Re: no holding disk degraded mode

2006-08-18 Thread Cyrille Bollu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 17/08/2006 23:08:49 : On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:20:33PM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 17/08/2006 15:03:28 : On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:29:46AM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote: Hi all, I'm running a configuration without

Re: using star instead of tar, backuping Zope

2006-08-18 Thread Olivier Nicole
Thks a lot, the problem was that I haven't rebuilt amanda-common with the wrapper path on my client, but just rebuilt amanda-client. It works now with tar. Usually it should be enough to recompile the client part? Now I have to script in order to replace tar arguments by star arguments...

Re: daily reporting of Amanda and ethernet card questions

2006-08-18 Thread Charles Stroom
on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:32:29 EDT Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:15:21PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote: Hi all, I have recently installed Amanda version 2.5.1b1 on my SuSE 10.0 PC, via an binary rpm. After some struggling, I start to understand how it

amcheck problem

2006-08-18 Thread Natalia García Nebot
Hi all! I've configured on my server host a tape device and i want to backup only my server host so i have configured in it the amanda server and client. When i execute the command amcheck DiariaPrueba like amanda user the system tells me: (DiariaPrueba is the name of my configuration)

Re: amcheck problem

2006-08-18 Thread Natalia García Nebot
Hi! in my .amandahosts i have this: localhost amanda localhost root localhost.localdomain amanda and in the last amcheck.xxx.debug i have: amcheck: debug 1 pid 6162 ruid 33 euid 0: start at Fri Aug 18 13:55:56 2006 amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.734

Re: amcheck problem

2006-08-18 Thread Natalia García Nebot
Hi! in my .amandahosts i have this: localhost amanda localhost root localhost.localdomain amanda and in the last amcheck.xxx.debug i have: amcheck: debug 1 pid 6162 ruid 33 euid 0: start at Fri Aug 18 13:55:56 2006 amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.734 amcheck:

Re: amcheck problem

2006-08-18 Thread Natalia García Nebot
Hi! in my .amandahosts i have this: localhost amanda localhost root localhost.localdomain amanda and in the last amcheck.xxx.debug i have: amcheck: debug 1 pid 6162 ruid 33 euid 0: start at Fri Aug 18 13:55:56 2006 amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.734 amcheck: pid

Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-18 Thread Fabio Corazza
Sorry for the length of the email, but it's been a bit difficult to explain everything... :-) Hi there, I'm wondering which is the best backup technique that I can implement on a Linux-only servers production environment. I was wondering initially, also under suggestion of some colleagues, to

RE Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-18 Thread Cyrille Bollu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 18/08/2006 15:06:48 : Sorry for the length of the email, but it's been a bit difficult to explain everything... :-) Hi there, I'm wondering which is the best backup technique that I can implement on a Linux-only servers production environment. I was

Re: amcheck problem

2006-08-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-18 14:03, Natalia García Nebot wrote: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 29.996 seconds, 1 problem found (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p3)

Tr : Re: RE Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-18 Thread Cyrille Bollu
Let's keep the other amanda users informed as I might say stupid things :-) - Réacheminé par Cyrille Bollu/FHQ/USERS/FEDASIL le 18/08/2006 15:51 - Cyrille Bollu/FHQ/USERS/FEDASIL a écrit sur 18/08/2006 15:50:41 : Fabio Corazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 18/08/2006 15:33:19 :

Re: RE Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-18 Thread Fabio Corazza
Cyrille Bollu wrote: No. Amanda does not allow appending dumps on a same cartidge. That's by design. Neither can I put all the full dumps into the same cartridge? Since full dumping a server would require around 10/20GB, the cartridge would be almost empty! I think it's possible to run an

Re: daily reporting of Amanda and ethernet card questions

2006-08-18 Thread Charles Stroom
Charles Stroom email: charles at stremen dot xs4all dot nl --- Original Message on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:33:08 EDT Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 18 August 2006 05:38, Charles Stroom wrote: on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:32:29 EDT Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: RE Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-18 Thread Cyrille Bollu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 18/08/2006 16:06:45 : Cyrille Bollu wrote: No. Amanda does not allow appending dumps on a same cartidge. That's by design. Neither can I put all the full dumps into the same cartridge? Since full dumping a server would require around 10/20GB, the cartridge

Re: RE Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-18 16:06, Fabio Corazza wrote: Cyrille Bollu wrote: No. Amanda does not allow appending dumps on a same cartidge. That's by design. Neither can I put all the full dumps into the same cartridge? Since full dumping a server would require around 10/20GB, the cartridge would be almost

Is GNU tar 1.13.25 still good with 2.5.0p2?

