Hello,
The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.1.2.
This is the latest bug fix release in the 3.1.x release series, and
introduces no new functionality over the 3.1.0 or 3.1.1 releases.
Source tarballs are available from
- http://www.amanda.org
-
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:10 AM, zimbot amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
friends i would like to write to 2 lto4 drives at the same time.
2 drives - 2 tapes at the same time.
Is such a thing possible and if so how.
has anyone done this?
Well, in released versions you can only do so if
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Douglas K. Rand
r...@meridian-enviro.com wrote:
This sounds great. Might this also support the ability to have multiple
changers active at the same time? As our backup sizes have grown we've
thrown more tapes at the problem recently rather than increase the
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Luc Lalonde luc.lalo...@polymtl.ca wrote:
Fantastic! That did the trick.
Great - thanks!
Will you be including this in 3.1.2? For the moment, I patched the RPMSRC
from the Zmanda binary repo and it works great with your modifications.
No, 3.1.2 is tagged
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Douglas K. Rand
r...@meridian-enviro.com wrote:
I'll admit I'm selfishly trying to not have to balance multiple Amanda
configs and also not have to change tapes. I'm just lazy.
That's a very reasonable expectation of your backup software!
At this point, Amanda
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:49 PM, G W Cantello
gl...@fpp.nuclearsafetysolutions.com wrote:
I presume it is my ignorance in using the GPATCH command.
No - rather, the patch is against trunk. Oops! I've rebased it onto
the 3_1 branch for you. Sorry about that!
You should be good to go, now.
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:17 PM, G W Cantello
gl...@fpp.nuclearsafetysolutions.com wrote:
that did it,
Thanks for the super fast reply.
Sure thing. I'm sorry the fix didn't make it into 3.1.2. I should
check on the progress of those packages...
Did this fix the underlying problem, or just
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Marc Muehlfeld
marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote:
ERROR: nucleus.mr.lfmg.de: Application 'amsamba': Can't locate
auto/Amanda/Util/split_quote.al in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Eko Harianto eko.li...@harian.to wrote:
yes, actually I specified 3G split size in my config, but I don't know
that I have to add split_diskbuffer parameter until I upgraded to
3.1.1 and she complains about that.
Hopefully you can see why we added that warning.
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Luc Lalonde luc.lalo...@polymtl.ca wrote:
All I can say is that I don't get this problem using 2.6.1p2 only 3.1.1 on
the server side.
It's quite possible that the older versions were masking some
corruption in the trace logs -- or that you have some older trace
Ok, I took a look at the logfiles, and they're *very* old-school. It
looks like there's been a longstanding bug in find.c that mis-parsed
some of these log entries, and now that we're up and running with
Amanda::DB::Catalog, that mis-parsing causes failures.
I managed to reproduce this by
Jean-Louis has been hard at work putting together support for multiple
simultaneous writes to different tape devices. This means, for
example, that if you have a changer with two tape drives, you can
write different dumps to both of those drives at once.
Jean-Louis is on vacation at the moment,
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Charles Curley
charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote:
You can get a crude and unreliable view of things by checking the
holding disk. If you are using vtapes, you can also check their
progress. And there is always ps aux | grep backupuser. But since
the planner
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Sean Walmsley
s...@fpp.nuclearsafetysolutions.com wrote:
But, if I use the gtar '--ignore-zeros' flag (exists in 1.17
as well as 1.22/1.23) then all versions keep running forever.
We're compiling (and running) amcheckdump on a machine with
gtar version 1.22, so
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Luc Lalonde luc.lalo...@polymtl.ca wrote:
amidxtaped: Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -1
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Amanda/DB/Catalog.pm line 636.
Here is the suspect line in Amanda/DB/Catalog.pm:
636
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
You're right that this makes amandapass difficult to format .. I'll
see what I can do.
Here's a patch you can try:
http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/z11669.patch
You can apply it without recompiling
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Marc Muehlfeld
marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote:
But I haven't configured any of the two variables - so they use their
internal defaults. But the default values seem not to be perfect, when they
produce this warning.
I think you mean default as
What's in the amrecover debug log? And what's the fulll amidxtaped
log? It looks like your dumps are split into a *lot* of parts - are
you using a 10M split size?
Dustin
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Open Source Storage Engineer
http://www.zmanda.com
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:58 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
Was there a patch for this problem?
