RE: Setting up AMANDA to use private network.

2006-10-11 Thread Lengyel, Florian
match in /etc/hosts, or your LDAP or NIS or whatever you use for hosts). -Original Message- From: Frank Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 10/11/2006 6:59 PM To: Lengyel, Florian Cc: Alan Jedlow; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Setting up AMANDA to use private network. Lengyel

RE: Setting up AMANDA to use private network.

2006-10-11 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Setting up AMANDA to use private network. Sure: have the DLE (disk list entry) refer to the name of the interface you want to use (you should, of course, give them separate names). I have machines with multiple interfaces (external inet connection, internal backup interface, etc)

RE: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2006-08-13 Thread Lengyel, Florian
skett Sent: Mon 8/14/2006 12:03 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: On Sunday 13 August 2006 23:20, Lengyel, Florian wrote: >Identical, except for identd on one client (the client that >doesn't work doesn't have identd). Permissions and all?  In some cases thats all importa

RE:

2006-08-13 Thread Lengyel, Florian
2006 18:07, Lengyel, Florian wrote: >I'm using Amanda 2.4.4p3 on a Debian system (stable release) >I have one client that times out during the self-check--I'm mystified. >What do I do to debug this? There are no firewalls--everything is >on the same subnet. > > >[EMAIL

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2006-08-13 Thread Lengyel, Florian
I'm using Amanda 2.4.4p3 on a Debian system (stable release) I have one client that times out during the self-check--I'm mystified. What do I do to debug this? There are no firewalls--everything is on the same subnet. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ amcheck Daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check ---

RE: Info on backing up windows servers via amanda

2006-06-29 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Info on backing up windows servers via amanda Thank you--a list of the alternatives is most helpful. I'll probably end up trying 1 or 2 and look through the archives. My Linux setup uses a Spectralogic 2K and is straightforward; I've documented it online at http://research.gc.cun

RE: Info on backing up windows servers via amanda

2006-06-29 Thread Lengyel, Florian
d out about the various methods people use? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Matt Hyclak Sent: Thu 6/29/2006 1:32 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Info on backing up windows servers via amanda On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:24:45PM -0400, Lengyel, Fl

Info on backing up windows servers via amanda

2006-06-29 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: Info on backing up windows servers via amanda I'm running amanda version 2.4.4 under Cent OS. So far it has been used to back up Linux machines; now I've acquired four windows 2003 machines that I'd like to back up with Samba. Does someone on the list have experience with this? Thank

RE: amanda 2.4.4p3 debian client stops responding after upgrade

2006-03-31 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: amanda 2.4.4p3 debian client stops responding after upgrade The trouble seems to be related to OpenNMS--though this is peculiar. With OpenNMS stopped, amcheck works: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ amcheck Daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /var

RE: amanda 2.4.4p3 debian client stops responding after upgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: amanda 2.4.4p3 debian client stops responding after upgrade In another thread, it was suggested to look at /tmp/amanda/amandad*.debug and /tmp/amanda/amcheck*.debug: "'amanda' in the SSH lines is your host's name.  The START lines indicate xinetd is starting amandad, so you shou

amanda 2.4.4p3 debian client stops responding after upgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: amanda 2.4.4p3 debian client stops responding after upgrade I've started a new thread. My apologies to the list for being unaware of the role of other mail headers (hidden to me by my unsophisticated email client) in thread discrimination. >From the beginning, on the server host, one

RE: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Lengyel, Florian
--Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mike Delaney Sent: Thu 3/30/2006 3:53 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved! On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 03:34:02PM -0500, Lengyel, Florian wrote: > I have

RE: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Lengyel, Florian
@amanda.org Subject: Re: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved! Lengyel, Florian schrieb: > An amanda client that used ... Please don't hijack threads ... Thank you, Stefan.

Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved! An amanda client that used to work on a debian host, before an apt-get update and an apt-get upgrade, and an installation of opennms (which installed the silly daemon identd for postgres) now gives me timeout

Re: Self check failing - what happens when you have duplicate amanda UID's

2006-02-26 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: __ >On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 06:09:21AM -0500, Lengyel, Florian wrote: >> This is a success story, in case anyone moves their NIS server and finds, >> to their dismay, duplicate amanda entries in their passwd file. One of t

Self check failing - what happens when you have duplicate amanda UID's

2006-02-26 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: Self check failing - what happens when you have duplicate amanda UID's This is a success story, in case anyone moves their NIS server and finds, to their dismay, duplicate amanda entries in their passwd file. One of them has to go. The problem is that one of the servers may have depend

