The Old Selfcheck Request Timed Out Issue 2

2003-02-12 Thread Brad Tilley
I was getting ready to reinstall amanda on our backup server when I got an email from amanda saying that the nightly backup had finished! Got the report and everyhting. Here's the the story in a nutshell: amcheck times out, but amdump runs perfectly!!! Can you guys beleive that!?! This same *exac

Re: Documentation

2002-06-23 Thread Brad Tilley
I'll send you a copy once it's complete. I wouldn't want to send it the whole list. Apparently, only a handful are interested in it. On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 21:09, Robert SHEN wrote: > Will it be possible to post it here? > > - Original Message ----- > From: &quo

Using Amanda witih AD

2002-04-12 Thread Brad Tilley
Hi everyone, This is more a samba issue than an amanda issue, but I thought someone here may have ran into it already: The NT domains at my university are being migrated to 2000 domains... this means they'll be using the new Active Directory structure. I want to continue using amanda to backup t

Re: NT Share Backup

2002-04-11 Thread Brad Tilley
s install the amanda client on the PC, where do I get it > from and how do I do it? > > Also by patched samba I presume it means you only have to patch > samba if it's a version before 2.0.6? > > David Flood > Systems Administrator -- Brad Tilley, OUB Sys. Admin. http://bursar.vt.edu/rtilley/pgpkey

Re: Setting up an archival system...

2002-04-02 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 16:13, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On 2 Apr 2002 at 3:55pm, Brad Tilley wrote > > > I do the same. Three amanda directories 'daily' 'weekly' and 'monthly' > > that all use the same disklist. But I don't understand how

Re: Setting up an archival system...

2002-04-02 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 15:26, Don Potter wrote: > I run two seperate configs (Daily vs. Monthly) with the same list of > disklist entries and devices (holding disks, tape drive). But with the > Monthly config I have record set to no and the dump type in the disklist > set as always-full. I pic

RE: Question about tape drives and hardware compression...

2002-03-29 Thread Brad Tilley
Turn your script into a cron job that runs a few minutes before amanda starts. How's that? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Morse, Richard E. Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Question about tape drives a

Re: samba backup -- spaces in sharenames, windows backup client

2002-03-19 Thread Brad Tilley
ent/c$ > > Don't suppose that anyone has developed a hack to use a windows arcserve > client, or developed an amanda windows client?? :) > > Cheers, > > Christopher CUSE > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Antananarivo, Madagascar > > -- Brad Tilley, OUB Sys. Admin. http://bursar.vt.edu/rtilley/pgpkey

Here's the Documentation

2002-03-14 Thread Brad Tilley
Here is the rough draft of my amanda documentation. It deals mostly with using amanda in a predominantly Windows based environment. This doc is far from complete. It lacks a lot, but here it is anyway with all of its imperfections. Amanda Backup Documentation By Brad Tilley [EMAIL

Re: Documentation

2002-03-14 Thread Brad Tilley
I'll send you a copy once it's complete. I wouldn't want to send it the whole list. Apparently, only a handful are interested in it. On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 21:09, Robert SHEN wrote: > Will it be possible to post it here? > > - Original Message ----- > From: &quo

Documentation

2002-03-13 Thread Brad Tilley
could publish the documentation (once it is finished) so others could benefit? Thanks, -- Brad Tilley, OUB Sys. Admin. http://bursar.vt.edu/rtilley/pgpkey

Re: Restoring w/o amanda

2002-03-13 Thread Brad Tilley
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 14:16, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: OK, here's what I've found: This works, but it doesn't work the way I thought it might. I didn't understand IRG (Inter Record Gaps) but now, I think I have a better grasp of it. Below are the 4 commands that I used to restore some files with

Restoring w/o amanda

2002-03-11 Thread Brad Tilley
Hello, We are doing a disaster recover check, and we would like to test amanda restoration without amanda being present. I have followed the directions in 'Unix Backup and Recovery' (O'Reilly) by W. Curtis Preston (a very good book... well worth the money), but I can't get any further than readin

corrupt tape label

2002-03-08 Thread Brad Tilley
Hello, I had an amanda tape (DLTIV) that all of a sudden became corrupt. AMANDA kept returning these errors in amreport: These dumps were to tape daily0_tape3. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing filemark: Input/output error]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to f

Re: Removing Windows PCs from backup

2002-03-04 Thread Brad Tilley
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 09:45, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On 4 Mar 2002 at 9:35am, Brad Tilley wrote > > > What is the correct procedure for removing a Windows based PC from the > > Amanda backup? > > > Err, delete the disklist entry? It's no different from

Removing Windows PCs from backup

2002-03-04 Thread Brad Tilley
Hello, What is the correct procedure for removing a Windows based PC from the Amanda backup? Thank you, -- Brad

Samba Exclude

2002-02-28 Thread Brad Tilley
Let me get this straight. Amanda can exclude one file/directory type in the dumptype section of amanda config that will apply to *Nix and Samba shares. Is that right or is it that the one exclude defined in the dumptype only applies to the *Nix shares? I added dumptype "./*.lnk" to tonights da

Re: restoring to a windows client

2002-02-18 Thread Brad Tilley
27;t seen > any mention of an amanda client for windows. Right? > > Thanks, > > Gene > > > -- > Gene Matthews > Matthews Midrange Consulting, Inc. > (678) 923-8327 > (877) 882-6291 (toll free) > http://mmc-inc.com > -- Brad Tilley, OUB Sys. Admin. http://bursar.vt.edu/rtilley/pgpkey