Re: Typo error in the amanda docs (I think)

Correct and corrected. Thanks. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda install docs - daemontools hints

and will be added soon. Nice coincidence that I have just started using daemontools for some servers lately ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Errors when running amcheck - # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck possible configure issue.

into it. It's the same for SuSE: readline-devel-5.0-7 for SuSE 9.3, for example. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: holding disk with vtapes?

not sure what it buys JY you if you are using vtapes. Any comments? As already mentioned in the HOWTO the main benefit of using a holdingdisk is increasing parallelity. So it also makes good sense to use it with vtapes also. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Errors when running amcheck - # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1

readline installed So any ideas MH Check config.log to see why amanda doesn't think readline is installed. Make sure the readline-devel-package is installed, not only readline ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

it can back it up. You're right, my mistake ... sorry about that misinformation. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

needs as yours, Rodrigo. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

. If this is an issue that comes up for amanda-users when using DDS-drives (and it seems to be so) then we should document this in the docs. I am ready to do that, I just ask for your help to get all the facts straight. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Does the gnutar method exclude mount points ?

Hi, Guy, on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 16:05 you wrote to amanda-users: GD But if I use GNUTAR ? Is it intelligent enough to skip mounted file systems ? Yes. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

. Weichinger writes : Patches Always Welcome) ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda

, if there are, we should think about how to handle them and if we should remove them. --- If you think the current behavior should get explained more explicitly, please let me know where you would like to have this information placed. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

Hi, Jon, on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 21:58 you wrote to amanda-users: PAW (according to Jon LaBadie this means Stefan G. Weichinger writes : Patches Always Welcome) ;-) JL I thought we decide on APAW (Applicable PAW). APAWACCVST. Applicable Patches Against Current CVS Tree

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

. And I like it. ;-) thanks, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backup of the backup machine

to help you in more detail. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

. Host down? CA Any other areas to checkover I have gone through this with a fine tooth CA comb. Correct your .amandahosts first. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? -Fixed!

gnutar. Re-run configure as amanda, make and make install as root so you get fresh new binaries that know about the location of your new gnutar-binary. Watch out for WARNINGs at the configure-step, there should be no warnings requesting gnutar ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger

Re: Amrecover

.  Lei man amanda look for the parameter index. Basically it has to be turned on (index yes) in the dumptype you use to make sure you get proper indexes generated. Look for examples in examples/amanda.conf in your amanda-tarball. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Error in the documentation (Installation) ?

/amanda directory was NOT created upon installation GD (with root user doing the make install) is this NORMAL ? Please point out which part of the docs you refer to so I can look that up and correct things. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pre/Post backup scripts on clients ?

be PM configurable for the administrator without compiling If the wrapper around gnutar behaves like gnutar you might also replace the binary with the wrapper ... no compiling needed then. But you get other side-effects maybe ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Error in the documentation (Installation) ?

Hi, Guy, on Freitag, 06. Mai 2005 at 14:20 you wrote to amanda-users: GD 2005/5/6, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please point out which part of the docs you refer to so I can look that up and correct things. GD The doc mentions /usr/local/bin/amcheck and /usr/local/bin/amdup

Re: amrecover: connection refused

: missing '{' [file=/etc/xinetd.d/amidxtape] LZ [line=2]” Just read: Do you have files called /etc/xinetd.d/am* ? Your xinetd doesn't know about AMANDA-services yet ... Check the AMANDA-Installation-Notes for how to create these files and restart xinetd. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G

Re: largest fit peculiarities

[EMAIL PROTECTED] PB * server-src/driver.c (startaflush): Use ALGO_SMALLEST if PB nothing fit. JL Sounds like a good addition. Patch against 2.4.5 welcome, as always. PB Not needed. Already implemented in 2.4.5. Shame on me. Thanks to JLM. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger

Re: largest fit peculiarities

(and saves me a tape each day). JL Sounds like a good addition. Patch against 2.4.5 welcome, as always. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Server-A /tempfiles lev 0 FAILED 20050429[could not connect to Server-A]

then. Show relevant parts of the debug-files to us for further help. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: very large dumps in holding area

, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Estimate Parameter

in there, yes. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amanda-2.4.5 released

restores for you. --- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: estimates

Hi, Rich, on Donnerstag, 14. April 2005 at 00:17 you wrote to amanda-users: RH Any incompatibilites with 2.4.4 that I should be aware of? None that I know of so far. RH Thanks for the help Stefan. Welcome. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: estimates

-estimates are used. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: Problem with tape and labeling (archiving)

these steps as user amanda as well? Note that you have executed amcheck manually, not /usr/sbin/amcheck, but this shouldn't be your problem. Maybe add an explicit mt rewind to your label.sh ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AW: AW: Problem with tape and labeling (archiving)

labeling, I think that your tapecycle/dumpcycle-setup doesn't fit your procedure ... Seems like you have tapecycle set too big or similar. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Example of amanda implement the infinite grandfather-father-son strategy dumpcycle.

Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tar versions

. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: estimates

assumptons are necessary? AMANDA 2.4.5 will make you happy (again): This release brings so-called server-estimates which reduce estimate-times radically. 2.4.5 is soon to come, snapshots of 2.4.5b1 are already available and working stable. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto

Re: Tar versions

in the docs as soon as things have cleared up. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: splitting DLE's

, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Configuring amanda backup using LUFS and vtapes

, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

AMANDA-lecture next week

, the 14th, 5pm, I will give a lecture about AMANDA - A professional Open Source Backup-Suite. Come to the AEC Linz (in Austria), the lecture will be given in german (unless you demand another language ...) --- Cheers, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Configuring amanda backup using LUFS and vtapes

Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Configuring amanda backup using LUFS and vtapes

Hi, Eric, on Freitag, 08. April 2005 at 21:33 you wrote to amanda-users: EDR On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:29:17PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki, on Freitag, 08. April 2005 at 19:04 you wrote to amanda-users: EDR Which HOWTO is this? I'm sorry if the URL

Re: Configuring amanda backup using LUFS and vtapes

the full dump and to habe one vtape in spare (ie for experimenting ..) Gene has already described the friday-tape-question: http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2519662 -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:

chg-multi. If you follow http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-filedriver.html, you should use chg-disk instead. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup suddenly not working on server

to you by Amanda 2.4.p2) AFAIK there was never a 2.4.p2 (you mean 2.4.2p2 ?). Check your (x)inetd-setup and if (x)inetd is running at all. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amrestore problem:: URGENT!!!

, THEN consult the lists ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amandahostsauth failed

) ready. v 500 Access not allowed: [access as backup not allowed from v [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed v Do someone have some hint ? For the archives : http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2519209 Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IRIX/amanda, new scsi card (!!!)

like minor cleanup-tasks to me right now. Do you agree with me when I sum up your whole odyssey as hardware-issues or scsi-related? best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adding new stuff to disklist

... Explore the AMANDA-universe at http://www.amanda.org/docs/index.html or another kind of answer: Don't worry about NOTEs. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: localhost amandad busy

; the problem went away. Good. And if someone finds this thread after googling now, he may also refer to http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2519209 for more on this good old topic. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amcheck error - problem solved

Hi, on Freitag, 18. März 2005 at 21:29 Kevin wrote to amanda-users: KC I like to thank KC everyone that have helped me, especially Brain and Paul. Brian the Brain Cuttler. ;-) Stefan

Re: tapecycle and the doc

Hi, Tom, on Donnerstag, 17. März 2005 at 17:27 you wrote to amanda-users: TS In case you forgot, it does not appear to be fixed here yet: TS http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.8.html Thanks. Had fixed it in the source, but forgot to publish. It's html-only so far, the pdf doesn't get updated

