tape drive repair question

Not strictly amanda related, but I can't use my amanda setup until it is resolved. I've got an HP DDS3 autoloader (SureStore 6x24) and need to have it serviced or do something myself. The drive uses a plastic magazine to hold 6 tape cartridges, 3 each in the front and rear. During normal

Re: tape drive repair question

--On August 22, 2005 3:14:04 AM -0400 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not strictly amanda related, but I can't use my amanda setup until it is resolved. I've got an HP DDS3 autoloader (SureStore 6x24) and need to have it serviced or do something myself. The drive uses a plastic

Re: AIT2 tape size?

Toralf Lund wrote: I've been meaning to ask about this for a long time: Does anyone here use AIT2 tapes, a.k.a. SDX-50C, for Amanda backup? What tape length are you using? [ ... ] I've now finally run amtape - after making absolutely sure H/W compression was off - and it said:

RE: tape drive repair question

I have the same unit and went through the HP swap to replace it. It was very expensive. You may be better off just buying a few of the $ 100 units off ebay, run a cleaning tape through them, then test until you get one that works reliably. It will be much cheaper in the long run and you'll have

Re: tape drive repair question

2005/8/22, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not strictly amanda related, but I can't use my amanda setup until it is resolved. I've got an HP DDS3 autoloader (SureStore 6x24) and need to have it serviced or do something myself. We had a problem with a quantum DLT4500 drive a couple of years

RE: tape drive repair question

Jon, Hi. I work for HP and unfortunately, it looks like these drives were always considered a field replaceable unit, so even when they were under warranty if you had a problem, we'd just swap out a new enclosure for you. That means there's not much in the way of internal

Problem with backup of windows shares

I have a problem with the backup of two windows shares. At the beginning, always works fine: I do a full backup of the shares (they have the same contents). After, I add a file of 255 kb in the two shares. I do an incremental backup and I've got a problem: one of the share just backup the

Re: Problem with backup of windows shares

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:55:06PM +0200, tanguy yoann wrote: I have a problem with the backup of two windows shares. At the beginning, always works fine: I do a full backup of the shares (they have the same contents). After, I add a file of 255 kb in the two shares. I do an

How do I deal with STRANGE backups ?

Hi all, I've relatively new to Amanda, and playing with backups in general. I've been able to get Amanda to back up my entire server farm (important bits only, no full OS backups), but I'm running into a problem.. Well, possibly a problem. I get this in my Amanda report : FAILURE AND

Re: How do I deal with STRANGE backups ?

Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: I understand, basically, what that means. In essence, the files are changing and/or being removed before the tar command finishes. So, what is the proper way to deal with this? Is this something to be concerned with? Personally, I wouldn't worry overly

Re: How do I deal with STRANGE backups ?

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:53:19PM -0400, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: Hi all, I've relatively new to Amanda, and playing with backups in general. I've been able to get Amanda to back up my entire server farm (important bits only, no full OS backups), but I'm running into a

selfcheck hangs when running amcheck

Hi all, I just added a few more items to back up from a particular server (that has, up 'til now, been working fine), but running amcheck now causes /usr/lib/amanda/selfcheck to hang on the server in question. I see the following in the process listing: 16255 ?Ss 0:00

Re: How do I deal with STRANGE backups ?

Jon LaBadie wrote: Assuming that was the strangeness, the specific files should be listed elsewhere in the report. Monitor them for a while. You may find they are spool files and other temporary files. If so, who cares. But also, why are you backing up the directory containing tmp and spool

Directory Access Issue

Hi all, I'm receiving the following in my daily amanda check email : ERROR: mail2.domain.com: [could not access /home/vpopmail/etc (/home/vpopmail/etc): Permission denied] ERROR: mail1.domain.com: [could not access /home/vpopmail/etc (/home/vpopmail/etc): Permission denied] I don't see

Re: Directory Access Issue

--On Monday, August 22, 2005 23:13:29 -0400 Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm receiving the following in my daily amanda check email : ERROR: mail2.domain.com: [could not access /home/vpopmail/etc (/home/vpopmail/etc): Permission denied] ERROR:

Re: Directory Access Issue

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:13:29PM -0400, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: Hi all, I'm receiving the following in my daily amanda check email : ERROR: mail2.domain.com: [could not access /home/vpopmail/etc (/home/vpopmail/etc): Permission denied] ERROR: mail1.domain.com: [could not