Re: Runtapes Question

2010-01-15 Thread Jim Summers
thing. It should finish a tapecycle soon, so maybe it will heal itself. I may add some disks and expand the FS. Then add more tapes. At that point I may do the amrmtape. Do you recommend I amrmtape my whole tapecycle and start fresh when I do that? TIA Jean-Louis --- Jim Summers

Re: request failed: timeout waiting for REP

2009-01-16 Thread Jim Summers
the dles that backup ok? If it is you might check dmesg or your system logs for any hardware troubles. HTH -- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma -

Re: Amanda Runs Hanging

2009-01-15 Thread Jim Summers
Jim Summers wrote: Hello All, I started having my nightly backups hang. The backups have been working fine until Thursday of last week. The server is amanda-2.5.2p1 on rhel4 and the client that I believe is involved is amanda-2.6.0p2 on centos5. Their are other clients

Amanda Runs Hanging

2009-01-14 Thread Jim Summers
*)0x627530 = { 2, 10080, 129.15.11.173 } == The odd thing there is there is not a dgram_recv for the last entry into the log. From there everything just seems to stop. Any ideas or suggestions? Please let me know and I can provide more debug if needed. TIA -- Jim Summers

Re: Amanda Debugging

2008-12-01 Thread Jim Summers
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking on the clients, I found no activity except on one gtar process on one DLE. That client also has amdumps and sendsize running. Using very little cpu. I think that this is the key

Amanda Debugging

2008-11-26 Thread Jim Summers
on one? Using Amanda-2.5.2p1 on the RHEL server. I am using Amanda-2.5.2p1 through amanda-2.6.0p2 on the clients, RHEL or centos. Ideas / Suggestions? TIA -- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma -

Re: Infinite loop

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Summers
Brad Willson wrote: Jim Summers wrote: Is amanda running using the group or owner. Typically determined by the xinet /inet service configuration for amanda. HTH Brad Willson wrote: I'm stuck in a seemingly endless loop of amcheck, verify permissions, see error, verify permissions, repeat

Re: Repeating Level 0

2006-04-03 Thread Jim Summers
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:46:05AM -0500, Jim Summers wrote: Hello List, I am experiencing an odd behavior from amanda. I have a client that I have been backing up for a couple of years now. A while back, I noticed that it was doing

Amanda Success

2005-12-06 Thread Jim Summers
Hello List, After a new admin botched up a migraton, Amanda came through and was able to recover files necessary to repair the damage done. Amrecover went smooth as butter! Many thanks to the Amanda team! -- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma -

Re: Amanda Success

2005-12-06 Thread Jim Summers
://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Success_stories)? Any configuration information would help us others confidence to use Amanda. Paddy Amanda Developer On 12/6/05, Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, After a new admin botched up a migraton, Amanda came through and was able to recover files

MailList Test

2005-07-07 Thread Jim Summers
Hello List, Apologies for this noise. I have been trying to work some bugs out of our local email server and was wanting to verify that all is well. No replies necessary, as I should see this in my mail when it is sent to the list. Thanks -- Jim Summers School of Computer Science

Re: estimate timeout

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Summers
this helps. -- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma -

Re: estimate timeouts

2005-05-05 Thread Jim Summers
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:10:10AM -0500, Jim Summers wrote: McDonagh, Joe wrote: Or you might try the very latest release of amanda which has new features for estimating the size of a DLE. The 2.4.5 options of server and calcsize are very fast. Fast is good. Fast

Re: estimate timeouts

2005-05-04 Thread Jim Summers
again I plan to try them out. -- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma -

New Estimate Parameter

2005-04-22 Thread Jim Summers
I was wondering if the new estimate parameter is available in the recently released 2.4.5 or if I need to get the 2.4.5b1 from sourceforge? This will allow for the calcsize or server estimates. Apologies for the confusion. TIA -- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma -

Testing

2004-12-09 Thread Jim Summers
Sorry for the noise, but actually I haven't had any noise from the amanda-users list in a while and was sending this as a test to see if I have a mail config problem Thanks -- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma -

Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone???

