Re: condense many tapes to few

et. I do, but I run two backup sets (one for servers, one for workstations.) I'm not entirely certain the script still works for amrestore. It used to, but I've enhanced that section recently so that it recognizes sessions still on the holding disk, and I haven't tested those

Re: scsi card for dat drive on linux

ole box to free it. (Luckily the system itself was IDE-disk based so I could always gracefully unmount everything except the scsi holding disk. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: another problem from upgrading server to 2.4.2p2

r to 2.4.2p2 > >> Yesterday, the daily amcheck run gave me the following error: >>sh: /tmp/amanda/amcheck.main.16130: No such file or directory >>amcheck: mail command failed: /usr/bin/Mail -s " AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX > Isn't "/usr/bin/mail" usally lowercase? -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Local Filesystem

ds incremental dumps. On my previous workstation I had an 8gig partition that was used mostly for holding disk and cdrom burner workspace, but I had one directory there I needed to backup. It was a perl database used by the machine's website and doing a full-backup of the whole direct

Re: Local Filesystem

sk, not just partition device names or mount points. But, the version I'm using doesn't store dump levels for anything except a full partition or mountpoint. A subdirectory below the mountpoint can be backed up with dump but the dump timestamps aren't recorded. Or something like

Re: self check request timed out

s hostname and it's being pissy about launching amandad or something. Then again, I could be thinking of something else completely, too. It's been months since I touched that box after I got it working. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Amanda should know better...

this disk, a low-priority user workstation, instead of doing the medium and high-priority file servers? -- Joi EllisSoftware Engineer Aravox Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] No matter what we think of Linux versus FreeBSD, etc., the one thing I reall

Re: Weird illustration of peculiar interactions :-}

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Martin Apel wrote: >On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Joi Ellis wrote: > >> >> I amflush these to tapes to send to offsite storage. >> I've already done two tapes from this batch, I have four >> left to do. > >That's a nice idea, but I have

Re: Changing OS of amanda server

ns every >> minute, ifconfig'ing down and up the ethernet interface and re-adding >> the default route. This is what I have to do on my laptop when running >> RH Linux to keep the ethernet working. Well, something must be broken with that machine's drivers. I have Re

Re: what tape device does amanda support?

e. Robots are a slightly different story. Amanda comes with a number of scripts you can adapt for use with your particular robot. As long as you can get a robot control script going, you're all set. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Weird illustration of peculiar interactions :-}

thing left to pack! I amflush these to tapes to send to offsite storage. I've already done two tapes from this batch, I have four left to do. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: HP COLORADO 8GB tapetype

HP COLORADO 8GB streamer? >Thanks. > Perhaps http://amanda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fom?file=111 There are more HP Colorado models on page: http://amanda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fom?file=46 -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: again: amanda version 2.4.2 and NT

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Alexander von Homeyer wrote: >Just to be sure once again the question: >does version 2.4.2 support file exclusion on NT clients? I didn't think Samba's tar command supported exclude lists? If Samba doesn't, Amanda can't. -- Joi Ell

Re: cleaner tapes

't rewind them. That's how all the DAT and 8mm drives I've cleaned have worked. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

RE: [/sbin/dump returned 3]

;I got the latest dump from sourceforge about 2 weeks ago. Did you get the static rpm, or the dynamic one? RH5.2 was a libc5 platform, but the current rpms assume you're using glibc. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Using Removable Hard Drives for Backup

simply as "The Cederqvist". This is also very good. I stuck each of them into 2" 3-ring binders and have many bookmarks in each. If the CVS Desktop Reference doesn't answer the question, one of the other two does. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: amlabel hangs up

k. It really sucks. My older 8500 never did this. I think it's the drive, not the driver. I've sent email to Exebyte's support address several times and have never gotten an answer from them. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Rebuilt Tape Server

eneralization that Linux users don't install the >amanda(-no-dee) service config in xinetd.d would be false. =) Sigh. So Linux users are coming to be held in the same low regard as AOL users? -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: hardware errors on disk

