for the symbios scsi card did not work correctly on this alpha/linux server.  I was using the newer -2 driver, but now reverting back to the ncr driver.  I migh

Re: AIX guru's please

2005-02-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 12:20, Jon LaBadie wrote: >Kevin Alford started a thread about losing his amanda server >crashing, needing to rebuild it, not having indexes and >needing to do a restore. The system details pre-crash were >Amanda 2.4.2p2 on AIX 5.1 ML6 > >When Kevin wasn't getting ver