Re: size of level 1 equal to size of level 0

2007-01-31 Thread Toomas Aas
Gene Heskett wrote: I wonder if that version of tar is biting us again. Can you back up to 1.15-1 and give that a try? Some googling found this, which seems related. Looks like downgrading tar is the way to go. How I miss the good old days of 1.13.25! http://www.nabble.com/FW:-tar-1.16-liste

Re: Feature suggestion : test restore

2007-01-31 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 06:02:58PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Jon LaBadie schrieb: > >> - assuming the restore is done to the server; > >>the tools used to create the dump may not exist on > >>the server or be in different locations > > > An amanda-admin

Re: Feature suggestion : test restore

2007-01-31 Thread Glenn English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Jon LaBadie schrieb: >> - may not be space to restore large DLEs > > Could be caught by "testrestore_tmpdir_size" ... > >> - assuming the restore is done to the original client; >>right now the client is only aske

Restore on Host with two interfaces

2007-01-31 Thread Fritz Wittwer
I have a special Client configuration 'Host a' is A virtual Interface (Logical Interface under Sun Solaris 10) inside a Solaris Server. This service might switch to another Node. To be certain to backup all the time the active service, I use the service address for the backup client. But if I

Re: Feature suggestion : test restore

2007-01-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie schrieb: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:27:53PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> This is a rough idea, and has to be discussed, sure. > > Top of the head things to consider: > > - may not be space to restore large DLEs Could be caught by "testrestore_tmpdir_size" ... > - assumi

Bug with "displayunit" in parts of Amanda 2.5.1p2?

2007-01-31 Thread Mark Hennessy
Strange output: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /dumps: 131598 MB disk space available, using 134755870 MB I changed it in the configuration to M from the default of K and that output came out of amcheck. This is for a 300GiB hard drive. Should I be wor

Re: Feature suggestion : test restore

2007-01-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Glenn English schrieb: > Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> This is the perfect lesson to remember that one should test restores >> regularly. > >> Couldn't we build this *into* amanda? > > Outstanding. I'd add it to amverify, though, and have the switch(es) in > the configs turn amverify on and o

Re: Amanda should fail "dumps" of directories

2007-01-31 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:52:54AM -0800, James Brown wrote: > Is it possible for amanda to automatically fail backup > jobs of directories specified in the disklist with > "dump" dumptypes (as opposed to gtar)? A "dump" of a > directory completes successfully even though the dump > utilitity is m

Re: Amanda should fail "dumps" of directories

2007-01-31 Thread Michael Loftis
--On January 31, 2007 10:52:54 AM -0800 James Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible for amanda to automatically fail backup jobs of directories specified in the disklist with "dump" dumptypes (as opposed to gtar)? A "dump" of a directory completes successfully even though the dump

Amanda should fail "dumps" of directories

2007-01-31 Thread James Brown
Is it possible for amanda to automatically fail backup jobs of directories specified in the disklist with "dump" dumptypes (as opposed to gtar)? A "dump" of a directory completes successfully even though the dump utilitity is meant for filesystems. For me at least, we can not restore from such ba

Re: amadmin not happening on Solaris

2007-01-31 Thread Chris Cameron
That appears to be the case. fsf'ing before running amadmin makes it happy. I'm running 2.5.0p2. Chris Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Which release of amanda? There was a bug in amrestore, it stopped on the 10th file. You can fsf the the correct file before you execute amrestore. Jean-Louis

Re: A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED

2007-01-31 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 at 8:33am, Adriana Liendo wrote FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: humbolt /sda/seis lev 0 FAILED [out of tape] humbolt /sda/seis lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Broken pipe"] humbolt /sda/seis lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] These messages indicate that the dump was goi

A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED

2007-01-31 Thread Adriana Liendo
Hello, I've been using amanda for two years or more. Sometimes, when the person in charge of changing the tape, forgets to change it, I just have to update the tapelist file and continue as if nothing happen. However, this time I haven't been able to solve the problem. This person forgot to c