Re: amanda client version 2.4.5

2005-05-12 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, May 13, 2005 01:08:24 -0400 Lei Zhong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > Thank you all very much for the help. I finally figured out my problem. > It was that I didn't remove the tape label properly. I didn't run > amrmtape before I ran amlabel on the same tape. > > Can somebo

amanda client version 2.4.5

2005-05-12 Thread Lei Zhong
Hi guys, Thank you all very much for the help. I finally figured out my problem. It was that I didn't remove the tape label properly. I didn't run amrmtape before I ran amlabel on the same tape. Can somebody tell me how to compile and install amanda client using amanda-2.4.5.tar.gz? I need to d

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-12 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 12 May 2005 at 9:34pm, Rodrigo Ventura wrote > Alexander Jolk wrote: > > Once again, your syntax seems right to all of us, but nobody really > > seems to be actively using `include' right now. I know for certain that > > using `exclude' works, for example. > > I see. My problem is that

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-12 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, May 12, 2005 21:37:09 +0100 Rodrigo Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Jolk wrote: >> Ahm, sorry, I don't quite follow you there. Your sendbackup.* files are >> empty, zero bytes? That shouldn't be the case already. (Don't get >> caught by the fact that they are

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:37:09PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: > > In fact /var/spool/imap is not readable by amanda. But it is absurd that > amanda has to read every file in the system... (mode=600 files are > unbackupable???) Or maybe amanda only needs to be able to read the base > director

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-12 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
Alexander Jolk wrote: Ahm, sorry, I don't quite follow you there. Your sendbackup.* files are empty, zero bytes? That shouldn't be the case already. (Don't get caught by the fact that they are readable only to your amanda user, and root!) And which files are the include files? Could you ela

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-12 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
Alexander Jolk wrote: Once again, your syntax seems right to all of us, but nobody really seems to be actively using `include' right now. I know for certain that using `exclude' works, for example. I see. My problem is that I have a /home full of users (34G used) and a /var/spool/imap/users ful

Re: Levels

2005-05-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:58:02PM -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Guy Dallaire wrote: > > >What I meant is that, provided I have a standard dump cycle, I use > >gnutar for some DLE's, and dump for other DLE's, and I run amanda at > >time x. Will amanda run dump or gnu-t

Re: Levels

2005-05-12 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
[Please reply to amanda-users when asking questions on the list] On Thu, 12 May 2005, Guy Dallaire wrote: 2005/5/12, Mitch Collinsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: No. Amanda guarantees it will take all data your backup program sends it, put it onto the tape, and get it back off again, assuming the tape

Re: amrecover: Unexpected end of file

2005-05-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
Lei Zhong wrote: I specified the dump type as comp-root-tar. I added index yes in the dump type in amanda.conf file. When I ran "amrecover -C Daily -s itchy.applimation.com", I got an error saying "no indexing records". When I ran "amrestore /dev/nst0 etc", I got "end of file" error. Attached, pl

Re: Levels

2005-05-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Guy Dallaire wrote: > I'm still having a hard time figuring out how "levels" work. > > Can someone confirm to me that each time amanda is run, it will backup > a file if it has been modified during the day (or since the last run) Yes. > In other words: does amanda guarantee

Re: Levels

2005-05-12 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:28:37PM -0400, Guy Dallaire enlightened us: > I'm still having a hard time figuring out how "levels" work. > > Can someone confirm to me that each time amanda is run, it will backup > a file if it has been modified during the day (or since the last run) > > In other wor

Re: Levels

2005-05-12 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Guy Dallaire wrote: I'm still having a hard time figuring out how "levels" work. Can someone confirm to me that each time amanda is run, it will backup a file if it has been modified during the day (or since the last run) In other words: does amanda guarantee that if a file is

Levels

2005-05-12 Thread Guy Dallaire
I'm still having a hard time figuring out how "levels" work. Can someone confirm to me that each time amanda is run, it will backup a file if it has been modified during the day (or since the last run) In other words: does amanda guarantee that if a file is modified after a dump, it will be inclu

RE: amrecover: Unexpected end of file

2005-05-12 Thread Lei Zhong
I ran amdump after I added "index yes". I tried several times. I relabeled the tape using amlabel, then ran amdump. I am still getting "no indexing records" when running amrecover. -Original Message- From: Alexander Jolk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 3:08 PM T

Amanda bandwidth usage

2005-05-12 Thread Guy Dallaire
The default setting for the "netusage" parameter is 600 kbps. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a 100 Mbps ethernet interface is 10 000 kbps (roughly) Also, the defaut settings for the 10Mbps ethernet is 400 kbps (Ou of a possible total of approx 1000 kbps) Does this mean that with these defaults, am

RE: amrecover: Unexpected end of file

2005-05-12 Thread Lei Zhong
I specified the dump type as comp-root-tar. I added index yes in the dump type in amanda.conf file. When I ran "amrecover -C Daily -s itchy.applimation.com", I got an error saying "no indexing records". When I ran "amrestore /dev/nst0 etc", I got "end of file" error. Attached, please find my aman

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-12 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
The man page has this suspicious paragraph: diskdevice Default: same as diskname. The name of the disk device to be backed up. It may be a full device name, a device name without the /dev/ prefix, e.g. sd0a, or a mount point such as /usr. They

