Re: Strange error message from Amanda.

2005-11-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Erik P. Olsen wrote: | gtar: ./cache/samba/winbindd_privileged/pipe: socket ignored ? gtar: ./lib/slocate/slocate.db: file changed as we read it | Total bytes written: 545894400 (521MiB, 3.1MiB/s) sendbackup: size 533100 sendbackup: end \ The weird messages do not make any sense

Re: IO probs

2005-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Glenn English wrote: I've rebooted (the server and the client) and reinstalled (the client) and remounted and examined permissions, none of which made any difference at all. Any thoughts? What permissions does the AMANDA-user have on the problematic DLE? Maybe the AMANDA-user is not

Re: Tapetype Entries

2005-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
matilda matilda wrote: Hi all, just wanted to add tapetype entries to the faq-o-matic as little feedback to the community from a happy user of amanda, but creating an faq-o-matic account seems not to work. Does anyone know how to add an entry? Thank you in advance. Please let that FOM

Re: Tapetype Entries

2005-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
matilda matilda wrote: Hi Stefan, shall I wait until the Wiki is available? Or is in anyway nobody interested in my tapetype entries? You may post them here for a start ... The Wiki will be available soon. Stefan

Re: Tapetype Entries

2005-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: matilda matilda wrote: Hi Stefan, shall I wait until the Wiki is available? Or is in anyway nobody interested in my tapetype entries? You may post them here for a start ... The Wiki will be available soon. Very soon ... what are we waiting for? I have

Re: DAMN! I'm getting the Host down error

2005-11-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
todd zenker wrote: Greetings. I just installed 2.4.5 on a linux box(RedHat 9). (Version 2.4.4p1 was working fine) I'm getting an error Host down. On the system log I noticed an error Deactivating service amanda due to excessive incoming connections I change the xinetd.conf to allow 500

Re: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

2005-11-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Sebastian Kösters wrote: My report looks like this: NOTES: planner: tapecycle (1) = runspercycle (10) Please get that sorted out, I assume that this is not what you want, although it has nothing to do with your timeouts. Thats all. I tested with a seperate config. Have you increased

Re: DAMN! I'm getting the Host down error

2005-11-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: todd zenker wrote: Greetings. I just installed 2.4.5 on a linux box(RedHat 9). (Version 2.4.4p1 was working fine) I'm getting an error Host down. On the system log I noticed an error Deactivating service amanda due to excessive incoming connections I change

Re: Connection refused by peer

2005-11-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Thomas Wegner wrote: I've installed a debian package so that I don't know what build options were chosen at build time. Can I check this anywhere? amadmin conf version Stefan

Re: Need help diagnosing hostname problems

2005-10-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
, just some initial setup. Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: D2D2T howto

2005-10-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
... ;-) If you have enough diskspace, this is a very good way to keep people from having to touch a tape when there are only single small files to recover, e.g. Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
? Did you notice the typo we pointed at in another branch of this thread? I haven't seen any reply since then. Please give us an up-to-date and complete report of your latest trials, otherwise it is very hard to get the picture. Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
for smbclient. The errors Chris has shown, were thrown by smbclient. Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Matt Hyclak wrote: -bash-3.00$ smbclient \\gandalf\gandalfc -U chris -E -W GANDALF -c quit Does the share exist? Gandalf_C Disk Gandalfs New C I see Gandalf_C, but no galndalfc like you've told amanda... Same here ... Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
into AMANDA. This will add quite a few users to this mailing-list, making it another dorkgroup ;-) Greets, Stefan. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
the relevant lines of all these files ... -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Chris Jones wrote: Agreed. I get the following:- -bash-3.00$ smbclient -U chris gandalf\\DocSetts Password: Domain=[GANDALF] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] smb: \ exit -bash-3.00$ In amandapass, should the workgroup entry be the same as the Workgroup name used

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: As you were able to connect without specifying the dorkgroup/domain Errm, I meant Workgroup ;) Stefan

Re: General Daily vs. Daily Incremental - Total execution time

2005-10-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
, if you show us the reports etc. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Configuration for Windows PC client

2005-10-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
, Stefan. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Tapelist issue only using 3 tape out of a tapecycle of 10.

