Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, September 10, 2010 08:57:23 pm Dustin J. Mitchell did opine: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Florian Lengyel > > wrote: > > Shouldn't amcheck -m DailySet3 send email if there is a changer > > problem? I'm told that amcheck does not send the email. > > Yes, and normally it does, so

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
OK thanks for this. I must apologize to the list for the subject line. I suspect that whoever configured their system commented out the amcheck line in their crontab--but I don't have a way of verifying this. I will summarize to the list: 1. An email address that a human would read when a failur

Restoring/indexing

2010-09-10 Thread Jon Brown
Hi, couple of questions hopefully I can get clarified, Is there a way to have amrecover restore from multiple DLE's at the same time? Ideally by providing an input file that would specify the hosts/volumes/directories that I would like to have restored. What is the best way to recover an index

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:43:32 -0400 Florian Lengyel wrote: > I'm not familiar with vtapes, but in any case their amanda.conf file > has > > dumpcycle 1 day # the number of days in the normal dump cycle > runspercycle -1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days > # (4 weeks * 5 amdump

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
Let me ask another question -- is a selfcheck log generated by amcheck? See below. The person responsible for this system writes On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:30 PM, ** <***> wrote: > > If I never commented it inmy question would be "does amanda do a self > check before

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
I'm not familiar with vtapes, but in any case their amanda.conf file has dumpcycle 1 day # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle -1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays) tapecycle 25 tapes # the number of tape

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
Hi: I now have access to the backup system and can run my own checks. The report I received that AMANDA does not send email even when amcheck -m DailySet3 indicates a changer error seems to have been mistaken. (I needed access to the system to see for myself what was really going on. I leave asid

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Florian Lengyel > wrote: > > The following is the output of amcheck (version info listed below)--it > > reports a malformed response from the vtape changer and calls this a > "changer > > problem." On th

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Florian Lengyel wrote: > Shouldn't amcheck -m DailySet3 send email if there is a changer problem? I'm > told that amcheck does not send the email. Yes, and normally it does, so that's either mistakenly reported or there's a bug of some sort. Dustin -- Open Sour

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Florian Lengyel wrote: > The following is the output of amcheck (version info listed below)--it > reports > a malformed response from the vtape changer and calls this a "changer > problem." > On the other hand it ends by reporting "no problems found" and does > not

amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
Hi, The following is the output of amcheck (version info listed below)--it reports a malformed response from the vtape changer and calls this a "changer problem." On the other hand it ends by reporting "no problems found" and does not send the email address configured to receive notifications that