Tape library with hardware encryption

2009-02-09 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, does anyone know a good tape library which supports hardware encryption under linux with amanda? I thought about an lto-4 drive but there seems no linux support for the encryption part und gpg is too slow on this machine... ;) Cheers Nicki - --

Define what holding disk to use?

2008-03-04 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is it possible to define (in a dumptype) what holding disk to use? I have a server which backups itself and this server has two raid arrays. I placed a holding disk on each of the arrays. Now amanda shouldn't use the holding disk on array one whil

Re: Backup Problems 2.4.4 Server <-> 2.5.1 Client

2007-01-11 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > Amanda 2.4.4p3 and 2.5.1p1 should be compatible. > These two versions might not have been tested, but I believe they are > compatible. > Could you send me the complete following debug files: > client: /tmp/amanda/client/

Re: Problem with tar 1.16

2007-01-11 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > The next amanda version will understand tar returning 1. O.k. thanks. > You can already use the latest snapshot or CVS. I know. But for now I can live with the old version from Debian Sarge. It just took me some time why

Problem with tar 1.16

2007-01-10 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, another problem with my backup with debian testing as a client was tar 1.16. In this new version tar exits with error code 1 (TAR_FILECHANGED) if any file changed during backup. In tar 1.15 it only exited with error code 2 if a file was truncated d

Backup Problems 2.4.4 Server <-> 2.5.1 Client

2007-01-10 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a running 2.4 environment and just joined a Debian testing machine to that park. This new machine comes with Amanda 2.5.1. When I try to backup this machine using my standard backup configuration (including the option "exclude list optional

Re: RAIT with Tape und Virtual Tape

2005-11-04 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon LaBadie said the following: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:36:39AM +0100, Nicki Messerschmidt, > Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: >> Paul Bijnens said the following: >>> Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: &g

Re: RAIT with Tape und Virtual Tape

2005-11-04 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Bijnens said the following: > Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: >>has anyone a setup where the rait driver of amanda is used to place >>Backups onto tapes and virtual tapes (using the chg-multi) at the same &g

RAIT with Tape und Virtual Tape

2005-11-03 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, has anyone a setup where the rait driver of amanda is used to place Backups onto tapes and virtual tapes (using the chg-multi) at the same time? Are there drawbacks and what problems could arise? I already use both of them separate (on different ho

Re: Unable to amrestore my disk partitions

2005-09-23 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator said the following: > I have tried amrecover which seemed to of worked except I had no > data, file or directories within backups, homes, data1, shares, > projecta, and var. I did get the partition name but not the > s

Flushing file: device to tape

2004-12-22 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, at a customer I recently switched from tape backup to file device backup due to a tape drive failure. Now, after the real tape drive is back again, I'd like to tape the harddisk content to tape. How do I do this? Does "for i in $TAPEPATH/*; do dd

Re: Tape slow...

2004-12-02 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Bijnens said the following: > Nicki Messerschmidt wrote: >> I have a very strange phenomenon. There is a server with an Seagate >> Scirroco 12/24Gb DDS3 drive attached. Onto this drive I can put >> data via 'dd if=/dev

Tape slow...

2004-12-01 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I have a very strange phenomenon. There is a server with an Seagate Scirroco 12/24Gb DDS3 drive attached. Onto this drive I can put data via 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=1024 count=10' (100Mb) in about thirty seconds. This means a tran

Re: repost (chg-multi - backup to file and restore)

2003-07-08 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: >> argv[3] = "chg-multi" > Following the source code, I see that amrecover only asks the server > for the tapeslot if it has

Re: repost (chg-multi - backup to file and restore)

2003-07-08 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: > >>>EOF, check amidxtaped..debug file on localhost. > What are the complete contents of this file? This one is from a successful attempt

Re: repost (chg-multi - backup to file and restore)

2003-07-08 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Bijnens wrote: > Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: > ...[snip]... >> /etc/amanda/finanzbuch/chg-multi.conf: >> statefile /etc/amanda/finanzbuch/changer-status >> firstslot 1 >> lastslot 10 >&

repost (chg-multi - backup to file and restore)

2003-07-07 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I just downloaded amanda-2.4.4p1 and installedit, but after testing this shiny new amanda I still got the same old problem with amanda and the amanda changer. Here is what I've done: amanda.conf tpchanger "chg-multi" amrecover_changer "chg-mul

chg-multi and backup to file

2003-07-01 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I just downloaded amanda-2.4.4p1 and installedit, but after testing this shiny new amanda I still got the same old problem with amanda and the amanda changer. Here is what I've done: amanda.conf tpchanger "chg-multi" amrecover_changer "chg-mul

