A few glitches upgrading to 2.5

2006-04-11 Thread David Leangen
Hello! I am working through getting things to work as before with 2.5. One of my hosts is now working correctly, though I had to make some changes to my firewall. I'll discuss this point below. Another host is still causing me problems. The only hint I can find is this, in the amtrmidx log file

Re: taper port open

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-04-11 03:52, stan wrote: My Amanda run is part of a larger backup scheme that is driven from a remote machine. I've been testing for a while running from the Amand host, and mostly have teh bugs worked out. Today I tried my first run from the rmote machine, and pretty much everyhting

Linux presentation in Long Island today

2006-04-11 Thread Ian Turner
Attention all Amanda users (or potential users) in Long Island: I will be giving a talk at LILUG (Long Island Linux Users Group) tonight (4/11) on Amanda features and installation. The talk does not assume any Amanda knowledge, but will be of use to experienced users as well. The meeting is at

Sometimes clients aren't there...

2006-04-11 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi all, I've got a small network at home that I'm now backing up regularly (Whew! I've been nervous ever since Retrospect died on me). With our setup, there are a couple of clients that may or may not be present when amdump runs. What I'm wondering is if there is a way I can tell amanda

Amanda and localhost definition?

2006-04-11 Thread stan
I'm setting up a new Ubuntu box as my next generation Amanda server. Somehow the /etc/hosts file for this machine was created looking like this: 170.85.113.24 localhost.localdomain localhost At least _I think_ this was what was there. I did not keep a copy, as I thought I new how to set up a

Re: Amanda and localhost definition?

2006-04-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:59, stan wrote: I'm setting up a new Ubuntu box as my next generation Amanda server. Somehow the /etc/hosts file for this machine was created looking like this: 170.85.113.24 localhost.localdomain localhost At least _I think_ this was what was there. I did not keep a

Re: Sometimes clients aren't there...

2006-04-11 Thread Greg Troxel
Bruce Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With our setup, there are a couple of clients that may or may not be present when amdump runs. What I'm wondering is if there is a way I can tell amanda that it's relatively okay for those clients to be absent. I guess it's mostly a cosmetic thing,

Okay, this one's going to sound like a stupid idea :-)

2006-04-11 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi all, Now that everything appears to be working, I'm getting ambitious (possibly stupid). For context, I'm backing up a small network to DVD-R sized vtapes that I then burn to DVD-R. Oh, did I mention that I'm somewhat paranoid? :-) I know that DVD-R, especially the cheap media that

Re: Amanda and localhost definition?

2006-04-11 Thread stan
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:34:17PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:59, stan wrote: I'm setting up a new Ubuntu box as my next generation Amanda server. Somehow the /etc/hosts file for this machine was created looking like this: 170.85.113.24 localhost.localdomain

Re: Amanda and localhost definition?

2006-04-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 18:23, stan wrote: OK, so this should work, right? 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 1XX.XX.113.24 amanda.meadwestvaco.com amanda Isn't it generally considered bad practice to have a hostname and username identical? Anne pgpQ0dJyUfhoe.pgp

Re: Amanda and localhost definition?

2006-04-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
NISplus disallows it, credentials collision, I'm unaware of another other restrictions. On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:40:19PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 18:23, stan wrote: OK, so this should work, right? 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

recover disks under amanda

2006-04-11 Thread Pedro Drimel Neto
Hi all, I'm using amrecover to recover the files of disks that amanda copy to the TAPE. I have a simple doubt: When I do a amdump it record the label BACKUP001 it OK but if I try to recover the tape BACKUP002 after the dump of BACKUP001 it want only the BACKUP001, how do I say to amrecover

Re: recover disks under amanda

2006-04-11 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:04:46PM -0300, Pedro Drimel Neto enlightened us: I'm using amrecover to recover the files of disks that amanda copy to the TAPE. I have a simple doubt: When I do a amdump it record the label BACKUP001 it OK but if I try to recover the tape BACKUP002 after the dump

Upgraded to 2.5.0, seeing FATAL syncpipe_get: r: unexpected EOF

2006-04-11 Thread Steven Backus
Last night was my first night on 2.5.0. This morning the log said: taper: FATAL syncpipe_get: r: unexpected EOF I do nightly backups to disk then autoflush on Friday nights. Is this error going to be a show stopper? Thanks, Steve -- Steven J. BackusComputer

Re: Amanda and localhost definition?

2006-04-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:23, stan wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:34:17PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:59, stan wrote: I'm setting up a new Ubuntu box as my next generation Amanda server. Somehow the /etc/hosts file for this machine was created looking like

Re: Amanda and localhost definition?

2006-04-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:40, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 18:23, stan wrote: OK, so this should work, right? 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 1XX.XX.113.24 amanda.meadwestvaco.com amanda Isn't it generally considered bad practice to have a hostname and

Re: recover disks under amanda

2006-04-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 14:04, Pedro Drimel Neto wrote: Hi all, I'm using amrecover to recover the files of disks that amanda copy to the TAPE. I have a simple doubt: When I do a amdump it record the label BACKUP001 it OK but if I try to recover the tape BACKUP002 after the dump of BACKUP001

Re: Upgraded to 2.5.0, seeing FATAL syncpipe_get: r: unexpected EOF

2006-04-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 15:14, Steven Backus wrote: Last night was my first night on 2.5.0. This morning the log said: taper: FATAL syncpipe_get: r: unexpected EOF I do nightly backups to disk then autoflush on Friday nights. Is this error going to be a show stopper? Thanks, Steve What

Re: Upgraded to 2.5.0, seeing FATAL syncpipe_get: r: unexpected EOF

2006-04-11 Thread Steven Backus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What kernel, and what snapshot of amanda-2.5.0 please? 2.6.9-34.ELsmp (Red Hat AS 4.0) compiled from the source, amanda-2.5.0.tar.gz; gcc -v reports: gcc version 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2) Steve -- Steven J. BackusComputer Specialist

Re: Okay, this one's going to sound like a stupid idea :-)

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Bruce Thompson schreef: Hi all, Now that everything appears to be working, I'm getting ambitious (possibly stupid). For context, I'm backing up a small network to DVD-R sized vtapes that I then burn to DVD-R. Oh, did I mention that I'm somewhat paranoid? :-) I know that DVD-R, especially

Re: Amanda and localhost definition?

2006-04-11 Thread stan
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:46:38PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:23, stan wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:34:17PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:59, stan wrote: I'm setting up a new Ubuntu box as my next generation Amanda server. Somehow

Re: Amanda and localhost definition?

2006-04-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 18:04, stan wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:46:38PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:23, stan wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:34:17PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:59, stan wrote: I'm setting up a new Ubuntu box as