Re: 2 tape strategy

2002-06-10 Thread Frank Smith
w that just getting more tapes would be the ideal solution, > but that is not economically possible in the short term. I'll > appreciate comments on how to make amanda run as tapewise as it can, > given my shortage of tape media. > > -- > >| F e r n a n A g u e r o

Re: New User, config issues

2002-06-10 Thread Frank Smith
rive at your initial tape length, you may need to adjust it downward as needed if your backup runs hit EOT (taper will tell you how many bytes it wrote). Good luck, Frank > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > Mike -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: NFS mount

2002-06-13 Thread Frank Smith
#x27;t descend into another filesystem using the options Amanda calls it with. Good luck, Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: GNU tar and SAMBA backups

2002-06-14 Thread Frank Smith
t accept responsibility for any virus transmitted by us > and recommend that you subject any incoming Email to your own virus > checking procedures. > > Wolfson Microelectronics Limited is a company > incorporated in Scotland having its Registered Office at > 20 Bernard Terrace,

RE: GNU tar and SAMBA backups

2002-06-14 Thread Frank Smith
MacPherson > IT Manager > DDI: +44 131 272 7091 > > -Original Message- > From: Frank Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 14 June 2002 16:48 > To: Kenny MacPherson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: GNU tar and SAMBA backups > > Does /usr/local/bin/tar exist (and is i

RE: Suggestions Please -- help!

2002-06-20 Thread Frank Smith
xclude.gtar > amandad.20020619210502.debug:/home/proj/bia-9584 0 SIZE 16919390 > amandad.20020619210502.debug:/home/proj/bia-9584 1 SIZE 16919390 > amandad.20020619210502.debug:/home/proj/bia-9584 2 SIZE 16919390 > amandad.20020619232309.debug:GNUTAR /home/proj/bia-9584

Re: GNU Tar for SunOS 4.1.3 Amanda client

2002-06-21 Thread Frank Smith
> > Jonathan > > -- > / Jonathan R. Johnson | "Every word of God is flawless." \ > |Minnetonka Software, Inc.| -- Proverbs 30:5 | > \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | My own words only speak for me. / -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Warning - old messages being resent to list

2002-06-22 Thread Frank Smith
Before replying to a message, check the sent date. A batch of old messages is being re-injected into the list. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems AdministratorVoice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's O

Re: amanda overwrites level0 without warning

2002-06-23 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, April 11, 2002 03:37:15 +0200 Frederic Saincy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The planner logic might not be set >> up to handle this extreme case. > > I don't know very well aman

Re: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-06-23 Thread Frank Smith
amanda). So it seems OK, if localhost amanda is set (isn't it?). > > I'm a bit irritated if the the server-client works properly, when it's is on one >computer. Can you help? > > Thanks. > AxxL -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: problems with GNUtar and --sparse

2002-06-23 Thread Frank Smith
gt; to have an understanding of what it is doing first. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Luke >> > >> > >> > * >> > * Luke Miller Unix System Administrator * >> > * Integra Telecom

Re: FileTooLargeError-2.4.2p2

2002-06-23 Thread Frank Smith
listed-incremental to > /usr/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/buddies_usr_0.new > sendbackup-gnutar: doing level 0 dump from date: 1970-01-01 0:00:00 GMT > sendbackup: spawning /usr/lib/amanda/runtar in pipeline > sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory /usr > --one-file-syst

Re: Amanda crontab error

2002-06-26 Thread Frank Smith
ine, finds the tape and > OKs the job. > > Help? > > Robert Renzetti > Computer Systems Manager > Geology & Geophysics > Texas A&M University > (979) 845-1366 -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Unable to connect to host

2002-07-02 Thread Frank Smith
xinetd.d/amanda > > service amanda > { > socket_type = dgram > wait = yes > protocol = udp > user = amanda > groups = yes > server = /usr/amanda/backup/libexec/amandad > disable = no > } > > > Any suggestions would be greatly

Re: quick question?

