RE: AMDump Reporting Results Missing

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Schaffrath
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Nathan Bird wrote: In disklist I was under the impression that you had to write the following. hostname diskdev dumptype [spindle [interface]] The diskdev that it is referring to is the tape device isn't it? Nice idea :-) No, "diskdev" is the harddisk (sig!) on the

Re: running amcheck

2000-11-03 Thread Peter Schaffrath
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Denise Ives wrote: Looks like there is no problem with client connections - but the subject header does have this BOLD warning message. Can this be ignored? No! You don't have a problem with your client connections, as you realized. But have a look at the server

Re: back to square 1 (fwd)

2000-11-03 Thread Peter Schaffrath
Sorry, wrong mailinglist address on the first try. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 13:31:34 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Schaffrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: back to square 1 Hi Denise! One point first: make

Re: amrecover oddities

2000-10-26 Thread Peter Schaffrath
Anyone out there used to such strange messages? I'm also curious as to why amrecover "Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD". Not that it's too hard to setdisk...but it's strange nonetheless. Well, you already mentioned one solution: use setdisk. The other one is to start amrecover

gtar: no backup size line

2000-10-25 Thread Peter Schaffrath
Hi all! I can't remember if this has been discussed here. At least I didn't find it in FAQs or archive. One of my linux clients started issuing this error in the mail 2 days ago: lithium /usr/wissrech23/schweitz lev 0 FAILED [no backup size line] [...] /-- lithium /usr/wissrech23/schweitz lev 0

Re: groups when using tar

2000-10-24 Thread Peter Schaffrath
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, John R. Jackson wrote: I'm familiar with the amanda user needing to be in the group allowed to read raw devices when using 'dump'. Is this also suffient when using 'tar' or do the file and directory permissions prevail? Amanda runs tar underneath a setuid-root