Re: Looking for tape drive suggestions

2004-10-29 Thread Mike Brodbelt
, so it wasn't worth the bother. They were very keen on HA though... Mike.

Re: Looking for tape drive suggestions

2004-10-27 Thread Mike Brodbelt
d up going for a 100Gb LTO drive. The 200Gb ones are quite expensive, as is SuperDLT, and AIT makes me twitchy as Sony and openness have never really gone together well. Thanks for the views though - that's 2/2 votes for LTO so far, which is a good sign :-). Mike.

Looking for tape drive suggestions

2004-10-27 Thread Mike Brodbelt
er than libraries. So, does anyone have any suggestions, good (or bad) experiences, or other advice? Reliability is obviously by far the most important thing... I'm also curious as to whether people favour internal or external drives? Any/all opinions would be much appreciated. Mike.

Re: no index records

2004-10-17 Thread Mike Delaney
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:25:17PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: > > > I think I may have found the problem. Somehow I screwed > up permissions on /tmp to drwxr-xr-x. Changed to > drwxrwxrwx and things look much better. I'll know more > after I switch the tape in the morning. > /tmp is normally

Re: Newbie questions - Amanda and tapechanger

2004-10-11 Thread Mike Delaney
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 02:45:40PM +0200, Michael Schaller wrote: > Am I right: Amanda WILL change tapes AUTOMATICALLY between different > DLEs in ONE configuration if the rest of the tape doesn't fit for the > next DLE Yes. If runtapes is > 1, Amanda will move onto the next tape if a DLE w

Amanda doesn't count non-activity correctly when bumping levels

2004-10-05 Thread Mike Fedyk
size is just a few GB smaller than my 35GB (uncompressed) AIT1 tapes, and I'm trying to get Amanda to schedule level 0 dumps on different days (10 tapes and dumpcycle of 7 days), but it can't do that if it won't bump the levels on the inactive volumes. What else can I do? Thanks, Mike

Re: Does each amanda profile require a different holding disk location?

2004-09-29 Thread Mike Fedyk
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:11:06PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:36:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Does amanda have any type of variables in its config files? I already have a common file referenced by the three

Re: Does each amanda profile require a different holding disk location?

2004-09-28 Thread Mike Fedyk
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:36:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Does amanda have any type of variables in its config files? I already have a common file referenced by the three amanda.conf files, as well as a common disklist. I'm thinking of a $profile so that I can d

Re: Does each amanda profile require a different holding disk location?

2004-09-28 Thread Mike Fedyk
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 07:45:17PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: So I have set up different holding disk directories for each profile. Is this documented anywhere? I don't recall seeing it specified, but I've done it from the start. /{w|w2|w3|u|u2}/dumps/amanda/

Does each amanda profile require a different holding disk location?

2004-09-28 Thread Mike Fedyk
n the holding disk and the headers don't identify which profile they're associated with (probably for good reason -- what if you changed a profile name?). So I have set up different holding disk directories for each profile. Is this documented anywhere? Thanks, Mike

Re: TAPE

2004-09-22 Thread Mike Delaney
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 04:47:06PM -0300, Leandro wrote: > I have 2 tapes: > > Quantum Super DLT 320 > HP DDS-3 4MM DAT > > connected to Sun Enterprise 250 > > Are these tapes compatible with Amanda? > I can't find information about that. Generally speaking, if your OS supports the drives, Aman

Re: breaking up harddrives for gtar

2004-09-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 04:01:10PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: Look for a few large subdirectories, and make a separate DLE for those. Then group the other ones in meaning parts using globbing (only the one level deep!!!). Make sure the globs cover all

Re: breaking up harddrives for gtar

2004-09-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
Paul Bijnens wrote: Look for a few large subdirectories, and make a separate DLE for those. Then group the other ones in meaning parts using globbing (only the one level deep!!!). Make sure the globs cover all names, even the one that don't exist yet. See the last example in examples/disklist in

Re: Why am I client constrained?