2002-07-17 Thread Frank Smith
ump of 3 of the > "directories" ahead 5 days "Full dump of filezzz:/home promoted from 5 days ahead", >or am i reading that wrong > > all i all i am quite happy with amanda and i look forward to implementing it here at >work i

Re: Times from amreport

2002-07-21 Thread Frank Smith
--On Sunday, July 21, 2002 12:30:05 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 12:28:52PM +0200, Ulrik Sandberg wrote: >> On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Frank Smith wrote: >> >> >For example, cron started one config at 9:30PM, sent the rep

Re: Times from amreport

2002-07-21 Thread Frank Smith
--On Sunday, July 21, 2002 12:28:52 +0200 Ulrik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Frank Smith wrote: > >>For example, cron started one config at 9:30PM, sent the report >> email at 11:23PM, and reported the following: >> >> Es

Re: Multiple configs

2002-07-21 Thread Frank Smith
ith different names and portranges. Good luck, Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: FW: tape labels

2002-07-22 Thread Frank Smith
"`@("`@("`@*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*@T**BHJ*BHJ*BH@($%L97)T(&=E > M;F5R871E9"!A=#H@36]N9&%Y+"!*=6QY(#(R+"`R,#`R(#$R.C0P.C4W(%!- > M($-E;G1R86P@1&%Y;&EG:'0@5&EM90T**BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ > M*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ

Re: amcheck

2002-07-23 Thread Frank Smith
rry about? > > Jane. Those will get created when Amanda backs up Dataserv the first time. Nothing to worry about when you add a new disklist entry, but you should be worried if it pops up on something thats already being backed up. Frank -- Frank Smith

Re: amcheck - Host Down

2002-07-23 Thread Frank Smith
City University > Northampton Square > London EC1V 0HB > Tel. 0207 040 8779 > Fax. 0207 477 8911 > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Permissions, configuration, and errors, oh my!

2002-07-23 Thread Frank Smith
goes through the rest of your tapecycle. While you are testing just do an 'amrmtape tub qbn-backup01' and then you can re-use it. Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Is this OK? "Ignoring cruft file"

2002-08-15 Thread Frank Smith
ssen/raid/xic_local 1 360980 338464 93.8 N/A >N/A3:021859.8 > jansen_en_janssen/root1 750 96 12.8 N/A >N/A0:09 10.9 > jansen_en_janssen/sbin1 20 64 320.0 N/A >N/A

Re: Is this OK? "Ignoring cruft file"

2002-08-15 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:45:52 -0400 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 15 August 2002 11:01, Frank Smith wrote: >> --On Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:47:24 +0200 Edwin Hakkennes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>&g

Re: Labels and Barcodes

2002-08-15 Thread Frank Smith
; is the header record that is the first record on the tape. 'barcode' is the paper barcode on the outside of the tape. Some changer scripts can associate the two if you have a barcode reader in your library, some can't. Frank -- Frank Smith

Re: Labels and Barcodes

2002-08-16 Thread Frank Smith
from places like colorflex or print your own. Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: amrecover - can't talk to tape server

2002-08-16 Thread Frank Smith
irectory /home/jg/recover-tmp > Continue? [Y/n]: y > > Load tape E04 now > Continue? [Y/n]: y > cannot connect to 192.168.100.1: Connection refused > amrecover - can't talk to tape server > > > > -- > Jay -- Frank Smith

Re: file system sizes

2002-08-16 Thread Frank Smith
hat maybe Amanda might have this info stored away in some > secret file somewhere, or I can use some deft command-line switches to > "audit" all my file systems. > > Any ideas? > > wab. -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: amrecover unable to connect to remote client

2002-08-17 Thread Frank Smith
ll as amanda in /etc/xinetd.d in the clients xinetd.d > directory ? (thus using RH, you have to install amanda-server rpm as > well) > > as I have specified in both .amandahosts that root can connect (just in > case) > > cheers > > Mark > > -- > --- > To st

Re: Diagnosing an elusive fault on a critical system [long]

2002-08-19 Thread Frank Smith
4896 1 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] > via686a 8548 0 (unused) > eeprom 3040 0 (unused) > i2c-proc6368 0 [via686a eeprom] > i2c-isa 1156 0 (unused) > i2c-viapro 3848

Re: Diagnosing an elusive fault on a critical system [long]

2002-08-19 Thread Frank Smith
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Frank (et al.), > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:16:22 -0500, Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I doubt it is an Amanda problem (you might want to also try the > > linux-managers mailing list <http://www.lin

Re: amandahostsauth failing -- why?

