Re: Not found in archive

2010-06-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: Non-IT-people might say QUOTE yes ---  ;-) ? Yes, we IT people do love our N-negatives, since we can just look at the rightmost bit of N to determine its interpretation. The name is based on the underlying gnu-tar

Re: ZWC and exclude list not behaving as expected

2010-06-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: So... am I missing something that I don't know about or is this a bug? Replying on Paddy's behalf: There's a 3.1.1 that's currently in internal testing that might improve the situation. It should be ready

Re: Migrating from DLT to LTO

2010-06-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Marc Muehlfeld marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote: Does amanda meanwhile provides a way to migrate the data to the new tapes without copying 1:1 and lossing much free space (DLT has 40 GB, LTO has 400 GB space). Not yet, no. Amvault will be able to

Re: ZWC and exclude list question (another one)

2010-06-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: So is the only way to do this to have a dumptype setup using 'exclude' and 'exclude append' to catch each of potentially 300 some multimedia file extensions? This would mean 300 some 'exclude'/'exclude

Re: 3202?

2010-06-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Then in the reports listing: coyote  /bin             1      10      10   --   0:01    15.4  0:01    10.0 Nothing I know of changed, but that does seem small. Well, it's an incremental, and as you say nothing's

3.1.1 is coming up

2010-06-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
We're looking to release 3.1.1 early next week. As I've mentioned before, the third number in Amanda version numbering is now a patch, so you can think of this as 3.1p1 if you'd like. That means it doesn't have any new functionality, only bugfixes, documentation updates, and so on. Jean-Louis

Re: Amanda-3.1.0 mail report: tape write rate is off

2010-06-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: I haven't looked too hard on this but it seems to me that amreport for amanda-3.1.0 doesn't correctly calculate the tape write rate. At a brief look, that looks reasonable - 884G in 5 hours is about 50M/s,

Re: Amanda-3.1.0 mail report: tape write rate is off

2010-06-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: 5hrs is the run time: Estimate Time (hrs:min)     0:44 Run Time (hrs:min)          5:36 Dump Time (hrs:min)         2:50       2:32       0:18 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)  51715.5    51345.9    98233.1

Re: Amanda-3.1.0 mail report: tape write rate is off

2010-06-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: This time (4:52) is the sum of the total time taken in writing each individual DLE (DONE lines in the log).  There is overhead, particularly when writing multi-part DLEs that is reflected in this number. .. This number (2:21)

Re: Amanda-3.1.0 mail report: tape write rate is off

2010-06-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: I guess bumping up tape_splitsize should speed up things. I'll try that tonight. You may want to check out the taper debug logs, too - it's a very common misconfiguration to set tape_splitsize but not

Re: Many Zombie processes with Amanda 2.6.1p2 during backup

2010-06-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Andreas Haumer andr...@xss.co.at wrote: I recently upgraded one machine from Amanda v2.5.2p1 to v2.6.1p2 and noticed that with the new version amandad does not collect exit status from forked child processes anymore, so all terminated child processes are left

Re: amcheck does not check runtapes parameter

2010-06-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Dennis Benndorf dennis.bennd...@gmx.de wrote: I stumbled about that amcheck does not seem to recognize how much tapes per run is set in amanda.conf. So if I need 5 tapes, it would say that everything is ok if only one tape is available. Might this something to

Re: perl scripting and the new API with amanda-3.1.0

2010-06-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
First, I'm excited you're using the modules, and thanks for the feedback! On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: Using Amanda::Config.pm as an example I tried: config_init($CONFIG_INIT_EXPLICIT_NAME, Config_Name); $ss =

Re: perl scripting and the new API with amanda-3.1.0

2010-06-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: Are you sure about that? I don't see any $CHANGER_CONFIG_USE_SLOTS in 3.1.0... In the mean time I resorted to slurp all the changer properties with $tpc_prop = changer_config_getconf($ss,

Re: Identifying what file is at the start of a tape for audit purposes

2010-06-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote: Is there any way to identify (via the index or other means) what file is at the start of what tape or what split part? You can use 'amadmin find' I suppose.. although it doesn't let you search by tape. I need to audit

Re: Identifying what file is at the start of a tape for audit purposes

2010-06-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote: Hi Dustin, Thanks for this pointer. I assume amcheckdump takes just as long as the backup takes in the first place? Within an order of magnitude, yes. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Can't recover with 2.6.1p2 client from 3.1.0 server

