star and amanda

2004-04-08 Thread Galen Johnson
Hey, I was talking with a colleague and amanda came up since we have both used it at previous jobs for penny-pinching companies (that and it is awesome). We were discussing the fact that Amanda has a few problems that really holds it back from more adoption. 1) No gui for a user interface whi

Re: amanda article on sun.com

2003-11-13 Thread Galen Johnson
Jon LaBadie wrote: Recently posted to the "Big Admin" section of Sun's website is a pretty long article on setting up amanda. Haven't read it yet, so I'm unable to comment on its content. http://enews.sun.com/CTServlet?id=47250049-814460813:1068762499806 or http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/

Re: Amanda GUI

2003-11-03 Thread Galen Johnson
Jason Lavigne wrote: For configuration, testing and restore purposes for newbies like me. Thanks to the nice folks on this list I have been pointed to a ton of documentation and now I will read it and hopefully understand Amanda enough to understand if a GUI makes sense. If it does I will take a s

Re: Help, Strange Error !!

2003-10-22 Thread Galen Johnson
Roberto Samarone Araújo (RSA) wrote: Hi, I have an Amanda Backup that was working fine now, when I try to use: su -c "/usr/sbin/amlabel Daily1 DAILY1-01" backup, the system return me: st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error Additional sense ind

Re: I'm back!

2003-10-20 Thread Galen Johnson
Gene Heskett wrote: I think, some jet lag though... OK Gene...I have to ask...Why are you copyrighting your email? =G=

Re: terminology help

2003-10-16 Thread Galen Johnson
Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: Brian Cuttler wrote: "due", payable, owed, expected The bills are due to be payed this week. Ok for due, I guess it means I will have to backup that host in two days, and that other in three days. But for overdue ? Does this mean I **will** have to backup that host ye

Re: Is this a valid disklist entry?

2003-08-25 Thread Galen Johnson
Robin WONG wrote: Hmm..this isn't really flexible and eliminates the use of AMANDA to back this horrible NAS thing up. r On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:03:30PM -0400, Robin WONG wrote: include is not valid for smbclient backups with amanda exclude is, but

Re: restore from holding disk

2003-06-05 Thread Galen Johnson
Galen Johnson wrote: Is it possible to pull a restore from the holding disk without pushing to tape first? If so, how? =G= sorry for the delayed response...thanks for the insights. =G=

restore from holding disk

2003-06-03 Thread Galen Johnson
Is it possible to pull a restore from the holding disk without pushing to tape first? If so, how? =G=

tar -M

2003-03-30 Thread Galen Johnson
Has anyone tried to incorporate the -M option into the tar backups of Amanda? That particular argument is supposed to allow for multi-tape spanning. I've read that it's not usable with software compression but I haven't any way to confirm it. My access to a multidisk changer is no more. An

Re: amandapass - Domain Account

2003-03-21 Thread Galen Johnson
Have you tried: //bv-miene/test/ amanda%password agki ? =G= Matthias Unger wrote: Hello, I want to save a windows share on am win2k-workstation. I test the share with smbmount //bv-miene/test -o username=amanda/agki (amanda is the backup account in the agki domain). And it works. Now I want t

Re: mtx sources

2003-01-06 Thread Galen Johnson
Actually, he moved it to mtx.badtux.net.but the sourceforge site should redirect you. =G= Frank Smith wrote: It's on sourceforge, http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx Frank --On Monday, January 06, 2003 16:46:02 -0500 Brian Cuttler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm configuring Amanda 2.4.2

[Fwd: Re: Regular Expressions and disklist]

2002-12-28 Thread Galen Johnson
--- Begin Message --- On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:48:32PM -0500, Galen Johnson wrote: > Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I want to know if it is possible in a disk list to specify > >multiple directories on one line using regular expressions > >like so