2004-09-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 12:29:56PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Hi, Right now, most of everything is on one file server, but I'd like to have some DLEs SW compress on the server, and some compress on the client. The problem is that Amanda 2.4.4p3-1 (Debian) is still

Re: Why am I client constrained?

2004-09-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
Frank Smith wrote: --On Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:29:56 -0700 Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Right now, most of everything is on one file server, but I'd like to have some DLEs SW compress on the server, and some compress on the client. The problem is that Amand

Why am I client constrained?

2004-09-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
ained. Let me know if you need any more info. Mike srv-lnx2600 /share/letter_artcomp-tar-high0 srv-lnx2600 /share/accountingsrvcomp-tar-high 1 srv-lnx2600 /share/sales comp-tar-high0 define dumptype comp-tar { default pr

Re: breaking up harddrives for gtar

2004-08-31 Thread Mike Fedyk
tar-child-b that includes /parent/b Doesn't Amanda prevent you from several DLEs with the same path ("/parent" in this case)? Mike

Re: Dump ordering optimisation documentation

2004-08-31 Thread Mike Fedyk
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:14:40PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Is there any chance we can get this in the documentation? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=amanda-users&m=106277015010167&w=2 I don't know of any email messages included with the amanda docs. Perh

Dump ordering optimisation documentation

2004-08-31 Thread Mike Fedyk
Is there any chance we can get this in the documentation? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=amanda-users&m=106277015010167&w=2

Change ORIG-KB to ORIG-MB or ORIG-GB?

2004-08-31 Thread Mike Fedyk
All of my volumes are larger than a megabyte. Is there any to show MB or GB instead of KB values so I don't have to widen my columns so much?

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
about any kernel tweaks to get better performance for lots of small files. Are you using htree (indexed directories)[1]? I would look into using the LD_PRELOAD library that sorts the directory entries based on physical layout on disk (sort by inode number). Mike [1] tune2fs -l /dev/XXX |grep index

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
Frank Smith wrote: limiting you and not the disks themselves. You could try commenting out all the other filesystems in your disklist and see if the estimate still takes as long. Why do estimates all start and finish at the exact same time for all volumes on a single client?

Putting on my Amanda hat

2004-07-20 Thread Mike Fedyk
ges to a remote server over a VPN connection (and possibly after encrypting the backup data also). Has used AMANDA in a setup like this? Anyway, I plan on using my shell and perl scripting skills to help when I can, and especially fix the documentation! Mike [1] if test -f /etc/foo then rm -f /etc/foo else touch /etc/foo exit 0 fi

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-20 Thread Mike Fedyk
Kris Vassallo wrote: The disks in the venus box are all SATA 150 drives, SCSI is way out of the price range for this amount of space. If venus is the machine that is taking forever to do the estimates, is it possible that 1. estimates start on all machines, 2. the estimates finish on the smalle

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-20 Thread Mike Fedyk
Frank Smith wrote: --On Tuesday, July 20, 2004 14:41:43 -0700 Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The whole thing of having the backup host being the same machine as the file server no longer looks like a good idea. However, I am in it too deep to jump out now. I suppose that I could

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-20 Thread Mike Fedyk
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: As Frank pointed out, this is a big part of your problem. What OS and FS are we talking here, and what backup program? And, again, sendsize*debug Amanda works with other clients besides Amanda? Or are you asking Amanda version?

Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

2004-07-20 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, [ This is my first post to this list, and it looks like "reply to all" is accepted here, so that's what I'm doing...] Kris Vassallo wrote: On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 04:24, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: /On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 at 5:19pm, Kris Vassallo wrote 420GB is not the total amount per night. Somet

Re: Backups that don't fit on the tape....

2004-02-12 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:18:59PM +0000, Mike Brodbelt wrote: > > > If you are refering to the report you showed in your original posting, > that was the size of data dumped, not taped. > > == Dump Time (hrs:min)6:39 6:39 0:00

Re: Backups that don't fit on the tape....

