Re: only one slot recognized

2008-11-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Nicholas Brockner wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, Please see inline. Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What's in your changer config file? -sh-3.2$ more changer.conf changerdev=/dev/sg3 havereader=1 offline_before_unload=1 OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1 poll_drive_ready=10 Max_drive_wait=99 unloadpause=20

Re: only one slot recognized

2008-11-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Try to put tape in the library, chg-zd-mtx automatically skip empty slot. Jean-Louis Nicholas Brockner wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Nicholas Brockner wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, Please see inline. Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What's in your changer config file? -sh-3.2$ more changer.conf

Huge file number in one directory makes problems while recovering

2008-11-21 Thread Uwe Beger
Hello list members, I am using amanda since many years successfully (and with still an old version VERSION=Amanda-2.4.4p3) for backing up a small server. The backup scheme is comp-user-tar for the disklist entry in question. I try to restore one subdirectory of this disklist entry

Re: Huge file number in one directory makes problems while recovering

2008-11-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-11-21 15:38, Uwe Beger wrote: Hello list members, I am using amanda since many years successfully (and with still an old version VERSION=Amanda-2.4.4p3) for backing up a small server. The backup scheme is comp-user-tar for the disklist entry in question. I try to restore one

My amrecover failure revisited

2008-11-21 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Conditions still the same, but last night I was again forced to use dd to extract a directory from a backup vtape file, amrecover again complaining it cannot find the Daily-18 vtape. And if you ask it to rescan, there seems to be a lock on chg-disk and it cannot access chg-disk to

Re: only one slot recognized

2008-11-21 Thread Nicholas Brockner
Hi Jean-Louis, Please see inline. Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What's in your changer config file? -sh-3.2$ more changer.conf changerdev=/dev/sg3 havereader=1 offline_before_unload=1 OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1 poll_drive_ready=10 Max_drive_wait=99 unloadpause=20 driveslot=0 What's the output of

Re: My amrecover failure revisited

2008-11-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host coyote. Load tape Dailys-13 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Volume labeled 'Dailys-13' not found. Load tape Dailys-13 now Continue [?/Y/n/d]? Is amanda_changer set to

Re: only one slot recognized

2008-11-21 Thread Nicholas Brockner
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Nicholas Brockner wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, Please see inline. Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What's in your changer config file? -sh-3.2$ more changer.conf changerdev=/dev/sg3 havereader=1 offline_before_unload=1 OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1 poll_drive_ready=10

Re: only one slot recognized

2008-11-21 Thread Nicholas Brockner
Dustin, Thanks. I guess it was working correctly after I added the firstslot and lastslot parameters, but the difference from amanda 2.5.X threw me off. This is what I get when I have only 7 tapes loaded in a 16 tape autoloader (tapes in slots 10-16): amtape: scanning all 16 slots in

Re: only one slot recognized

2008-11-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Nicholas Brockner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I get when I have only 7 tapes loaded in a 16 tape autoloader (tapes in slots 10-16): Amanda gets confused when doing its scan if you have empty slots. This is due to a design flaw in the use of changers

Re: My amrecover failure revisited

2008-11-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 21 November 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host coyote. Load tape Dailys-13 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Volume labeled 'Dailys-13' not found. Load tape Dailys-13 now

Re: My amrecover failure revisited

2008-11-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not an 'amanda_changer' in my old amanda.conf, remember this thing can darned near be exempt from child labor laws. I do have: Sorry, I meant 'amrecover_changer'. I'd have to look at the logs to see what happened, then.

Re: My amrecover failure revisited

2008-11-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 21 November 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not an 'amanda_changer' in my old amanda.conf, remember this thing can darned near be exempt from child labor laws. I do have: Sorry, I meant 'amrecover_changer'. I'd

Re: My amrecover failure revisited

2008-11-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 21 November 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not an 'amanda_changer' in my old amanda.conf, remember this thing can darned near be exempt from child labor laws. I do have: Sorry, I meant 'amrecover_changer'. I'd

am check / dump problems

2008-11-21 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently brought up a client on a new install of Debian Lenny. amcheck says all is well, but amdump says it doesn't got estimates on any of the DLEs, one of which is / (at least one of them exists). How can that happen? (The other clients are