amrecover failed - time out contacting to server itself

2007-10-30 Thread fedora
hi all, I am having problem with amrecover.. amrecover DailySet1 AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p3. Contacting server on server.com ... [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK] the amrecover debug file was: amrecover: debug 1 pid 12565 ruid 0 euid 0: start at Tue Oct 30 16:35:10 2007 Reading conf

Re: could not connect DATA stream

2007-10-30 Thread fedora
this is the logs on dumper on server: dumper: connect_portrange: connect from 0.0.0.0.5 failed: Connection timed out dumper: connect_portrange: connect to 202.53.250.159.37782 failed: Connection timed out dumper: stream_client: Could not bind to port in range 5 - 50100. dumper:

amrecover fails

2007-10-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
I'm a long-time Amanda user, currently 2.5.1, under Mandriva 2007, and regularly perform backups; but have not needed to recover data for some while. Now I do :( I'm sure amrecover used to work, but may not have done since I upgraded to 2.5.1. Anyway: [EMAIL PROTECTED] recover]# amrecover

Re: discrepency between amadmin, logs and tape content?

2007-10-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
This bug is fixed in 2.5.3alpha, but the patch was not backported to 2.5.2p1. Can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, With amanda-2.5.2p1 I did an archive a few days ago and trying to restore it caused me a few problems: amfetchdump tells me that there is

Backups and Daylight Savings Time

2007-10-30 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
On another backup list I monitor, there was an instance of someone who had their system change time on October 28th. Two issues came out of this. One is that they may have failed to patch their system for the 2007 statutory changes in daylight savings time (it should change on Nov. 4th for

Re: amrecover fails

2007-10-30 Thread Paul Bijnens
Tony van der Hoff wrote: I'm a long-time Amanda user, currently 2.5.1, under Mandriva 2007, and regularly perform backups; but have not needed to recover data for some while. Now I do :( I'm sure amrecover used to work, but may not have done since I upgraded to 2.5.1. Anyway: [EMAIL

Re: Backups and Daylight Savings Time

2007-10-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:21:32PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Daylight Savings time laws changed affective Spring 2007 in the U.S. and Australia. I don't know what the situation is for other countries. There were patches to be applied according to your operating system. I applied

RE: Backups and Daylight Savings Time

2007-10-30 Thread donald.ritchey
Actually, the time period to avoid is Sunday morning from 0100 to 0300, since you will get hit as described below, except that the period of Fall danger is from 0100 to 0200 (all of these entries will get run twice). Fall DST causes the clocks to reset at 0200 back to 0100, so that period gets

Re: Backups and Daylight Savings Time

2007-10-30 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
You're absolutely right for the jurisdictions and time zones we are familiar with. And I like your idea of commenting the crontab. I think my note got tangled in the original post on the other list where the person posting was from the Czech Republic. They switched at 3:00am on October 28th,

Encryption, compression

2007-10-30 Thread Brian Cuttler
Amanda users, I may have missed it in the mailing list... I know that encryption came available in 2.5.0, either server side or client side, or the channel (though I think encrypting on the client provides an encrypted channel by default, true ?) Anyway, I was wondering and haven't seen... how

Re: Encryption, compression

2007-10-30 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Brian Cuttler wrote: Amanda users, I may have missed it in the mailing list... I know that encryption came available in 2.5.0, either server side or client side, or the channel (though I think encrypting on the client provides an encrypted channel by default, true ?) Anyway, I was wondering

RE: Encryption, compression

2007-10-30 Thread donald.ritchey
In my (admittedly limited) experience with encryption and compression, the rule of thumb has always been to compress first (removing exploitable redundancy and pattern repetitions) and then encrypt. It also has the advantage that you are encrypting less volume and reducing the exploitable

RE: Encryption, compression

2007-10-30 Thread Michael Loftis
Good crypto will produce relatively random output data. Compressing prior to encrypting if storing encrypted is typically a must. --On October 30, 2007 6:06:09 PM -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my (admittedly limited) experience with encryption and compression, the rule of thumb has

Multi-tape span failure

2007-10-30 Thread Tom Hansen
BACKGROUND INFO: I have Amanda 2.5.2p1 running on Ubuntu linux 6.10, configured to backup several large (300Gb +) filesystems spanning several tapes. I have a robot changer, LTO1 tapes (100Gb capacity) and I used: tape_splitsize 3Gb fallback_splitsize 256m (An unrelated issue: I