Run, don't walk, to your local Best Buy and purchase a replacemet for /dev/hda. Every time I see these errors, they herald the start of much angst and file lossage. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

which also consumes half my ram. Running them both causes my machine to start swapping heavily, and since I spend most of my time doing Java development, I launch VMWare only when I need to do excel stuff.) You could try a VMWare-hosted smbtar backup. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

e that if windows crashes, windows has a >bug/flaw/lacking (depending on wheather what made it crash was >use/unexpected_use/downright_cruel_use) there. Yes. But then, M$ has never felt that a GPF was anything to avoid. :p -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Amanda broke my tape drive!

ones... at 1075 British Pounds per bottle! (Yikes...) -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Amanda broke my tape drive!

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote: >I'm pretty sure Amanda shot the tape drive to death! :-) Let's all chip in and get John a big bottle of Prozac for the holidays! -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: MT

Red Hat systems, mt is provided by its own RPM. It isn't bundled with amanda. mt is not in 6.2's taper package, either. mt-st-0.5b-7.i386.rpm -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

manda's fault ... > I just searched through samba.org's mail archive, and there are reports there of NT blue-screening during a smbtar pull from Unix hosts. I haven't come across a response to that, someone who has more time may want to search harder through the archives for an answer. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Completely Stuck :-(

n in the first place. So I'm very >confused - help! > >Also I'm not 100% as to what should be going on with .amandahosts, at >present I have it in ~amanda, containing 'hostname amanda' and this >seems OK. > >Thanks >- John > -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: amanda using ssh

I have a few remote linux boxes I'd love to backup to my home tape via amanda. (Yeah, over y 64k link will suck, but it's better than driving across down with the tape drive and buying extra scsi controllers...) -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

RE: Backing up Oracle database

search engine and our internal bugzilla. Not a real high-traffic server but I'd still like to get the bugzilla backed up better than it is now. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: linux filesize limit and amanda?

d the last time I had to pull an image >2gig from a tape: cd (someplace with enough disk space) dd if=/dev/nst0 | split -b2000m cat x?? | restore ... -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Problems with amstatus

ssignment to $$host? If it is, comment it out. That's a bug in amstatus where it assumes every host name is in fact a name and not an ip address. I think this is fixed in 2.4.2. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Weird Block Size, Tapertype, Something Error

have tried forcing compression on >and off with still the same results. Nah. Tapetype is a oneshot process, it doesn't affect this drive block size setting issue you're having. (Mind you, it's possible that changing the blocktype to what you intend to stick with and rerunning tapetype once to get a new setting wouldn't be a bad idea. My drive's capacity changed slightly when I switched from 1k to 23k blocks.) -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Do you think we are going to run out of holding disk space..

g partition. I summed everything (ignoring swap, /tmp, and /dump), and then subtracted the size of /dump. The remainder was 12959432, which is still bigger than /dump by quite a bit. Unless your compression is enabled and getting a lot better than 2/1, your full dumps won't fit. -- Joi

Re: overdue 7 days for level 0

ke full dumps first, and all of the holding disk is reserved for degraded incrementals, there is no space on the disk available for non-degraded full dumps. Edit your amanda.conf file to say something like "reserve 10". Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: forced a full dump for Sat AM - it failed (fwd)

holding disk? Find the 'reserve' parameter in your amanda.conf file and set it to a low number. I have mine set to 30, but I have a 30gig holding disk and a 4 gig tape unit. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: forced a full dump for Sat AM - it failed

ng to read it. Check your system's syslog or kernel log for tape error messages... Don't forget you have to 'amlabel' each new tape before Amanda will write to it. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Sony TSL-11000

HA-2940U2W >from adaptec.com and it is indeed one of the BIOS settings. It's on by >default, and I doubt that I changed it, but I'll have to check. Would enabling disconnect on the scsi controller be a good thing to do generically? I have a similar card on my machine, perhap

