Re: amtape DailySet1 show --- asks for slot 2 ??

2006-07-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:19:12PM -0700, Brian Neu wrote: > I'm confused. > > Why does this command eject the tape and then ask for me to insert a tape > into slot 2? > > > -sh-3.1$ amtape DailySet1 show > changer: got exit: 0 str: 1 99 1 > changer_query: changer return was 99 1 > changer_q

amtape DailySet1 show --- asks for slot 2 ??

2006-07-13 Thread Brian Neu
I'm confused.Why does this command eject the tape and then ask for me to insert a tape into slot 2?-sh-3.1$ amtape DailySet1 show changer: got exit: 0 str: 1 99 1 changer_query: changer return was 99 1 changer_query: searchable = 0 amtape: scanning all 99 slots in tape-changer rack: changer_find: l

Re: Exclude list entries

2006-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
> No there really is a difference between excluding /foo, ./foo, and foo. > As you are backing up ".", /foo will not match anything. Of course > ./foo will match any foo in the top level directory "." > foo will match any foo in any directory under . Not so sure: banyan: /usr/local/bin/tar --v

Re: Exclude list entries

2006-07-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:47:22AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > "When AMANDA attempts to exclude a file or directory it does so relative to > > the area being archived. For example if /var is in your disklist and you > > want to exclude /var/log/somefile, then your exclude file would contain >

Re: Amanda cygwin client behind a firewall

2006-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Is anyone else backuping up an amanda cygwin client, where the cygwin > client sits behind a firewall and the server sits on the outside of the > firewall? It does not make any difference if your client is cygwin or any other flavor of Unix. You would have to adapt what you call inside and out

Re: Exclude list entries

2006-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
> "When AMANDA attempts to exclude a file or directory it does so relative to > the area being archived. For example if /var is in your disklist and you > want to exclude /var/log/somefile, then your exclude file would contain > ./log/somefile" I understand that rather as a warning not to use /var

Re: Backup for specific files

2006-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Please provide the details is there any restrictions > to provide to take the backup for the file type? Amanda is design to backup directories and file systems, not just individual files. Beside, it is a way better idea to backup any file in a directory except a few one we are sure that we don'

Re: Problems using amanda to backup SMB shares

2006-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
> My point is that I do NOT have any /etc/amandates on server, NOR > clients. Although, Olivier Nicole states that I can simply create my > own, and amanda will use it; I remain unclear about this file, because I > do NOT find it documented anywhere ?!?! As far as I remember, I do create it by ha

Re: Port NNNN not secure (revisited)

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin Till
Mike Allen wrote: After some helpful email from Frank Smith off-list I have decided to try a different approach to slve my problem: Here is an excerpt from my tape-server /etc/services file. amanda 20080/udp #Dump server control amandaidx 20082/tcp #Amanda indexing amidxtape

Re: Partial backup

2006-07-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 05:34:50PM -0500, James Wilson wrote: > Here is an amstatus before and after the backup. Before it estimated > 1231m but after it only backed up 171m. Howcome amanda isn't backing up > everything? amstatus is not the tool to use. After a dump you should receive a report

To whom it may concern

2006-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
My best greetings to all of you, the amanda-users and -hackers, I contact you today as I feel the need to do so for quite a while now. -- As some of you might have noticed, my activities related to the Amanda-project are nearly non-existant for quite a while now. This has various reasons, and

Port NNNN not secure (revisited)

2006-07-13 Thread Mike Allen
After some helpful email from Frank Smith off-list I have decided to try a different approach to slve my problem: Here is an excerpt from my tape-server /etc/services file. amanda 20080/udp #Dump server control amandaidx 20082/tcp #Amanda indexing amidxtape 20083/tcp #Am

Partial backup

2006-07-13 Thread James Wilson
Here is an amstatus before and after the backup. Before it estimated 1231m but after it only backed up 171m. Howcome amanda isn't backing up everything? amanda.transolutions.net://192.168.1.133/ifxsessions 0 1231m partial estimate done SUMMARY part real estimated

Re: making xfs dump work

2006-07-13 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:30:01PM -0400, Julian C. Dunn enlightened us: > >On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 at 3:57pm, Julian C. Dunn wrote > >>I have /usr/sbin/xfsdump already but Amanda doesn't seem to know how to > >>call it, even though sendsize is aware that it's an XFS filesystem: > > > >Was xfsdump the

