In production environment I use only 1.13.19 or 1.13.25 currently.
There is also a tar 1.15 release out now; can anyone comment on its
compatibility with AMANDA? I'm asking mainly because 1.13.25 is
getting rather old.
-Kurt
, it's a brand-new install, so I suppose you could say it has never
worked before.
As to the tar version:
bash-2.05$ gtar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13
Does 1.13.25 come after 1.13? If so, then I will upgrade gtar and see
if that helps.
-Kurt
e exception of files that were in use). However, on this
Solaris client, it appears as though the backup terminates as soon as
it hits a file that is in use or that it cannot open.
I am using the AMANDA and GNU tar packages from the Sun Freeware
collection.
What can I do about this?
Thanks,
Kurt Raschke
all Debian packages when
upstream security updates become available, but I haven't figured it out yet.
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manda gets a *little*
confused sometimes by this setup because it sometimes thinks a weekly or
monthly has been missed and thus promotes a few too many DLE's to full dumps.
In general it works fine though.
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Hello list
So I accidentally ran amrmtape against my DailySet1 tape CDS1tape07. Is there
any way for me to "un-amrmtape" and put it back the way it was?
Thanks for any information
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Kurt Yoder said:
> Hello list
>
> I wasn't sure I understood how to set the Amanda dumpcycle, runspercycle,
> runtapes, and tapecycle correctly, so I wrote a small perl script to check my
> logic. It asks a few questions about the number of backups within a certain
>
t;assistant" script.
> Good first cut. A slightly more polished version could well be
> useful to many beginning amanda administrators.
Thanks; all feedback is appreciated. Are you referring to the above issue WRT
polish, or do you think other parts need changing as well?
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then prints the values
one should set for dumpcycle, runspercycle, runtapes, and tapecycle. Assuming
my thinking is correct, perhaps others on this list could benefit from the
script as well, so I am attaching it...
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amanda_assistant.pl
De
th it's own dir on the holding disk,
index/log/... dirs, etc.
Have You tested restore?
Is it just as easy as "amrecover GreenSet" or so ?
Does amindex work with such a config-mix ?
regards
Martin
Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2003 16:02 schrieb Kurt Yoder:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi
Amanda
> to
> work with Samba 3. I installed Amanda 2.4.4p2. It ran again last
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> britain.sh /shared01 25085110 12979245 51.7 37:29 5771.6
> 172:00 1257.7
> sumatra.sh //java/c$ 7488930 7488930--70:04 1781.5
> 22:30 5548.0
>
> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1)
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s both the "ignored" dumps and the "successful" dumps. I
would like to remove the "ignored" dumps from the amadmin records
because they are misleading.
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re the
> individual
> files?
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-_shared_212075330 8126030 67.3 40:23 3353.9
30:27 4447.4
britain.sh /shared01 25085110 12979245 51.7 37:29 5771.6
172:00 1257.7
sumatra.sh //java/c$ 7488930 7488930--70:04 1781.5
22:30 5548.0
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1)
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same name, and effectively hide the real amdump
>> program?
>
>
> http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/348.html
Are there any plans to add support for pre/post dump scripts in
future versions of amanda? It would be extremely convenient and
solve a recurring question.
possibly affect that?
> John
Perhaps a dumb question: did you add the amanda server pieces to
your inetd.conf file and then restart inetd? "Connection refused"
sounds like the amanda server ports aren't open at all.
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?
I hate to be a pain, but:
Can you give me an example of a debugging line to add and where to
add it? If I have an example to work off of, I can take it from
there. As I've mentioned to others, my C knowledge is extremely
primitive.
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anyway if you want
to do an "append to tape" setup. At least if you write out to tape
doing a "simulated append" your exposure to a "tummy ache" is
lessened.
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bit longer. However, there
would be no risk of accidentally overwriting portions of the tape.
I'm just asking in theory; I have no plans to implement anything
like this at my site.
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recompile with
some debugging output verifying that I got to certain parts of my
amlabel code?
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> is a
> new ballgame. my disklist currently contains the setup for the
> win32.
> i'll change it over and try it again.
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ing the included gui. I had to manually dump the whole backup file
to the windows machine, then use nttar to extract individual files;
very time consuming and inefficient. Plus, the win32 backups would
inexplicably fail frequently. So I just gave up on it altogether.
