Re: Antw: Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 08 July 2005 16:47, MATILDA MATILDA wrote: >Hi guys, > >taking the following two statements: >> >> Seems to me that your desired behavior would be reasonable. >> >>Agreed, safety and time make it undesireable to my thinking. > >I have to conclude: >1) The current behaviour is "normal" and

Re: Antw: Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie wrote: Soon as you or someone else takes an interest to change the code. Either tomorrow or sometime next year :) As Stefan so often says APAW. Hey! This is your acronym, Jon ;-)) -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting

Re: Antw: Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:47:25PM +0200, MATILDA MATILDA wrote: > Hi guys, > > taking the following two statements: > > > >> Seems to me that your desired behavior would be reasonable. > >Agreed, safety and time make it undesireable to my thinking. > > I have to conclude: > 1) The current behav

Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:03:34PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Gene: > > >>>To me, the obvious cure would be to remove the partial file > > Frank: > > >>This seems dangerous to me. > > >> It seems easier and safer to to just have amverify buffer the > >>error and if it is successfu

Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Gene: To me, the obvious cure would be to remove the partial file Frank: This seems dangerous to me. It seems easier and safer to to just have amverify buffer the error and if it is successful in reading the DLE from the next tape don't output the error. Gene: Which makes perfect sen

Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 08 July 2005 15:37, Frank Smith wrote: >--On Friday, July 08, 2005 10:58:25 -0400 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Friday 08 July 2005 09:44, Jon LaBadie wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:18:53AM +0200, MATILDA MATILDA wrote: Hi all, After backup I run amv

Antw: Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread MATILDA MATILDA
Hi guys, taking the following two statements: > >> Seems to me that your desired behavior would be reasonable. >Agreed, safety and time make it undesireable to my thinking. I have to conclude: 1) The current behaviour is "normal" and more or less intended. ;-) 2) At the moment there is no amand

Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:37:30PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: > --On Friday, July 08, 2005 10:58:25 -0400 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Friday 08 July 2005 09:44, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:18:53AM +0200, MATILDA MATILDA wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>

Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, July 08, 2005 10:58:25 -0400 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 08 July 2005 09:44, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:18:53AM +0200, MATILDA MATILDA wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> After backup I run amverifyrun to check the backup. Now I have the >>> foll

Re: which tape changer for Qualtstar TLS-4210

2005-07-08 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, July 08, 2005 15:03:52 -0400 Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please keep responses on the list, so that everyone can chip in. > > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 at 12:48pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > >> Quoting Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >> > What do you m

Re: which tape changer for Qualtstar TLS-4210

2005-07-08 Thread richc
> mt works on tape devices, not generic SCSI devices. Try > 'mt -f /dev/nst0'. > > > I'd thought the command: > > # mtx -f /dev/sg0 unload 12 1 > > would not need to function together with mt. > > It depends on the loader (and, sometimes, the loader's firmware settings). > Sometimes you can just

Re: which tape changer for Qualtstar TLS-4210

2005-07-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
Please keep responses on the list, so that everyone can chip in. On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 at 12:48pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Quoting Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > What do you mean "mount a drive"? You don't mount tape drives. > > by mount I mean load. For example. > mtx -f /de

Re: which tape changer for Qualtstar TLS-4210

2005-07-08 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 at 12:13pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Hello. > I've been trying to get a tape changer TLS-4210 to work for a while > for amanda. > I'm unable to get the tape changer to work. For now I've been using > the mtx command on a linux machine. > The problem is that as soon as I mount a

which tape changer for Qualtstar TLS-4210

2005-07-08 Thread richc
Hello. I've been trying to get a tape changer TLS-4210 to work for a while for amanda. I'm unable to get the tape changer to work. For now I've been using the mtx command on a linux machine. The problem is that as soon as I mount a drive. The tape gets stuck and will not eject. Am I using the wr

Re: barcode scanners (or, chg-zd-mtx problem)

2005-07-08 Thread Graeme Humphries
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 10:34 -0600, Cam wrote: > havereader 1 > firstslot 1 > lastslot 17 > cleanslot -1 > offline_before_unload 0 > > but when i run the "/usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -info'" it reports "4 30 1 " Where are you running it from? It'll read the config in the local directory (IIRC), so

Re: barcode scanners (or, chg-zd-mtx problem)

2005-07-08 Thread Benjamin Lewis
On July 8 2005, Cam wrote: > havereader 1 > firstslot 1 > lastslot 17 > cleanslot -1 > offline_before_unload 0 > > but when i run the "/usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -info'" it reports "4 30 1 " You need equals signs ("=") between the keywords and values in the changer.conf file. Like this: havere

barcode scanners (or, chg-zd-mtx problem)

2005-07-08 Thread Cam
Hi, My amanda configuration is working nicely, but i have a problem w/ the barcode scanning stuff. MTX reports all the :VolumeTag=blahblah stuff indicating that my barcode scanner should be working. the tape-changer i'm using is chg-zd-mtx. i a line in my /etc/amana/DailySet1/amanda.conf that s

Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 08 July 2005 09:44, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:18:53AM +0200, MATILDA MATILDA wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> After backup I run amverifyrun to check the backup. Now I have the >> following situation and I don't know if this behaviour is intended >> or I'm doing something wron

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Graeme Humphries wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 18:34 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: After reading all that thread I have to ask: Do you all agree with me editing the man-page as Jon suggested? It seems reasonable to me. Edited and committed to the xml-docs-cvs. -- Stefan G. Weichinger

Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:18:53AM +0200, MATILDA MATILDA wrote: > Hi all, > > After backup I run amverifyrun to check the backup. Now I have the > following situation and I don't know if this behaviour is intended or I'm > doing something wrong. > brief synopsis: on a multi-tape run amverif

Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread MATILDA MATILDA
Hi all, hopefully someone can help me with the following problem I have: - I'm using amanda with a tape library. - I have configured 4 tapes per run - Backup is working normal (tapes are being skiped as needed) - I'm happy so far After backup I run amverifyrun to check the backup. Now I have the

Re: Building amanda on Mac OS X

2005-07-08 Thread Paul Bijnens
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Which gcc-release is this? What make-binary? Maybe you have hit the same bug as we had on Solaris lately, where the problem was that the system used a non-BSD-version of make (and OSX is a kind of BSD ...). The solution there was to use /usr/ccs/bin/make, but I hav