Re: Need advice on backup scheme....

2006-05-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
However, I've been whacking my brain on how to properly backup our web server and FTP server, as there's been recent additions to our web servers that now make daily backups more prudent. They both have external, public IP addresses. The obvious case is to use port forwarding. Has anyone

Re: putting error warnings into seperate mail

2006-05-15 Thread listrcv
Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-05-11 13:17, listrcv wrote: The blank lines are actually just a single FormFeed character, that some MUA display as many blank lines. Hm, what's the use of those characters? When looking at the report with another MUA, I can see the first FF after the first

Re: Need advice on backup scheme....

2006-05-15 Thread Graeme Humphries
Chan, Victor wrote: However, Ive been whacking my brain on how to properly backup our web server and FTP server, as theres been recent additions to our web servers that now make daily backups more prudent. They both have external, public IP addresses. The obvious case is to

Re: Tape spanning and `amadmin info`

2006-05-15 Thread Josef Wolf
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:54:33PM -0700, jeffrey d anderson wrote: I've begun using the new tape spanning feature of amanda 2.4.5 and it seems to work quite well. [ ... ] Periodically I pull a set of tapes from my changer to be set aside for archival purposes. In the past I have relied on

Cannot seek to 0

2006-05-15 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello! When estimates are running, I see lots of errors from tar: /bin/tar: ./old/src/svnrepos/db/__db.002: Warning: Cannot seek to 0: Bad file descriptor Anyone knows what could be the reason and whether I should bother? BTW: this is gnutar 1.15.1 Thanks!

Re: Tape spanning and `amadmin info`

2006-05-15 Thread jeffrey d anderson
On Monday 15 May 2006 08:06, Josef Wolf wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:54:33PM -0700, jeffrey d anderson wrote: I've begun using the new tape spanning feature of amanda 2.4.5 and it seems to work quite well. [ ... ] Periodically I pull a set of tapes from my changer to be set aside

Re: amanda on Mac OS X

2006-05-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Michael Weiser schrieb: Hello Karel, Hello list, FYI: I'm happily running amanda-2.5.0 on Mac OS X 10.4.6. No compile problems whatsoever and as a special treat, Apple has updated their UNIX utilities in 10.4 to properly work with HFS+ and resource forks. So no hfstar/xtar is needed any

Re: Problems with amreport and postfix

2006-05-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:20:38PM -0400, Josh Steadmon wrote: Hello all, I apologize if this has been discussed before. I've searched Google and the amanda-users archive, but didn't find anything similar to my problem. I was wondering if anyone using postfix is having the same problems

Re: Problems with amreport and postfix

2006-05-15 Thread Josh Steadmon
On (05/15/06 16:56), Jon LaBadie wrote: I don't think sendmail supports a -s option, neither postfix's compatibility version nor the real version. Interesting. Since Amanda tries to use sendmail (apparently) by default, I'm surprised I wasn't able to find any other posts by people having the

Re: Problems with amreport and postfix

2006-05-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:30:24PM -0400, Josh Steadmon wrote: On (05/15/06 16:56), Jon LaBadie wrote: I don't think sendmail supports a -s option, neither postfix's compatibility version nor the real version. Interesting. Since Amanda tries to use sendmail (apparently) by default, I'm

Amanda 2.5.0 upgrade weirdness

2006-05-15 Thread Brad Willson
Hi, The upgrade to 2.5.0 three days ago has resulted in some odd problems, including failures to write to tape. The Exabyte VXA-2 robot reports... /etc/amanda/DailySet1# mtx -f /dev/sg0 status Storage Changer /dev/sg0:1 Drives, 10 Slots ( 0 Import/Export ) Data Transfer Element 0:Full

Amanda wiki update (for spam reduction)

2006-05-15 Thread Chander Kant
In order to get rid of the annoying spam problem on the Amanda wiki (http://wiki.zmanda.com/), we have upgraded the underlying Mediawiki software version to 1.6.5. In addition we have installed the anti-spam feature in this version (described here):

Amanda 2.5.0 upgrade weirdness

2006-05-15 Thread Brad Willson
Hi, More information from the log chg-zd-mtx.20060515215442.debug chg-zd-mtx: debug 1 pid 3280 ruid 34 euid 34: start at Mon May 15 21:54:42 2006 21:54:42 Using config file /etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf 21:54:42 Arg info: $# = 2 $0 = /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx