Edit tapelist to change tape order

2005-12-01 Thread Montagni, Giovanni
Title: Edit tapelist to change tape order I have a problem with tapelist file (shown below) 20051123 bkalfa-all07 reuse 20051123 bkalfa-all06 reuse 20051116 bkalfa-all04 reuse 20051110 bkalfa-all03 reuse 20051110 bkalfa-all02 reuse 20051109 bkalfa-all00 reuse 0 bkalfa-all05 reuse 0

Re: Tapetype definition for Quantum DLT-V4

2005-12-01 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 29.11.2005 at 11:09 +, Dave Ewart wrote: 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

Re: please check your config and use a config file for chg-scsi

2005-12-01 Thread Alexander Jolk
Richard Pyne wrote: I am STILL trying to get amanda set up to run with an adic Scalar 458 changer with three DLT4000 drives. [...] I decided to try to label a tape. After that failed miserably, I decided to take a step back and just try to get chg-scsi to work. Is there a reason you cannot

Re: Edit tapelist to change tape order

2005-12-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:53:26AM +0100, Montagni, Giovanni wrote: I have a problem with tapelist file (shown below) 20051123 bkalfa-all07 reuse 20051123 bkalfa-all06 reuse 20051116 bkalfa-all04 reuse 20051110 bkalfa-all03 reuse 20051110 bkalfa-all02 reuse 20051109 bkalfa-all00 reuse 0

Re: Edit tapelist to change tape order

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:53:26AM +0100, Montagni, Giovanni enlightened us: I have a problem with tapelist file (shown below) 20051123 bkalfa-all07 reuse 20051123 bkalfa-all06 reuse 20051116 bkalfa-all04 reuse 20051110 bkalfa-all03 reuse 20051110 bkalfa-all02 reuse 20051109 bkalfa-all00

Next tape?

2005-12-01 Thread Yan Seiner
How do I query amanda for the next tape? I run my backups on my home server; at times I am away from home so I can't feed the tapes in daily. I would like to be emailed a reminder telling me which tape is next. Right now amanda tells me which tape it expects when it completes a successful

R: Edit tapelist to change tape order

2005-12-01 Thread Montagni, Giovanni
-Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Matt Hyclak Inviato: giovedì 1 dicembre 2005 14.42 A: amanda-users@amanda.org Oggetto: Re: Edit tapelist to change tape order On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:53:26AM +0100, Montagni, Giovanni

Re: Next tape?

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 06:53:31AM -0800, Yan Seiner enlightened us: How do I query amanda for the next tape? I run my backups on my home server; at times I am away from home so I can't feed the tapes in daily. I would like to be emailed a reminder telling me which tape is next. Right

Re: Next tape?

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
Yan Seiner wrote: How do I query amanda for the next tape? I run my backups on my home server; at times I am away from home so I can't feed the tapes in daily. I would like to be emailed a reminder telling me which tape is next. Right now amanda tells me which tape it expects when it

R: Next tape?

2005-12-01 Thread Montagni, Giovanni
I suppose you have to run an Amadmin yourconf tape From the amadmin manual: tape Display the tape(s) Amanda expects to write to during the next run. Giovanni -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Yan Seiner Inviato: giovedì 1 dicembre

Re: please check your config and use a config file for chg-scsi

2005-12-01 Thread Richard Pyne
On 1 Dec 2005 at 13:25, Alexander Jolk wrote: Richard Pyne wrote: I am STILL trying to get amanda set up to run with an adic Scalar 458 changer with three DLT4000 drives. [...] I decided to try to label a tape. After that failed miserably, I decided to take a step back and just try to

Re: Next tape?

2005-12-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 at 6:53am, Yan Seiner wrote How do I query amanda for the next tape? I run my backups on my home server; at times I am away from home so I can't feed the tapes in daily. I would like to be emailed a reminder telling me which tape is next. Right now amanda tells me which

Restore error - centos 3/amanda-2.4.5 server - centos4/amanda-2.4.5 client

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Brown
Hi Testing a restore on the above config i have found this error. Backups run fine but this is the error when trying to do a restore on it - Anyone seen it before as i have not come accross this - Restore is being attempted NOT on the same server that did the backup amrestore: 53:

Re: Restore error - centos 3/amanda-2.4.5 server - centos4/amanda-2.4.5 client

2005-12-01 Thread Ian Turner
Tom, What OS and dump version was the data backed up from? What OS and dump version are you trying to restore to? In general, the dump type (xfsdump, vdump, etc.) and sometimes even the version must be the same for backup and restore. This is an unfortunate consequence of Amanda's use of

Re: Restore error - centos 3/amanda-2.4.5 server - centos4/amanda-2.4.5 client

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Brown
What OS and dump version was the data backed up from? What OS and dump version are you trying to restore to? In general, the dump type (xfsdump, vdump, etc.) and sometimes even the version must be the same for backup and restore. This is an unfortunate consequence of Amanda's use of native

Re: Restore error - centos 3/amanda-2.4.5 server - centos4/amanda-2.4.5 client

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Brown
What OS and dump version was the data backed up from? What OS and dump version are you trying to restore to? In general, the dump type (xfsdump, vdump, etc.) and sometimes even the version must be the same for backup and restore. This is an unfortunate consequence of Amanda's use of native

Re: Restore error - centos 3/amanda-2.4.5 server - centos4/amanda-2.4.5 client

2005-12-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:15:09PM +, Tom Brown wrote: What OS and dump version was the data backed up from? What OS and dump version are you trying to restore to? In general, the dump type (xfsdump, vdump, etc.) and sometimes even the version must be the same for backup and restore.

