Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-21 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Hi, dceola schrieb: I'm new to these forums, and am also new to Amanda, and still trying to learn my way around Linux (i'm using Fedora 7). Nothing important for your problem, but if you are new to Linux, I guess you like the easy way to keep your system secure and up to date. Maybe think

[Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-21 Thread dceola
Thanks for the response! I went with F7 as i had someone experienced with it assisting me in setting up my server, and at this point i have enough stuff on this server that it wouldn't be very easy to change to a different OS. With regards to the specific 'how to' guide i posted a link to

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2008-10-21 Thread dceola
This is an edited version of a previous post Thanks for the response! I went with F7 as i had someone experienced with it assisting me in setting up my server, and at this point i have enough stuff on this server that it wouldn't be very easy to change to a different OS. (edit) in

Re: [Amanda-users] 'Idiots Guide' for configuring Amanda on Linux?

2008-10-21 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
dceola schrieb: With regards to the specific 'how to' guide i posted a link to that i had been using, i made it through that guide up to the point of editing the changer.conf file and commenting out 4 specific lines in the /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx file. I believe my confusion lies in

Re: [Amanda-users] need advices on install/configure amanda on solaris 10

2008-10-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:11:34PM -0400, conandor wrote: ya. i running it on smf instead of xinetd. any idea how can i configure it to work? If I understand the issue... I add the amanda entries to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf, then when I hup inetd and check the system messages file,

client errors

2008-10-21 Thread Krahn, Anderson
I'm getting the following errors with amcheck -c Full A manda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: 10.1.1.80: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK Client check: 1 host checked in 30.031 seconds. 1 problem found. (brought to you by Amanda

Re: client errors

2008-10-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Krahn, Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting the following errors with amcheck –c Full Have you considered using bsdtcp authentication? Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

RE: client errors

2008-10-21 Thread Krahn, Anderson
Problem was with a library that needed to be linked on the client... ln -s /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 Fixed the issue.. Anderson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Krahn, Anderson Sent:

LTO-4 tapetype and blocksize

2008-10-21 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi, Just got a new HP LTO-4 tape drive and I've done some testing to get a tapetype entry for it and I don't see much of a difference between the default (32k) and higher values like 512k, 1024k and 2048k (see below). What are your experiences wrt to a specific choice of a blocksize for such a

Re: client errors

2008-10-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
I had that problem also, not the linking but when it came time to run # amcheck. --with-libraries=/opt/sfw/lib I resolved it by recompiling, with an additional ./configure option. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:19:35AM -0400, Krahn, Anderson wrote: Problem was with a library

bare metal restores

2008-10-21 Thread Johan Booysen
Does anyone know of a guide somewhere about using Amanda for bare metal restores? I know it can be done, but a monkey-see-monkey-do type guide would be of great help to me. Thanks.

Re: LTO-4 tapetype and blocksize

2008-10-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 at 12:22pm, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote Just got a new HP LTO-4 tape drive and I've done some testing to get a tapetype entry for it and I don't see much of a difference between the default (32k) and higher values like 512k, 1024k and 2048k (see below). What are your