Problems with amrecover on Linux clients and Solaris Tape server

2002-06-23 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Greetings, My backups are running now, but i'm having problems using amrecover; I added all the amanda services on the /etc/inetd.conf (/etc/xinetd.d/amanda on the linux client) and in the /etc/services. Here are the tests i performed: On the Solaris Tape Server (Solaris 7): #

Perl script to remind someone about changing a tape: anyone interested?

2001-12-19 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Hello people, This list has been a very good source of information on setting up amanda and i will like to contribute; I made a little Perl script that sents an email to the responsible of changing tapes on a tape unit for the next backup. The script is smart (well kind of :) ), only sents the

Re: Perl script to remind someone about changing a tape: anyone interested?

2001-12-19 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
or not. Anyway thanks for the info :) Probably posting the code will clarify the whole thing but again i don't know if the list is the best place to do it. Moderator, any ideas ? ;) JV --- Johannes Niess [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: José Vicente Núñez Zuleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: Help needed, problems with amrecover: weird no index messages on the tape server and never connects from Linux client

2001-12-17 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Hello, Yes, the problem was that i was running amanda on the tape server instead of the client. I ran amanda on the client and worked without a problem!. Also, as you said before, i forgot to set up the index parameter. JV. --- Chris Marble [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:

Re: Linux dump

2001-12-14 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
I was using dump to backup my linux clients; Apparently the previopus Sysadmin got no problems with dump on linux until one day dump got stuck dumping a huge backup (more than 12GB of data). I replaced the dump version for a new one, but then i got more weird status errors from amanda. I gived

Weird amdump problem on Linux machine: Unable to get an size estimate

2001-12-14 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Greetings, I'm backing up now my development network using Amanda and appears to run fine on almost all the machines; I running the tape server on a Linux machine, taping to hardisk (no tape unit) and have several Linux and Solaris clients. I'm unable to get a backup size estimate with one of

Amrecover is not working with Gnu Tar: help needed

2001-12-14 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Greetings, I'm using Amrecover to try to recover some file; I did a full dump (forced using amadmin) and i here is the output of a failed recover procedure: amrecover setdate ---08 200 Working date set to 2001-12-08. amrecover sethost lnxsrv0001 200 Dump host set to lnxsrv0001. amrecover

Re: Weird amdump problem on Linux machine: Unable to get an size estimate

2001-12-14 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Please ignore my previous post, i found what the problem was: the /etc/amandates was a directoy, not a file! (i made a mistake during one of the amcheck messages). I solved the problem checking the /tmp/amanda losg on the client side, they were very helpfull :) JV. --- José Vicente Núñez

Re: Amrecover is not working with Gnu Tar: help needed

2001-12-13 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
sensitive files as Rational Clearcase VOB's). Hope this helps someone else with the same type problem i got. JV. --- José Vicente Núñez Zuleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Greetings, I'm using Amrecover to try to recover some file; I did a full dump (forced using amadmin) and i here

Re: amrecover: No index records for host?

2001-12-07 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Hello, --- Stavros Patiniotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hello, I don't have the record tag but seems ok to me :) Great! On the client when running ./configure I get [cut] checking for gtar... no checking for gnutar... no checking for tar...

Re: Problems with amrecover on Linux clients and Solaris Tape server

2001-12-07 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
--- Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 at 4:04pm, José Vicente Núñez Zuleta wrote Error #1: I ran amrecover on the tape server and get some index not found errors: Obvious question: Is indexing turned on. Do your index files exist? What do

Problems with amrecover on Linux clients and Solaris Tape server

2001-12-07 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Greetings, My backups are running now, but i'm having problems using amrecover; I added all the amanda services on the /etc/inetd.conf (/etc/xinetd.d/amanda on the linux client) and in the /etc/services. Here are the tests i performed: On the Solaris Tape Server (Solaris 7): #

Help needed, problems with amrecover: weird no index messages on the tape server and never connects from Linux client

2001-12-06 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Greetings, My backups are running now, but i'm having problems using amrecover; I added all the amanda services on the /etc/inetd.conf (/etc/xinetd.d/amanda on the linux client) and in the /etc/services. Here are the tests i performed: On the Solaris Tape Server (Solaris 7): #

Re: amrecover: No index records for host?

2001-12-06 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Hello, --- Stavros Patiniotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hello, Hi! What i did was to recompile the amanda server and also added the option index to the dumpiles type (for example comp-user) in the amanda.conf file. I got it working for Tar, and i let you know if that

Why amverify complains about missing gtar?

2001-12-05 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Greetings, Our previous sysadmin installed amanda on our main Solaris server but didn't installed GNU tar on it (now is installed at /usr/local/bin/tar and a simbolick link to /bin/gtar) ; I'm doing some tar backups on our Linux clients but amverify refuses to check them because complains that

Amanda and Linux client: Linux client never finishes the backup

2001-12-05 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Greetings, I'm running an Amanda Server under Solaris and one of my clients is a Linux box; That box has a partition filled with +/-28GB. All the backups run fine, but at the end i never manage to backup that huge partition: amstatus NEWBREAK Using /home/amanda/backup-logs/NEWBREAK/amdump from

Re: Problems dumping a big partition with Solaris and Linux

2001-12-05 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Hello --- Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 at 11:40am, José Vicente Núñez Zuleta wrote amstatus NEWBREAK --file backup-logs/NEWBREAK/amdump.3 Using /home/amanda/backup-logs/NEWBREAK/amdump.3 from Sat Dec 1 02:30:00 EST 2001 *snip

Why amverify is not checking the tar backups?

2001-12-05 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Greetings, Our previous sysadmin installed amanda on our main Solaris server but didn't installed GNU tar on it; Now i'm doing some tar backups on our Linux clients but amverify refuses to check them becuase complains that Gtar is not installed (but now is it, at /usr/local/bin/tar and a

Re: Problems dumping a big partition with Solaris and Linux

2001-12-04 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Hello, --- Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 at 4:53pm, José Vicente Núñez Zuleta wrote I upgraded the dump version but then i got the following problem: lnxsrv0001:/dev/hdc1 1 [/sbin/dump returned 3] (17:48:39) lnxsrv0001

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2001-12-03 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
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Problems dumping a big partition with Solaris and Linux

2001-12-03 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
Greetings, I have a Solaris server running the Latest version of amanda and a Linux client running the same version of amanda; I'm able to dump (backup) the small partitions on that server but when i try to dump the big partition the amanda goes crazy and just stays idle!. Here is the latest

Re: Problems dumping a big partition with Solaris and Linux

2001-12-03 Thread José Vicente Núñez Zuleta
ideas so far? JV. --- Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 at 1:45pm, José Vicente Núñez Zuleta wrote Are you using dump or tar on the Linux client? What version, and what distribution of Linux? I've seen dump hang more than once... I'm