2002-08-20 Thread Frank Smith
the archives since yahoo stripped most of the error thinking it was an email address). Look for the error message that says [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]] amandahostsauth failed and make sure that whatever is after the '@' is the first field and the name

Re: mt rewind strangness

2002-08-27 Thread Frank Smith
t; > Just musing. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- Frank Smith

Re: Ongoing issues

2002-08-27 Thread Frank Smith
ing 'backupuser@host' instead of '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and failing. To amanda, 'host' is not the same as 'host.fq.dn'. Is it in backupuser's home directory? Not likely to be wrong, but if you have a multi-

Re: Backing the backup server

2002-08-27 Thread Frank Smith
on: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE9P+Y5awsElDuSDs0RAgxoAJ40NBfXWSP5dwsRK6AWZRXP6fNm+wCgpWf4 > MwLEwsq3TDVGR8ntq3+w65k= > =qTeY > -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Frank Smith[EMAIL

Re: Testing tapes

2002-09-01 Thread Frank Smith
g. I guess its possible to have a bad spot on the tape past the normal size of your backups that would get hit only when the backup was larger than normal and make it seem intermittent. Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Trivial question - No Flames please

2002-09-01 Thread Frank Smith
(nothing above 500 MB > a day) > > Thanks! > > Ross -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Amanda-2.4.3b4 and tar exclude lists working?

2002-09-03 Thread Frank Smith
y defined in your dumptype? Are you using tar? Is the exclude list file in the top level of the directory you're trying to back up and is it in the correct format? Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator

Re: Amanda-2.4.3b4 and tar exclude lists working?

2002-09-03 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, September 03, 2002 11:41:29 -0400 Jean-Francois Malouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Frank Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020903 11:18] thus spake: >> --On Tuesday, September 03, 2002 10:10:18 -0400 Jean-Francois Malouin ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>

Re: 2.4.3b4 gnutar exclude troubles

2002-09-03 Thread Frank Smith
0020903112939.exclude e a copy of > amanda.exclude? or a `cat /path/to/amanda.exclude` > > Or am I the only one having a problem with the GNUTAR exclude files? > -- > Ben Lutgens| > http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ > System Administrator | http://ww

Re: statistics

2002-09-04 Thread Frank Smith
rs to dump 54GB or 24GB compressed. I have a > quantum DLT8000-40 which is rated > at 6MB/s or 12MB/s compressed. 11hrs seems a long time even considering > gzip as the software compression. > Is there something I am missing here? > > -greg > >

Re: confused by nightly dump report

2002-09-05 Thread Frank Smith
53.80:53 1440.6 > newton/usr3 119711 8032 40.71:13 110.10:06 1280.6 > newton/usr4 0 FAILED ---- > newton/usr5 1 12140738304 31.63:34 178.90:28 1370.5 > newton/wcl

Re: Spam's a sacrific, at least there's no viruses.

2002-09-10 Thread Frank Smith
ld how its done. Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Working with multiple tape drives----- Ammended

2002-09-11 Thread Frank Smith
ol your library from the command line then it should be straightforward to use Amanda's chg-mtx driver instead of chg-scsi. I believe mtx accesses the changer through a raw device, bypassing the scsi driver, and can sometimes do more with some changers. Good luck, Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Too many taper retries

2002-09-11 Thread Frank Smith
#x27; error. If your data is highly compressible, you might be able to get it to fit using compression, otherwise you will have to split your disklist entry for /export/home into a few (or several) subdirectories that will each fit on a tape and use tar to do the backups (dump usually eith

Re: Tape DDS-3 values

2002-09-12 Thread Frank Smith
me to doc ? > You probably have compression enabled on your drive, and it is making tapetype's data bigger. Try turning off the compression and re-running tapetype. Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Admini

Re: [Amanda-users] Re: Tape DDS-3 values

2002-09-18 Thread Frank Smith
y tape >> drive but as mentioned, such errors in a tar file would only have caused >> problems with some files - with the gzipped tar file, you're done for once >> you hit an error. -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sys

Deja vu all over again

2002-09-18 Thread Frank Smith
What's up with last week's postings getting re-injected into the list? Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoove

Re: Processing Time

2002-09-19 Thread Frank Smith
oing the rest of the time??? Look at your daily report, it tells you how long it took to dump and tape each disklist entry and the total dump and tape time. If you want to know what's going on while Amanda is still running, then run amstatus and it will tell you

Re: What can you say about this?