2010-06-14 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Marc Muehlfeld marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote: This second patch fixes the problem. Thanks. Great - thanks! Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: auth question

2010-06-14 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: If I compile with --with-bsdtcp-security and bsd, can my 2.6.1p2 server use bsd security for some clients and bsdtcp for other clients and would I set this in the define dumptype? Absolutely. Dustin -- Open

Re: Amanda 3.1

2010-06-14 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Wojciech Giel wojciech.g...@cimr.cam.ac.uk wrote: Could you provide package for ubuntu server 10.4 LTS amd64 and x86? You should be able to run packaging/deb/buildpkg on such a system, to create the packages yourself. At the moment, we don't have a 10.4 build

Re:

2010-06-14 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: I am not quite sure how amanda uses the --with-tcpportrange=low/high. Does this parameter have to be defined in both the client and server software or does the server pass the ranges to the client? It needs to be

Re: Recovering from a dead vtape drive

2010-06-14 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: This morning, the disk drive that holds my vtapes dies on me. I was able to recover. My notes are at

Re: The canary just died again

2010-06-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: And 3161 is still confused. ;-)  In the final mix, how is this supposed to work?, and I'll change my 2 scripts accordingly. I think you're just pulling my chain now, but I'll go again: Right, I haven't fixed it

Re: The canary just died again

2010-06-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Is it intentional now that amcheck, amplanner and a couple others are now owned by root:root? No, they should be owned by root:disk (or root:backup, depending on your system), and setuid. Dustin -- Open Source

Re: The canary just died again

2010-06-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: At the end of the install, it falls over with: make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/amanda/amanda-3.2.0alpha.svn.3147' bash: /usr/local/sbin/amcheck: Permission denied And sure enough, when I go check, amcheck is owned

Re: Can't recover with 2.6.1p2 client from 3.1.0 server

2010-06-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Marc Muehlfeld marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote: header on 'KDD174' file 29 does not match expectations: got partnum '0'; expected '1' Got no header and data from server, check in amidxtaped.*.debug and amandad.*.debug files on server Ah, this is

Re: Can't recover with 2.6.1p2 client from 3.1.0 server

2010-06-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: Ah, this is completely different error, but you've given me enough info to replicate and fix it.  I've attached a source-level patch that you can apply, but the better fix is at the C level (and will be in 3.1.1

Re: The canary just died again

2010-06-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, but todays 3156 just fell over, same perms problem. Right, I haven't fixed it yet. Are you sure you want to change how that works? Yes - chowning everything to amanda is actually *less* secure (since it means that

Re: Can't recover with 2.6.1p2 client from 3.1.0 server

2010-06-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
OK, this was apparently a failure of my Perl-fu. I had written something like my $check = sub { # determine if $_ is suitable }; @list = grep $check, @other_list; Thinking that Perl would helpfully invoke $check. It won't - it just looks at the boolean value of $check, and it's a nonzero

Re: Cleanup vtape space Amanda-2.6.1

2010-06-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Dimiter Maznekov d.mazne...@optixco.com wrote: After long long holliday I'm returning in company and see this message: FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY:    www.site.org /var/www/htdocs/ISU lev 1  FAILED [Not enough holding disk space]    www.site.org /var/www/htdocs/ISU

Re: Can't recover with 2.6.1p2 client from 3.1.0 server

2010-06-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Marc Muehlfeld marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote: Am 09.06.2010 16:43, schrieb Dustin J. Mitchell: The messages will have gone into amidxtaped.*.debug.. But just the following files were created, until the amrecover - can't talk to tape server

Re: amanda-backup_client conflicts with amanda-backup_server-3.1.0-1.rhel5.i386

2010-06-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
I *think* this is the same issue being addressed here: http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?t=2800 Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: After upgrading to 3.1.0: ETIMEOUT must be positive

2010-06-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Marc Muehlfeld marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote:   ETIMEOUT must be positive But the manpage says: etimeout int . A negative value will be interpreted as a total amount of time to wait per client instead of per disk. Who's wrong? Manpage or