Re: Regular Expressions and disklist

2002-12-26 Thread Galen Johnson
Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know if it is possible in a disk list to specify multiple directories on one line using regular expressions like so ./NL-SFS3-02[4-7] so NL-SFS3-024 NL-SFS3-025 NL-SFS3-026 NL-SFS3-027 Craig Hancock fairly certain GNU tar understands regular

Re: FW: How do I restore an NT folder saved via Samba

2002-12-04 Thread Galen Johnson
et 0+32768, wrote 0 amrestore: pipe reader has quit in middle of file. I just keep getting this error - can you identify where I've gone wrong. Regards Kevin -Original Message----- From: Galen Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 December 2002 14:52 To: Kevin Passey Subject: Re: H

Re: tape filling algorithm? (flush, or dump)

2002-11-20 Thread Galen Johnson
Deb Baddorf wrote: What kind of optimiaztion does amanda use while flushing dumps to tape? While doing the dump initially, she seems to optimize to get the small jobs done first, and thus they go onto tape in a similar order. But I'm currently without a stacker. So only the first part of the

Re: wierd amandad timeout error

2002-11-20 Thread Galen Johnson
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:24:18AM +, John P. Looney wrote: Sounds intriguing. Is this a simple matter in amanda, or do you mean "backup root, except /usr in one entry in disklist, then /usr in another entry" ? Does this mean there is a max size to filesystems you can ba

Re: chg-scsi coredumps when enabling barcode reader.

2002-11-18 Thread Galen Johnson
Kirill Alder-Ponazdyr wrote: An update to this problem: When I run amanda as root user this does not happen. I wonder why, amanda user has all rights on tape devices and loader device (it is in sys group). It is also the owner of configuration, debug, log and so on directories, the "amanda" gro

Re: chg-scsi coredumps when enabling barcode reader.

2002-11-17 Thread Galen Johnson
Kirill Alder-Ponazdyr wrote: Greetings, We have a following setup: Solaris 9 based Netra 1205 machine Amanda 2.4.3 Overland Data LibraryPro with 2 x AIT2 drives (4.20 firmware). The problem is, that chg-scsi crashes with segmentation fault when we enable barcode reader (havebarcode 1) for that

Re: mt commands at amdump startup

2002-11-16 Thread Galen Johnson
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:18:22PM +, Marius Sorteberg wrote: Hi list, I use Amanda2.4.3 on FreeBSD 4.7, compiled from ports. My tapedevice is a DLT 15/30. I recently switched to software compression, and therefore whish to disable hardware compression. This is done w

Re: backing up to a hard drive

2002-11-16 Thread Galen Johnson
Galen Johnson wrote: jeff covey wrote: i've been over the documentation, through the faq-o-matic, etc., and i can't find the answer to what i think is a simple question: how can i use amanda to back up to space on the server's hard drive? all the documentation is about tape

bump to 2 means 0?

2002-11-16 Thread Galen Johnson
Hey Gang, Anyone seen this before? NOTES: planner: Incremental of www.thepilot.com:/usr/local/apache bumped to level 2. yet the actual summary says: DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS HOSTNAME

Re: backing up to a hard drive

2002-11-16 Thread Galen Johnson
jeff covey wrote: i've been over the documentation, through the faq-o-matic, etc., and i can't find the answer to what i think is a simple question: how can i use amanda to back up to space on the server's hard drive? all the documentation is about tapes, tapes, tapes. i have a set of windows

Re: weird problem

2002-11-13 Thread Galen Johnson
Joseph Sirucka wrote: Hi All thanks for your help that seems to fix the error. my next question is this. I have a tape in the unit and for the last three days it have not asked me for a different tape. How can I force amanda to use the next set of tapes. Thanks guys for your help regards Jo

Re: weird problem

2002-11-13 Thread Galen Johnson
lse I am missing out on. regards Joseph On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 11:36, Galen Johnson wrote: Joseph Sirucka wrote: Hi All just got this problem as below, anyone know how to resolve this [amanda@olbs3 olbs2db.in.telstra.com.au]$ amcheck daily Amanda Tape Server Host