2002-09-19 Thread Frank Smith
COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s > -- - > buko.restric / 0 44480 44512 --0:361246.1 0:56 796.4 > buko.restric /usr 0 20668802066912 -- 45:31 756.8 45:32 756.6 > buko.restric /var

Re: Weird permission problem running amdump

2002-09-19 Thread Frank Smith
nda/ and everything below it. If /home/amanda is mounted from a remote server, make sure amanda can write to it. Chances are you set it up as root and some or all of the files and directories are still owned by root with hostile permissions. Frank -- Frank Smith

Re: Permission denied errors

2002-09-20 Thread Frank Smith
NFS server's OS) for the export to the Amanda server so that root on the Amanda server has root access to /xtreme23/scratch, so tar can see all of the files. Frank > Thanks in advance, > Ashwin Bijur > Assistant Systems Administrator. > -- Frank Smith

Re: fullbackup

2002-09-20 Thread Frank Smith
e 20 > maxcycle 0 > > Contab entry would be > > 0 8 * * 7 backup /usr/sbin/amdump DudeWeeklySet > > Thanks > Marcus Looks OK. Don't forget to use a dumptype with 'record no' for your weekly or you will hose your daily schedule. Frank -- Frank Smith

Re: fullbackup

2002-09-20 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, September 20, 2002 21:46:48 +0200 Marcus Schopen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Smith wrote: >> >> --On Friday, September 20, 2002 17:46:28 +0200 Marcus Schopen ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I'd like to set up a

Re: Use of tape changers?

2002-09-20 Thread Frank Smith
clude list to exclude the subdirectories that you add to the disklist. That way it doesn't matter if you forget to add a new subdirectory to your disklist, it will still get backed up. Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: fullbackup

2002-09-20 Thread Frank Smith
--On Friday, September 20, 2002 20:58:42 -0400 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 20 September 2002 16:32, Frank Smith wrote: >> --On Friday, September 20, 2002 21:46:48 +0200 Marcus Schopen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Frank Smith wrot

Re: amanda reports and some questions

2002-09-20 Thread Frank Smith
you start your backup you are destroying the only backup you have. If some files get deleted or corrupted and you don't notice it before 11pm on the day it happens, you won't be able to recover. If you ever get a tape error you have no backup. Frank -- Frank Smith

Re: Use of tape changers?

2002-09-20 Thread Frank Smith
15 hours to write it to tape it won't impact the clients. Even if you don't have enough disk for the entire backup, whatever you can add to it will help (assuming your tape drive is the limiting factor. Frank -- Frank Smith

Re: [amanda-users] Some Basic questions about rewinding/non-rewinding tape drives

2002-09-23 Thread Frank Smith
the Howto that is currently written . > > Thanks for help at first and many greeting from Salzburg/Austria > > Vlad > > --- > Vlad Popa > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator

Re: reporting

2002-09-23 Thread Frank Smith
ade narrower or wider for the ranges of numbers you get. Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: restoring of data

2002-09-23 Thread Frank Smith
n rsync/scp the data back to the client, but why? If you are just trying to avoid physically going to the client, just ssh to it and run amrecover remotely. Frank -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator

Re: tape changer strategies.

2002-09-24 Thread Frank Smith
t; Cheers, > > Al > > > -- > Alan C. Horn >Inktomi - Unix Architect. >+1-650-653-5436 > [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Restore from tape (not using Amanda) syntax

2002-09-25 Thread Frank Smith
eans 'create'. You need to extract so use 'x' instead. Frank > > The tape only has about 2GB of compressed data on it so it's not huge... > > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Gordon. > -- Frank Smith

Re: Restore from tape (not using Amanda) syntax

2002-09-25 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 08:42:07 -0500 Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 21:38:55 +1000 Gordon Cormack ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Peoples, >> >> I'm trying to dump from an Amanda tape onto

Re: disk-to-disk backups

2002-09-26 Thread Frank Smith
ow they fit into your disaster recovery plan. Frank > > Thanks, > -- > Terri EadsUNIX Systems Administrator > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Applications Program > (303) 497-8425National Center for Atmospheric Research -- Frank Smith

Re: Amanda 2.4.2p2 won't backup the backup server...

2002-09-26 Thread Frank Smith
your .amandahosts file in the right place and does it have the correct ownership/permissions? Also, are you running ipchains/iptables/tcpwrappers or something else that might be blocking connections? Frank > Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Any more info required? > > Tha

Re: Permission denied errors

2002-09-27 Thread Frank Smith
Bijur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no_root_squash doesn't seem to work. Should the machine be re-booted for the change >to take effect? Your help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Ashwin. > > Frank Smith wrote: > >> --On Friday, September 20, 2002 11:43:5

Re: HOST DOWN error connecting to new client

2006-06-06 Thread Frank Smith
run (no missing libraries, permissions, etc.) It should just sit there until you either hit a key or it times out and then exit. Make sure your server can resolve owl to the proper IP. If all else fails run tcpdump and see f a connection is even attempted. Frank > > > > Thanks, > > Matt -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Amanda on any of the Linux live CDs?

