Re: Problems compiling Amanda on Solaris

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Kunst
Paul Bijnens wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:04:42AM -0400, khalid maqsudi wrote: >> >>> Most solaris distro's default to system V version of make. That would be great if you added it to the docs. Thank you. [..] > I'm not 100% sure (because I currently have not a

Re: Problems compiling Amanda on Solaris

2005-06-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:04:42AM -0400, khalid maqsudi wrote: Yes, I had a hard time figuring this out and it was not anywhere on google. Most solaris distro's default to system V version of make. That would be great if you added it to the docs. Thank you. Anyone got

Re: Tape Library Recommendations

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Loftis
--On June 23, 2005 3:50:57 PM -0400 Mitch Collinsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Michael Loftis wrote: LTO, DLT, S-LTO, etc all have the huge advantage of the same physical form factor. So 'upgrading' a DLT library to LTO, or S-LTO is just adding/upgrading the tape

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-23 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Indeed -- the other person referred to the AIT-4 behavior as "DLT syndrome". But isn't "variable speed write" different than "writing fill bytes"? Does DLT8000 lose capacity when not writing as fast as it can? Yes. Same idea. Tape spins at c

Re: Tape Library Recommendations

2005-06-23 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Michael Loftis wrote: LTO, DLT, S-LTO, etc all have the huge advantage of the same physical form factor. So 'upgrading' a DLT library to LTO, or S-LTO is just adding/upgrading the tape drives in it. DLT (sometimes called Compactape IV) has a long history and is a good r

Re: Tape Library Recommendations

2005-06-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 at 6:17pm, James Marcinek wrote > I've been supporting Amanda for a customer for about a year now. I currently > have only used a single tape device as the client was leary about leaving any > media onsite as well as the fact that it would require more involvment than > just >

Re: Tape Library Recommendations

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Loftis
--On June 23, 2005 6:17:26 PM + James Marcinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am looking recommendations for a tape library device that works well with amanda. Right now the client is using 8mm tapes, so I'd be interested in other feedback in regards to other types of media (LTO, DLT, etc

Tape Library Recommendations

2005-06-23 Thread James Marcinek
Hello Everyone, I've been supporting Amanda for a customer for about a year now. I currently have only used a single tape device as the client was leary about leaving any media onsite as well as the fact that it would require more involvment than just switching out tapes as most are not too techni

Re: Archival backup problems

2005-06-23 Thread Kevin Dalley
Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:11:34PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote: >> >> >> Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:26:49PM -0700, Kevin Dalley enlightened us: >> >> Thanks for the suggestion. Setting record to no seems li

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:01:05 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 04:39:02PM +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator > wrote: >> Hi PB >> >> I reverted back to ./var, ./tmp as you So suggested and added ./media to >> the exclude list. >> >> I run amd

AMANDA+Samba setup...

2005-06-23 Thread boztr0n
hey list, It's my first time playing with Amanda and I've been working for the past few days to setup one central amanda server on a linux box (generic fedora 4, using stock Amanda + Samba rpms) to backup a single directory on 30 or so wintel boxes. Basically where I'm at now is that amcheck fails

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, June 23, 2005 09:31:25 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:03:13PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: >> >> >> ? gtar: ./media/cdrom: Cannot savedir: No medium found >> [...] >> >>| gtar: ./var/spool/postfix/public/showq: socket ignored >> > >> >> N

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi Thanks for the advise I will monitor as suggested but worth the voyager. Cheers All On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 12:01 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > ./var/tmp > ./var/spool/postfix > ./var/spool/cups -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Labor

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 04:39:02PM +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: > Hi PB > > I reverted back to ./var, ./tmp as you So suggested and added ./media to > the exclude list. > > I run amdump and It looks like it's working accordingly as per the Dump > Summary. Starting to look goo

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 at 11:46am, Mitch Collinsworth wrote > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > Something else I heard on another mailing list: > > > > "However AIT-4 (unlike AIT-1 til -3) appears to write fill > > bytes onto the tape if it's not fed with data quickly enough, >