Re: localhostNAK error

the word: http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2519209 -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tapecycle and the doc

for that. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba now works (was Re: Samba loses files from directories, backups defective)

. Here's the latest information on this samba patch. KD https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2271 Good to hear these news! Thanks for your debugging work and your cooperation with the Samba-guys. I'll build my fresh Samba soon ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL

special AMANDA-infos

Hey amanda-users, see this: http://wiki.kldp.org/wiki.php/DocbookSgml/Amanda-KLDP -- Bye, Stefan

Re: options keyword in example dumptype definitions?

forward to (and working on) merging the xml-docs into the next major AMANDA-release. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: options keyword in example dumptype definitions?

send me these files, I am curious, maybe I contact Ubuntu -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: options keyword in example dumptype definitions?

as in 2.4.4p4, minor corrections) reflects the current way of defining dumptypes (See DUMPTYPE SECTION). No need to document an option that isn't there anymore IMO. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup Oracle DB at AMANDA server

to restore a PB single table if needed). PB Is Oracle 9-10 any different for hot backup mode (i.e. more PB complicated than it need to be?). Paul, Bert, and anyone else: Could anyone of you imagine writing a small Howto back up Oracle dbs for the docs? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger

Re: amstatus does not understand estimate server

, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amstatus does not understand estimate server

.*, options:[...] SGW so amstatus doesn't show anything meaningful for those DLEs. SGW Just a missing paragraph in amstatus.pl.in ... Update on this: planner.c reports the server estimates in a different format, maybe this should be the same as the other estimates. Stefan G. Weichinger mailto

Re: Samba loses files from directories, backups defective

to server will be better, but fixing samba is my preference. KD https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2271 Thanks for pushing this, Kevin ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda Backup

, it will wait till 2am tomorrow. Patch from Brad Huntting [EMAIL PROTECTED]. This was AMANDA 2.3.0.4 ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda Backup

Hi, Paul, on Mittwoch, 02. März 2005 at 10:58 you wrote to amanda-users: PB taperalgo largestfit# why isn't this the default? No problem with setting this the default AFAIK. If noone else comes up with objections I'll edit that file in CVS soon. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G

Re: Amanda Backup

will find the time to learn C at last ;-) So I try to at least collect ideas and provide them to those who can make solid code out of it. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda Backup

me any good answers yet ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda Backup

Hi, Paul, on Mittwoch, 02. März 2005 at 21:35 you wrote to amanda-users: PB Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Ever done a grep for starttime in the AMANDA-sources? I did and it didn't give me any good answers yet ... PBgrep STARTTIME */*.c PBgrep start_t */*.c PB especially conffile.c

Re: Amanda Backup

. Looks like a relative functionality could be added relatively easy ;-) I CC: this to the hackers ... (@hackers:please refer to the users-list for the whole story ...) Thanks for digging that up, Paul. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Storage Options

. GH Would anyone like to step forward and speak to Mike? Who is meant by these guys? The amanda-users or the team? What does he want to know? Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: Backup image tape spanning, a look back and a look ahead...

Hello, John, just now (on 02/23/2005 at 16:27) you wrote: JS Just a note, on the expectation that people will ask after the status of my JS span/split patch. The most recent release is a patch against 2.4.5, and works JS pretty well for me. I've had one report of amrecover troubles with it,

Re: SV: Problems restoring files with amrecover on my backup client!

... Thanks for that smile, Paul ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amdump: timeout

goes into the 100 AMANDA Hacks ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dumplevel only 0 or 1

-- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: archiving tapes?!

why there were no working indexes. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: archiving tapes?!

Hello, Gene, just now (on 01/27/2005 at 20:58) you wrote: GH I do hope he was able to find gainfull employment, hopefully not GH around computers? Errm, AFAIK he is some kind of admin for this, errm, big institution ... It's always fun to see what jobs I could have ... -- Bye, Stefan

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

the binaries installed with the proper permissions. [...] Run `ldconfig' as root to update the paths to the recently installed shared libraries. If this is OK with you, I will commit it to the CVS later today. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fedora Core 3 - which version of tar??

, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Data loss if configuration of amanda.conf is not right.

to understand. Questions? More questions?? ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

, sounds much better already ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backups failing on Solaris 9 with GNU tar

Hi, Gene Heskett, on Sonntag, 16. Jänner 2005 at 02:23 you wrote to amanda-users: GH On Saturday 15 January 2005 17:26, Kurt Raschke wrote: On Jan 15, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: First thought here: Look for the GNUtar-version. 1.13.25 should work. Newer releases are known

AMANDA-docs, manpages

Hello amanda-users, more updates at http://www.amanda.org/docs/AMANDA-docs.html : http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.8.html : More fixes. http://www.amanda.org/docs/install.html : Added infos about GNUtar-versions (thanks to Paul Bijnens ...). http://www.amanda.org/docs/exclude.html : More

Re: Meaning of bump

Hi, Erik, on Samstag, 15. Jänner 2005 at 13:59 you wrote to amanda-users: EPO On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 10:03 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Have you read the description of those parameters at http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.8.html ? EPO Yes, I have (and am) reading it. Description

Re: Meaning of bump

is no explanation anywhere. Thanks for showing me that ... Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backups failing on Solaris 9 with GNU tar

see: Total bytes written: 60436480 so there is data dumped ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DLT tape streaming and amanda blocksize

://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.8.html, the html-version contains the most up-to-date version. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amanda.8 manpage

into french. NE Could you tell me the % of files formated in xml ? As Gavin noticed, 100% are available in Docbook/XML. There is a CVS-branch, browse it at: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/amanda/xml-docs/ -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amanda.8 manpage

G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amanda.8 manpage

(reconfigure, configure, make html...) so I'd rather let you manage this NE part :o) I assume that you have various packages missing ... NE And let's start a private thread to ask you some help off list. Yep. Thanks. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

amanda.8 manpage

Hello, amanda-users, enjoy the updated version of the main amanda.8-manpage at http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.8.html (The updates are NOT YET available as pdf ...) There were quite a few things to correct, check the CVS-diff if you want ... ;-) Let me know if there are still things to

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

, Brian is on another path right now ... maybe he'll come back to blocksizes later. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

: SKsdd 10.0.1.5:/                    1    55424k writing to tape (12:20:40) SKsdd Now its 13:42 and it is still writing. SCSI-errors? Assuming Linux as your OS, what does /var/log/messages tell you? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Antwort: Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

now ... SKsdd Again sorry for my confusing posts, but I am working on SKsdd this quite a few days and the more I try the more confused I SKsdd get. We all know this sort of days ... no problem. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Antwort: Re: Incredible slow write / Converting tapes

-writing before, maybe. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spaces in share/directory names

... Sure it is much easier to just create a new share called Programs. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

Hello, Brian, I thought of your problems this morning ;-) Just now (on 01/07/2005 at 17:17) you wrote: BC Oddly trying to dd if=/dev/rmt/tps... read no data BC samar 85# mt -f /dev/rmt/tps1d4nrns rewind BC samar 86# dd if=/dev/rmt/tps1d4nrns of=scratch BC Read error: Invalid argument Invalid

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

(amanda.conf, the paths and stuff, you know that). Then you can fiddle around with that second config until you figure something out. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

Hey Brian, just now (on 01/07/2005 at 19:20) you wrote: Humm, are you saying that amlabel works and can read the label written, but that dd doesn't/cannot? Back to 'man dd' as it exists on that Irix system would be my next suggestion. BC Remembering that I'd set the blocksize on the

manpages updated

will be done Regards, Stefan G. Weichinger

Re: amrestore problem, headers ok but no data

-wapping, variable length records. Similar to what I run on other systems. Seems ok so far, let's debug the upper points first. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing

successful backups done by AMANDA ;-)) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samar amanda output (with holding area)

G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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