FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

2005-09-29 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi all I note that a FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: occurred and I assume that from the message at the bottom of the report that - file changed as we read it has caused a FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP. Have I got anything to worry about here!. On the myserver machine, the file _.1.tmp: has changed

Re: Symbolic links

2005-09-29 Thread Alexander Jolk
Jerome Pioux wrote: Load tape monthly4 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? EOF, check amidxtaped.timestamp.debug file on reddog. amrecover: short block 0 bytes UNKNOWN file amrecover: Can't read file header extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 So I suppose that tar 1.13 can't read a backup

Re: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

2005-09-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:13:01AM +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi all I note that a FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: occurred and I assume that from the message at the bottom of the report that - file changed as we read it has caused a FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP. Have I

Re: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

2005-09-29 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi Cheers for the reassurance. I will make note of your comments to file. Thanks On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 07:15 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:13:01AM +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi all I note that a FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: occurred and I

Howto add a new host and disk to my Amanda backup server WARNING Host down! (emailserver).

2005-09-29 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi all I have just been asked to add our email server to our Amanda server backup. I have installed the Amanda version 2.4.4p2 rpm using SuSE SLES 9 Yast2 and added the email server to disklist as below: #/etc/amanda/DailySet1/disklist file: # hostname diskname or mountpoint dumptype #

Re: Howto add a new host and disk to my Amanda backup server WARNING Host down! (emailserver).

2005-09-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Thus enabled xinetd amanda, amadaidx and amidxtape. Recheck the entries in /etc/xinetd.d (paths to binaries?) and make sure that you also restarted xinetd.

Re: Howto add a new host and disk to my Amanda backup server WARNING Host down! (emailserver).

2005-09-29 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi I rechecked the /etc/xinetd/amanda file and the other two # default: off # description: Amanda backup client service amanda { socket_type = dgram protocol= udp wait= yes user= amanda group = disk

Re: Howto add a new host and disk to my Amanda backup server WARNING Host down! (emailserver).

2005-09-29 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi got a bit further I had on the emailserver SuSE's default firewall running thus disabled Now get this error: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: ktinga.smtl.co.uk: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed Client check: 2

Re: Howto add a new host and disk to my Amanda backup server WARNING Host down! (emailserver).

2005-09-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi got a bit further I had on the emailserver SuSE's default firewall running thus disabled Now get this error: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: ktinga.smtl.co.uk: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL

My Monthly archive config - issue

2005-09-29 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi again Its that time for a monthly archive backup I have currently 80GB server and using a DAT DDS-4 20GB native 40GB compression I am aware that I cannot have both hardware compression and software compression on So Amanda usually behaviour is to have hardware compression turned off using the

Disable Tape Compression

2005-09-29 Thread Christopher Davis
I'm using Amanda on Fedora Core 4 with a Quantum SDLT 220 tape drive - I want to disable hardware compression but I'm not sure of the best way to do that. I can issue a command mt -f /dev/nst0 defcompression 1 which seems to work (amtapetype doesn't give me the warning about hardware compresion)

RE: My Monthly archive config - issue

2005-09-29 Thread Scott R. Burns
I have a similar setup. I have HW compression turned off on the drive (HP DAT24X6 changer). In my monthly config: dumpcycle 0 weeks runspercycle 1 tapecycle 1000 tapes runtapes 3 Also, record is turned off so my normal daily amanda config does not think the level 0 has been completed after the

RE: Disable Tape Compression

2005-09-29 Thread Scott R. Burns
Are there any dip switches on the drive ? My HP DAT24x6 has a dip switch bank on the bottom which turns off compression in the HW. I don't see any indication of that in your drives manual. Scott.. Scott R. Burns NETCON Technologies Incorporated Suite 135 - 4474 Blakie Road London, Ontario,

Amanda/firewall --with-portrange

2005-09-29 Thread Brenckle, Nicholas
I am having a weird problem with the portrange specification. My situation is reversed from most configurations in the FAQ as my host is behind the fw, while the backup server sits in front of it. There is no NAT going on. Amanda was compile from the source RPM, I added the following

RE: Amanda/firewall --with-portrange

2005-09-29 Thread David Leangen
I recently had similar issues. Look for a post in the archives about 2 weeks ago that discussed the same topic. A few people gave very helpful replies already that should apply in your case, too. Brief summary: - --with-tcp-portrange is not needed - you must configure the same values on both

RE: Disable Tape Compression

2005-09-29 Thread Christopher Davis
There are no DIP switches that I can find - its a Sun Enclure (SDLT 220 unit) around a Quantum TR-S13AA. Chris -- Original Message -- Received: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:33:50 AM MDT From: Scott R. Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Christopher Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED], amanda-users@amanda.org

RE: Amanda/firewall --with-portrange

2005-09-29 Thread Brenckle, Nicholas
I searched the archives and found your posts. I made it work, and I'll give a quick rundown of what did not work until what did. Default config, no go. Tried --with-(tcp/udp)portrange=1,10100 also no go. The Amanda software complained about insecure ports. Not much to go on there. Tried

