Re: [Up and running] RE: SAS/Fibre Channel interface for LTO4

2008-02-14 Thread Gavin Henry
> Last thing to fix is: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: server7: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK WARNING: server1: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for REP Client check: 6 hosts checked in 90.064 seconds, 2 problems foun Debia

[Up and running] RE: SAS/Fibre Channel interface for LTO4

2008-02-14 Thread Gavin Henry
pectively, in the changerfile (currently only for chg-zd-mtx.sh and # chg-manual.sh). MT=/bin/mt MTX=/usr/sbin/mtx Thanks all, and I hope this reassures someone else that the latest and greatest LTO hardware works perfectly (as expected) with Amanda. Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gav

RE: SAS/Fibre Channel interface for LTO4

2007-12-12 Thread Gavin Henry
> Our fibre channel devices show up as scsi devices on both Tru64 UNIX and > HP-UX. I would expect most UNIX systems to behave the same. The > underlying drivers are the same, as I understand it (FC being a > serialized version of SCSI). > > Best wishes with the implementation. > OK, now price

Re: SAS/Fibre Channel interface for LTO4

2007-12-11 Thread Gavin Henry
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 at 4:43pm, Gavin Henry wrote > >> We're looking at an LTO4 device and have an option for SAS or fibre >> channel interface for hooking up to the server and Amanda. >> >> Never dealt with this kind of interface before. How would it appear to

SAS/Fibre Channel interface for LTO4

2007-12-11 Thread Gavin Henry
tx scripts. Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry.

Congrats on Amanda 2.5.1p1

2006-10-10 Thread Gavin Henry
ches because of not reading the new docs for xinetd.d/amanda and .amandahosts, but that's my fault ;-) Also, we now longer have high CPU usage when using amrecover and hugh backups! Many thanks all, and keep up the good work! Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (

Re: amfetchdump and permission errors as root user and amanda user

2006-08-17 Thread Gavin Henry
00 finish time Thu Aug 17 11:22:46 2006 > > Why the permission denied? Been running amrestore and have found the reason: amrestore: could not create output file .tmp: Too many open files This is 64-Bit SUSE 9.3, so maybe need to change no of files that can be opened ;-) Gavin. > > Th

amfetchdump and permission errors as root user and amanda user

2006-08-17 Thread Gavin Henry
output. amfetchdump: could not create output file .tmp: Permission denied amfetchdump: could not create output file .tmp: Permission denied amfetchdump: pid 11700 finish time Thu Aug 17 11:22:46 2006 Why the permission denied? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0

Very high mem usage with amindexd and amrecover

2006-08-15 Thread Gavin Henry
Just trying to run amrecover: 17862 amanda18 0 5926m 3.8g 1360 D 13.5 97.8 0:22.94 amindexd Our server total dies, which has 4GB RAM and 2Gb swap. Any ideas? The setdisk we are setting to is our 6.9T disk, which has 276GB currently saved. Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin

RE: tape_splitsize 20 Gb and 200GB LTO2 Tapes

2006-08-14 Thread Gavin Henry
to add a usb one). I think the tar is what's > killing this, so I just want to do a full dump, into 2gb chunks > and save those to tape. Plain tar or with compression? > > >> -Original Message- > >> >> >> > On 2006-08-11 17:27, Gavin Henry

Re: tape_splitsize 20 Gb and 200GB LTO2 Tapes

2006-08-11 Thread Gavin Henry
> On 2006-08-11 17:27, Gavin Henry wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> We are trying to dump over 300GB to go across 2 tapes, as per: >> >> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes >> >> But keep getting: >> >> nas1:/storag

tape_splitsize 20 Gb and 200GB LTO2 Tapes

2006-08-11 Thread Gavin Henry
: define dumptype user-tar-span { root-tar tape_splitsize 20 Gb comment "tape-spanning user partitions dumped with tar" priority medium } Any tips? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 82488

port NNNN is not secure - Only mentioned in Planner, not amcheck

2006-08-11 Thread Gavin Henry
to be from ou holding disk being 6.9T big. Where can I submit a bug for amcheck/driver? Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Re: amcheck and BIG holding disks

2006-08-09 Thread Gavin Henry
> >> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:41:29PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> We've put Amandas Holding disk on a NAS, which has 6.6T free on it: >>> >>> df -h >>> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mo

