Re: Server-A /tempfiles lev 0 FAILED 20050429[could not connect to Server-A]

2005-04-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Todd, on Freitag, 29. April 2005 at 14:27 you wrote to amanda-users: tz> Greeting amandaneers, tz> I'm having an issue when I try to backup this one machine. I see the tz> backup server starts the dumper process and the server begin backed up tz> shows that it is sending backup stuff. tz> A

Re: largest fit peculiarities

2005-04-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Jon, on Freitag, 29. April 2005 at 15:17 you wrote to amanda-users: >> Actually falls back to "first" (in the queue). But by Murphy's Law >> that image rarely fits in the small unknown gap before the Real End >> Of Tape. JL> Is there a reason to not use "smallest", giving best chance to fit

Re: largest fit peculiarities

2005-04-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: Is there a reason to not use "smallest", giving best chance to fit? The default is "like it used to be without this patch". But that is not a good reason indeed. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, B

Re: Is the Dell Powervault 132T a changer device?

2005-04-29 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:46:10AM -0400, Carlos Scott enlightened us: > Mike Delaney escribió: > > >On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:03:39PM -0400, Carlos Scott wrote: > > > > > >>Hello all, > >> > >>It's the first time i try to setup Amanda and i'm a little confused. > >>I don't think i got the chan

RE: Permission Problem

2005-04-29 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
> > Actually, I did mean "runtar", a program in the amanda > distribution. It lives in the libexec directory. It should be > suid-root and owned by root, and, if located on an nfs-share, > the share should be mounted with options to enable suid-root bits: > > -rwsr-x---1 root bin

Re: Is the Dell Powervault 132T a changer device?

2005-04-29 Thread Carlos Scott
Mike Delaney escribió: >On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:03:39PM -0400, Carlos Scott wrote: > > >>Hello all, >> >>It's the first time i try to setup Amanda and i'm a little confused. >>I don't think i got the changer device idea right. Does the Dell Powervault >>132T Tape Library qualify as a changer

Re: largest fit peculiarities

2005-04-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:19:33AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Matt Hyclak wrote: > > > >Yes, as Paul Bijnens pointed out in a private mail, I had already gone over > >what amanda knew about. In that case, largestfit falls back to the largest > >dump available. > > Actually falls back to "first"

Re: Permission Problem

2005-04-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: The xinetd is configured correctly so that is not a problem. You say so, but we can't check it. Post the xinetd config for amanda and the result of "id" executed as user amanda. Thanks. Checked and indeed correct. When using gnutar, a frequent error is the lost suid-b

Re: gnutar and sendsize

2005-04-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kee Gohil wrote: Bear with me on this. I've inherited a system to look after and I'm new to Amanda. I'm using gnutar to backup a ~50Gb filesystem. Unfortunately it won't backup due to.. /home lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than tape, but cannot incremental dump new disk] A new disk. OK. I have c

RE: Permission Problem

2005-04-29 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
> > > > The xinetd is configured correctly so that is not a problem. > > You say so, but we can't check it. > Post the xinetd config for amanda and the result of "id" executed as > user amanda. > > When using dump, a frequent error is that primary group has > no access to the diskdevice. Addi

Re: largest fit peculiarities

2005-04-29 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:19:33AM +0200, Paul Bijnens enlightened us: > Matt Hyclak wrote: > > > >Yes, as Paul Bijnens pointed out in a private mail, I had already gone over > >what amanda knew about. In that case, largestfit falls back to the largest > >dump available. > > Actually falls back t

Server-A /tempfiles lev 0 FAILED 20050429[could not connect to Server-A]

2005-04-29 Thread todd zenker
Greeting amandaneers, I'm having an issue when I try to backup this one machine. I see the backup server starts the dumper process and the server begin backed up shows that it is sending backup stuff. After it is all done the backup servers shows 0 backup was completed. FAILED. In my backup dir

gnutar and sendsize

2005-04-29 Thread Kee Gohil
Hi Bear with me on this. I've inherited a system to look after and I'm new to Amanda. I'm using gnutar to backup a ~50Gb filesystem. Unfortunately it won't backup due to.. /home lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than tape, but cannot incremental dump new disk] I have compression set on in the dump

Re: Permission Problem

2005-04-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: Hi I am trying to backup 5 clients currently of which 2 does not want to work for some reason. The error I get is: ERROR: rian-dlin: [could not access /home/oscar3/SciFi (/home/oscar3/SciFi): Permission denied] ERROR: rukh: [could not access /u/oscar3/dev (/u/oscar3/dev)

Re: largest fit peculiarities

2005-04-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Matt Hyclak wrote: Yes, as Paul Bijnens pointed out in a private mail, I had already gone over what amanda knew about. In that case, largestfit falls back to the largest dump available. Actually falls back to "first" (in the queue). But by Murphy's Law that image rarely fits in the small unknown

Permission Problem

2005-04-29 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi I am trying to backup 5 clients currently of which 2 does not want to work for some reason. The error I get is: ERROR: rian-dlin: [could not access /home/oscar3/SciFi (/home/oscar3/SciFi): Permission denied] ERROR: rukh: [could not access /u/oscar3/dev (/u/oscar3/dev): Permission denied] I can