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da/libexec/selfcheck" denied
> Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.135 seconds, 1 problem found
This looks an awful lot like an amanda-win32-client error. Are you
sure you're actually using samba in your disklist? It should look
like
machine_with_smbclient //hccdevelop03/c$ user-tar
Gene Heskett said:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 11:01, Kurt Yoder wrote:
>>Gene Heskett said:
>>
>>
>>
>>>>So if amlable is having trouble with this line, but this line
>>>>appears syntactically correct and doesn't cause warnings for
>&
-src have caused this? Or is
>> it
>>something else?
>
> Is there a missmatch between the system end of line convention, like
> one is expecting a crlf and the other is lf only?
There shouldn't be. They're both Unix. Also, if there were a
mismatch, wouldn't amcheck complain about it?
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K:
org "Regency DailySet1"
So if amlable is having trouble with this line, but this line
appears syntactically correct and doesn't cause warnings for
amcheck, doesn't it indicate some sort of trouble with my compiled
amlabel? Could commenting out changer-src have caused this? Or is it
something else?
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nger-src
line 544: Syntax error.
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
Can I just remove all references to changer-src from the configure
script? I don't need a tape changer. Would I break amanda-server if
I tried to compile without changer-src?
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eroot dpkg-buildpackage -D -us -b -d" (extra -d).
If you have trouble making this work, email me off-list. I can send
you my pre-compiled 2.4.4p1 packages.
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OS\ 2/[a-z]*' in
photos01, and put everything else in photos". So what am I doing
wrong with my "include" syntax?
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ld I write my own functions to accomplish this? I'd prefer the
former, since I am unfortunately not very experienced with C.
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Jon LaBadie said:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:42:15AM -0500, Kurt Yoder wrote:
>>
>> Jon LaBadie said:
>> > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:37:07PM -0500, Kurt Yoder wrote:
>> >> Hello list
>> >>
>> >> I do backups of directories contain
Jon LaBadie said:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:37:07PM -0500, Kurt Yoder wrote:
>> Hello list
>>
>> I do backups of directories containing files that sometimes change
>> or disappear during backup. I don't want to add the directories or
>> files to an exclu
orted back to me, because the backup failure isn't critical.
Is there a way to construct an "ignore errors list" that is specific
to each disklist entry?
Thanks
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up set. If you don't
mind looking at hacked-together perl code, you can go look at it.
It's at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ampick/
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:48:43PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 07:46:32PM -0500, Kurt Raschke wrote:
> > ...when amdump runs, the load spikes to between 4.00 and
> > 6.00, and the system becomes nearly unresponsive for the duration of
> > the b
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 08:28:48PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> As you are using gzip, is it with the "best" or the "fast" option?
> The latter uses MANY fewer cpu cycles.
>
Well, I that was one of the things I checked, and it's running with
"fast".
-Kurt
ow this is happening, especially on a fairly fast
server (dual Athlon MP 2000).
Any suggestions? If you need to see the amanda logs or anything else
that would help, just ask.
-Kurt Raschke
I will be out of the office from Monday 9/22/03 until
Monday 10/6/03. If you need an immediate reply, please
email one of the IT staff.
for me for quite
some time. So I'd suggest it's a simple config error.
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gtar
RtrnCode=$?# with all the original args
if [ ${IsDB_DLE} = yes -a ${EstOrDmp} = dump ];
then
#: #restart database
# PROFIT$ Database Server Startup
# *MUST* not allow any output from database startup
#otherwise tar breaks
/u/profits/p
Kurt Yoder said:
> What does "taper: FATAL syncpipe_put: Broken pipe" mean? I've tried
> twice to flush a 26 GB dump image to tape, and got this message both
> times.
It was a hardware problem. Something about the motherboard and Linux
didn't get along. Switching to
Paul Bijnens said:
> Kurt Yoder wrote:
>
>> My amdump log file is quite long, so here's the part that seems
>> most
>> relevant:
> > ...
>
> It seems it is the taper writer that is somehow crashing, without
> telling anybody. Do you find a core fil
Paul Bijnens said:
> Kurt Yoder wrote:
>
>> What does "taper: FATAL syncpipe_put: Broken pipe" mean? I've
>> tried
>> twice to flush a 26 GB dump image to tape, and got this message
>> both
>> times.
