Illegal slot?

2005-12-29 Thread Montagni, Giovanni
Title: Illegal slot? Yesterday I've setup a new config with chg-manual and runtapes 2. Both yesterday and tonight, amverifyrun had failed with this error: Tapes: Errors found: amtape: could not load slot : /usr/lib/amanda/chg-manual: illegal slot: -1 amverify bkalfa-all Thu Dec 29 02:

Re: vtapes and runtapes > 1

2005-12-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:25, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >Is anyone else using vtapes with runtapes > 1? > > > >Recently I decreased tapelength and increased runtapes from 1 to 2. > >On most days 1 vtape is sufficient. But every time Amanda hits >

Re: new feature: client-side, server-side encryption dumptype option

2005-12-29 Thread Greg Troxel
Josef Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 08:38:56AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > > > The fundamental point that I think you are missing is that other > > people will have different concerns and threat models that you do. > > So please, can we keep this conversation going u

Re: new feature: client-side, server-side encryption dumptype option

2005-12-29 Thread Brian Cuttler
I realize I'm jumping into the middle here and not fully understanding the issues but I have questions (and that is just the sort of guy I am). I'm not meaning to make light or waste time but the following questions/observations occur. Concerning tape encryption but not addressing encryption dur

Re: new feature: client-side, server-side encryption dumptype option

2005-12-29 Thread Greg Troxel
Brian Cuttler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not meaning to make light or waste time but the following > questions/observations occur. no worries, your comments are useful. > Concerning tape encryption but not addressing encryption during > transit between client and server I wonder about th

Re: new feature: client-side, server-side encryption dumptype option

2005-12-29 Thread Brian Cuttler
Greg, Thanks for responding. I know that having the keys with the data was was not (obviously) an optimal high security setup, but I was wondering if there was some other purpose for doing this since it seemed a suggestion in the email I that inspired me to write and I didn't follow the purpose

Re: new feature: client-side, server-side encryption dumptype option

2005-12-29 Thread Greg Troxel
I also know that protecting the keyring is of paramount inportance in a security situation. All I could suggest is an unencrypted copy of the root/critical systems with updated keyring and archived and stored in a physically high security area. For that matter I think any mission/critical

Re: Illegal slot?

2005-12-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 08:57:01AM +0100, Montagni, Giovanni wrote: > Yesterday I've setup a new config with chg-manual and runtapes 2. Both > yesterday and tonight, amverifyrun had failed with this error: > > Tapes: > Errors found: > amtape: could not load slot : /usr/lib/amanda/chg-manual: ill

beep! (encryption, multiplexing...)

2005-12-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
Just because it's almost newyear, and I have seen The Light... (or was that just an illusion?) Some thoughts about the new proposed features, concerning: - multiplexing the data streams, error stream, index stream, over one TCP connection (this would make passing firewalls and NAT so much e

Re: new feature: client-side, server-side encryption dumptype option

2005-12-29 Thread Brian Cuttler
Greg, On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:17:02AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > I also know that protecting the keyring is of paramount inportance > in a security situation. All I could suggest is an unencrypted copy > of the root/critical systems with updated keyring and archived and > stored in a p

SMB backups not recognised as SMB?

2005-12-29 Thread John Swarbrick
Hi all,     I am getting “WARNING: 2kserver: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?” when I try to backup a Windows 2000 server using Samba and Amanda.     I have 10 hosts in my disklist file which are all running Linux and the Amanda Client. These hosts all backup fine. I have now tri

Re: SMB backups not recognised as SMB?

2005-12-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
John Swarbrick wrote: I am getting “WARNING: 2kserver: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?” when I try to backup a Windows 2000 server using Samba and Amanda. I have 10 hosts in my disklist file which are all running Linux and the Amanda Client. These hosts all backup fine. I have now

RE: SMB backups not recognised as SMB?

2005-12-29 Thread John Swarbrick
>John Swarbrick wrote: >> I am getting "WARNING: 2kserver: selfcheck request timed out. Host >> down?" when I try to backup a Windows 2000 server using Samba and Amanda. >> >> I have 10 hosts in my disklist file which are all running Linux and >> the Amanda Client. These hosts all backup fi

Re: SMB backups not recognised as SMB?

2005-12-29 Thread Paul Bijnens
John Swarbrick wrote: John Swarbrick wrote: I am getting "WARNING: 2kserver: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?" when I try to backup a Windows 2000 server using Samba and Amanda. I have 10 hosts in my disklist file which are all running Linux and the Amanda Client. These hosts all ba

RE: SMB backups not recognised as SMB?

2005-12-29 Thread John Swarbrick
>John Swarbrick wrote: >>>John Swarbrick wrote: >>> I am getting "WARNING: 2kserver: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?" when I try to backup a Windows 2000 server using Samba and Amanda. I have 10 hosts in my disklist file which are all running Linux and the Amanda

Re: beep! (encryption, multiplexing...)

2005-12-29 Thread Greg Troxel
That makes sense, but if the protocol hasn't gained mindshare and the code is static for 2 years, it may mean accepting BXXP maintainership if amanda uses it. There is also an efficiency issue. -- Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: beep! (encryption, multiplexing...)

2005-12-29 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
On 12/29/05, Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just because it's almost newyear, and I have seen The Light... > (or was that just an illusion?) > > Some thoughts about the new proposed features, concerning: > > - multiplexing the data streams, error stream, index stream, over >one TCP

Re: beep! (encryption, multiplexing...)

2005-12-29 Thread Todd Kover
> > Just because it's almost newyear, and I have seen The Light... (or > > was that just an illusion?) > > > > Some thoughts about the new proposed features, concerning: > > > > - multiplexing the data streams, error stream, index stream, over > > one TCP connection (this would make passing

Re: new feature: client-side, server-side encryption dumptype option

2005-12-29 Thread Kevin Till
Brian Cuttler wrote: The amanda disklist allows optional encryption, selected per DLE ? Hi Brian, the new encrypt option is added to dumptype. So yes, you can specify encryption on some DLE but not others. You can also choose to encrypt on the client *or* server side. Can you say, never

Re: vtapes and runtapes > 1

2005-12-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 December 2005 05:03, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:25, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> >Is anyone else using vtapes with runtapes > 1? >> > >> >Recently I decreased tapelength and increased runtapes from 1 to >> >

Re: beep! (encryption, multiplexing...)

2005-12-29 Thread Kevin Till
Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: On 12/29/05, Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just because it's almost newyear, and I have seen The Light... (or was that just an illusion?) Some thoughts about the new proposed features, concerning: - multiplexing the data streams, error stream, index stream,