Thanks to Orion, yes:
http://github.com/zmanda/amanda/commit/6ab225a354869f0c85a86e4407dd56193f3872c2
http://github.com/zmanda/amanda/commit/c1fec3ef1b20b0426d7ea702590231740ee4db21
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Marc Muehlfeld
marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote:
No. I mean: I haven't this two variables in my config. And if a variable is
not there, then I guess amanda uses it's internal default values for that.
The manpage shows that default values for many
Robert, how would you feel about testing out the new amvault
functionality? If you have a server on which you could install the
latest 3.2 snapshot, I'd love to have some feedback.
Dustin
--
Open Source Storage Engineer
http://www.zmanda.com
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin
ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote:
I think I am starting to understand but I'm still confused as to why
amdump uses the oldest newly labeled tape but then refuses to use the
second to last newly labelled tape. Also the fact the amreport says
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Marc Muehlfeld
marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote:
When the colums in the file amandapass are separated with more than one
space and/or tab, then username/password is not reccognized and the connect
is tried as guest (what fails if authentication is
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Sean Walmsley
s...@fpp.nuclearsafetysolutions.com wrote:
It looks to me like:
- process 10344 (amcheckdump) creates a pipe
with file descriptors 8 and 9 at each end.
- the process forks off a child (10350)
- the parent closes fd8
- the child closes fd9
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:15 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
hertz /gauss/export/users-m lev 0 partial taper: Error writing block:
Mysterious short write on tape device: Tried 2097152, got 1052672
hertz /gauss/export/users-y lev 0 FLUSH while ejecting volume: Can't open
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin
ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote:
tutor /raid/data2 lev 0 partial taper: No acceptable volumes found
I've put the taper debug file in http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/~malin/amanda
as it's too big to be attached here. Note that this file is
It's the weirdest thing, but many of Amanda's best bugs (in the sense
of being the most complex) are discovered independently by 3-4 people
within a week of one another.
Stephen Gelman, building Amanda on Nextenta, discovered the same bug.
What's happening is that amfetchdump is using the wrong
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Sean Walmsley
s...@fpp.nuclearsafetysolutions.com wrote:
Since this error is coming from just a few lines after the line
that caused the hanging problem, and since amcheckdump should only
be writing to the /dev/null device that wasn't being opened properly
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Steven Backus
bac...@whimsy.med.utah.edu wrote:
This works but now I get:
planner: ERROR tranquility.med.utah.edu NAK: timeout on reply pipe
This is large huge disk with lots of files. Is there a timeout I
can increase?
That particular timeout is
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Steven Backus
bac...@whimsy.med.utah.edu wrote:
Can you point me to documetation about how to set up an estimate
server?
It's not a separate server -- just an argument to the 'estimate'
dumptype config param, instead of the default (client). So add
estimate
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Prashant Joshi prash...@zmanda.com wrote:
Dustin, can you please confirm, why is the server sending a level 0 request
every time?
That would happen if the planner's request for a level-1 estimate
failed for some reason, or if there's a strategy that causes the
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:50 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
planner: time 113.487: got result for host mailrelay disk C:/Alligate: 0 -
2604811K, 1 - -3K, -1 - -3K
planner: time 113.487: getting estimates took 113.080 secs
It looks like ZWC only returned an estimate for a level
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Chris Hoogendyk
hoogen...@bio.umass.edu wrote:
I haven't yet gotten the gumption to check in the middle of the night to see
how the processes are playing out on the servers. I suppose I could be lazy
and cron out a couple of amstatus reports during the night,
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:31 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
Below are two URL that has the log files from the server and the ZWC for the
run.
Thanks! I see Estimate several times in the ZWC logfile, but I
don't see a description of the level it is estimating. Prashant?
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Chris Hoogendyk
hoogen...@bio.umass.edu wrote:
Or, has amplot changed significantly in recent releases? Might it have
options for individual servers (Amanda clients)?
It hasn't been touched since I started working on Amanda 4 years ago.
I'm glad to hear it
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Darin Perusich
darin.perus...@cognigencorp.com wrote:
I want to setup Amanda to backup the file systems, drbd devices, of an
active/passive cluster over the shared IP addresses. But when I configure it
this always fails w/ timeout waiting for ACK. Is this
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote:
If I recall, netusage will delay start or re-activation of
dumpers dumpers when the network bandwidth threshhold has
been crossed, it doesn't throttle actively links.
This is correct. It's a common misconception that
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:30 AM, ambersky
amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
Thank you so much for your reply, I have tried to copy the config, catalog
and indexes file. But it is still not working. Is there any other easier way
to do the recovery from the third PC?
amrestore is always an
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Sean Walmsley
s...@fpp.nuclearsafetysolutions.com wrote:
Unfortunately I no experience with automake/libtool so I
can't propose a solution. Hopefully documenting this issue
here will assist anyone else who runs into this in the
future.