Re: weird problem

2002-11-13 Thread Galen Johnson
Joseph Sirucka wrote: Hi All just got this problem as below, anyone know how to resolve this [amanda@olbs3 olbs2db.in.telstra.com.au]$ amcheck daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check - WARNING: holding disk /usr/dumps: only 486732 KB free, using nothing Holding disk /ho

Re: amanda support

2002-11-13 Thread Galen Johnson
Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 16:43, Galen Johnson wrote: I've never heard of any but I can't think of any questions I've asked that haven't been resolved with just this mailing list. Hi, Galen, and everyone else, In principle I agree. Try and sel

Re: amanda support

2002-11-12 Thread Galen Johnson
Jon LaBadie wrote: Thing is that amanda does not need substantial "administration support". It needs "setup support". Seems once it is up and running you just change tapes and do recoveries as needed. Probably the most memorable residue of two of my consulting assignments was setting up amand

Re: amanda support

2002-11-12 Thread Galen Johnson
I've never heard of any but I can't think of any questions I've asked that haven't been resolved with just this mailing list. =G= Eric Bergeron wrote: Does anyone know of any companies that provide techincal support for Amanda? I have looked at the FAQ O Matic pages but it does not look like t

Re: Snapshots on Solaris, wrapper script

2002-11-11 Thread Galen Johnson
Meik Hellmund wrote: Hi, I would like to use the fssnap facility for snapshots on Solaris and write a wrapper script. It seems to me that the paths to tar and dump are hardcoded to amanda at compile time. Is it possible to avoid recompilation of the amanda client by giving another path to tar

Re: crash recovery

2002-11-11 Thread Galen Johnson
Gene Heskett wrote: Hi everybody; Its Gene, the old f--- ahhh, man, back from 2 weeks worth of trying to make a tv station or 4 out of not very much. Hindered by the help that I was promised doing a disappearing act to goto a funeral in texas on the second day, and turning it into 2 weeks va

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Eric Webb wrote: On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:30 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's configure (/usr/local/sbin/dump). amdump logs indica

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Eric Webb wrote: Okay, tape labelling issues were related to device node permissions. Silly me. Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's configure (/usr/local/sbin/dump). amdump logs

Re: Need help getting started.

2002-11-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Frank Smith wrote: --On Saturday, November 09, 2002 23:20:07 -0500 Eric Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3) If I attempt what I believe to be labelling a tape, I get: labeling tape in slot 0 (/dev/nst0): rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label test00 amlabe

Re: concerns

2002-11-07 Thread Galen Johnson
Galen Johnson wrote: Jon LaBadie has been corresponding with me offlist in regards to this topic. I will summarize when I am confident I have found the culprit. (whether it be Amanda, tar or the actual disk being backed up)... =G= Sorry for the delay in this This seems to have been

Re: Changer doesn't change tapes

2002-11-06 Thread Galen Johnson
Ben Simpson wrote: I got my amrestore and amrecovers mixed up when i typed this email. It is asking for a specific tape. When i does I just open another session and tell the changer to find the tape. Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:38:05PM -0500, Ben Simpson wrote: "amrestore

Re: index question

2002-11-05 Thread Galen Johnson
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Joshua is right. I comment the disklist entry when I remove a disk. I uncomment it if I need to restore it. But I don't like that. A solution could be to add a new option in a dumptype active [yes|no] alive [yes|no] backup [yes|no] dobackup [yes|

Re: concerns

2002-11-05 Thread Galen Johnson
Jon LaBadie has been corresponding with me offlist in regards to this topic. I will summarize when I am confident I have found the culprit. (whether it be Amanda, tar or the actual disk being backed up)... =G=

index question

2002-11-05 Thread Galen Johnson
Is it proper for amanda to not see the indexes for disks that have been removed from the disklist but are still on the current tapes? I recently stopped backing up a server to keep from getting a bunch of failed messages in my reports. Now when I run amrecover and setdisk to that backup it te

Re: How to run a single dump by hand?

2002-11-05 Thread Galen Johnson
Orion Poplawski wrote: Last night's run gave the following: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet1-02. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMA

concerns

2002-11-04 Thread Galen Johnson
After further study of the restore issues I've had with amanda (mostly tar related) I have just today run into what I feel is another problem (I suspect is a combination of tar and amanda in this case). I am concerned with the "incremental" backups. Amanda seems to treat incrementals as diffe

Re: Changer doesn't change tapes

2002-11-03 Thread Galen Johnson
e some files. But I can't find the file anywhere. Galen Johnson wrote: Ben Simpson wrote: I am running amanda on a Sony tape changer. I am using chg-zd-mtx to interface with the changer using MTX When I run amrestore it fails to load the tape it needs. I have to open another session an

Re: Changer doesn't change tapes

2002-11-02 Thread Galen Johnson
Ben Simpson wrote: I am running amanda on a Sony tape changer. I am using chg-zd-mtx to interface with the changer using MTX When I run amrestore it fails to load the tape it needs. I have to open another session and tell it to load the right tape. So my question is (after looking at some of the

Re: amrecover questions

2002-11-01 Thread Galen Johnson
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 4:59pm, Galen Johnson wrote I also have an issue with recover in that it deletes files when the incremental is restored. I can almost understand why. It seems that if the files aren't included in the incremental (and they won't b

Re: amrecover questions

2002-11-01 Thread Galen Johnson
Frank Smith wrote: --On Friday, November 01, 2002 19:21:50 -0500 Galen Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hmmm...it seems I sent my last reply only to Joshua..anywho...anyone have any clue as to which maillist one needs to be on for tar issues? I had responded to Joshua that I'

smbclient and tar

2002-11-01 Thread Galen Johnson
Where do I need to look if I want to add some functionality to the smbclient. Unless I am mistaken the newer versions of smbclient allows you to specify an exclude list not just a single file. From the sambatar man page we have the following: o X - Exclude files and directorie

Re: amrecover questions

2002-11-01 Thread Galen Johnson
Howdy Gang, Further news on the tar issue...it is NOT amanda (I figured as much) but it is indeed tar...I (finally) found the documentation I was looking for. I quote the relevant snippet below... --incremental (-G) in conjunction with --extract (--get, -x) causes |tar| to read the lists of d

Re: amrecover questions

2002-11-01 Thread Galen Johnson
t I can't find where in the code the options are fed to tar for the backup so I can try to give it a -g instead of -G (it was easy to find for amrecover). =G= Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 4:59pm, Galen Johnson wrote I also have an issue with recover in that it deletes

Re: amrecover questions

2002-11-01 Thread Galen Johnson
Galen Johnson wrote: Ok...I've pretty much decided that amrecover requires a manual load of the tape needed. Is there any way for it to determine that the tape may need to be rewound (the debug file seems to imply that it is rewinding but I get the header error). I can't find

Re: amrecover questions

2002-11-01 Thread Galen Johnson
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 12:35pm, Galen Johnson wrote I also have an issue with recover in that it deletes files when the incremental is restored. I can almost understand why. It seems that if the files aren't included in the incremental (and they won't

amrecover questions

2002-11-01 Thread Galen Johnson
Ok...I've pretty much decided that amrecover requires a manual load of the tape needed. Is there any way for it to determine that the tape may need to be rewound (the debug file seems to imply that it is rewinding but I get the header error). I can't find any way to make the rewind timeout ta

Re: samba restore...

2002-11-01 Thread Galen Johnson
Galen Johnson wrote: Hey Gang, Is a samba restore any different from a regular restore in the process needed? I have had a samba shared data disk die and need to restore the files but haven't had a chance to do a dry run yet. Another question is...can I restore multiple disks since

samba restore...

