Email notifications

2008-04-01 Thread James Wilson
I recently did and upgrade/move of our mail server and now I no longer get the email notifications from Amanda. I didn't think there was a setting to specify your email server in amanda. Is it caching it somewhere? Any help is appreciated.

Re: RE amanda in domU

2007-10-10 Thread James Wilson
= ['00,11,00'] to my guest configuration. (Didn't succeed yet though). Maybe, you should do the same for a tape drive? I have find http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Assign_hardware_to_DomU_with_PCIBack_as_module that might well help you. That was my 5cents help, Cyrille *James Wilson [EMAIL

Tapes not reusing

2007-05-25 Thread James Wilson
Amanda is not reusing tapes in my library. I have them setup to overwrite when it reaches the last tape but now I am getting this tape error. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No writable valid tape found]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush

Re: Tapes not reusing

2007-05-25 Thread James Wilson
:26:46PM -0500, James Wilson wrote: Amanda is not reusing tapes in my library. I have them setup to overwrite when it reaches the last tape but now I am getting this tape error. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No writable valid tape found]. Some dumps may have been

Re: Amanda Client

2007-04-24 Thread James Wilson
field should that be the client name or the amanda server name? I can't test right because amanda is doing a backup but I will test as soon as the backups are done. Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 23 April 2007, James Wilson wrote: Are you talking about the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file? in my

Amanda Client

2007-04-23 Thread James Wilson
Hey All, I have amanda version 2.5.0p2 I have installed version 2.5.0p2-4 for the amanda client. I have added the amanda server and the amanda user in the .amandahost file on the client I checked the /etc/services and all the amanda ports are there. But when I try to do an amcheck tape

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm

2006-11-09 Thread James Wilson
in /usr/lib directory and is part of the binary rpm. Source rpm (amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm) will not contain the libamclient library. You have to build the source rpm to get the libamclient library. Thanks, Paddy On 11/8/06, James Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, I am installing

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm

2006-11-09 Thread James Wilson
I changed the permissions on the /tmp/amanda directory and now I get this. ERROR: NAK apexdev.transolutions.net: getpwnam(amandabacup) fails Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: James Wilson wrote: I got the source bilt and changed the path to amandad in the /xinetd.d/amandaclient config to point

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm

2006-11-09 Thread James Wilson
I did a make uninstall and ran ./configure again but it still comes up with the user amandabacup instead of amandabackup. How can I totally remove the configuration? Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: James Wilson wrote: I got the source bilt and changed the path to amandad in the /xinetd.d

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm

2006-11-09 Thread James Wilson
config command? Thanks, Paddy On 11/9/06, James Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a make uninstall and ran ./configure again but it still comes up with the user amandabacup instead of amandabackup. How can I totally remove the configuration? Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: James Wilson wrote: I

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm

2006-11-09 Thread James Wilson
, James Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a make uninstall and ran ./configure again but it still comes up with the user amandabacup instead of amandabackup. How can I totally remove the configuration? Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: James Wilson wrote: I got the source bilt and changed the path

Re: amanda-2.5.0p2-1.src.rpm

2006-11-08 Thread James Wilson
the source rpm to get the libamclient library. Thanks, Paddy On 11/8/06, James Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, I am installing this on RedHat version 9 and was wondering if there were additional steps needed for the source rpm? When I try to manually run ./selfcheck I get this error

selfcheck not running

2006-11-07 Thread James Wilson
Hey All, Any ideas on why selfcheck would not run on a client. I have a rhel4 server that I just installed the client on and I always get the selfcheck error. When I look in the /tmp/amanda directory there is no logs for selfcheck but there are logs for amandad. The logs for amandad say,

Timeout

2006-11-06 Thread James Wilson
Hey All, I keep getting this error for one of my hosts. selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK Client check: 4 hosts checked in 30.153 seconds, 1 problem found I have added this in my amandaclient file in the xinetd.d directory. service amanda { disable = no

Re: Timeout

2006-11-06 Thread James Wilson
troubleshooting wiki page: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcheck:_selfcheck_request_failed Paddy On 11/6/06, James Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, I keep getting this error for one of my hosts. selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK Client check: 4 hosts checked in 30.153

Selfcheck not running

2006-11-06 Thread James Wilson
be owned by amanda user. How did you install amanda client? Paddy On 11/6/06, James Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not selfcheck debug files in the /tmp/amanda directory. How ever I do have this files on my other servers that are running amanda client. Paddy Sreenivasan wrote

Re: IP address change

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
client work fine the ones that are using samba do not work. Jon LaBadie wrote: I didn't follow the earlier thread, so if this is way off base, sorry. I picked this out of your HTML posting: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:52:15AM -0600, James Wilson wrote: ... . The servers that have

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
Well I have a folder lets say its called voice and in voice I have a bunch of folders in there labeled by date. Starting with todays date all the way back to 10-01-2005. I want to backup everything till may of 2006 for the. Then I'm going to delete all those files because I have them on tape.