Re: Restore error - centos 3/amanda-2.4.5 server - centos4/amanda-2.4.5 client

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Brown
server that ran the backup Linux 2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp dump 0.4b37 client that got backed up Linux 2.6.9-22.ELsmp dump 0.4b39 sorry to reply to myself here but on another test client Linux 2.4.20 dump 0.4b27 and the same server did a succesful restore so it seems that if the client version

Re: Restore error - centos 3/amanda-2.4.5 server - centos4/amanda-2.4.5 client

2005-12-01 Thread Ian Turner
and i can confirm that even on the server that did the backup i get the same garbage when trying to restore - Is the dump version difference the issue do you think? Well, if you're getting this issue on the original server, then version differences are probably not the problem. Amrecover

Re: Files garbages after restore :-(

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jehan PROCACCIA wrote: Hello I've been saving partitions with amanda (dumps) for weeks now ... unfortunaltly while needing to restore a file I got garbage :-( For exemple, here's what I expected from the file I needed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How long lasts a backup image?

2005-12-01 Thread Edson Noboru Yamada
Hi, How long does amanda keep in its catalog a backup image? I mean, what is the oldest backup I can restore for a specific client? Is this configurable (for example, keep only the backups not older than 2 months) or does this depend exclusively on the number of tapes amanda knows? Thanks

Files garbages after restore :-(

2005-12-01 Thread Jehan PROCACCIA
Hello I've been saving partitions with amanda (dumps) for weeks now ... unfortunaltly while needing to restore a file I got garbage :-( For exemple, here's what I expected from the file I needed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/www/html/server/settings/siteaccess/site_unite_server_en] $ cat

Re: Files garbages after restore :-(

2005-12-01 Thread Ram Krishnamurthy
Hi Jehan What do you mean by Since then, I fsck.ext3 -f the /var partition which caused me the problems, it works fine now (last 3 days) , What works fine? The restore? Are you not seeing the file corruption anymore? Thanks tk Jehan PROCACCIA wrote: Hello I've been saving partitions

Re: Alternating dump cycles for offsite storage

2005-12-01 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 at 8:05pm, C Shore wrote I'm wondering if amanda can handle having two different configurations which are used on alternating two week periods. I know I could set up DailySet1 and DailySet2 and a crontab that ran DailySet1 for the first two weeks of the month and DailySet2

Re: How long lasts a backup image?

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
Edson Noboru Yamada wrote: Hi, How long does amanda keep in its catalog a backup image? I mean, what is the oldest backup I can restore for a specific client? Amanda keeps the online info and index of a tape until it is reused, or until you label a tape (with force flag) with the same label,

** resolved ** Re: Restore error - centos 3/amanda-2.4.5 server - centos4/amanda-2.4.5 client

2005-12-01 Thread Tom Brown
and the same server did a succesful restore so it seems that if the client version of dump is higher than the server the restore barfs however the opposite appears to give a good restore - Looks like i'm going to have to install myself a new server box with dump 0.4b39 so get around this

amverify shows invalid sparse archive member errors

2005-12-01 Thread Ed Kenny
Hi there, I need a little help. I've installed Amanda server with clients through a firewall. Everything is OK except when the disklist includes the AIX client the amverify command on the server produces hundreds of these errors: /bin/gtar: ./987366/cred: invalid sparse archive member

Re: amverify shows invalid sparse archive member errors

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Loftis
--On December 1, 2005 7:12:30 PM -0500 Ed Kenny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I need a little help. I've installed Amanda server with clients through a firewall. Everything is OK except when the disklist includes the AIX client the amverify command on the server produces hundreds of

Re: amverify shows invalid sparse archive member errors

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Bijnens
Ed Kenny wrote: /bin/gtar: ./987366/cred: invalid sparse archive member ... (/)- /usr/bin/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 ... (/root)- /bin/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 But you restored with /bin/gtar. Is that the same binary as /usr/bin/tar on the AIX? What does /bin/gtar

Re: Alternating dump cycles for offsite storage

2005-12-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:15:04PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 at 8:05pm, C Shore wrote I'm wondering if amanda can handle having two different configurations which are used on alternating two week periods. I know I could set up DailySet1 and DailySet2 and a

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

2005-12-01 Thread David Leangen
Thanks! There is a document called PORT.USAGE. Available in the source docs directory or at amanda.org. Actually, the precise URL is: http://www.amanda.org/docs/portusage.html Ok, well, I've tried to decipher the doc, but I'm not quite sure about a few things. I started writing a

Re: Alternating dump cycles for offsite storage

2005-12-01 Thread C Shore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon LaBadie wrote: What does two identical configs buy you that you don't get from a single config where 1/2 the tapes are moved offsite bi-weekly? Or even better (IMNSHO) a dumpcycle of 1 week with 1/4 of the tapes moved offsite weekly. Erm.