Re: user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 15:43, Matt Hyclak wrote: >On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:27:27PM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: >> But, from the way I mentally processed the path, and I did in a >> message to Anne, /etc/profile specifically removes /usr/local/sbin >> from the path if the user has a no

Re: user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:54:22PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> /"s"bin is supposed to contain programs of interest to > >> "systems accounts", not to ordinary users. Thus they would not > >> be in an ordinary users P

SOLVED - Re: amcheck test

2006-04-05 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
kB > > amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20060401 label TEST-3 (active tape) > > amcheck-server: slot 4: date 20060404 label TEST-4 (active tape) > > amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20060405 label TEST-5 (active tape) > > amcheck-server: slot 1: not an amanda tape > > amcheck-serve

Re: user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Frank Smith
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> /"s"bin is supposed to contain programs of interest to >> "systems accounts", not to ordinary users. Thus they would not >> be in an ordinary users PATH by default because those users would >> not look to execute them. >

Re: user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:27:27PM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: > But, from the way I mentally processed the path, and I did in a message > to Anne, /etc/profile specifically removes /usr/local/sbin from the > path if the user has a non-zero uid. It did not do that when I had > added it

Re: user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:20:59AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> I've been trying to help Anne Wilson setup a working amanda system >> at her place for over a week now, and having all sorts of troubles >> that were triggered by

Re: amcheck test

2006-04-05 Thread Toomas Aas
20060404 label TEST-4 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20060405 label TEST-5 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 1: not an amanda tape amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20060331 label TEST-2 (active tape) ERROR: new tape not found in rack (expecting a new tape) ... I guess that that

Re: DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory

2006-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 19:57, Bruce Thompson wrote: > > You may also want to set up a split_diskbuffer in a location that can > hold at least one tape_splitsize buffer. > > I've got a 10G holding area and 4G tapes. My largest (current) > filesystem is coming in at about 15G. My tape_splitsize i

Re: DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory

2006-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 19:00, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 at 6:51pm, Anne Wilson wrote > > > Following advice from Gene and the advice in the thread 'Strugging with > > splits in 2.5.0' I tried to set up to dump in DVD-size chunks. The dump > > appeared to run, but eventual

Re: DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory

2006-04-05 Thread Bruce Thompson
On Apr 5, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 at 6:51pm, Anne Wilson wrote Following advice from Gene and the advice in the thread 'Strugging with splits in 2.5.0' I tried to set up to dump in DVD-size chunks. The dump appeared to run, but eventually the repo

Re: DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory

2006-04-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 at 6:51pm, Anne Wilson wrote Following advice from Gene and the advice in the thread 'Strugging with splits in 2.5.0' I tried to set up to dump in DVD-size chunks. The dump appeared to run, but eventually the report came back that it had failed. *snip* What have I missed?

DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory

2006-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
Following advice from Gene and the advice in the thread 'Strugging with splits in 2.5.0' I tried to set up to dump in DVD-size chunks. The dump appeared to run, but eventually the report came back that it had failed. These dumps were to tapes Dailys-2, Dailys-3, Dailys-4, Dailys-5, Dailys-6,

Re: SOLVED - Re: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts

2006-04-05 Thread Guy Dallaire
2006/4/5, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > STRONG RECOMMENDATION -- DON'T DO THAT!! > > Reasons/possibilities > > - you recover a directory to its previous state. but some files were > added and/or modified since the backup. They are now deleted or > overwritten. > I totally agre

Re: Strugging with splits in 2.5.0

2006-04-05 Thread Josef Wolf
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:08:45AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > You can even put a little bit more on a DVD, see: > > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions#Virtual_tapes > > define tapetype DVD47 { > comment "A 4.7 Gbyte DVD-sized vtape" > length 4482 mbytes > filemar

amcheck test

2006-04-05 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
ithout error messages except for today: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /space/amandahold/test: 356151020 kB disk space available, using 356151020 kB amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20060401 label TEST-3 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 4: date 20060404 label TEST-4 (active

Re: SOLVED - Re: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts

2006-04-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p3. Contacting server on localhost ... > amrecover: cannot connect to localhost: Connection refused > > $ sudo /usr/sbin/amrecover -C test -s number3 > > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p3. Contacting serv

Re: Another setup question...

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-05 17:34, Bruce Thompson wrote: Hi Geert, Thanks for the idea. At the moment I'm using my WRT54G access point as my DHCP server and HyperWRT doesn't provide that option. If my memory is still good, that box does support it. Hun the webconfiguration for DHCP and there you find some

SOLVED - Re: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts

2006-04-05 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
Thanks Paul for helping me along. It seems that the amanda RPM installations from RedHat/Fedora by default are inactive. You have to use '/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 amanda on', 'amandaidx on', 'amidxtape on'. The last 2 only on the server. > > sudo /usr/sbin/amrecover -C test -s number3 -t numb

Re: Another setup question...

2006-04-05 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi Geert, Thanks for the idea. At the moment I'm using my WRT54G access point as my DHCP server and HyperWRT doesn't provide that option. If switching my PowerBook becomes an issue then I'll switch over to using my Linux box as the DHCP server which will allow me to set up dhcpd as you su

Re: Another setup question...

