Re: Can't read STE status

2005-03-16 Thread Heiko Schellhorn
Am Mittwoch, 16. MÃrz 2005 10:09 schrieb Sven Rudolph: > Heiko Schellhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have following Problem using chg-scsi. > > > > runing chg-scsi -info I get the message > > "Can't read STE status" > > I had such problems in 2003 and discussed them with the chg-scsi > autho

Re: dumpcycle versus noinc

2005-03-16 Thread Peter Kunst
Steve Wray wrote: Peter Kunst wrote: Hi Steve, Steve Wray wrote: Gaby vanhegan wrote: Hello again! Whilst setting up a full dump configuration to do monthly full dumps to tape, I'm torn between either: strategy "noinc" or dumpcycle 0 To do a full dump. What's the difference here? Does i

Re: dumpcycle versus noinc

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Wray
Peter Kunst wrote: Hi Steve, Steve Wray wrote: Gaby vanhegan wrote: Hello again! Whilst setting up a full dump configuration to do monthly full dumps to tape, I'm torn between either: strategy "noinc" or dumpcycle 0 To do a full dump. What's the difference here? Does it matter which on

Re: dumpcycle versus noinc

2005-03-16 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Steve, Steve Wray wrote: Gaby vanhegan wrote: Hello again! Whilst setting up a full dump configuration to do monthly full dumps to tape, I'm torn between either: strategy "noinc" or dumpcycle 0 To do a full dump. What's the difference here? Does it matter which one I use? Heres my

Re: dumpcycle versus noinc

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Wray
Gaby vanhegan wrote: Hello again! Whilst setting up a full dump configuration to do monthly full dumps to tape, I'm torn between either: strategy "noinc" or dumpcycle 0 To do a full dump. What's the difference here? Does it matter which one I use? Heres my reading of what I've experien

Re: amverify, amrestore, and amrecover infighting

2005-03-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 14:12, John Stange wrote: >Been taking a look at amverify, having been asked to make it > cooperate with the spanning tape patch. The thing that causes it > to not work, however, brings up something of a dilemma... > >amverify invokes amrestore on a set of tapes, checkin

RE: amcheck error

2005-03-16 Thread Kevin Chen
Hi: That's exactly what I have in inetd.conf, if I typed it from command line, it would sit there for 30 seconds and stop and create a log file at /tmp/amanda - amandad.20050316134621.debug. Here are last few lines of this log file - time 30.007: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds amandad: er

Re: amcheck error

2005-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kevin Chen wrote: Greetings: I am setting up Amanda 2.4.4p4 on a Sun Ultra30 machine which is running Solaris 8, configuration and make install went through all right, but when I run "amcheck Daily", it is keep on complaining about one of client host is down - "Warning: spain selfcheck request t

Re: amcheck error

2005-03-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
Try # ldd /usr/local/libexec/amandad on the client and see if you don't have all the support libraries available. On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:43:07PM -0800, Kevin Chen wrote: > Greetings: > > > > I am setting up Amanda 2.4.4p4 on a Sun Ultra30 machine which is > > running Solaris 8, configu

amcheck error

2005-03-16 Thread Kevin Chen
Greetings:   I am setting up Amanda 2.4.4p4 on a Sun Ultra30 machine which is running Solaris 8, configuration and make install went through all right, but when I run "amcheck Daily", it is keep on complaining about one of client host is down - "Warning: spain selfcheck request ti

Re: Backup retention time?

2005-03-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 13:06, Edson Noboru Yamada wrote: >Hi, > >I´m a Veritas Netbackup admin, and I´m trying to test Amanda >as an alternative. > >With Netbackup, it´s possible to define a backup image retention > time, that is the number of days that an a given image must be > preserved on a

Re: huge file showing up

2005-03-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 09:43, Vicki Stanfield wrote: >I have noticed that two large files which are of type GNU tar > archive and named in the format: > hostname._net_hostname_home_user.20041221.2 (exactly matches an > entry in disklist except that the slashes in the path are now > underscores

Re: RES: Backup retention time?

2005-03-16 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, March 16, 2005 15:39:37 -0300 Edson Noboru Yamada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suppose I want to perform one full backup per week, and one day is time > enough to do that for all the clients. All the images fit in 2 tapes. > > I defined the following parameters: > > dumpc

Re: localhostNAK error

2005-03-16 Thread Matt Lung
Quoting Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Matt Lung wrote: > > I've been getting an error on one of my backup jobs lately that I hope > someone > > else can help me with. The host I am getting the errror on is a windows > host > > being contacted vi smbaclient. When an amcheck is run before th

RES: Backup retention time?

2005-03-16 Thread Edson Noboru Yamada
> tapecycle? > Probably not exactly the same semantics but close enough: it is > counted in number of tapes instead of days (but together with > runspercycle and runtapes this becomes equivalent). > Also amanda will warn a few days in advance when you would overwrite > the last full dump of disk-

Re: Backup retention time?

2005-03-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 at 3:06pm, Edson Noboru Yamada wrote > I´m a Veritas Netbackup admin, and I´m trying to test Amanda > as an alternative. > > With Netbackup, it´s possible to define a backup image retention time, that > is the number of days that an a given image must be preserved on a tape;

Re: Backup retention time?

