Amanda and STAR

2005-02-20 Thread FM
Hello, Can we use star instead of tar with amanda-2.4.4p1 (rehl AS 3 update 4) ? Thanks !

Amrestore error

2005-02-20 Thread Spicer, Kevin \(MBLEA it\)
Hello, I'm having a strange problem with amrestore. I get an I/O error in the middle of a restore and amrestore exits, but st0 device remains busy and only a reboot can clear it. There is an error on the console as follows... st0: Error 70002 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x7) ... My

Re: Amanda and STAR

2005-02-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 February 2005 11:51, FM wrote: Hello, Can we use star instead of tar with amanda-2.4.4p1 (rehl AS 3 update 4) ? Thanks ! I don't know if anyone has tried it. I occasionally play guinea pig, but my current test tar is tar-1.15-1, which so far (that knocking sound?, is me,

Re: Amrestore error

2005-02-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 February 2005 12:13, Spicer, Kevin (MBLEA it) wrote: Hello, I'm having a strange problem with amrestore. I get an I/O error in the middle of a restore and amrestore exits, but st0 device remains busy and only a reboot can clear it. There is an error on the console as follows...

Re: Calculated estimates?

2005-02-20 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 at 7:49pm, Kirk Strauser wrote I'm using Amanda 2.4.4p4 on a FreeBSD server with FreeBSD, Linux, and Mac OS X clients. I could have sworn I read something about a new option to make Amanda calculate dump size estimates from data about previous runs. Am I on crack,

So long-

2005-02-20 Thread Daniel Bentley
-and thanks for all the tape... I've moved on to backups using a single LTO-2 drive instead of this Sony DDS3 auto-loader. As backup needs and approaches have changed (and the engineering dept. will use the changer from now on, most likely), I say 'goodbye' to Amanda for now. Ever since I

Re: Amanda planner failure

2005-02-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jingchun Chen wrote: Hi, Greetings to everyone! I am new to Amanda, and new to this mailing list. I got a planner failure and empty schedule. Amcheck seems to pass ok That seems to be because planner had nothing to do: the two disklist entries both seems to have some problem: disk /home/home-nz

configure for amanda server and client coordinations

2005-02-20 Thread Nina Pham
Please let me setup the scenerio first for 2 unix machines. The amanda server machine(amserver) is running redhat linux 9, the amanda client(amclient) machine is running FC2. In addition to serve the client machine, amserver also backups some files locally. The amserver is already setup to

Re: Amanda security +Kerberos

2005-02-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Gil Naveh wrote: Some have suggested to use sftp or ssh - bring those files to the server and then backing it up locally. However, by implementing this technique I am over loading the network - because I have to ssh or sftp all files daily instead of letting Amanda get

Re: VXA-2 packet-loader issues and AMANDA [Fwd: hard luck with the new autoloader]

2005-02-20 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi all, if the scsi-connector is more then 50-pin's wide you'll have to look in the HW doc to determin that. If its only 50 pin wide, it's definitly a SE device. Christoph Eric Siegerman schrieb: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:41:17PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: Can on look at the device connectors, or

Re: Issue making amanda on Solaris 8

2005-02-20 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:30:44PM -0800, Steve H wrote: killpgrp.c:90: error: too many arguments to function `getpgrp' One common cause of weird build problems on Solaris is using the wrong tool set. I don't know about this specific error, but it sort of sounds like a mismatch between the

Re: Amanda's report

2005-02-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:45, Gil Naveh wrote: After running Amanda's backup, I receive an email with a report about the last backup. The first section of that report is: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: and under this section I get the following message: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP

Re: Issue making amanda on Solaris 8

2005-02-20 Thread Steve H
That worked great, thanks for the help. Rookie mistake. Steve --- Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve H wrote: I am having an issue on Solaris 8. After running ./configure with the appropiate options, I run make, which throws this error: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.

Re: A question regarding backing up Window machines

2005-02-20 Thread Joe Rhett
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:58:29PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:02:49PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: - You can exclude only one pattern. On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:42:13PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: Um, hello -- can you clue me in on this? I am trying

Re: forcing skipped incrementals into holding disk

2005-02-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 02:44, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Frank Smith wrote: --On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 17:44:32 +1100 Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got one problem machine that has about 90GB in one DLE, and our tapes are 100GB LTO1s. Of

Re: client version varies from server

2005-02-20 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:00:39AM -0500, Don Carlton enlightened us: It looks like it might be a firewall issue on the server? Does anyone know what the minimum server rules and client rules would be in iptables/ipchains? I use the following: Server: allow udp 10080 and tcp 10082,10083 from

Re: A question regarding backing up Window machines

2005-02-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:09:57PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:58:29PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:02:49PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: - You can exclude only one pattern. On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:42:13PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:

Re: archiving tapes?!

2005-02-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 January 2005 14:16, Michael Loftis wrote: --On Friday, January 28, 2005 11:22 -0700 Mark Costlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The script is fairly generic (I tried not to let it depend on my local environment too much, but there may be some gotchas). I was also lazy about a couple

RE: AIX guru's please

2005-02-20 Thread Kevin Alford
Title: RE: AIX guru's please This is an old email message. I was able to recover my data. Kevin D. Alford -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 2/2/2005 1:35 PM To: Jon LaBadie Subject: Re: AIX guru's please Hopefully there are

Re: client version varies from server

2005-02-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:00, Don Carlton wrote: It looks like it might be a firewall issue on the server? Does anyone know what the minimum server rules and client rules would be in iptables/ipchains? Thats all in the FAQ and docs Don. And its pretty straight forward, if iptables is

Re: AMLABEL

2005-02-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:24, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:04:40AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: With the ultrium it is less important about considering HW or SW compression. But be aware that on Solaris whether HW compression is turned on or not is

Re: So long-

2005-02-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 17:07, Daniel Bentley wrote: -and thanks for all the tape... I've moved on to backups using a single LTO-2 drive instead of this Sony DDS3 auto-loader. As backup needs and approaches have changed (and the engineering dept. will use the changer from now on, most

RE: AMLABEL

2005-02-20 Thread Spicer, Kevin \(MBLEA it\)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gene Heskett Paul: That file (st.init/st.conf) doesn't exist on a redhat flavored linux install. Nor on a debian sarge based install of BDI-4.08, I just checked that one too If my Tao box is anything to

RE: VXA-2 packet-loader issues and AMANDA [Fwd: hard luck with the new autoloader]

2005-02-20 Thread Spicer, Kevin \(MBLEA it\)
Eric Siegerman schrieb: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:41:17PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: Can on look at the device connectors, or better yet, the external connectors, and tell if a device is LVD or SE? Or does one have to check the HW doc? If you're lucky enough that the manufacturer has prited

Re: AMLABEL

2005-02-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 February 2005 19:07, Spicer, Kevin (MBLEA it) wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gene Heskett Paul: That file (st.init/st.conf) doesn't exist on a redhat flavored linux install. Nor on a debian sarge based install of

Backup

2005-02-20 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi All How can I have monthly,quarterly and half yearly backup using Amanda Thanks in Advance -- Regards, Kaushal Shriyan Technical Engineer Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. 1st Floor,'C'Wing, Fortune2000, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra(East), Mumbai 400051. Maharashtra India Tel: +91-22-3987

Re: Backup

2005-02-20 Thread Gavin Henry
On Monday 21 Feb 2005 06:05, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi All How can I have monthly,quarterly and half yearly backup using Amanda Hi, Simply make some more amanda.conf and run them monthly, quarterly and half yearly. Thanks in Advance -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T