Re: amanda deleting files while restoring !

2006-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:34:37PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > 2006/4/3, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > FMI: > > did you attempt to recover specific files, specific directories, > > or the entire DLE root? > > > > That was a subdir of the DLE, I decided to restore the whole > subdirecto

Re: A chg-multi question

2006-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 03 April 2006 19:21, stan wrote: >On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 05:15:47PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: >> On 2006-04-03 16:51, stan wrote: >> >If I'm using chg-multi, the tape device(s) are defiend in it's >> > config file. Given that do I even need to set tapdev in >> > amanda.conf? >> >> Form

Re: amanda deleting files while restoring !

2006-04-03 Thread Guy Dallaire
2006/4/3, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > FMI: > did you attempt to recover specific files, specific directories, > or the entire DLE root? > That was a subdir of the DLE, I decided to restore the whole subdirectory and all the files and dir beneath it, as it was almost completely destroyed.

Re: A chg-multi question

2006-04-03 Thread stan
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 05:15:47PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-04-03 16:51, stan wrote: > >If I'm using chg-multi, the tape device(s) are defiend in it's config file. > >Given that do I even need to set tapdev in amanda.conf? > > > > Form the Example found in the wiki: > > http://wiki.zm

Re: amanda deleting files while restoring !

2006-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:52:30PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > This morning, someone goofed and destroyed important files in a > directory. My last level 1 backup was from last friday, and another > full dump from last tuesday. > > I then proceeded to run amrecover and recover the files "in place

Re: Repeating Level 0

2006-04-03 Thread Jim Summers
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:46:05AM -0500, Jim Summers wrote: Hello List, I am experiencing an odd behavior from amanda. I have a client that I have been backing up for a couple of years now. A while back, I noticed that it was doing multiple

Re: amanda deleting files while restoring !

2006-04-03 Thread Guy Dallaire
> > > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Why_does_amrecover_erase_files%3F > Thanks for the tip. Would be interesting to have an option to "always restore and never delete" on the commanbd line though

Re: amanda deleting files while restoring !

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Guy Dallaire schreef: This morning, someone goofed and destroyed important files in a directory. My last level 1 backup was from last friday, and another full dump from last tuesday. I then proceeded to run amrecover and recover the files "in place", that is, I changed to the DLE's root director

Re: port 35280 not secure

2006-04-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 April 2006 20:25, Kevin Till wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 03 April 2006 19:50, Anne Wilson wrote: > >>Kevin said: > >>amcheck is not setuid root on the source tree so it fails to bind a > >>privileged port while perform host check. > >> > >>I've made sure now that all the

amanda deleting files while restoring !

2006-04-03 Thread Guy Dallaire
This morning, someone goofed and destroyed important files in a directory. My last level 1 backup was from last friday, and another full dump from last tuesday. I then proceeded to run amrecover and recover the files "in place", that is, I changed to the DLE's root directory before restoring Whil

Re: port 35280 not secure

2006-04-03 Thread Kevin Till
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 April 2006 19:50, Anne Wilson wrote: Kevin said: amcheck is not setuid root on the source tree so it fails to bind a privileged port while perform host check. I've made sure now that all the /usr/local/sbin/ executables are owned root:disk, and amcheck is setuid

Re: port 35280 not secure

2006-04-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 April 2006 19:50, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Kevin said: > amcheck is not setuid root on the source tree so it fails to bind a > privileged port while perform host check. > > I've made sure now that all the /usr/local/sbin/ executables are owned > root:disk, and amcheck is setuid. What el

Re: port 35280 not secure

2006-04-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 April 2006 19:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 03 April 2006 13:39, Anne Wilson wrote: > > And I've been helping her offlist. This error is what you get when you > run the amcheck built in the /home/amanda/amanda-version/server-src > tree, I just tried it and got similar squawks.

Re: port 35280 not secure

2006-04-03 Thread Kevin Till
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 03 April 2006 13:39, Anne Wilson wrote: And I've been helping her offlist. This error is what you get when you run the amcheck built in the /home/amanda/amanda-version/server-src tree, I just tried it and got similar squawks. Running it normally, no squawks.

