Re: SDLT-4 compareded to LTO-3

2007-03-06 Thread Sven Rudolph
Michael Loftis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --On March 2, 2007 10:31:33 AM + Anthony Worrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not strictly an amanda question but I thought I would see if any one has any views on SDLT-4 compared to LTO-3. We are currently looking at replacing our tape

Re: Should we move to amanda 2.5.1 ?

2007-03-06 Thread Guy Dallaire
2007/2/27, Guy Dallaire [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We're happily running amanda 2.4.5 right now. I'm wondering if we should move toward 2.5.1. I don't see the advantages for us. Are major bug fixes still issued for 2.4.5 ? If we move to 2.5.1, will we be able to recover the backups we made with 2.4.5.

Re: SDLT-4 compareded to LTO-3

2007-03-06 Thread Cyrille Bollu
LTO-3 also has atleast one advantage for (capable) libraries, each cartridge has a contactless (read... RFID like) memory that can report the tapes last known condition, as well as user data. in theory atleast an LTO drive or library has only to read this tag to decide whether-or-not

Re: Should we move to amanda 2.5.1 ?

2007-03-06 Thread Cyrille Bollu
2007/2/27, Guy Dallaire [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We're happily running amanda 2.4.5 right now. I'm wondering if we should move toward 2.5.1. I don't see the advantages for us. Are major bug fixes still issued for 2.4.5 ? If we move to 2.5.1, will we be able to recover the backups we made with

Re: Amanda Solaris + Kerberos5 anyone?

2007-03-06 Thread Klas Heggemann
Are we really the only ones wanting to use amanda with kerberos 5 on Solaris? Feels a bit lonely... Hi! Anyone out there using amanda on Solaris with Kerberos 5? We've been trying to get Amanda working with Kerberos 5 on Solaris (10) with limited success. We've tried builds with

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
FL schrieb: After watching the trouble recur, I see that the device associated with the changer SCSI device ID moved: it was /dev/sg2, today it is /dev/sg1. No changes were made to the Exabyte LTO-2 tape library or to the SCSI card (or anything else). So there is something I'm failing to

vtapes, virtual libraries, and tape?

2007-03-06 Thread Lonny Selinger
All, I'm just digging around a little more but I figured I'd put this out anyway. I'm just curious if anyone has tried anything like this ... I'd like to maintain longer retention period backups to tape and still have the advantage of using the file-driver and a virtual library of tapes. Based

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-03-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:09:42PM -0500, FL wrote: On 2/22/07, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After watching the trouble recur, I see that the device associated with the changer SCSI device ID moved: it was /dev/sg2, today it is /dev/sg1. No changes were made to the Exabyte

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-03-06 Thread FL
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Here's the relevant data: OS is debian linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux Wilf 2.6.17 #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 10 13:53:45 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Amanda version: amadmin Daily version build: VERSION=Amanda-2.5.1p1 BUILT_DATE=Wed Nov 29

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
FL schrieb: Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Why should I sleep at midnight? ;-) And in my startup script, I have: modprobe sg chown root.tape /dev/sg0 chown root.tape /dev/sg1 # moved from sg2 to sg1!!! chown root.tape /dev/sg2 chown root.tape /dev/sg3 if [ ! -h

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-03-06 Thread FL
On 3/6/07, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FL schrieb: Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Why should I sleep at midnight? ;-) You too? And in my startup script, I have: modprobe sg chown root.tape /dev/sg0 chown root.tape /dev/sg1 # moved from sg2 to sg1!!!

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-03-06 Thread Lonny Selinger
Unfortunately, my system doesn't have sg_scan (perhaps I could install this). There is another script you can use for rescanning devices on a SCSI interface that works quite well. The output looks quite similar to that the sg_scan script does. You can find it here:

Re: AMANDA reports no slots, but there ARE slots!

2007-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
FL schrieb: On 3/6/07, *Stefan G. Weichinger* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FL schrieb: Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Why should I sleep at midnight? ;-) You too? :) This is what I settled on as a first guess # my customized rule