Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-19 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Well, for what it's worth: I ran a backup job with just the DLEs that failed to backup/flush, and it all went well. I then ran the exact same job I did on Friday, and it succeeded with no errors this time. I'm beginning to think that maybe the tape used on Friday may be damaged in some way.

Building client fails

2006-07-19 Thread Patrick Hawley
Hi, I've got three workstations I'm trying to install and configure amanda for. My tape host is a Solaris 8 machine and I have two clients with Solaris 8 on one and Solaris 9 on the other. I was able to build and install the tape host and the one Solaris 8 client with very little trouble. I

Re: A script to test GNU tar exclude patterns

2006-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 01:20, Frank Smith wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I have put together the following srcipt http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/testgtar to help testing exclude patterns in GNU tar. This is a simple Perl script, that should run on any installation; but I'd like to

Re: Building client fails

2006-07-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-07-19 14:26, Patrick Hawley wrote: I've got three workstations I'm trying to install and configure amanda for. My tape host is a Solaris 8 machine and I have two clients with Solaris 8 on one and Solaris 9 on the other. I was able to build and install the tape host and the one Solaris

Re: Building client fails

2006-07-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 08:26:57AM -0400, Patrick Hawley wrote: Hi, I've got three workstations I'm trying to install and configure amanda for. My tape host is a Solaris 8 machine and I have two clients with Solaris 8 on one and Solaris 9 on the other. I was able to build and install the

Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread gil naveh
Hi, I have to restore from our tape drive, but our Amanda server that runs on Solaris 9 has failed. Any suggestion/ideas on how to recover files from tapes are mostly welcome. Our tape drive is: ULTRIUM2-LTO The dump type is: define dumptype daily { global

Re: A script to test GNU tar exclude patterns

2006-07-19 Thread Frank Smith
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 19 July 2006 01:20, Frank Smith wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I have put together the following srcipt http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/testgtar to help testing exclude patterns in GNU tar. This is a simple Perl script, that should run on any installation;

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 at 8:12am, gil naveh wrote I have to restore from our tape drive, but our Amanda server that runs on Solaris 9 has failed. Any suggestion/ideas on how to recover files from tapes are mostly welcome. http://www.amanda.org/docs/restore.html man amrestore This

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread gil naveh
Thanks for the help. I am familiar with the Amrestore command. But the problem I am facing is that the Amanda server which also holds other applications crushed. So I have to restore data from another server - I have Solaris 9 and and or Solaris 10 servers that I can connect to the tape

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Tom Brown
I am familiar with the Amrestore command. But the problem I am facing is that the Amanda server which also holds other applications crushed. So I have to restore data from another server - I have Solaris 9 and and or Solaris 10 servers that I can connect to the tape drive... I also saved

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 at 8:35am, gil naveh wrote Thanks for the help. I am familiar with the Amrestore command. But the problem I am facing is that the Amanda server which also holds other applications crushed. So I have to restore data from another server - I have Solaris 9 and and or

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-07-19 17:35, gil naveh wrote: Thanks for the help. I am familiar with the Amrestore command. Then you understand that you can replace amrestore with a mt and dd. But the problem I am facing is that the Amanda server which also holds other applications crushed. So I have to restore

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Frank Smith
Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 at 8:12am, gil naveh wrote I have to restore from our tape drive, but our Amanda server that runs on Solaris 9 has failed. Any suggestion/ideas on how to recover files from tapes are mostly welcome.

Re: Solaris 8 inetd killing amandad

2006-07-19 Thread Chris Cameron
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:36 -0700, Kevin Till wrote: what is the amanda entry in /etc/inet/inetd.conf? amanda dgram udp waitroot/opt/amanda/libexec/amandad amandad Try truss /opt/amanda/libexec/amandad and see if there is anything obviously wrong. Only thing that doesn't

new 2.5.1b1-20060717?

