Re: Still having problems with cygwin...

2004-07-16 Thread Richard Morse
Should I be sending this to amanda-hackers? Thanks, Ricky

Still having problems with cygwin...

2004-07-15 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! Since my last request for help, I've updated to the most recent code base (2.4.4p3) and I've applied a patch that was posted to amanda-hackers last year which commented out a number of 'aclose' calls. Neither one solved the problem. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Should I post

Cygwin question...

2004-07-08 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I have a number of Win2K machines I'm backing up using cygwin-based Amanda. Most of them work just great, however I haven't added a new machine for several months. Just a few days ago, I added a new machine, using the already-compiled binaries from the other machines, and I'm having a pr

Re: Bad tape or worse news?

2003-12-03 Thread Richard Morse
On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 04:50 AM, C.Scheeder wrote: H, i'm no free-bsd guru, but Jack Twilley schrieb: Here's the uname output: FreeBSD duchess.twilley.org 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Sat Nov 8 00:40:54 PST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DUCHESS i386

Re: Memory requirements for Amanda Server

2003-11-24 Thread Richard Morse
On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 01:04 PM, Tom Brown wrote: We are building an amanda backup server and have a question regarding memory requirements. My guess is that Amanda is more processor intensive than memory intensive. Is this correct? For a dedicated backup server that won't be doing

Re: Pornography

2003-03-20 Thread Richard Morse
On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 03:42 PM, Scott Mcdermott wrote: Marty Shannon, RHCE on Thu 20/03 13:50 -0500: *All* lists *I'm* on -- with the exception of this one -- do not permit any access by non-subscribers (except to subscribe, of course). Agreed. This is standard practice on most lists a

Re: Dumping mounted windows partitions?

2003-03-17 Thread Richard Morse
On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 11:20 AM, Andreas Hallmann wrote: Hello, I'm dumping 2 windows partitions via gnutar on an amanda 2.4.3 system. Curiously even a level 1 dump has same size as a full dump. Is this a 'normal' , due to some 'shit' in those W98SE partitions? Dumping reiserfs-partition

Re: Resim

2003-03-14 Thread Richard Morse
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 10:55 PM, Adam Smith wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:21:20AM +, Aysel said: ozel_porno_video.mpeg.exe Firstly, loser. Secondly, why is this list open to spammers? Don't you have to subscribe before you can post? I imagine that this is for the same reason

Re: hosts timing out on amdump but not amcheck

2003-03-07 Thread Richard Morse
Regarding the time outs, look in the logs on the client, for sendsize*debug (I think) -- see how long it takes to get the estimate for the various drives. Then, check to see that your etimeout is large enough... HTH, Ricky On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 12:20 PM, justin m. clayton wrote: Thank

Wrapping amandad.exe on Cygwin

2003-03-06 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I'd like to write a wrapper script for amandad.exe on Cygwin. I want to make sure that all the log files are made readable by the group once amandad is finished. My issue is that I don't quite know how to ensure that amandad gets passed all the proper parameters. Would the following work

Re: Amanda 2.4.4 + Cygwin = loss of hair...

2003-03-05 Thread Richard Morse
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 10:01 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: Hi all [snip] I followed the HOWTO-CYGWIN.html doc to the letter, got inetd running from services on XP Pro, but running amcheck on the XP/Cygwin host on the tape server keeps spitting out "WARNING: : selfcheck request timed out.

Re: Problem with compression?

2003-02-24 Thread Richard Morse
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 01:03 PM, John Oliver wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:10:35PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:49:32PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:14:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Throw in that marketing is usually a bit optimisti

Re: problem with cygwin and amanda2.4.4b1

2003-02-21 Thread Richard Morse
On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 09:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm trying to setup amanda2.4.4b1 on a win2000 machine with cygwin. I followed the instruction in the HOWTO for cygwin but have the following problem. i run /usr/sbin/inetd -d on the win2000 machine I run amcheck -c t

Re: Problem with using include list on 2.4.3-FreeBSD server with 2.4.4b1-Cygwin client

2003-02-20 Thread Richard Morse
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 09:49 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:16:16PM -0500, Richard Morse wrote: Apparently, add_include only iterates over the directories at the root of the drive (which makes sense), but therefore, it won't find anything that ma

Re: Problem with using include list on 2.4.3-FreeBSD server with 2.4.4b1-Cygwin client

2003-02-18 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I realize that it's bad form to follow-up to yourself, but nobody else seems to be, so... On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 11:26 AM, Richard Morse wrote: Hi! I have a 2.4.4b1 client, compiled on Cygwin. I'd like to use the "include list" feature, so I upgraded my se

Re: Re-registering?

