Re: push a dump to the server

2012-04-17 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Darin, one solution for this kind of scenario is http://backuppc.sourceforge.net Use it and make backups of BackupPC storage to amanda. Cheers, Peter -- On 4/17/12 4:58 PM, Darin Perusich wrote: Is there anyway to push a dfump to the amanda server from the client? I'm starting to use ZW

Re: How to define tape sequence

2009-05-31 Thread Peter Kunst
On 06/01/2009 02:22 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > From: Gene Heskett Sent: May 31, 2009 11:25 >> On Sunday 31 May 2009, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: >>> From: Jon LaBadie Sent: May 27, 2009 22:34 You got stuck on tape five because your tapecycle is 2. It must use another tape before reusi

Re: PLEASE DISREGARD FOUND THE PROBLEM-amcheck error on local server

2009-05-20 Thread Peter Kunst
On 05/20/2009 07:40 PM, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 11:58 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:00 AM, McGraw, Robert P >> wrote: >>> [424][r...@zorn]:index/zorn/_export_users-z# svcs -a | grep amanda >>> online Feb_11 svc:/network/amandaidx/t

Re: BUILT_MACH wrong ?

2009-03-19 Thread Peter Kunst
; > Jean-Louis > > Peter Kunst wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> just noticed in another Solaris10/sparc machine's amandad debug file: >> >> 1237478934.669711: amandad: >> BUILT_MACH="x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" BUILT_REV="1609&quo

BUILT_MACH wrong ?

2009-03-19 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi there, just noticed in another Solaris10/sparc machine's amandad debug file: 1237478934.669711: amandad: BUILT_MACH="x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" BUILT_REV="1609" This amandad 2.6.1 binary was built from the official 2.6.1 tarball on Solaris10/sparc. This is neither x86, nor Linux, and

Re: Availability of Amanda Solaris10/Open Solaris package

2008-09-16 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi amanda users, On 09/16/2008 06:46 PM, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there is standard location for Solaris, please let us know. We > would be happy to incorporate it. > >> Does anyone know what *Sun* recommends? Personal

Re: can't make on Solaris 10: Failed make install!

2008-01-09 Thread Peter Kunst
On 01/09/08 16:58, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2008-01-09 16:39, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote: Yes; in fact here's a tall screen grab of the tail end of the make install: [...] ranlib /usr/local/lib/libamanda.a ../libtool: line 6226: ranlib: command not found *** Error code 127 The program ranlib make

Re: first time rotating tapes with Amanada

2007-11-26 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Gil, Gil Vidals wrote: > I'm new to Amanda and I'm preparing to rotate tapes for the first time. > I have an autoloader that holds 10 tapes all under the amanda.conf as > DailySet1. And I just ordered 10 more (new) tapes, but I'm not clear as > to when do I pull out tapes and put in the new one

Re: "New Development in Amanda" poster available

2007-11-12 Thread Peter Kunst
Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > > Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >> The poster I'll be presenting at LISA is online at >> http://www.zmanda.com/pdf/the-new-amanda.pdf >> If you're at LISA, please do stop by and take a look at the real thing :) >> >> Dustin >> >> P.S. If anyone would like a copy of the Am

Re: warnings about UINT8/16/64_MAX being re-defined when compiling

2007-10-02 Thread Peter Kunst
I've already reported this topic to the list, but neither get any responses, nor seen it on the list itself. I'm using gcc 3.4.6, which itself was compiled on the target Solaris9 box. Peter On 10/03/2007 12:12 AM, Craig Dewick wrote: Not sure if it's significant or not, but gcc throws out a

Re: unable to create

2007-05-31 Thread Peter Kunst
Confirmed here, too. Silly me, it was a DLE here, that was previously configured to do an ufsdump in amanda's disklist, but it was a subdir of a partition actually. Now we use gnutar, and this DLE is not going to do level 0's every day. Thanks to all who put their hints in there. Any further

Re: Configure error

2007-05-30 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Paul, you could take a look into docs/install.txt in the amanda source directory for further reference howto build and install amanda from source. Every step should be explained in there. Another reference is the amanda wiki: http://wiki.zmanda.com Regards, Peter On 05/30/07 17:13, Pau

Re: How to empty holding disk

2007-05-25 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi David, whenever i would get this message from amanda, i would: 1. put tape DailyBackup1-A003 into my changer 2. if DailyBackup1-A003 is offsite or unavailable, amlabel a new tape media and leave it in the changer 3. run "amflush " to dump files left on holding disk onto tape, to

Re: Amanda - unable to create temporary directory

2007-05-25 Thread Peter Kunst
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:47:33PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: ISTR, from your original message, that the "Strange" message said unable to create temporary directory under, /tmp, /var/tmp, and /. I don't recall it saying anything about /tmp/amanda. I don't understand why

test report 2.5.2-20070523

2007-05-25 Thread Peter Kunst
Snapshot 2.5.2-20070523 runs fine last night, on Solaris8 (client only). amrecover works as expected, too. Peter

Re: gtar version

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Kunst
On 05/18/2007 09:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:52:50PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 01:47:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:32:13PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Sorry, hate to ask this, but one of my DLE's has out

2.5.2-20070516 runs fine on Solaris8

2007-05-17 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi, just want to report that 2.5.2-20070516 on Solaris8 as client works well without any errors last night. amrecovering from it's 2.5.1p2 server also. Peter

Re: solaris, zfs, holding disk

2007-04-25 Thread Peter Kunst
On 04/25/2007 10:06 PM, Mike Gallant wrote: Hi all, I am having difficultly with amanda 2.5.1p3 recognizing the solaris 10, zfs, holding disk. WARNING: holding disk /amanda: only 0 MB free (2000 MB requested) I get the same message with amdump (which is the bigger issue). Any thoughts? Than

Re: Problems with AIX

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Pozzi, On 02/22/2007 12:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody run Amanda on AIX 5.2 ? just another question, how have you compiled amanda on AIX ? I've just tried to do so with amanda-2.5.1p2 (we use Solaris as main environment, and there is no need to backup our AIX boxes yet). Us

Re: Problems with AIX

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Pozzi, On 02/22/2007 12:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Does anybody run Amanda on AIX 5.2 ? 5.2.0.0 or above ? What is the output of "oslevel -r" ? I try different binary packages, I compile the 2.5.1p3 sources, but the result is always the same : segmentation fault. Have you t

some 2.5.1 issues

2006-09-07 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi together, switched from 2.5.0p2 to 2.5.1 on my amanda server (Solaris10 6/06 sparc), got something like this from amstatus: amclient1:/dle 1 driver: "[/usr/sbin/ufsdump returned 3]" (23:16:02) amclient2:/dle 1 driver: "[[could not connect DATA stream: can't connect stream to amclie

Re: tapestatus file growing huge

2006-07-21 Thread Peter Kunst
Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 21 July 2006 11:29, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:17:37PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: On Friday 21 July 2006 15:58, Gene Heskett wrote: I'm just as puzzled, I now have the latest 2.5.1p1-20060719 installed and I have no such file either. Woul

Re: Solaris 8 inetd killing amandad

2006-07-19 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Chris, Chris Cameron wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:36 -0700, Kevin Till wrote: what is the amanda entry in /etc/inet/inetd.conf? amanda dgram udp waitroot/opt/amanda/libexec/amandad amandad i would try to start amandad as "amanda" (or whatever user you have amanda com

Re: The Size Question

2006-07-07 Thread Peter Kunst
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 05:11:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, everyone - I would like to suggest an update for the answer to the Size Question, one of the top ten questions at http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html. I have also seen this question on the Zmanda forum

disk was stranded on waitq

2006-07-06 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi list, ever seen something like this in amstatus output ? matrix:/var/lib/backuppc 0 planner: [hmm, disk was stranded on waitq] This is a new debian box, which (guess it :) runs BackupPC, and was taken into amanda's disklist today. This DLE should have around ~60GB. On this client, there

Re: timeout while waiting for REP

2006-07-05 Thread Peter Kunst
Peter Kunst wrote: Hi Cameron, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi everyone, I really want to start taking advantage of the tape-spanning features of amanda 2.5, so I've begun the upgrading process... I've come a across a problem that I am having difficulty resolving though. Here's wh

Re: timeout while waiting for REP

2006-07-05 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Cameron, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi everyone, I really want to start taking advantage of the tape-spanning features of amanda 2.5, so I've begun the upgrading process... I've come a across a problem that I am having difficulty resolving though. Here's what I've done so far. 1) Upgrade vers

Re: Problems compiling Amanda on Solaris

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Kunst
Paul Bijnens wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:04:42AM -0400, khalid maqsudi wrote: >> >>> Most solaris distro's default to system V version of make. That would be great if you added it to the docs. Thank you. [..] > I'm not 100% sure (because I currently have not a

Re: Amanda question

2005-05-17 Thread Peter Kunst
just forget to say: any hints found in /tmp/amanda/* on your clients or server(s)? Or wherever your --with-tmpdir=/XXX points to ? (check config.status in your src-dir) Cheers, Peter Peter Kunst wrote: Hi Ryan, Ryan Pagquil wrote: Hi guys, This is the latest report that amstatus reported

Re: Amanda question

2005-05-17 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Ryan, Ryan Pagquil wrote: Hi guys, This is the latest report that amstatus reported. Could you please explain what seems to be the problem with my setup and what are the parameters means. I setup the firewall to accept amanda on UDP and TCP port, but i got this "Connection timed out" on so

Re: Restart back at tape 0038

2005-04-18 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Vicki, Vicki Stanfield wrote: I am using amanda and have been happy with it, but now there is a 20GB dump in my holding area and amanda has repeatedly tried flush it to tape and flushed nothing to the tape. I am taking care of the 20GB dump file, but I now need to reset amanda to expect tape