Re: Can't recover with 2.6.1p2 client from 3.1.0 server

2010-06-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Marc Muehlfeld marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote:   Tue Jun  8 16:39:14 2010: amidxtaped: CTL LABEL=KDD174:29 ..   Tue Jun  8 16:39:18 2010: amidxtaped: CTL MESSAGE Specified file list matches multiple dumps; cannot continue recovery So what's

Re: timeout waiting for REP

2010-06-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:39 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: I am seeing several of the following dumper: [request failed: timeout waiting for REP](too) errors when I run the amstatus command. Below is a snippet of one of the errors. Is the (too) really part of the error? Can

Re: perl -pthreads questions

2010-06-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:30 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: I have search for this information but cannot find any information. Is this an error? If so what is the resolution? How do I make perl link with -pthreads? Nope, it's just Make showing you the command it would invoke

Re: I see a file core20100603

2010-06-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:23 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: In /tmp/amanda I see for the first time a file core20100603 what is this file? It's a core file. Depending on your OS configuration, it can be created when a process is killed by a fatal error like a segfault. They're

Re: I see a file core20100603

2010-06-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:42 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: Usually core files have just the name core I have not seen any core files with the date attached and the fact that it was in /tmp/amanda and owned by amanda I thought it might be some file created by amanda. Yeah,

Re: amgtar question

2010-06-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:25 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: Which seem to resolve the problem. I'm not sure what the question was .. but amgtar in 2.6.1 didn't have an ACLS property: http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/2.6.1/amgtar.8.html Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer

Re: Using multiple changers

2010-06-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Spam detection software, running on the system becherovka.cz.omniscient.com, has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see postmaster for

Re: New options autolabel Amanda 3.1.0bet2

2010-05-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: I got the fatal error see below while testing the new option autolabel, the configuration was empty and amcheck -s was ok. Does the tapelist file exist? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer

Re: New options autolabel Amanda 3.1.0bet2

2010-05-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: Does the tapelist file exist? Ah! A while back, we made a missing tapelist a warning in amcheck, but the taper was not updated to automatically create it in this case. So you'll need to create your tapelist first

Re: amrecover from 2.5.0p2 using tape_splitsize

2010-05-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Charlie Reitsma reit...@denison.edu wrote: I saw a thread that recommended trying amindexd, amidxtaped, amoldrecover from 2.5.1b2. That was reported successful with no configuration changes. I wonder if anyone could flesh that out a bit more for me? Yikes, I'm

Re: amtapetype Amanda 3.1.0beta2

2010-05-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: I've tested the tape drivers and they seems to be working fine, how does drivers detect end of tape. This seems to be a specific Solaris issue ? Amanda detects EOT by counting any error as an EOT indication.

Re: amanda backup of virtual machine under citrix

2010-05-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: We seem to be missing something in our config but I'm not finding the key in the wiki. What should I be looking for ? I'm guessing that amanda/tcp isn't in your services db? On most systems, that's /etc/services, but on

Re: amanda backup of virtual machine under citrix

2010-05-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Chris Hoogendyk hoogen...@bio.umass.edu wrote: I don't mean to question Dustin I rather enjoy being questioned, so don't worry about that! This was a guess, and apparently I was correct this time around. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer

Re: amrecover from 2.5.0p2 using tape_splitsize

2010-05-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Charlie Reitsma reit...@denison.edu wrote: The two times I've tried to move to current releases I've run into trouble and had to back out. Bringing all 24 clients and server at once is a bit daunting. I think I'll have to scrounge up another system and tape

Re: amtapetype Amanda 3.1.0beta2

2010-05-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: Wrote 406883762176 bytes at 7552 kb/sec Writing smaller files (4068835328 bytes) to determine filemark. amtapetype: Error writing label 'amtapetype-2046333855': Error writing block: Mysterious short write on

Re: amtapetype Amanda 3.1.0beta2

2010-05-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Ah - after the device has encountered an error, it won't give properties anymore (case doesn't matter). Try moving the block_size up in the script: diff --git a/device-src/amtapetype.pl b/device-src/amtapetype.pl index 5bd7411..80c0ad7 100644 --- a/device-src/amtapetype.pl +++

Re: amtapetype Amanda 3.1.0beta2

2010-05-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: Applying heuristic check for compression. Wrote random (uncompressible) data at 7492244.64516129 bytes/sec Wrote fixed (compressible) data at 35732243.6923077 bytes/sec Compression: enabled Writing one file

Re: amtapetype Amanda 3.1.0beta2

2010-05-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: Thanks Dustin the patch is working fine, good work. Great! Compression enabled, does it mean that it is using compression ? Yep. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Issue with amrecover from 2nd tape

2010-05-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote: You need to specify -c with pbzip2 to have it compress to stdout I believe. If you just run it by itself; Ah! Then, for the moment at least, you'll need to write a wrapper script that doesn't require any arguments.

