Hi all, i' ve solved my problem; i' d a mistake in compiling: now amanda "seemes" to work, i want to give you my perosnal feedback i installed GCC from...
51977
Thorsten Bremer
lists-read@...
Oct 3, 2004 1:45 am
Hello, until now I'm using a single DDS-3 DAT-streamer with Amanda and everything works well. But it is annoying for me, to change the tape every day. Sometime...
51978
Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Oct 3, 2004 3:21 am
... Couple of things here: If things are collecting on your holding disk, you can move them to a tape with "amflush". You can also set a parameter in...
51979
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett@...
Oct 3, 2004 4:00 am
... And one other minor detail should be mentioned, Jon. Some, but not all linux distributions disable the multiple lun scsi bus scans in order to speed up...
51980
Brian E. Seppanen
seppanen@...
Oct 4, 2004 1:12 am
Hi Folks: I'm very new to using amanda, but I'm anxious to get a large numbers of servers backed up a bit more reliably with a good number of tape drives that...
51981
teo73@...
Oct 4, 2004 10:52 am
Hi, i' m trying to label a tape with the command amlabel -f "config" "string" and the answer is "amlabel: could not load tapelis "PATH_TO_TAPELIST" i' ve tried...
51982
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert@...
Oct 4, 2004 11:57 am
... Try adding something like `max_scsi_luns=7' to the kernel command line. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32...
51983
Brian Cuttler
brian@...
Oct 4, 2004 3:43 pm
Environment: amanda 2.4.4p2 client being installed on 2.4.9-31 Server (on Solaris) has been running for years, client is new. Symptom: Amanda Backup Client...
51984
Frank Smith
fsmith@...
Oct 4, 2004 4:04 pm
... As you've probably already noticed, Amanda doesn't have read permissions on /dev/sda12 (/iarc/vol). ... for dump to be able to read it. However, if you...
51985
Joshua Baker-LePain
jlb17@...
Oct 4, 2004 4:13 pm
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 at 11:31am, Brian Cuttler wrote ... Whatever version of RH that is, the kernel is rather out of data (which means probably a lot of other...
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Eric Siegerman
erics@...
Oct 4, 2004 4:14 pm
... What are mssarc and /iarc/vol? They make me wonder whether this is indeed a locally connected disk. If it isn't, there are other factors you haven't...
51987
Daniel Bentley
danielb@...
Oct 4, 2004 5:22 pm
Here's a summary of the situation: we have Server 1 and Server 2. Server 1 is the tape backup server, Server 2 is a 'jack of all trades' backup server for the...
51988
Lauro, John
jlauro@...
Oct 4, 2004 6:19 pm
Hello, I am new to amanda.... and after a slow-going process (not all directly from Amanda, some was in first getting MTX to work, etc) I have it mostly...
51989
Jason Miller
jwm@...
Oct 4, 2004 6:20 pm
What version of RH is this? I may have missed it in my reading. I noted the Kernel version but curious on the version. Also what does your amandad.*.debug...
51990
Brian Cuttler
brian@...
Oct 4, 2004 6:57 pm
Good questions all... [root@mssarc etc]# more redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) An upgrade really isn't an option - this is a turn-key OCR...
51991
Frank Smith
fsmith@...
Oct 4, 2004 7:43 pm
... You have two choices on how to use two (or more) drives in a changer. One way is to use the RAIT (RAID using tapes) driver to stripe (or mirror) your data...
51992
Jason Miller
jwm@...
Oct 4, 2004 8:27 pm
Does your disklist look something like below? These are in my /etc/amanda/DailySet1/disklist file. nnewton.wadsworth.org /dev/sda12 always-full -1...
51993
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett@...
Oct 4, 2004 11:12 pm
... Your amanda.conf file should have a line in it that points at the file "tapelist";, in my case its: tapelist "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/tapelist" This...
51994
Jon LaBadie
jon@...
Oct 5, 2004 2:44 am
... I forget the details now, and whether it was fixed, but someone reported that the tapelist file not only had to exist, but either had to be zero length...
51995
Jorge Godoy
godoy@...
Oct 5, 2004 12:30 pm
Hi! I'm needing to make an installation of amanda in a mix of machines (Windows 2K, Linux and AIX 4.3 and 5.1). The tape drive will be located in one AIX 5.1....
51996
Jorge Godoy
godoy@...
Oct 5, 2004 6:08 pm
... Hmmm... I see. I was thinking about using those packages here: http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/amanda.html Since the servers aren't mine, I'd...
51997
Frank Smith
fsmith@...
Oct 5, 2004 11:52 pm
I ran across an odd problem with my changer. After upgrading tape drives several months ago and labeling all new tapes with what I thought were the same...
51998
Mike Fedyk
mfedyk@...
Oct 6, 2004 12:40 am
Hi Everyone, I have some of my largest volumes that do not have activity for several weeks, and they are also taking the most of my tapes -- even the ...
51999
Jamie Wilkinson
jaq@...
Oct 6, 2004 8:24 am
The tapelist file says my tape ANCHOR3 is reusable. Grepping through the output of amadmin export for ANCHOR3 returns nothing. However, amcheck tells me that...
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Jamie Wilkinson
jaq@...
Oct 6, 2004 8:33 am
... Further to this, the file ANCHOR3.toc in /var/lib/amanda/anchor tells me the date of all the dumps on that tape date back 3 months. That's probably ...
52001
Jamie Wilkinson
jaq@...
Oct 6, 2004 8:41 am
... Bah, I created those files in July! Anyway, I've cross checked this tape against the database with amadmin find, and I'm confident it doesn't have anything...
52002
Brian Cuttler
brian@...
Oct 6, 2004 1:29 pm
Did you have some flushes during the last period ? I believe its not just the eldest reusable tape, I believe amanda will not want to re-use it with tapecycle...
52003
Jamie Wilkinson
jaq@...
Oct 6, 2004 1:35 pm
... Yeah, many. ... Ok, thanks, that may be it. -- jaq@... http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg...
52004
Jimmy Henson
jhenson@...
Oct 7, 2004 6:24 pm
I am the proud owner of a new PowerVault 132T, with dual LTO2 drives. I'd like to configure Amanda to write to both tape drives simultaneously. Does anyone...
52005
Frank Smith
fsmith@...
Oct 7, 2004 6:46 pm
... My answer to a similar question earlier this week was: You have two choices on how to use two (or more) drives in a changer. One way is to use the RAIT...
