[gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

2009-07-15 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I recently upgraded from amanda-2.4.5 to amanda-2.6.0_p2-r4. I think I've been able to make backups successfully: the backup reports amanda sends afterwards look reasonable. However, I've not been able to do restores. It appears that the contents of /etc/amanda/amandahosts and /etc/xin

Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

2009-07-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
John Blinka schrieb: > Running amrecover -C my_host -t my_host -s my_host -d > file:/backup/my_host/vtapes > produces a pause of about 30 seconds then the following output: > AMRECOVER Version 2.6.0p2. Contacting server on my_host ... > [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK] > > /var/log/messa

Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

2009-07-17 Thread John Blinka
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Try "amoldrecover" for a start ... > >From what I understand, amoldrecover is for recovering files on a >=2.5 client from a < 2.5 server. My server and clients are all >=2.6. Am I misunderstanding? John

Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

2009-07-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
John Blinka schrieb: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Try "amoldrecover" for a start ... >> > > > From what I understand, amoldrecover is for recovering files on a >> =2.5 client from > a < 2.5 server. My server and clients are all >=2.6. Am I misunderstanding?

Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

2009-07-30 Thread John Blinka
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Didn't the binary-paths change with 2.6 ? Yes. > > Check if /usr/libexec/amanda/amandad exists and adjust the xinetd-entry > if necessary. > Did that. The binaries exist and xinetd entries point correctly. (Sorry for the very lo

Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

2009-08-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
John Blinka schrieb: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Didn't the binary-paths change with 2.6 ? > > Yes. > >> Check if /usr/libexec/amanda/amandad exists and adjust the xinetd-entry >> if necessary. >> > > Did that. The binaries exist and xinetd entries point

[RESOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

2009-08-01 Thread John Blinka
I'm not exactly sure what I've done to fix things, but backups and amrecovers are now working properly. For the record, on the backup server, the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file contains: service amanda { socket_type = dgram protocol= udp wait= yes