Re: Amanda (was: sata driver compataility Q)

2023-09-19 Thread Glenn
My all time fav for file level backups is BackupPC. De-duplicates files in the compressed pool. Glenn On September 19, 2023 12:18:36 p.m. ADT, gene heskett wrote: >On 9/19/23 08:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> Compared to the setup required for amanda, that sounds very inviting. Am

Re: Amanda (was: sata driver compataility Q)

2023-09-19 Thread gene heskett
On 9/19/23 08:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: Compared to the setup required for amanda, that sounds very inviting. Amanda has a very steep learning curve just because it is so versatile I'm still waiting on stuff, so no more actual progress. I used Amanda many years ago and was quite pleased

Amanda (was: sata driver compataility Q)

2023-09-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Compared to the setup required for amanda, that sounds very inviting. Amanda > has a very steep learning curve just because it is so versatile I'm still > waiting on stuff, so no more actual progress. I used Amanda many years ago and was quite pleased with it, but I must say I&#

Re: OT: amanda/tape drive problem

2020-11-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, November 13, 2020 8:52 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Right, that routine is to establish whether you have a tape > problem or a hardware problem. OK. I'm almost positive I have a hardware problem. But the p

Re: OT: amanda/tape drive problem

2020-11-13 Thread Dan Ritter
ghe2001 wrote: > On Friday, November 13, 2020 7:51 PM, Dan Ritter > wrote: > > > It doesn't ring a bell, but did you do the diagnostic steps of: > > > > - get a dump of what's on the problem tape now, confirm which > > part is good > > > > - write a different file to a new tape > > -

Re: OT: amanda/tape drive problem

2020-11-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, November 13, 2020 7:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > It doesn't ring a bell, but did you do the diagnostic steps of: > > - get a dump of what's on the problem tape now, confirm which > part is good > >

Re: OT: amanda/tape drive problem

2020-11-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:08:24 + ghe2001 wrote: > The problem is that my Quantum LTO-5 drive (4 or 5 years old) is > writing for a while, then failing. It reads, does 'mt' things, and > amcheck just fine. Have you cleaned the drive lately? (Or is that still necessary? It's been a while since

Re: OT: amanda/tape drive problem

2020-11-13 Thread Dan Ritter
ghe2001 wrote: > I know this is way OT, but the amanda-users list isn't working, not for me > anyway, and this list is full of knowledgeable people. > > The problem is that my Quantum LTO-5 drive (4 or 5 years old) is writing for > a while, then failing. It reads, d

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-04 Thread Charles Curley
had to run one of the two, I'd prefer xinetd. However, I > > suggest you use SSH for all your machines. It's tedious to set up, > > but once set up it is stable and more secure. Then you might > > (depending on what other services it manages) be able to take > > xinetd

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
gt; it. This file is managed by netbase and look what I've found: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946138 > > > what tells: > > # systemctl status inetd.service > > # systemctl status xinetd.service > > ? > > xinetd not found. > And now

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-04 Thread Andrea Borgia
prefer xinetd. However, I suggest you use SSH for all your machines. It's tedious to set up, but once set up it is stable and more secure. Then you might (depending on what other services it manages) be able to take xinetd off entirely. amanda-common requires inetd, so you can't take it off

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-04 Thread Andrea Borgia
gi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946138 what tells: # systemctl status inetd.service # systemctl status xinetd.service ? xinetd not found. And now the old amanda xinetd config is... gone, thanks! Thanks, Andrea.

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 1 Dec 2019 21:50:32 +0100 Andrea Borgia wrote: > ERROR: mononoke: selfcheck request failed: Connection refused > ERROR: flyingraspi: selfcheck request failed: Connection refused > Client check: 3 hosts checked in 13.274 seconds. 2 problems found. > (brought to you by

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-01 Thread Kamil Jońca
Andrea Borgia writes: [...] > Restarting inetd: > * flyingraspi: no errors > * mononoke and clarisse, both show the following entry in daemon.log: > inetd[1719886]: amanda/tcp: unknown service I got the same today's morning. I found that in /etc/services was only: --8<---

amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-01 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hi. I run backups with Amanda every weekend and today it failed, completely. What changes have happened, if any, were due to package upgrades, I haven't touched amanda, ssh or inetd in a long while according to my diary. Certainly not in the last week! Amanda Tape Server Host