2006-06-23 Thread Frank Smith
rank > > Thanks, > > / > Ronald Vincent Vazquez > Vice President of Technology Group > Senior Unix Systems Administrator > Senior Network Manager > Christ Tabernacle Church Ministries > http://www.ctcministries.org/ > (301) 540-9394 Hom

Re: Delay puting to Tape/using less tapes

2006-06-28 Thread Frank Smith
whatever is in your holding disk to tape when amanda runs and a tape is available. Frank > > Best regards, > > Luis -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Backed up only half the data

2006-06-28 Thread Frank Smith
r data. Perhaps you are actually doing an incremental and 32GB is what has changed since the previous run. Perhaps posting more information would yield more specific answers. What does the disklist entry, dumptype, and report for that DLE show? Frank > > T

Re: 77 hour backup of 850gb?

2006-06-29 Thread Frank Smith
tapes" > length 208277 mbytes > filemark 1049 kbytes > speed 2339 kps > } > > # dumptypes > > define dumptype global { > comment "Global definitions" > tape_splitsize 2 mbytes > split_diskbuffer "/tmp/amandasplit/split" > index yes > holdingdisk yes > } > > define dumptype normal { > global > compress none > comment "Typical dump" > program "GNUTAR" > priority medium > strategy standard > } > > # network interfaces > > define interface local { > comment "a local disk" > use 6000 kbps > } > > define interface le0 { > comment "100 Mbps ethernet" > use 4000 kbps > } > > I also have the mail that Amanda sent after the backup was done, if anyone > wants to see it. Any help would be greatly appreciated :) > > -Paul > > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: 77 hour backup of 850gb?

2006-06-29 Thread Frank Smith
m not very familiar with the tape-spanning features, so perhaps these are stupid questions. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: ipv6 question

2006-07-03 Thread Frank Smith
packets (that occur on different ports) as related to the original request and allows them to pass through. Its similar to the way the FTP module works. Frank > > Cheers, > > Rodrigo > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator

Re: amrecover failures

2006-07-10 Thread Frank Smith
actually loaded in the drive? Can you (from the command line) run 'mt -f /dev/nsa0 rewind' successfully? Frank > -> status /dev/nsa0 > /dev/nsa0 status failed: Permission denied > -> loaded <> > > > > JB > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: port NNNN not secure(newbie)

2006-07-10 Thread Frank Smith
ey won't talk to each other. > I cannot find anything about this in the documentation > > I had another thought, I am using a Netgear model FSV338 for my > firewall. (I use the appropriate > settings for port-forwarding.) Could this be the problem? A potential problem, depend

Re: amrecover failures

2006-07-10 Thread Frank Smith
Blocksize bpi Compression > Current: 0x42 variable 00x1 > -available modes- > 0:0x42 variable 00x1 > 1:0x42 variable 00x1 > 2:0x42 variable 00x1 > 3:0x42 variable 00x1 > - > Current Driver State: at rest. > - > File Number: 0 Record Number: 0Residual Count 0 > > JB > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: amrecover failures

2006-07-10 Thread Frank Smith
up 14857 Jul > 10 14:13 /usr/local/amanda/sbin/ammt > > SRV# la /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amdd -rwxr-xr-x 1 backup backup 13153 Jul > 10 14:13 /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amdd > > What do you think I should do? Easiest fix is probably add your user 'backup' to whatever

Re: Slow recover speeds was amrecover failures

2006-07-10 Thread Frank Smith
fer more data in memory. Try dd-ing a large file from your disk to /dev/null, /dev/zero to your disk, and /dev/zero to a blank tape, and see what the limits of your particular hardware are. Frank > > JB > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Sy

planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-12 Thread Frank Smith
ntly the debug files have been missing longer than the estimate error. Any debug suggestions? Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: A script to test GNU tar exclude patterns

2006-07-18 Thread Frank Smith
08.html> default pattern matching action in tar 1.19, it is important for everyone to check to be sure your includes/excludes still do what they used to. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator

Re: A script to test GNU tar exclude patterns

2006-07-19 Thread Frank Smith
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 19 July 2006 01:20, Frank Smith wrote: >> Olivier Nicole wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have put together the following srcipt >>> http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/testgtar to help testing exclude >>> patterns in GNU