2002-11-01 Thread Galen Johnson
Hey Gang, Is a samba restore any different from a regular restore in the process needed? I have had a samba shared data disk die and need to restore the files but haven't had a chance to do a dry run yet. Another question is...can I restore multiple disks since I had to break up the smb share

Re: What device does what on st0 with a Tecmar Travan-NS20?

2002-10-31 Thread Galen Johnson
Wayne Johnson wrote: I just bought a Tecmar Travan NS20 IDE tape drive. Took me a while to figure out that I should use the IDE-SCSI shim to get it to work. One question. There are 4 modes for the driver, tied to device names /dev/st0, /dev/st0l, /dev/st0m, and /dev/st0a. Anyone know what

Re: Amanda Install question

2002-10-30 Thread Galen Johnson
looks like either your path is incorrect or you need some packages or both. you need to make sure your path includes the following: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/ccs/bin. There may be be a link to the gnu tools as well but I can't recall what that path is right offhand. I'm also includin

Re: Amrestore - Connectionto tape server Refused

2002-10-30 Thread Galen Johnson
My first thought would be what is in your .amandahosts file? You still need to have it set up correctly. It sounds like you don't have root or the amanda user in it... =G= Larry Dunham wrote: I've been trying to get our restore procedure setup, and now I'm at the point where I eed to restore

Re: problem with chg-zd-mtx

2002-10-28 Thread Galen Johnson
Let's solve this a problem at a time...Does mtx work with the device? What device are you using for the changer (/dev/sg0)? What does "loaderinfo /dev/sg0" give (substitute your changer info for /dev/sg0)? You need to make sure that mtx actually gives you the changer info, status, etc before yo

Re: nat friendly?

2002-10-28 Thread Galen Johnson
as part of the same connection. Does anyone have this setup? --- Galen Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jerry wrote: Is amanda NAT friendly? i.e. I have a tape server with a private ip address (10.100.100.x) and I want to backup a server outside of that space with a

Re: mtx that understand -s

2002-10-28 Thread Galen Johnson
Kurt Olsen wrote: Aloha, Does anybody know what version of mtx understand cmd line args of '-s' as opposed to 'status'? Or alternatively - anybody know why the amanda chg-zd-mtx script won't cooperate with the version of mtx (and amanda) that came with my linux 7.2 system? Mahalo (thanks) K

Re: nat friendly?

2002-10-28 Thread Galen Johnson
Jerry wrote: Is amanda NAT friendly? i.e. I have a tape server with a private ip address (10.100.100.x) and I want to backup a server outside of that space with a public ip. When the server contacts the system with the public ip it gets nat'ed to a different ip. What I need to know is if every

Re: Thoughts on Win32

2002-10-24 Thread Galen Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I am about to attempt to archive my Win32 hosts with amanda. I was wondering what the list users experience has been with samba and/or the Win32 amanda client. Thank you, Andrew I've had great luck with Samba. I have avoided the win32 client mainly be

Re: Thoughts on Win32

2002-10-24 Thread Galen Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Galen Johnson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I am about to attempt to archive my Win32 hosts with amanda. I was wondering what the list users experience has been with samba and/or the Win32 amanda client. Thank you, Andrew

Re: Fwd: Daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR October 12, 2002

2002-10-18 Thread Galen Johnson
O-Zone wrote: Ho i can solve that problem of /home/backup/ etc etc !!! .amandahosts exists and have the right permission ! -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR October 12, 2002 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:20:30 +0200 (CEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: Wildcards in disklist? (Was: What tapecycle value to use?)

2002-10-16 Thread Galen Johnson
Toralf Lund wrote: >> Toralf Lund wrote: >> Toralf Lund wrote: >> > > >>> No, I don't have those examples. Also, I don't quite recognise the >>> syntax. What version is this example from? 2.4.3? I'm still on >>> 2.4.2p2... >> >> >> yes, this is 2.4.3. >> >>> # A

Re: Wildcards in disklist? (Was: What tapecycle value to use?)

