I've hit a brick wall in getting the amanda client 2.6.0 to work on windows server 2003. I used the .msi package available on zmanda.com, I can start inetd...
Chad Kotil
ckotil@...
May 1, 2008 7:17 pm
65133
Hi All, We have been using AMANDA 2.5.0p2 for our backup requirements for last one year. Thankfully, I have not come accross many situations that require data...
Yogesh Hasabnis
yhmail29@...
May 2, 2008 3:49 pm
65134
... I unwillingly came across this situation a few days ago. I was disturbed by the tar message, but quickly learned that it had to I do with previous tar...
Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
TI@...
May 5, 2008 9:00 am
65135
Hi All I'm experiencing an odd problem with a USB DAT drive that keeps running out of space. Apologies for the length of the post. The drive is supposed to be...
Nigel Allen
dna@...
May 6, 2008 1:31 am
65136
... GB or GiB? ... These are in KiB. ... Do you have hardware compression enabled on the drive? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots...
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert@...
May 6, 2008 12:03 pm
65137
Hi Nigel! ... Hardware & Software - compression together is allways a bad combination! bzipped 34G would fit on d 36G tape but the hardware-commpression of the...
Peter Mueller
peter.mueller.ls@...
May 6, 2008 12:03 pm
65138
... [snip] ... [snip] [snip] ... [snip] ... [snip] ... Start by not believing that your "36/72 GB" tapedrive can actually record 72 GB :) Continue by turning...
Toomas Aas
toomas.aas@...
May 6, 2008 12:03 pm
65139
... Ok. The meaning of those numbers is: - around 36 gigabytes (in powers of 1000 not in powers of 1024) space to put the bytes on. - in the optimistic...
Paul Bijnens
Paul.Bijnens@...
May 6, 2008 12:04 pm
65140
Hi, ... Ok this means amanda can put 36 GB of data after softwarecompression on it, forget the 72GB value, its marketing. ... ^^^^^^^^ ok, according to this,...
C.Scheeder
christoph@...
May 6, 2008 12:04 pm
65141
... It is 36 GB. Maybe minus a bit for marketing lies<<<<exaggeration. But you are compressing the data with bzip2 then telling the hardware to try to...
Jon LaBadie
jon@...
May 7, 2008 1:06 am
65142
All A couple of weeks ago after working for about two months amcheck started crashing on my system. It dumps the following trace to stderr. Any thoughts...
Steve Jacobson
steve@...
May 7, 2008 1:22 am
65143
Which amanda release? Post the amcheck.*.debug file Jean-Louis...
Jean-Louis Martineau
martineau@...
May 7, 2008 3:24 am
65144
Running 2.5.0. The debug file is in-line below. It's short. Looking at it, it seems that it had a timeout waiting for the tape array to respond. It says...
Steve Jacobson
steve@...
May 7, 2008 6:41 am
65145
... I got/use: define tapetype HP-DAT72 { comment "HP-DAT72x10 Autoloader (AE313A)" # data provided by Gerrit A. Smit <TI@...> length 35480 mbytes ...
Gerrit A. Smit -TI-
TI@...
May 7, 2008 8:10 am
65146
Thanks to everyone for the input - both serious and sarcastic. Happy to report that hardware compression was enabled. Turned it off and got a level 0 done last...
Nigel Allen
dna@...
May 7, 2008 10:22 am
65147
I got it working. I chose to use xinetd rather than inetd, and ran everything under the same user, amandabackup. Rather than using the uer sshd_server to run...
Chad Kotil
ckotil@...
May 7, 2008 3:36 pm
65148
Hello, Is it safe to do some clean up in this folder ? Regards,...
FM
dist-list@...
May 7, 2008 4:22 pm
65149
... No. It's the list of statefiles, which gnutar uses to decide if a file should be in the incremental backup. Erasing them (or getting them out of sync)...
Paul Bijnens
Paul.Bijnens@...
May 7, 2008 4:32 pm
65150
Tx for the reply, What is strange is that some files are several months old. Does Amanda also need these old ones ? Regards,...
FM
dist-list@...
May 7, 2008 6:01 pm
65151
... That *should* be auto-cleaning as amanda will/should remove the listings for tapes that have been over-written. Is this not the case at your site? Humm,...
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett@...
May 7, 2008 6:24 pm
65152
Please forgive my n00bness. This is probably a simple configuration error on my part, but I am having a problem getting Amanda to flush to tape. Everything...
Nathan Barss
nbarss@...
May 7, 2008 6:24 pm
65153
... If the tape they go with has been re-used due to reaching the end of the 'tapecycle', then they can go. If you have some labeled 'no-reuse' that might...
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett@...
May 7, 2008 6:27 pm
65154
Thanks for reporting the problem. We are working on new packages that will fix this problem. It will be available soon. Paddy On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:22 AM,...
Paddy Sreenivasan
paddy@...
May 8, 2008 4:47 pm
65155
Hi, with regards to Amanda version 2.5.x, does Amanda kind of automatically do tape spanning, or does this need to be configured somewhere? I'm testing a newer...
Johan Booysen
johan@...
May 9, 2008 11:25 am
65156
Hi Johan, Tape spanning has been in Amanda since 2.5.0 release. You can find details how to configure tape spanning here: ...
Dmitri Joukovski
dj@...
May 9, 2008 5:04 pm
65157
... By default, no, it won't do spanning. See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes for the skinny on setting it up. ... Amanda's...
Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin@...
May 9, 2008 5:08 pm
65158
Hi all, Thanks very much for your replies. ... From: owner-amanda-users@... [mailto:owner-amanda-users@...] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent:...
Johan Booysen
johan@...
May 9, 2008 5:37 pm
65159
... Is it possible that the dumps are too large to fit on that tape? From the snippets of the amflush log, it looks like the taper starts writing to the tape,...
Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin@...
May 11, 2008 1:21 pm
65160
hi list... I have the following problem when trying to delete all DLE for host 192.168.95.225 [amanda@backup /tmp/amanda/server/weekly]$ amadmin weekly find...
Mister Olli
mister.olli@...
May 11, 2008 5:41 pm
65161
Greetings all; One of the reasons my old epson c82 has been such a hockey puck is amanda, as I have it printing the nightly report, and this does a quite...