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
the folder name doesn't change. for example if I have folders 2006-01 2006-02 2006-03 2006-04 And I only want to back up folders 2006-01 and 2006-02. Is this possible? To back up certain folders and not others in a particular directory. Steven Kurylo wrote: James Wilson wrote: Well I

Re: Monthly backup

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
This is a good idea. Thanks for your reply. Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:17:09AM -0800, Steven Kurylo wrote: James Wilson wrote: Well I have a folder lets say its called voice and in voice I have a bunch of folders in there labeled by date. Starting with todays date

Re: IP address change

2006-11-01 Thread James Wilson
configuration? Thanks, -Aaron Taylor On 11/1/06, *James Wilson* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The server and client are installed on the same box. This was working fine before I split my network up into vlans and changed the ip of the amanda server along

IP address change

2006-10-31 Thread James Wilson
Hey All, We just did a big network over haul at my job and every since the change amanda does not back up some machines. I looked in the latest log file and it states. Error planner request to amanda.transolutions.net failed: timeout waiting for ACK. amanda.transolutions.net

No more holding disk space

2006-09-26 Thread James Wilson
Hey All, Lately I've been gettting the Failed [no more holding disk space] for this one client. Is there something I can do to fix this? It has been backing up fine until Sunday night and Monday night. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: amanda.transolutions.net //192.168.1.38/etc

Re: No more holding disk space

2006-09-26 Thread James Wilson
I have a server with 60 GB of disk space left after installing everything. I thought I gave amanda the whole 60 gigs. Should it need more that that? Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 08:42:58AM -0500, James Wilson wrote: Hey All, Lately I've been gettting the Failed

Re: No more holding disk space

2006-09-26 Thread James Wilson
Thanks for the reply Jon. I thought I had 60 gig specified but infact I only had 10gig specified. Sorry for the inconvience. Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 08:42:58AM -0500, James Wilson wrote: Hey All, Lately I've been gettting the Failed [no more holding disk

Re: AMRESTORE

2006-08-09 Thread James Wilson
Never mind I found the -C option and that worked fine. Thanks for any replies. James Wilson wrote: I am trying to do a test restore from amanda and I get this error Could not read config file /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf! I don't have a DailySet1 directory. Where do I change the path for this?

Compression

2006-08-04 Thread James Wilson
How can I tell what compression I am using? Also how do I make sure hardware compression is off?

Amanda, Novell

2006-08-03 Thread James Wilson
I was wondering if amanda was capable of backing up an older version of novell. 5.0, 3.12?

Re: Partial backup

2006-07-14 Thread James Wilson
\* ? Call timed out: server did not respond after 2 milliseconds listing \T\* | tar: dumped 178 files and directories | Total bytes written: 11032576 sendbackup: size 10774 sendbackup: end \ Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 05:34:50PM -0500, James Wilson wrote: Here

Partial backup

2006-07-13 Thread James Wilson
Here is an amstatus before and after the backup. Before it estimated 1231m but after it only backed up 171m. Howcome amanda isn't backing up everything? amanda.transolutions.net://192.168.1.133/ifxsessions 0 1231m partial estimate done SUMMARY part real estimated

Amanda

2006-05-19 Thread James Wilson
This is the 2 errors I get when I run amlabel. Does anyone know why? I've attached my amanda.conf file and changer file. Thanks for any advice. cannot determine first slot amlabel: could not load slot current: line 31: Product: command not found #! /bin/sh

Amanda

2006-05-19 Thread James Wilson
Here is the full error I am getting now. amlabel: could not load slot current: cannot determine first slot

Amanda

2006-05-18 Thread James Wilson
Hi, I am new to Amanda and I was just wondering if anyone here has configured a Dell powervault 132T with 2 drives and 23 slots or anything close to this. When I run amtapetype I get an unknow-tapetype is the right for the powervault? Also wondering if Amanda can backup directories or does