The situation is a lot
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.comwrote:
Right now, I'm copying over files to a Toshiba 1TB drive - it's taking
forever! But any directions greatly appreciated!
Well, if your backups are encrypted, then clearly you're going to need your
key. You'll also
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Steven Backus
bac...@whimsy.med.utah.edu wrote:
I back up a 2 TB partition on a machine that's also my server.
It takes a long time and something is causing amanda to crash.
Afterwords I get:
WARNING: tranquility.med.utah.edu: selfcheck request failed:
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Sean Walmsley
s...@fpp.nuclearsafetysolutions.com wrote:
Thanks for any insight you can provide (well, besides the obvious
suggestion to not leave older versions of Amanda about!).
I have never understood Solaris's approach to linking very well, but I
can say
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Steven Backus
bac...@whimsy.med.utah.edu wrote:
server_args = -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped
works (after restart)
server_args = -auth=local amdump amindexd amidxtaped
doesn't work (timeout) am I doing it wrong?
local auth takes UDP and inetd
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.comwrote:
I'm thinking it might be best to just go ahead and do a clean install, but
I'm unsure of what I'll lose. If I copied over my Amanda directories and
files to the secondary drive, will that help with restoration? My
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Karl Burkett burk...@rice.edu wrote:
When using gtar to do a backup to virtual tapes where the session spans
across two tapes, the failed tar file on the first tape is kept on the
virtual tape. Is there a way to tell amanda to erase the failed backup
to save
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Michael Robbert mrobb...@mines.edu wrote:
1. How can we fix the fatal error? I'm more than willing to help debug if
this doesn't appear to be reproducible. I'm a capable Linux system
administrator that knows a little perl, but not a developer.
I'll see if I
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:39 AM, OLOPS Daniel (MM)
daniel.ol...@magnetimarelli.com wrote:
- Compile my on glib (that's the kind of voodoo I would prefer to avoid!): My
compilation attempt was unsuccessful, so I installed an older version
(2.12.4) from IBM which doesn't face the -qthreaded
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote:
I'm dumping core on an Solaris 10x86 amanda client when
I use dumptype zfs-snapshot.
Is tar dumping core, or an Amanda app? I recall we had a bug
discussed here where gnutar would segfault while working on ZFS
snapshots
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Michael Robbert mrobb...@mines.edu wrote:
1. It would be nice if the amtape inventory command could just return its
data from the state file. It looks like it is doing a mtx status which for
some reason takes a long time for me. I just want an easy way to see
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Dominik Schips domi...@s235.de wrote:
With normal configuration the 500 GB full backup to tape took about
10-11 hours.
With the split tape config it took about 16 hours to backup 116 GB and
amanda ist still running to backup the other data.
When doing a split
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote:
The configure had a lot of errors, many egrep syntax errors, macro
warnings and type mismatch errors, I can script and send the whole
thing if anyone wants to see it.
egrep: syntax error
egrep: syntax error
egrep:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote:
Name main::opt_info used only once: possible typo at chg-rth.nouselib line
276.
Name main::lastTape used only once: possible typo at chg-rth.nouselib line
226.
Name main::result used only once: possible typo at
Usually the best way to make a replicated server is to use rsync to
keep a spare copy of the config, catalog and indexes - so basically,
/etc/amanda/$yourconf plus logdir, curinfo, and indexdir.
It'd be nice if Amanda could take care of this for you, but there's a
bit of a chicken-and-egg problem
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have a suggestion so as to find out where its going?
Well, it's not really an Amanda question. Amanda just invokes 'mail'
to send the email, so that's where you should start, and perhaps
continue on the
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, mail works, but it seems to just append to /home/amanda/dead.letter,
which apparently contains all the mail it has tried to send. Look like I
maybe need to touch 'mail' there, and then pull it, no, perms will get
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Prashant Joshi prash...@zmanda.com wrote:
exclude C:\\Documents and Settings\\*\\Application
Data\\Microsoft
Note that this is equivalent to
exclude C:\\Documents
exclude append and
exclude append Settings\\*\\Application
exclude append
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Jens Berg jens.b...@funkwerk-ec.com wrote:
Thanks again for your help!
And thanks to you - I'll get the updated patch committed in time for
version 3.1.2.
Dustin
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http://www.zmanda.com
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote:
So where do I actually start so I can play the canary again?
