RE: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-25 Thread Harry Mbang
: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:15 PM To: Harry Mbang; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need A sample Tapelist file On Tuesday 24 June 2003 17:27, Harry Mbang wrote: >Hi, > I am still trying to get my first successful Amanda backup. > Now when I run amcheck, I get an error > >"cannot r

Re: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-25 Thread Paul Bijnens
Harry Mbang wrote: 1)Can not open exclude file /usr/local/lib/Amanda/exclude/gtar ... So you have a dumptype that says there is an exclude file there. Alternative solutions: - remove the directive that you have your exclude file - add the directive "optional" to the exclude statement so that a

RE: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-25 Thread Harry Mbang
- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:15 PM To: Harry Mbang; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need A sample Tapelist file On Tuesday 24 June 2003 17:27, Harry Mbang wrote: >Hi, > I am still trying to get my first successful Amanda backup. > N

RE: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-25 Thread Ean Kingston
> -Original Message- > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tuesday 24 June 2003 17:27, Harry Mbang wrote: > >Hi, > > I am still trying to get my first successful Amanda backup. > > Now when I run amcheck, I get an error > > > >"cannot read/write /usr/local/var/Amanda/gnut

Re: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 17:27, Harry Mbang wrote: >Hi, > I am still trying to get my first successful Amanda backup. > Now when I run amcheck, I get an error > >"cannot read/write /usr/local/var/Amanda/gnutar-lists: No such file > or directory" > >Indeed there is no such file or directory. My

Re: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:27:45PM -0400, Harry Mbang wrote: > > Hi, > I am still trying to get my first successful Amanda backup. Now > when I run amcheck, I get an error > > "cannot read/write /usr/local/var/Amanda/gnutar-lists: No such file or > directory" > > Indeed there is no such f

Re: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Brown
> "cannot read/write /usr/local/var/Amanda/gnutar-lists: No such file or > directory" > > Indeed there is no such file or directory. My gnutar-lists is located > in /var/lib/Amanda. What shall I do? I am also guessing that Amanda is > going to want read/write other files and folders in the non-e

RE: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-24 Thread Harry Mbang
Hi, I am still trying to get my first successful Amanda backup. Now when I run amcheck, I get an error "cannot read/write /usr/local/var/Amanda/gnutar-lists: No such file or directory" Indeed there is no such file or directory. My gnutar-lists is located in /var/lib/Amanda. What shall I

RE: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-13 Thread Eric Sproul
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:12, Harry Mbang wrote: > Hi Joshua, > > amlabel gave an [input/output error] tapelist not found. Sorry cannot > give you the exact message because at this time the tape drive is > disconnected from the linux box. However, I have the log for when I > last ran amdump and it

RE: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 at 1:45pm, Harry Mbang wrote > the tapelist. SO I was able to label the tape but I amdump did not > work. Please find below the Amanda.conf, disklist and log file. If Start with docs/INSTALL, FAQ-O-Matic (linked to on www.amanda.org), and the list archives. You want to be

RE: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-13 Thread Harry Mbang
bps } # You may include other amanda configuration files, so you can share # dumptypes, tapetypes and interface definitions among several # configurations. #includefile "/usr/local/amanda.conf.main" ************ Disklist: #[I delete

Re: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
should be able to write into the file and the directory containing that file (~amanda/TheConfig/tapelist probably). Harry. -Original Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:44 AM To: Harry Mbang Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need A sampl

RE: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-13 Thread Harry Mbang
ginal Message- From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:44 AM To: Harry Mbang Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need A sample Tapelist file Harry Mbang wrote: > > Could someone please send me an example of a tapelist file or point > me to wh

Re: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:28:44AM -0400, Bort, Paul wrote: > tapelist starts as an empty file. `touch tapelist` will get you ready for > amlabel. > Minor addendum, Don't even allow blank lines in the file when you create it. I.e., do not create it with an editor. An ls -l should show it as zero

RE: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-13 Thread Harry Mbang
on as I get the tape drive back in the next few hours I get the exact error message. Thanks a lot. Harry. -Original Message- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:28 AM To: Harry Mbang Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need A sample Tapelist

RE: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-13 Thread Bort, Paul
tapelist starts as an empty file. `touch tapelist` will get you ready for amlabel. -Original Message-From: Harry Mbang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:25 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Need A sample Tapelist file Hi,     Could someone

Re: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-13 Thread Paul Bijnens
Harry Mbang wrote: Could someone please send me an example of a tapelist file or point me to where I can find such. I have installed Amanda several times on a Pentium 4 (HP VL 420) running Suse 8.1 Professional, but each time the tapelist (what I understand to be one of the three main confi

Re: Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 at 11:25am, Harry Mbang wrote > Could someone please send me an example of a tapelist file or point > me to where I can find such. I have installed Amanda several times on a > Pentium 4 (HP VL 420) running Suse 8.1 Professional, but each time the > tapelist (what I underst

Need A sample Tapelist file

2003-06-13 Thread Harry Mbang
Hi,     Could someone please send me an example of a tapelist file or point me to where I can find such.  I have installed Amanda several times on a Pentium 4 (HP VL 420) running Suse 8.1 Professional, but each time the tapelist (what I understand to be one of the three main configuration