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-07 Thread Gene Heskett
> the right direction. From the emailed backup report, it looks as if > > its crashed the instant amanda touches it. But the amanda tool's own > > logs don't show any errors. But the network is gone, stopping the > > backup. So are all my ssh -Y logins, but they loo

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
its crashed > the instant amanda touches it. But the amanda tool's own logs don't show > any errors. But the network is gone, stopping the backup. So are all > my ssh -Y logins, but they look as if the keyboard isn't sending if > already logged in, but starting anothe

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
down, count to 10, back up, slow reboot, culminating in the usual xfce4 login screen. Probably with the 2 SSD's unmounted, I need to attack /etc/fstab and fix that. They were mounted and usable when amanda came calling. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defe

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 13:39:43 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:30:30 +0100 > > Tixy wrote: > > Is the problem being talked about here different to amanda usr-merge > > bug 939411 [1] which I saw that mentioned in another thread [2] ? > > > >

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
9 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > >> I could very easily see amanda itself breaking from usrmerge, > > > >> if > > > > it > > > > > >> contains programs that try to invoke commands using their full > > > >> paths (e.g

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Sep 2019 at 11:39:43 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:30:30 +0100 > Tixy wrote: > > > Is the problem being talked about here different to amanda usr-merge > > bug 939411 [1] which I saw that mentioned in another thread [2] ? > > >

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > Firewall rule? I haven't run iptables on any of these machines since > forever but with systemd taking over, I've no clue how to disable it > if it is running. htop see's nothing that looks like iptables, has it > been renamed? Iptables is not a daemon. It is a tool for installin

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:30:30 +0100 Tixy wrote: > Is the problem being talked about here different to amanda usr-merge > bug 939411 [1] which I saw that mentioned in another thread [2] ? > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939411 > [2] https://lists.debian.

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 13:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 06 September 2019 11:52:15 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Le 06/09/2019 à 16:39, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > > On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >> I could very easil

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 11:58:15 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 05:52:15PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Le 06/09/2019 à 16:39, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > > On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > I could very eas

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 11:52:15 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 06/09/2019 à 16:39, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> I could very easily see amanda itself breaking from usrmerge, if it > >> contains programs

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 05:52:15PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 06/09/2019 à 16:39, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > I could very easily see amanda itself breaking from usrmerge, if it > > >

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/09/2019 à 16:39, Gene Heskett a écrit : On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: I could very easily see amanda itself breaking from usrmerge, if it contains programs that try to invoke commands using their full paths (e.g. /bin/rm -f ...). Why would that break ? Old

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 10:06:39AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I don't have a good reason to object to the usr merge, but its > > causing amanda to crash the systems that have ha

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 10:06:39AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I don't have a good reason to object to the usr merge, but its causing > amanda to crash the systems that have had this modification. This is the part where you show us the error messages from t

usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I don't have a good reason to object to the usr merge, but its causing amanda to crash the systems that have had this modification. I am trying tonight, an exclude scheme that should stop the crashing if indeed that is what is doing it. But if it works, that means your 3

Re: Confused by Amanda

2018-09-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 03 September 2018 01:24:35 Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 11:46:44AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 02 September 2018 06:27:01 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Amanda is not good for the situation you describe. > > > > No its not ideal

Re: Confused by Amanda

2018-09-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 11:46:44AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2018 06:27:01 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Amanda is not good for the situation you describe. > > No its not ideal in some cases,, which is why I wrote a wrapper script > for the make a back

Re: Confused by Amanda

2018-09-02 Thread Jose M Calhariz
; > I would really be in a position to do so in all cases. For example, > > Amanda configuration is in /etc/amanda -- what if /etc was what I needed > > to restore? Similarly, I gather there are files under /var/lib/amanda -- > > what happens if /var is damaged? > > &g

Re: Confused by Amanda

2018-09-02 Thread Gene Heskett
would really be in a position to do so in all cases. > > For example, Amanda configuration is in /etc/amanda -- what if /etc > > was what I needed to restore? Similarly, I gather there are files > > under /var/lib/amanda -- what happens if /var is damaged? > > > >

Re: Confused by Amanda

2018-09-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 04:09:22PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I recently messed up some files and decided to resort to the backup to > recover them. I was able to do so, but the process left me wondering if > I would really be in a position to do so in all cases. For example,

Confused by Amanda

2018-09-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I use Amanda for daily backups on Stretch. I found it not too difficult to set up once I got my head around its virtual tape concept. Recently, prompted by not very much, I have started to question whether having these backups really put me in a position to restore the machine if I need

