. They all say DLT IV but nothing more. Is there any way, short
of running tapetype on every tape, to know for certain its' capacity?
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Is there a way to make amanda use a tape other than what it's expecting?
I have 15 tapes labelled 1 through 15. Last nights' backup failed
because it was expecting tape number 15, but tape number one was in the
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define tapetype DLT7000 {
comment HP SureStore DLT7000 Autoloader A5501A
length 33642 mbytes
filemark 33 kbytes
speed 1840 kps
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tapetype (yes, with compression off!) to see what it'll say.
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:18:00PM -0500, Marty Shannon, RHCE wrote:
John Oliver wrote:
I'm trying to find the tape density codes for this A5501A DLT 7000
library and haven't had any luck yet. The drive seems to think it's a
20GB:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tape-src]# mt status
SCSI 2
reuse
20030221 Indyme008 reuse
20030220 Indyme007 reuse
20030219 Indyme006 reuse
20030218 Indyme005 reuse
20030215 Indyme004 reuse
20030214 Indyme003 reuse
20030213 Indyme002 reuse
20030212 Indyme001 reuse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
Why isn't it telling me it wants 001?
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:57:14PM +, Simon Young wrote:
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:20:22AM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
The dumps were flushed to tape Indyme014.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapelist
20030303
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:39:49AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:28:02PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:26:59PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Just a guess, but I'd say it's because 0 is not a valid date, so
those lines are being ignored
1) To exclude a directory that isn't on the host running the amanda
server, is it sufficient to touch .amanda.exludes in that directory?
2) How does amanda react to symlinks in a directory? Will it follow the
link and back up what it finds, or ignore it, or ???
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/amanda/DailySet1/disklist
backup /dev/hda1 comp-root-tar
What am I doing wrong to get /tmp and /hold excluded?
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to read my mind? :-)
dumpcycle 1 week
runspercycle 5
tapecycle 15 tapes
What am I doing wrong to get /tmp and /hold excluded?
I think you want ./tmp and ./hold in there -- relative paths.
Ahhh! Thanks...
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:26:59PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:38:46PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
I thought amanda would just read from the bottom of the list.
Nope, amanda goes by date first. List position is only significant
when 2 or more tapes have the same
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 05:06:08PM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote:
[Posted and Cc'ed]
Why? I subscribe... :-)
My last posting on this thread, we're in tapeout crunch right now...
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:43:13PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
No, not really... :-) My tapes are 20GB without
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:10:35PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:49:32PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:14:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
Throw in that marketing is usually a bit optimistic in saying its a
20 gigger without compression
in finding out what the flaw in my understanding of
how amanda handles compression is, though. I'm sure it's something
really obvious that I'm an idiot for not seeing, but I still think my
tapes should be able to hold more than 20GB when compression is being
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*here's* an explanation that made its' way through my thick
skull! :-) Thanks, Matt. I'm not sure if I fell more or less stupid
now... :-)
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:351379.4
69:061429.0
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.3)
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:46:44PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 at 11:51am, John Oliver wrote
I got this report from amanda. It looks to me like it's reporting that
it used 48.9% of the tape (a DLT 4000 20/40GB), but that it ran out of
space.
Not quite. 48.9
time Fri Feb 21 02:00:11 2003
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:58:16PM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote:
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:26:22PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
Since we're seeing 18 fulls and 1 daily, it smells like you're dumping
a whole bunch of new DLE's on amanda at the same time? If so, you'll
probably be OK tonight
blocks for a bit waiting on
data, and this wastes space. Could be a pretty good percentage
under the right conditions, like no, or too small a holding disk.
I have a big holding disk.
Holding disk /hold: 47560764 KB disk space available, that's plenty
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that the Density button on the drive can also affect compression.
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a whole bunch of free
space. So I created /hold and mounted it where I do, and changed
holdingdisk appropriately. That ought to take care of it... :-)
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:11:50PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 12:17pm, Frank Smith wrote
--On Wednesday, February 12, 2003 08:50:56 -0800 John Oliver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm still having a problem with one partition that amanda keeps trying
to do
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:42:58PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 11:09am, John Oliver wrote
OK, this led me to my answer... :-) I had never really paid a whole lot
of attention to holdingdisk :-) I noticed it was going to /var/tmp,
which is mounted
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:56:17PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 1:07pm, John Oliver wrote
data wasn't going through the holdingdisk, that that was precluding
compression, which is why I was running out of space (since my drive is
20/40).
That's not quite right
DLT 4000. I found the Product Manual on
Quantum's site, and it mentions that you *can* disable compression, but
neglects to say how. Nothing I can find does :-(
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that if this one
partition is too big, then it would schedule it with fewer other things
to make room. But this keeps happening every day... how do I fix?