2002-10-16 Thread Galen Johnson
Toralf Lund wrote: >> Toralf Lund wrote: >> >>> >> > No, I don't have those examples. Also, I don't quite recognise the > syntax. What version is this example from? 2.4.3? I'm still on 2.4.2p2... yes, this is 2.4.3. > >> # An example of how to separate a big disk (/diskA) in multiple

Re: Wildcards in disklist? (Was: What tapecycle value to use?)

2002-10-15 Thread Galen Johnson
Toralf Lund wrote: >> On Monday 14 October 2002 04:56, Toralf Lund wrote: >> [...] >> >Yes, that's what I'm doing. The problem with this is that >> > something easily gets left out as new directories are created. >> > >> >How about >> > >> >1. Allowing wildcards in the disklist file >> >2. Having

Re: EXB-10i and Solaris 8

2002-10-14 Thread Galen Johnson
Paul T. Root wrote: > Hi, > I've just moved my Exabyte 10i changer from > a Solaris 2.6 box to Solaris 8. Is there a device > driver available? I've been searching Exabyte and > I can even find the chs stuff I had before. > > Thanks, > Paul. > check out mtx at mtx.badtux.net. Just be sure a

Re: Amanda Backup Client Host Check

2002-10-14 Thread Galen Johnson
O-Zone wrote: >Hi All, >i've just solved any problems with conf but i have a new worry...when i'm >running amcheck it say to me: > >ERROR: moon: [access as backup not alloweb from [EMAIL PROTECTED]] open >of /home/backup/.amandahost failed > >Why ? > > I would guess one of 2 reasons. 1) it do

Re: backing up postgres / informix ?

2002-10-11 Thread Galen Johnson
John P. Looney wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone had solutions for backing up live databases. I've some (smallish) databases - around 2GB maybe, that I'd like to backup. I was wondering how amanda could be configured to do this. Is it possible to do something like getting the amanda user to

Re: reply-to in mailing list

2002-10-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Galen Johnson wrote: > Hey Gang, > > I've had a thunk regarding the list...would it be possible to set it > up so the list actually inserts a 'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > header. This would make it so the default reply (rather than reply to > all) goes t

reply-to in mailing list

2002-10-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Hey Gang, I've had a thunk regarding the list...would it be possible to set it up so the list actually inserts a 'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' header. This would make it so the default reply (rather than reply to all) goes to the list. This would also make the archives a bit more complete s

Re: tape change

2002-10-04 Thread Galen Johnson
Martin A. Brooks wrote: > At 13:54 03/10/2002 -0400, Galen Johnson wrote: > >> Actually, I've run across this and would have to say it's a bug in >> the code. The offline_before_unload option should be >> OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD...the sed script doesn't i

Re: tape change

2002-10-03 Thread Galen Johnson
Martin A. Brooks wrote: > At 03:03 03/10/2002 -0700, Alan Horn wrote: > >> What sort of output are you seeing in /tmp/amanda/changer*.debug (or >> whatever it's called). Those can be useful files to look in. > > > I think I've found the cause of the problem, but not the cure. I > previously did

Re: EXB-8700, 160m XL tapes, and tapetype

2002-09-30 Thread Galen Johnson
Bob Tanner wrote: >Quoting Galen Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > >>The filemark is just a way for tape systems to waste tape...be glad that >>it's zero...the real question is what is the advertised capacity of >>these tapes? >> >> > &g

Re: EXB-8700, 160m XL tapes, and tapetype

2002-09-30 Thread Galen Johnson
Bob Tanner wrote: >amanda-2.4.3b4 >EXB-8700 Tape Drive >Exabyte 160M XL tapes > >Got amanda configured. But amdump keeps erroring out. I used the EXB-8500 as my >template for the EXB-8700. But since amdump wasn't working, I ran tapetype. > >Here is how I ran it: > ># /usr/sbin/tapetype -f /dev/n