Self check failing

2006-02-21 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: Self check failing I'm getting an amanda self-check failure from amcheck daily: I suppose this was due to the mysterious disconnect of one server (m248)... another one (nept) is running, but after removing a duplicate uid for amanda in the NIS maps, it stopped working. Amanda Backup C

RE: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Lengyel, Florian
man pages. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Salvatore Enrico Indiogine Sent: Fri 2/10/2006 3:16 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Migrating to Amanda, question 2 2006/2/10, Lengyel, Florian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, it seems to have difficulty recogniz

RE: Migrating to Amanda, question 2

2006-02-10 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Migrating to Amanda, question 2 Yes, it seems to have difficulty recognizing the second SCSI tape drive if you have two. So one of my Spectralogic 2K tape drives is languishing, while the other has all the fun. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Salva

RE: Migrating to Amanda, question 1

2006-02-05 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Migrating to Amanda, question 1 My connfiguration is not "too" different: a Dell optiplex dual pentium with a Spectralogic 2K (a hand me down) with 30 slots; the OS is Centos. You do need to install mtx (it comes with CentOS, which is a Red Hat EL clone obtained from  metal filings

RE: "client" and "server" terminology backwards in the docs?

2005-12-04 Thread Lengyel, Florian
nnection" between the server and the clients, there is no abuse of language... -Original Message- From: Lengyel, Florian Sent: Sun 12/4/2005 3:06 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: RE: "client" and "server" terminology backwards in the docs

RE: "client" and "server" terminology backwards in the docs?

2005-12-04 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: "client" and "server" terminology backwards in the docs? Now you have a counterexample to the rule that servers must passively listen for a connection and respond. Servers provide a service; clients make use of it. The implementation specific detail that servers have to passively l

RE: Sendmail from amanda

2005-11-26 Thread Lengyel, Florian
dmail in all my aplications. Lengyel, Florian wrote: > We've been using postfix instead of sendmail... > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Paul Bijnens > Sent: Thu 11/24/2005 2:53 AM > To: Leonid Shulov > Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org > Subj

RE: Sendmail from amanda

2005-11-24 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Sendmail from amanda We've been using postfix instead of sendmail... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Paul Bijnens Sent: Thu 11/24/2005 2:53 AM To: Leonid Shulov Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Sendmail from amanda Leonid Shulov wrote: > I

RE: Problems with canonical names from an ADSL provider

2005-11-13 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Problems with canonical names from an ADSL provider If your server amanda.mydomain.com has an immutable static ip address, abc.efg.hij.klm but your client does a lookup on the ISP dns and sees    [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of amanda.mydomain.com then why not define an entry in yo

RE: Generating disklist for large filesystems.

2005-10-21 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Generating disklist for large filesystems. I use a script documented here: http://research.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/Amanda_configuration_notes_for_the_Spectra_Logic_2K the script is invoked from crontab to define a DLE for each of my home directories on a computational cluster. This

RE: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-09 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Configuration for Windows PC client > As you were able to connect without specifying the dorkgroup/domain I AHA! That's what a windows domain namespace is: a dorkgroup!

RE: Wait for dumping

2005-09-21 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Wait for dumping Resend, with unforgivable typos corrected. -Original Message- From: John R. Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 9/21/2005 10:35 PM To: Lengyel, Florian Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Wait for dumping >mt -f /dev/nst0 compression

RE: Wait for dumping

2005-09-21 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Wait for dumping -Original Message- From: John R. Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 9/21/2005 10:35 PM To: Lengyel, Florian Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Wait for dumping >mt -f /dev/nst0 compression off > >[by the way, the argument

RE: Wait for dumping

2005-09-16 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Wait for dumping Well, in that case, I'll check slot 11... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jon LaBadie Sent: Fri 9/16/2005 1:55 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Wait for dumping On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:09:16AM -0400, Le

RE: Wait for dumping

2005-09-15 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Wait for dumping -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jon LaBadie Sent: Fri 9/16/2005 12:34 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Wait for dumping On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:51:31PM -0400, Lengyel, Florian wrote: > A check of the log shows t

RE: Wait for dumping

2005-09-15 Thread Lengyel, Florian
915 time 10.037 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Lengyel, Florian Sent: Thu 9/15/2005 7:25 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Wait for dumping I have a new server I've added to my disklist. Unlike the other servers, each of the DLEs waits for

Wait for dumping

2005-09-15 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: Wait for dumping I have a new server I've added to my disklist. Unlike the other servers, each of the DLEs waits for dumping. The system is RH EL 4. amanda rpms on the client: amanda-client-2.4.4p3-1 amanda-2.4.4p3-1 on the amanda server: identical to the above (just checked to mak

RE: This is retarded.

