Re: disk offline error

2004-06-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:14:16PM -0700, gen2 wrote: /dev/sda9 is NOT a mount point, its a descriptor only and will probably fail forever. now, if that disk is mounted someplace, as in /mnt/sda9 on the machine whose alias is node1, and it is mounted when amdump runs, it should work

Re: *OS X* disk offline error

2004-06-01 Thread gen2
the disk ... offline error when trying to backup any files on mounted volumes (non-root drives). osx1 /Users standard Works fine osx1 /Volumes/hfs-mounted-part standard Gives the disk offline error (the hfs-mounted-part is a mounted/functioning hfs or hfs+ partition from an attached drive

Re: disk offline error

2004-06-01 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:26:57AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: If [...] you tell amanda to use a version of dump, those programs generally work at the device level (even when told to work on a mount point) and should be able to backup umounted partitions. To add a bit more detail, dump does this

disk offline error

2004-05-31 Thread gen2
Hi all, I have a very functional amanda 2.4.3 LAN backup system that I'm having one problem with: I can't seem to back up any partitions, only directories and files. If I use disklist specs like this node1 /home standard I get a proper backup, but if I use node1 /dev/sda9 standard I get an

Re: disk offline error

2004-05-31 Thread gen2
/dev/sda9 is NOT a mount point, its a descriptor only and will probably fail forever. now, if that disk is mounted someplace, as in /mnt/sda9 on the machine whose alias is node1, and it is mounted when amdump runs, it should work like a champ. Ok, what I'm experiencing lends that a lot of

New prob: Disk Offline? error

2003-09-02 Thread Scott Phelps
OK, I am running my first dump. amcheck returns 0 errors now, but heres a new problem I need help with. Can anybody tell me why I am getting these errors? The only clue I have is that /boot was not mounted. Thanks Again!! snip planner: time 5.802: got result for host client01 disk /samba:

AMANDA Disk Offline Error

2003-08-14 Thread Hari Om
I am using Red Hat Linux on Power PC. I wanted to BACKUP my SYSTEM IMAGE with AMANDA (version 2.4.2p2) and got following error message wonder why! FAIL planner my_host_name hdk1 0 [disk hdk1 offline on my_local_host?] Any hints/tips or related information is appreciated! Thanks!

disk offline error

2003-08-12 Thread Hari Om
I am using Red Hat Linux on Power PC. I wanted to BACKUP my SYSTEM IMAGE with AMANDA (version 2.4.2p2) and got following error message wonder why! FAIL planner my_host_name hdk1 0 [disk hdk1 offline on my_local_host?] Any hints/tips or related information is appreciated! Thanks!

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-29 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:57:31AM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote: Looking more closely in /tmp/amanda/sendsize...debug, I see something strange: [...] sendsize[7578]: time 0.137: Usage: dump [-?CDVcgl -L[v] -a[v] -f[v] -h[dnv] -o[v] -r[dnv] -s[dnv] -t[nv] -T index1[, index2]] file(s) On Solaris 7:

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-29 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:37:43PM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote: sendsize[505]: time 0.054: error [cannot find user backup in passwd file] This message is a bit misleading. It really means: `getpwnam(backup) was unsuccessful'. Perhaps getpwnam() searched /etc/passwd, but perhaps it tried to use NIS

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-28 Thread Kurt Yoder
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? Kurt Yoder said: More information

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-25 Thread Kurt Yoder
So I'm still getting the disk offline error, and seeing this in my /tmp/amanda/sendsize...debug: sendsize: debug 1 pid 502 ruid 19 euid 19: start at Fri Jul 25 14:24:16 2003 sendsize: version 2.4.4 sendsize[502]: time 0.026

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-24 Thread Kurt Yoder
that to go, it might be your better option. OK, I got gnu tar 1.13 compiled and working. However, I still get the disk offline error. Now in /tmp/amanda/sendsize... I see this which doesn't look good either: sendsize: debug 1 pid 15490 ruid 19 euid 19: start at Thu Jul 24 00:30:05 2003 sendsize

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 at 10:26am, Kurt Yoder wrote tar is nice for being so cross platform. If you can get that to go, it might be your better option. OK, I got gnu tar 1.13 compiled and working. However, I still get the disk offline error. Now in /tmp/amanda/sendsize... I see

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:26:30AM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote: Again I see cannot find user backup in passwd file. In looking at /etc, I noticed the passwd file is actually a symlink to a passwd file in another directory (For anyone who has SCO, why in GOD'S NAME do they do this symlink BS for

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
is nice for being so cross platform. If you can get that to go, it might be your better option. OK, I got gnu tar 1.13 compiled and working. I certainly hope that version above is a typo. 1.13 is broken, you need 1.13-25, getting it from alpha.gnu.org. However, I still get the disk offline error

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-23 Thread Kurt Yoder
More information about this problem: Looking more closely in /tmp/amanda/sendsize...debug, I see something strange: sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: calculating for amname '/', dirname '/', spindle -1 sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: getting size via dump for / level 0 sendsize[7578]: time 0.020:

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-23 Thread Marc Mengel
Kurt Yoder wrote: 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... Maybe a silly question, but, can your amanda backup user read the passwd file on that system? Marc

Re: strange disk offline error

2003-07-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 at 10:57am, Kurt Yoder wrote sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: calculating for amname '/', dirname '/', spindle -1 sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: getting size via dump for / level 0 sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: calculating for device '/' with '' sendsize[7578]: time 0.022: running

strange disk offline error

2003-07-22 Thread Kurt Yoder
(That previous message should have had this subject; sorry, mail client troubles) Hello list I just compiled amanda on a SCO Unix machine (uname -a shows SCO_SV shcorp 3.2 5.0.6 i386) and tried to follow instructions to install it, instructing amanda to back up both of its disks. Everything

DIsk offline error with LVM snapshot volumes

2002-09-28 Thread Patrick Frey
Hello, I have several logical volumes which I want to backup with AMANDA. To make a proper backup, I create snapshot volumes before I start the backup. Now, trying to backup these snapshot volumes, AMANDA reports 'disk offline'. If I try to backup the nomal volumes, everything works fine I

Please help: disk offline? error for HP-UX 11.0...

2002-08-26 Thread Oleg Svintsitski
Please help me out, folks -- tried a bunch of things, I really do not know how to proceed.. Can not get amanda (2.4.2p2) to work for HP C160 running UX11.0 Amcheck runs through fine. But then dump gives me zip /zi2 lev 0 FAILED [disk /zi2 offline on zip?] Dumps are not that big - under 10GB,

Re: disk offline error

2002-05-20 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! Recently had a drive fail on a RAID I am backing up. Since replacing the drive and re-building the RAID, amanda has been failing on all of the partitions on this computer. The error I see in the amanda report is the following: hostname /dev/da0s1f lev 0 FAILED [disk

disk offline error

2002-05-17 Thread eje
Hi... Running the version of amanda-client from the freebsd ports collection on freebsd-stable i386. Recently had a drive fail on a RAID I am backing up. Since replacing the drive and re-building the RAID, amanda has been failing on all of the partitions on this computer. The error I see