Re: Amanda/firewall --with-portrange

2005-09-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Brenckle, Nicholas wrote: Finally worked with different ranges for udp and tcp (udp 850-854 and tcp 1 to 10100). Now it's happy. My standard configure-script uses --with-tcpportrange=5,50040 --with-udpportrange=890,899 which points to the same solution you just found. Greets,

Re: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

2005-09-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 September 2005 07:15, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:13:01AM +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi all I note that a FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: occurred and I assume that from the message at the bottom of the report that - file changed as we

Re: Disable Tape Compression

2005-09-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 September 2005 12:08, Christopher Davis wrote: I'm using Amanda on Fedora Core 4 with a Quantum SDLT 220 tape drive - I want to disable hardware compression but I'm not sure of the best way to do that. I can issue a command mt -f /dev/nst0 defcompression 1 which seems to work

Re: Disable Tape Compression

2005-09-29 Thread Christopher Davis
The drive doesn't have any dip switches - I even took the drive out of the encosure and couldn't find anything. I copied the wrong mt command over - Where I'm at now is looking at stinit ant the /etc/stinig.def file to create a /dev/nst0l device which disables compression - I'm in the middle of

Re: Disable Tape Compression

2005-09-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:06:44PM -0600, Christopher Davis wrote: Where I'm at now is looking at stinit ant the /etc/stinig.def file to create a /dev/nst0l device which disables compression - I'm in the middle of another test right now and can't try it out just yet - but if this works for me

Re: Disable Tape Compression

2005-09-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 September 2005 17:06, Christopher Davis wrote: The drive doesn't have any dip switches - I even took the drive out of the encosure and couldn't find anything. I copied the wrong mt command over - Where I'm at now is looking at stinit ant the /etc/stinig.def file to create a

Using amrecover - strange happenings

2005-09-29 Thread Steve H
Guys, I would appreciate some help with this one, as it's freaking me out. I have been getting backups for a while now of a particular host and file system. I have tested the recovery before and it worked great. This time, I put the necessary tape in, and run amrecover and it will only

Re: Using amrecover - strange happenings

2005-09-29 Thread Vera
I do not remember exactly what was a reason for this error, but I saw it before :-) 1. Are you indexing this DLE? 2. What OS are you using? FC3 distributive had tar 1.14 with a bug - check the amrecover log file and if error happens at the tar point, then simple upgrade your tar RPM or

Re: Using amrecover - strange happenings

2005-09-29 Thread Steve H
I am on a Red Hat 9 box. Pervious tar verion was 1.13, just upgraded to 1.15 and it didn't fix the issue. What do you mean by indexing DLE? Thanks, Steve --- Vera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not remember exactly what was a reason for this error, but I saw it before :-) 1. Are you

Re: Using amrecover - strange happenings

2005-09-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:08:23PM -0600, Vera wrote: I do not remember exactly what was a reason for this error, but I saw it before :-) I'm going to sound just like Vera :( - Original Message - From: Steve H [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amanda-users@amanda.org Sent: Thursday,

Re: Using amrecover - strange happenings

2005-09-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 September 2005 21:26, Steve H wrote: I am on a Red Hat 9 box. Pervious tar verion was 1.13, just upgraded to 1.15 and it didn't fix the issue. What do you mean by indexing DLE? Thanks, Steve I think he was referring to the DLE (DiskList Entry) pointing to a dumptype that had a

Re: Using amrecover - strange happenings

2005-09-29 Thread Steve H
I checked the amanda.conf file, and yes, I am indexing. Thanks, Steve --- Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 September 2005 21:26, Steve H wrote: I am on a Red Hat 9 box. Pervious tar verion was 1.13, just upgraded to 1.15 and it didn't fix the issue. What do you mean

Re: Using amrecover - strange happenings

2005-09-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 September 2005 22:21, Steve H wrote: I checked the amanda.conf file, and yes, I am indexing. Thanks, Steve I'll be up for a little bit yet. Does the index file exist? --- Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 September 2005 21:26, Steve H wrote: I am on a Red

Re: Using amrecover - strange happenings

2005-09-29 Thread Steve H
Gene, Yes, the index file does exist, and I have two good backups to attempt to restore from. However, in checking the Index files, I noticed that the actual files had a different date on them (august 5th) while all the directories have august 11th. This is bothering me because that

Re: Using amrecover - strange happenings

2005-09-29 Thread Steve H
One more item to note. I attempted to use amrestore instead of amrecover, and after specifying the command: amrestore -p /dev/nst0 host.domain /home/public | restore -ivf - I got this error: Input block size is 32 restore: Tape is not a dump tape Error 32 (Broken pipe) offset 32768+32768,

Re: Using amrecover - strange happenings

2005-09-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 September 2005 23:01, Steve H wrote: Gene, Yes, the index file does exist, and I have two good backups to attempt to restore from. However, in checking the Index files, I noticed that the actual files had a different date on them (august 5th) while all the directories have