Re: amcheck and BIG holding disks

2006-08-09 Thread Gavin Henry
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:41:29PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> We've put Amandas Holding disk on a NAS, which has 6.6T free on it: >> >> df -h >> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev

amcheck and BIG holding disks

2006-08-09 Thread Gavin Henry
orage amcheck doesn't like it though: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - WARNING: holding disk /storage/amanda: only -2048 GB free, using nothing in our amanda.conf we've put in the holdingdisk section: use -1000Gb Anything else we can do? -- Kind Regards, Gavin

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure

2006-08-09 Thread Gavin Henry
> >> >>> >>>> On 2006-08-08 16:17, Gavin Henry wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Currently trying to compile 2.5.0p2 with: >>>>> >>>>> ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security >

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure

2006-08-08 Thread Gavin Henry
> >> >>> On 2006-08-08 16:17, Gavin Henry wrote: >>>> >>>> Currently trying to compile 2.5.0p2 with: >>>> >>>> ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security >>>> --with-config=Suretec --with-cha

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure

2006-08-08 Thread Gavin Henry
> >> On 2006-08-08 16:17, Gavin Henry wrote: >>> >>> Currently trying to compile 2.5.0p2 with: >>> >>> ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security >>> --with-config=Suretec --with-changer-device=/dev/sg2 >>&g

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure

2006-08-08 Thread Gavin Henry
> On 2006-08-08 16:17, Gavin Henry wrote: >> >> Currently trying to compile 2.5.0p2 with: >> >> ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security >> --with-config=Suretec --with-changer-device=/dev/sg2 >> --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0

amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure

2006-08-08 Thread Gavin Henry
adding --with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient Any tips? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Congratulations on Amanda 2.5!!

2006-03-26 Thread Gavin Henry
00GB tapes. At last we now natively have the tape spanning and encryption! Not to mention everything listed at: http://www.zmanda.com/amanda-25-released.html And what about the zero bugs now! Wow, what a response time!!! Again, Many thanks to all, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managin

Re: Introducing the Amanda Wiki

2005-11-26 Thread Gavin Henry
he AMANDA-community. > > We are looking forward to your contributions and are sure that this > platform will help to improve the overall quality of AMANDA support. > > Best regards to you, > > Stefan G. Weichinger, > AMANDA Core Team Member, > Managing Editor of the

Re: poor documentation

2005-09-15 Thread Gavin Henry
doranews.org/ghenry/amanda/ Paid support available: http://www.amanda.org/support/commercial.php -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Re: vtapes documentation

2005-09-05 Thread Gavin Henry
Doh!!! Been one of those days already, and it's only 11:30am here ;-) -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ > Gavin Hen

vtapes documentation

2005-09-05 Thread Gavin Henry
;t seem to find anything in the main docs about vtapes? If there is and I have missed it, then sorry, if there isn't, then I could work on whatever we have and then speak to Stefan to work with him to get them added to the core docs? Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing

Re: Search file in amanda database

2005-06-08 Thread Gavin Henry
example i have a file > called pippo.sh backed up somewhere in a tape i don't rebember. i only > know filename. > Can i do a search to find the tape and the path of pippo.sh? > > thanks for your help, -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +

Re: planner segfault, FreeBSD 4.11

2005-06-07 Thread Gavin Henry
ib/libc.so.4 > #2 0x8049b90 in free () > #3 0x80498fe in free () -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Re: Bacula comparison

2005-04-09 Thread Gavin Henry
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 at 8:40am, Gavin Henry wrote > >> How does http://www.bacula.org/ stack up against Amanda? >> > I was actually looking at bacula recently, with an eye to moving to it. I > asked about it on the local LUG mailing list -- the thread starts here > &l

Bacula comparison

2005-04-09 Thread Gavin Henry
Dear all, How does http://www.bacula.org/ stack up against Amanda? -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Re: amanda CVS checkout?

