Re: gnu tar-1.15+ for RHEL4

2006-04-07 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:08:04PM -0400, Christopher Linn wrote: i am installaing amanda on a RHEL4 workstation. when using amanda-backup_client-2.5.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm from the zmanda site, it fails with: error: Failed dependencies: tar = 1.15 is needed by

Re: /etc/dumpdates

2005-12-20 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:24:33PM -0500, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:47:15PM -0500, Paul Seniuk enlightened us: Matt, Well you were right and that worked. Annoying story to it ...collegue decided to upgrade the box to FC4 and not tell me. The upgrade turned SELinux

Re: Changing User when using RPMs

2005-11-28 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:48:09PM -0700, Broderick Wood wrote: Is there anyone out there who is using the RedHat RPMs abut has to change the user that runs the backups? ie. I want to change the name from amanda to backup or some other ID but runtar seems to have the id amanda hard coded

Re: Why Oh Why only THIS DLE is giving me those timeout problems ?

2005-08-30 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:15:48PM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: 2005/8/30, Graeme Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guy Dallaire wrote: Perhaps the problem DLE has lots of hard links? Hard Links As opposed to symbolic links. You'll probably want to read up at Wikipedia on

Re: AMANDA+Samba setup...

2005-06-24 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:04:49AM -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:51:13PM +0200, Paul Bijnens enlightened us: What is also strange is your statement just before the above paragraph: When I take a look at the Amanda logs in /var here is what I see: because the

Re: holding disk with vtapes?

2005-05-18 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:47:29PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: Is it normal for some dumps to go directly to tape, skipping the holding disk? I see that happening sometimes, but wonder if it means I have something misconfigured. Those DLE's with an estimated

Re: Append Files using tar

2005-04-12 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:15:51PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Most modern tapedevices are not random access. I don't know how to rewind a little, and neither does the gnutar programmer which states in the beginning of the update.c source file: ... if [the files] are on raw tape or something

Re: Amanda Client

2004-09-28 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 02:29:16PM -0500, Jason Miller wrote: Also I do see with a netstat -an the following line udp4 0 0 *.10080*.* After installing the xinetd I got that far, client still times out. I am running the amcheck -c DailySet1 from the server to test

Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda

2004-06-16 Thread Jay Fenlason
I've experienced similar problems backing up a Windows 2000 client (with the Cygwin Amanda client) from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS (Itanium) box. The errors only happen when the Windows box is on the far side of a Fedora Core 2 bridge/gateway. When the Windows box is directly attached to

Re: moved to new disk, now amanda wants to do level 0's on whole system

2003-11-14 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:23:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; See subject, Which of course is leading to a 90% failure rate as the whole system has around 40Gb, but the tapes are only 4Gb's. What happened is that I put in a new 120 Gb drive, 2x the size of the one I took

Re: odd problem setting up amanda on Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:59:20AM -0700, Harlan Harris wrote: Hi, I'm just starting to set up Amanda, and am having trouble. I've got two Red Hat 9 Linux boxes, one as the server, and one as a client. The server backs itself up fine. But the client is timing out. I've determined that it's

Re: problem with dumper in amanda 2.4.4

2003-09-04 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 04:57:52PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 at 4:53pm, Ashwin Bijur wrote When I run amanda backups, I am getting the following message in /var/log/messages: kernel: application bug: dumper(23061) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls

Re: maybe this is a dumb question

2003-08-26 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:34:49AM -0500, Chris Barnes wrote: One of my student workers - who happens to be setting up Amanda, recently came to me with a concern about how the backup/restore process handles soft links. I suspect that this is a non-issue in that Amanda has already figured out

Re: Configuration Guide.

2003-08-12 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:43:02AM +0300, rehanann wrote: Dear All, I need configuration document for Amanda 2.4.4 p1 if its available please forward me and I am installing this in Red Hat 8.0. Without any sense you cannot make any sensible things for

Re: chg-manual bug?

2003-07-28 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:32:19AM +0800, Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Gene, on Monday, 2003-07-28 at 07:25:08, you wrote: | EGREP=grep -E certainly looked wrong to me. Quoting did it: | EGREP='grep -E' I don't use this but that is how it is in my copy of amanda-2.4.4p1-20030716,

Re: xinetd shutting off amanda

2003-07-14 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:29:03PM -0400, Chris Dahn wrote: Hi all, I used to have 2.4.2p2 installed. I built an ebuild for Gentoo for it. Apparently they finally accepted someone's ebuild for Amanda into the CVS tree, and so my system was automatically updated to 2.4.4 last night.

Re: Installation

2003-06-24 Thread Jay Fenlason
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:36:24AM +0200, Mikkel Gadegaard wrote: Hey people I have a problem with installing amanda. Until recently I had Amanda running on a RedHat 8.0 (amanda installed whith RedHat), that machine wasn't big enough so I got a bigger machine and installed RedHat 9.0 on it.