Re: Mac OS X install?

2005-02-15 Thread steven karel
well, it works for me, but I wrote those instructions, so maybe I left something out. DId you try adjusting the timeout on the server? I think xtar can be slow (and if you aren't using xtar, hfstar was VERY slow) What files DO you get in /tmp/amanda on the client when the backup files? Tim John

Re: DUMP SUMMARY format

2004-10-09 Thread Steven Karel
look in amanda.conf at the columnspec setting and the comments about it in the amanda.conf file. I use columnspec "OrigKB=1:9,OutKB=1:9,DumpRate=1:7,TapeRate=1:7" to make the report more readable. On Oct 9, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Lauro, John wrote: Is there a way to adjust field widths in the DUMP SU

Re: install amanda on macosx-server

2004-07-28 Thread Steven Karel
I put some notes up a while ago at http://web.brandeis.edu/pages/view/Bio/AmandaMacOSXCompileNotes I'd recommend you use xtar as a tar substitute. http://www.helios.de/news/news03/N_06_03.html You might as well use amanda 2.4.4 on the client, it should be compatible with 2.4.2 on the server.

Re: Ad-Hoc backup?

2003-03-17 Thread Steven karel
One way to force a full ad-hoc backup of diskentry bar on server foo is by: amlabel backupsetname newtapename amadmin backupsetname force foo bar amdump backupsetname foo bar On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 02:38 PM, wab wrote: I want to back up one filesystem on one server, to a new tape, now. Ho

Re: compiling 2.4.4 on Mac OS X

2003-03-14 Thread Steven Karel
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > Why the configure script didn't found the `initgroups' declaration? > Look at configure.log file. > > Jean-Louis > here's the bit from config.log for 2.4.4, let me know if you want the whole files. There is no corresponding error in configurin

compiling 2.4.4 on Mac OS X

2003-03-10 Thread Steven Karel
amanda 2.4.3 compiles fine for me on Mac OS X (10.2.4), while 2.4.4 does not. Not urgent, but thought I should report it somewhere. Details: Configured with ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=wheel --prefix=/usr/local --without-server --with-config='backupset' --with-gnutar=/usr/loca

Re: Backup and recovery CD

2003-02-25 Thread Steven Karel
For restoring linux based systems, I imagine that almost everything is already there on the KNOPPIX CD (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/). You could boot from that (it would probably recognize some but not all hardware, test with your own), then you could compile and install amanda (with the correct

Re: downgrading

2003-02-24 Thread Steven Karel
I had many VXA-1 v17 tapes act this way with amanda with 2 different internal VXA drives. I have also tried an older external drive that never showed the behavior. I have since replace the internal drive with VXA-2 (basically, in order to get more capacity out of the tapes I'm reusing) and the

Re: Mac OS X 10.2 client support?

2003-01-18 Thread Steven Karel
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, John Martinez wrote: > > Does Amanda support OS X clients? I plan on installing Amanda on a Solaris server. > > In particular, I'd like to know if there is support for multi-forked files in > HFS+ filesystems. You need to use a local backup utility that's resource fork awa

Re: Amanda & MACs

2001-02-20 Thread Steven Karel
Ben Kochie wrote: > > yes.. my fault.. i forgot all about dave.. I wish there were other > options for SMB on mac's, from what I've heard.. dave isn't the greatest > thing in the world. > > Yura Pismerov wrote: > > > > Ben Kochie wrote: > > > > > > macintosh clients have been discussed before, b

Re: error writing tapes (vxa/linux 2.4/amanda 2.4.2) - bad FIRSTfile header

2001-01-09 Thread Steven Karel
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: > >I've had a problem writing tapes on my amanda tape server. While I have > >a work-around, I thought I'd mention it here to see if anyone has any > >ideas how to solve it. > > U, why are you telling us about a kernel problem (and I agree that's > w