How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Hello, I'm using amanda and all is OK. But, now I want to implement level null dumps to be made say every first monday of the month (piece of cake in crontab). From the Status Update for July 2007 I learned to simply say amanda config force to get a level null dump for all hosts and

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Hi, Gerrit A. Smit -TI- schrieb: I would like a way to tell amrecover that those tapes are off site without too much fiddling around with setdate. After your amdump you still can run amstatus. There you see the tapes amanda used. This you can use for and automatic setting to no-reuse.

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Gerrit A. Smit wrote: I would like a way to tell amrecover that those tapes are off site without too much fiddling around with setdate. This question remains unsolved, I think. By telling Amanda not to re-use a tape, she will refrain from using that tape for dumping, but IMHO this doen't

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Gerrit A. Smit -TI- schrieb: By telling Amanda not to re-use a tape, she will refrain from using that tape for dumping, but IMHO this doen't change anything for other operations. amrecover will still use the tape for reading when needed according to the set time, and I want to be able to prevent

Re: Status Update for July 2007

2007-08-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:09:48AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: The July Monthly Status Update is available on the wiki at http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Monthly_Status_Updates/July_2007 As always, feedback and comments are welcome and encouraged. Thank you. This is very useful. --

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Gerrit A. Smit wrote: By telling Amanda not to re-use a tape, she will refrain from using that tape for dumping, but IMHO this doesn't change anything for other operations. amrecover will still use the tape for reading when needed according to the set time, and I

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 12:47:27PM +0200, Gerrit A. Smit -TI- wrote: Gerrit A. Smit wrote: I would like a way to tell amrecover that those tapes are off site without too much fiddling around with setdate. This question remains unsolved, I think. By telling Amanda not to re-use a

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Gerrit A. Smit -TI- schrieb: If you don't want to have the full dumps seen by amrecovery why don't you create a separate set for it? Having a separate set means having a separate configuration, right? Not a full separate configuration. In ~/KDD/amanda.conf (KDD is one of my two sets) I

Re: How do I tell amanda a tape is not onsite?

2007-08-07 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Gerrit A. Smit -TI- schrieb: If you don't want to have the full dumps seen by amrecovery why don't you create a separate set for it? Having a separate set means having a separate configuration, right? Not a full separate configuration. In ~/KDD/amanda.conf (KDD is

Re: ssh tunneling from wherever

2007-08-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:29:40PM -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote: Any clues to offer? I've never tried this, but I think you should take a look at the SSH documentation for port forwarding. Run on the client, ssh -l 10080:server:port server 'sleep 7000' means that connections to port port on

Re: ssh tunneling from wherever

2007-08-07 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: All in all, it sounds like a lot of work, unless this is a months-long conference :) Which is why it would be really nice to have a different triggering method for performing backups on roaming laptops. Something that begins with the laptop

Amanda client on SCO Openserver

2007-08-07 Thread Kenneth Berry
Hello all, I have a problem when trying to compile amanda 2.5.2p1 on an SCO Openserver 5.0.7. I have made it through about 25 years with only having to compile from a tarball a hand full of times, so I am not very knowledgeble in this area. Questions: 1. Is SCO Openserver 5.0.7 a supported OS?

Re: Amanda client on SCO Openserver

2007-08-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:23:01PM -0500, Kenneth Berry wrote: 1. Is SCO Openserver 5.0.7 a supported OS? I can find very little discussion on the Internet. If you didn't get a warning beginning with * This machine, target type , is not known to be fully supported by this

Re: Amanda client on SCO Openserver

2007-08-07 Thread Kenneth Berry
I have not heard from anyone with SCO experience yet. I have not had time to search for the warning message yet. I will report my findings later. Kenneth On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 15:04 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:23:01PM -0500, Kenneth Berry wrote: 1. Is SCO

a client disappeared

2007-08-07 Thread Glenn English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Debian etch, VERSION=Amanda-2.5.1p1 One of the two clients on the DMZ has stopped responding to the server on the LAN -- both amcheck and amdump. diff says .amandahosts is identical on the 2 DMZ machines, and stat shows amcheck causing the file's

Re: a client disappeared

2007-08-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:39:24PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: One of the two clients on the DMZ has stopped responding to the server on the LAN -- both amcheck and amdump. A few things to check: - forward or reverse DNS doesn't work for the server or the client. - firewall on the client

Re: a client disappeared

2007-08-07 Thread Glenn English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: A few things to check: - forward or reverse DNS doesn't work for the server or the client. Hadn't thought of that. But unfortunately, it works perfectly. - firewall on the client changed It did change, but it's the

Re: a client disappeared

2007-08-07 Thread Frank Smith
Glenn English wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: A few things to check: - forward or reverse DNS doesn't work for the server or the client. Hadn't thought of that. But unfortunately, it works perfectly. - firewall on the client changed

Re: a client disappeared

2007-08-07 Thread Glenn English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Smith wrote: If it works on the command line, try restarting inetd, and also check the system logs to see if inetd has trouble starting it. Bingo! Looks like maybe we had a little update. ps aux | grep inetd said inetd wasn't running. In

Re: ssh tunneling from wherever

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Newcomb
Mitch Collinsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: All in all, it sounds like a lot of work, unless this is a months-long conference :) I agree. Changing a working backup configuration in order to handle a temporarily out-of-town condition is just

Re: ssh tunneling from wherever

2007-08-07 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On 6 Aug 2007, Steve Newcomb wrote: Greetings from the Extreme Markup Languages Conference in Montreal. (Which is a great conference but it's not what this note is about.) Here I am at the Europa hotel with pretty good internet service. Unfortunately, as in most such away-from-home