Re: Weird permission problem running amdump

2002-09-20 Thread Galen Johnson
Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: >Hi, Gene, > > >>The only thing that comes to mind quickly is probably related to the >>question/statement "you do have a user amanda, who is a member of >>group disk, don't you?" >> >> > >Yes, of course. I think that was done automagically when I installed >the

Re: amcheck output

2002-09-19 Thread Galen Johnson
Mozzi wrote: > When running amcheck I get this > > NOTE: info dir > /usr/local/var/amanda/test/curinfo/myhostname.domainname.com/_: does > not exist > > Now I created the directory what else does it need ? > > Mozzi > I don't think you needed to create that directory. I suspect that at most y

Re: Measure and Graph Tape Usage

2002-09-18 Thread Galen Johnson
Jason Greenberg wrote: >Is there any way to measure how many bytes where written to the tape >every night? I would like to feed the values to MRTG or something, so I >can see when I am close to using two tapes per dump. > >Also, if the data is available, is it the raw uncompressed bytes, or the

Re: Amanda and ADIC tape library

2002-09-17 Thread Galen Johnson
Alan Horn wrote: >On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote: > > >[cropping out a LOT of stuff :)...] > > > >>what do you get when you run the mtx commands by hand? >> >>=G= >> >> >> > >I get expected out

Re: Amanda and ADIC tape library

2002-09-17 Thread Galen Johnson
Alan Horn wrote: >On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > > > >>Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:18:54 -0500 >>From: Brandon D. Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Alan Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Amanda and ADIC tape library >> >>On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Ala

Re: amanda/iptables problem

2002-09-17 Thread Galen Johnson
John Dalbec wrote: > I sometimes get sendsize packets being dropped by iptables, presumably > because the iptables connection tracking decided the UDP connection > was closed. This causes the estimates to take much longer because the > first sendsize process gives up. Has anyone found a solu

Re: samba dumps no worky

2002-09-12 Thread Galen Johnson
Galen Johnson wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm moving forward with backing up my windows machines amanda. I've > gotten samba talking to my windows boxes and can run 'smbclient > -Uamanda%herpasswd -L windows_host' just fine.. .I see all the shares, > etc..

samba dumps no worky

2002-09-12 Thread Galen Johnson
Hi folks, I'm moving forward with backing up my windows machines amanda. I've gotten samba talking to my windows boxes and can run 'smbclient -Uamanda%herpasswd -L windows_host' just fine.. .I see all the shares, etc...I can also see my samba server on the windows boxes. However, whwne I r

Re: win32

2002-09-12 Thread Galen Johnson
JC Simonetti wrote: >amrecover is possible. You extract the tarball archive on your backup server and >upload it to the Windows box, and there you untar it with the WinTar provided with >Win32 Amanda (different of course from the GNU tar, due to NT file rights...). > >amrestore is possible, but

Re: Tape DDS-3 values

2002-09-12 Thread Galen Johnson
Kablan BOGNINI wrote: >Hello, > >I am using HP DDS-3 tapes for my backup. I've tried to >get the correct values for my tape. But tapetype gives >this result: >define tapetype HP-DDS3-DAT { >comment "just produced by tapetype program" >length 9860 mbytes >filemark 0 kbytes >speed 8

win32

2002-09-11 Thread Galen Johnson
Hello gang, A while back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines without having todeal with samba. Someone had responded with the win32 amanda client on sourceforge. I have looked it up and it seems like it'll do what I want. However, it hasn't been touched in 18 months.

thanks

2002-09-10 Thread Galen Johnson
I'd like to thank all those who have helped me in my quest to get amanda going. I have successfully backed up a file system and restored some files. Now the bigger part begins...the rest of the network... =G=

bug in amgetconf

2002-09-10 Thread Galen Johnson
Ok...this is really bugging me...is the config_dir supposed to be compiled into amgetconf? A preliminary look at the code seems to infer that it is as well as config. I'm having an issue with amgetconf (currently) in that it expects amanda.conf to be in whatever directory it is run from or yo

chg-zd-mtx

2002-09-10 Thread Galen Johnson
ok...I've determined that the best change script to use (for me) is chg-zd-mtx. Now, for some reason when I try to run the chg-zd-mtx -info I get the error ' changerfile must be specified in amanda.conf'...now, this file is defined in my amanda.conf file (/home/amanda/config/daily/chg-zd-mtx.