Re: your mail

self is supposed to be world read/write, even user nobody can write there under most unixes. If /tmp isn't world writable all kinds of things break. I wouldn't hold this one against Amanda... -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Using Amanda to backup a NFS mounted FS.

ay games with your fstab to give the backup machine root write rights on the NFS mount so that incrementals can function. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: What the heck happened to /etc/dumpdates?

admin1.corp.walid.com: [can not read/write /etc/dumpdates: No such >file or directory] /etc/dumpdates is provided as part of the dump package, and rpm undoubtedly replaced your amanda-writable permissions with root-only permissions, which are the usual default. Go chown /etc/dumpdates back to use

Re: your mail

em is only backing up files >which are world readable. User backup should be added to the same group which owns the disks, and that group should have read or read-write access to the physical devices. (I'm not positive about the read-write, but it definately needs read.) -- Joi Ellis [EM

RE: hostname lookup failed

ress, ie the Linux flavor will, but default Solaris flavors won't. I've found that simply adding entries to /etc/hosts files was sufficient to get amanda running. As long as each machine can 'ping othermachine' and there isn't a conflict with DNS entries, it's fine. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

re: sugestion for tape labeling Yea or Nea?

SQL guru. $ is a wildcard character for Oracle, I think. Replace that chain of pattern with the simpler perl pattern: ".\d\d\d" "." means any one character, "\d" means any digit. A safer pattern, the one I use, is "DailySet1\d\d". -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: version 2.4.2 where to get?

On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Edwin Chiu wrote: >Where can I get 2.4.2? >How stable is it? > >If it's in CVS can someone tell me how to check it out? There is an entry in the online Amanda FAQ with step-by-step instructions for getting the current CVS snapshot. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL

Re: Is it possible to run an amanda client without inetd?

ork). Inetd or a close relative is a standard fixture on unix machines. The only inetd configuration you must do to support amanda is add three lines to the inetd.conf and kill HUP the inetd process. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: strangely slow amrecover

entry until the file is closed. You want to be watching the free space drop in "df -k ." rather than watching "du thefile" -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: tape-type defs needed for an ADIC DLT 40/80

list >thanks ahead of time > >dmc Did you check the online faq? There are a pile of DLT tapetypes in there. It's likely some of them match your drive's specs, if not its exact brand/model name. http://www.amanda.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=93 -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Changing a tape's density

ve case notches, your drive will do it, but you may experience higher error rates if the media isn't up to the task. On my drives, once a tape is written with compressesion/density settings, that tape will forever retain those values until forcibly erased, usually with an 'mt weof'

Re: trouble with samba2-20000418.diff/second.edition

fig.h.in' > : > : > > >Can anybody tell me the right patch instruction (mean the right options or >better the exact syntax). >Thanks a lot >farnk Rippert > > -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: Changing a tape's density

otches. IE I know there are notces in some types of cartridges to indicate length and/or maximum write density. And there are special notches on cleaning tapes. Perhaps your drive isn't cooperating because it doesn't like the media. Find a new cartridge you know is compatible with

Re: Using a cname for the amanda server

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Dean Pentcheff wrote: >Joi Ellis wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: >... >> I'm also not sure I'd want the identity of my tape backup server >> visible with simple DNS queries, either. That makes it a juicy >>

Re: Changing a tape's density

g on a tape header, an erase won't do it. I'm certain the dd won't... (4mm DAT of various vintanges, EXB-8500, EXB-8505). (Did you mean for the dd to overwrite the whole tape? Usually just whacking the header is sufficient. If not, add a count=NN to it.) -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/

Re: A solution for taper and dumps larger than a single tape?

his way the chunks are already compressed, amanda knows exactly what size they will be on tape and can plan much better. When I play games with my own offsite backup extractor/packer and amflush, I regularly achieve 99.9% tape utilitization using my standard tapetype. I h

Re: Changing a tape's density

ugh all my tapes, I won't have to do this any longer since the drive checks a tape for such settings when it loads it. I use the dd to make sure the whole header is clean, because otherwise my tape drive is likely to start shoeshining on the tape's physical header. I don't know why