2004-02-12 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Paul Bijnens wrote: > Mike Brodbelt wrote: > This is really an IO error. Probably due to hardware problems. Could it not be due to an attempt to write beyond EOT? I'm reasonably sure the hardware is OK. > See in the system logs for more information. (/var/{adm,log}/messages >

Re: Backups that don't fit on the tape....

2004-02-12 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Hi, Mike, > > on Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2004 at 11:21 you wrote to amanda-users: > > MB> So I'm wondering why I can't get ~32Gb of data onto a 35Gb tape. I'm a > MB> bit suspicious that the tapetype may be causing problems

Re: Backups that don't fit on the tape....

2004-02-12 Thread Mike Brodbelt
ctually comes down to it it doesn't. I can live with having to re-organise my backups and not doing level 0's of everything the same night, but I'd like reliability on the backups I am doing... Mike.

Backups that don't fit on the tape....

2004-02-12 Thread Mike Brodbelt
definition originated I could run tapetype on the drive, but that's likely to take some time, and I was hoping someone might be able to give me a quick fix... Mike.

Re: Unable to backup clients [possibly fixed!]

2004-01-13 Thread Mike Heller
how the ports are used. I'll run the full backups tonight to see how they do.  Thank you kindly, your help is very appreciated. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike:   The Amanda entries in /etc/services are unchanged from the stock Amanda settings.   # AMANDA (Advanced Mar

Re: Unable to backup clients

2004-01-13 Thread Mike Heller
Don, I'll give that a try, thanks.  I'm recompiling the server and clients as I write this. Can you tell me what your /etc/services looks like for the amanda services? Thanks, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike: There may be a bit of misunderstanding here. The TCP ports may

Re: Unable to backup clients

2004-01-12 Thread Mike Heller
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:32:22AM -0800, Mike Heller wrote: I fixed the problem of the "high server load" by installing amanda version 2.4.4p1 on the server and the clients. ... But the backups fail. Checking the logs in /tmp/amanda (on the clien

Re: Unable to backup clients

2004-01-12 Thread Mike Heller
Gene, Not if the drive is in the eject (operate handle) status, you can't do anything with the tape at that point. Mike Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 14:34, Mike Heller wrote: Note the tape error is because I haven't yet switched the tape, it's n

Re: Unable to backup clients

2004-01-12 Thread Mike Heller
Yes, I used essentially the same config string on both server and clients except on the client side I added: --without-server --without-restore Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike: Did you install the modified Amanda software on both client and server? They have to match so that their

Re: Unable to backup clients

2004-01-12 Thread Mike Heller
but it still does not explain why amanda is connecting on port 33xxx when I compiled with restrictions to ports 850-854. I'm hoping someone can explain some of this to me. Mike

Re: Unable to backup clients

2004-01-12 Thread Mike Heller
Note the tape error is because I haven't yet switched the tape, it's not the cause of the failed backups. Just wanted to clarify that. Thanks, Mike Mike Heller wrote: I fixed the problem of the "high server load" by installing amanda version 2.4.4p1 on the server and t

Unable to backup clients

2004-01-12 Thread Mike Heller
I fixed the problem of the "high server load" by installing amanda version 2.4.4p1 on the server and the clients. amcheck daily now reports: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /big/backup/amanda/dumps: 1034688 KB disk space available, using 215488 KB ERROR:

Re: VERY high load on server

2004-01-07 Thread Mike Heller
Paul, reply inline Paul Bijnens wrote: Mike Heller wrote: I have amanda running on serveral servers and last night I tried to back up one more to the tape server. When I arrived this morning, the backups were still running and the new server had an extremely high load Am I correct that

Re: VERY high load on server

2004-01-07 Thread Mike Heller
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 14:55, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 at 2:40pm, Gene Heskett wrote On Wednesday 07 January 2004 13:21, Mike Heller wrote: I have amanda running on serveral servers and last

VERY high load on server

2004-01-07 Thread Mike Heller
ee if it completes without problems. Can anyone tell me what may be happening? Would filling the tape on the tape server cause this? Any help appreciated, Mike

Re: Compression settings on DLT drive

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Brodbelt
t will save me much grief, I'm sure. Mike.,

Compression settings on DLT drive

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Brodbelt
into hardware compressed mode. Can anyone give me a simple technique for forcing compression to stay off. Thanks, Mike.