2006-04-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:00:23AM -0700, Bruce Thompson wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all, thanks Paul for the help with my server's setup. I've > completed a full backup, a test restore, and I'm now burning the > vtapes to DVD (thanks for the capacity note too, I've adjusted my > tapedev a

Re: user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:20:59AM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: > When doing it as amanda, with amanda's full $PATH, /usr/local/sbin, > where all of amanda's executables live, is NOT in the $PATH. > > Adding it to ~/.bash_profile seems to allow it to survive the > pathmunge'ing being done

Re: Another setup question...

2006-04-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Bruce Thompson wrote: > Next step is to set up our two PowerBooks. Currently, both PowerBooks get > their IP address via DHCP. While switching them to static addresses is not > impossible, it's a bit inconvenient for me moving between home and work. > > From what I can tell, Am

Re: amlabel: command not found (was Re: port 35280 not secure)

2006-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 10:52, Anne Wilson wrote: >On Wednesday 05 April 2006 15:27, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I found it, at least I did here Anne. It seems that if you are >> logged in from a password login as the user amanda, then >> /usr/local/sbin IS NOT in the $PATH, see my other private mes

Another setup question...

2006-04-05 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi all, First of all, thanks Paul for the help with my server's setup. I've completed a full backup, a test restore, and I'm now burning the vtapes to DVD (thanks for the capacity note too, I've adjusted my tapedev accordingly). Next step is to set up our two PowerBooks. Currently, both P

Re: amlabel: command not found (was Re: port 35280 not secure)

2006-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 15:27, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I found it, at least I did here Anne. It seems that if you are logged > in from a password login as the user amanda, then /usr/local/sbin IS > NOT in the $PATH, see my other private message. > > I also posted both here and on the fedora li

Re: amlabel: command not found (was Re: port 35280 not secure)

2006-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 09:49, Anne Wilson wrote: >On Monday 03 April 2006 22:20, Kevin Till wrote: >> Anne Wilson wrote: >> > On Monday 03 April 2006 22:03, you wrote: >> >>what is the latest output of: >> >> >> >>ls -la /usr/local/sbin/amcheck >> > >> > -rwsr-x--- 1 amanda disk 82445 Mar 26 2

Re: Experience with LTO2 media

2006-04-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:07:47PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > Just curious - what are people's experiences with different brands of LTO2 > media? I've lost two HP LTO2 tapes within last two months due to the drive > reporting 'media write errors'. Should I switch to some other manufactu

user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I've been trying to help Anne Wilson setup a working amanda system at her place for over a week now, and having all sorts of troubles that were triggered by the amanda executables not being in the user amanda's environmental path when she actually logs in as amanda, as opposed to do

Re: Experience with LTO2 media

2006-04-05 Thread Graeme Humphries
Toomas Aas wrote: > Just curious - what are people's experiences with different brands of > LTO2 > media? I've lost two HP LTO2 tapes within last two months due to the > drive > reporting 'media write errors'. Should I switch to some other > manufacturer? Just to toss my $.02 in, we've been using M

amlabel: command not found (was Re: port 35280 not secure)

2006-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 April 2006 22:20, Kevin Till wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 03 April 2006 22:03, you wrote: > >>what is the latest output of: > >> > >>ls -la /usr/local/sbin/amcheck > > > > -rwsr-x--- 1 amanda disk 82445 Mar 26 20:31 /usr/local/sbin/amcheck > > > > I've talked it over with

Re: Experience with LTO2 media

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-05 14:07, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! Just curious - what are people's experiences with different brands of LTO2 media? I've lost two HP LTO2 tapes within last two months due to the drive reporting 'media write errors'. Should I switch to some other manufacturer? My LTO2 drive is pret

Re: Experience with LTO2 media

2006-04-05 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:07:47PM +0300, Toomas Aas enlightened us: > Just curious - what are people's experiences with different brands of LTO2 > media? I've lost two HP LTO2 tapes within last two months due to the drive > reporting 'media write errors'. Should I switch to some other manufacturer

Re: Experience with LTO2 media

2006-04-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 at 3:07pm, Toomas Aas wrote Just curious - what are people's experiences with different brands of LTO2 media? I've lost two HP LTO2 tapes within last two months due to the drive reporting 'media write errors'. Should I switch to some other manufacturer? I've no experience wi

Experience with LTO2 media

2006-04-05 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! Just curious - what are people's experiences with different brands of LTO2 media? I've lost two HP LTO2 tapes within last two months due to the drive reporting 'media write errors'. Should I switch to some other manufacturer? -- Toomas Aas

Amanda 2.5.0 and 2.4.x clients with virtual IP interfaces

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Haldane
I've tracked down why three of my Amanda clients weren't working with my new 2.5.0 server. Problem is that these machines have virtual IP interfaces (aliased interfaces like eth0:1) so that we can easily move services between machines. >From monitoring the network traffic I can see that the r

Re: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-05 00:54, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: I am having trouble with the correct syntax of /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts on server and clients Server = number3 Client = maigret Section from /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts on server - number3 maigret root number3amanda n

Re: Strugging with splits in 2.5.0

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-04 16:54, Bruce Thompson wrote: I'm trying to get amanda 2.5.0 set up on a small network at home. I've got one large partition I'm using as a disk tape area where I've got DVD sized tapes that I will burn to DVD-R as they complete. [...] define tapetype HARD_DISK { length 40