Re: Monitoring multiple backup servers

2005-08-01 Thread Tim Edwards
Ram Smith wrote: As a summary, write nagios plugins to: - report success/failure on the correct tape in the drive (hourly) This one isn't mine, I found it on some site somewhere: #!/usr/bin/python # check_amanda - plugin for nagios to check the status of an amanda #configur

Monitoring multiple backup servers

2005-08-01 Thread Ram Smith
G'day list, I've just looked over the last few years of the amanda-users list but havn't seen anything related to what i'm thinking of here. Has anyone tried monitoring amanda from within nagios? [ http://www.nagios.org ] I'm responsible for over 15 distinct _remote_ amanda instalations. Curren

Re: amrecover problem

2005-08-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:50:11PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 01 August 2005 17:00, Lei Zhong wrote: > >Can somebody help me with the amrecover problem I posted earlier? I > > was testing my amanda config. I don't use tape changer. I did > > four full backups of the same directory on

Re: amrecover problem

2005-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 August 2005 17:00, Lei Zhong wrote: >Can somebody help me with the amrecover problem I posted earlier? I > was testing my amanda config. I don't use tape changer. I did > four full backups of the same directory on four different tapes on > the same day. When I ran amrecover, it alwa

Re: amrecover problem

2005-08-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 05:00:10PM -0400, Lei Zhong wrote: > Can somebody help me with the amrecover problem I posted earlier? I was > testing my amanda config. I don't use tape changer. I did four full > backups of the same directory on four different tapes on the same day.

amrecover problem

2005-08-01 Thread Lei Zhong
Can somebody help me with the amrecover problem I posted earlier?  I was testing my amanda config.  I don’t use tape changer.  I did four full backups of the same directory on four different tapes on the same day.  When I ran amrecover, it always asked for the first full backup tape.  How c

sendsize.c

2005-08-01 Thread LaValley, Brian E
How do you implement this modified sendsize.c I am hearing so much about. I tried compiling and simply replacing the old one. Now I get a format error. amandad: debug 1 pid 31771 ruid 548 euid 548: start at Mon Aug 1 14:37:11 2005 amandad: version 2.4.4p2 amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.4p2"

sendsize - smbclient du

2005-08-01 Thread Jonathan Swaby
I have amanda 2.4.5 install on a FC4 machine. I plan to use this machine to backup several Windows 2K and XP machines. It is replacing a machine that is running amanda 2.4.4 running on FC2. The new machine has smbclient 3.0.14a-2, while the old has 3.0.10-1.fc2. I have not been able to get the

Re: planner,dumper and amcheck keep reverting back to (not setuid-root)

2005-08-01 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi Thanks for that my boss more than likely add such a program before he went on holiday as this has only started to occur last week. I have had no previous problem and I have been running this for over two months. I will check whats going on. Thanks again. On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 13:39 -0400, J

amrecover question

2005-08-01 Thread Lei Zhong
Hi,   I have four tapes in rotation.  I labeled them as BiWeeklySet101-104.  I use always-full as dumptype.  I backed up twice a week.  Every time when I tried to restore using “amrecover –C BiWeekly”, it asked for tape BiWeekly101.  Even though it didn’t have the latest backup.  The foll