Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 10, 2009

2009-04-13 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: Knowing which release failed is useful, but it is more useful if we can find why it failed, can you post all debug files generated by a failed run? From both amanda client and server. And, to pile on, please do

Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 10, 2009

2009-04-13 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
OK, after some logfile exchange off-list, I think we're onto something here. The planner examines all DLEs to decide which incremental to promote, and selects coyote:/root. It finishes its loop, and then goes to attempt to promote that dump: 2792 if(dp_promote) { 2793 one_est_t

Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 10, 2009

2009-04-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: I assume that's fixable, but that is the 2nd problem.  The 1st is 'driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner' in any version newer than 0327. Send along the planner debug file, please. Dustin -- Open Source

Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 10, 2009

2009-04-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Which doesn't throw any red flags at me.  Interestingly, this crontab initiated run failed, where a test run worked. Hmm, no red flags here, either. How about the amdump.1 debug log? Dustin -- Open Source Storage

Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 10, 2009

2009-04-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Coming right up.  And up till it says FAILED QUEUE, nothing seems too unusual here either.   Weirdsville.  I should trim the top 90% of this, but maybe there might be a clue, so... Jean-Louis, there were some nearby

Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 10, 2009

2009-04-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Dustin;  It is looking like its catching up, after several runs with intervening versions, it has caught up with whatever change made that made it think everything was new.  I don't believe it was device major/minors

Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 10, 2009

2009-04-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: It any event, I haven't hit the total failure of 0331 yet, so I will proceed with the next one, 0330, as 0327 seemed to run normally.  Stay tuned... OK, I'm glad you see the option in htop -- that's enough evidence

Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 9, 2009

2009-04-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Yeas, but I thought we had worked out something that made amanda immune to those little annoyances?  Or was tar changed and the fix didn't work now? Hard to say -- is there anything in the sendsize backup logs that

Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 9, 2009

2009-04-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Uptime is about 5 days now, but this may be the beginning of the end. Something made it think all data was new from the looks of this.  This was the first run of 20090323, 20090321 works fine.  Another device mapper

Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 9, 2009

2009-04-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:47 AM, John Hein jh...@timing.com wrote: This (snippet below from the gtar NEWS file) was added in 1.21 == * New options --no-check-device, --check-device. This was actually added in 1.19.90, according to amgtar(8), and Gene is using the

Re: client failure

2009-04-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote:   everest /images3 lev 0  FAILED [dumper1 died] Check the dumper debug logs on the server, rather than the client. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: client failure

2009-04-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: # more chunker.20090409164847.debug That's a chunker debug log -- do you have a dumper debug log? dumper.20090409164847.debug or something similar? You may have several -- see if you can find one that shows something

Re: client failure

2009-04-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: Can you try this patch? I need this path to connect to a 2.4.2p1 client, I was not able to compile 2.4.1 The patch looks good to me, whether it solves Brian's problem notwithstanding. Dustin -- Open Source

Re: [Amanda-users] Pre/Post script in Amanda 2.5.1 - posible?

2009-04-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Topper amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: /offtopic Where is the edit of this forum post ??? You're posting to a mailing list, so there is no edit option. If you want to paste code, you should probably email the list directly, as the forum seems to get the

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda 2.5.1 on FreeBSD encryption problems and solution

2009-04-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:37 AM, encryptionguru amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: I found about this PCI based hardware products from Indra Networks which can make backup of Amanda faster and also encrypt the data. See if you find this useful. I have not used this personally, but looks

Re: [Amanda-users] Pre/Post script in Amanda 2.5.1 - posible?

2009-04-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Topper amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: My question is: Is it possible to use pre/post script in 2.5.1 anyhow? No - pre and post-scripts were added in 2.6.0. 2.5.1 is *very* old now. You'll need to use the shell scripts you suggested in your earlier

Re: [Amanda-users] Pre/Post script in Amanda 2.5.1 - posible?

2009-04-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Topper amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: One more thing - if I install anyway 2.6.1 this pre/post script MUST be on client or COULD be on backup server? One of target application is ERP so if I tried to stop it I must to exec it like super user for ERP

Re: [Amanda-users] Pre/Post script in Amanda 2.5.1 - posible?

2009-04-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Topper amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: How to be read that? Where or what is script-base ? It's another script-tool definition. This is Amanda's configuration inheritance. Search for that term in amanda.conf(5) for more info. Dustin -- Open Source

Re: Holdingdisk no - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
OK, I'll take a swing at this :) On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: I want to avoid to copy ~60 GB from disk to holdingdisk internally at every amdump, so I decided to set them to holdingdisk no -- write the to tape directly. taperalgo first, btw The

Re: [Amanda-users] CHS tape robot management software

2009-04-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM, ricsdix amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: About the CHS tape robot management software guys... i have read some about CHS tape robot management software is this forum... http://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg24767 hope this help you a

Re: absolute total failure with amanda--2.6.2alpha-20090331

2009-04-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Update: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090319 worked just fine last night. I've now downloaded the interim versions between 20090319 and 2009043, and will test one a night till I'm caught up again. Thanks for testing, Gene -- I