2005-10-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
. Just move that line to the bottom of the file. This worked So I assumed. Editing the tapelist by hand should be avoided, in general. Your procedure works, but you could have just used amlabel -f on the new tape as well ... Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto

Re: amrecover questions ?

2005-10-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
) ready. 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is even an FAQ-item: http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id209 Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http

Re: Howto exclude a addition server in my exclude.gtar list

2005-10-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
with the default path thus I can know see the logic as different clients would have different exclude list to suit. Yes, the exclude list has to exist on every client dumped using the related dumptype. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux

Re: configurable ignoring of output, extending exclude

2005-10-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:52:25PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote: A long term problem with samba backup is that exclude can only include on file. An alternative might be to allow amanda.conf to configure certain ignore statements. That would allow me to skip pagefile.sys error

Re: Disable Tape Compression

2005-09-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Gene Heskett wrote: Be aware that for many tape formats, the compression status is saved in a hidden header of the tape, so that once its been written in the compression on mode, that will be restored to on when the tape is loaded regardless of your wishes unless specifically disabled. I

Re: Question about changing Tape Drive

2005-09-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Paul Bijnens wrote: I work in variable blocksize. On linux: mt -t /dev/st0 defblksize 0# add this in /etc/rc.*/* somewhere mt -t /dev/st0 setblk 0# or this just before handling tape If your tapes were written with a fixed blocksize, you should use that value again (or relabel

Re: Howto add a new host and disk to my Amanda backup server WARNING Host down! (emailserver).

2005-09-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Thus enabled xinetd amanda, amadaidx and amidxtape. Recheck the entries in /etc/xinetd.d (paths to binaries?) and make sure that you also restarted xinetd.

Re: Howto add a new host and disk to my Amanda backup server WARNING Host down! (emailserver).

2005-09-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi got a bit further I had on the emailserver SuSE's default firewall running thus disabled Now get this error: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: ktinga.smtl.co.uk: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL

Re: Amanda/firewall --with-portrange

2005-09-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Brenckle, Nicholas wrote: Finally worked with different ranges for udp and tcp (udp 850-854 and tcp 1 to 10100). Now it's happy. My standard configure-script uses --with-tcpportrange=5,50040 --with-udpportrange=890,899 which points to the same solution you just found. Greets,

Re: hidden files

2005-09-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Sebastian Kösters wrote: Hi, is amanda aible to backup hidden files ( .file – with a dot in front of the filename ) without doing any special in the config file? Yes ... Please specify your problems if there are any ... Do you use tar or dump? -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member

Re: Maintaining Patches and Bugs

2005-09-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
helpful and compact notes to be used in the tracker. I would also be happy if the various authors could take a look if I didn't overlook some important detail of their work. Best regards, Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting

Re: poor documentation

2005-09-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
my reply was swallowed by majordomo silently ...) Thanks, Joshua, for defending the AMANDA-docs. Many things are already done, many are still to be done -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http

Re: Wait for dumping

2005-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Florian Lengyel wrote: PS. In view of the recent complaints on this list about the AMANDA documentation, for lack of any specific citation I must take the opportunity to disagree. The documentation is intelligible to anyone who takes the trouble to read it. I am very happy to hear that,

Re: Configuration questions

2005-09-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
want. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Draft of a shell-script for backing up AMANDA-metadata

2005-09-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
: first draft # # Stefan G. Weichinger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # This script backs up AMANDA-metadata like indexes and config-files. # It creates files in the directory TARGETPATH, the filenames start with # the string HEADER_STRING, this string contains the timestamp TIMESTAMP. # The files backed up

Patches

2005-09-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
that we can merge them into the mainline. Thanks, Stefan. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: vtapes documentation

2005-09-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-filedriver.html ? This is where the term vtape originates ... -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Not clear problem with amanda (amcheck)

2005-08-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
? If yes, show us your configure-options, maybe you specified a too small portrange there. Does the client run AMANDA at all? xinetd-entries, reload xinetd ... Does amandad get started on the client? Does amandad even listen on the client? -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto

Re: Not clear problem with amanda (amcheck)

2005-08-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
this helps: http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2555136 and, in more detail http://www.amanda.org/docs/portusage.html -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: What could cause this ?

