Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread Toomas Aas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The server is reporting that client down, so I checked and noticed that the FBSD port for the amanda-client did not install amindexd or amidxtaped, although it did install amandad. Are all 3 needed for a client? No, for client only amandad is needed. -- Toomas Aas

"selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread up
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Toomas Aas wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The server is reporting that client down, so I checked and noticed that > > the FBSD port for the amanda-client did not install amindexd or > > amidxtaped, although it did install amandad. Are all 3 needed for a > > client? >

Re: Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-13 Thread Stephen Carville
Ian Turner wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 01:48, Stephen Carville wrote: I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a single tape. If you upgrade to Amanda 2.5.x, then you can instruct Amanda to split dumps

Re: Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-13 Thread Stephen Carville
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 10:48:08PM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote: I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a single tape. I usually solved this by using tar, client side compression, and break

amanda 2.5.1 on Solaris 9

2006-09-13 Thread Lee, Raymond
Hi, I'm having trouble getting the amanda 2.5.1 server installed on Solaris 9. It always gets hung during "make install" when it gets to restore-src. The client-only install works fine. I tried the server install on a couple of different Solaris 9 boxes with the same error. 2.5.0p2 installed ju

Re: Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 at 6:59am, Stephen Carville wrote Ian Turner wrote: If you upgrade to Amanda 2.5.x, then you can instruct Amanda to split dumps across tapes; so you can make your partitions as large as you like, and just use as many tapes as are required. AFAICT, this doesn't really sp

Re: Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-09-13 15:59, Stephen Carville wrote: Ian Turner wrote: On Monday 11 September 2006 01:48, Stephen Carville wrote: I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a single tape. If you upgrade to Amanda 2.5.x,

RE: amanda 2.5.1 on Solaris 9

2006-09-13 Thread Lee, Raymond
P.S., I did a "make uninstall" and "make distclean" on the 2.5.0p2 version before trying to install 2.5.1. Thanks, Ray -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee, Raymond Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:15 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Su

Re: amanda 2.5.1 on Solaris 9

2006-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:29:38AM -0500, Lee, Raymond wrote: > P.S., I did a "make uninstall" and "make distclean" on the 2.5.0p2 > version before trying to install 2.5.1. > > Thanks, > Ray > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee, Ray

Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Zembower, Kevin
I'm just completing the first bare-metal recovery I've experienced in my six years as a system administrator. A backplane seemed to fail and wiped out two disks of a four-disk RAID-5 array. After replacing all the suspect parts, I followed this process to restore the host: --Installed an IDE hard d

Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread up
Replying to my own post (sorry, but I'm getting desperate here), I took the advice of the FAQ-O-Matic and installed lsof and ran this command: su-2.05b# lsof -uamanda There was no output. Should there have been? Does this mean that amandad is not running? This is what I have in my /etc/inetd.

Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Alexander Jolk
Zembower, Kevin wrote: I thought that after all this, I'd be done. However, I'm discovering pockets of files and directories that seem to have never made it to the backup tapes in the first place. Some examples: --/service/tinydns, dnscache, qmail-send, ... All these were soft links to the files

Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread Frank Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Replying to my own post (sorry, but I'm getting desperate here), I took > the advice of the FAQ-O-Matic and installed lsof and ran this command: > > su-2.05b# lsof -uamanda > > There was no output. Should there have been? Does this mean that amandad > is not running?

Continued ACK Problems with 2.5.1

2006-09-13 Thread Steven Backus
ambiance still refuses to back up: ambiance.med.utah.edu sdc1 lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] ambiance.med.utah.edu sdc1 lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry: "[request failed: timeout waiting for ACK]"] ambiance.med.utah.edu sdc1 lev 0 FAILED [cannot read

RE: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread donald.ritchey
The command you should run is: lsof -I :amanda Which should show the inetd/xinetd process listening on the amanda port (UDP port 10080). The output should look something like this: ritcdx> lsof -i :amanda COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME inetd 1285913 root

Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread up
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Frank Smith wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Replying to my own post (sorry, but I'm getting desperate here), I took > > the advice of the FAQ-O-Matic and installed lsof and ran this command: > > > > su-2.05b# lsof -uamanda > > > > There was no output. Should there have

Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Frank Smith
Zembower, Kevin wrote: > I'm just completing the first bare-metal recovery I've experienced in my > six years as a system administrator. A backplane seemed to fail and > wiped out two disks of a four-disk RAID-5 array. After replacing all the > suspect parts, I followed this process to restore the

Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread Frank Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Frank Smith wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Replying to my own post (sorry, but I'm getting desperate here), I took >>> the advice of the FAQ-O-Matic and installed lsof and ran this command: >>> >>> su-2.05b# lsof -uamanda >>> >>> There was

RE: amanda 2.5.1 on Solaris 9

2006-09-13 Thread Lee, Raymond
Thanks, Jon. That did the trick. I already had ncurses installed, but running configure --without-termcap, etc. still tried to use termcap. So I uninstalled termcap and ran configure again. The make install ran clean this time. amrecover is working fine, so I guess it's all good. Thanks, Ray

Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread up
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Frank Smith wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Frank Smith wrote: > > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> Replying to my own post (sorry, but I'm getting desperate here), I took > >>> the advice of the FAQ-O-Matic and installed lsof and ran this command

RE: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Zembower, Kevin
Frank and Alex, thanks for replying. Alex, you're right, I believe, GNUtar behaves differently than tar with respect to symbolic links, and I'm using GNUtar: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.14 Frank, all my entries look like this one for sda2 (root): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/va

Fixed amcheck, one more question (or two)

2006-09-13 Thread up
Sorry for all the whining...it turned out the "host down" was the same reverse DNS problem that the other amanda client was returning, but since the error message was totally different, it baffled. I hooked the server back up to the old network and it worked fine. 2 more minor issues: I'm getti

Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:47:26PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote: > Frank and Alex, thanks for replying. Alex, you're right, I believe, > GNUtar behaves differently than tar with respect to symbolic links, and > I'm using GNUtar: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib$ tar --version > tar (GNU tar) 1.14 > L

Re: Directory too large for single tape.

2006-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:07:52AM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 10:48:08PM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote: > > > >>I've been using Amanda for about five years now. The only problems I've > >>ever had are because a single dumps has to fit on a singl

Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:47, Zembower, Kevin wrote: >Frank and Alex, thanks for replying. Alex, you're right, I believe, >GNUtar behaves differently than tar with respect to symbolic links, and >I'm using GNUtar: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib$ tar --version >tar (GNU tar) 1.14 > 1.14 is bust

Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 15:02, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:47:26PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote: >> Frank and Alex, thanks for replying. Alex, you're right, I believe, >> GNUtar behaves differently than tar with respect to symbolic links, and >> I'm using GNUtar: >> [EMAIL

Re: Fixed amcheck, one more question (or two)

2006-09-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sorry for all the whining...it turned out the "host down" was the same >reverse DNS problem that the other amanda client was returning, but since >the error message was totally different, it baffled. I hooked the server >back up to th

Re: Fixed amcheck, one more question (or two)

2006-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:54:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ERROR: label FULL0 match labelstr but it not listed in the tapelist file. >(expecting a new tape) > > I thought that amanda would simply create a new tapelist...I deleted the > old one because it was years old. Do I n

Searching for a particular file....

2006-09-13 Thread Guy Dallaire
Using amanda 2.4.5 with gnu-tar.This has probably been already answered somewhere but I can't find an answer in the list or the wikiIs there a way to list the content of an amanda tape (without having to load and read the tape) ? Someone has lost a file, and he does not know on which host and o

Re: Amanda error "Unexpected field value..."

2006-09-13 Thread Paul Yeatman
I have run into the exact same problem on a client that is running Debian (Etch) linux using tar version 1.15.91 (and amanda 2.5.0p2-1). I have now noticed, given your message, that things worked fine with the first Debian tar 1.15.91 package but, when a revised tar 1.15.91 package was released end

Re: Searching for a particular file....

2006-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:25:56PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > Using amanda 2.4.5 with gnu-tar. > > This has probably been already answered somewhere but I can't find an answer > in the list or the wiki > > Is there a way to list the content of an amanda tape (without having to load > and re

Re: Searching for a particular file....

2006-09-13 Thread Guy Dallaire
Thanks !2006/9/13, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:25:56PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote:> Using amanda 2.4.5 with gnu-tar.>> This has probably been already answered somewhere but I can't find an answer> in the list or the wiki >> Is there a way to list the content of an