HP Ultrium 1 tapetype

2003-10-16 Thread Mike Grice
One for the archives. define tapetype HP-Ultrium-1 { comment "HP Ultrium 1 (100G uncompressed) Tape" length 101376 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 13878 kps } Cheers, Mike -- | Mike Grice Unmetered & ADSL solutions | Operations Support Analyst

Re: Seven Myths of Load Balancing

2003-09-23 Thread Mike Causer
have your assurance that the practice has stopped. Regards, Mike -- Mike Causer Email - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID 1C2DDA07 WWW - http://www.mikecauser.org Flood the fen again! - Wicken Fen enlargement - http://www.wicken.org.uk

HP Surestore 40x6 DDS-4

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Maki
rcServe on a windows box but CA's LicenseIT program is a pain. Thanks for any help, Mike

Removing tapes from the loop and more:

2003-09-10 Thread Mike Grice
t that Amanda is the right solution? Given it's close management of tapes I'm not sure if it is, but I like how it works. Also, how would you suggest I submit data I've obtained from amtapetype (I've done a 100G uncompressed HP Ultrium 1 tape on a TransTec 7600 tape drive).

Re: holdingdisk throughput problem: Linux ide-dma

2003-08-20 Thread Mike Tibor
ommon. Maybe I'm wrong. Try doing a "hdparm -d1 /dev/" and test the throughput again. As long as it's doing DMA, the drive should work beautifully. Mike

Lengthy Estimate Times

2003-08-15 Thread Mike Tibor
Is it normal to require about 3000 seconds for each of the three dump estimates on a 1+ TB Linux ext3 filesystem that's only about 1% full? Thanks, Mike

Tape drive problems

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Brodbelt
;t particularly clear, and I'd like to know whether the new tape drive is incompatible, or whether I need some driver tuning options. Apart from a Compaq label, the drive appears virtually identical, even down to the layout of the logic board. Mike.

remove

2003-07-04 Thread Mike Jones

Newb question

2003-06-27 Thread Mike Jones
Hello, I'm trying to add a 2nd email address in amanda.conf Is the syntax "[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or something different alltogether? Also, do I need to restart a deamon after modifying amanda.conf? Thanks, ---Mike

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Mike Eldridge
selfcheck > -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 121096 Jun 7 11:23 sendbackup > -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 79692 Jun 7 11:23 sendsize > -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk93117 Jun 7 11:23 taper > -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk38117 Jun 7 11:23 versionsuffix >

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Mike Eldridge
y 31 20:29 rundump -rwsr-x---1 root disk35854 May 31 20:29 runtar -rwxr-xr-x1 root disk59150 May 31 20:29 selfcheck -rwxr-xr-x1 root disk 115915 May 31 20:29 sendbackup -rwxr-xr-x1 root disk73858 May 31 20:29 sendsize -r

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Mike Eldridge
put of xinetd in the message log when it starts up? when xinetd starts up? Jun 10 14:21:54 [xinetd] xinetd Version 20030122 started with libwrap loadavg options compiled in. Jun 10 14:21:54 [xinetd] Started working: 2 available services > Last resort: pull out tcpdump or ethe

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Eldridge
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:51:38PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 09 June 2003 15:03, Mike Eldridge wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:29:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Monday 09 June 2003 14:10, Mike Eldridge wrote: > >> >all, > >> >

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Eldridge
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:36:57PM -0400, Wayne Richards wrote: > Well, now Mike, here's my setup and it works fine: :( i've heard dozens of people say that. i've tried dozens of permutations of setup. > { > socket_type = dgram > pr

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Eldridge
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:29:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 09 June 2003 14:10, Mike Eldridge wrote: > >all, > > > >i'm having serious problems getting amanda to function on a server > >running xinetd. the amanda setup on this particular box runs f

problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Eldridge
t_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x401592c0, [], 0x400}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 [pid 27764] send(7, "<86>Jun 9 12:30:22 xinetd[27764"..., 75, 0) = 75 [pid 27764] rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 [pid

Re: amrecover failure, corrupted gzip file?