amlabel question

2002-09-10 Thread Galen Johnson
woohoo...I'm actually making progress...amcheck actually completed mostly without errors (mainly because I stupidly left the disklist at the default that came with amanda...silly...silly). I also forgot to label my tapes (I am currently in the process of this). Now the question...I have a 7

Re: ???

2002-09-09 Thread Galen Johnson
Gene Heskett wrote: >On Monday 09 September 2002 16:39, Galen Johnson wrote: > > >>Hey folks, >> >> >> >This is wheat > > >> I'm curious about the way amanda backs up. If I'm reading the >>docs, list and other reso

Re: ???

2002-09-09 Thread Galen Johnson
Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:39:29PM -0400, Galen Johnson wrote: > >>Which side is right (the wheat or frosted ;-) )? I don't know why I'm >>having so much trouble with this but I suspect it's information overload. >> >> >

Re: ???

2002-09-09 Thread Galen Johnson
Bort, Paul wrote: > > >>Also, I currently am using a 7 tape changer (which I think I >>have mtx >>talking to nicely but with some small eccentricities). I currently >>have it setup as follows: >> >>dumpcycle 1 week >>runspercycle 6 >>tapecycle 7 tapes >>runtapes 1 #I'm thinking of upping

???

2002-09-09 Thread Galen Johnson
Hey folks, I'm curious about the way amanda backs up. If I'm reading the docs, list and other resources correctly, AMANDA requires at least 1 disklist entry per partition being backed up. It requires that you have a tape per partition (not clear on this point as it would seem to obliviate

simple query

2002-09-06 Thread Galen Johnson
OK...I'm still reading as much documentation as I can find before I really decide I'm ready to tackle Amanda...One thing that keeps cropping up is that if Amanda hits the end of tape during a dump, it jumps to the next tape and starts over. This brings up the situation where the dump itself i

question (simple)

2002-09-04 Thread Galen Johnson
I'm reading the article on backupcentral regarding Amanda and was wondering what the progress was on the "Future Capabilities" is. I have snipped the text (hope they don't mind) In addition to the usual enhancements and fixes constantly being added by the AMANDA Core Development Team, three m

Re: Question: ADIC DAT-Changer very slow

2002-09-04 Thread Galen Johnson
I'd like to interject one item...if your chg-scsi trial doesn't fix the issue, you may want to look at your SCSI controller. You mentioned that you have an Adaptec 2940 while Chris is using a 7890/91...that could be part of the equation as well. =G= Stefan Hellwig wrote: >Hello! > >I am ver

Re: query/initial setup

2002-08-26 Thread Galen Johnson
itself. I'll post a summary when/if I get this working like I think it should just so that there is something in the archives for posterity (a la the sunmanagers list) =G= Gene Heskett wrote: >On Monday 26 August 2002 15:47, Galen Johnson wrote: > > >>Hi folks, >> &g

query/initial setup

2002-08-26 Thread Galen Johnson
Hi folks, I realize that amanda may be overkill for what I want but...has anyone setup amanda to use a Sony DDS2 tape device? I'm currently running the 'tapetype -f /dev/nst0 -e 8g' command to verify the tape itself. Of course, the 8g is compressed instead of normal. Has anyone already c

Re: curious

2002-08-21 Thread Galen Johnson
://samba.org/> to back up Microsoft Windows 95/NT hosts." I may check out the win32 client that JC Simonetti mentioned snice all the machines I have to deal with are from the stone age. Thanks Again... =G= Galen Johnson wrote: > Has anyone found a way to use amanda with W

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