>
> Any other messages in the file &quo
What does "taper: FATAL syncpipe_put: Broken pipe" mean? I've tried
twice to flush a 26 GB dump image to tape, and got this message both
times.
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solution, just because I have to install a "Linux
> emulator" on a Windows box (can you imagine yourself installing a
> Wine on your Linux just to make some administrative operations? I
> don't).
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$HEADER
shift
shift 9
Right after that, I added
echo $2 >> /tmp/transcript
echo "blah" >> /tmp/transcript
but /tmp/transcript was empty. Confusing, it should have at least
contained the line "blah" for every amverify that was done.
I will add your testing line and see what it does.
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didn't time
out as it should have?
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"gtar" \
-o X`basename $2` = X"gnutar" \
-o X`basename $2` = X"nttar" \) ]; then
CMD=$TAR
ARGS="tf -"
However, I still receive messages like "(** Cannot do nttar dumps)".
What am I doing wrong? (In fact, echoing the value of $2 to a file
right above this code fragment doesn't even work, which is confusing
me)
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Paul Bijnens said:
> Kurt Yoder wrote:
>
>> I don't think this would work. AFAIK, you can't back up the index
and log files for the current backup onto the current backup.
>> Plus,
>> there's no way to guarantee that this partition is the last one
backe
Antonios Christofides said:
> Hi,
>
> I know this has been discussed before, but I need some more ideas.
> I've recently switched from homegrown script to Amanda, and although
> backup works fine, I haven't made the recovery plan yet, I'm doing
> so
> now.
>
> Suppose the server blows-up and that
; ]; then
CMD=$TAR
ARGS="tf -"
elif [ X"$TAR" != X"" \
-a X`basename $2` = X`basename $TAR` ]; then
CMD=$TAR
ARGS="tf -"
But I don't understand it. If $1 is "tar", oes X"$1" = X"program"
compare "Xtar" to "Xprogram"? What are all these X's for?
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a spam/virus' replies that follow
> each one and are sent erroneously to the list.
>
> If I were list manager I would either unzubscribe or block posting
> from sites generating these replies.
So who *is* the list manager who would be in charge of doing this
anyway?
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Maybe. If you can, try backing up the filesystems directly instead
of via nfs and see if this makes a difference.
Ashwin Bijur said:
> But we are using hardware compression. A majority of the
> filesystem,
> however, is nfs mounted. Will that slow down the backups?
>
> Kurt Yode
$SAMBA_CLIENT" ]; then
> CMD=$TAR
> ARGS="tf -"
>
> Which on first inspection would suggest there is a limitation.
> I'll see if I can look at this closer in the future. Now I'm
> taking down my system and updating the OS.
Kewl. I didn't realize amverify is just a shell script. I'm using
2.4.2p2, and my version of amverify appears not include gtar or
gnutar. I'm adding gtar and nttar to the "accepted" list in my
amverify script. I'll see how well it works...
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Jon LaBadie said:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:33:59PM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote:
>> Thanks for instrucs; I'll try them out.
>>
>> Jon LaBadie said:
>> > On my system, amanda installs under /usr/local and puts
>> > some executables in "libexec"
Whoever is admin'ing the amanda-users list: is it possible for you
to prevent posts from non-subscribers? Or if this is already the
case, please cancel the subscriptions of the people sending all the
spam to this list...
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> fraction of the available bandwidth. How do I force it to run at
> 100%
> capacity? Here are the statistics from my last backup and below you
> can
> see my amanda.conf file. Thanks in advance.
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guntar=/usr/local/libexec/amgtar".
Do you do amverify also? Does it complain about "amgtar" and refuse
to verify it?
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:
> Maybe I am missing something, but can't you run a script from cron
> that does something like :
>
> pre_backup.sh &&
> amdump DailySet1 &&
> post_backup.sh
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:46:29PM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote:
>> So, what
bash?
> A basic bash script can start a remote shell out to the client and
> shut
> down your db, then run amdump and then remote shell back out and
> start
> the db.
> With a little more info maybe I can help...