2005-08-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie wrote: Amazing, I was going to point Guy to Question NNN of Chapter 17 of the new amanda docs (the FAQ), but I did not find any question about timeouts. That's the result of just one busy guy maintaining the docs :-) Stefan

Re: FAQ-O-Matic (was: RE: Dell Powervault 120T w/ DLT7000 (ADIC FastS tor DLT D116 + QUANTUM DLT7000 2561))

2005-07-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
://doc-book.sourceforge.net/homepage/) to connect the Docbook/XML-Sources of the current AMANDA-docs to that new way of providing and collecting infos. As it isn't that easy to use this on the sourceforge-webserver I am still looking for a good and solid place to host this ... -- Stefan G

Re: Amrecover authorisation

2005-07-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
failed My amandahosts contains tony-lx.magpieway.net amanda tony-lx.magpieway.net root Reading the error message would indicate you also need localhost root in your amandahosts Let me note that this is also covered by the FAQ: http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2553183 -- Stefan G

Re: ssh keys only

2005-07-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Vicki Stanfield wrote: The problem is fixed and the employee in question has been forced to work in a VAX environment for a week as punishment. Thanks. ;) -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http

Re: amrecover fails with stream_client_privileged Connection refused

2005-07-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
: stream_client_privileged: connect to 127.0.0.1.10082 failed: Connection refused amrecover: cannot connect to localhost: Connection refused amrecover: pid 2019 finish time Tue Jul 19 09:47:28 2005 Would you please read the FAQ and/or the docs first? www.amanda.org Thanks, Stefan. -- Stefan G

Re: runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda]

2005-07-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
plans at the time. As I said, other things took precedence, so I haven't managed to implement all that I had hoped. I will let everyone know when I have something pulled together for building your own amanda RPMs That Don't Suck. Soon. I hope ;-) Thanks, I am looking forward to this. -- Stefan G

Re: runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda]

2005-07-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
, Stefan. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: How smart is AMANDA

2005-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
) at dumptime and dump the synced data with AMANDA, while the source-host continues his work. Depends on volume, yes, maybe you give us more infos about volume and how quick that data changes ... -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting

Re: runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda]

2005-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
all amanda-users ...) Greets and thanks, Stefan. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda]

2005-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:13:04PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I would like to have some motivated amanda-hackers who try to move all these configure-time-params into amanda.conf ... When this is done, shouldn't the continued paring of amanda.conf include removal

Re: runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda]

2005-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda]

2005-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Graeme Humphries wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:03 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote: You can use amanda packages from RH as is, but it's not the recommended way of doing things since they have to use localhost. What's wrong with using localhost? ;-) -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team

Re: Antw: Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
experience for long time in a newsgroup. You know, AMANDA-users are lucky people ... The early days where much better...or do I get older? :- I think it's a mixture ;) Have a nice weekend. Same to you, Stefan. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Graeme Humphries wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 18:34 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: After reading all that thread I have to ask: Do you all agree with me editing the man-page as Jon suggested? It seems reasonable to me. Edited and committed to the xml-docs-cvs. -- Stefan G

Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
and errors covered by the binaries accessing the (v)tapes. Following this principle seems to reduce risk to me. Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Antw: Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie wrote: Soon as you or someone else takes an interest to change the code. Either tomorrow or sometime next year :) As Stefan so often says APAW. Hey! This is your acronym, Jon ;-)) -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux

Re: Building amanda on Mac OS X

2005-07-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
if this helps as it is a bit outdated already. In general I would suggest to use the newer release if possible, also on the server, although at first we have to find out why your make fails ... -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
exist. After reading all that thread I have to ask: Do you all agree with me editing the man-page as Jon suggested? Stefan. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: exclude list optional not working?

2005-07-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
. If it exists, it has to be accessible. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner

2005-07-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
first slot You should debug your chg-zd-mtx-setup ... -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Disabling size estimates?