2006-08-18 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I'm planning to upgrade my Amanda server (currently 2.4.5) to 2.5.0p2. I'm wondering whether GNU tar 1.13.25 is still officially considered a good version, or is it absolutely required to upgrade to 1.15.1? I noticed that when installing Amanda from FreeBSD ports, the installation

Re: Is GNU tar 1.13.25 still good with 2.5.0p2?

2006-08-18 Thread Ian Turner
Toomas, GNU tar 1.13 should be good; The real troublemaker is tar 1.14, which will silently corrupt your archives and throw away data. Unfortunately, some distributions patch their tar with other code, so some versions of tar 1.13 are problematic, whereas some versions of tar 1.14 are

Re: Amanda migration from SGI-Irix to Linux

2006-08-18 Thread Luc Lalonde
Hello Jean-François, I changed the SCSI card. Upon investigation I found that the Qlogic card (QLA1240D) driver in Linux too flaky for my taste. Instead I got a couple of used DualPort-Adaptec HVD cards that work just great (AHA-3944AUWD) from eBay ;-) I also had to change de default

Re: Is GNU tar 1.13.25 still good with 2.5.0p2?

2006-08-18 Thread Toomas Aas
Ian Turner wrote: On Friday 18 August 2006 11:35, Toomas Aas wrote: BTW, I currently use dump for backups, so gtar is only used for indexes. No, Amanda will even use dump to generate indices. So actually you don't need tar at all. Of course, what was I thinking.

Re: Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:06:48PM +0100, Fabio Corazza wrote: Sorry for the length of the email, but it's been a bit difficult to explain everything... :-) Followed by a long-winded answer without apologies. Hi there, I'm wondering which is the best backup technique that I can

amtapetype problems

2006-08-18 Thread Nick Jones
Hello everyone, I'm attempting to set up amanda on my YDL 4.1 XServe G5. I've compiled the app and everything seems well. I have modified the kernel (according to Overland) so that my tape library (Overland Loaderxpress with 1 LTO-3 drive, 11 slot tape). Heres the output of some stuff.

Re: amtapetype problems

2006-08-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:13:22PM -0500, Nick Jones wrote: Hello everyone, I'm attempting to set up amanda on my YDL 4.1 XServe G5. I've compiled the app and everything seems well. I have modified the kernel (according to Overland) so that my tape library (Overland Loaderxpress with 1

Re: amtapetype problems

2006-08-18 Thread Nick Jones
I can use mtx to get tape status. I have not tried to load or unload a tape. Basically, assuming everything works and the problem lies with amanda, how do I use amtapetype? What device do I use? Last login: Fri Aug 18 13:40:00 2006 from adams.gige.uiowa.edu [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mtx -f

Re: amtapetype problems

2006-08-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 at 2:45pm, Nick Jones wrote I can use mtx to get tape status. I have not tried to load or unload a tape. Basically, assuming everything works and the problem lies with amanda, how do I use amtapetype? What device do I use? Last login: Fri Aug 18 13:40:00 2006 from

Re: amtapetype problems

2006-08-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:45:27PM -0500, Nick Jones wrote: I can use mtx to get tape status. I have not tried to load or unload a tape. Basically, assuming everything works and the problem lies with amanda, how do I use amtapetype? What device do I use? Last login: Fri Aug 18 13:40:00

Re: Is GNU tar 1.13.25 still good with 2.5.0p2?

2006-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 August 2006 11:35, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I'm planning to upgrade my Amanda server (currently 2.4.5) to 2.5.0p2. I'm wondering whether GNU tar 1.13.25 is still officially considered a good version, or is it absolutely required to upgrade to 1.15.1? I noticed that when installing

Re: Is GNU tar 1.13.25 still good with 2.5.0p2?

2006-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 August 2006 12:01, Ian Turner wrote: Toomas, GNU tar 1.13 should be good; No Ian, plain 1.13 is broken, 1.13-19, 1.13-25, and 1.15-1 are the known good versions. The real troublemaker is tar 1.14, which will silently corrupt your archives and throw away data. Unfortunately,