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-23 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Something else I heard on another mailing list: "However AIT-4 (unlike AIT-1 til -3) appears to write fill bytes onto the tape if it's not fed with data quickly enough, thus wasting lots of capacity." The person said they heard it somewhere an

Re: amanda dumping salad of levels

2005-06-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 02:10:55PM +0300, Leonid Shulov wrote: > Hi, > I upgraded my amanda to 2.4.5 version, and after that sometimes amanda > do backup with lev0 without any tape to holding disk. This broke all my > work order. Before I do full PC dump once a week at Saturday nightly, > increment

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi PB I reverted back to ./var, ./tmp as you So suggested and added ./media to the exclude list. I run amdump and It looks like it's working accordingly as per the Dump Summary. Here's my output Sorry for the constant mails I now have a better understanding on whats going on and by next week wil

Re: Problems compiling Amanda on Solaris

2005-06-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie wrote: Anyone got a pointer to docs describing the difference in gnu and sysv make? I wouldn't be surprised if some gun stuff needed the features of gnu make, but I'm always amazed how often gnu make doesn't seem to work with older sysv makefiles. Yes, this would be interesting an

Re: Re[2]: Problems compiling Amanda on Solaris

2005-06-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:04:42AM -0400, khalid maqsudi wrote: > Yes, I had a hard time figuring this out and it was not anywhere on google. > Most solaris distro's default to system V version of make. That would be > great if you added it to the docs. Thank you. > Anyone got a pointer to doc

Re: Problems compiling Amanda on Solaris

2005-06-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
khalid maqsudi wrote: Yes, I had a hard time figuring this out and it was not anywhere on google. Most solaris distro's default to system V version of make. That would be great if you added it to the docs. Thank you. It's in the CVS already. I'll release a new online-html-version soon. -- S

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-23 Thread Yu Chen
Thanks for the link, was not aware about that, just assumed it should be backwards compatiable. Really likes AIT. Yeah, it definitly going to make us think twice before upgrading. Chen On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Chris Loken wrote: BUT - my AIT-4 drive apparently can't even read AIT-3 tapes. Seems

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 at 10:34am, Mitch Collinsworth wrote > Answer looks pretty clear from the charts here: > > http://b2b.sony.com/documents/category/storage/branded-tape/AIT_Drives/AIT-4/AITMedia_05.pdf Good link -- thanks. Something else I heard on another mailing list: "However AIT-4 (unlik

Re: [off-topip] Better Backup Media

2005-06-23 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Chris Loken wrote: BUT - my AIT-4 drive apparently can't even read AIT-3 tapes. Seems mind-bogglingly stupid but my vendor assures me it's true (haven't dared to try). Anybody understand if this is an issue that's going to be resolved and, if so, will it be in firmware

Re: Re[2]: Problems compiling Amanda on Solaris

2005-06-23 Thread khalid maqsudi
Yes, I had a hard time figuring this out and it was not anywhere on google. Most solaris distro's default to system V version of make. That would be great if you added it to the docs. Thank you. -Khalid - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:03:13PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > >>? gtar: ./media/cdrom: Cannot savedir: No medium found > [...] > >>| gtar: ./var/spool/postfix/public/showq: socket ignored > > > > Note that the error is not in the sockets (those lines are marked > with a pipe-symbol as "normal"

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi Great News I have included the ./media or be it ./media/cdrom and ./media/floppy I will use the simpler format and run the amdump. Cheers Chuck On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 14:52 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: > > My fstab is as follows but when using Yast

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: My fstab is as follows but when using Yast and floppy I have had no issues. /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppysubfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi I am using SuSE SLES 9,version Amanda 2.4.2 and /etc/fstab. Very weired I just mounted a floppy and cdrom with no problems So it is working. Cheers On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 13:03 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>/-- server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] > >>

Re[2]: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread sgw
Hello, Chuck, on 23.06.2005, 12:35 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: > # Thus use exclusions for all those sockets? This would remove all > # those nasty ignore-errors and No media found in the Report. > ./dev > ./tmp > ./var > ./media/cdrom > ./media/floppy > I assume the last five entries

