Re: gtar 1.13.25 follows symlinks?

2008-09-19 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20080919 13:07]: > man tar > -C, --directory DIR > change to directory DIR > > It change the directory to '/data/nihpd/nihpd3/users' and then backup '.' > > It is the expected behaviou

Re: gtar 1.13.25 follows symlinks?

2008-09-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man tar -C, --directory DIR change to directory DIR It change the directory to '/data/nihpd/nihpd3/users' and then backup '.' It is the expected behaviour. The DLE should not be a symlink if you don't want to follow it. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: A funny thing

gtar 1.13.25 follows symlinks?

2008-09-19 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
A funny thing happened when I forced a full of a DLE on a client. I had noticed a few days before that a user had moved the content of the entire DLE (/data/nihpd/nihpd3/users) to another disk and replaced it with a symlink pointing to its new location: # ls -ld /data/nihpd/nihpd3/users lrwxr-xr-x

Re: Amrecover help

2008-09-19 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Prashant Ramhit schrieb: This is what annoying, i do not have calisto on my DNS. Calisto does not exist anywhere. Even on the config files. Where does it get calisto name from?? Maybe amanda-client.conf on the machine you started amrecover? And how to edit that? vi, emacs, kate, kedit,...

Re: Amrecover help

2008-09-19 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Prashant Ramhit schrieb: NAK: user root from localhost is not allowed to execute the service amindexd: Please add "amindexd amidxtaped" to the line in /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts on the client In the the following correct? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/amanda/fullback# more /var/lib/amanda/.amand

Re: Amrecover help

2008-09-19 Thread Prashant Ramhit
Hi Martin, This is what annoying, i do not have calisto on my DNS. Calisto does not exist anywhere. Even on the config files. Where does it get calisto name from?? And how to edit that? Thanks Prashant Martin.Hepworth wrote: Prashant Looks like the calisto hostname can't be resolved in DN

Re: Amrecover help

2008-09-19 Thread Prashant Ramhit
Hi All I did the following. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/amanda/fullback# amrecover -C fullback -s localhost -t localhost -d /dev/nst0 AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2. Contacting server on localhost ... NAK: user root from localhost is not allowed to execute the service amindexd: Please add "amindexd amidx

RE: Amrecover help

2008-09-19 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Prashant Looks like the calisto hostname can't be resolved in DNS.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prashant Ramhit > Sent: 19 September 2008 13

Amrecover help

2008-09-19 Thread Prashant Ramhit
Hi All, I think I did a backup sucessfully, but I cannot check as i do not have a logs although the folder /var/log/amanda/fullback was created. 1. How do I switch the logs in the config so as to check the status of the backup. 2. amrecover is giving this message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/ama

Re: Errors on labeling tape

2008-09-19 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Prashant Ramhit schrieb: I figured it out, i was relating to an old documentation config from the internet. Best and newest documentation of amanda you can find in the wiki: http://wiki.zmanda.com -- Marc Muehlfeld (Leitung IT) Zentrum fuer Humangenetik und Laboratoriumsmedizin Dr. Klein und

Re: Errors on labeling tape

2008-09-19 Thread Prashant Ramhit
Hi All, Many thanks for your reply, I figured it out, i was relating to an old documentation config from the internet. My new holding disk config is a follows. org "BackupServer - Daily Tape" mailto "root" dumpuser "amanda" inparallel 4 netusage 600 # a filesystem is due for a full backup on

Re: Availability of Amanda Solaris10/Open Solaris package

2008-09-19 Thread Nick Smith
Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Paddy, It's great that there is a packaged version of Amanda again. Why are you installing it /usr/libexec/*, /usr/bin & /var/lib/amanda? I tried to keep the same location as Linux versions. Se