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Kurt Yoder
this point. If anyone has an example of how
they've done this, please post or let me know.
Thanks
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this point. If anyone has an example of how
they've done this, please post or let me know.
Thanks
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So it looks like this has something to do with me compiling this on
SCO. I've asked my local "knowledgeable SCO guy" and he gave me an
explanation that I don't understand but perhaps one of the coders
would. Should I direct this thread to amanda-hackers instead?
Kur
up
and then view /etc/passwd. The user backup is definitely in it. Any
ideas for what's causing this?
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r anyone who has SCO, why in GOD'S NAME
do they do this symlink BS for everything? It is horrible!). Is this
the only problem that's stopping me here, or is there anything else
that needs fixing?
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Kurt Yoder said:
> Hello folks
>
> I've only got one tape drive with no robot, so if I have more than
> one tape, I change it manually. Thus, I've set up a "manual changer"
> configuration; part of that is setting "runtapes 2". So far, so
> good.
oring files from
your on-line backups is then as simple as using "scp", "ftp", or
whatever you want.
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138: asking killpgrp to terminate
sendsize[7578]: time 1.149: done with amname '/', dirname '/',
spindle -1
Notice line 6 "Usage: " message. Perhaps dump is not acting the way
amanda expects? Is this my problem? I had trouble getting gnu tar to
compile, but maybe
Weird errors here. The root user is definitely in the passwd file.
Could this be part of the problem?
Thanks for any ideas on fixing this...
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ly in the passwd file.
Could this be part of the problem?
Thanks for any ideas on fixing this...
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oughts on this topic, maybe some of you
> have already done stuff like specific kernel-compilations to satisfy
> Amanda´s needs.
>
> I´m looking forward to your answers.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Stefan.
>
>
>
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they don't have
any trouble; their dump type is identical to this disk. I don't have
this trouble on any of my other hosts. Is this something dumb I've
overlooked?
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Steven J. Backus said:
> "Kurt Yoder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> No. See FAQ:
>>
>> http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/32.html
>
> How about an amflush? Say you have more than one tape worth in
the holding disk?
AFAIK it will hit
Steven J. Backus said:
> "Kurt Yoder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> No. See FAQ:
>>
>> http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/32.html
>
> How about an amflush? Say you have more than one tape worth in the
> holding disk?
AFAIK it will
(cc'ing list)
Paul Bijnens said:
> Kurt Yoder wrote:
>
>> Hello list
>> I recently switched amanda servers, and copied a manual chg-multi
>
> What is a "manual chg-multi"? I use a "chg-multi" in my config,
and I have used a "chg-manual"
nda split backup across two tapes? Or should I just
> get
> a SDLT tape drive (160GB)?
No. See FAQ:
http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/32.html
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problem simply by gzipping a big file to
my ATA/IDE holding disk. So I'm certain it's not a scsi problem.
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r bs=32k".
This will grab the amanda tape header and put it in the file
test_header. In this file you will then see the date of the dump on
this tape.
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gt; tapelist shows one (1) entry for backup.005.
>
> How can I find out which of these is really in the current backup
> cycle?
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created a 20 GB tar file, gzipped and gunzipped it, and had no
errors. The only link between all these boxes with gzip problems is
that the Debian amanda-server package was installed.
Anyone else noticed this problem? And fixed it?
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definitely accessible. "mt status" returns
normal information, and normal, non-chg-multi backups work fine.
/dev/tape is symlinked to /dev/nst0, and chg-multi script is
theoretically referencing /dev/nst0 anyway.
Why is it doing this, and how do I fix it?
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then rewinds and
*re-verifies the same tape*. According to amverify man page, this is
because I've set runtapes to 2. I would like to set runtapes to 2 so
I can manually change tapes, but not have amverify check the same
tape twice. Is this possible?
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ip, tar, and so on,
> way
> messy compared to amrecover (or amrestore) but its possible. That's
> one
> of the plus's to amanda.
>
> Kurt Yoder wrote:
>>
>> Assuming you're running Linux, all you need is some form of Linux
>> rescue disk. I've got
e drive hardware compression
/bin/mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 0
This file resides in /etc/rc.boot and is mode -rwxr-xr-x (755).
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;> restore.