Re: split disklist aphabetically

2005-05-12 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Luc Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050512 12:51]: > Hello Folks, > > What are your recommendations for spliting directories with excludes > without having to reorganize directories in a partition that I want to > backup? > > Basically, I want: > > clien

Re: split disklist aphabetically

2005-05-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:50:02PM -0400, Luc Lalonde wrote: > Hello Folks, > > What are your recommendations for spliting directories with excludes > without having to reorganize directories in a partition that I want to > backup? > > Basically, I want: > > client /foo/a* dumptype-a > cli

split disklist aphabetically

2005-05-12 Thread Luc Lalonde
Hello Folks, What are your recommendations for spliting directories with excludes without having to reorganize directories in a partition that I want to backup? Basically, I want: client /foo/a* dumptype-a client /foo/b*dumptype-b . . . client /foo/z* dumptype-z Is this something t

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-12 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
> "Alexander" == Alexander Jolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexander> I'm pretty sure there's an error somewhere in your Alexander> disklist config since your index files are empty. I Alexander> don't remember whether you showed us already your Alexander> relevant /tmp/amanda

Re: amindexd no such file or directory - Oops

2005-05-12 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, May 12, 2005 17:01:24 +0100 Chuck Amadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Great your right but why do I get this error no such file or > directory when I run amrecover to test if I can recover what's in my > amdump tape my amindexd does resides in my /amanda path/libexec . > > Che

Re: amindexd no such file or directory

2005-05-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:17:57PM +0100, Chuck Amadi wrote: > Hi All > > I have run the amdump and thus tried amrecover as root > I got this error when I run less command > > server:/tmp/amanda-dbg # less 13:46 amindexd.20050512134638.debug > 13:46: No such file or directory what if you try:

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:19:16PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: > > "Jon" == Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jon> Was there ever a successful backup of the DLE's in question? > > No, I'm pretty sure there was never one. > > Jon> I presume the DLE's for /home/{ag|hm|nt} a

Re: amindexd no such file or directory

2005-05-12 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, May 12, 2005 16:17:57 +0100 Chuck Amadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > I have run the amdump and thus tried amrecover as root > I got this error when I run less command > > server:/tmp/amanda-dbg # less 13:46 amindexd.20050512134638.debug > 13:46: No such file or direc

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-12 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
> "Jon" == Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jon> Does 'amadmin disklist omni /var/spool/... ' show Jon> indexing turned on? Yes. Jon> Are there index files for those DLE's under your index dir? Yes, all gzipped; decompress to an empty file. Jon> Was there ever a suc

amindexd no such file or directory

2005-05-12 Thread Chuck Amadi
Hi All I have run the amdump and thus tried amrecover as root I got this error when I run less command server:/tmp/amanda-dbg # less 13:46 amindexd.20050512134638.debug 13:46: No such file or directory I dont have this utility in my /sbin/am* So what next I have seen the blurb about Amindex. A

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:40:21AM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: > > "Jon" == Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jon> These are level 1 dumps. Maybe no changes? Did you get the > Jon> same results on the last level 0? If I recall, these are > Jon> mail dirs, is there st

Re: Still evaluating amanda, more questions

2005-05-12 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 12 May 2005 at 9:06am, Guy Dallaire wrote > If I use indexing, is it easy to be able to recover a specific > "version" of a faile ? Say, file "xyz" has been modified often and > exists on 5 different tapes, all at different dates, and I need to > restore files from a particular date (not t

Re: Still evaluating amanda, more questions

2005-05-12 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:06:47AM -0400, Guy Dallaire enlightened us: > I received great suggestions from people on this list. Thanks to all. > One of those suggestion involved using 3 or 4 "sets" of tapes to be > able to keep a copy of the backup "off site" > > For example, if I use 5 tapes per

Still evaluating amanda, more questions

2005-05-12 Thread Guy Dallaire
Hi, I received great suggestions from people on this list. Thanks to all. One of those suggestion involved using 3 or 4 "sets" of tapes to be able to keep a copy of the backup "off site" For example, if I use 5 tapes per week and my dumpcylce is one week, I could keep a set locally to do my backu

Re: estimate timeout

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Summers
McDonagh, Joe wrote: I have an estimate timeout of three hours, is there anyway to skip the estimate or what? It's getting estimate timeout, the fs is fine, it can be read from and everything, it just has loads of small files. You might want to consider upgrading the server and client involved to

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

2005-05-12 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
> "Jon" == Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jon> These are level 1 dumps. Maybe no changes? Did you get the Jon> same results on the last level 0? If I recall, these are Jon> mail dirs, is there stuff there? Last dump summary: DUMPER

Re: WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? -Fixed!

2005-05-12 Thread Chuck Amadi
Hi I did and it's working I had used the wrong path where my tar was located. Cheers Chuck On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 17:42 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Hi, Chuck, > > on Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 at 15:57 you wrote to amanda-users: > > CA> Here's my advance I will sort this alot out as it's s

bumpsize, bumpdays & bumpmult

2005-05-12 Thread Belen Isla
Hi all,   how can I customize the bumpsize, bumpdays and bumpmult parameters if I want to backup my system everyday with a different incremental level? Thanks in advance.     Belén.