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi Paul I run the comand here is the output. server:/etc/amanda/DailySet1 # tar -cf - --sparse --one-file-sys --tot --dir /media . | cat >/dev/null tar: ./cdrom: Cannot savedir: No medium found tar: ./floppy: Cannot savedir: No medium found Total bytes written: 10240 (10kB, 74kB/s) tar: Error ex

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /-- server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] sendbackup: start [greenbottle.smtl.co.uk:/ level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... - sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz sendbackup: info end ? gtar: ./med

amanda dumping salad of levels

2005-06-23 Thread Leonid Shulov
Hi, I upgraded my amanda to 2.4.5 version, and after that sometimes amanda do backup with lev0 without any tape to holding disk. This broke all my work order. Before I do full PC dump once a week at Saturday nightly, incremental PC dump nightly in working days to holding disk. Daily incremental

RE: Holdingdisk and level 0/1 dumps [UPDATE]

2005-06-23 Thread Nicklas Bondesson
Yes, Im sure it's no "error", but i'd like to know why it behaves like that. Nicklas -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Bijnens Sent: den 23 juni 2005 12:43 To: Nicklas Bondesson Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Holdingdisk and

Re: Holdingdisk and level 0/1 dumps [UPDATE]

2005-06-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Nicklas Bondesson wrote: Any ideas why I'm getting these messages now after I have changed the reserve parameter (reserve 10). planner: Incremental of xxx01:/data01 bumped to level 2. Note that this message is in the NOTES section, not in the FAILURE AND STRANGE section. It's just FYI. Or ar

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi again I have briefly read info with the link provide and I had previous entries in the exclude list as below: #Exclude a number of files from the backup, this is done using the following file: # /usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar #The contents of the file will be similar to the following: core

Holdingdisk and level 0/1 dumps [UPDATE]

2005-06-23 Thread Nicklas Bondesson
Any ideas why I'm getting these messages now after I have changed the reserve parameter (reserve 10). planner: Incremental of xxx01:/data01 bumped to level 2. Note: That xxx01.2 file is huge. I noticed that amanda also created a level 1 dump file. Thanks Nicklas -Original Message- From:

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Thanks I am using the link to digest the rest Cheers On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 12:04 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, Chuck, > > on 23.06.2005, 11:41 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: > > > I was getting the following this error - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to > > tape failed] I assume

Re: server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread sgw
Hello, Chuck, on 23.06.2005, 11:41 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: > I was getting the following this error - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to > tape failed] I assume tar is not working. > I am using this version of tar. > server:/etc/postfix # /bin/tar --version > tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 O

server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2] - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

2005-06-23 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi again I was getting the following this error - server / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] I assume tar is not working. I am using this version of tar. server:/etc/postfix # /bin/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 cd /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1 ls -lt > less amdump (output) driver: resul

Re[2]: Strange dump details

2005-06-23 Thread sgw
Hello, Nicklas, on 23.06.2005, 10:13 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: > Is there any specific amanda developer list I could report this issue to? [EMAIL PROTECTED] But we already know that, thanks ... I'll see to get that expression committed. Best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger. mailto:

RE: Strange dump details

2005-06-23 Thread Nicklas Bondesson
Is there any specific amanda developer list I could report this issue to? Thanks Nicklas -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie Sent: den 17 juni 2005 02:14 To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Strange dump details On Thu, Jun 16

FW: How to read amanda tapes with standard unix/linux tools

2005-06-23 Thread Hommersom, Gerrit (G)
Paul The -overlooked- hyphen of dd was the culprit. I now get the desired response from the drive. Thanks Gerrit Hommersom Hommersom, Gerrit (G) wrote: > For emergency testing I want to read the amanda files with standard > Unix/Linux tools > > W Curtiss preson's book suggests that amanda ta

Re[2]: Problems compiling Amanda on Solaris

2005-06-23 Thread sgw
Hello, khalid, on 22.06.2005, 17:36 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: > I had the same error a few weeks ago. When you do a make, use the bsd > version. /usr/ccs/bin/make and it should work fine. Sounds like this should be added to http://www.amanda.org/docs/systemnotes.html ? Best regar