Re: How to force amanda to serialize dumper/taper

speed), and I'm using a software-RAID0 on Linux in order to guarantee bandwidth. That seems to work very fine so far. Since your holding disk is a PATA drive, a second one should not be that expensive. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * +33-1 42 62 31 95 * +33-6 89 65 36 58 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: runtapes < {total size of dump}?

cause your dump size was too big; those will be done on the next run. Depending on your holding disk size and reserve parameter, a few dumps may also end up on the holding disk after the first run; with autoflush, they'll be flushed on the next run. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * +33-1 42 62 31

Re: Leaving backups on disk vs. using file driver

just fine. Whether that would allow one to backup to holding disk alone, I don't know. At the very least, you would have to remove old dumps by hand whenever you don't need them any more. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: error

es in. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: error

cling? Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: error

Alexander Jolk wrote: If the same error manifests itself with different tapes, try reading the files in your holding disk: cd /var/amanda/cache cat */* > /dev/null It might just be you've got an error on your holding disk. Checking the syslog is certainly a good idea as well. S

Re: error

your holding disk: cd /var/amanda/cache cat */* > /dev/null It might just be you've got an error on your holding disk. Checking the syslog is certainly a good idea as well. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: I/O error on labelling

label, done. You mean the `Input/output error'? That is normal; your tape hadn't been used before and amanda tried to read a former tape label off it. Since the tape was emtpy, it couldn't complete that first read. That's normal behaviour for amlabel. Alex

Re: Fixed amcheck, one more question (or two)

tapes again when you want to overwrite them. As long as you put the same label on them that is already there, amlabel shouldn't complain. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

ously, not the files they point to), independently of where they point or, for that matter, whether their target exists or not. If that's not what you observe, or what the consensus on the list indicates, I think there's something wrong. Alex -- Alexander Jolk /

Re: amdump frozen

' will notice the dumpers dying, and continue to properly cleanup and send the report. Otherwise, `amcheck' will advise you of possible problems, and advise you to run `amcleanup' which you should do. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

an you try cat'ting the file to /dev/null? My first guess would be that some blocks of the holding disk file are unreadable due to a disk failure. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Missing Results

Luis Rodrigues wrote: One something more weird: You seem to have 2 entries for those DLE's: one succeeded, one missing. How did you get 2 lines for one DLE??? Thats what I would like to know. autoflush, by any chance? Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1

Re: Would like to get list's impression on (amanda 4TB backup)

ead to holding disk.) Note that with this setup, one can also run several instances of amdump in parallel, limited to one instance per client host. They might be scheduled according to other criteria, like intermittent visibility of mobile hosts for example, or different schedules for non-critica

Re: quick help needed on changer problem

listrcv wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/sbin/amtape condor slot 7 amtape: could not load slot /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx:: line 605: [: 6:VolumeTag=: integer expression expected Could you do a `mtx status' and send us the output? Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagni

Re: amrestore: error reading file header: Device or resource busy

of your backups are corrupted, mind. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Scalability information sought

Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:45:35AM +0200, Alexander Jolk wrote: On one of my two site, we have 20TB total disk capacity, of which about 16TB is in use; on two servers, 800GB nightly (two 200GB LTO-2 tapes per server per night); 45 clients, split into about 2200 individual

Re: Scalability information sought

ients, split into about 2200 individual DLEs. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Change of tape drive unit

Guy Dallaire wrote: 2006/4/28, Alexander Jolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Guy Dallaire wrote: (BTW: for some reason I have to recreate those links at boot time in /etc/rc.local because they do not survive a reboot, I don't know why...) Might this be udev on Linux? Maybe Then yo

Re: Change of tape drive unit

tape names do not change, and you never have two tapes carrying the same name. Unless you really want the tapes to be numbered starting from -001. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: how to split partitions

sion under the sun. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Is my tape drive "shoe shinning" ?

and scale the figures appropriately. In that case, 20Mb/s might be a bit slow. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Ultrium tapetype

tapes written with a different blocksize, or will I have to recover them manually? Will she correctly overwrite recycled tapes with the new blocksize? Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: One DLE too many!

BTW amanda handles quite happily those many DLEs, although the report mails do get a bit long. :-) Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: amrecover tar: ./tmp/enterprise-file-recovery: Cannot open: Not a directory

I always restore (space permitting) into my machine's local /tmp as root, in order to avoid this kind of problem. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Slow dump of small directory...