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Simpson
Hi -- > Any tips or tricks or other thoughts? Is this the Linux dump/restore > problem I've seen talked about on the mailing list? I don't > understand how the gzip file could be corrupted by a problem internal > to the dump/restore cycle. Answering my own question after a week of testing ..

amrecover failure, corrupted gzip file?

2003-03-21 Thread Mike Simpson
Hi -- Running Amanda 2.4.4 servers and clients, using a RedHat 7.3 tape host, backing up using DUMP method (dump/restore) ext2 filesystems on a RedHat 7.2 client host: I tried to do an amrecover on the /home filesystem (~8 GB), which recovered all of the directories (as expected) and about 2/3'

Re: Who uses amanda?

2003-03-12 Thread Mike Simpson
Dr. Kirkby -- I support about thirty or so UNIX servers (Solaris, AIX, Linux) that represent the development, testing, and production environments for the electronic resources of the University of Wisconsin at Madison Libraries. I started using Amanda 2.4.x about two years ago to do backups o

question about blocksize and tape buffers

2003-02-24 Thread Mike Simpson
Hi -- In doing some simple testing with my new AIT-3 based tape libraries, I note that they really seem to prefer larger block sizes, despite the admonition in Sony's manual to use 512 byte blocks for best performance. Here's what I'm seeing using "dd" to write to the tape device (/dev/nst0)

XFS: bulkstat inode messages and 2.3

2002-11-06 Thread Mike Brodbelt
there's any concensus among Amanda users running XFS about this. What do most people do - just ignore them, or just apply the patch? Is the concensus that these errors really are harmless, and can be safely ignored, or does anyone have different information? Mike.

Re: [TCLUG] What device does what on st0 with a TecmarTravan-NS20?

2002-10-30 Thread Mike Jentges
Well I know for example mt -f /dev/st0 status Will cause the tape to rewind to the beginning after the completeing the command, whereas mt -f /dev/nst0 Will not. The tape will remain where it 'finished the command' Hope that does some good. -mj >>> "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fr

Re: questions about proposed amanda hardware solution

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Simpson
Folks -- I want to thank everybody for all the feedback. Diskwise, it's nice to know that IDE solutions are workable, and I'm going to look into them. Politically (isn't it always about the politics?) I'm in all likelihood going to be forced into using Dell hardware, and as far as I can tel

questions about proposed amanda hardware solution

2002-10-11 Thread Mike Simpson
Folks -- I've been using amanda for a couple of years now on Sun hardware (DLT8000-based L9 tape library, with stctl as the tape changer controller). It's worked great, but I'm nearing capacity with the current system and trying to decide whether to expand (another L9 and a load of DLT-IV an

Compression and reporting

2002-09-23 Thread Mike Brodbelt
umns on reports out a bit more?? TIA, Mike.

Dumps causing trouble after migration

2002-09-20 Thread Mike Brodbelt
. My old machine had sed in /bin, not /sbin, as does the new one. Can anyone tell me what's causing the problem? Mike.

Re: Numeric uids

2002-07-30 Thread Mike Delaney
untar.c. I suppose you'll need to patch --numeric-owner into your build of amanda to make it use that option. -- Mike Delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow migrating caribou." "Now I have this image in my min

Re: Configure error

2002-07-17 Thread Mike Delaney
d and try it with /usr/ccs/bin ahead of /usr/local/bin in your $PATH. -- Mike Delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow migrating caribou." "Now I have this image in my mind of a fish embracing and extending a caribou." -- Paul Tomblin and Christian Bauernfeind in the SDM

