Dustin Mitchell is working on Perl interfaces to the Amanda core. In the webinar, he will discuss the status of this project, how the new Perl interfaces fit...
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Paddy Sreenivasan
paddy@...
Jan 11, 2008 11:08 pm
I forgot the registration information. Register at http://www.zmanda.com/webinar.html Paddy ... -- Amanda http://amanda.zmanda.com ZRM for MySQL...
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Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin@...
Jan 17, 2008 12:49 pm
As a reminder, I'll be hosting a webinar on the new Perl interfaces to Amanda Thursday at 10am PT. Details: http://www.zmanda.com/events.html The event is...
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Jean-Louis Martineau
martineau@...
Jan 18, 2008 5:16 am
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Amanda 2.6.0, the 2.6.0b1 release. It has a complete rewrite of the tape handling...
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Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin@...
Jan 20, 2008 12:52 am
Stefan asked me to foward this along. He's talking about the --dereference option to tar, which causes it to follow symlinks and back up their targets. Do...
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John E Hein
jhein@...
Jan 20, 2008 4:18 am
... Say you have a filesystem mounted on an amanda client using nfs (or smbfs or foofs or whatever). And say that the box where that underlying mount point...
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Geert Uytterhoeven
geert@...
Jan 20, 2008 9:57 am
... It better be a file system without user access... Else, what if a user creates some symbolic links outside the DLE under backup? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert ...
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Stefan G. Weichinger
sgw@...
Jan 21, 2008 9:17 am
... The itch to scratch is very similar to your description: I want to backup videofiles stored in a huge directory. I don't want *all* of them, only some. So...
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John E Hein
jhein@...
Jan 21, 2008 3:01 pm
... You could also put the file names in a tar include file and have the DLE use 'include list'....
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Stefan G. Weichinger
sgw@...
Jan 21, 2008 3:26 pm
... Good point. Just have to transfer that file from the client to the server-box in advance. Thanks, Stefan...
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Stefan G. Weichinger
sgw@...
Jan 21, 2008 3:41 pm
... Man, it *can't* be that easy .... ;) having the perl-script nearly done already. Thanks ... Nevertheless I vote for the symlink-parameter. Stefan...
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Stefan G. Weichinger
sgw@...
Jan 21, 2008 3:51 pm
... This moves the focus: Now I get one fat DLE only, so I have to somehow generate several separate include-files listing only some files each. Until now I...
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Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin@...
Jan 21, 2008 4:02 pm
... Not even that -- use 'include file' to reference a file local to the client: include file './backup-today.list' Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer ...
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Bruce Thompson
drllama@...
Jan 21, 2008 6:48 pm
... Depending on the filesystem type in use, you could also use hard links. Assume the following directories: /mnt/video/stuff - This is where all the videos...
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Stefan G. Weichinger
sgw@...
Jan 21, 2008 7:12 pm
... It's a JFS-system ... ... Yes, I got that suggestion already off-list. Will try that as well on my way to find the most efficient solution ... Thank you,...
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Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin@...
Jan 21, 2008 11:35 pm
Sorry for the delay on this. A recording of my presentation, with video, is now available at: ...
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Paddy Sreenivasan
paddy@...
Jan 22, 2008 1:51 am
RPMs and source tar ball are available for the following platforms at http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php - Red Hat Enterprise server 5, - Red Hat...
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Jean-Louis Martineau
martineau@...
Jan 23, 2008 5:05 pm
... Are you building from a clean tree? Try: make distclean ; ./configure ... ; make If it still fail, what's the output of: grep _alloca config.log grep...
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John E Hein
jhein@...
Jan 23, 2008 5:54 pm
... I have the same problem with some version of FreeBSD and some version of amanda (I think it was 4.x and 2.5.2p1 (and probably others), respectively). There...
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Jean-Louis Martineau
martineau@...
Jan 25, 2008 1:14 pm
You must use a c99 compiler to compile amanda. What ae the errors when you use the c99 compiler? Jean-Louis...
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Daniel Harman
dh@...
Feb 11, 2008 4:19 pm
Hi, I am running v2.5.2 to backup a small university departments data servers. We are running Fedora but turn of selinux at install as it causes more problems...
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Radek Brich
rbrich@...
Feb 12, 2008 11:43 am
... Hi, this is Fedora specific problem, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/431879 . Please wait for updated tar package which should fix the issue. Sorry for the...
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Jean-Louis Martineau
martineau@...
Feb 12, 2008 6:59 pm
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the second beta release of Amanda 2.6.0, the 2.6.0b2 release. It has a complete rewrite of the tape handling...
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Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin@...
Feb 12, 2008 7:26 pm
... <bully pulpit>Platform Experts, this means you! Stand up and be counted!</bully pulpit> Also, I wrote up a thorough guide to running the full suite of...
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Marc Muehlfeld
Marc.Muehlfeld@...
Feb 13, 2008 7:04 am
Hello, when amanda tries to backup a samba share, that is completely empty or contains just 0-byte-files, it shows: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: ...
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Daniel Harman
dh@...
Feb 13, 2008 5:50 pm
Thanks for your help. Based on Radek's pointer to the tar problem, I rolled back our tar version to the version that came with the Fedora 8 distribution ...
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C R Ritson
c.r.ritson@...
Feb 15, 2008 12:29 pm
Not sure if you want beta comments direct or to the list... Sorry. Using a nearly standard Fedora 7 system, but with out own kernel. 1) An old annoyance, and...
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Paddy Sreenivasan
paddy@...
Feb 15, 2008 7:00 pm
If you want packages to try the 2.6.0 beta2 release, they are available at http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php Please give it a try and provide success...
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Orion Poplawski
orion@...
Feb 19, 2008 12:25 am
... This needs to be configurable so that libraries can still be installed into $libdir. Also, it would be better if the template.d and example directories...
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Orion Poplawski
orion@...
Feb 20, 2008 12:29 am
... One more comment, the default location for amandates and gnutar-lists really should be /var/lib/amanda, not /var/amanda. Please see ...