Re: amtapetype Amanda 3.1.0beta2

2010-05-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: Tue May 18 13:22:08 2010: amtapetype: Device /dev/rmt/0n error = 'Could not seek to file 2 correctly; got 1' Hmm.. can you send me the syscall trace (truss or strace) of that? Here's the comment above that error

Re: amtapetype Amanda 3.1.0beta2

2010-05-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: Hmm.. can you send me the syscall trace (truss or strace) of that? (truss now in hand..) Oh, silly me - the code detects that the tape drive needs the FSF_AFTER_FILEMARK property, by virtue of getting an error from

Re: Issue with amrecover from 2nd tape

2010-05-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote: 1273659791.836703: sendbackup: critical (fatal): index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] This means that the index tee (which splits off the 'tar' output to generate the index) cannot write to its output, which is the

Re: Issue with amrecover from 2nd tape

2010-05-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote: This was the problem. Using gzip it retrieves from the 2nd tape just fine. It takes twice as long to run the backup though! Is anyone using pigz and is successfully retrieving data from the 2nd tape on? or has anyone

Re: Issue with amrecover from 2nd tape

2010-05-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote: In the mean time I can't get pbzip2 to work at all. It just crashes out with the following: Please attach the whole sendbackup log. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: taper segfault (BUG: Bad page map in process taper)

2010-05-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Dustin C. Hatch dha...@gosupertechs.com wrote: I update to Kernel version 2.6.32-r7 last night. I was able to do a full backup to tape earlier today, using tapes that I know failed before. I guess there could have been a driver problem in 2.6.31. I'll try a

Re: Issue with amrecover from 2nd tape

2010-05-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote: Does this help at all? as it read the 2nd tape does this mean the data is on the tapes and it's a problem with amrecover? Basically. It could mean that the data on the tapes is corrupt, although the basic structure of

Re: how to eject a rait volume?

2010-05-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: Dustin, educate me please! How do I proceed with the git patches and how do I patch the source on my side? First, if you click on each of those commits in github, you'll have URLs like

Re: how to eject a rait volume?

2010-05-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: I see a lot of warning in the debug file: Fri May  7 13:54:34 2010: amtape: warning: Use of uninitialized value in bitwise or (|) at /opt/amanda-3.1.0beta2/perl/Amanda/Changer/rait.pm line 596. These are

Re: request: script for generating DLEs

2010-05-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: It's a DRAFT! Looks good so far, though! Will you be adding this to contrib/ when it's ready? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: how to eject a rait volume?

2010-05-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: How do you specify a drive number with a mirror rait using chg-robot? ~# su amanda -c /opt/amanda-3.1.0beta2/sbin/amtape rait eject 1 You would specify it as '{1,12}', but it looks like you've uncovered a bug

Re: client timeout issue

2010-05-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: Amanda is now failing differently. tar exited with signal 11. On Solaris, over a ZFS filesystem. We just saw this error a few days ago on the list! Check the archives - there was a workaround. -- Open Source Storage

Re: how to eject a rait volume?

2010-05-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: I must have left my brain somewhere but it's still not clear to me how to specify a `drive' with a mirror/rait: No, this is a good question that didn't have an answer! I've answered it, and my patch is pending

Re: Issue with amrecover from 2nd tape

2010-05-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote: Why would the file not be in the archive if it is showing in the index? Is there anything else I can try before I try to retrieve the whole DLE? So this is a new dump? No, I can't see any reason it would do that.

