Re: tapetype question

2006-08-01 Thread Mike Delaney
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:11:50PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On the net I found a suggested entry for LTO2 - I have no idea > if it is correct or reasonable. > > ULTRIUM = 1, 0x36, 0, 0xd639, 4, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x40, 3; > > This one creates all the 4 of the lettered devices, but

Re: 2.5.0 problems on Solaris 8

2006-04-21 Thread Mike Delaney
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:47:29PM -0400, stan wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:25:02AM -0700, Mike Delaney wrote: > > > > Yes, pass the -R/path/to/library flag to the linker at build time. For > > Solaris systems, every -L given to the linker should have a corresponding

Re: 2.5.0 problems on Solaris 8

2006-04-21 Thread Mike Delaney
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:41:54AM -0400, stan wrote: > I'm starting to upgrade my clients. The HP-UX boxes (10.20) went flawlessly. > > But I'm having a few issues with my first Solaris 8 machine. Now in the > interest of full disclosure, these machines are "supported" by a 3rd party > OEM, and t

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

2006-03-30 Thread Mike Delaney
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 03:34:02PM -0500, Lengyel, Florian wrote: > I have no idea what this means. I started a new thread in good faith. You did not start a new thread. You replied to an unrelated message and simply changed the Subject: header, thereby hijacking the thread. Starting a new threa

Re: Rebuilding amanda for a new tar version

2006-02-10 Thread Mike Delaney
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:28:52PM -0500, Guy Dallaire wrote: > I've just discovered that tar 1.14 might actually be buggy. On many of > my linux boxes (clients and server) I have gnu tar 1.14 or 1.13.25 > > I'm understanding that I should instead download the latest tar > version (or 1.15) and in

Re: distlist order ?

2005-10-24 Thread Mike Delaney
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:57:58PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > I've not used them, but aren't there some disklist config options > to specify do these at a specific time or delay these for some time > after starting amdump? There's the starttime dumptype option to specify a fixed "not before" t

Re: "Will retry" behavior

2005-08-30 Thread Mike Delaney
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 05:19:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > NOTES: > taper: tape weekly1 kb 35900256 fm 14 writing file: No space left on device > taper: retrying zeus: /hmssql.0 on new tape: [writing file: No space left > on device] > taper: tape weekly2 kb 35878464 fm 3 writing

Re: HD backup strategy ?

2005-08-17 Thread Mike Delaney
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:03:59PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > >Haven't seen anyone on the list mention using it, but Iomega > >introduced some interesting hardware last year. I think they > >call it "Rev", basically a small, removalble hard drive > >cartridge. Think high c

Re: runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda]

2005-07-13 Thread Mike Delaney
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:07:25PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:13:04PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > > >>I would like to have some motivated amanda-hackers who try to move all > >>these configure-time-params into amanda.conf ... >

Re: How smart is AMANDA

2005-07-12 Thread Mike Delaney
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:18:28PM -0600, Chris Saunders wrote: > > I will be the only one doing these backups and I would like the process > to be as automated as possible. Our linux boxes run traffic simulation > models that can take 25 to 30 hours to run. Our engineers relentlessly > run t

Re: Backup to Hard Drive

2005-06-16 Thread Mike Delaney
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:24:02PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:52, Cody Holland wrote: > >I'm a newb to Amanda, and would like to backup everything to a > > server running Raid0. I'm sure this is very possible, I just > > cannot find any docs on it. Any help would be

Re: handling off-site tape storage

2005-06-06 Thread Mike Delaney
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:13:57PM +1000, Keenan, Greg John wrote: > > I'm curious how admins out there handle the off-site storage situation. The > requirement here is that full weekly backups are stored off-site for 4 > weeks, full monthly backups for 6 months etc. For the weekly fulls, I'd ju

Re: AMANDA with GPG

2005-05-31 Thread Mike Delaney
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:07:09AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:17:11PM -0700, Mike Delaney wrote: > > > > With the gzip wrapper installed on a client, but not the server, backups > > work > > fine (once you fix the obvious redirection bug i

Re: AMANDA with GPG

2005-05-30 Thread Mike Delaney
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 08:20:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, amanda-users, > > just a short call for opinions: > > Who uses gpg-amanda, as described at > > http://security.uchicago.edu/tools/gpg-amanda/ ? > > I am thinking about including this in the docs and would like to hea

Re: holding disk with vtapes?