2005-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Edson Noboru Yamada wrote: With Netbackup, it´s possible to define a backup image retention time, that is the number of days that an a given image must be preserved on a tape; a tape is only reused if all the backup images it contains are expired. Is there a way to define something similar with a

Re: localhostNAK error

2005-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Matt Lung wrote: I've been getting an error on one of my backup jobs lately that I hope someone else can help me with. The host I am getting the errror on is a windows host being contacted vi smbaclient. When an amcheck is run before the backup job, I get no errors. All hosts are up, running, an

Re: unknown service: noop?

2005-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Steve Wray wrote: Looking at the /tmp/amanda/ logfiles on the client in question, I find something I've not seen before. Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks [snip] got packet: Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 004-B0080708 SEQ 1110921966 SECURITY USER backup SERVICE noop OPTIONS features=feff

Backup retention time?

2005-03-16 Thread Edson Noboru Yamada
Hi, I´m a Veritas Netbackup admin, and I´m trying to test Amanda as an alternative. With Netbackup, it´s possible to define a backup image retention time, that is the number of days that an a given image must be preserved on a tape; a tape is only reused if all the backup images it contains are

Re: huge file showing up

2005-03-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Vicki Stanfield wrote: I have noticed that two large files which are of type GNU tar archive and named in the format: hostname._net_hostname_home_user.20041221.2 (exactly matches an entry in disklist except that the slashes in the path are now underscores and the date and another number are appende

Re: dumpcycle versus noinc

2005-03-16 Thread Gaby vanhegan
On 16 Mar 2005, at 13:26, Jon LaBadie wrote: With dumpcycle 0, each DLE is scheduled for a level 0 each run of amdump. With "noinc", incrementals are scheduled and planned, just not done. I.e. for a particular amdump run, nothing is done with that DLE if it is scheduled for an incremental. So, t

Re: autoflush

2005-03-16 Thread Gaby vanhegan
On 16 Mar 2005, at 13:15, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:53:02PM +, Gaby vanhegan wrote: Hello! Is there any reason why I would not want to set autoflush to "yes" in amanda.conf? I have plenty of space on my tapes (40gb tapes, usually 2-5gb backups) and as far as I can see this

RE: huge file showing up

2005-03-16 Thread Mark Lidstone
Hi Vicki, I'm not sure about why the file's there, but the timestamp on the end of that file seems very old (21 Dec 2004). Is it possible that file was left over from a previous test of disk-tapes? Thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridian

huge file showing up

2005-03-16 Thread Vicki Stanfield
I have noticed that two large files which are of type GNU tar archive and named in the format: hostname._net_hostname_home_user.20041221.2 (exactly matches an entry in disklist except that the slashes in the path are now underscores and the date and another number are appended) I assume that Amand

localhostNAK error

2005-03-16 Thread Matt Lung
I've been getting an error on one of my backup jobs lately that I hope someone else can help me with. The host I am getting the errror on is a windows host being contacted vi smbaclient. When an amcheck is run before the backup job, I get no errors. All hosts are up, running, and can be contacte

Re: tapecycle and the doc

2005-03-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:27:51AM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > Will Amanda use any tape that is more than tapecycle entries down > the list or only the one of the bottom ? > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:52:01PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Hi, Tom, > > > > on Dienstag, 15. März 200

Re: tapecycle and the doc

2005-03-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
Will Amanda use any tape that is more than tapecycle entries down the list or only the one of the bottom ? On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:52:01PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Hi, Tom, > > on Dienstag, 15. März 2005 at 23:32 you wrote to amanda-users: > > TS> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:25 -070

Re: dumpcycle versus noinc

2005-03-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:57:22PM +, Gaby vanhegan wrote: > Hello again! > > Whilst setting up a full dump configuration to do monthly full dumps to > tape, I'm torn between either: > > strategy "noinc" > > or > > dumpcycle 0 > > To do a full dump. What's the difference here

Re: autoflush

2005-03-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:53:02PM +, Gaby vanhegan wrote: > Hello! > > Is there any reason why I would not want to set autoflush to "yes" in > amanda.conf? I have plenty of space on my tapes (40gb tapes, usually > 2-5gb backups) and as far as I can see this will simply lower the > amount

dumpcycle versus noinc

2005-03-16 Thread Gaby vanhegan
Hello again! Whilst setting up a full dump configuration to do monthly full dumps to tape, I'm torn between either: strategy "noinc" or dumpcycle 0 To do a full dump. What's the difference here? Does it matter which one I use? Gaby -- Uganda Maximum - Enemy of the English Thru

autoflush

2005-03-16 Thread Gaby vanhegan
Hello! Is there any reason why I would not want to set autoflush to "yes" in amanda.conf? I have plenty of space on my tapes (40gb tapes, usually 2-5gb backups) and as far as I can see this will simply lower the amount of admin I have to do? Gaby -- Uganda Maximum - Enemy of the English Thrust

Re: Can't read STE status

2005-03-16 Thread Sven Rudolph
Heiko Schellhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have following Problem using chg-scsi. > > runing chg-scsi -info I get the message > "Can't read STE status" I had such problems in 2003 and discussed them with the chg-scsi author. He provided a patch that worked better, but the problem reappeare

Can't read STE status

2005-03-16 Thread Heiko Schellhorn
Hi everybody I have following Problem using chg-scsi. runing chg-scsi -info I get the message "Can't read STE status" Using google I didn't find any helpful answers for the problem. There's also no explanation for this error-message. Has somebody had the same problem ? And how did you solve it.