Re: Tar versions

2005-04-11 Thread Peter Kunst
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: on Montag, 11. April 2005 at 21:15 you wrote to amanda-users: PB> 1.13.25: no problems found (yet). If anyone has had the same or different experiences, please let us know. I'll include this information in the docs as soon as things have cleared up. ...still using 1.13.2

Re: Adding new stuff to disklist

2005-04-01 Thread Peter Kunst
Vicki Stanfield wrote: I discovered that some things on a remote machine were not being backed up. Some things on that same machine were but not everything that should be. that stuff that wasn't backed up, was there an entry (DLE) of it in the disklist of your current config ? I tried to add the

Re: dumpcycle versus noinc

2005-03-16 Thread Peter Kunst
Steve Wray wrote: Peter Kunst wrote: Hi Steve, Steve Wray wrote: Gaby vanhegan wrote: Hello again! Whilst setting up a full dump configuration to do monthly full dumps to tape, I'm torn between either: strategy "noinc" or dumpcycle 0 To do a full dump. What's the di

Re: dumpcycle versus noinc

2005-03-16 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Steve, Steve Wray wrote: Gaby vanhegan wrote: Hello again! Whilst setting up a full dump configuration to do monthly full dumps to tape, I'm torn between either: strategy "noinc" or dumpcycle 0 To do a full dump. What's the difference here? Does it matter which one I use? Heres my

Re: spanning patch

2005-03-08 Thread Peter Kunst
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 16:42, Peter Kunst wrote:((read http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html before replying (this is Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:55:05 +0100 (CET) :-) Loading current slot... Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume 06, Date 20050308 End-of-Information detected. Loading next

spanning patch

2005-03-08 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi, sorry for the delay, don't wonna break our production setup, so i've setup another Solaris9 box together with a spare dds4x6 changer connected to it for some testing. here we go... 1st of all, spanning of a single DLE over two tapes works fine, using http://www.cs.umd.edu/~building/span_split_

Re: Backup image tape spanning, a look back and a look ahead...

2005-02-24 Thread Peter Kunst
nd, ok, it is, but that may be immaterial to its utility :). Cheers, Peter \ Peter Kunst \ Imagnos AG -> http://www.imagnos.com / \ -> Development & \ $WORK: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+49-69-50952-0) / \ -> Administration \ $HOME: (+49-6104-947254) / \ -> read http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html before replying /

Re: Overland Autoloaders?

2003-09-10 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be using Linux (Debian) with which I've had good luck in the past with when using Amanda. However, LTO technology is new to me, and I've never used anything from Overland, so I figured I'd ask to see what kind of results others using amanda have had with th

Re: dumps not running in parallel -- why?

2003-06-25 Thread Peter Kunst
. have you set "amflush yes" in your amanda.conf ? Cheers, Peter -- \ Peter Kunst \ CSK Software AG > http://www.csksoftware.com / \ -> Development & \ $WORK: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+49-69-50952-0) / \ -> Administration \ $HOME: (+49-69-96741687) / \ -> read http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html before replying /

Re: Solaris 8 compile problem with amanda 2.4.4

2003-06-23 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi Jim, Jim Mozley wrote: > > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > Peter, > > > > The problem manifests when I run amcheck: > > > > > > ld.so.1: /usr/local/sbin/amcheck: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No > > > such file or directory [..] > Allthough li

SUMMARY: planner: [dumps too big...] (long!)

2003-06-22 Thread Peter Kunst
SUMMARY (for beginners like me :-) When you start a new setup and have many disks to backup, migrate them by not adding more than ~5 partitions every amanda run (depends on size of disks and tapes, too) and see how it goes. Take some weeks of testing to see how amanda does it's work. That's what

Re: planner: [dumps too big...]

2003-06-22 Thread Peter Kunst
Jon LaBadie wrote: > This sounded like you just added a bunch of new ones. > >>> However, after adding more and more partitions, I've migrated some partitions to amanda once per week, starting some weeks ago. Now that all stuff goes to amanda i wanted to see what happens when i schedule a full ove

Re: planner: [dumps too big...]

2003-06-21 Thread Peter Kunst
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:15:12 -0400 Jon LaBadie wrote: > Q. What if `amdump' reports `dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps'? > A. It means Amanda couldn't back up some disk because it wouldn't fit [..] > When first bringing a new DLE online it must be level 0 dumped. > If runtapes is 1, t

planner: [dumps too big...]

2003-06-21 Thread Peter Kunst
20GB and an Overland LTO1 robot. Thanks for any hints (and yes, i've already searched on FAQ-O-Matic). Cheers, Peter -- \ Peter Kunst \ CSK Software AG > http://www.csksoftware.com / \ -> Development & \ $WORK: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+49-69-50952-0) / \ -> Administ