Re: Restoring from tape when Amanda server failed

2006-07-19 Thread Frank Smith
. > I also saved the configuration files of the amanda server. > > Is there a way to directly connect to the tape drive and use unix commands > to restore data from it? > Or any other suggestions... > As was previously posted, http://www.amanda.org/do

Re: Amrecover help needed

2006-07-20 Thread Frank Smith
e directory you want it restored to, you can first do an lcd to change destination directory) Keep in mind that if you restore a directory it will clear the dest dir before the restore, so newer files will disappear. It's safest to always restore to a scratch dir and

Re: Amrecover help needed

2006-07-20 Thread Frank Smith
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 at 9:59pm, Anne Wilson wrote > >> On Thursday 20 July 2006 21:44, Frank Smith wrote: >>> Keep in mind that if you restore a directory it will clear the dest >>> dir before the restore, so newer files will disappe

Re: Tape Spanning - 105 hour backup of 1.3 Tb

2006-07-20 Thread Frank Smith
le, the backup didn't seem to be > splitting any of the DLE's so we terminated it. > > MISC: > - > Following these attempts, we had a look at the disk buffering code > and noted that: > > - the disk buffer seems to be re-created for every DLE > - after creation, the entire buffer is zeroe

Re: amrecover question

2006-07-28 Thread Frank Smith
Frank > > any ideas > > TIA > > Jeff -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: Incorrect bahaviour causes backup loss - further update!!

2006-07-28 Thread Frank Smith
e a response on 'how', but I'm confused as to the 'why'. If the last full dump was overwritten, shouldn't Amanda be trying to schedule a level 0 anyway, since there is no level 0 to base an incremental on? Frank -- Frank Smith

Re: Many thanks and more questions (amrestore/amfetchdump)

2006-07-28 Thread Frank Smith
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Re: notes

2006-08-02 Thread Frank Smith
PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFE0Q0E04yQfZbbTLYRAh9RAKCNXgsY1+6yuE+4Vzyv0RVBu3hOxgCeK9Y0 > NSE0z9k0Qk8W6HG/DCXf26o= > =w4hQ > -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Frank Smith

Re: Next Tapes are Offsite

2006-08-07 Thread Frank Smith
new tape,and it will use that. Frank > > > Thanks for your help, > > Marilyn Hughes > Multnomah County > Technical Services > 4747 E. Burnside Street > (503) 988-4635 > > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Ad

Re: Next Tapes are Offsite

2006-08-08 Thread Frank Smith
e changer. So the physical > device must be accessed before the final selection of a tape to use. > > Does amanda at this point look specifically for the next tape based on > the order in the tapelist file? (i.e. the last tape in the tapelist > file that is on the eligible list) Will

Re: amanda client inetd problem

2006-08-11 Thread Frank Smith
vailable as optional packages. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: amanda client inetd problem

2006-08-11 Thread Frank Smith
d with any frequency should be run as a daemon. Amanda is one of those one-offs in that it usually only gets invoked once a day. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: need regex help

2006-08-24 Thread Frank Smith
onus, it gives Amanda more pieces to rearrange to level out daily tape usage. It may not be practical with hundreds of directories, but 9 isn't very many to add, and is less likely to have unexpected results as your directory structure changes over time than wildcarded names. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: amdump frozen

2006-08-25 Thread Frank Smith
away, or you have some disk or tape I/O errors (SCSI bus hang, etc.) that might need to be checked out. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: amcheck failure "did not resolve"

2006-08-25 Thread Frank Smith
where to start looking? I would start with checking forward/reverse name resolution on the client. Adding it to the hosts file might be sufficient if your nsswitch.conf file has files before dns for hosts. Frank > > regards > > Chris -- Frank Smith

Re: Amanda 2.4, not using work area

2006-09-08 Thread Frank Smith
laintation/solution to this issue ? > > thank you, > > Brian > --- >Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 >Wadsw

Re: NFS strangeness

2006-09-08 Thread Frank Smith
your disklist and it will do what you want. I backup our legacy NetApps via an NFS mount this way and it works fine. Frank > > I've check all the permissions on the share (no_root_squash, etc)... > I'm at a loss. Digging around the net, I've been unable to find any > clear docs on what the proper setup might need to look like. Anyone > have any more suggestions about next steps? > > Thanks a bunch, > -Steffan -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501

Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread Frank Smith
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