Re: making xfs dump work

2006-07-13 Thread Julian C. Dunn
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 at 3:57pm, Julian C. Dunn wrote I have /usr/sbin/xfsdump already but Amanda doesn't seem to know how to call it, even though sendsize is aware that it's an XFS filesystem: Was xfsdump there when you *compiled* amanda? That'

Re: making xfs dump work

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 at 3:57pm, Julian C. Dunn wrote I have /usr/sbin/xfsdump already but Amanda doesn't seem to know how to call it, even though sendsize is aware that it's an XFS filesystem: Was xfsdump there when you *compiled* amanda? That's when the locations of such things get noted.

Re: making xfs dump work

2006-07-13 Thread Julian C. Dunn
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Julian C. Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060713 15:44]: I've got a Linux workstation which uses xfs as one of its volumes (/dev/md2), but which I can't back up using Amanda because Amanda appears to call /sbin/dump on it, which u

Re: making xfs dump work

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Oups! Forget that! xfsdump is a package by itself on Debian. Mea Culpa jf * Jean-Francois Malouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060713 15:49]: > * Julian C. Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060713 15:44]: > > I've got a Linux workstation which uses xfs as one of its volumes &

Re: making xfs dump work

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Julian C. Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060713 15:44]: > I've got a Linux workstation which uses xfs as one of its volumes > (/dev/md2), but which I can't back up using Amanda because Amanda appears > to call /sbin/dump on it, which under Linux blows up (/sbin/dump is

making xfs dump work

2006-07-13 Thread Julian C. Dunn
I've got a Linux workstation which uses xfs as one of its volumes (/dev/md2), but which I can't back up using Amanda because Amanda appears to call /sbin/dump on it, which under Linux blows up (/sbin/dump is ext2/3 only). How do I make Amanda call the "right" dump program (xfsdump rather than

Re: One backup server for two subnets

2006-07-13 Thread Ronald Vincent Vazquez
Hello: Ok, got it. Dumb mistake... /etc/xinetd.d/amanda disable = yes to disable = no Thanks, / Ronald Vincent Vazquez Senior Unix Systems Administrator Senior Network Manager Christ Tabernacle Church Ministries h

Re: One backup server for two subnets

2006-07-13 Thread Ronald Vincent Vazquez
Hello: Yes, the server is the "router" between the two subnets. How do I configure the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda "only_from" section? Here is what I have (example...): only_from = 1.2.3.0 4.5.6.0 Should this allow access from both subnets? 1.2.3.0 works fine but not 4.5.6.0. Tha

Re: One backup server for two subnets

2006-07-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 at 3:06pm, Ronald Vincent Vazquez wrote I have been searching the web for a while now and haven't been able to find an answer. Is it possible to set one backup server to handle two different subnets? The backup server is ready to go, two configured NICs. Any guidance on th

One backup server for two subnets

2006-07-13 Thread Ronald Vincent Vazquez
Hello list: I have been searching the web for a while now and haven't been able to find an answer. Is it possible to set one backup server to handle two different subnets? The backup server is ready to go, two configured NICs. Any guidance on this issue would be great. Thanks in advance,

Reset By Peer

2006-07-13 Thread James Wilson
Has anyone gotten these errors before and if so do you know why it happens? write_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer ? write_socket: Error writing 39 bytes to socket 11: ERRNO = Connection reset by peer ? Error writing 39 bytes to client. -1 (Connection reset by peer) sendback

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, It's not a bug in tar, it's a bug in amanda. The new file format is not compatible whit the way we read it. I will send a patch soon. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, I tried tar-1.15.91 and I have the same problem. tar-1.15.91 is buggy, you should not use it.

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, I tried tar-1.15.91 and I have the same problem. tar-1.15.91 is buggy, you should not use it. Jean-Louis Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: | sendsize[11906]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /home/p72 --one-file-sys

Re: amrecover "Tape is not a dump tape" but amrestore works?