Maybe you have selinux enabled? Selinux only has two modes:
disabled and broken. This is the error to fix:
mkdir: cannot create directory
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote:
But why should it even be trying to use a path starting with /root? That
part of the script is running as the user amanda.
Maybe a difference in 'su' behavior between the various Linux distros?
Dustin
--
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Florian Lengyel
florian.leng...@gmail.com wrote:
We're attempting to get the specifications for the holding disk of an AMANDA
server with 6GB SAS controllers that will be connected to an LTO5 drive.
We want to know whether 7200 RPM SATA drives would be
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Florian Lengyel
florian.leng...@gmail.com wrote:
However, a SAS drive can deliver 300 Mb/sec (theoretical); in practice
270 Mb/sec
is more likely. I have neither the drive nor the server with the
disks, so I am guessing.
I imagine a RAID5 SAS disk
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Jens Berg jens.b...@funkwerk-ec.com wrote:
That's easy. I will run a test today and tell you if it works.
Any results? I'd like to get this committed shortly so that it can
get into the 3.1.2 release.
Dustin
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Open Source Storage Engineer
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin
ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote:
taped : 14 341794m 341794m (100.00%) ( 28.18%)
tape 1 : 14 520994m 520994m (134.96%) av24-2_right2_V00023L3
(128 chunks)
I liked that feature. Possible to get it back?
In
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:42 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
Looking at the setup_15_nubytes and the zmanda wiki I am a little confused
where things go on the window machine.
What's that?! I thought I had at least heard of all the content on the wiki...
I see that the
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Chris Nighswonger
cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote:
Since no one has spoken up, I'm calling it a bug. The wildcard is
clearly supported in a filename in exclude lists with ZWC. It follows,
therefore, that it should be supported in pathing as well. So is there
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Jens Berg jens.b...@funkwerk-ec.com wrote:
Done this today. The resulting taper debug log is 3.9 GB large...
Assuming you wouldn't want to read that word by word, I cut out the
relevant parts and put it together with the amdump and the normal log
into the
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
So I notice that it hits this assertion at byte 2**31 of the
split_diskbuffer. That number is just too precise to be a
coincidence. You don't, by chance, have your split_diskbuffer on a
32-bit filesystem, do you
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Jens Berg jens.b...@funkwerk-ec.com wrote:
Has anyone the same problem and/or an idea how to solve this?
Well, as an assertion failure it's a shouldn't happen kind of situation.
Can you send the entire tape debug log file to me? Also, if this is
reproducible,
Hmm, 14 parts and 14 Error writing to fd 5 messages. From my memory
and a brief look at the 2.6.1 sources (I couldn't find a version in
the thread, but this looks like 2.6.1 to me), that wouldn't have come
from Amanda itself, but from something Amanda ran - perhaps the
decompression binary? You
It looks like you've built Amanda against one instance of, but are
running it against another. Do you have multiple perl's installed?
Dustin
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http://www.zmanda.com
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:38 PM, OLOPS Daniel (MM)
daniel.ol...@magnetimarelli.com wrote:
No, just the version I said. Is there any log file useful in this case?
Here's the error message:
Can't load '/usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.2/auto/Amanda/Debug/libDebug.a'
for module Amanda::Debug:
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:13 PM, OLOPS Daniel (MM)
daniel.ol...@magnetimarelli.com wrote:
AIX does support shared libraries, but there are some differences compared to
System V. There is some useful information in this link:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gnu.html#N101DB
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Chris Nighswonger
cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote:
I'm wondering if the problem described below is a bug or expected behavior?
Well, if it's not in the docs, then it's not expected :)
Has anyone else on the list worked with exclude lists with ZWC?
Dustin
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote:
OK, So i've tried again without the custom-compress option, now when it
gets to the 5th tape when trying to recover I just get
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Extractor child
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
Did you pass any flags to the configure/make invocations that would
cause it to create static libraries instead of shared objects?
Incidentally, have you looked at
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:26 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote:
Sugestions?
Is this the most recent version? 3.1.1 I think?
Dustin
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On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com wrote:
Hi everyone - just wondering if there's anyway to show folks if Amanda is
running on a client and estimated time to completion.
I'm surprised nobody else has tried to answer. Probably the best way
to see if Amanda
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote:
client_custom_compress /usr/bin/pigz
I've heard about pigz in use several times now, and in no case was it
successful. I don't know exactly what the problem is, but history
suggests that things will work fine for you
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote:
Anything else I can try? This is really killing me!
It doesn't look like that was a tar file. How was it backed up, and
how are you restoring?