2006-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
-2.5.1b1-20060717]# su amanda -c amcheck Daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /dumps: 12071 MB disk space available, using 12360848 MB slot 12: read label `Dailys-12', date `20060719' cannot overwrite active tape Dailys-12 slot 13: read label `Dailys-13', date

Re: Solaris 8 inetd killing amandad

2006-07-19 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Chris, Chris Cameron wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:36 -0700, Kevin Till wrote: what is the amanda entry in /etc/inet/inetd.conf? amanda dgram udp waitroot/opt/amanda/libexec/amandad amandad i would try to start amandad as amanda (or whatever user you have amanda

Re: Solaris 8 inetd killing amandad

2006-07-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:46:18AM -0600, Chris Cameron wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:36 -0700, Kevin Till wrote: what is the amanda entry in /etc/inet/inetd.conf? amanda dgram udp waitroot/opt/amanda/libexec/amandad amandad Try truss /opt/amanda/libexec/amandad

Re: Solaris 8 inetd killing amandad

2006-07-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:46:18AM -0600, Chris Cameron wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:36 -0700, Kevin Till wrote: what is the amanda entry in /etc/inet/inetd.conf? amanda dgram udp waitroot/opt/amanda/libexec/amandad amandad Tried to run amandad as root-user instead of

Re: new 2.5.1b1-20060717?

2006-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 13:10, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:53:34PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Howdy all; I'm back (and darned glad of it) from the UP/MI and trying to play catchup on my main box here, so I just built and installed 2.5.1b1-20060717. I've not seen this

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread gil naveh
Thanks for all the help, but I have a problem to restore the files. When I type: root@ # dd if=/dev/rmt/0n ibs=64k | ufsrestore if - I recieve the following error message: read: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out Volume is not in dump formatBut as far as I know it

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 02:07:42PM -0700, gil naveh enlightened us: Thanks for all the help, but I have a problem to restore the files. When I type: root@ # dd if=/dev/rmt/0n ibs=64k | ufsrestore if - I recieve the following error message: read: Invalid argument 0+0 records in

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread gil naveh
Thanks but I tried to strip the header as well and it gave me teh same error message!Matt Hyclak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 02:07:42PM -0700, gil naveh enlightened us: Thanks for all the help, but I have a problem to restore the files. When I type: root@ # dd

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Kevin Till
gil naveh wrote: Thanks but I tried to strip the header as well and it gave me teh same error message! If it's compressed, it need to be uncompressed first. Do something like: dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k skip=1 |gzip -dc | ufsrestore if - */Matt Hyclak [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: On

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 17:07, gil naveh wrote: Thanks for all the help, but I have a problem to restore the files. When I type: root@ # dd if=/dev/rmt/0n ibs=64k | ufsrestore if - I recieve the following error message: read: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, Can you please run this and post the output: -bash-3.00$ ammt -f /dev/rmt/0n rewind -bash-3.00$ ammt -f /dev/rmt/0n fsf 1 -bash-3.00$ amdd if=/dev/rmt/0n bs=32k count=1 Pavel gil naveh wrote: Thanks but I tried to strip the header as well and it gave me teh same error message! */Matt

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 02:07:42PM -0700, gil naveh wrote: Thanks for all the help, but I have a problem to restore the files. When I type: root@ # dd if=/dev/rmt/0n ibs=64k | ufsrestore if - I recieve the following error message: read: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
Forgot one comment. After mt rewind, you have to mt fsf #, where # is a tape file number, to get to the start of the #'th dump on the tape. Then if you had followed the suggested reading, that tapefile contains a file header that must be skipped. It does no good to do a skip=1 to the first tape

Re: A script to test GNU tar exclude patterns

2006-07-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
I haven't had a chance to test the script yet, but since I ran across this thread about changes in GNU tar from the Debian developers list http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/06/msg01108.html default http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-06/msg1.html Reading the

Re: A script to test GNU tar exclude patterns

2006-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 July 2006 00:14, Olivier Nicole wrote: I haven't had a chance to test the script yet, but since I ran across this thread about changes in GNU tar from the Debian developers list http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/06/msg01108.html default

Re: A script to test GNU tar exclude patterns

2006-07-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:14:39AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: I haven't had a chance to test the script yet, but since I ran across this thread about changes in GNU tar from the Debian developers list http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/06/msg01108.html default