Re: client timeout issue

2010-05-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
What is the error? I suspect this: 1273071472.718696: dumper: security_seterror(handle=8074f08, driver=fef09394 (BSD) error=timeout waiting for REP) which likely means that you're exceeding the dtimeout for that DLE for whatever reason. Try increasing that? Dustin -- Open Source Storage

Re: client timeout issue

2010-05-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: Also, the issues seem to be specific to certain DLE, in both cases the busiest of the DLEs, not necessarily the largest but the most active. It's clearly timing-related, then. Keep in mind that hte dtimeout is a timeout

Re: mirror rait, one changer

2010-05-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: I've corrected this by using the same state file in both child-changer. I'm now experiencing other problems, maybe due to some mis-config from my part: ~# su amanda -c /opt/amanda-3.1.0beta2/sbin/amtape rait

Re: runtar error that I do not understand

2010-05-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:33 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: Is there someone in the zmanda world that has the following amanda setup. 1) Solaris x86 Solaris 10 2) /usr/sfw/bin/gtar (v1.23) 3) amanda 2.6.1p2 4) amanda backup of a zfs snapshot like

Re: runtar error that I do not understand

2010-05-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:27 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: I setup a lookback for the snapshot and now gtar seem to be working. It sounds like you have a fairly good understanding of this problem now. Could you write up either a troubleshooting or How-To article on the wiki?

Re: mirror rait, one changer

2010-05-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: Is it possible with amanda-3.0 and the new changer API to setup a mirror/rait using 2 physical tape drives and only one physical changer? Yes! I tested this lightly at one point, and it should work just fine.

Re: mirror rait, one changer

2010-05-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: One question: should the changerfile parameter for chg-robot point to the same file for both child-changers: Yes, it should - that will allow the changers to avoid stepping on each other. Dustin -- Open

Re: Amanda 3.1.0beta2 released

2010-05-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: Please download and test it out - with luck, this will be the last beta before the final release! We haven't heard of any showstopper bugs, although we have discovered and fixed a number of nuisances since the beta2

Re: runtar error that I do not understand

2010-05-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:01 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:   hertz /export/jumpstart lev 0  FAILED [/local/amanda/amanda-2.6.1p2/libexec/amanda/runtar terminated with signal 11: see /tmp/amanda/client/archive/sendsize.20100503144020.debug] signal 11 is a segfault. The last

Re: amrecover 3.1.0beta2 with dumps spanning tapes

2010-05-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: Looks good to me now! I'va attached the debug files for amidxtaped amindexd and amrecover as requested. Actually, Jean-Louis managed to solve this while I was waiting for the debug info. You can (at your

Re: Tape library with 24 slots

2010-05-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Angelo Höngens a.hong...@netmatch.nl wrote: Just for your info, this is how it looks on my bsd box. Here, it's called portal 0 instead of slot 24.. Hah, I like the term portal! If you look at the underlying SCSI protocol, drives, i/e slots, regular slots, and

Re: runtar error that I do not understand

2010-05-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:31 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: If I manually run the following gtar command I get a segmentation fault /usr/sfw/bin/gtar --create Uh-oh .. time to open a Sun^WOracle support case? It looks like a bug either in ZFS or GNU Tar.. Dustin -- Open

Re: amrecover 3.1.0beta2 with dumps spanning tapes

2010-05-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: no, the dump used 2 vtapes, vtape-1 and vtape-2, and there is only one `drive'. I did 2 run with amrecover just to convince me that it really asked for vtape-2 *before* vtape-1. Since I have

Re: amrecover 3.1.0beta2 with dumps spanning tapes

2010-04-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: Using amrecover to extract a multi virtual tape dump I see something confusing even though in the end the dump is successfully extracted: amrecover wants the second tape (vtape-2) loaded before the first one

Plans for 3.2

2010-04-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Amanda-3.1.0 isn't *quite* out the door yet, but like all developers at the end of a release cycle, we have turned our thoughts to the next feature release, Amanda-3.2.0. This wistfulness happened to coincide with a trip to Sunnyvale for all of us telecommuters at Zmanda, making it a perfect time

Re: Issue with amrecover from 2nd tape

2010-04-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote: I assume this will require space the size of the DLE? (in my case 2T) Yes, it will. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Amanda 3.1.0beta2 released

2010-04-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the second beta release of Amanda 3.1.0, the 3.1.0beta2 release. It can be downloaded from http://www.amanda.org (not yet available) or https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Please download and test it out - with luck, this

Re: Amanda 2.6.1p2 man page problem

2010-04-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:26 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: If I remove --enable-manpage-build and try to rebuild the man pages I get the following.                                                                                                                                

Re: Issue with amrecover from 2nd tape

2010-04-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote: Sorry for the stupid questions, but I've no idea how to identify *which* file needs to be selected in amrecover in order for it to restore from the start of the 10th chunk. I had been wondering why you were so concerned