>
> True. But one can work around that by backing up / uncompressed,
> and making sure it contains a (possibly statically linked) copy
> of gzip. Hmmm, something to add to my to-do list :-(
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The only drawback to software compression that I can see is the
greater amount of cpu power consumed. For me, this is not really a
problem, since my backups all happen in the wee hours when no-one is
on my systems anyway.
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comp-root
> 192.168.123.150 sda4 comp-user
>
> ###
> ###
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> mds
> mds resource
> 877.596.8237
> -
> Dare to fix things before they break . . .
> -
> Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how
much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't
know . . . --
>
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To all correspondents:
Any E-mail addressed to either Kurt Lovelace or Melinda Reyna-Lovelace must
now use the following address until further notice:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
as we are moving tomorrow and our current accounts may be cut-off. Our new
phone number and snail-mail address is as
from changer' error?
Thanks everybody.
Kurt
bash-2.05$ mtx --versionmtx version
1.2.17rel
Usage: mtx --version mtx [ -f
] noattach mtx [ -f
] inquiry | inventory mtx [ -f
] [nobarcode] status mtx [ -f ] first
[] mtx [ -f ] last
[] mtx [ -f ] next
[] mtx [ -f
Aloha,
Does anybody know what version of mtx understand
cmd line args of '-s' as opposed to 'status'?
Or alternatively - anybody know why the amanda
chg-zd-mtx script won't cooperate with the
version of mtx (and amanda) that came with my linux
7.2 system?
Mahalo (thanks)
Kurt Olsen
amanda working but the changer stuff is still fighting me (mtx works but
can't integrate into changer scripts yet) - Although amamda is working I'm
having difficulty understanding exactly what it did (planning wise) and why!
Thanks Everybody,
Kurt Olsen
Profitability of Hawaii
- Or
I have a 6-tape HP C1559A DDS3 autoloader, and run amanda each weekday -
so a
tapecycle of 6, right? Now, both of the mtx interface scripts want to
know which slot has a cleaning tape - but there isn't a slot left in
my autoloader. Can I disable this function somehow? Any suggestions?
-Kurt
t is down for these tests)
Any pointers or ideas would be appreciated.
thanks
Kurt L Vanderwater
President,
Meridian Data Systems, Inc.
Phone: (405) 755-6690
Fax: (405) 415-0676
s access to the raw disk devices in /dev,
>dump(8) works. For tar, amanda uses the setuid root 'runtar' wrapper.
yea... doing the tar thing here mostly... so there is a setuid for tar and all will be
backed up... great.
>
>--
>Joshua Baker-LePain
>Department of Biomedical Engineering
>Duke University
Thanks Joshua for the extra set of eyes. got to go back and play in the street some
more.
Kurt L Vanderwater
President,
Meridian Data Systems, Inc.
Phone: (405) 755-6690
Fax: (405) 415-0676
t to be missing something
any ideas
...
which begs the question how does user amanda(33) as a member of disk(6)
backup files and directories with xx0 masks
...
Thanks
Kurt L Vanderwater
President,
Meridian Data Systems, Inc.
Phone: (405) 755-6690
Fax: (405) 415-0676
e remote client.
Once I updated .amandahosts with the machine name and "root"
I got into the amrestore interface just fine.
currently restoring a subdirectory as a test of the system.
thanks again for all your help.
Kurt L Vanderwater
President,
Meridian Data Systems, Inc.
Phone: (405
ugh... latest I could find on ftp site
>>ended in 1999.
>
>Look toward the bottom of the Amanda web page (www.amanda.org). It refers
>you to the searchable E*groups (Yahoo) mailing list archive.
>
I'll look there... thanks
>>Kurt L Vanderwater
>
>John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t is down for these tests)
Any pointers or ideas would be appreciated.
thanks
Kurt L Vanderwater
President,
Meridian Data Systems, Inc.
Phone: (405) 755-6690
Fax: (405) 415-0676
Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I have an HP24DAT SCSI over Linux RH 7.1. I want to backup the weekdays
> only, using 5+1 tapes.
>
> I've this in the amanda.conf:
>
> dumpcycle 7
> runspercycle 5
> tapecycle 6
>
> The tapes are labeled:
>
> Daily-000 (monday)
> Daily-001
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