Dustin
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On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:56 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
In my case there were several dump image that could have been written to the
tape. Amanda did not seem to pick the largest dump image that would fit on
the tape.
Well, bear in mind that the tape drive does not give
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar
gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote:
The issue is resolved it needs to have write permission in the sysconfdir
directory as well. I my case its /etc/opt/amanda which this differs from
previous versions.
I'll check this out - Amanda should at least
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:55 AM, OLOPS Daniel (MM)
daniel.ol...@magnetimarelli.com wrote:
I'm setting a battle here trying to compile Amanda on AIX. Yes, I know this
is rather difficult due to dependency problems, but I'm confident :)
It's been done before, if that helps. Sadly, the AIX
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Marc Muehlfeld
marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote:
I'm using amanda 2.6.1p2 and I'm wondering, why my vtapes are allways filled
up to 100%, while LTO3 tapes are not:
vtapes size themselves to precisely LENGTH bytes, whereas tape
capacity can vary based
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:52 PM, OLOPS Daniel (MM)
daniel.ol...@magnetimarelli.com wrote:
BTW, could I just cross-compile Amanda statically? I never did it before,
seems pretty promising...
Amanda uses dynamic linking to interface with Perl code, so static
linking is no longer possible.
Dustin
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:
I'll report back in a few days how many bounces I got from this message.
Please do. Hopefully Todd's changes have reduced this number significantly.
Dustin
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On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:22 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
Why would amanda pick a 37GB file when there is only ~28GB left on the tape
and when there were plenty of files waiting to go to tape that were less than
28GB?
Amanda doesn't track a notion of how much space is left
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote:
Next question off topic, how do we teach list members it is very poor form
to go off on holiday and set an out of office auto-reply pointed at a
mailing list, this will get me 5 or 6 of them in the next 10 minutes. As
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
(syed.hos...@aeris.net) syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote:
Finally, is this problem big enough to matter (I guess I will find out with
*this* e-mail message ... :)), albeit some of you all do seem to think so!
I get about one a day, so in general,
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar
gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote:
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: 1 new tape.
FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY:
taper: FATAL Could not open '/etc/opt/amanda/orabck/tapelist'
for writing: Permission denied at
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
The status seems to say there is no holding disk space available.
You've asked to set aside 700GB, does /zvol/amanda/holdingdisk/daily
have that much space available?
Are the DLEs causing the problem larger than 700GB?
It
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar
gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote:
Perms are okay, it was working for versions 3.1.0.
# ls -l /etc/opt/amanda/orabck/tapelist
-rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 259 Jun 28 20:26
/etc/opt/amanda/orabck/tapelist
How about for the enclosing
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
If the 'define holdingdisk name' syntax is used, are you saying
the 'holdingdisk name' directive must be used to specify which
defined hd to use?
No, and actually this is just an extension of the existing
terminology. For
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote:
Great thanks. I'll try this - is this something most people set on as
part of a normal config?
It's relatively new, so no, not yet, but if it proves to have lots of
upsides and no significant downsides, then I'm sure it
Here's some more info:
The reason why ZWC is not excluding the files is because of the way
exclude pattern is specified. Following are my test results:
ZWC 3.1.1 rev 22762
ZMC 3.1.1 rev 22752
1. Correct exclude pattern (Added using ZMC):
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Raul Zighelboim
rzighelb...@whiteglove.com wrote:
Shuold amaddclient connect to port 22 on a windows machine?
amaddclient is something of a hack, and it tries to scp things to the
target machine. Obviously this fails for Windows, but the failure is
benign, as
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:07 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
I want to set the unreserved-tcp-port range to a smaller subset.
I'd first ask, why? This parameter was added so that people could
not open as many ports in their firewall, but if you think about it,
that's like closing
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote:
How do I enable it?
Assuming you have a new enough version, add
property NO-QUOTING yes
to your dumptype.
Dustin
--
Open Source Storage Engineer
http://www.zmanda.com
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
property NO-QUOTING yes
Sorry, that's
property NO-UNQUOTE yes
Dustin
--
Open Source Storage Engineer
http://www.zmanda.com
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote:
Is this possibly my problem Dustin?
NO-UNQUOTE
If NO (the default), gnutar doesn't get the --no-unquote option
and the diskname can't have some characters, eg. '\'. If YES, then the
--no-unquote option is given to
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:16 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
The host hertz is both the amanda server and client.
If this is the case, then you can use auth local instead, and avoid
any problems with bsdtcp. That was brave of you to try to upgrade,
change auth, and change
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