RE: Wait for dumping

2005-09-21 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Wait for dumping Resend, with unforgivable typos corrected. -Original Message- From: John R. Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 9/21/2005 10:35 PM To: Lengyel, Florian Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Wait for dumping >mt -f /dev/nst0 compression

RE: Wait for dumping

2005-09-21 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Wait for dumping -Original Message- From: John R. Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 9/21/2005 10:35 PM To: Lengyel, Florian Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Wait for dumping >mt -f /dev/nst0 compression off > >[by the way, the argument

Re: Wait for dumping

2005-09-21 Thread John R. Jackson
>mt -f /dev/nst0 compression off > >[by the way, the argument "off" is worth a small fortune in >consulting fees, since it has to be guessed] Yeah, I've been down that path, too. In my case, I wanted to turn compression *on* and absolutely nothing I tried worked. And you're absolutely right that

Amanda RPMS (was Re: Wait for dumping)

2005-09-18 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 06:25:49PM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: > But, if using Centos, are you using their often outdated amanda rpms, > or building amanda from scratch, which is what the huge majority of us > recommend. Other than using the FILE driver now instead of the TAPE > driver, I'

Re: Wait for dumping

2005-09-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:27, Florian Lengyel wrote: >Jon LaBadie wrote: >>On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:25:48PM -0400, Florian Lengyel wrote: >>>Here's the post-mortem: I've been using a hand-me-dowm >>>Spectra Logic 2K. No matter what tape I tried in drive 0 >>>(the only one of two that my AMAN

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: Wait for dumping

2005-09-18 Thread Florian Lengyel
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:25:48PM -0400, Florian Lengyel wrote: Here's the post-mortem: I've been using a hand-me-dowm Spectra Logic 2K. No matter what tape I tried in drive 0 (the only one of two that my AMANDA configuration seems to recognize) I had I/O errors. Even an

Re: Wait for dumping

2005-09-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 September 2005 02:03, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:25:48PM -0400, Florian Lengyel wrote: >> Here's the post-mortem: I've been using a hand-me-dowm >> Spectra Logic 2K. No matter what tape I tried in drive 0 >> (the only one of two that my AMANDA configuration seems >>

Re: Wait for dumping

2005-09-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:25:48PM -0400, Florian Lengyel wrote: > Here's the post-mortem: I've been using a hand-me-dowm > Spectra Logic 2K. No matter what tape I tried in drive 0 > (the only one of two that my AMANDA configuration seems > to recognize) I had I/O errors. Even an innocuous command

Re: Wait for dumping

2005-09-17 Thread Florian Lengyel
Here's the post-mortem: I've been using a hand-me-dowm Spectra Logic 2K. No matter what tape I tried in drive 0 (the only one of two that my AMANDA configuration seems to recognize) I had I/O errors. Even an innocuous command such as mt -f /dev/nst0 compression off [by the way, the argument "off

RE: Wait for dumping

2005-09-16 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Wait for dumping Well, in that case, I'll check slot 11... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jon LaBadie Sent: Fri 9/16/2005 1:55 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Wait for dumping On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:09:16AM -0400, Le

Re: Wait for dumping

2005-09-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:09:16AM -0400, Lengyel, Florian wrote: > > What does amcheck say about the tape it expects to use? > > It says the following: > ... > amcheck-server: slot 11: tape_rdlabel: tape open: > /dev/nst0: Input/output error > > amcheck-server: fatal slot 11: > Unl

RE: Wait for dumping

2005-09-15 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, September 16, 2005 01:09:16 -0400 "Lengyel, Florian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jon LaBadie > Sent: Fri 9/16/2005 12:34 AM > To: amanda-users@amanda.org > Subject: Re: Wait for dumping

RE: Wait for dumping

2005-09-15 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Wait for dumping -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jon LaBadie Sent: Fri 9/16/2005 12:34 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Wait for dumping On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:51:31PM -0400, Lengyel, Florian wrote: > A check of the log shows t

Re: Wait for dumping

2005-09-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:51:31PM -0400, Lengyel, Florian wrote: > A check of the log shows that the taper is complaining that a new tape > isn't in the rack! But there are plenty of tapes (30)... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daily]$ more log.20050915.4 > START driver date 20050915 > DISK planner cml10

RE: Wait for dumping

2005-09-15 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Wait for dumping A check of the log shows that the taper is complaining that a new tape isn't in the rack! But there are plenty of tapes (30)... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daily]$ more log.20050915.4 START driver date 20050915 DISK planner cml10 /home/moodle DISK planner m254.gc.cun

Re: "Wait for dumping" question

2005-05-25 Thread Toomas Aas
Ryan Pagquil wrote: I've got some improvements, i tried to compile amanda again and specify more range for tcpportrange and udpportrange. The reason why my dumping got those errors is that, my firewalls didn't allow the other ports that amanda uses when dumping since i got so many hosts to bac

Re: "Wait for dumping" question

2005-05-24 Thread Ryan Pagquil
Toomas Aas wrote: Ryan Pagquil wrote: another question, why does amstatus reports that some dumps are not successful and giving this reasons: 0 driver: (aborted:could not connect to data port: Connection timed out)(too many dumper retry) 1 driver: (aborted:[request timeout])(too ma

Re: "Wait for dumping" question

2005-05-24 Thread Toomas Aas
Ryan Pagquil wrote: another question, why does amstatus reports that some dumps are not successful and giving this reasons: 0 driver: (aborted:could not connect to data port: Connection timed out)(too many dumper retry) 1 driver: (aborted:[request timeout])(too many dumper retry) bu

Re: "Wait for dumping" question

2005-05-24 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:13:13PM +0800, Ryan Pagquil wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:23:21PM +0800, Ryan Pagquil wrote: > >>Guys, > >> Who will be the responsible for the dump when the amanda said that > >>the host's status is "wait for dumping"? > >If I understand cor

Re: "Wait for dumping" question

2005-05-24 Thread Ryan Pagquil
Ryan Pagquil wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:23:21PM +0800, Ryan Pagquil wrote: Guys, Who will be the responsible for the dump when the amanda said that the host's status is "wait for dumping"? If I understand correctly, you started a dump and while it was r

Re: "Wait for dumping" question

2005-05-24 Thread Ryan Pagquil
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:23:21PM +0800, Ryan Pagquil wrote: Guys, Who will be the responsible for the dump when the amanda said that the host's status is "wait for dumping"? If I understand correctly, you started a dump and while it was running you ran amstat

Re: "Wait for dumping" question

2005-05-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:23:21PM +0800, Ryan Pagquil wrote: > Guys, >Who will be the responsible for the dump when the amanda said that > the host's status is "wait for dumping"? > If I understand correctly, you started a dump and while it was running you ran amstatus. The report from ams