More that 100% on tape

2007-06-04 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Hi, I'm using amanda now since almost 5 years. But I'm still sometimes get confused, when amanda tell me, that she filled some of my tapes with more than 100% (not much, but its mostly 1-2% more): KMS087D 3:4834919M 101.41116 I created the tapetype by myself using amtapetype,

Re: More that 100% on tape

2007-06-04 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Cyrille Bollu schrieb: It's probably just that your tape definition (that you created with amtapetype) defines a smaller length than the actual tape length. Is there a way to get a more accurate result? -- Marc Muehlfeld (Leitung Systemadministration) Zentrum fuer Humangenetik und

Re: More that 100% on tape

2007-06-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2007-06-04 11:13, Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Cyrille Bollu schrieb: It's probably just that your tape definition (that you created with amtapetype) defines a smaller length than the actual tape length. Is there a way to get a more accurate result? Note that not all the tapes are exactly the

Re: Amanda - unable to create temporary directory

2007-06-04 Thread Nick Smith
Hi All, I've been experiencing the same error messages with Amanda 2.5.2-20080523 running Solaris 10 125100-07 when I backup *any slice* with using a non-root user id. A quick search on SunSolve threw up the following bug report : Bug ID: 4961690 Synopsis: roll_log()/make_mp() misuses mktemp(),

old server 2.4.2p2 fails to backup newer client 2.5.1p1

2007-06-04 Thread Carl D. Blake
I am running a 2.4.2p2 amanda server which is attempting to backup a machine with 2.5.1p1 amanda client (Debian Etch). The server is backing up several machines, but it seems to have trouble with the machines which are running 2.5.1p1 client. The symptom is that the server reports that the

Re: Another Configure error

2007-06-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do you have a /tmp/conftest.lock file ? remove this file before running configure. Jean-Louis Paul Crittenden wrote: I am trying to install amanda backup software on my Sun server running Solaris 9.0. At the end of the configuration I get: checking whether posix fcntl locking works...

Re: Another Configure error

2007-06-04 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Paul Crittenden wrote: I am trying to install amanda backup software on my Sun server running Solaris 9.0. At the end of the configuration I get: checking whether posix fcntl locking works... no checking whether flock locking works... no checking whether lockf locking works... no

Re: tape spanning problem with 2.5.2-20070523

2007-06-04 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070601 09:55]: You can't retrieve the split_file separately, you must concatenate them before untaring. You can use amfetchdump: amfetchdump -p -d /hw/tape/tps21d1nrnsv config yorick /data/narsad/narsad1 20070530 | /usr/freeware/bin/tar -tf -

Re: Another Configure error

2007-06-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:31:45PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Paul Crittenden wrote: I am trying to install amanda backup software on my Sun server running Solaris 9.0. At the end of the configuration I get: checking whether posix fcntl locking works... no checking whether

Re: Another Configure error

2007-06-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon, Send me your config.log Jean-Louis Jon LaBadie wrote: I've encountered the same error with configure on Solaris since my earliest days with amanda. I don't know why the configure script tests don't detect the locking facilities properly. At the time I was looking into it Solaris had

Re: feature request : infos about holdingdisk-content

2007-06-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:54:51AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Is that documented somewhere? Only in the manpages at the moment. It's on my wiki todo list. Ok, just checked that ... IMO there should be a special howto related to the topic holdingdisk in

Re: feature request : infos about holdingdisk-content

2007-06-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: -- Stefan G. Weichinger amanda core team member mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp: 3C64175D -- Stefan G. Weichinger amanda core team member mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp: 3C64175D -- [..] I apologize again for using this *stupid*

chg-zd-mtx can't find mtx command.

2007-06-04 Thread Alan Jedlow
Greetings, I've installed the RHEL RPMs from www.zamanda.com... currently trying to figure out why chg-zd-mtx thinks mtx doesn't exist: -bash-3.00$ whoami amandabackup -bash-3.00$ which mtx /usr/sbin/mtx -bash-3.00$ /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -info none mtx command (mtx) doesn't exist

Re: chg-zd-mtx can't find mtx command.

2007-06-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:35:20PM -0700, Alan Jedlow wrote: I've installed the RHEL RPMs from www.zamanda.com... currently trying to figure out why chg-zd-mtx thinks mtx doesn't exist: -bash-3.00$ whoami amandabackup -bash-3.00$ which mtx /usr/sbin/mtx -bash-3.00$