Re: gpg fools amanda 3.5

2017-11-14 Thread deloptes
Kamil Jońca wrote: > "Always" I have encrypted amand backup with gpg. > Recently, after upgrade amanda to version 1:3.5-2 I noticed that amanda > 'does not work' - it hangs for (near) infinity; no files in holding > directory etc. > As googling gives me no u

gpg fools amanda 3.5

2017-11-14 Thread Kamil Jońca
"Always" I have encrypted amand backup with gpg. Recently, after upgrade amanda to version 1:3.5-2 I noticed that amanda 'does not work' - it hangs for (near) infinity; no files in holding directory etc. As googling gives me no useful results, I assumed that it is rather som

Amanda since the upgrade to Stretch

2017-08-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello! Since the upgrade from Jessie to Stretch, I have noticed occasional misbehaviour in my amanda setup. I didn't change anything in my hardware or software configuration that might have caused it. (Famous Last Words...) The most recent occurrence was last night, and it was typical of

Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
nstalled Jessie and tried to use Amanda to restore my backups > > > of my stuff, I'd be hosed right now because my current /etc/amanda > > > and its subdirectories would be gone. Is this correct? Amanda > > > would not be able to recover in this situation, right? >

Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 01:39:12PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I'm going to suggest that amanda is not the best solution for > you in this situation. I was actually starting to think the same thing myself as I was writing my original mail last night, but I do intend to expand my setup

Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:49:19PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 24 March 2017 11:51:27 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > I'd assume that if I suffered a disk failure, replaced the disk, > > re-installed Jessie and tried to use Amanda to restore my backups of > >

Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:51:27AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > A while back I installed Amanda for backups. I have a pretty simple > setup at the moment which I may expand later. At the moment only one > machine, running Jessie, is backed up by Amanda. > > My main PC is both th

Re: A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 March 2017 11:51:27 Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello > > A while back I installed Amanda for backups. I have a pretty simple > setup at the moment which I may expand later. At the moment only one > machine, running Jessie, is backed up by Amanda. > > My main PC is b

A bit OT: Amanda Restore

2017-03-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello A while back I installed Amanda for backups. I have a pretty simple setup at the moment which I may expand later. At the moment only one machine, running Jessie, is backed up by Amanda. My main PC is both the Amanda server and the machine Amanda is backing up. Recently I started to

problem with amanda after upgrading to debian wheezy

2014-03-19 Thread Jens Galley
I have an Amanda installation on a Debian server. Amanda works with virtual tapes (i.e. directories). During the upgrade from Debian 6 (Squeeze) to Debian 7 (Wheezy) Amanda was upgraded from version 2.6.1p2 to version 3.3.1. Since then it seems to me that the tapechanger doesn't work an

Re: amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:04:53PM +, michael wrote: > I just noticed a "amanda" dir in > > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head > total 1831672 > drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ > {} > drwx--S--- 2 backup backup 4096

Re: amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-27 Thread michael
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 12:40 -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > michael wrote: > > > I just noticed a "amanda" dir in > > > > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head > > total 1831672 > > drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16

Re: amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-27 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
michael wrote: > I just noticed a "amanda" dir in > > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head > total 1831672 > drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ > {} > drwx--S--- 2 backup backup 4096 Feb 27 12:29 amanda/ > > which I d

amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-27 Thread michael
I just noticed a "amanda" dir in /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head total 1831672 drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ {} drwx--S--- 2 backup backup 4096 Feb 27 12:29 amanda/ which I didn't recognise. I see that it's some backup s

Re: /etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf

2007-04-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
> P=i686-pc-linux-gnu > r(NULL,75," > 501 Could not read config file /etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf! > 220 masatran AMANDA index server (2.5.1p3) ready. > ") > ... This is nmap trying to talk to amindexd (part of the amanda-ser

/etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf

2007-04-17 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
5.STABLE11 10082/tcp open amandaidx? 10083/tcp open amidxtape? Port10082-TCP:V=4.20 I=7 D=4/17 Time=46240C90 P=i686-pc-linux-gnu r(NULL,75," 501 Could not read config file /etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf! 220 masatran AMANDA index server

Re: How to get Amanda and tape libraries to work?

2005-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 15 December 2005 14:49, jpg wrote: >Been reading docs and working on understanding amanda for about two > weeks now and finally got it up and running with a tape > jukebox/library; SORTOF. > >I can load/unload/label tapes in the library, and got a valid > 'c

How to get Amanda and tape libraries to work?

