Disapearing amanda label

2006-07-10 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hello, A very strange thing just happened. I had a tape labeled ESSDUMP10 but I did amcheck and I got: su - backup amcheck weekly -s weekly Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /BACKUP/holding: 72751 MB disk space available, using 72751 MB slot 1: read label

Re: Missing Results

2006-07-04 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Luis I had just this behavior when I first upgraded my server to amanda 2.5.0. We had a bried discussion of it here on this list, and a patch was included in 2.5.0p2 (maybe 2.5.0p1) that fixed the problem. What version of amanda are you running? As I recall it was a bug in

Missing Results

2006-07-03 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hello, I'm getting this on my backup report. DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISKL ORIG-MB OUT-MB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -- - -

Re: Missing Results

2006-07-03 Thread Luis Rodrigues
As you can see just some are missing, and it varies depending on the days. What is this? One something more weird: You seem to have 2 entries for those DLE's: one succeeded, one missing. How did you get 2 lines for one DLE??? Thats what I would like to know. I have no other error

Re: Missing Results

2006-07-03 Thread Luis Rodrigues
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:40:24 +0200 Alexander Jolk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis Rodrigues wrote: One something more weird: You seem to have 2 entries for those DLE's: one succeeded, one missing. How did you get 2 lines for one DLE??? Thats what I would like to know. autoflush

Re: Missing Results

2006-07-03 Thread Luis Rodrigues
This seems to be a veeery old config. It still uses parameter diskdir which is deprecated for over 8 years now. Moreover in 2.5.0 is does't exist anymore. Also the comments about infofile being a database filename (which is was in Amanda 2.3 or so -- it is a directory now), seems

Re: Missing Results

2006-07-03 Thread Luis Rodrigues
In the deep recesses of my dusty memory I recall getting duplicate entries with one MISSING when I was testing the new server I was using. I no longer have those results so I can't confirm it and at the time I may have ignored it thinking it was an artifact of running multiple dumps in the

Delay puting to Tape/using less tapes

2006-06-28 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hello, I have a nice amanda system configured with a 7 days dump cyles (5 runs per cicle). We usually use a tape each day, so that means we need 20 tapes per month. My boss just decided that we are using to mutch tapes so we wants me to cut on that number. He wants to use only use 3/4 tapes

Re: Amanda reporting File shrank by...

2006-05-18 Thread Luis Rodrigues
There is no need since I have a statusbord with all the services running on my company. It has red, yellow and gree ligths , I just check the ones that are not green :) So I will change to maildir and be done with it (less work than compiling) Thanks. Luis On Thu, 18 May 2006 09:22:59 +0700

Amanda reporting File shrank by...

2006-05-17 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Today I got this in the report from amanda. In this mail server we use mbox and the user just deleted some mails. How can I let amanda know to not report file size changes in this DLE? Best regards, Luis sendbackup: start [mailserver.aa.bb:/var/mail level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar

Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hi, I have a set os Debian/Redhat machines running amanda clients with no problem. I need to run an Solaris 8 client also, got the binary package from: http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlist.html and istalled it. Create the user,services,configuration of inet all working fine. But when I run

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Luis Rodrigues
On Wed, 10 May 2006 13:38:44 +0200 Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-05-10 13:15, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Hi, I have a set os Debian/Redhat machines running amanda clients with no problem. I need to run an Solaris 8 client also, got the binary package from: http

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Luis Rodrigues
On Wed, 10 May 2006 08:38:30 -0400 Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:15:12PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Hi, I have a set os Debian/Redhat machines running amanda clients with no problem. I need to run an Solaris 8 client also, got the binary

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Luis Rodrigues
On Wed, 10 May 2006 14:32:56 +0200 Peter Kunst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about /etc/nsswitch.conf ? Using NIS first for hosts ? Using files first. try adding a 2nd line with short hostname into your .amandahosts, like old backup I have both :) Peter Luis Rodrigues wrote

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Luis Rodrigues
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:15:12PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Hi, I have a set os Debian/Redhat machines running amanda clients with no problem. I need to run an Solaris 8 client also, got the binary package from: http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlist.html

Dell Powervault Tape Config

2006-05-09 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hello, I need to configure the tape type off Dell PowerVault 122 T From http://www.amanda.org/fom-serve/cache/354.html and confirmed from DELL site http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/stor%2Dsys/122T/en/122t_lto/ug/specs.htm I get define tapetype LT01 { comment DELL LT01 length

Problem with changer

2006-05-08 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hello, I'm getting an error while running chg-zd-mtx: none cannot determine first slot Does anyone have any ideia. Best regards, Luis

amandahostsauth failed

2006-05-05 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hi, I've setup a Debian system to act as the backup server. Have some clients running debian with i could make to work without problems. But my redhat clients don't want to work, I get: ERROR: client.aa.aa : [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed but e

Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hello. I've just started a job at a new company. They have an backup system with everyday copies the touched files to a disk on a backup server and on the weekend it makes a 0 level to tape. They say the system is not really relayable because some times they don't find the files an want a new

Re: Antw: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Luis Rodrigues
makes full backups. 4) In a second amanda configuration you let amanda dump forced level 0 backups of the virtual disks to tape. Probably a starting point. Best regards Andreas Mock Luis Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04.05.2006 15:52:07 Hello. I've just started a job at a new company

Re: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Luis Rodrigues
] wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:52:07PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Hello. I've just started a job at a new company. They have an backup system with everyday copies the touched files to a disk on a backup server and on the weekend it makes a 0 level to tape. They say the system

Re: Newbie needs Help

2006-05-04 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Ahh, ok I did't had understood that. Does it work with both tar and dump or just with dump? Luis On Thu, 4 May 2006 17:40:34 +0200 (CEST) Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2006, Luis Rodrigues wrote: The normal everyday amanda incremental backup saves all

Re: Amanda 2.5 Debian UDP problem

2006-04-19 Thread Luis Rodrigues
, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Hi, I have setup amanda and a test client for it, my problem is that I get: WARNING: work: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK when runing amcheck. It works fine if I use the client on localhost but not with a client on another machine. I've

Re: Amanda 2.5 Debian UDP problem

2006-04-19 Thread Luis Rodrigues
The client has no firewall and the server has this: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/00.0.0.0/0 PHYSDEV match

Re: Amanda 2.5 Debian UDP problem

2006-04-19 Thread Luis Rodrigues
, 19 Apr 2006, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-04-18 22:40, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Hi, I have setup amanda and a test client for it, my problem is that I get: WARNING: work: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK when runing amcheck. It works fine if I use the client

Re: Amanda 2.5 Debian UDP problem

2006-04-19 Thread Luis Rodrigues
for trying to help. _LR On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Yep: amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amandad I've just tested with client as using lo works fine. If I disable lo doesn't work also :( Aparently what happens it that amandad does a select

Amanda 2.5 Debian UDP problem

2006-04-18 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hi, I have setup amanda and a test client for it, my problem is that I get: WARNING: work: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK when runing amcheck. It works fine if I use the client on localhost but not with a client on another machine. I've looked at the trafic with tcpdump: the