Re: Changer problem

2005-11-10 Thread Samuel Chetty
Hello Giovanni You were right - it was a permissions issue on the changer suite of files. Once I corrected them, amanda is functional once again. Your help is much appreciated, Samuel - Original Message - From: "Montagni, Giovanni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Try to check permission on cha

Re: amtapetype doesn´t work

2005-11-10 Thread knappenschaenke
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:55:45PM -, knappenschaenke wrote: > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Couple of things, I don't use DLT. You say you are using 35GB tapes. > But isn't the DLT40

Re: amtapetype doesn´ t work

2005-11-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:45:19PM -, knappenschaenke wrote: > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So a write comparable to your tar command succeeded. Then amanda > > rewound the tape and started a second write. That is when it > failed. > > Perhaps you

Re: amtapetype doesn´t work

2005-11-10 Thread knappenschaenke
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:45:19PM -, knappenschaenke wrote: > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > So a write comparable to your tar command succeeded. Then amanda > > > rewound th

Re: amtapetype doesn´t work

2005-11-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
knappenschaenke wrote: Do you have any idear to figure out the problem ? Is it something in the configuration from SuSe or what ? Are you sure that the backup with tar that you made, was also readable? I would also eliminate the stinit.def file for a moment (don't forget to reboot, to "reall

amrecover from the DMZ

2005-11-10 Thread Guy Dallaire
Hi, My amanda tape server is in the internal network. I backup a couple of host from our DMZ. I configured amanda with specific UDP and TCP port ranges that I gave to the netowrk admin so he could configure the firewall properly. So far so good, I can successfully backup my DMZ hosts. But this mo

Re: amrecover from the DMZ

2005-11-10 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 01:53:22PM -0500, Guy Dallaire enlightened us: > My amanda tape server is in the internal network. I backup a couple of > host from our DMZ. I configured amanda with specific UDP and TCP port > ranges that I gave to the netowrk admin so he could configure the > firewall prop

is excluding /usr/local/var/amanda a bad idea ?

2005-11-10 Thread Guy Dallaire
I excluded /usr/local/var/amanda from my amanda server backup because amanda was complaining a lot about strange backups (the indexes and db were updated while amanda was running tar on them, or something like that) I'm realizing that if I lose this directory for some reason (ex: destroy the db or

Re: amrecover from the DMZ

2005-11-10 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:32:41PM -0500, Guy Dallaire enlightened us: > 2005/11/10, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 01:53:22PM -0500, Guy Dallaire enlightened us: > > > My amanda tape server is in the internal network. I backup a couple of > > > host from our DMZ. I co

Re: is excluding /usr/local/var/amanda a bad idea ?

2005-11-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:33:32PM -0500, Guy Dallaire wrote: > I excluded /usr/local/var/amanda from my amanda server backup because amanda > was complaining a lot about strange backups (the indexes and db were updated > while amanda was running tar on them, or something like that) > > I'm realiz

Re: is excluding /usr/local/var/amanda a bad idea ?

2005-11-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 November 2005 16:42, Jon LaBadie wrote: [...] >Gene H, on this list, has described his approach. Realizing that >there is generally space left on the last tape, and further, amanda >does not rewind the tape when finished. Thus he adds his tar'red >up amanda tree in an extra tape

Is automatic wakeonlan possible?

2005-11-10 Thread Kevin Dalley
Some machines which I back up are occasionally put to sleep. I have a few options: I could try hard to keep the machines from going to sleep, but any user can put some of the machines to sleep. I could ignore the problem, and skip backing up machines which are asleep. I could use wakeonlan to w

Backup by inum

2005-11-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hello, I wonder if there is a set-up for Amanda to back-up files by inum rather than by filename. The reason would be the following: I have one machine that receives all syslog possible for each and every of my Unix hosts. Syslog logs are rotated every night and I keep them for one year, the tota

Re: Is automatic wakeonlan possible?

2005-11-10 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:00:59PM -0800, Kevin Dalley enlightened us: > Some machines which I back up are occasionally put to sleep. I have a > few options: > > I could try hard to keep the machines from going to sleep, but any > user can put some of the machines to sleep. > > I could ignore th

Re: Is automatic wakeonlan possible?

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On November 10, 2005 6:00:59 PM -0800 Kevin Dalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does amanda have a method of automatically running wakeonlan, or the equivalent? What do other people do? I don't backup desktops/workstations. There's a central fileserver available for things that people w

Re: Backup by inum

2005-11-10 Thread Guy Dallaire
2005/11/10, Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello,I wonder if there is a set-up for Amanda to back-up files by inumrather than by filename.The reason would be the following: I have one machine that receivesall syslog possible for each and every of my Unix hosts. Syslog logs are rotated every ni

Re: Backup by inum

2005-11-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
> You could put the rotated logs in a different directory (say a directory > named "backed_up_logs" and exclude this directory from the backup. Yes but that would mean changing the way newsyslog is working :) That may be a bit troublesome... Bests, Olivier

Re: Backup by inum

2005-11-10 Thread Frank Smith
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hello, I wonder if there is a set-up for Amanda to back-up files by inum rather than by filename. The reason would be the following: I have one machine that receives all syslog possible for each and every of my Unix hosts. Syslog logs are rotated every night and I keep the

Re: Backup by inum

2005-11-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:32:01AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if there is a set-up for Amanda to back-up files by inum > rather than by filename. > Well, remember amanda doesn't backup anything. Dump and gnutar do. tar traverses the directory/file tree and I'm certain ha