Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2006-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 August 2006 00:52, Lengyel, Florian wrote: >Pardon me: identd, not inetd. It wasn't a typo. >I know about inetd and xinetd. I was disappointed to see >that the debian hosts use inetd instead of xinetd. > My bad, I actually missread it. Sorry. So was I, even more disappointed to see t

Sun StorageTek C2 Autoloader

2006-08-14 Thread Antonello Piemonte
Hi is someone using a Sun StorageTek C2 Autoloader with Amanda? Is this autoloder working with Amanda? If not can you reccomend an alternative autoloader? many thanks for your advice antonello

Re: Sun StorageTek C2 Autoloader

2006-08-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
Oooh, Oooh, me, I am, I am ! We moved from the StorEdge L9 to the C2, it was a simple drop in with only the predictable minor modifications to amanda.conf for changerdev and tapedev, well, plus the OS mod to support it. The L9 had discrete SCSI id for the robot and the tape drive, with the C2 it

Re: Amanda migration from SGI-Irix to Linux

2006-08-14 Thread Luc Lalonde
Hello Jean-François, I seem to be having problems with the SCSI controller: st0: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x8). scsi(0): Resetting Cmnd=0x01008229b6c0, Handle=0x0202, action=0x2 scsi(0:0:6:0): Queueing device reset command. Are your LTO drives HVD or L

Re: Amanda migration from SGI-Irix to Linux

2006-08-14 Thread Luc Lalonde
rbage every second time I try to view the contents of this file Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Luc Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060814 12:08]: Hello Jean-François, I seem to be having problems with the SCSI controller: st0: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0,

Re: backups: best privilege policy

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Pearson
On 14 Aug 2006, at 20:37, Henning Brauer wrote: there an established method for keeping privileges lower when doing dumps, i.e. add a user who can dump and not using root to do this? you don't need root to do backups, a member of group operator is sufficient. we add a special backup user t

RE: tape_splitsize 20 Gb and 200GB LTO2 Tapes

2006-08-14 Thread Gavin Henry
> I've got a question for you (since I'm about to implement > the exact same thing): does the dump have to be tar'd? I'm copying this to list for others, hope you don't mind? We are using tar, but not gzip'd. We are using the hardare compression. Make sure you use split_diskbuffer, or you'll ge

RE: tape_splitsize 20 Gb and 200GB LTO2 Tapes

2006-08-14 Thread Gardiner Leverett
> -Original Message- > > > > I've got a question for you (since I'm about to implement > > the exact same thing): does the dump have to be tar'd? > > I'm copying this to list for others, hope you don't mind? > > We are using tar, but not gzip'd. We are using the hardare > compressi

Re: backups: best privilege policy

2006-08-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:06:19PM +0100, Alan Pearson wrote: > > > On 14 Aug 2006, at 20:37, Henning Brauer wrote: > > >>there an established method for keeping privileges lower when > >>doing dumps, i.e. > >>add a user who can dump and not using root to do this? > > > >you don't need root to

Re: backups: best privilege policy

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Pearson
I presume root is need for tar, as it need file permissions ? On the client a compiled, wrapper program, "runtar" is used to call tar. runtar is installed owned by root and setuid'ed. Ah, thanks Jon !