Re: missing result

2007-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 March 2007, Joe Konecny wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: snip I believe, and somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but ISTR that file needs to be touched by root, 'chown'ed to 'amanda:disk' or whatever your amanda user is named: and a member of that :group, then chmod'ed to 0600, so that

Re: missing result

2007-03-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 12:01:16AM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: I left it 644 and it seems ok. Strange the whole amandates thing isn't in the docs (except for the cygwin part so you'd think it wouldn't apply) and it's not in the faq either. Seems like it should be part of the installation

forcing a failed backup to disk to use the same slot

2007-03-24 Thread René Kanters
Hi, I have had some problems that an overnight backup 'hung up', i.e., a level 0 dump started but never properly finished so backups from other machines did not work either. So far the problem has been with the western digital disk on my Mac amanda server, where a restart of the external

Re: missing result

2007-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 March 2007, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 12:01:16AM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: I left it 644 and it seems ok. Strange the whole amandates thing isn't in the docs (except for the cygwin part so you'd think it wouldn't apply) and it's not in the faq either. Seems

Re: forcing a failed backup to disk to use the same slot

2007-03-24 Thread Frank Smith
René Kanters wrote: Hi, I have had some problems that an overnight backup 'hung up', i.e., a level 0 dump started but never properly finished so backups from other machines did not work either. So far the problem has been with the western digital disk on my Mac amanda server, where a

Re: forcing a failed backup to disk to use the same slot

2007-03-24 Thread René Kanters
In this case it did start writing one dump, but the slot never got the 'tape end' on it, and I can't even be sure that the one and only dump file on it was even properly closed since I had to reboot the server... So I didn't miss anything in the documentation in that there is no amadmin

Re: forcing a failed backup to disk to use the same slot

2007-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 24 March 2007, Frank Smith wrote: René Kanters wrote: Hi, I have had some problems that an overnight backup 'hung up', i.e., a level 0 dump started but never properly finished so backups from other machines did not work either. So far the problem has been with the western digital