RE: Amanda Server on Cygwin amdump not working :-S

2006-08-24 Thread David Sánchez Martín
>> >BTW have you tried accessing your tape drive with other amanda and/or >> > cygwin commands? Can you tar directly to and from your tapedrive >> > without amanda? >> >> I do not use a real tapedrive/robot with amanda, and I doubt cygwin >> has the ability to access directly to the devices (

Broken pipe on a big DLE

2006-08-24 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I recently (this Sunday) upgraded my Amanda server to 2.5.0p2. Clients (other than the server itself) are 2.4.4 and 2.4.5. First two amdumps (Monday and Tuesday evenyng) ran fine, except that I forgot to change the tape on Tuesday and had to run amflush on Wednesday. But the Wednesday eve

Amanda is creating files (locale problem)

2006-08-24 Thread Cyrille Bollu
Hi all, I'm runing amanda-2.4.4p1-0.3E (RH ES 3.3) and have some problem with non-ascii caracters. For example, I have a file called "aandré.nsf". This file turns into "aandré.nsf" when I list it with "ls". But, funnier, Amanda creates 2 files when I restore it ("aandré.nsf" and "aandr?.nsf").

Re: Amanda is creating files (locale problem)

2006-08-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Cyrille Bollu wrote: > I'm runing amanda-2.4.4p1-0.3E (RH ES 3.3) and have some problem with > non-ascii caracters. > > For example, I have a file called "aandr�.nsf". This file turns into > "aandré.nsf" when I list it with "ls". But, funnier, Amanda creates 2 > files when

amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Charles Stroom
Hi all, last day's dump of Amanda (version 2.5.1b1) failed and files were left over in the holding disk. So I tried to do an amflush which also fails, nearly immediately. Below is some more info: logfile amflush.1: amflush: start at Thu Aug 24 13:02:54 CEST 2006 amflush: datestamp 200608241302

Re: Amanda is creating files (locale problem)

2006-08-24 Thread Cyrille Bollu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 24/08/2006 13:16:01 : > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Cyrille Bollu wrote: > > I'm runing amanda-2.4.4p1-0.3E (RH ES 3.3) and have some problem with > > non-ascii caracters. > > > > For example, I have a file called "aandr?.nsf". This file turns into > > "aandré.nsf" when

Re: amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:17:14PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote: > Hi all, > > last day's dump of Amanda (version 2.5.1b1) failed and files were > left over in the holding disk. So I tried to do an amflush which > also fails, nearly immediately. Below is some more info: > > > logfile amflush.1:

Re: amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles, It's a bug 2.5.1b1. Upgrade to 2.5.1b2, latest cvs or latest snapshot from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda We are close of a stable 2.5.1 release. Jean-Louis Charles Stroom wrote: Hi all, last day's dump of Amanda (version 2.5.1b1) failed and files were left over in th

Re: RE Tuning for performance

2006-08-24 Thread Cyrille Bollu
Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit sur 22/08/2006 15:15:34 : > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 at 9:36am, Cyrille Bollu wrote > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 21/08/2006 18:10:56 : > >> > >> What RAID controller?  Have you benchmarked the array itself with > >> something like bonnie++ or tio

need regex help

2006-08-24 Thread Jeff Portwine
Please forgive me if this comes across twice, I sent the same question yesterday but it seems that it never made it to the list.. at least I didn't receive my own message if it did.       I want amanda to back up multiple home directories, but I don't want to back up everything

Re: RE Tuning for performance

2006-08-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 at 4:36pm, Cyrille Bollu wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] bonnie++-1.03a]# ./bonnie++ -u 0 (snip) Version 1.03 --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- MachineSize K/sec %C

Re: amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 August 2006 10:29, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >Charles, > >It's a bug 2.5.1b1. > >Upgrade to 2.5.1b2, latest cvs or latest snapshot >from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda > >We are close of a stable 2.5.1 release. > >Jean-Louis > Jean-Louis: Is it safe to try last nights

Re: need regex help

2006-08-24 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
[Sent a second time from an address known to the list; sorry if a dup.] On Thu, August 24, 2006 10:40 am, Jeff Portwine wrote: > I want amanda to back up multiple home directories, but I don't want to > back up everything in /home. I tried using syntax like this: > > myserver /dev/sdc1 { ser

Re: need regex help

2006-08-24 Thread Jeff Portwine
Sorry I should've been more clear.. user1, user2, etc.. are just placeholders for actual directory names. I actually have about 8 or 9 directories with nothing in common in their names.I was just giving generic names to show what I was attempting to do. - Original Message - Fro

Re: [RFE] - Footer file on tape

2006-08-24 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
Chris, Gene has provided his Amanda helper scripts for others to use. His scripts create amdump and amflush wrappers that will write the configuration and indices to the end of the backup tape/vtape. Thanks to Gene for his contribution. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Main_Page#Tools_that_can_b

Re: need regex help

2006-08-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Jeff Portwine wrote: > Sorry I should've been more clear.. user1, user2, etc.. are just placeholders > for actual directory names. I actually have about 8 or 9 directories with > nothing in common in their names.I was just giving generic names to show > what I was attempt

Re: RE Tuning for performance

2006-08-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 at 10:44am, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 at 4:36pm, Cyrille Bollu wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] bonnie++-1.03a]# ./bonnie++ -u 0 (snip) Version 1.03 --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite

Re: need regex help

2006-08-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:40:15AM -0400, Jeff Portwine wrote: > Please forgive me if this comes across twice, I sent the same question > yesterday but it seems that it never made it to the list.. at least I didn't > receive my own message if it did. > > > > > I want amanda to bac

Re: need regex help

2006-08-24 Thread Frank Smith
Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:40:15AM -0400, Jeff Portwine wrote: >> I want amanda to back up multiple home directories, but I don't want to back >> up everything in /home. >> I tried using syntax like this: >> >> myserver /dev/sdc1 { >> server-user-tar >> include "

Re: amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Charles Stroom
Thanks. As I have a Suse specific RPM installation, I might prefer to wait until 2.5.1 is made available in RPM. To John LaBadie: yes, there were dumps! >ls /work-2/amanda/dumps/20060824110501 . corrente.localnet._usr.0 ..

Re: amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:16:03PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote: > Thanks. > > As I have a Suse specific RPM installation, I might prefer to wait > until 2.5.1 is made available in RPM. > > To John LaBadie: yes, there were dumps! > My question was moot once JLM noted it was a know and fixed defe

Re: need regex help

2006-08-24 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
Jeff, You can use testgtar script contributed by Amanda user to test regex patterns. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Main_Page#Useful_Amanda_tools Thanks, Paddy On 8/24/06, Jeff Portwine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please forgive me if this comes across twice, I sent the same question yester

RE: need regex help

2006-08-24 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
This is from the wiki. "testgtar - A perl script to GNU tar exclude patterns. It takes exclude file and DLE as the parameters." I believe the word "test" is left out between "to GNU" Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Mana