possible solution - how to manually create 'tapelist'

2006-09-20 Thread Craig Dewick
I'm starting to think that the problem with the changer may, just may, be coming about because the tapes I'm using are the ones I've had for a few years (brand new tapes, but all labelled at the time by amlabel though never actually dumped onto). Could it be that I need a way to either

Re: balance results

2006-09-20 Thread Charles Stroom
on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:39:36 EDT Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:24:39PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote: In the above output, that means that you did not run any amdump on the 4th day of the dumpcycle, and expects that the next cycle will be the

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Josef Wolf wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:34:42PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format. Can someone please explain what this exactly means?

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 05:56, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Josef Wolf wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:34:42PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 05:56, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Josef Wolf wrote: But be careful, at least the tar 1.15.91-2 from Debian is broken: it ignores the --one-file-system

Does a mixed environment of 2.5.1 server with pre-2.5.1 clients work?

2006-09-20 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi, I've got a situation where an update of gtar has broken my backups on the server. I'll revert if I have to, but I'd prefer to get 2.5.1 working on the server. Meanwhile, 2.5.1 client is not building successfully on my Mac OS X clients. I've got 2.5.0p2 running successfully on the

Sun License

2006-09-20 Thread William Baroniunas
Hi. I saw some positive feedback on this issue, but wasn't sure whether we had reached a consensus on removing it from distribution. Can anyone provide an update? Thanks, Bill Original message I would like to get some feedback on certain Sun copyright statements which can be found in

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 10:46, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 05:56, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Josef Wolf wrote: But be careful, at least the tar

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 11:05, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: tar: -l option changed meaning, without any warning! The change of its meaning was announced at least on 2004-05-11, with the release of 1.14. Three releases are quite sufficient for the users to get used to the changes, aren't

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-20 Thread Charles Stroom
on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:33:15 EDT Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 05:56, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: But be careful, at least the tar 1.15.91-2 from Debian is broken: it ignores the --one-file-system option

Re: Sun License

2006-09-20 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
contrib/sst directory has been removed from amanda top of trunk (subversion tree). Paddy On 9/20/06, William Baroniunas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I saw some positive feedback on this issue, but wasn't sure whether we had reached a consensus on removing it from distribution. Can anyone

Re: Does a mixed environment of 2.5.1 server with pre-2.5.1 clients work?

2006-09-20 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
2.5.1 server will work 2.5.0p2 clients as long as you are using bsd authentication. I guess you are still are running into Mac OS X compilation problems that were mentioned in your posting few days ago. I don't have access to Mac OS X machine. Can you find out which header file _keytable is

amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Newcomb
We've been using Amanda continuously since 1999. Amanda has minimized our backup effort and headaches and it has saved us from serious data losses on several occasions. Brava! I was delighted to see that 2.5.1 now supports ssh, and if I could just get it to work, it would be a godsend to us. I

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-20 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-09-20 11:56, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Josef Wolf wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:34:42PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format. Can someone

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve, Anything about ssh in your system log? Could you ssh from the server to the client without amanda? Did it create /tmp/amanda/amanda/amandad.*.debug files? Jean-Louis Steve Newcomb wrote: We've been using Amanda continuously since 1999. Amanda has minimized our backup effort and

RE: Strange size estimate

2006-09-20 Thread Aykut Demirkol
Freebsd 6.0 /var is under / Well it is hard for me guessing the problem. For over a week I applied same combinations to my many servers. But just this one continue to fail strangely. I am at the point to blame OS installation and reinstall it. But server is in production line. So this is my last

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Kevin Till
Hi, see if the following wiki page helps: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Configuring_SSH_authentication Steve Newcomb wrote: We've been using Amanda continuously since 1999. Amanda has minimized our backup effort and headaches and it has saved us from serious data losses on several

RE: amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Lee, Raymond
Steve, I had to go through this a few times to get it right myself. The howto-auth.txt was correct, but I thought some of it was a little confusing regarding what goes where on the server and what goes where on the client. Here's what I did (change the /path/to/amanda/home,

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Fabio Corazza
Lee, Raymond wrote: Steve, [cut] I'm interested on this as well. Just a little question before starting the new configuration by myself: is ssh used just for the *authentication* or for the dumps as well? It would be extremely useful (but don't know how efficient and hassle-free) to use ssh for

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Newcomb
In answer to my request for suggestions as to why Amanda 2.5.1 doesn't seem to work with auth=ssh on our network, Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anything about ssh in your system log? Nothing in /var/log/syslog of the client. However, in /var/log/auth.log, the following is the

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Newcomb
Thanks for this helpful stuff, Lee. I don't think my problem is with ssh itself. Everything you suggest is consistent with what I have done, except I didn't bother with enabling the client to log into the server. Do I need to do that even if I don't want the client to have access to

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Newcomb
Fabio Corazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lee, Raymond wrote: Steve, [cut] I'm interested on this as well. Just a little question before starting the new configuration by myself: is ssh used just for the *authentication* or for the dumps as well? I asked that in my first e-mail, and

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Newcomb
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384508 tar: -l option changed meaning, without any warning! I've been on this list for only a few hours, and it has already solved a baffling and annoying mystery for me. I have been using tar for at least 20 years and I would never have

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Kevin Till
Steve, In the Amanda client .ssh/authorized_keys file, try to use ip address instead of fqdn name in the from field, e.g: from=192.26.10.10,no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,command=/usr/lib/amanda/amandad -auth=ssh amdump ssh-rsa key please list the complete

Re: Does a mixed environment of 2.5.1 server with pre-2.5.1 clients work?

2006-09-20 Thread Bruce Thompson
Hi Paddy, I've located what appears to be the source of the _keytable errors. in common-src/util.h there appears: - BEGIN - typedef struct {/* token table entry */ char *keyword; tok_t token; } keytab_t; keytab_t *keytable; - END - This is declaring an