Re: amcheck - why run it?

on tape vs what is on the disk. Is it necessary to make sure you really have a valid backup? Bob... -- Robert Zahn UNIX Systems Administrator Oklahoma City Community College S. May Avenue Oklahoma City, Ok 73159 [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Albert Hopkins [EMAIL

Re: subscribe

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 11:21, Dalton, John L MONMOUTH ITS Multimax wrote: i want to get on this list... me too!

Any way to check status of amdump

I am running amanda-2.4.2p2-4 and and I have a script that does a amdump $CONF || exit 1 But it appears that amdump always returns status 0. Is there a (scriptable) way to determine if a dump completed successfully? What I want to know specifically is if the dumps went to tape or if they went

amanda stuck in getting estimate

My nightly backups didn't run. When I run amstatus it appears to still be getting estimate for one client. The client is online and accessible. When I do a netstat it appears that there are not amanda-related TCP connections to the client. So I wonder why it still thinks it's getting an

Re: amanda stuck in getting estimate

Well, my etimeout is 3600 seconds and they had been running for over 8 hours. Looking at the log files on the client, all of the estimates completed successfully. But I tracked the problem down. Had to do with a bad (enterprise?) Linux kernel on the client. Upgrading the kernel and rebooting

Re: Xinetd not starting amanda

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 08:44, Mozzi wrote: Hallo all when checking if amanda is listening on the correct ports. netstat -a | grep -i amanda any ideas how I can trouble shoot further? According to me evereything there must work Do you have disable = no in your amanda service config? --a

amdump dumper process hangs (again)

I couple of weeks ago I was having trouble with amanda dumps for a particular disk The dump process would eat up lotsa CPU and could not be killed (have to reboot) I was able to determine that the disk it was backing up (using gnutar) was host:/home1 but in fact home1 was a symlink home1--home,

dumper will not die (uninterruptable)

I'm running amanda server on a Red Hat 7.2 system. This system replaced a 6.2 system (replaced the hardware). Since the past two nights it's been in operation, one of it's dumper processes doesn't seem to want to die. The top command reveals: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU

Re: Testing excludes

$ gtar -c -v -X exclude-file -f /dev/null /path on the amanda client On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 04:33, Stephen Carville wrote: Is there any way to test the patters in the exclude list for a disklist entry? -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator Ace Flood USA 310-342-3602

Amanda RedHat w kernel 2.2.19

, Albert -- Albert Hopkins Sr. Systems Specialist Dynacare Laboratories www.dynacare.com