Backing up mail spools (was Re: How do I deal with STRANGE backups ?)

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 22.08.2005 at 22:53 -0400, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: [ ... some are new mail messages coming in ... ] I've often wondered about this. I back up the mail spools in /var/mail of the appropriate server and occasionally get a

Re: Problem with backup of windows shares

2005-08-23 Thread tanguy yoann
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

Changing tape label in tapelist file

2005-08-23 Thread Montagni, Giovanni
My coworker have lebelled a tape with an incorrect label (he has inserted an incorrect progressive number). Now, my tapelist is something like this: 20050822 backup08 reuse 20050819 backup07 reuse 20050818 backup06 reuse 20050817 backup05 reuse 20050805 backup04 reuse 20050804 backup99 reuse -

Re: Backing up mail spools (was Re: How do I deal with STRANGE backups ?)

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Dave Ewart wrote: 3. Copy in a robust fashion from the mail spools to a temporary location prior to the backup job, so that these copies of the spools will not change; then backup the copies rather than the 'live' spools. The robust fashion would work in a similar way to how locking mail

Re: Changing tape label in tapelist file

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Montagni, Giovanni wrote: My coworker have lebelled a tape with an incorrect label (he has inserted an incorrect progressive number). Now, my tapelist is something like this: 20050822 backup08 reuse 20050819 backup07 reuse 20050818 backup06 reuse 20050817 backup05 reuse 20050805 backup04 reuse

Question about data timeout.

2005-08-23 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I have recently added a set of disks (file systems) to my back-up set and that ended up with a failure due to data timeout. I didn't even know there was a dtimeout value to be specified in amanda.conf. I have learnt that it is an idle time measured against the disks in question. My question is

Re: Backing up mail spools (was Re: How do I deal with STRANGE backups ?)

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 23.08.2005 at 11:01 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: 3. Copy in a robust fashion from the mail spools to a temporary location prior to the backup job, so that these copies of the spools will not change; then backup the copies rather than the

Re: Backing up mail spools (was Re: How do I deal with STRANGE backups ?)

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Dave Ewart wrote: The server in question is a fairly generic Debian/Sarge mail server, RAID setup for disks, 2.6 kernel. And /var/mail is on its own ext3 partition. You mention that it works with LVM. Do snapshots *require* LVM? I create snapshots with lvcreate --snapshot ..;, so, yes

Re: Backing up mail spools (was Re: How do I deal with STRANGE backups ?)

2005-08-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:16:03AM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 22.08.2005 at 22:53 -0400, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: [ ... some are new mail messages coming in ... ] I've often wondered about this. I back up the mail spools in /var/mail of the appropriate server and

Re: Problem with backup of windows shares

2005-08-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:23:56AM +0200, tanguy yoann wrote: After, the login and the password are take in the file amandapass. There is no problem on that. The problem is that I have the same data on the two shares and the backup are different. The level 0 is the same but the level 1 is

Re: Question about data timeout.

2005-08-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have recently added a set of disks (file systems) to my back-up set and that ended up with a failure due to data timeout. I didn't even know there was a dtimeout value to be specified in amanda.conf. I have learnt that it is an

data timeout error

2005-08-23 Thread Guy Dallaire
I still have a data timeout error for a DLE in my amanda log this morning. This is the second time this happens and this DLE is very important for us. It has to be backed up correctly. I've looked in the sendbackup.debug files on the client side and there is no error for this DLE. I asked the

Re: Backing up mail spools (was Re: How do I deal with STRANGE backups ?)

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 23.08.2005 at 09:23 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: 1. Just put up with it: spools that are changing will result in a backup which is probably not of any use once in a while. This is probably fine, unless there is a large amount of mail

[OT] Tape drive failure

2005-08-23 Thread Matt Hyclak
So my sturdy HP Ultrium 1 (LTO) tape drive just ate a tape and bit the big one 2 months after the warranty expired. They want $3,500 for a refurb with a 90-day warranty. I've been wanting a rackmount unit for a while now, and this gives me a good excuse to get one :-) I was looking at the

Re: Question about data timeout.

2005-08-23 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:38 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have recently added a set of disks (file systems) to my back-up set and that ended up with a failure due to data timeout. I didn't even know there was a dtimeout value to

Re: Problem with backup of windows shares

2005-08-23 Thread tanguy yoann
--- Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:23:56AM +0200, tanguy yoann wrote: After, the login and the password are take in the file amandapass. There is no problem on that. The problem is that I have the same data on the two shares and the backup are

Re: Question about data timeout.

2005-08-23 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:04:02PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen enlightened us: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have recently added a set of disks (file systems) to my back-up set and that ended up with a failure due to data timeout. I didn't even know there was

Re: Question about data timeout.

2005-08-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:04:02PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:38 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: I may be totally wrong here, but I don't think it is tracking idle time. I believe it is total time to dump. This would take care of stuck or runaway dump scenarios.

Re: Question about data timeout.

2005-08-23 Thread Graeme Humphries
Jon LaBadie wrote: The documentation says: dtimeout int Default: 1800 seconds. Amount of idle time per disk on a given client that a dumper running from within amdump will wait before it fails with a data timeout error. Glad I said I may be totally wrong :( Even though

Re: Question about data timeout.

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have recently added a set of disks (file systems) to my back-up set and that ended up with a failure due to data timeout. I didn't even know there was a dtimeout value to be specified in amanda.conf. I have

Re: Problem with backup of windows shares

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
tanguy yoann wrote: Perhaps on the one system something other than amanda/samba prevents (or causes) this archive bit to flip. That You need administrator privilege on the PC to be able to reset the archive bit. (At least I think so. Great ignorance of ms windows here too :-) would be

Dumpers dying using GNUTAR

2005-08-23 Thread Graeme Humphries
I'm having more weird problems backing up the server I mentioned yesterday (where amstatus was dying). I came in this morning, and discovered that last night's incremental backup job is still running, and that it seems to be because 4 dumper threads to that server are stalled out. amstatus

Holding disk size misread by amcheck

2005-08-23 Thread LaValley, Brian E
I have a Fedora Core 3 amanda server. I have specified an nfs mounted directory for one of the holding disks. Does anyone know why amcheck finds much less space available on this drive than a command like 'df' does?

amlabel Issue

2005-08-23 Thread James Jacocks
We are currently experiencing the below issue using amlabel. I have tried with and without a tape loaded, with and without a slot specified etc.. All chg-zd-mtx tests described in the script notes have been confirmed to work.. amlabel: could not load slot 1: no slots available

Re: Question about data timeout.

2005-08-23 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:24 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:04:02PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen enlightened us: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have recently added a set of disks (file systems) to my back-up set and that ended up with a

Re: amlabel Issue

2005-08-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:04:13PM -0400, James Jacocks wrote: We are currently experiencing the below issue using amlabel. I have tried with and without a tape loaded, with and without a slot specified etc.. All chg-zd-mtx tests described in the script notes have been

RE: Backing up mail spools (was Re: How do I deal with STRANGE ba ckups ?)

2005-08-23 Thread Keenan, Greg John (Greg)** CTR **
-Original Message- 3. Copy in a robust fashion from the mail spools to a temporary location prior to the backup job, so that these copies of the spools will not change; then backup the copies rather than the 'live' spools. The robust fashion would work in a similar way to how