Re: restarting amanda after updating amanda.conf

2007-11-19 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Gil Vidals wrote: I'm new to Amanda and after several days of reading the docs. I'm still unclear as to when is it necessary to restart Amanda. In particular, is it necessary for me to restart amanda after making changes to the amanda.conf file on the tapehost? If so, what is the proper way

restarting amanda after updating amanda.conf

2007-11-19 Thread Gil Vidals
I'm new to Amanda and after several days of reading the docs. I'm still unclear as to when is it necessary to restart Amanda. In particular, is it necessary for me to restart amanda after making changes to the amanda.conffile on the tapehost? If so, what is the proper way to restart amanda? --Gil

Re: Problem with Exclude Lists

2007-11-19 Thread Steven Backus
>From Jean-Louis Martineau writes: > I think your exclude will match nothing, you should read gnutar > documentation. > Use './gen13/coal/r03/noback' or './gen13/coal/r03/noback/*'. Thanks very much! I didn't even think of that, it really helps to have someone else look at your problem. Steve

Re: Problem with Exclude Lists

2007-11-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steven Backus wrote: Here is gen13-excludelist: ./gen13/coal/r03/noback/ I'm using amanda 2.5.2p1. Is this too deep to exclude? Can anyone help me debug this? I think your exclude will match nothing, you should read gnutar documentation. Use './gen13/coal/r03/noback' or './gen13/coal/r03

Re: Network backups.

2007-11-19 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Chris Kottaridis wrote: I want to remotely backup a machine and I want the data to have some sort of encryption while it is going across the net between the client and server. I don't want to store the data encrypted on the tape or on the server's holding disk. I just want to make sure data doe

Re: [Mtx-general] mtx error, used with amanda

2007-11-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
Craig, On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 07:51:00AM +1100, Craig Dewick wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > >Platform, Solaris 9, Amanda 2.4.4, MTX 1.3.9 > >Nope, not fixed, here are updated logs, any help would be apreciated. > > > >Oddly... we seem ok on the C2 jukebox but not the L9,

Problem with Exclude Lists

2007-11-19 Thread Steven Backus
I have several excludelists and most work but one doesn't. Here's an example of one that works. In amanda.conf: define dumptype comp-ambiance-home1-tar { global exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/genepi/home1-excludelist" program "GNUTAR" comment "user partitions dumped with ta

Re: [Mtx-general] mtx error, used with amanda

2007-11-19 Thread Craig Dewick
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Brian Cuttler wrote: Platform, Solaris 9, Amanda 2.4.4, MTX 1.3.9 Nope, not fixed, here are updated logs, any help would be apreciated. Oddly... we seem ok on the C2 jukebox but not the L9, same software on the same machine. Not even matching machines, two amanda configs on

Network backups.

2007-11-19 Thread Chris Kottaridis
I want to remotely backup a machine and I want the data to have some sort of encryption while it is going across the net between the client and server. I don't want to store the data encrypted on the tape or on the server's holding disk. I just want to make sure data doesn't go across the net in th

Re: [Mtx-general] mtx error, used with amanda

2007-11-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
apes and its only > an L9 (9 tapes) with a limited tape pool of about 40 tapes, manually > updated weekly. > amtape notesx update amtape: scanning all 6 slots in tape-changer rack: slot 6: date X label NOTESX20 slot 1: date 20071119 label NOTESX15 slot : could not read result from &

Re: Amanda inside a Virtual Machine?

2007-11-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
Stefan, I think a related thread was discussed a couple of weeks ago. In my case, this is not something I'm doing, not running amanda within the virtual machine. Rather I am running amanda in the (Solaris) global-zone and using it to backup the non-global zone data, since its the partent/owner of

Amanda inside a Virtual Machine?

2007-11-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, amanda-users, has anyone successfully tried to use Amanda inside a VM, especially one running on VMware ESX Server? ESX does bring its own hardened OS and from the infos I got so far it isn't possible to just install additional software (I will test that as soon my test license is here).

mtx error, used with amanda

2007-11-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
Opps, seem to have fixed the error myself, before bugging either list, however I will present the following in case there is something that might be generally helpful. My "fix" was to disable the barcode reader in the amanda config file that sets the mtx parameters. This is acceptable at my site

Re: amdump doesn't listen to -o option

2007-11-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The problem is in the changer script, it doesn't use the -otapedev. The fix is to tell amdump to not use the changer: amdump ... -o tapedev=/no/such/device -o "tpchanger=" Jean-Louis Gerrit A. Smit -TI- wrote: We have a tape-robot with tapes to dump on, but sometimes I don't want to dump to t

amdump doesn't listen to -o option

2007-11-19 Thread Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
We have a tape-robot with tapes to dump on, but sometimes I don't want to dump to tape directly: the data of some small clients, which are available during the Monday morning meeting of their users, should be hold, to be flushed to tape as side-effect of the nightly dumps of the other clients. Unt

Re: slow and only 1 dumper?

2007-11-19 Thread Charles Stroom
Thanks for the replies. I have now parallel dumpers, and they seem to be running faster as well. Regards, Charles On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:56:35 -0500 Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > amstatus clearly tell you it run one dumper because of 'no-bandwidth'. > You must increase 'net

Re: could not connect DATA stream

2007-11-19 Thread Paul Bijnens
sorry for top-posting, but I give up. Or, my english is not good enough, or you succeed in answering clear questions with misty and foggy answers. On 2007-11-19 04:34, fedora wrote: Relabeling erases the tape, indeed. But why relabel it? Do you mean that you keep inserting the same tape over a