2005-08-31 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: This is retarded. On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:46:36PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote: >  > And well, tonight, it does it again. > > USAGE BY TAPE: >   Label   Time  Size  %    Nb >   svk17   0:00   0.0    0.0 0 >   svk18   0:00   0.0    0.0 0 >   svk19  

RE: This is retarded.

2005-08-30 Thread Lengyel, Florian
"Should" is not a computer science term. Looks like a hardware error; are you willing to provide further details about your hardware and software setup? It's easy to provide them; I'll start: I'm using a Spectra Logic 2K here. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: lvm and amanda?

2005-06-20 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: lvm and amanda? Do you have an SELinux setting of "targeted" on that box? This may be related to permissions--I must check this. I have amanda installed on a CentOS box, and I have an RHEL 4 server with a similar RAID volume /dev entries.  Following up on myself... (as usual on

RE: lvm and amanda?

2005-06-17 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: lvm and amanda? I have a similar situation, but instead of changing permissions of special devices (particularly RAID devices), which may be protected by SELinux, I list the directories I want to back up in the disklist. Florian Florian Lengyel, Ph.D. Assistant Director for Resea

RE: amdump waits forever for estimates from one host

2005-06-11 Thread Lengyel, Florian
> > These are the errors (slightly edited > Subject: CUNY Graduate Center AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR June 11, 2005 > > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [new tape not found in rack]. Amanda is looking for a new tape, so evidently you have fewer tapes labeled than what is specified in tapecycle. You can h

RE: amdump waits forever for estimates from one host

2005-06-11 Thread Lengyel, Florian
--- everything in disklist 0 FAILED --- (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p3) -Original Message- From: Frank Smith To: Lengyel, Florian; ''amanda-users@amanda.org' ' Sent: 6/11/2005 11:21 PM Subject:

RE: amdump waits forever for estimates from one host

2005-06-11 Thread Lengyel, Florian
neptune-gw.g hda60 FAILED --- everything in disklist 0 FAILED --- (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p3) -----Original Message- From: Frank Smith To: Lengyel, Florian; ''amanda-users

RE: amdump waits forever for estimates from one host

2005-06-11 Thread Lengyel, Florian
previously set etimeout 400 up slightly from the original 300 seconds. So it looks like a UDP packet never made it...Oh woe. -Original Message- From: Frank Smith To: Lengyel, Florian; 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Sent: 6/11/2005 10:35 PM Subject: Re: amdump waits forever for estimates fro

amdump waits forever for estimates from one host

2005-06-11 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Amanda version: amanda-2.4.4p3-1 OS: CentOS Kernel: uname -a Linux amanda.grid.cuny.edu 2.6.9-5.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Sat Feb 19 19:38:02 CST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Trouble: amanda is set up on a tape server; there are two clients so far. One is running RH linux 7.3 but has the latest (2.4.4) am

Using second tape drive on Spectra Logic 2K

2005-06-08 Thread Lengyel, Florian
I'm running amanda on a RHEL 3 system (actually centos) acting as the server. The tape drive is a spectra logic 2K; thanks to this list, I have gotten the tape changer to work using chg-zd-mtx. My amanda config knows about the first drive /dev/nst0, but I'd like it use the second drive, /dev/ns

Tar archive size limitations was Preventing yum or up2date to upd ate gnu tar

2005-06-03 Thread Lengyel, Florian
This business about tar reminds me of a not-terribly well documented problem with tar: under some operatinjg systems, tar has a 2 gigabyte limit on the size of the tar archive! The tar that came with red hat 7.3 had this limitation, I believe. This is listed on the web somewhere--perhaps it shoul

RE: Config for SpectraLogic 2000?

2005-06-02 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Yes, my apologies: Centos is the OS (essentially red hat enterprise linux 3). Thank you for this. -FL -Original Message- From: Alexander Jolk To: Lengyel, Florian Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Sent: 6/2/2005 12:05 PM Subject: Re: Config for SpectraLogic 2000? Lengyel, Flo

Config for SpectraLogic 2000?

2005-06-02 Thread Lengyel, Florian
My apologies if this has been answered before. Does anyone have an amanda configuration for the SpectraLogic 2K (a hand-me-down), or something that I could modify? I promise not to be a nudnik about it (I can modify the dump cycle for my situation, etc). The kernel reports [EMAIL PROTECTED] Da