2005-07-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Graeme Humphries wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 08:53 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I'd like to see some improvements on that tool, but in general it's very useful, yes. H, what are you thinking of adding / changing? On my systems it always looks nasty, with the text running

Re: dumper hanging on single item in disklist?

2005-07-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
was that this share had a trailing slash in the disklist, while the others didn't. Nothing in the log files (other than the timeout) was any different. Is that it? :) Change it. And edit your timeouts as mentioned. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux

Re: Disabling size estimates?

2005-07-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Graeme Humphries wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 18:32 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On my systems it always looks nasty, with the text running into the graphs (upper right corner, afai remember). Ahh yes, I see what you mean. I'd think that'd be a matter of tweaking how gnuplot is called

Re: Disabling size estimates?

2005-07-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Graeme Humphries wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 23:45 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Yeah, and they are *really* static. There's very little that changes day-to-day compared to the overall backup size. I'd estimate we have less than 1% change on the larger shares. This should work awesome

Re: dumper hanging on single item in disklist?

2005-07-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
should also be able to dig up more infos from your logfiles (lookup the parameter logdir in your conf, it leads you there ...). Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: R: LTO-2 - Tape Type

2005-06-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
to find ;) Maybe someone is motivated to grep for all those tapetypes out there and collect them all in one big tapetype-list? As I am thinking about splitting the tapetypes off from amanda.conf it might me a good chance to start building a new collection ... -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core

Re: R: LTO-2 - Tape Type

2005-06-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
to drown in tapetypes, I have enough work already ;) Thanks, Stefan. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: R: LTO-2 - Tape Type

2005-06-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alexander Jolk wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: And about 1-2 minutes to post the result to amanda-users, for others to find ;) Maybe someone is motivated to grep for all those tapetypes out there and collect them all in one big tapetype-list? You mean something like all the tapetypes

Re: Input/output error on tape drive with amcheck...

2005-06-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Guy Dallaire wrote: If you could also tell me where you ended up putting sleep command in the mtx script, that would be nice of you. Should this get patched or described in the sources also? -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting

Re: Disabling size estimates?

2005-06-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Disabling size estimates?

2005-06-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
, I imagine a gain of a few hours will be worth it, especially since I'm trying to squeeze my backups down to a few hours. estimate server helps A LOT if your DLEs are pretty static. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation

Re: SMBCLIENT program not available

2005-06-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
use FQDNs in your disklist before you proceed. Apart from that I'd check my dumptypes for GNUTAR -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Disabling size estimates?

2005-06-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
. There's very little that changes day-to-day compared to the overall backup size. I'd estimate we have less than 1% change on the larger shares. This should work awesome, time to run a test backup. :) Let us know, maybe this motivates more people to move on to 2.4.5. -- Stefan G. Weichinger

Re: Amanda and MacOS X and Exabyte autoloader

2005-06-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
will not aggregate anything new to this list, feel free to mail me in PVT. ;)) Yes, I am sure. Thanks for your time! Artur. PS: This MARC system rocks! Fantastic... Yep, much better than other archives ... This is one of the reasons why nearly noone uses the list anymore ;) Stefan -- Stefan G

Re: What's the meaning of these logs?

2005-06-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
DLEs have bumped because this hit the bumping-rules you use. Somewhat clearer? I have to get some coffee now, it's early ... ;) (this will get another FAQ-item ...) Something else: this is normal behavior and not a problem. Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto

Drafts for the simple backup tape encryption

2005-06-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
A DRAFT, DON'T USE IT ON PRODUCTION SERVERS. Greets, Stefan. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Simple backup tape encryption

2005-06-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
. What's the difference? Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Simple backup tape encryption

2005-06-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Update: amrecover works now as well, indexes are generated and read properly. The vtapes are encrypted AND (more important) decrypted now, works fine so far. I start a new thread on the hackers-list to reflect the existence of a new document and its beta

Re: firewall/nat issues

2005-06-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
recommend to search the archives for terms like iptables/ipchains/firewall, there have been some threads lately ... -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Simple backup tape encryption

2005-06-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
using aespipe (http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/). Should be relatively easy to implement in a wrapper, yes. Maybe someone else wants to dig into this as well? Stefan. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http

Re: Simple backup tape encryption

2005-06-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I am currently playing around with a wrapper-setup using aespipe (http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/). Well, good news ... I hadn't expected that I would be able to get there so fast, but I have something working: I wrote a wrapper (modified and extended one

Re: The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet104 and the DailSet104 is in the drive.