2006-07-13 Thread Julian C. Dunn
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Martin Hepworth wrote: What filesystems have you got on babelfish. FreeBSD 5.0 and later will use UFS2 as the default filesystem type, before this it was plain old UFS. hance the dump/restore programs will different, which is prob why it's not working. A-ha, you are p

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Le jeudi 13 juillet 2006 15:16, Jean-Louis Martineau a écrit : > Hi, Hi, I have the same problem since a few days (using Amanda snapshot 2.5.1b1-20060623 with tar 1.15.91 to backup a single PC under Debian/Sid) > > | sendsize[11906]: time 1.574: /bin/tar: Unexpected field value in > > | snapsho

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > | sendsize[11906]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null > > --directory /home/p72 --one-file-system --numeric-owner --listed-incremental > > /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_p72_orig_3.new --sparse > > --ignore-failed-read --

Re: Dealing more gracefully with tape overruns

2006-07-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 04:30:12PM +0200, Ronan KERYELL wrote: > We run AMANDA for many years with the same taper and the time comes with > more and more users until one tape per day is sometimes not enough. :-/ > > We don't have any changer and often one tape is enough. So I would like a > mode w

Re: Amanda cygwin client behind a firewall

2006-07-13 Thread rom
McGraw, Robert P. wrote: Is anyone else backuping up an amanda cygwin client, where the cygwin client sits behind a firewall and the server sits on the outside of the firewall? I have cygwin clients but on the same side of the firewall. Anyway, the configuration: amanda server -> firewall -

Backup for specific files

2006-07-13 Thread silpa kala
Hi, I am trying to take the backup for .log/.txt/executable file name. But the planner is not able to provide the estimations. I observed that only we can take the backup for the directories. Why this one is happening? Please provide the details is there any restrictions to provide to take the

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, | sendsize[11906]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /home/p72 --one-file-system --numeric-owner --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_p72_orig_3.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from /tmp/amanda/sendsize._home_p72_or

Re: Ran a Tapetype for LTO-3 if anyone is interested

2006-07-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 06:28:24PM -0700, Tanniel Simonian wrote: > I am unsure why my tape is half the speed but almost 40 gigs more than the > others in the Amanda Wiki. My tapes are Imation Ultrium LTO 3 tapes. Maybe > they are a little longer? Tanniel, Check your bus, we installed a new HBA (

Re: Problems using amanda to backup SMB shares

2006-07-13 Thread Michael D Schleif
* Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:12:17:49:06-0400] scribed: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:31:09AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > * Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:12:00:09:07-0400] scribed: > > > > > > > When asked to, and if run by root, they record the date and > > > time

Amanda cygwin client behind a firewall

2006-07-13 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
Is anyone else backuping up an amanda cygwin client, where the cygwin client sits behind a firewall and the server sits on the outside of the firewall? I need to ask a few questions on your firewall settings. Thanks Robert _

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Frank Smith wrote: > In the last few days I've started seeing a couple of messages like > the above in the NOTES section of my daily reports. The DLEs in > question do get backed up, but it is a level 0 each night. Originally > it was just one server, now it is two. Interesti

Exclude list entries

2006-07-13 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Dear all, I've now configured an exclusion list for use with Amanda. At first I used these entries: *.ora *.dbf *.dmp *.dmp.gz* but then I re-read the Amanda documentation, which states: "When AMANDA attempts to exclude a file or directory it does so relative to the area being archived. For e

Re: backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 13 July 2006 09:20, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 06:31:52PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 18:17, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > > Make a holding area, and use dump with a tape size of just slightly > > > less than the DVD-R size. Tell dump to g

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-07-13 05:29, Frank Smith wrote: Since I've been running Amanda for years, my first thought was just to check the /tmp/amanda/*debug files, but was surprised to find that those files don't exist on any of the 2.5.0 machines, all that is in /tmp/amanda are selfcheck*exclude, sendbackup*e

Re: backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-13 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 06:31:52PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 18:17, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > Make a holding area, and use dump with a tape size of just slightly > > less than the DVD-R size. Tell dump to generate manifests and quick > > file access data. > > > > Then,

Re: amrecover "Tape is not a dump tape" but amrestore works?

2006-07-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:03:38AM -0400, Julian C. Dunn wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: So whatever was fed by amrecover to the restore program did not appear to be created by the corresponding dump program. Do you use dump/restore in your amanda dumptypes o