2003-02-18 Thread Richard Morse
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 09:58 AM, Potts, Ross A. wrote: Has anyone else already on the list gotten the message that "Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added"? It is dated today. From the message, it looks as though someone tried to register the amand

Problem with using include list on 2.4.3-FreeBSD server with 2.4.4b1-Cygwin client

2003-02-14 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I have a 2.4.4b1 client, compiled on Cygwin. I'd like to use the "include list" feature, so I upgraded my server from 2.4.2p2 to 2.4.3. I have another cygwin client that works, without using the include list feature. When I run amcheck, I get back the error "[include must be at least 3

Re: 2.4.4b1 cygwin client and specifying DLEs with spaces...

2003-02-13 Thread Richard Morse
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 10:42 PM, John R. Jackson wrote: .. /cygdrive/c { comp-tar include list "include-1" } and in /cygdrive/c/include-1: ./Documents and Settings/myuserfolder Note that you cannot use "include file" as that passes the thing to include acr

Re: 2.4.4b1 cygwin client and specifying DLEs with spaces...

2003-02-12 Thread Richard Morse
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 04:57 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 3:47pm, Richard Morse wrote H at this point, I have a 2.4.2p2 server, which doesn't mention the "include list" in the manpage. Will it still work? Or would I have to upg

Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-12 Thread Richard Morse
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 02:59 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Actually, getting amanda to use some other program (i.e. not GNUtar or *dump) for backups is not exactly trivial. The (long in coming) DUMPER-API is supposed to fix that, but is still a ways off (probably, I'm not really

Re: 2.4.4b1 cygwin client and specifying DLEs with spaces...

2003-02-12 Thread Richard Morse
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 10:42 PM, John R. Jackson wrote: If so, then you should be able to use an "include" clause and put the sub-folders to include within some major top level area, and that file is only processed by GNU tar and (I think) may contain spaces. So the DLE might be:

Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-12 Thread Richard Morse
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 12:23 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: No need to wait. The backup is being done by tar on the cygwin client. If it saves ACL info and resets them correctly, then amanda will. Do a test on your cygwin client just by creating and extracting a tar archive. So, I trie

Re: AMANDA and the Windows world

2003-02-12 Thread Richard Morse
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 09:29 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: The cygwin client is pretty new and thus less tested. I'd just like to say that so far, it seems to work. I still need to do a test restore, and I don't know about ACLs, but the signs are that things are working cor

2.4.4b1 cygwin client and specifying DLEs with spaces...

2003-02-10 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! This is probably a really easily answered question, but I'm not having any luck finding it (probably going blind)... I've got the 2.4.4b1 client set up on a cygwin machine. The backup is going well, but in order to create a DLE, I had to do some aliasing. Is there a way to specify a DLE lik

Re: Configure/Install

2003-02-07 Thread Richard Morse
On 02/07/2003 10:58 AM, "Chris Broadwater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need some help. > > I was going through the install of Amanda 2.3.4 and during the Configure the > process errored out with the following line > > configure: error: *** --user-USER is missing > > Any ideas what I

Installing 2.4.4b1 on Cygwin

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I'm trying to install 2.4.4b1 on a Win2K/Cygwin machine. I've run into a few questions, which may be blindingly obvious, but I'm totally missing... 1) which user/group: should I create a new user? There isn't a /dev directory, so I can't determine which group to put the user in, although si

2.4.4b client with 2.4.2p2 server?

2003-02-05 Thread Richard Morse
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