2005-06-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
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Re: Simple backup tape encryption

2005-06-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Bruce Fletcher wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Right now I have a vtape-setup, which does AES-encryption with amdump, and AES-decryption with amrestore. This works fine already. What is still missing, is the support of amrecover, seems like there's something wrong with the index

Re: Simple backup tape encryption

2005-06-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Derek Price wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Was amrecover broken for vtapes in general or only encrypted vtapes? It's not broken at all, my wrapper was broken. I have a vtape setup here but when I try to recover I get the following message from amrecover: Extracting files using tape

Re: Amanda and MacOS X and Exabyte autoloader

2005-06-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
to backup 100 GB every day, and I have to retain this information for one or two weeks. I am sure you will get some feedback, but you might also browse the archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=amanda-usersr=1w=2 Stefan -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL

Re: Configuration with IBM Ultrium Tape 2U Autoloader 3581

2005-06-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
use depends on how you can access your devices on your OS. If it works with mtx, I'd suggest chg-zd-mtx, For the tapetype: Please read the new faq: http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2553952 -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting

Re: Configuration with IBM Ultrium Tape 2U Autoloader 3581

2005-06-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
the vendor of the changer hardware and of the operating system, rather than from the AMANDA mailing lists. We usually don't have much to say about tape changer units, and several questions about them remain unanswered. :-( Still true. Stefan. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member

Re: amcheck is ok, but amdump is not good

2005-06-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
is empty and you don't plan to use exclusions for that DLEs you could also remove the line exclude file ... from your tapetype-definition for comp-root-tar. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: amcheck is ok, but amdump is not good

2005-06-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Lei Zhong wrote: You guys rock. Sure we do ;) -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Problems compiling Amanda on Solaris

2005-06-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
. -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: Problems compiling Amanda on Solaris

2005-06-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
and would also help to write some more for the docs-section than use bsd-make ;) -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Vects wrote: Today I run another 'Full' set and had opportunity to test what Stefan said. I still saw single dumping process per host but something got changes and I found two dumping processes on the same computer in parallel. I'll run amplot on current Full and publish amfiles later today.

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-restrained which tell you more ... You might also use amplot to generate graphs for analysis of your bottlenecks, which analyses your amdump-file (which you might also simply show us, as Paul just now suggested). Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jon LaBadie wrote: maxdumps limits the number of dumper processes per DLE, while inparallel limits the overall number of dumper processes running in parallel. Is that dumper procs per DLE? Or per host? Seems to me that any DLE should only have one dumper assigned. dumper-procs per client,

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hello, Jon, you wrote: Actually I meant that to go to sgw, not the list :( Yeah, I know, all those function-keys ;) I'm unclear about what maxdumps should do is some settings. Suppose I have a general setting of maxdumps of 1, either by not specifying it in amanda.conf or by setting it

Re: connection refused when trying to recover

2005-06-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Cam wrote: cannot connect to localhost: Connection refused amrecover - can't talk to tape server I'm assuming this is because i'm running the utility as root (not as amanda), but iirc, the amanda documentation says i have to be root. Sorry to be that dry: The AMANDA documentation also

Re: many dumps in parallel

2005-06-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
, check your settings for the parameter maxdumps, as well as the setting of inparallel. The default value of maxdumps is 1, so only 1 dumper per client is run at one time, this is the behavior you currently see in your installation. Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: holding disk with vtapes?

2005-05-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Running out of the tape II - detailed logs

2005-05-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda install docs - daemontools hints

2005-05-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
run-files for reference, I am preparing some notes for the installation-document. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda install docs - daemontools hints

2005-05-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
committed your notes to the current cvs-version of install.xml (as alternative to (x)inetd, as suggested), they will be online at amanda.org pretty soon. Maybe you could also post your runfiles to http://smarden.org/runit/runscripts.html ? Thanks for contributing. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G

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