Empty mail report

2005-11-16 Thread Keith Edmunds
I've just installed Amanda (Debian Sarge, Amanda 2.4.4). Everything seems to work except that the mail report sent after an amdump is empty. When I had the default mailto root in the appropriate amanda.conf, the report was generated. When I changed that to mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] I received

Re: Empty mail report

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Keith Edmunds wrote: I've just installed Amanda (Debian Sarge, Amanda 2.4.4). Everything seems to work except that the mail report sent after an amdump is empty. When I had the default mailto root in the appropriate amanda.conf, the report was generated. When I changed that to mailto [EMAIL

Re: ammkvtapes.sh

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: This script is intended to help generating the necessary structures for a vtape-setup, creating the various virtual tapes and slots etc. I dug up my latest version and post it here without further testing, please only use it after you have read the code. OK,

Re: Is automatic wakeonlan possible?

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kevin Dalley wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. A wrapper (or part of the cron job) only handles part of the problem. If the machine has a timeout, say 1 hour, then either solution will allow the estimate to be performed, but the backup itself may fail if it is more than 1 hour between the

Re: accidentally deleted amanda.conf

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
Joe Konecny wrote: # amrestore -p /dev/nst0 servername '/disk/list/entry$' | gtar -xpvf - ./path/to/amanda.conf # Note that the disklistentry is a pattern, not a string # use restore instead of gtar if you make backups with dump ... R4P17# amrestore -p /dev/nsa0 no.such.host

Re: ammkvtapes.sh

2005-11-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Paul Bijnens wrote: ... if [ -d $VTAPE_DIR ]; then echo found existing tape-dir at $VTAPE_DIR if [ $FORCE_DEL = 1 ]; then echo ATTENTION - force-flag set !!! # rm -fR $VTAPE_DIR In the production environment, I guess the comment sign needs to

Re: Empty mail report

2005-11-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 08:06:50AM +, Keith Edmunds wrote: I've just installed Amanda (Debian Sarge, Amanda 2.4.4). Everything seems to work except that the mail report sent after an amdump is empty. When I had the default mailto root in the appropriate amanda.conf, the report was

Re: can not back up client

2005-11-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:17:58PM -0500, Rodney Johnson wrote: The version of tar that is installed on the debian client is 1.13.25 When I manually create and extract the tar I do not get any errors. From: Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:41:04AM -0500, Rodney

Re: question about chg-scsi config

2005-11-16 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
But are all tapes operations non-blocking? The most efficient way seems to be to perform all operations in blocking mode, meaning that the next operation is performed after finnishing the current one. Either (1) amtape does everything non-blocking, meaning that the sleep time must be an upper

Re: can not back up client

2005-11-16 Thread Rodney Johnson
Apparently I did not have enough space left on the client's hard drive (only 10% available free space left). After I made some room on the drive I did not receive any error messages in the log. However when I try to do a recovery I get an unexpected end of file error. Any suggesstions.

Re: trouble with AMANDA server (taper) on amd64 using Debian/AMD64/Sarge

2005-11-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi James, I have the same problem since my upgrade to Fedora Core 4 (FC4), the server worked correctly with FC2. It works correctly on FC4 with an old kernel (2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp). I suspect the scsi driver, which driver are you using, I'm using aic7xxx. Jean-Louis On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at

Re: trouble with AMANDA server (taper) on amd64 using Debian/AMD64/Sarge

2005-11-16 Thread James D. Freels
I am also using the aic7xxx driver also in a vanilla 2.6.14.2 kernel. Will one of the other Adaptec drivers work for the Adaptec 29160N Ultra160 SCSI card ? On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:11 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi James, I have the same problem since my upgrade to Fedora Core 4

Re: trouble with AMANDA server (taper) on amd64 using Debian/AMD64/Sarge

2005-11-16 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
Did you try using amtapetype to see if tape writes cause the problem? Thanks, PaddyOn 11/16/05, James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Paddy, I will try this x86_64 mailing list. I also suspect a kernel configuration problem. I am using the vanilla 2.6.14.2 kernel, with no

amanda over wireless network

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, don't seem to find much concerning wireless when searching the mailing list. I'm attempting an amanda backup of a computer on the wireless network for the first time. Just preceeding this is compiling amanda on an Apple powerpc and getting that to work. This has gone well. The number of