2004-08-12 Thread Jim Summers
. -- Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Oklahoma-Computer Scence

Re: amandad Problem on redhat 7.2

2004-04-30 Thread Jim Summers
UTC 2002 BUILT_MACH=Linux D5 2.4.19 #1 SMP Tue Sep 10 00:06:19 UTC 2002 i686 unknown CC=gcc - xinetd from rpm: xinetd-2.3.11-1.7x - Can anyone help ? Thanks in advance, ...olli -- Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science-University of Oklahoma

Re: Pinging the list

2004-04-10 Thread Jim Summers
a happy and joyfull Easter as we celebrate annually, the resurrection of a man named Jesus (if english is your native tongue). Peace -- Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science-University of Oklahoma

Re: amrecover

2003-11-05 Thread Jim Summers
level 0 backup). What should I do to recover from an older tape? Possibly the setdate command will allow you to go back in time. Hope this helps, jim Lucio. -- Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Oklahoma - Computer Science

Amrecover Saga

2003-11-04 Thread Jim Summers
in one group such as disk and then stay consistent across all the directories involved. Thanks again -- Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Oklahoma - Computer Science

Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jim Summers
denied amidxtaped: time 0.010: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2 amidxtaped: time 0.010: rewinding tape ... amidxtaped: time 0.010: tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/nst0: Permission denied amidxtaped: time 0.010: pid 31743 finish time Mon Nov 3 08:10:09 2003 === -- Jim Summers

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jim Summers
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:43, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On 3 Nov 2003 at 8:37am, Jim Summers wrote === amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied What does 'ls -l /dev/nst0' say? And what user and group runs amanda on the server? Sorry I forgot to include

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jim Summers
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 10:22, Paul Bijnens wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:43:30AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On 3 Nov 2003 at 8:37am, Jim Summers wrote === amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied What does 'ls -l /dev/nst0' say

Dumper Patch Problem

2003-10-07 Thread Jim Summers
. TIA -- Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Oklahoma - Computer Science

Re: Dumper Patch Problem

2003-10-07 Thread Jim Summers
have the actual file that Jay mentioned in the archives. So I did a cut/paste from the message to build the file. Suggestions / Ideas ? Thanks again, jim On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 11:06, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On 7 Oct 2003 at 10:57am, Jim Summers wrote I have recently upgraded my Amanda

Re: Crashing machine

2003-09-18 Thread Jim Summers
PROTECTED] Phone: 425.921.4000 Fax: 425.921.4040 -- Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Oklahoma - Computer Science

Re: Solaris 8 compile problem with amanda 2.4.4

2003-06-23 Thread Jim Summers
that has gotten me once or twice. HTH -- Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Oklahoma - Computer Science

Re: Permissions wrong - amcheck -m error - Can't create transcriptfi le ./xfh54EUCZ09037: Permission denied

2003-06-05 Thread Jim Summers
in advance Kevin -- Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Oklahoma - Computer Science

Re: sendbackup timeout

2003-04-01 Thread Jim Summers
You might poke around in your messages file on the server and client to see if there are any hardware errors popping up around the time this backup is running. I had a similar issue in that all was well except when I attempted to move huge amounts of data. Amanda logs were similar to yours.

Re: newbie having trouble with tape labels

2003-03-31 Thread Jim Summers
If you are attempting to re-label a tape that has already been labelled by amlabel, then you might try the amlabel-f label regex. This will force it to re-write the label. I guess it could also be a problem with the regex in amanda.conf or some other settings in the same. HTH On Mon,

Re: Help for a first time user

2003-03-28 Thread Jim Summers
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:22:43PM -0600, Ryan Vennell wrote: Is amanda live as in you run it and it takes care of all your servers in an automated fashion every day? Once configured, yes. Can you use a Hard Disk instead of a tape drive? Yes. Are there amanda clients for use with

Re: can't backup a remote machine

2003-03-27 Thread Jim Summers
My guess would be a firewall issue. On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:30, Glen Kaukola wrote: Hi, I've installed Amanda 2.4.2p2-9 installed on a Red Hat 7.3 system so I can back up some of our data. I've got it working for backing up the /etc directory on the local machine, but it fails to back

Re: swap out a tape within the rotation

2003-01-13 Thread Jim Summers
I am pretty sure there is a -f switch that will force it to label the tape. On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 13:56, wab wrote: I have decided to archive the current tapeXX in my rotation. I want to use a new tape for tapeXX, but executing ./amlabel DailySet1 tapeXX returns, label tapeXX is already on

