Re: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK (with secondary addr on eth0 only)

2008-02-28 Thread Francis Galiegue
Le vendredi 29 février 2008, Luc Lalonde a écrit : > Hello folks, > > I'm finally upgrading from the Amanda v2.4.x series to v2.5.2p1. My > configuration worked fine with the old v2.4.x series... However, I'm > having some strangeness with the new version... in particular with > clients that

selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK (with secondary addr on eth0 only)

2008-02-28 Thread Luc Lalonde
Hello folks, I'm finally upgrading from the Amanda v2.4.x series to v2.5.2p1. My configuration worked fine with the old v2.4.x series... However, I'm having some strangeness with the new version... in particular with clients that have a primary and secondary ipaddr on the same interface (e

Re: DLT8000 vs. VS80

2008-02-28 Thread Aaron J. Grier
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:16:14AM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: > From my experience I would say the seller is correct. I haven't tried > using DLTVS80 tapes with DLT8000, but I know for a fact that the > opposite can't be done - tapes that were written with DLT8000 cannot > be read with DLTVS. The onl

Re: Backing up VMware-VMs

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
maintaining consistency by top posting. ;-) All of what Curtis is saying matches what Sun says in its documentation of fssnap snapshots and backing up with ufsdump. They have always said that you should drop into single user mode to do backups. Nobody does, because they just can't in a product

RE: Backing up VMware-VMs

2008-02-28 Thread Curtis Preston
I hate to beat a dead horse, but searching for "crash consistent" in the manual also finds this: "VMFS also features enterprise-class crash consistency and recovery mechanisms, such as distributed journaling, a crash consistent virtual machine I/O path, and machine state snapshots. These mechanism

RE: Backing up VMware-VMs

2008-02-28 Thread Curtis Preston
Here's some further information from the VMware manuals. I searched for the word snapshot in all manuals here: http://pubs.vmware.com/vi35/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm First, you CAN take a snapshot of a powered-off machine. From the manual: "You can take a snapshot while a virtual machin

RE: Backing up VMware-VMs

2008-02-28 Thread Curtis Preston
After consulting with two VMware experts, I stand by my original statement, that a snapshot of a vm is a crash consistent copy, which means that it's just like someone pulled the power plug. It is NOT like someone suspending a VM. There are 3rd party products that provide additional levels of con

amlabel problem

2008-02-28 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hello Amanda users, I had the jukebox I use on one of my SGI/IRIX Amanda servers fail and we reverted to the attached standalone SDLT 220. I modified amanda.conf to use the different tape drive and to not use any changer config. I was able to label (one/day) a few tapes (and write them that eve

Re: amflush and splitted disk entry

2008-02-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:36 AM, julien brule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scanning /Data/amanda/amanda-hold... > 20080227004501: found Amanda directory. > skipping cruft directory, perhaps you should delete it. > skipping system directory > skipping system directory > Could not find any va

amflush and splitted disk entry

2008-02-28 Thread julien brule
Hi all, i have a disk entry using the split parameter. i had an [out of tape] error and the data are in my holding disk but when i run amflush i get this error : Scanning /Data/amanda/amanda-hold... 20080227004501: found Amanda directory. skipping cruft directory, perhaps you should delete i