Having problems with remote Linux host

2002-07-10 Thread Mike Heller
": /big/www/docs lev 0 FAILED [missing result for /big/www/docs in nova response] I'm wondering if ipchains is maybe blocking the connection? I created a default file using "lokkit". Do I need to open a port? Any ideas on where to look? Some suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike

Re: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread Mike Delaney
he same way. Forunately, the drives are far more reliable in that regard. I've seen only one broken DLT leader so far (knocks on wood). -- Mike Delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow migrating caribou." "N

Re: Complaining of user amanda even under root

2002-06-23 Thread Mike Hogsett
...but "root" is not allowed to rsh to localhost as user "amanda"... I don't like "rsh" as a security mechanism, amandad should be tcpwrappered in inetd.conf or the equivalent for xinetd instead. Try recompiling / reinstalling amanda with the "--without-bsd-security" option. - Michael Hogsett

Amanda and NT shares

2002-06-22 Thread Mike Hendrix
I am trying to figure something and am looking for assistance. I have checked the newsgroups without success. The question is: When I backup an NT/2000 share does amanda/tar even touch the archive bit on a file?? Can someone explain exactly what happens?? -

getting further

2002-06-18 Thread Mike Heller
titions but not the third (root). Is this a permissions issue? I exclude the following: ./mnt ./proc ./no_backup ./backup ./download ./usr/doc ./usr/man ./usr/src ./var/spool/mqueue Thanks for any help or direction you can provide. Mike

selfcheck request timed out

2002-06-13 Thread Mike Heller
"inetd[15574]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use" The server is also the client (I want to backup the local filesystem to tape). Any suggestions on where to go from here? TIA, Mike

permissions

2002-06-13 Thread Mike Heller
system I intend to backup is a server that has an internal tape drive. It will only backup itself, no outside clients (at least for the time being). Is there any problem to using user/group = root/root? That should give me access to all directories and the tape. Is there any problems to doing this? Thanks, Mike

New User, config issues

2002-06-10 Thread Mike Heller
s above, there doesn't seem to be a match in the files and the specs don't give me the needed values. Is there a default DLT setting? Thanks for any help you can provide. Mike

MacOS X ??

2002-05-29 Thread Mike Hogsett
Anyone attempt to compile this beast on MacOS X yet? ( client only ) - Michael Hogsett Sr. System Administrator SRI International Computer Science & System Design Laboratories

Re: Zero Level Backups

2002-05-29 Thread Mike Hogsett
read the man page for amadmin amadmin force > How do you force Amanda to do all Zero Level Backups? > > Thanks, > > Brook

Re: This should be easy for you guys.

2002-05-24 Thread mike collins
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > You didn't have a tape in, so amanda went into degraded mode. By default, > amanda "reserves" 100% of the holding disk for incrementals in degraded > mode. But, since these were all new disks, amanda couldn't do > incrementals. Thus the backup failed. > > Next time

This should be easy for you guys.

2002-05-24 Thread mike collins
I added directories and none of the ones I add get backed up. Here is my mail. Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 14:20:47 +0600 (GMT-6) From: Amanda user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR May 23, 2002 *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [no tape online]. Some dumps

Re: NT backup and restore

2002-05-09 Thread Mike Hendrix
Problem is the restore is to an NT share from a Unix (Solaris) based backup server. On Thu, 9 May 2002, Todd Trann wrote: > I just ran into the "gzip: Broken Pipe" errors myself. > > I ended up doing using the "-c" flag with amrestore, so that it > didn't uncompress the backup (it just pulled

NT backup and restore

2002-05-09 Thread Mike Hendrix
I am currently running Amanda v2.4.1p1, with tar v1.13.17, gzip v1.3.3. I am currently backing up an NT share that contains alot of files that total up in size exceeding 4 gig. I am running with compression on the server, and backing up the share from the backup server (yes, I know it is quic

Re: runtape question, probably a FAQ

2002-05-01 Thread Mike Delaney
for that dump. The runtapes parameter is an upper bound on the number of tapes amanda _may_ use in a single run, not the number that will be used. If all of the data for a particular run fits on one tape, then only that one tape is used. -- Mike Delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...Microsoft

Re: build and install for different machines.

