amanda question

Hello thanks for your help about my tapecycle question, I labeled my tapes and I think they are fine, tonight I'm going to test. My question now is that I would like to do monthly backups to be sure that always I have a least a copy from my data outside. I know that in this case I have

tapecycle

Hi everybody: I am using amanda since one year ago and at the beginning I used to have a single tape drive and run amanda only 5 days per week, now I have an autoloader because I use two tapes per run and I would like to include on day more to the runpercycle. So I would like run amanda 6

disk offline

Hi everybody: since the last thrusday I'm getting this error "miro.toman /Local lev 0 FAILED [disk /Local offline on miro.tomandandy.com?]" I don't know what it is the problem. I have amanda 2.4.2p2 and tar(GNU tar) 1.13.17. root@miro /bin]# tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13.17 Copyright 2000

Re: Amrecover bug?

HI John: I tried to use the patch that you sent to me and this the message that i got tanguy% patch /Local/Users/sandra/stream_client.diff can't find file to patch at input line 8 Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was:

amrecover again

Hi: I ran amrecover using amanda-2.4.2p2 without any udp or tcp ranges and was fine (i guess). I tried to recover a directory database . I used the directory that i created in my area /Local/Users/sandra/restore. From there I ran /usr/local/sbin/amrecover -C miro_daily -s

Re: Amrecover bug?

Hi John: I don't know if i did good or not. I used the stream.c version that it is on /cvs/amanda/amanda/common_src but now I got the error port 30015 not secure. So i don't If it was correct that I did or not. Could you tell me How can use this patch Thanks Sandra On Tuesday, July 17,

amrecover

Hi: I using amrecover from amanda version 2.4.2-19991216-beta1 from another machine different than the tape server, because Still I have problems with amrecover from amandand 2.4.2p2 that is the version that I have installed on my tape server machine. The thing is that I want to recover some

amrecover

Hi everybody: I was trying to use amrecover on a machine with amanda2.4.2p2 and I got this error did not get a reserved port: 30009 . I configured amanda with portrange=3,30015 but I don't think so that it is the problem because I ran amrecover from another machine that still has the

changer problems

Hi : Still I have problems with amanda 2.4.2p2 and my changer. I got the error amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from changer: /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx: [: -eq: unary operator expected Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

amanda problems

Hi everybody: I upgrade my amanda beta version to Amanda 2.4.2p2 everything was fine when I compiled this version but when I tried to test using amcheck I got this error amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from changer: /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx: [: -eq:

big filesystem

Hi Everybody: Again I have problems with another filesystem is not too big but the machine is slow and it is outside the firewall. I had this problem before and I increased the firewall idle to 60 minutes and I used as dumptype "comp-server" (compression fast but on the tape server)and it

amanda Problems

Hi everybody: I posted few days ago a question (big one), but I have not received any answer so I don't know if I was clear or not (my english) so I am trying to understand my problem by myself. but anyway I need to ask you something to verify that everything is ok with my configuration. I have

amanda questions

Hi everybody: I posted few days ago a question (big one), but I have not received any answer so I don't know if I was clear or not (my english) so I am trying to understand my problem by myself. but anyway I need to ask you something to verify that everything is ok with my configuration. I have

i need help

Hi everybody: I start to use the tape cleaner but I have had some problems. When i run amcheck all the time I got the error amcheck-server: slot 5: rewinding tape: No medium found amcheck-server: fatal slot 6: mtx: Cleaning Cartridge Installed and Ejected ERROR: label miro_daily-5 or new tape

changer questions

Hi everybody: I have a HP surestore 24X6 autoloader and I using chg-zd-mtx configuration file with dev /dev/nst0 scsitapedev /dev/sgb startuse0 enduse 5 statfile/usr/local/etc/amanda/miro_daily/tape0-slot the thing is that I

tapelist

Hi everybody: one month ago, I changed my tape server for Hp Surestore 24X6 so I use amlabel force and t relabel my new tapes, in this way I be able to use my old configuration (25 tapes, runtapes, etc) but I have problems with my tapelist because I don't know what happened but some tape

chg-zd-mtx

Hi Everybody: excuses if my question is too silly, but the thing is that I have amanda 2.4.2 running with chg-multi but now i have a new autoloader hp surestore 24X6i and I don't know what it is the changer file that I have to use. I read /docs/tape.changer and I found that chg-zd-mtx is

amanda problems

HI everybody: I have a machine with Mac OS X that i am trying to backup for level 4 but i get an error " Data write: File too large". The first time that I included this machine into the disklist everything was fine, I could backup but the problem was when I tried to backup all the area

tapelist question

Hi everybody: I have a new tape drive with DDS3 tapes. I changed my amanda configuration to use the DDS3 tape and I would like to know if i can relabel my new tapes or if I have to create another tapecycle. I ask you because today i think i did something wrong, I have a tapecycle

time out problem

HI everybody: I'm sorry if my question is too silly but I would like to know if etimeout and dtimeout are the same thing. I ask you because i have problem with a machine that today reported data time out. I check the mailing list if somebody have had the same problem and i found

amrestore problems

hello everybody: I need to restore a data that it is my holding disk but I couldn't. My holding disk is /amanda_holding and my amanda data in there is 20001215/duchamp.tomandandy._Local_Users.0.1. I tried amrestore -p /amanda_holding/20001215/duchamp.tomandandy._Local_Users.0.1 | tar xvf

amrestore problems

hello everybody; I'm sorry for my last question maybe it was not clear. so i'm going to try again. I am trying to use amrestore to restore a data that i have in my holding disk area. How can i do that?. Also I would like to know if somebody knows about cont_dumpfile in compares to a dumpfile.

help

Hi everybody: Since feww weeks ago I have ahd some strange error from amanda Could somebody tell me what happen? The most important is miro.tomandandy because this is my tape server. If somebody can help me thanks a lot? Sandra FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: miro.toman /usr/local lev

amflush question

Hi Everybody: I know that I did this question before but I still have problems with amflush. I am trying to amflush my data from my holding disk, the data size is 5.3 Gb and my tape doesn't have enough space. Somebody told me that I had to do amflush many times until my holding disk cleaned

Amanda question

Hi everybody: could anybody tell me if amanda can backup a HFS+ hard drive? thanks Sandra

amflush question

Hi everyone: I have a question about amflush. If i have huge data in my holding disk and one tape is not enough how can I do to use amflush with more than one tape? Please, any help would be appreciated. Sandra

Mac OS X Beta

Hi everyone: I am trying to install amanda on Mac OS X Beta but when i ran ./configure something wrong happened because after ./configure checked my system and the options that i used , the report from config.status was "unescaped newline inside substitute pattern creating amplot/amplot" "

holding disk problems

Hi finally I found my problem with my sonicwall firewall. the problem was the timeout and the machine that I was trying to backup is running on Mac OS X Server and it is too slow so took a long time to compress. Then I had to compress on the tape server, I used fast compression but I