2005-12-15 Thread jpg
Been reading docs and working on understanding amanda for about two weeks now and finally got it up and running with a tape jukebox/library; SORTOF. I can load/unload/label tapes in the library, and got a valid 'changer.conf', 'disklist', etc. However cannot get amanda and th

Re: amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn English
More diagnostics. when crontab line is "* * * 7 * echo [`whoami`]" running the job prints "[backup]" if line == "echo `mt -f /dev/nst0 status`" output == "mt: /dev/nst0: Permission denied" command line: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo [`whoami`] [backup] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo `mt -f /dev/nst0 sta

Re: amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn English
emy's crontab entry: > 45 0 * * 2-6 /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1 Mine (the script's a trivial wrapper for the command "/usr/sbin/amdump $1" It works from CL and from cron on last month's (gentoo) system): 11 1 * * 1,3,6 /var/backups/amanda-scripts/amdump-

Re: amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:45:48AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > Amanda is installed and commands and scripts are working well from the > command line (I did have to add the sbins to backup's path to run the > amanda utilities). > > But when I run a shell script as a cro

amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn English
Amanda is installed and commands and scripts are working well from the command line (I did have to add the sbins to backup's path to run the amanda utilities). But when I run a shell script as a cron job as user backup, access to the tape drive is denied -- /dev/nst0 is root:tape, permis

Re: amanda

2004-12-29 Thread Paul Mansfield
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 14:27 -0700, Glenn English wrote: > Does anybody here use amanda? I'm running Amanda on a woody system, all runs fine. > On my spanky new Sarge system, apt-get's amanda-server simply doesn't > work. It gets installed as user:group backup:backup

amanda

2004-12-28 Thread Glenn English
Does anybody here use amanda? On my spanky new Sarge system, apt-get's amanda-server simply doesn't work. It gets installed as user:group backup:backup, and amdump won't run unless the user is amanda. Among other things. Compiling from source (from amanda.org) doesn't

Re: Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE

2003-11-26 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hopefully there are some amanda users out there. I sent this to the > amanda users list, but haven't gotten any replies, so, here is the > result of an amcheck. What is the possible problem with the system? > Why is ex

Fwd: DailySet1 AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE

2003-11-26 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Hopefully there are some amanda users out there. I sent this to the amanda users list, but haven't gotten any replies, so, here is the result of an amcheck. What is the possible problem with the system? Why is expecting a new tape? Is there a way to reset the device and make it think

Re: Amanda or taper

2003-09-09 Thread A. Loonstra
Curtis Vaughan wrote: I have been using taper for backups for some time now, but just read an interesting article about Amanda. Is anyone using Amanda and is it better than taper? Thanks for your opinions, Curtis I've used both taper and amanda... Wasn't taper the ncurses GUI th

Re: Amanda or taper

2003-09-08 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Curtis Vaughan said on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:57:37AM -0700: > I have been using taper for backups for some time now, but just read an > interesting article about Amanda. Is anyone using Amanda and is it > better than taper? Never used taper, but I have been using AMANDA for a while,

Amanda or taper

2003-09-08 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I have been using taper for backups for some time now, but just read an interesting article about Amanda. Is anyone using Amanda and is it better than taper? Thanks for your opinions, Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

afbackup VS amanda

2002-09-03 Thread axacheng
Hello List : afbackup is better than amanda i find a good backup tools for my servers.but i dont know what is tools that have EASILY CONFIG and EASILY MANAGE??? -- Trust & Unique ... Axacheng's PGP Public Key http://www.navigation.idv.tw/pgpkey -- To UN

amanda vs. IP masquing

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got an IP masquing firewall with an amanda backup server on the inside and a mail server on the outside. I want to add the mail server to my backups, but masquing moves the connection to a high port number, which the amanda client doesn't like: FAILED [mailserver: [host firewall:

Using Amanda client software, via Debian package.