Testing

2002-12-16 Thread Jim Summers
Testing to see if list is working. Have not seen the usual amount of traffic. Thanks again, Jim

Re: Problem with chg-zd-mtx

2002-12-16 Thread Jim Summers
Seems like this is that problem of not specifying values for all of the variables in the config file. Hope this helps, Jim On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:43, John Oliver wrote: Red Hat 8.0 Using the amanda and mtx that came with. [root@backup root]# su amanda -c amcheck DailySet2 bash:

Re: amdump fails- no estimate

2002-12-02 Thread Jim Summers
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 13:53, Matthew Boeckman wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:25:52PM -0600, Matthew Boeckman wrote: If not, WHY? look into the amdump log file. can't find any amdump log file! amdump.{n} on the server. *embarassed cough* I

Re: COMPAQ TSL-9000 DAT autoloader device

2002-11-25 Thread Jim Summers
DAT autoloader device Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/22/2002 04:23 PM CST font size=-1/font Marc, Here is the tapetype for Sony TSL9000 define tapetype SonyTSL9000 { comment just produced by tapetype

Re: COMPAQ TSL-9000 DAT autoloader device

2002-11-22 Thread Jim Summers
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Re: COMPAQ TSL-9000 DAT autoloader device

2002-11-21 Thread Jim Summers
Marc, I am using just a Sony TSL-9000 with amanda. I use the chg-zd-mtx script. My os is linux though. I do have the sony docs and I will peruse through them to see if there is anything helpful. Also, I am pretty sure that I navigated through the Sony web and found pdf files for the 9000. If

Re: DAT hardware or software compression

2002-11-20 Thread Jim Summers
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 07:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have got here a DDS-3 tape drive which has per default hardware compression enabled and was wondering what is the best deal with AMANDA. Would you guys suggest hardware compression or should I disable hardware compression and

Re: backup failure on one disk

2002-11-07 Thread Jim Summers
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 06:36, Steven Law wrote: Hello there, One of our disks as been failing to backup for the last week or so and I have been unable to find out why. I originally thought it was due to a disk mirroring problem but that has been sorted out. I then thought it was due to a

Re: comments about amanda packages requested

2002-09-27 Thread Jim Summers
I have lost the original post on this. But how will options such as --with-udp-ports, etc... be done in a pre-built? Could be important for firewallers. I guess a certian range could be specified and documented. Jim On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 04:29, Edwin Hakkennes wrote: Hi Jon, Hi all,

Re: comments about amanda packages requested

2002-09-26 Thread Jim Summers
I agree with Cait. Samples definitely help me learn / catch on to what I am trying solve / configure. On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 12:53, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: Hi, John, and everyone else, On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:46, John P. Looney wrote: I've just spent the last week battling with

Re: special backupcase

2002-09-05 Thread Jim Summers
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 07:34, Thomas Kirk wrote: Hey there listmembers Im kind of newbie within the backup area so maybe this isnt so special after all? I wanna do a full backup every weekend and incremental rest of the week which lead me to have I think you will have to set up multiple

Re: special backupcase

2002-09-05 Thread Jim Summers
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 08:29, Thomas Kirk wrote: Hey Jim On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:01:52AM -0500, Jim Summers wrote: First of all thanks for the quick answer! :) I think you will have to set up multiple disklist / configs to try and force Amanda to do this. Hmm this seems abit

Re: dumps fail: data timeout

2002-08-28 Thread Jim Summers
Using gtar might help also. On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 12:20, Amy Tanner wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:06:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It rather sounds like you need to allow more time for the process to run. Thats configurable with a couple of variables in your

Re: Amdump and Timeouts

2002-08-20 Thread Jim Summers
My timeout issues were more related to the dump process of amanda. From what I can tell from your snippet is that you may need to verify how your amanda services are configured on each end of the pipe. I am responding this to the list so that others may be able to help also. Jim On Tue,

Re: amandahostsauth failing -- why?