Re: port 35280 not secure

2006-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 03 April 2006 13:39, Anne Wilson wrote: And I've been helping her offlist. This error is what you get when you run the amcheck built in the /home/amanda/amanda-version/server-src tree, I just tried it and got similar squawks. Running it normally, no squawks. >I have been helped, of

Re: port 35280 not secure

2006-04-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 April 2006 18:47, you wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 06:39:44PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I have been helped, off-list, to configure amanda, and it looks as though > > I am at last ready to run, except that I am seeing the following: > > > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > > -

port 35280 not secure

2006-04-03 Thread Anne Wilson
I have been helped, off-list, to configure amanda, and it looks as though I am at last ready to run, except that I am seeing the following: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: NAK borg: host borg: port 35280 not secure borg is the host on which amanda will be

Re: Repeating Level 0

2006-04-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:46:05AM -0500, Jim Summers wrote: Hello List, I am experiencing an odd behavior from amanda. I have a client that I have been backing up for a couple of years now. A while back, I noticed that it was doing multiple level 0's on one DLE within

Re: how to split partitions

2006-04-03 Thread listrcv
Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-03 07:38, Josef Wolf wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:34:59PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: That would mean that the estimate phase should be smart enough (may be add an option "autosplit" for those DLE's where you want that) to pick a few large subdirectories ou

Re: how to split partitions

2006-04-03 Thread listrcv
Paul Bijnens wrote: To be exact, the last pair of "include" stmts would be equivalent to: include "./foo" "./bar" Note the quotes around EACH argument. But there is currently a bug that a space inside an exclude or include argument is not escaped when passing those strings to the client.

Re: A chg-multi question

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-03 16:51, stan wrote: If I'm using chg-multi, the tape device(s) are defiend in it's config file. Given that do I even need to set tapdev in amanda.conf? Form the Example found in the wiki: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/File_driver#Virtual_tapes_with_chg-multi tpchanger "chg-mu

RE: Amanda 2.5.0 - using multiple holding disks and spanning tapes

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Haldane
Jean-Louis Martineau said: > Are you on a machine where a LONG is 4 bytes in size? Yup > Then it's an overflow, could you try the attached patch. Thanks - patch applied, backup running, I'll let you know how it went tomorrow. Paul > Paul Haldane wrote: > > I've just installed 2.5.0 on one of

A chg-multi question

2006-04-03 Thread stan
If I'm using chg-multi, the tape device(s) are defiend in it's config file. Given that do I even need to set tapdev in amanda.conf? -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 - using multiple holding disks and spanning tapes

2006-04-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Paul, Are you on a machine where a LONG is 4 bytes in size? Then it's an overflow, could you try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Paul Haldane wrote: I've just installed 2.5.0 on one of our backup servers (output from amadmin version at end) and have some odd behaviour to do with holding dis

RE: Repeating Level 0

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Haldane
> From: Jim Summers > Sent: 03 April 2006 14:46 > ... > I checked it a little bit ago with amstatus and here is what > it is saying for that host/dle: > > 192095k dumping 108864k ( 56.67%) (0:21:55) > > Is the 21:55 21hours and 55minutes? Nope - that's the clock time that Amanda started doi

Re: Repeating Level 0

2006-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:46:05AM -0500, Jim Summers wrote: > Hello List, > > I am experiencing an odd behavior from amanda. I have a client that I have > been backing up for a couple of years now. A while back, I noticed that it > was doing multiple level 0's on one DLE within one backup cyc

Re: how to split partitions

2006-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:38:57AM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote: > On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:34:59PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > > > That would mean that the estimate phase should be smart enough (may > > be add an option "autosplit" for those DLE's where you want that) to > > pick a few large subdir

Repeating Level 0

2006-04-03 Thread Jim Summers
Hello List, I am experiencing an odd behavior from amanda. I have a client that I have been backing up for a couple of years now. A while back, I noticed that it was doing multiple level 0's on one DLE within one backup cycle. It stopped for a while but then began doing it again a couple of

Amanda 2.5.0 - using multiple holding disks and spanning tapes

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Haldane
I've just installed 2.5.0 on one of our backup servers (output from amadmin version at end) and have some odd behaviour to do with holding disks (at least I think that's the problem). We've been running Amanda (using the standard Fedora Core 2 rpms -amanda-2.4.4p2-3) for ages - no problems.

Re: how to split partitions

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-03 07:38, Josef Wolf wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:34:59PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: That would mean that the estimate phase should be smart enough (may be add an option "autosplit" for those DLE's where you want that) to pick a few large subdirectories out and then split the DL