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. Amanda >>> has

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 with it

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 21:46:23 +0100 Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 02/12/19 01:32, Charles Curley ha scritto: > > > > How do you know this? Granted, upgrades are a likely culprit, but > > don't > > I log all config changes, timestamped and with relevant links to > documentation or supporting evide

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 04 December 2019 15:44:29 Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 01/12/19 22:29, Kamil Jońca ha scritto: > > I got the same today's morning. > > I found that in /etc/services was only: > > Good catch: it was recently modified and I'm pretty sure I didn't do > it. This file is managed by netbase an

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-04 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 02/12/19 01:32, Charles Curley ha scritto: How do you know this? Granted, upgrades are a likely culprit, but don't I log all config changes, timestamped and with relevant links to documentation or supporting evidence for the decision. Is there any reason you are doing production backu

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

2019-12-04 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 01/12/19 22:29, Kamil Jońca ha scritto: I got the same today's morning. I found that in /etc/services was only: Good catch: it was recently modified and I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. This file is managed by netbase and look what I've found: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?b

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 Amanda 3.5.1) > >

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<---cut here

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 Feb 27 12:29 amanda/ > > which I

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 16:50 ./ > > {} > > drwx--S--- 2 backup backup

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 didn't recognise. I see that it's some ba

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
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:55 -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > First I would check that the 'backup' user is part of the 'tape' > group. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep tape /etc/group tape:x:26:backup > If not a permissions setting of 660 owned by root:tape would give > exactly what you describe

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 cron job as user backup, acce

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, and amdump won't > run unles

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 thing which wo

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, and like

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 yet set up the Erik

Re: Amanda tape definitions

1999-06-25 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > Max wrote: > > > > Did you make sure that you have an entry like > > > > tapetype DAT > > > > before all the tapetype definitions. Also, you should have a line > > that says something like > > > > tapedev "/dev/nst0" > > > > If this doesn't help, e-mail me your

Re: Amanda tape definitions

1999-06-25 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Max wrote: > > Did you make sure that you have an entry like > > tapetype DAT > > before all the tapetype definitions. Also, you should have a line > that says something like > > tapedev "/dev/nst0" > > If this doesn't help, e-mail me your amanda.conf file and I'll see if > there are any obvi

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-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 0

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: alpha: [access as backup not

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 pointers would

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 message: > > checking whether /s