2002-02-03 Thread stan
After years of recomending to people that they build amanda from source, instead of trying to us the Debian packages, I find myslef trying to do just that. So, how is this suposed to work? I'm failing like this: amandad: debug 1 pid 16259 ruid 34 euid 34 start time Sun Feb 3 13:35:48

Re: Debian machine as Amanda tapehost, can't see itself

2001-10-09 Thread Stan Brown
, except that it can't > Stan> see itself, as far as Amanda is concerned. > Stan> > Stan> Sugestions? > > Bill> Did you make sure that the host was listed in the > Bill> $HOME/.amandahosts file (probably best if you put both the FQDN > Bill> and the n

Re: Debian machine as Amanda tapehost, can't see itself

2001-10-09 Thread Bill Benedetto
Stan> I'm trying to set up a Debian machine (potato with 2.4.9 Stan> kernel) as an Amanada tapehost to replace a HP-UX Stan> machine. Stan> Stan> At the moent it's mostly working, except that it can't Stan> see itself, as far as Amanda is conce

Re: Debian machine as Amanda tapehost, can't see itself

2001-10-09 Thread Stan Brown
t the moent it's mostly working, except that it can't > Stan> see itself, as far as Amanda is concerned. > Stan> > Stan> Sugestions? > >Did you make sure that the host was listed in the >$HOME/.amandahosts file (probably best if you put both the FQDN >

Re: Debian machine as Amanda tapehost, can't see itself

2001-10-09 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> Stan Brown writes: Stan> I'm trying to set up a Debian machine (potato with 2.4.9 Stan> kernel) as an Amanada tapehost to replace a HP-UX Stan> machine. Stan> Stan> At the moent it's mostly working, except that it can't Stan> see its

Debian machine as Amanda tapehost, can't see itself

2001-10-09 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to set up a Debian machine (potato with 2.4.9 kernel) as an Amanada tapehost to replace a HP-UX machine. At the moent it's mostly working, except that it can't see itself, as far as Amanda is concerned. Sugestions? -- Stan Brown [

Re: Duplicate Backup Server [AMANDA]

2001-08-23 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
OK, so I'm an idiot. The 'port not secure' failure was due to the setuid bit not being set on amcheck. So never mind. Thanks for listening. On Thursday 23 August 2001 11:23, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > I have completely replicated functionality of our old Amanda backup s

Re: Duplicate Backup Server [AMANDA]

2001-08-23 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
x27;t even listed in my /etc/services file on the client-side, nor is it mentioned in the conf files on the server side. Jeez. On Thursday 23 August 2001 11:23, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > I have completely replicated functionality of our old Amanda backup server > onto a new machine. Wit

Duplicate Backup Server [AMANDA]

2001-08-23 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
I have completely replicated functionality of our old Amanda backup server onto a new machine. With the exact same set up and the exact same config files (changed local information, of course), I get these when amcheck tries to contact the clients: ERROR: XX: [addr XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

Re: anyone played with amanda?

2001-02-26 Thread Nate Amsden
Stan Brown wrote: > Mmm, wierd. Have you check the debug files in /tmp/amanda? You did > build > --with-debuging, right? i'm using the amanda from debian..not sure how they built it. but i do have /tmp/amanda (didn't know about it before, thanks!) but i

Re: anyone played with amanda?

2001-02-26 Thread aphro
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > > Make certain Amanda (the user) is in the group that owns the disk > devices. i don't have an amanda user. i do have a 'backup' user which runs the amanda program according to xinetd: service aman

anyone played with amanda?

2001-02-26 Thread aphro
hi. i am messing around with amanda tryin to get it working. and am unsure why i recieve this error message: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: mail-wa2: [can not access /dev/hda7 (hda7): Permission denied] ERROR: mail-wa2: [can not access /dev/md0 (md0

Re: Amanda backup: Labeling Tapes

2000-07-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Erik> Dear Group, I feel that I have come quite far in setting up Erik> amanda on my Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 system. I seem to be able to Erik> connect from client to server, access the tape drive (SCSI Erik> /dev/nst0) and such. Erik> However, since I am still testing I have not

Amanda backup: Labeling Tapes

2000-07-20 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi Group, I tried to contact the amanda-user mailinglist first, but that does not seem to be on-line. Hope this is no too off-topic... I was hoping for some Debian-amanda user who might be able to give me a suggestion. - Forwarded message from Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: rlogin .rhosts and amanda problem

1999-07-28 Thread Carl Mummert
Have you checked that the rhosts fields are: 1) named '.rhosts' 2) owned byt he user 3) mode 600 (not 644 or 664) 4) That the host you are coming FROM is listing in them Carl

rlogin .rhosts and amanda problem

1999-07-28 Thread Gareth
G'day all, I am trying to set Amanda on my new PIII potato system. I discovered it isn't working because the rlogin keeps asking for a password there is a .rhosts file and the entry is correct. I can rlogin to my account just not into ~backup. I created a new user called amanda