? I get these very often. Your dump isn't really taking so long, in fact it's been finished for quite some time. For tiny (essentially empty) dumps, amstatus sometimes doesn't seem to notice them being finished. I haven't investigated any further. Alex -- Alexander Jolk

Re: gnutar error messages configurable?

;t seem to help. You need to put "./media" into the exclude file. Everything should work just fine with that. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: R: R: Problem with 2 tapes backup

euse'. On the other hand if you lost a tape, `amrmtape' is what you want. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: R: Problem with 2 tapes backup

ssing something about your wanting to impose a humanly-reasonable tape ordering, but amanda really doesn't like that; there are possibilities but you'd need to explain what you are trying to do in a bit more detail. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42

Re: Problem with 2 tapes backup

ll take it right away. As usual, giving the exact messages concerning tape handling that you encountered, would be helpful... Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: R: Verify backup

(simple) checksum that will catch most errors at this stage. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: how to dd if=... a chunked dump blob?

| tar tvf - | ... or you use amrestore on the holding file. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: please check your config and use a config file for chg-scsi

use chg-zd-mtx? If your changer works with mtx, that might be simpler to set up. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: flush and dump to the same tape?

Yan Seiner wrote: Is it possible to flush and dump to the same tape? You want the `autoflush' option of recent amanda versions. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: trouble with AMANDA server (taper) on amd64 using Debian/AMD64/Sarge

James D. Freels wrote: I am also using the aic7xxx driver also in a vanilla 2.6.14.2 kernel. You might also want to tell linux-scsi about this problem, I recall there's been a few aic7xxx related problems lately. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

fact we see that the estimate size is correctly identified. Could you show the corresponding amandad debug file please? Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

Sebastian Kösters wrote: I found this in /tmp/amanda on the client [...] sendsize[25487]: time 1519.255: . Did you cut something here? That would have been what was interesting. sendsize[25487]: estimate time for /pst level 0: 1519.252 Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

hour on /pst. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

: No empty Archive created. You forgot the last dot `.' on the command line as given in the debug file. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

following command: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /pst --one-file-system --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/pst_pst_0.new What happens if you run that command by hand? (And wait until completion, obviously.) Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL

Re: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

meout', which is english for `estimate timeout'. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: AW: Estimate timeout from server

e confirmation that there are no files. The version number of amanda, and the relevant platforms. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Connection refused by peer

r if you want more than one tape per run, or just set runtapes to 1. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Connection refused by peer

Thomas Wegner wrote: But in /var/log/amanda/backup_woche/amdump.1 are these lines: [...] taper: tape changer failed with exit status -1 Could you try without a changer, or debug your changer script? That might be the problem. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Connection refused by peer

Thomas Wegner wrote: [...] NOTES: planner: tapecycle (1) <= runspercycle (1) [...] Have anyone suggestions about a solution? Hmm, I sense a suggestion looming behind that line of your report... Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1

Re: Tape size problem

it has reached the end of the device even though it is a 200G native tape. Are you sure your drive and tapes are LTO-2? I'm using LTO-2 with hardware compression off, and I routinely hit EOT around 206 million KB. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68

Re: amrecover questions ??

er from using `sethost' (unless you wanted lnxdev.ncci.com), and then the disk (DLE) that you are looking for, using `setdisk'. This should be explained in the amrecover manpage. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Fwd: Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

ation unreachable (UDP port 10080 unreachable) As Paul said, your inetd configuration is wrong. Either you didn't configure it correctly on bkpclient, or you forgot to restart inetd after changing /etc/inetd.conf. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: no space left on device during amflush

change anything recently in your amanda.conf? If you are on linux, do you have a pseudo filesystem mounted on /dev/shm? In that case, what does `df -lh' give you? Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

essage? Unless you mixed up both machines when you edited the hostnames in your example. Please confirm the exact error message that you are getting; if you think you need to edit the hostnames, triple-check what you are doing; and please give us the debug files in /tmp/amanda/ from the mach

Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

a/ on tapesrv, that's where your problem is. And yes, even local backup (from a disk on tapesrv to a tape on tapesrv) go over a net connection, so check inetd, xinetd, services etc. *on tapesrv*. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: R: Question about changing Tape Drive

different blocksizes as well. You need to debug this first before going back to amanda's config. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: My Monthly archive config - issue (Trying to source and use a tape changer if possible)

ittle more than 20GB before gzip. Just use one *or* the other of hardware and software compression; general consensus on the list is that software compression is better if you can spare the cycles. Look in the archives for reasons if you are interested. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagni

Re: Using amrecover - strange happenings

il, getting the directories well before the actual files is completely normal for a tar ball. If you can get to the rest of the file, your files will most probably be there. BTW, check the syslog for SCSI errors, just in case. What platform are you on, you said? (OS, tape format?) Alex --

Re: Using amrecover - strange happenings

they have changed since the last lower level. Which means that you can get in your index files, a backup of the files from august 5th because they changed on that day, and a backup of the directories from august 11th without the files, because the files stayed identical. Alex -- Alexander J

Re: Symbolic links

be able to read tar 1.15 archives just fine. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: error recovery

rver setdisk /dir/subdir add file Also when amanda first sees the newly created DLEs, she will have to do a level 0 on them; you might want to stage splitting of several disks over a few days, or possibly right before a level 0 is due. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [

Re: error recovery

o big for a tape in themselves, get a message along the lines of `dump larger than tape', I recall. Since you seem to have 30GB tapes, splitting up those dumps above 3GB might be a good idea anyway, of course. (Think optimisation of tape usage, and restore speed.) Alex -- Alexander Jolk

Re: error recovery

with a .tmp extension on your holding disk. amcleanup deletes those, prepares index files, and sends the amreport mail. It doesn't touch existing, completed dumps on your holding disk. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: What does your DLT IIIXT and DLT4 tapetype look like

ape length, whatever you put in there doesn't have any real influence on amanda's operation. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: R: "Force" amdump?

amlabel instead of amtape? Yes of course, I'm stupid. amlabel is the command, not amtape. :-) Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: "Force" amdump?

i/o error occurred while writing the first file, you can just remove and re-add the tape from amanda's pool: amrmtape label16 amtape label16 amanda will claim this tape before all others. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fa

Re: planner timeouts

ccount, perhaps? And the obligatory question, did you double-check that there's no firewall between that particular client and server? (If you did, triple-check. :-) ) Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Help restoring

der) dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k count=1 | file -z - (which should tell you that you have a gzip compressed tar archive) If this is not the case, you might really use the rewinding device; in that case, try to find out why that's the case. You really don't want amanda to use the rewinding one.

Re: Help restoring

re on while you're at it, so that we don't stress our crystal balls too much. :-) Alex PS. Are you sure you want to restore directly into /etc, if that's what you're doing? -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: BSD Users: Barcode Readers w/ chio(1)/mtx(1) ?

, cut myself a few times, and I get all the barcodes I want at negligible cost. The command line for LTO labels on A4 paper that I use, BTW is: barcode -o code.ps -e code39 -umm -g75x15 -t2x15 -pa4 -m15x2 -c Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: AIT2 tape size?

sounds like hardware compression of already software-compressed data. Are you sure you are not using both? (Or else, are AITs as intelligent as LTOs in not recompressing already compressed data?) Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: amrecover output

com/list/amanda-users/ (the second one is actually linked from www.amanda.org). Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: amrecover output

chive. Your version (which is probably 1.14.x) has problems restoring sparse files, and any file following a sparse one. Have a search in the archives for more information. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: ssh keys only

k search in this mailing list's archives will give you a complete solution with iptables, or else just open TCP and UDP between your amanda server and the amanda client in question. Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 * Fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: R: LTO-2 - Tape Type

://www.amanda.org/cgi-bin/fom? There are lots of tapetypes, among them a few LTO-2 tapetypes. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Spindle settings in the disklist

nterrupted an amdump, then re-started it while the estimate on the clients was still running. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Search file in amanda database

th an `argument list too long' error, find -type f | xargs zgrep pippo.sh ) Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: amverify error

ed by amverify which immediately locks the tape drive again. Yes, it would be nice if amverify was detected just as amdump and amflush are, by amcheck. I'm pretty sure patches would be welcome for this, unless this particular snag is already corrected in amanda 2.4.5. Alex -- Alex

Re: Seeking message clarification.