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On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:18:05PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 at 10:09am, John Oliver wrote
Feb 7 06:04:56 backup kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1
(dumper).
This is a separate issue than running out of tape. Are you actually
hitting EOT? What's
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:40:21PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
Hi John,
That's a known bug in amanda-2.4.3, it was fixed on 2003-01-17
Nice.
Know if anyone's created a .src.rpm for 2.4.4b1?
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On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:45:31PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 at 11:37am, John Oliver wrote
~19GB. But the failure happens when it's also trying to back up a
bunch of other stuff. That's my question... why doesn't amanda save
this big partition for a run
is it? Is there something that needs to be flushed or not???
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:
dumpcycle 4 days
runspercycle 4
tapecycle 8 tapes
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per dumpcycle
Is it possible to make amanda spread the full backups out over the
course of the dumpcycle?
Also, if I change the dumpcycle to 5 days and leave the runspercycle at
4, will that work? I do want to keep tapes in sets of a week, but it
takes time to get more.
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...the number of times each tape has been used? So, after a given tape
has been used X times, amanda can send a reminder to replace it?
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:27:11PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 at 10:39am, John Oliver wrote
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:28:37PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
dumpcycle 4 days
Amanda will get a full backup of every disk list entry (DLE) at least once
Can amanda send a signal to my DLT IV to unload the tape after backups
are finished, so whoever goes back to swap tapes can just do it without
waiting to manually unload?
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if the exclude file
is missing. It does in 2.4.3. That could be a surprise to a user.
It was...
However gtar complains and aborts the backup if the exclude file
is missing. That would be a real big surprise and disappointment!!
Again, it was :-)
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, amanda has used /var/lib/amanda So I created
/usr/local/lib/amanda/ and chowned it to amanda, but I still get the
same message.
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a file exclude.gtar in there?
Yes, I did, and that got rid of the message. But if amanda needs this
file, why doesn't it just create it?
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:03:21PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:15:35PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:27:30PM -0600, Deb Baddorf wrote:
And did you put a file exclude.gtar in there?
Yes, I did, and that got rid of the message
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:24:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 30 December 2002 19:26, John Oliver wrote:
[root@backup root]# amrecover
AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on localhost ...
220 backup AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2) ready.
200 Access OK
Setting restore date
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 08:22:10AM +0300, Hery Zo RAKOTONDRAMANANA wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 30 December 2002 19:26, John Oliver wrote:
[root@backup root]# amrecover
I had this problem but solvd it when launched amrecover with the name of
your config.
[root@backup root
bigger than any
that are being successfully backed up, I've always used user amanda, I
do have dump installed, etc.
System is Red Hat 8.0 out-of-the-box.
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the resolver on the machine. These
little programs just make the C calls and rturn results. dig will do
that, too.
I've attached 3 files, the *.c files are from John, the makefile is
just what I use on Solaris. Your linux needs will probably vary.
That Makefile worked just fine... :-)
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, there is no /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amdump But amanda is
supposed to automagically create that stuff, right?
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On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:19:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 30 December 2002 19:25, John Oliver wrote:
[root@backup root]# su amanda -c amstatus DailySet1
bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied
^^^
This is a bogus report and can be ignored
localhost amanda
backup root
backup amanda
backup.indyme.local root
backup.indyme.local amanda
Or would it be more like:
localhost amanda root
?
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If I have to buy a new changer (or new to us...), what would be a good
choice? The capacity of the TSL-S7000 is sufficient. A changer that
there are specs for, that holds about 7 tapes, that is relatively
inexpensive... what are my choices?
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needs to be in the dumptype in amanda.conf But, if this is
so, why isn't it already in there? Or is it possible that something
else is really the issue?
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priority medium
index yes
}
Why does the conf file come without index yes in it already?
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backup.indyme.local 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 12:13:11 EDT 2002 i686
athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[root@backup DailySet1]# cat /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts
backup root
backup.indyme.local root
What's the beef?
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The drive in my TLS-S7000 autoloader is bad (sucks up tapes, then won't
give 'em back. Has a wrench on the display). I'd like to find a
new/rebuilt SDT-7000 drive for this unit, preferably from a local (San
Diego, CA) vendor. Anyone know of one?
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how to (or if I need to) disconnect it.
In any case, there's a screw marked Load on the bottom of the drive.
It seems to free-wheel in place. I'm not sur if I need to turn it in
one dirction or the other until something happens, or???
Can anyone help?
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to line 140 of /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx, I don't see
anything that loks wrong to me.
Unfortunately, I can't chck th archives right now... the company I'm
working on this for has a web proxy that blocks egroups, and I haven't
been able to get them to let me around that yet :-(
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