Re: Issue with amrecover from 2nd tape

2010-04-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote: I've determined that when I try to retrieve files from the 2nd tape in my set it won't work. Tar crashes out with the helpful error due to previous errors -- no errors show before this apart from tar skipping to the

Re: Amanda refuses to use new tapes

2010-04-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Chris Hoogendyk hoogen...@bio.umass.edu wrote: I don't get it. Why is Amanda refusing to use the new tapes (or tape 3)? See the note in this manpage: http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-taperscan.7.html Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer

Re: Amanda refuses to use new tapes

2010-04-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Chris Hoogendyk hoogen...@bio.umass.edu wrote: The algorithm just seems a bit weird. I never thought that fast-searchable would jump over the new tapes, especially since they are marked reuse. I always assumed it would check the tapes in order until it found one

Re: Issue with amrecover from 2nd tape

2010-04-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote: 2010-04-09 16:55:11 localhost /upbackup  0 UPSNAPSHOT-02    1 10/-1 OK This is part 10 of the dump, at filemark 1 on UPSNAPSHOT-02. is that what you were looking for? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer

Re: Amanda 2.6.1p2 man page problem

2010-04-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:53 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: **BLANK LINES** I recall someone else having this problem, too. I don't know enough nroff to figure out what's wrong, but I suspect it's a docbook XSLT bug of some sort. As a workaround, the 2.6.1 manpages are

Re: Amanda 2.6.1p2 man page problem

2010-04-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Darin Perusich darin.perus...@cognigencorp.com wrote: It's docbook for sure and the man pages likely didn't build because it's not on your system or it's an old version, so --enable-manpage-build isn't going to help. The tarball ships with pre-built manpages,

Re: Still the puzzle, and I'm feeling ignored, why?

2010-04-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: 500 No dumps available on or before date 2010-04-08 Actually, this means there are no catalog entries for that date. I think I had asked last time, what amadmin Conf find will show for that particular DLE? Dustin

Re: Issue with amrecover from 2nd tape

2010-04-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Paul Yeatman pyeat...@zmanda.com wrote: Thus the first file on the second tape, file number=0. Tape file numbers are one-based, because they reflect the number of filemarks that precede the file data, and the tape always begins with a tape header and a filemark:

Re: question about new changer API in 3.0.1beta1

2010-04-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: Slowly going through the new stuff in 3.0.1beta1 and I came across the following in the amanda-changers.7 manpage:       define changer hp-robot {           tapedev chg-robot:/dev/sg1           property

Re: Minor installation bug: /etc/amanda not made

2010-04-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: That resulted in:  Configuration: /etc/amanda but the directory wasn't built. It would be nice if the installation process built it. I'm not entirely convinced of this -- I consider it the package's job

Re: SV: FAILED [spawn /bin/gzip: dup2 out: Bad file descriptor] on 2.6.1p2

2010-04-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Volker Pallas ama...@sqmail.de wrote: Is auth=bsdtcp mandatory? If you want to switch to bsdtcp, then yes. You'll also need to change your (x)inetd configuration accordingly. The amanda-auth(7) manpage may be of use to you in figuring the whole thing out.

Re: REF: compile issue on solaris X/x86_64

2010-04-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:22 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: My problem seem to be that by default the  SunStudio uses /usr/ccs/bin/ld rather than /usr/sfw/i386-sun-solaris2.10/bin/ld. I cannot figure out how to set the sfw ld to be the default. That sounds like the correct

Re: windows backup using amanda

2010-04-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: Unfortunately what we really wanted was to backup the list of directories in the backup template defined on the server. What's a backup template? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: error timeout waiting for ACK using amrecover

2010-04-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Craig Constantine cr...@blkbx.com wrote:  AMRECOVER Version 2.6.1p2. Contacting server on localhost ... I'd recommend just using auth local if you're communicating within the localhost. BSDTCP is just too annoying to get right. Dustin -- Open Source Storage

Re: trying to restore an F10 insttall

2010-04-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: 500 No dumps available on or before date 2010-04-18 No index records for disk for specified date I didn't really understand how you shuffled your machines, but it sounds like the catalog (the trace logs) is not where

Re: trying to restore an F10 insttall

2010-04-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Ping! Why are you running amgtar directly? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >