Which ports to open in which direction...

2005-11-29 Thread David Leangen
Hello! I'm having some trouble getting data from a remote host. Amanda works fine on the local network, just not remotely. I believe that the problem is due to my firewall, so I'm hoping that somebody can explain which ports need to be opened in which direction (unless there is doc somewhere

Tapetype definition for Quantum DLT-V4

2005-11-29 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Does anyone have a tapetype definition for a Quantum DLT-V4? This is a 160GB native capacity drive and is connected to an Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter. I would like to encourage people to add their tapetype definitions to

How to tell if a tape is loaded

2005-11-29 Thread Yan Seiner
I use a ctontab script to run my backups. Right now the guts of the script are as follows: /usr/local/bin/vxaTool /dev/st0 -C 1 //turns on compression /usr/sbin/amdump SeinerHome /usr/sbin/amverify SeinerHome /usr/local/bin/vxaTool /dev/st0 -u //ejects tape The problem is that if

Re: How to tell if a tape is loaded

2005-11-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:43:12AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote: I am using a VXA-1 tape drive. I've been testing mt -f /dev/nst0 load which appears to work, returning 0 if the tape is loaded and 2 if it is not On a request like this it would be good to know the OS you are using as

Re: How to tell if a tape is loaded

2005-11-29 Thread Yan Seiner
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:43:12AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote: I am using a VXA-1 tape drive. I've been testing mt -f /dev/nst0 load which appears to work, returning 0 if the tape is loaded and 2 if it is not On a request like this it would be good to know

Re: How to tell if a tape is loaded

2005-11-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:16:54AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote: OK, that's what my man page says too status returns [EMAIL PROTECTED] yan]# mt -f /dev/nst0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 1024 bytes. Density code 0x80 (DLT 15GB

Re: Which ports to open in which direction...

2005-11-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:54:19PM +0900, David Leangen wrote: Hello! I'm having some trouble getting data from a remote host. Amanda works fine on the local network, just not remotely. I believe that the problem is due to my firewall, so I'm hoping that somebody can explain which ports

Dumps way tooooo big

2005-11-29 Thread todd zenker
Folks, I have exhausted all means in trying to resolve this. I need you're help. My diskpool is 200 GB and my tape is 160 GB. What I need to know is what are some of the parameters in the amanda.conf file do I need to change to get this thang working. I have allowed compression on the server

Re: Dumps way tooooo big

2005-11-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:18:37PM -0500, todd zenker wrote: Folks, I have exhausted all means in trying to resolve this. I need you're help. My diskpool is 200 GB and my tape is 160 GB. What I need to know is what are some of the parameters in the amanda.conf file do I need to change

Re: Dumps way tooooo big

2005-11-29 Thread todd zenker
define tapetype SDLT-320{ length 138443 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 13998 kps } Even when I don't use the tape I get this error. Let me know what I can to. Thanks for you're help At 01:30 PM 11/29/2005, you wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:18:37PM -0500, todd

Re: Dumps way tooooo big

2005-11-29 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
Why don't you split your disk among several directories (aka DLE, disklist entry). I guess that's common practice in amanda, and indeed a powerful mechanism. I'm using 36GB tapes for a pool of several hundred GB across a server farm. I split the pool into a bunch of DLE, dividing among

amdump+amverify [was Re: How to tell if a tape is loaded]

2005-11-29 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
This is off-topic. I haven't been using amverify, but I guess it is a good idea, if one wannt to be sure the backup was properly performed. So I liked the script in the original post very interesting: Yan /usr/local/bin/vxaTool /dev/st0 -C 1 //turns on compression Yan

Re: Dumps way tooooo big

2005-11-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:43:58PM -0500, todd zenker wrote: define tapetype SDLT-320{ length 138443 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 13998 kps } Even when I don't use the tape I get this error. Let me know what I can to. Thanks for you're help At 01:30 PM

planner request times out (was Re: Nothing gets dumped to my vtape)

2005-11-29 Thread mindfuq
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-28 21:35]: Is there a local user amanda? Good chance you will need one. Yes; portage created that as part of the emerge command. and amreport seems to require an MTA. You didn't read the man page closely enough. It will generate a file