2005-03-25 Thread Gavin Henry
et(66.35.250.209):2401 failed: Connection > timed out > > It fails. The machine is accessible using ping command. > > How do I checkout the sources? cvs.sf.net > > Thanks, > Paddy -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F

Re: backup Oracle DB at AMANDA server

2005-03-04 Thread Gavin Henry
Best regards, > Jack$on mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Re: I hope this text from the online manual is obsolete

2005-02-28 Thread Gavin Henry
a tape. This is correct. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Re: Linux Storage Options

2005-02-28 Thread Gavin Henry
w? Hi Stefan, He Amanda Team. He wants to know where Amanda is used, so that he can compare it to the likes of Arkeia etc. Thanks. > > Stefan > > Stefan G. Weichinger > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +

Re: Linux Storage Options

2005-02-28 Thread Gavin Henry
last summer on > Amanda at the Open Source Conference... I proposed an expanded version > this year that will include Bacula. I haven't heard of Bru, I'll have > to check that out. > > -Fran > > Gavin Henry wrote: > >> >> >> >>>Hi Gavin.

RE: Linux Storage Options

2005-02-28 Thread Gavin Henry
rkWorld FUSION newsletter > "Storage in the Enterprise", go to http://emausa.com/storage_page.html > and click on STORAGE IN THE ENTERPRISE. > > -Original Message- > From: Gavin Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:17 AM > To: Mi

RE: Linux Storage Options

2005-02-28 Thread Gavin Henry
tp://emausa.com/storage_page.html > and click on STORAGE IN THE ENTERPRISE. > -Original Message- > From: Gavin Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 5:24 PM > To: Mike Karp > Subject: Linux Storage Options > > What about Amanda: > > http

CVS info on FAQ

2005-02-25 Thread Gavin Henry
PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda co modulename Just DNS changes. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Re: Backup

2005-02-20 Thread Gavin Henry
On Monday 21 Feb 2005 06:05, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi All > > How can I have monthly,quarterly and half yearly backup using Amanda Hi, Simply make some more amanda.conf and run them monthly, quarterly and half yearly. > > Thanks in Advance -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Ma

Re: Amanda's report

2005-02-16 Thread Gavin Henry
that it was ignoring some sockets or open e-mails etc. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Re: Can tapes be grouped for different types of back-up?

2005-02-13 Thread Gavin Henry
ten.html#id2519312 -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

#amanda freenode irc channel

2005-02-08 Thread Gavin Henry
Hi all, Who hangs aroung here, and what are your nicks? I'm G2 -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

FAQ access on www.amanda.org not working

2005-02-06 Thread Gavin Henry
Dear all, Could someone check the login process on the FOM at the main site. I have signed up twice now to make some changes, but I haven´t ever received a e-mail. Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E

Re: Getting Amanda to production

2005-02-04 Thread Gavin Henry
all servers on the same tape, or do I need to set separate tapes for > Win machines? All one tape, just get teh right clients installed. > > > Many thanks, > gil -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Re: Trouble with amrestore

2005-02-02 Thread Gavin Henry
should I have configured the client > correctly in the first place? > No, the client is trying to connect to the backup server. Again, see above. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Running multiple instances of amanda

2005-02-02 Thread Gavin Henry
-- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ > morimoto:/usr/local/src/amanda-2.4.4p4/sbin# ./amrecover -C Progeny01 AMRECOVER Vers

Re: webmin

2005-02-01 Thread Gavin Henry
o do y? > Yes, a simple search on google would reveal: http://webmin-amanda.sourceforge.net/ -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Re: DLT 8000 and tape type.

2005-01-20 Thread Gavin Henry
g up > completly the wrong tree? > > define tapetype DLT-L9 { > comment "DLT 8000 - Storedge L9" > length 4 mbytes > filemark 22 kbytes > speed 1770 kbytes > > I am using the chg-zd-mtx script to handle the autoloader, Fedora Core 2 > as my OS and Amanda

Re: LTO 3 Devices

2005-01-19 Thread Gavin Henry
On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 14:41, you wrote: > Gavin Henry wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Am I correct in thinking, that as long as I can get a amtapetype and use > > mtx tools, then a LTO 3 tape/tapedrive is compatible with Amanda? > > yup. At least, I don't s

LTO 3 Devices

2005-01-19 Thread Gavin Henry
Dear all, Am I correct in thinking, that as long as I can get a amtapetype and use mtx tools, then a LTO 3 tape/tapedrive is compatible with Amanda? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED

Recommended autochangers

2005-01-17 Thread Gavin Henry
Dear all, Is there am up to date FAQ for this, or could someone just kindly recommended a brand/model? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http

Re: amanda.8 manpage

2005-01-13 Thread Gavin Henry
> Gavin Henry a écrit : >> >> >>>Could you tell me the % of files formated in xml ? >> >> >> >> All of them. >> > > So if the cml files contain up-to-date text, the work of translation can > begin. > Do I have to have a special

Re: amanda.8 manpage

2005-01-13 Thread Gavin Henry
> Could you tell me the % of files formated in xml ? All of them. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

http://www.amanda.org/cgi-bin/fom?

