Problem in Amanda Report

2006-04-18 Thread Nicolas Maire
Hi, I'm a new user of Amanda. It's been running fine for some time since I got this job but I'm now getting a problem in the mail report of one of the backup servers, specifically in the Dump Summary : there are 2 result lines for each entrey in the disklist file, one says save was ok, the other

Re: Problem in Amanda Report

2006-04-18 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, This happens for every host on that server, everyday since it started, whatever the dump level is and whether or not the dumps can fit in a single tape or need 2. This doesn't happen on the second backup server (cloned machine, except for the disklist). Does anyone have an idea ? I

/var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts: incorrect permissions

2006-04-18 Thread Iulian Topliceanu
Hi, When I run amcheck, I get the following error: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: NAK bacchus: access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts: incorrect permissions; file must be accessible only by its owner Client

Re: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts: incorrect permissions

2006-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:37:48PM +0200, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: Hi, When I run amcheck, I get the following error: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: NAK bacchus: access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts:

Re: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts: incorrect permissions

2006-04-18 Thread Iulian Topliceanu
Jon LaBadie wrote: Client check: 16 hosts checked in 1.123 seconds, 1 problem found I'm running amanda 2.5.0 on the server and so on the client. My .amandahosts on the client looks like: -rw-r--r--1 amanda disk 398 Apr 11 14:56 .amandahosts I can read this file that

Re: What is the best way to duplicate a tape?

2006-04-18 Thread Tom Schutter
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:01 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 01:35:04PM -0600, Tom Schutter wrote: I was wondering if anyone can tell be the best way to duplicate an Amanda tape on a Linux box. I will have two identical tape drives. I would much prefer to use standard

amcheck error : can not execute ...

2006-04-18 Thread Thomas Ginestet
Hi list ! I've got this error message when running amcheck: ERROR: www-dev: [can not execute /sbin/dump: No such file or directory] ERROR: www-dev: [can not execute /sbin/restore: No such file or directory] ERROR: www-dev: [can not read/write /var/lib/dumpdates: No such file or directory]

Re: amcheck error : can not execute ...

2006-04-18 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:39:46PM +0200, Thomas Ginestet wrote: The problem is that I ran apt from this client in order to install amanda. Do you think I can reconfigure Amanda ? (dpkg-reconfigure with special options ?) All you should have to do is apt-get install dump. Debian doesn't

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 17 April 2006 19:24, Jon LaBadie wrote: One of the goals of the amanda planner is to have a consistant sized backup each run. That is clearly not going to happen with the DLEs you are backing up. If you want to defeat this aspect of amanda's planning the parameters are there,

Re: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts: incorrect permissions

2006-04-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 09:37, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: Hi, When I run amcheck, I get the following error: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: NAK bacchus: access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts: incorrect

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:13:39PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 17 April 2006 19:24, Jon LaBadie wrote: One of the goals of the amanda planner is to have a consistant sized backup each run. That is clearly not going to happen with the DLEs you are backing up. If you want to

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-18 Thread Frank Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 17 April 2006 19:24, Jon LaBadie wrote: One of the goals of the amanda planner is to have a consistant sized backup each run. That is clearly not going to happen with the DLEs you are backing up. If you want to defeat this aspect of amanda's planning the

Forcing full backups on a regular basis

2006-04-18 Thread Gabriel O'Brien
Hi folks, I'm using amanda to back up three servers using tpchanger chg-disk. Everything is working fine, however due to the fact that I don't have a real tape changer I'd like to be able to take a given snapshot of all systems from time to time and burn it to DVD. I've already configured

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 19:58, Frank Smith wrote: On the older 2.4.5 version I have, the man page shows it as singular, but I don't use it so it could be a typo. Hmm - you're right. I checked the man page for 2.5 and it is singular, so it was right the first time. Are you sure that's

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 19:48, Jon LaBadie wrote: You shouldn't trust everything said on the mailing list ;( :-) According to the manpage for amanda/amanda.conf, it is singular, no s. But check it for spelling too. Checked, and checked. If amcheck still complains show us a chunk of your

Amanda 2.5 Debian UDP problem

2006-04-18 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hi, I have setup amanda and a test client for it, my problem is that I get: WARNING: work: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK when runing amcheck. It works fine if I use the client on localhost but not with a client on another machine. I've looked at the trafic with tcpdump: the

Re: Defining a sensible backup routine

2006-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:15:50PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 18 April 2006 19:48, Jon LaBadie wrote: You shouldn't trust everything said on the mailing list ;( :-) According to the manpage for amanda/amanda.conf, it is singular, no s. But check it for spelling too.

Re: Forcing full backups on a regular basis

2006-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:05:06PM -0400, Gabriel O'Brien wrote: Hi folks, I'm using amanda to back up three servers using tpchanger chg-disk. Everything is working fine, however due to the fact that I don't have a real tape changer I'd like to be able to take a given snapshot of all

Re: Amanda 2.5 Debian UDP problem

2006-04-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 21:40 +0100, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Hi, I have setup amanda and a test client for it, my problem is that I get: WARNING: work: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK when runing amcheck. It works fine if I use the client on localhost but not with a