2002-08-20 Thread Jim Summers
1. the amanda hosts exists on all participants 2. format correct? hostname amandausername || hostname.domain amandausername 3. the file is in the amanda user home. Hope this helps, Jim On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 14:33, Schlomo Schwartz wrote: I'm trying to back up a filesystem on a Red Hat

Update on Index Tees - Data Timeouts

2002-08-15 Thread Jim Summers
the ufsdumps. I had reverted back to that during that particular run to see if I could ease some contention somewhere. But to no avail. Thanks again, Jim On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 14:37, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On 14 Aug 2002 at 2:19pm, Jim Summers wrote In an effort to debug this problem

Re: Request for explanation of Index tee error

2002-08-15 Thread Jim Summers
I can't give a good explanation at this point but symptoms include but are not limited to: blood-shot eyes, blurry vision, headaches. :-) Keep us posted as to yuor findings. Good Luck, Jim On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 12:54, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote: What does the following syslog

Index Tees - Data Timeouts

2002-08-14 Thread Jim Summers
messages to be generated. Suggestions or ideas? If more info is needed, amanda.conf entries etc... let me know and I can provide. Thanks in advance, Jim Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Index Tees - Data Timeouts

2002-08-14 Thread Jim Summers
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 09:44, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On 14 Aug 2002 at 9:26am, Jim Summers wrote On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 08:23, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On 14 Aug 2002 at 8:09am, Jim Summers wrote I am running Amanda 2.4.2p2 on a Redhat Linux 7.3 as my Amanda server

Re: Index Tees - Data Timeouts

2002-08-14 Thread Jim Summers
problems and run amdump? Thanks again, Jim On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 10:41, Jim Summers wrote: On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 09:44, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On 14 Aug 2002 at 9:26am, Jim Summers wrote On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 08:23, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On 14 Aug 2002 at 8:09am, Jim Summers

Data Timeout Again

2002-07-18 Thread Jim Summers
Amanda version: 2.4.2ps Tape Server: RH Linux 7.3 Client with problem: Solaris 8 Tape Drive: Sony TSL-9000 DDS3 During an amdump I am having one of my filesystems fail with the infamous [data timeout] [dump to tape failed]. It has worked before. I am at a loss on this one since other fs's

More on Data Timeout

2002-07-18 Thread Jim Summers
I found the following in a sendbackup.debug logfile: = sendbackup: debug 1 pid 10171 ruid 2 euid 2 start time Wed Jul 17 23:41:15 2002 /usr/local/libexec/sendbackup: version 2.4.2p2 sendbackup: got input request: GNUTAR /cs/turing/facstaff1 0

Taper Order

2002-07-16 Thread Jim Summers
Hello List, I think I have seen this topic mentioned before but my memory fails me on this one. I am backing up several hosts and filesystems to my amanda server. I have one filesystem that is rather large circa 15G. It will fit on one tape but it needs most of the tape to do so(DDS3). I

Re: next problem...

2002-07-10 Thread Jim Summers
Not sure but might need the amandad service. On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 15:20, Scott Sanders wrote: I'm running amcheck on the tape server, puffer, and keep getting selfcheck timed out host down? I was getting this when trying to connect to the client, hacksaw, so I thought I'd try it

Re: Amanda vs. iptables

2002-07-01 Thread Jim Summers
What does amcheck do? Possibly increasing etimeout or dtimeout?? Hope this helps On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 07:28, Jordan Erickson wrote: I'm sorry if I'm being redundant, but maybe someone can help me with my problem, I would greately appriciate it. I'm not sure if this message got out the

Re: client

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Summers
James, I had the same problem. Turned out to be a firewall issue. I had to rebuild using the with-udpportrange and with-portrange to specify non random ports that amanda should use. Then had to tune the firewall accordingly. The amanda FAQ has one blurb on this. Hope this helps, Jim On

Amdump and Timeouts

2002-06-07 Thread Jim Summers
Hello amanda-users, I have successfully backed up a large file system on a remote machine at level 0. Now when I am ready to backup again, this time at level 1, it is timing out. I suspect a possible firewall problem but not sure at this point, from my amdump log file I see the following:

Re: 24 gig Tape Settings

2002-05-17 Thread Jim Summers
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 15:08, Brook Hurd wrote: I am about to use the following tape type: HP C5708A DDS-3 Data Cartridge, 24GB I have used an HP C1537A DDS3 on Solaris7,8 and Linux with no problems. But not your specific model. Good Luck