2005-05-17 Thread Mike Delaney
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:16:38PM -0400, John Young wrote: > Folks, > >If you are using vtapes on a RAID for your backup > media, is there any point to also using a holding disk? > I can easily understand the use of a holding disk if > you are using real tapes but am not sure what it buys > y

Re: gpg with amanda

2005-05-10 Thread Mike Delaney
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 05:39:21PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > I had a link for using gpg with amanda, but can't find it. Does anyone > have the URL handy? http://www.google.com/search?q=gpg+amanda

Re: amanda and solaris 10 smf

2005-05-09 Thread Mike Delaney
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:13:01AM -0800, LaVonna Sydow wrote: > I am trying to configure amanda on a Solaris 10 server that will backup > only itself. When I run amcheck, I get: > selfcheck request timed out. Host down? > > svcs shows: > > online 11:05:10 svc:/network/amidxtape/tcp:default > on

Re: Is the Dell Powervault 132T a changer device?

2005-04-27 Thread Mike Delaney
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:03:39PM -0400, Carlos Scott wrote: > Hello all, > > It's the first time i try to setup Amanda and i'm a little confused. > I don't think i got the changer device idea right. Does the Dell Powervault > 132T Tape Library qualify as a changer device? > I thought so but the

Re: backup Oracle DB at AMANDA server

2005-03-04 Thread Mike Delaney
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:07:19PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Last time I looked at doing backups of Oracle (Ora 6-7-8), I > approached it as follows: first set each tablespace in hot backup mode > (alter tablespace TS begin backup) then doing a filesystem backup > of all the directories with da

Re: Installing on SPARC Solaris 8 - ld.so.1 error

2005-02-15 Thread Mike Delaney
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:23:27PM -0800, Steve H wrote: > Hello all, >Has anyone experienced an issue with Solaris 8? I have installed readline, > and the libreadline.so.5 is located in /usr/local/lib. When I try to start > Amandad, the system throws an error stating: > > ld.so.1: /usr/loca

Re: backup to Iomega REV

2005-02-04 Thread Mike Delaney
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:42:42PM -0800, Tom Simons wrote: > I'd like daily backups, so users could restore files/directories from > a few days past. I'd like Amanda to use the Iomega REV cartridge as a > single tape, maybe filling it up slowly every day & sending me an > e-mail when it's full so

Re: mounting/identifying a new tape drive

2005-02-03 Thread Mike Delaney
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:47:34PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:53:36AM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a Solaris 9 box and we bought a new tape drive model Certance LTO-2. > > Currently, I am trying to identify the tape drive using amtapetype command >

Re: Can Amanda use an Iomega REV drive as a tape?

2005-02-02 Thread Mike Delaney
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:43:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 04:12, Mike Delaney wrote: > [...] > >> >Has anyone used a REV drive with Amanda? > >> > >> I can imagine that it may be possible, with some variation of the > >

Re: Can Amanda use an Iomega REV drive as a tape?

2005-02-02 Thread Mike Delaney
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:42:19PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 01 February 2005 18:42, Tom Simons wrote: > >Can/should Amanda use an Iomeg REV drive as an output tape? > > > >We've got 2 servers both running RedHat AS 3.0, with 35gb & 70gb > > hard drives on each, and we're intersted in

Re: Can Amanda use an Iomega REV drive as a tape?

2005-02-01 Thread Mike Delaney
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:42:34PM -0800, Tom Simons wrote: > Can/should Amanda use an Iomeg REV drive as an output tape? > > We've got 2 servers both running RedHat AS 3.0, with 35gb & 70gb hard > drives on each, and we're intersted in running Amanda on one of the > servers to back up both (& m

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-27 Thread Mike Delaney
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:01:31AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 at 4:27pm, Nina Pham wrote > > > The files we are backing up are resigned on more than 1 servers, and we > > want to store that archive on the same place. Therefore we need to mount. > > As other folks hav

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Delaney
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:26:07PM -0800, Nina Pham wrote: > Mike Delaney wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:38:36PM -0800, Nina Pham wrote: > > > >>I mount using smbmount > >> > > > >Don't do that then. Install Amanda on all of the systems tha

Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Delaney
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:38:36PM -0800, Nina Pham wrote: > I mount using smbmount > Don't do that then. Install Amanda on all of the systems that need to be backed up, and let it work the way it was designed.

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

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: 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

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: 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.&