labelled `AM-140', after writing about 206GB in 139 files, it got into trouble with the error message `No space left'. Which is, of course, quite reasonable. Hope this helps, Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: dealing w/ huge data backups

tar 1 draco /raid2 { svcomp-work-tar exclude append "./PROJECT" exclude append "./DESC_SCANS" exclude append "./GENERIC" exclude append "./GAME" exclude append "./SPRITE" exclude append "./TMP" } 1 # end draco:/raid2 Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: disk offline?

amanda, use whatever notation you are more comfortable with; to me, that would be directories, for other, that might be devices. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Config for SpectraLogic 2000?

configure chg-zd-mtx by following the instructions in amanda.conf and the chg-zd-mtx script in amanda's libexec directory. Actually quite straightforward, you should be going in less than an hour. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: disk offline?

aken into account? Again, the files in /tmp/amanda/ on the client will tell you that. You will notably find the complete command line that amanda uses for tar, in one of these files. It doesn't hurt to try that line and see whether it fails; most probably the solution will

Re: Test message

copies, as of this week-end (29 may). I'm attaching the one I'm replying to with all headers if you want to have a look. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29 --- Begin Message --- Hello, amanda-users, as some of yo

Re: AMANDA-docs Update

newcomers to identify more easily where parameters are to be tuned in case something doesn't work out. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: tar versions (was Re: "implausibly old time stamp")

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: Did you compile from source or use the debian package from sid? I compiled from source and installed tar into a different location. Now if only one could specify which tar to use for amrecover, that would be most perfect. :-) Alex -- Alexander Jolk

tar versions (was Re: "implausibly old time stamp")

r-1.14, due to `sparse archive members'. As had been discussed on this list a few times already, installing tar-1.15.1 fixed the problem, I could restore from the existing archives without any problem. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Forcing amanda to rescan the changer ?

The current slot at the end of a mass labeling session, is probably the last one; amanda has no preference whatsoever among those several `new' tapes, so she'd take that one. If you want her to take the first one instead, do an amtape slot first after labeling. Alex -- Alexander Jolk

Re: amrecover issue when I run ./configure that I believe causeing another issue down the line

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Re: ERROR: new tape not found in rack

-stuck your problem, but just a note: a date stamp of zero means to amanda that the tape has never been used before. Since you had two tapes with non-zero dates I believe, amanda would prefer the unused tapes to them. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28

Re: tapelist~ file ?

Guy Dallaire wrote: I have a file named tapelist~ in my amanda config directory. Can it be safely removed ? That's an editor backup file, emacs perhaps. amanda doesn't use it for anything. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: WARNING: server.domian.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

between the server and client parts don't get received. Can you double check whether your Firewall is switched off? Note that there has been a hint on firewall configuration yesterday on the list. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1

Re: WARNING: server.domian.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

nd And now do you have messages in /tmp/amanda? Could you cite them? Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Simple "rendezvous" mechanism before starting backup ?

That seems simpler to me than whipping up a second channel, even if it should be rather easy to do with netcat or perl. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

r. Great! Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

upposed to be SUID root, I think that for the time being, a note in the docs is all that we can do. (The relevant code seems to be in client-src/client_util.c, functions build_include() and add_include().) Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

erl script that does something like this. It is quite simple because I read all my disks over NFS, and I already run a local `du -xks' on all my servers once a week. If anybody is interested in this script, mail me in private. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

e an idea of how one could possibly circumvent this problem? Fortunately, we know exactly at what time an old DLE can completely be forgotten about (when its last index has been killed). Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Amanda question

ait for dumping' is typical during the amdump run. Did you let it finish? Did you receive an amreport e-mail? Could you forward it to the list? Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

Rodrigo Ventura wrote: Alexander Jolk wrote: Ahm, sorry, I don't quite follow you there. Your sendbackup.* files are empty, zero bytes? Yeah, zero bytes. Barring an installation problem that others have suggested, could you tell us whether there are any files of nonzero size in /tmp/a

Re: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

ferent version of gzip wouldn't hurt of course, as would looking in your system logs for SCSI errors. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

`gtar' in order to differentiate it from the system's native `tar'. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

ould you try your extraction with gtar? Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29

Re: very large dumps in holding area

Vicki Stanfield wrote: I am on Debian Woody (Linux). The version I have doesn't seem to support the defcompression or the compression options, so I am unsure how to make the change permanent. On my Debian woody system, mt has the `datcompression' option. The associate Debian package is `cpio'.

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