Re: Amanda tape definitions

1999-06-25 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
tapedev "/dev/nst0" > > > > If this doesn't help, e-mail me your amanda.conf file and I'll see if > > there are any obvious problems. You can also try contacting the > > amanda mailing list (see http://www.amanda.org). > > I think that

Re: Amanda tape definitions

1999-06-25 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
amanda.conf file and I'll see if > there are any obvious problems. You can also try contacting the > amanda mailing list (see http://www.amanda.org). I think that both those requirements are present. In any case i'm sending you both amanda.conf and diklist because i have anothe

Re: Amanda tape definitions

1999-06-24 Thread Max
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My backup saga continues. I'm now trying to use amanda but i'm not sure > that i have de definitions of tape correctly. > > /proc/scsi/scsi says this: > Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.26 > Type: Sequential-Access

Re: Amanda questions

1999-06-23 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 01:05:50PM -0400, Pete Templin wrote: > > > ERROR: charlie: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ERROR: alpha: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ERROR: bravo: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > echo

Re: Amanda questions

1999-06-23 Thread Pete Templin
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 03:28:03PM -0400, Pete Templin wrote: > > A few questions about amanda, for anyone who might be familiar with it: > > > ERROR: charlie: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ERROR:

Amanda tape definitions

1999-06-22 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi My backup saga continues. I'm now trying to use amanda but i'm not sure that i have de definitions of tape correctly. /proc/scsi/scsi says this: Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.26 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 And my current a

Amanda 2.4.0-3 from Debian 2.1, missing files?

1999-06-08 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, I've installed amanda 2.4.0-3 from the Debian 2.1 CDs, and there were no dependency errors. However, after configuring amanda and running amcheck, I receive an email report containing these client errors: - ERROR: localhost: [can not execute /sbin/dump: No such file or dire

Re: Amanda rescue floppy

1999-04-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Max wrote: > > I would like to make a floppy that would allow me to boot up my system > from that floppy and contain all of the Amanda tools that would allow > me to recover my hard drive file systems in the event something goes > wrong. Has anyone set up something like this? Any

Amanda rescue floppy

1999-04-16 Thread Max
I would like to make a floppy that would allow me to boot up my system from that floppy and contain all of the Amanda tools that would allow me to recover my hard drive file systems in the event something goes wrong. Has anyone set up something like this? Any pointers would be greatly

Amanda tape settings for HP DDS2 DAT tape

1998-09-01 Thread David Welton
Hi, the amanda lists listed on www.amanda.org seem to be not available, so I'll ask here. Basically, all the Amanda docs have to say about this particular tape drive, as far as the proper settings are concerned are: define tapetype HP-DAT { comment "DAT tape drives" len

amanda & netbase for bo

1998-07-06 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I am trying to set up amanda on a debian bo system. I got the amanda packages from bo-unstable, but they depend on a version of netbase >= 3.03 which I can't seem to find. Anyone know where I can get the updated netbase package? Thanks

contrib, amanda

1998-03-20 Thread Usman Roshan
The amanda package on the debian web site in incomplete. Besides amanda-server and amanda-client, amanda-common is also needed for the configuration to take place. Can someone put amanda-common on the ftp site ? Also the packages file in unstable/contrib/binary-i386 is of size 0 bytes. When

Amanda help please.

1998-03-10 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to upgrade to amanda 2.4.0 on my network. One of the amanda clients is a Debian 1.2 machine. This machine was working relatively happily as an amanda 2.3 client. I compiled amanda with --with-user=amanda --with-group=operator , which is the asm

Has anyone managed to compile amanda for bo?

1997-12-29 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to set up amanda for our network. I have a Debian bo machine on it. I can't seem to get amanda going. The original distribution core dumpps while runing configure! It's trying tocheck for dump =E at the time BTW. There is a package for

Re: Amanda for Debian?

1997-12-26 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't seem to find a debian package for amanda (backup software from > University of MD), so I thought I would just build it. Unfortuntely it > core dumps during configure with the folowing error messag

Amanda for Debian?

1997-12-25 Thread Stan Brown
I can't seem to find a debian package for amanda (backup software from University of MD), so I thought I would just build it. Unfortuntely it core dumps during configure with the folowing error message: checking whether /sbin/dump supports -E for esti

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