got FAILED for no apparent reason

2005-07-12 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
Hello. My backup system has been running smoothly for the last few months. However today I got this FAILED dumps: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: gtisr /usr lev 0 FAILED [Estimate timeout from gtisr] gtisr /boot lev 0 FAILED [Estimate timeout from gtisr] gtisr / lev 0

Re: got FAILED for no apparent reason

2005-07-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
Rodrigo Ventura wrote: Hello. My backup system has been running smoothly for the last few months. However today I got this FAILED dumps: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: gtisr /usr lev 0 FAILED [Estimate timeout from gtisr] gtisr /boot lev 0 FAILED [Estimate timeout from gtisr]

Debugging help

2005-07-12 Thread Guy Dallaire
Is there a document describing the various debug files produced by amanda ? I'm currently experiencing a problem with a FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: sol/disk1 lev 1 FAILED [data timeout] and would like to know exactly WHEN it happened and WHY it happened. This is the first time I

Re: got FAILED for no apparent reason

2005-07-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:50:44PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Rodrigo Ventura wrote: Hello. My backup system has been running smoothly for the last few months. However today I got this FAILED dumps: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: gtisr /usr lev 0 FAILED [Estimate timeout from

Re: got FAILED for no apparent reason

2005-07-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: If not specified, the default etimeout is 600 sec times number of DLEs for that host. My sources (now a bit old) show a default of 300 sec. Was that raised? Strange, I was thinking 300, but I typed 600. Yes, 300 seconds is correct. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

amrestore from virtual tape

2005-07-12 Thread Michael Weiser
Hello, I've set up a very nice backup to disk and everything works like a charm. I've just got one problem: How do I run an amrestore of one of the virtual tapes? Or can I just copy the files out of the tape directory? How do I handle the usual 2GB chunking then? Thanks in advance. -- tschoe,

Re: amrestore from virtual tape

2005-07-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Michael Weiser wrote: I've set up a very nice backup to disk and everything works like a charm. I've just got one problem: How do I run an amrestore of one of the virtual tapes? Or can I just copy the files out of the tape directory? How do I handle the usual 2GB chunking

How smart is AMANDA

2005-07-12 Thread Chris Saunders
I am in search of a backup solution for 25 linux boxes and 10 WinXP boxes spread out in 3 different cities. Amanda seems quite capable of handling straight forward backups, however my situation is a bit difficult. I will be the only one doing these backups and I would like the process to

Re: How smart is AMANDA

2005-07-12 Thread Mike Delaney
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:18:28PM -0600, Chris Saunders wrote: I will be the only one doing these backups and I would like the process to be as automated as possible. Our linux boxes run traffic simulation models that can take 25 to 30 hours to run. Our engineers relentlessly run these

Re: amrestore from virtual tape

2005-07-12 Thread Michael Weiser
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:15:14PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I've set up a very nice backup to disk and everything works like a charm. I've just got one problem: How do I run an amrestore of one of the virtual tapes? Or can I just copy the files out of the tape directory? How do I