2005-01-08 Thread Gavin Henry
Faq-O-Matic link is broken on the front page ;-) -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Re: Interesting hardware

2004-12-15 Thread Gavin Henry
0 drive autoloader. So now you can backup > to a harddrive that can be removed to offsite > storage and can automatically change drives > for each dump. How much and what sort of throughput would you get? -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 79

Re: Amanda backups suddenly slowed down

2004-12-13 Thread Gavin Henry
y applied. I'm running amanda 2.4.4p4 on the server. > > If anyone can help me figure out what has gone wrong then that would be > great! > Hi Peter, Could you post your amcheck e-mails before and after 2 weeks ago and your amreport e-mails for the same period, if possible? Or even

Re: Configuration Doubts

2004-12-10 Thread Gavin Henry
unday in month for a "monthly" > backup and put it in a safe. > > How can modify amanda.conf to do that ? > > Thanks and sorry about my poor english. > > Fabricio. > > > > __ > Converse com seus amigos em te

Re: Configuration Doubts

2004-12-10 Thread Gavin Henry
Fabricio Luiz Machado said: > Hi, > > I´m doing some tests with a new strategy, but I´m a little confuse. > > STRATEGY: > Sundays: full backup (level 0) > Monday-Saturday: incremental backup > > AMANDA.CONF: > dumpcycle 1 weeks > runspercycle 7 > tapecycle 7 tapes > labelstr "^TEST[0-9][0-9]*$" H

Re: Upgrading via source from 2.4.4p3 to 2.4.4p4.

2004-12-03 Thread Gavin Henry
Paul Bijnens said: > Gavin Henry wrote: >> >> Just wondering if upgrading is just a simple case of compiling the new >> sources with the same configure options, which should just replace the >> existing binaries? > > That's what I did. > > To be honest,

Re: Upgrading via source from 2.4.4p3 to 2.4.4p4.

2004-12-03 Thread Gavin Henry
Paul Bijnens said: > Gavin Henry wrote: >> >> Just wondering if upgrading is just a simple case of compiling the new >> sources with the same configure options, which should just replace the >> existing binaries? > > That's what I did. > > To be honest,

Re: Upgrading via source from 2.4.4p3 to 2.4.4p4.

2004-12-03 Thread Gavin Henry
Martin Hepworth said: > Gavin > > that's what I do - anothe reason to document the configure options :-) I did ;-) > -- > Martin Hepworth > Snr Systems Administrator > Solid State Logic > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 > > > Gavin Henry wrote: >>

Upgrading via source from 2.4.4p3 to 2.4.4p4.

2004-12-03 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Just wondering if upgrading is just a simple case of compiling the new sources with the same configure options, which should just replace the existing binaries? Any other preparation needed? Thanks. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry

Upgrading via source from 2.4.4p3 to 2.4.4p4.

2004-12-02 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Just wondering if upgrading is just a simple case of compiling the new sources with the same configure options, which should just replace the existing binaries? Any other preparation needed? Thanks. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry

Re: backup run stalled- how to restart?

2004-11-19 Thread Gavin Henry
Alexander Jolk said: > Eric Sproul wrote: >> the dumps seemed to have picked up >> again on their own. > > Data timeout from the hung machine, which aborted the dumper and freed > it up for other tasks? dtimeout is half an hour at my place... Of course. Eric, if this happens again, experiment wit

Re: backup run stalled- how to restart?

2004-11-19 Thread Gavin Henry
Eric Sproul said: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 10:10, Gavin Henry wrote: >> Eric Sproul said: >> > Is there a way to kickstart the rest of the waiting dumpers? I have >> not >> > done anything yet. >> > >> > An amadmin summary reports 165 total parti

Re: backup run stalled- how to restart?

2004-11-19 Thread Gavin Henry
t; (but it's actually stalled), and 65 waiting to dump. > I don't think so. I think you will have to kill it and then run amcleanup: http://www.amanda.org/docs/manpages/amcleanup.8.html I may be wrong. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +

Re: Best way to bring in new tapes and when to do it?