2002-04-24 Thread Mike Delaney
etc.) to reflect the environment amanda will be running in. Build and install as normal on your build machine, and tar or package up the results. -- Mike Delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow migrating caribou.&

Amanda and NT shares

2002-04-16 Thread Mike Hendrix
I am trying to figure something and am looking for assistance. I have checked the newsgroups without success. The question is: When I backup an NT/2000 share does amanda/tar even touch the archive bit on a file?? Can someone explain exactly what happens?? -

Re: file too large

2002-03-07 Thread Mike Cathey
the holding partition to ReiserFS or maybe ext3 (it supports files larger than 2GB right?) I'm assuming his amanda server is running on linux... Cheers, Mike -- Mike Cathey - http://www.mikecathey.com/ Network Administrator RTC Internet - http://www.catt.com/ Joshua Baker-LePain

Adding Second Tape Drive

2001-12-13 Thread Mike Hogsett
Adding a second tape drive and using two tapes per run has done wonders for our backups. Amanda is now promoting level 0 dumps from as much as 8 days ahead. Here is what "amadmin conf balance" is reporting : due-date #fs orig KBout KB balance

1st time amanda user

2001-12-07 Thread Mike . Beaman
I am in the process of configuring amanda and have been able to run the amcheck cleanly. My current problem is how to configure my jukebox. I have a Quantum DLT8000-40 which holds ten tapes for which I found the description with length, filemark, and speed. My question is do I use chg-multi for

Problem with amstatus

2001-12-07 Thread Mike Hendrix
The last 2 days I have tried to run the amstatus command for a currently running dump and I have gotten the following error (running amanda v2.4.1p1 on Solaris 2.7 Intel): bash-2.03$ amstatus Daily Using /var/adm/amanda/Daily/log/amdump Modification of a read-only value attempted at /usr/local/a

Re: tapetype recommendations

2001-12-07 Thread Mike Hogsett
I ran "tapetype" just two days ago with a very similar configuration. The tape drive is a Sony SDX-400C with a SDX1-35C tape. Here were the results with hardware compression turned off. define tapetype AIT-SDX1-35C { length 33280 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 4062 kps } The only

Re: Shit

2001-12-07 Thread Mike Hogsett
It has been a wonderful waste of bandwidth. > I knew this would erupt into a flame war :) > > He deserved it. > > wab > > > - Original Message - > From: "Christopher Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Rebecca Pakish'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Roy Andrè Tollefsen'" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Tape Usage

2001-12-05 Thread Mike Hogsett
Why doesn't amanda use as much tape as I am giving it? I have amanda configured to use two tape drives ( AIT SDX1-25C tapes ). My tapetype states that the tapes are 24192 Mb in size. It filled the first tape and used only used 8+ Gb of the second. Does amanda ever promote dump levels or only

Re: Complaining of user amanda even under root

2001-12-05 Thread Mike Hogsett
...but "root" is not allowed to rsh to localhost as user "amanda"... I don't like "rsh" as a security mechanism, amandad should be tcpwrappered in inetd.conf or the equivalent for xinetd instead. Try recompiling / reinstalling amanda with the "--without-bsd-security" option. - Michael Hogsett

Re: TapeType : AIT1 SDX-400C

2001-11-30 Thread Mike Hogsett
that is what tapetype reported. I am going to disable hardware compression since the dumps files are compressed by amanda. Thanks Mike Hogsett Computer Science Laboratory SRI International > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 at 4:48pm, Mike Hogsett wrote > > > define tapetype AIT-SD

TapeType : AIT1 SDX-400C

2001-11-29 Thread Mike Hogsett
Sony SDX-400C with tape SDX1-25C On Linux : ; cat /proc/scsi/scsi Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: SDX-300C Rev: 0700 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Tapetype Results : No Hardware Compression : dip switch 7 off

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