VXA-V23 taoe difficulties

I am using Amanda for year as primary backup tool for my Linux/Unix pool. Some months I introduced an Exabyte VXA drive and VXA-V23 (80GB uncompressed) tapes to cope with the ever expanding storage. I backup 25 DLE's of varying size 18 MB to 55 GB. Amanda nor the hardware compress the data. Tape

HowToDo:

Hello All, I have two Linux boxs and there is no tape drives available and Amanda clinet/server is installed by default via rpms. I want to take my two boxes backup using Amanda I did try via amanda docs but unable to complete the backup task using amanda. Please advise me how can I do this usin

Re: VXA-V23 taoe difficulties

Hommersom, Gerrit (G) wrote: I am using Amanda for year as primary backup tool for my Linux/Unix pool. Some months I introduced an Exabyte VXA drive and VXA-V23 (80GB uncompressed) tapes to cope with the ever expanding storage. I backup 25 DLE's of varying size 18 MB to 55 GB. Amanda nor the har

Re: HowToDo:

Iqbal wrote: I have two Linux boxs and there is no tape drives available and Amanda clinet/server is installed by default via rpms. I want to take my two boxes backup using Amanda I did try via amanda docs but unable to complete the backup task using amanda. Please advise me how can I do this

Migrating amanda

Hello: I have amanda 2.4.4p3 in a RHEL3 box, built from sources (not the rpm's by redhat). Now I want to upgrade that server to RHEL 4. What would be the best upgrade path to migrate the entire amanda database to the new OS? Should an amadmin export/import be enough? T

RE: VXA-V23 tape difficulties

Thanks very much for the clear explanation of the potential other causes but tape-error. Though I will run a cleaning tape, I have a suspicion that this is not the case. Tapes themselves are also quite new: 6-7th cycle. The 'end-of-tape' error occurred on 5 different tapes on 5 consecutive days

Re: Migrating amanda

Inaki Sanchez wrote: Hello: I have amanda 2.4.4p3 in a RHEL3 box, built from sources (not the rpm's by redhat). Now I want to upgrade that server to RHEL 4. What would be the best upgrade path to migrate the entire amanda database to the new OS? Should an amadmin export/import be enou

Odd permissions problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just added a few entries to my disklist and am getting errors like the following, during amcheck: ERROR: athena: [could not access /srv/samba/netlogon (/srv/samba/netlogon): Permission denied] ERROR: athena: [could not access /sr

Re: Odd permissions problem

Dave Ewart wrote: I've just added a few entries to my disklist and am getting errors like the following, during amcheck: ERROR: athena: [could not access /srv/samba/netlogon (/srv/samba/netlogon): Permission denied] Why is this directory not visible to the AMANDA process, given that

Re: Odd permissions problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 14.12.2005 at 16:17 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Dave Ewart wrote: > >I've just added a few entries to my disklist and am getting errors like > >the following, during amcheck: > > > >ERROR: athena: [could not access /srv/samba/netlog

NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

Just wondering if anyone might be able to help me figure out what is causing the following: FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- localhost  //LYNNIE/backup lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [localhost://LYNNIE/backup level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/smbclient sendbackup: info

Re: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

2005/12/14, Nicholas Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Just wondering if anyone might be able to help me figure out what is causing the following: FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- localhost  //LYNNIE/backup lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [localhost://LYNNIE/backup level 0] sendbackup: i

Re: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

Nicholas Conrad wrote: Just wondering if anyone might be able to help me figure out what is causing the following: FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- localhost //LYNNIE/backup lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [localhost://LYNNIE/backup

Re: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

I have the same problem over here. I'm well aware that I could never restore, at least easly, a windows system partition using backups based on samba, but at least better than having no backup at all. By the way, are there off-the-shelf howto to guide setting up a reliable backup of a NT server u