2004-11-19 Thread Gavin Henry
Joshua Baker-LePain said: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 at 10:43am, Gavin Henry wrote > >> Is the best way to bring in new tapes to label them with the same labels >> using amlabel -f "Config-name"? > > Actually I think the thing to do is to > 'amadmin $CONFIG

Best way to bring in new tapes and when to do it?

2004-11-19 Thread Gavin Henry
Hi all, Is the best way to bring in new tapes to label them with the same labels using amlabel -f "Config-name"? When should I replace brand new DSS-4 tapes that are used once a night every day? I also have a cleaning tape. P.S. My personal backups, not a client ;-) -- Kind Regar

[FIXED] Re: [OT] cron.d entries for Amanda [FIXED]

2004-11-16 Thread Gavin Henry
t gets feedback everyday. How annoying simple >> >> Also there should be spaces around the braces: "... rm {} \;", but that >> should give the above error. This fixed it, cheers. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0)

Re: [OT] cron.d entries for Amanda

2004-11-16 Thread Gavin Henry
Paul Bijnens said: > Gavin Henry wrote: > >> /bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/find /u01/app/oracle/archdest2/* -mtime +7 >> -exec >> rm{}\;: >> No such file or directory > > This seems like there are quotes around the whole command, or something > with a similar

Re: [OT] cron.d entries for Amanda

2004-11-16 Thread Gavin Henry
Alexey I. Froloff said: > * Gavin Henry [041116 15:35]: >> /bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/find /u01/app/oracle/archdest2/* -mtime +7 >> -exec >> rm{}\;: >> No such file or directory > > Er... I'm not sure this will ever work. find() accepts one real

Re: [OT] cron.d entries for Amanda

2004-11-16 Thread Gavin Henry
Dave Ewart said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday, 16.11.2004 at 12:13 +, Gavin Henry wrote: > >> Dear guys, >> >> THis simple error is doing my head in, so I'm going to ask and risk >> looking like a fool, but an

Re: [OT] cron.d entries for Amanda

2004-11-16 Thread Gavin Henry
Stefan G. Weichinger said: > Hi, Gavin, > > on Dienstag, 16. November 2004 at 13:13 you wrote to amanda-users: > > GH> I keep getting e-mails from crond with errors, e.g. > > > GH> /bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/find /u01/app/oracle/archdest2/* -mtime +7 > -exec > GH> rm{}\;: > GH> No such file or direc

[OT] cron.d entries for Amanda

2004-11-16 Thread Gavin Henry
'm sure we've all hit some kind of stupid brick wall. "Can't see for looking", as the saying goes here in Scotland. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: multi-boot systems

2004-11-15 Thread Gavin Henry
If you give them all a different ips, then write a perl/python etc. script that pings the machines before amcheck kicks in and then the script can delete or insert a # as appropriate in the disklist: Or maybe not ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jon LaBadie

Re: Skip two tapes

2004-11-15 Thread Gavin Henry
Nicolas Ecarnot said: > Gavin Henry a écrit : > >> Sorry, come into to the thread a bit late. Can you paste your tapelist >> file and let us see what is marked reuse etc.? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ cat tapelist > 20041001 system001 reuse > 20040924 system000 re

Re: Skip two tapes

2004-11-15 Thread Gavin Henry
Nicolas Ecarnot said: > Alexander Jolk a écrit : > >> Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: >> >>>For some reason, I have to skip two tapes : the last backup was made on >>>tape05 and the next one has to be made on tape08 >> >> >> Tell amanda exactly that: >> amadmin no-reuse tape06 tape07 >> And when some

Re: Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE

2004-11-07 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 Nov 2004 18:33, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 07 November 2004 09:01, Gavin Henry wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Quickie, > > > >What does ths mean again from a

Re: Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE

2004-11-07 Thread Gavin Henry
ever. Gavin may not have that statement > uncommented or configured correctly for his situation. I will check it out, as I think I have not noticed it before. > >Gavin Henry wrote: > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >>Hash: SHA1 > >> > >>Quickie

Re: Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE

2004-11-07 Thread Gavin Henry
reserved for incrementals in degraded mode > on holdingdisk). I will check out the man page about the "reserve" parameter, thanks. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE

2004-11-07 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 Nov 2004 15:46, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 10:16:47AM +0000, Gavin Henry wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Quickie, > > > > What does ths me

Re: Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE

2004-11-07 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 Nov 2004 14:13, you wrote: > You do backup to Holding disk, but lev 0 will do only to tape. Say again? > > Gavin Henry wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Quickie, >

Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE

2004-11-07 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quickie, What does ths mean again from amreport: appserv  Â/opt/suretec lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742

Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE

2004-11-07 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quickie, What does ths mean again from amreport: appserv  Â/opt/suretec lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742

Re: amcheck not saying "expecting tapeno. or a new tape"

2004-11-06 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 Nov 2004 22:26, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:44:39PM +0000, Gavin Henry wrote: > > On Saturday 06 Nov 2004 17:35, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > So the correct answer, whether you like it or n

Re: amcheck not saying "expecting tapeno. or a new tape"

2004-11-06 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 Nov 2004 17:35, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 05:14:57AM +0000, Gavin Henry wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > I suspect you have only done one backup,

Re: amcheck not saying "expecting tapeno. or a new tape"

2004-11-05 Thread Gavin Henry
amadmin config tape give me the right next tape, but the e-mail/amcheck doesn't? - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ ---

Re: amcheck not saying "expecting tapeno. or a new tape"

2004-11-05 Thread Gavin Henry
match the regex labelstr or are blank. Cheers. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Moving disklist to an OpenLDAP lookup?

2004-11-05 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Just a thought, Would there be any benefit of implementing host lookups etc via LDAP for enteprise class backups? - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E

Re: amcheck not saying "expecting tapeno. or a new tape"

2004-11-05 Thread Gavin Henry
thought it was relevant to both. > > Don't mean to single out Gavin here. This has happened several times > recently, each then multiplied by all the followups. Yeah, it is hard to follow. > > Thank you. > > -Mitch - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Directo

Re: amcheck not saying "expecting tapeno. or a new tape"

2004-11-05 Thread Gavin Henry
> concern usage of amanda and should go to -users. OK, sorry, sorry. I am bad. > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:05:48PM +, Gavin Henry wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Dear all, > > > > After compiling by hand and patc

amcheck not saying "expecting tapeno. or a new tape"

2004-11-05 Thread Gavin Henry
ring + l, n - l)) < 0) { error("write main file: %s", strerror(errno)); - ------ I can still see "expecting" in amcheck.c Just had a thought. Maybe tapelist is owned by root, and amcheck can't read it? Thanks. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry.

RE: Question about backing up (multiple tapes per session on one device)

2004-11-04 Thread Gavin Henry
Hi, Call amcheck with -m to mail the outputs from the checks. man amcheck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Marcinek Sent: 04 November 2004 00:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about backing up (multiple tapes per session on one

Re: Difference between amcheck and amdump(planner)

2004-11-01 Thread Gavin Henry
t the > amcheck logs are all OK. > The "sysctl net.inet.udp.maxdgram=63535" parameter is set. > > Suggestions? Above :-) > Per olof - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PRO

Re: Fedora upgrade Amanda slowed

2004-10-30 Thread Gavin Henry
e [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > JG Computing > > 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 > > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 74200

Re: Fedora upgrade Amanda slowed

2004-10-29 Thread Gavin Henry
bfs to cifs, and all sorts of problems started to happen with samba. I would upgrade to FC2 if at all possible. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

Re: (was: Re: newb: getting started) : AMANDA-docs

2004-10-14 Thread Gavin Henry
No probs. Have you seen the app called tidy? That can convert html into relatively formatted DocbookXML. Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http

RE: newb: getting started

2004-10-13 Thread Gavin Henry
Again, if you need any help with the xml stuff, feel free to hand some over :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Stefan G. Weichinger Sent: Wed 10/13/2004 12:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:Re: newb: getting started Hi, Frank, on Mittwo

Re: amanda mini-howto

2004-09-23 Thread Gavin Henry
nry/amanda HTH. > > Thanks. > Leandro. > Argentina. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions. http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: AMANDA-docs ::: Updated version online

2004-09-03 Thread Gavin Henry
Stefan G. Weichinger said: > > Hello, amanda-users, > > I just put up a current version of my AMANDA-docs-branch. > > The pdf-version now prints fine here, please report any problems to me > (off-list). > > http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html. Should we incorporate the man pages in the ma

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