Re: amrecover - gpg

2003-04-02 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon LaBadie wrote: > But there is a separate decompression setp on recovery. > It is done before decryption. Yes, it contained a seperate decompression step, but this was only necessary because of my stupidity and old tests... *arg* This step is now go

Re: amrecover - gpg

2003-03-31 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nicki Messerschmidt wrote: > 6. configure source with: GZIP=/gpgzip [as attached] > ./configure ... o.k. here is the attachement... Cheers Nicki - -- Linksystem Muenchen GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schloerstra

Re: amrecover - gpg

2003-03-31 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I just finished my amanda - gpg setup and now I'm capable of backup files and restoring files (even with amrecover!). For thos who are curious how I did it I provide short step-by-step instructions: 1. get and extract source 2. create operator

amrecover - gpg

2003-03-28 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just set up amanda with gpg the way it is mentioned on [1], but now I have a very mean problem. If I want to use amrecover I just get '500 "/" is an invalid directory' in my debug files. When I do 'strace -o amindx -p 204 -f -ff -s 255' I get the

Re: Problem with amrecover

2003-03-28 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bartho Saaiman wrote: > I am trying to restore from a tape using amrecover. If I use > amrecover DailyBackup it says: > > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on localhost ... > > amrecover: cannot connect to localhost: Connection refused Thi

Re: amrecover without /var/log/amanda*

2003-03-26 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >> I just upgraded amanda 2.4.2p2 to amanda 2.4.4 and then I started >> some testing. Backup was no problem, but I'm not able to do any >> recovery using amrecover, because it states that it cannont find any >> indices for th

amrecover without /var/log/amanda*

2003-03-26 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just upgraded amanda 2.4.2p2 to amanda 2.4.4 and then I started some testing. Backup was no problem, but I'm not able to do any recovery using amrecover, because it states that it cannont find any indices for the selected host. After some testing

Re: Encrypted Files on Tape

2003-03-07 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nicki Messerschmidt wrote: > is there any known method to encrypt the data, before writing it to > tape? I thought of something like "gpg -c" which does a symmetric > encryption, but if I do this then I won't be able to use a

Encrypted Files on Tape

2003-03-07 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there any known method to encrypt the data, before writing it to tape? I thought of something like "gpg -c" which does a symmetric encryption, but if I do this then I won't be able to use amrecover any more. Has anyone a good idea for this probl

Re: New Amanda release (off-topic)

2002-07-09 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
Jonathan R. Johnson wrote: > Just as a parting shot, however, I have an announcement: > > * * * * New Release of Amanda * * * > * > * Amanda Ruth Johnson > * > * Born June 24, 2002 24 June, 2002 > * 8 lbs, 2 oz(trans

RE: Ongoing write errors with taper

2002-06-13 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
"Bort, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> [bitching about tape errors; logs as attached] > My guess would be because tar and tapetype aren't looking for "excessive > write errors", they're looking for EOT. That might be te point. But even if I use tar or tapetype the errors should make it int

Re: Ext2, Amanda und dumps larger than 2 Gb

2001-05-23 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>Nicki Messerschmidt >John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Now, when I try to restore from this tape Amanda fail, because the >>file it retrievs is bigger than 2Gb ... >The first question i

Ext2, Amanda and dumps larger than 2 Gb

2001-05-22 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen
g from tape and does this not while anpacking/taring? In hope for a solution, Cheers Nicki Messerschmidt -- Linksystem Muenchen GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schloerstrasse 10 http://www.link-m.de 80634 Muenchen Tel. 089 / 89

Ext2, Amanda und dumps larger than 2 Gb

2001-05-22 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen
g from tape and does this not while anpacking/taring? In hope for a solution, Cheers Nicki Messerschmidt -- Linksystem Muenchen GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schloerstrasse 10 http://www.link-m.de 80634 Muenchen Tel. 089 / 89

Amanda Disaster Recovery...

2001-05-09 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
od without installing a complete new linux and then amanda? I know how to restore files with amrecover and amrestore, never done it via dd... In hope for a positive answer Nicki Messerschmidt

Re: Problem with Amanda and a SLR 50 by Tandberg

2001-04-20 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
rested. Cheers Nicki Messerschmidt -- begin tape type definition for Tandberg SLR 50 -- define tapetype slr50 { comment "just produced by tapetype program" length 23104 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 1784 kps } -- end of tape type definition for Tandberg SLR 50 --

Problem with Amanda and a SLR 50 by Tandberg

2001-04-09 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt
happens only during night while amdump ist running. Amflush causes no problems. Now to my questions: - Does anyone have an idea what could cause the problem? - Does anyone have a proper tapetype definition for this streamer? Greetings Nicki Messerschmidt P.S.: The Logfile parts (taken from the