Re: Having problem using Amanda for permanent backup storage

2009-04-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Wojtek wojt...@gmail.com wrote: Let's say I configure a 2TB holding disk for amanda and I have 2 projects. If that holding disk contains folders from both projects, will amanda know which one belongs to which before dumping? If each project has a distinct

Re: amdump stopped working

2009-04-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: Do you know amanda have not done a full DUMP in the more than 327 days? I hope you have keep all the needed tapes otherwise you can't recover the complete dle. You should enabled splitting (I don't remember if it

Re: amdump stopped working

2009-04-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Joe Konecny jkone...@rmtohio.com wrote: I have to say that while this article is good the search feature of amanda.org is confusing.  If you type results missing in the search box and click Go you are taken to http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Results_missing

Re: amdump stopped working

2009-04-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Joe Konecny jkone...@rmtohio.com wrote: The one that would have helped was the one you just created called: FAQ:Amanda has been running fine for years, and just stopped Maybe we should replace mediawiki's search completely with a site-specific google search

Re: amdump stopped working

2009-04-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Joe Konecny jkone...@rmtohio.com wrote: Well...  I just searched (search button) for monitor status since I could not remember the amstatus command.  It found nothing that led me to amstatus. I had to go to google to find it.  So maybe google is a better option?

Re: amdump stopped working

2009-04-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
To add yet another option, it turns out that www.zmanda.com is using mnogosearch for its search box -- this covers wiki.zmanda.com, forums.zmanda.com, and www.zmanda.com. We can probably find a way to leverage this search from wiki.zmanda.com, although that may mean the results page is loaded

OpenSolaris package development

2009-03-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Since there are a number of Solaris and OpenSolaris users on this list, I thought I'd mention some work going on to build Solaris packges for Amanda. This is happening over on the Amanda forums: http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?t=1815 It seems that packaging can be hard to get right, in

Re: Can you use an FTP Server for your tape device?

2009-03-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com wrote: I was just wondering if it's possible to use an FTP server as your backup tape device - sort of like S3.  I've seen Adding an FTP device on the wiki, but didn't know if it made it in. Nope, not yet. If it's not in

Re: Deprecated keywords

2009-03-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
2009/3/19 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com: /usr/local/etc/amanda/Backup2Disk/amanda.conf, line 62: warning: Keyword tapebufs is deprecated. Tapebufs is one of those rarely-tweaked parameters, but has been replaced by device-output-buffer-size.

Re: Deprecated keywords

2009-03-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
2009/3/19 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com: Thank you very much for your answer. I do not mind adding it but it would require me to register? I do have a wiki account but it seems that this is a different system... Yes -- you do need to register a username on wiki.zmanda.com to post, but

Re: BUILT_MACH wrong ?

2009-03-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Peter Kunst peter.ku...@swissrisk.com wrote: This amandad 2.6.1 binary was built from the official 2.6.1 tarball on Solaris10/sparc. This is neither x86, nor Linux, and i never run any builds for x86 here in this amanda's src tree. That comes directly from the

Re: BUILT_MACH wrong ?

2009-03-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: I'll see if I can figure out why. Well, JLM and I posted the same patch at almost the same time, so I think it's the right solution. It should be in tonight's tarball. Thanks for noticing! Dustin -- Storage

Re: amgetconf: not found

2009-03-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
2009/3/17 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com: Ever since the upgrade, I am not able to perform the backup. % /usr/local/sbin/amdump Backup2Disk amgetconf: not found I use FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE if that matters. Would you help me find out how I can solve this problem and resume backups?

Re: amgetconf: not found

2009-03-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
2009/3/17 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com: I am in the dark because it is a configuration that was previously done by someone else and I have not had a lot of expierience with amanda (it ran very well). Perhaps amgetconf was accidentally removed? You may need to restore from a backup

Re: Build problems on Solaris 5 with 2.5.2p1 client

2009-03-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
It looks like you hit a bug that Craig Dewick found some time ago. Here's the patch: http://github.com/nikolasco/amanda/commit/911a9b5fbf136ee0dbffcae4e9696be498491c43.patch Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Ip_conntrack_amanda

2009-03-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Robert P McGraw Jr rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: In my  reading in the zmanda wiki I found information about ip_conntrack_amand and I see what it does but not sure how to set this up. Is ip_conntrack_amanda some module or code and if so where would it be located.

Re: Resuming amanda after 2 week hiatius due to upgrading to F10.

2009-03-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: with the usual results missing for everything because: amreport: ERROR could not open log /usr/local/var/amanda/Daily/log: No such file or directory But it does exist, and this mornings logs are there.  As amanda:

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda error

2009-03-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Deb Baddorf badd...@fnal.gov wrote: Is this correct? No -- I'll get it cleaned up. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: More ranting about issues compiling 2.6.1 on older machines

2009-03-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:28 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: The major addition on the client side is the Application API.  While we could probably patch a minimal client to support client-side configuration files, such a minimal client will never support the Application API.  But that's OK!

Re: More ranting about issues compiling 2.6.1 on older machines

2009-03-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:22 PM, John Hein jh...@timing.com wrote: That said, it's possible committers would be willing to entertain committing patches to a 2.5.2 branch.  I can't speak for them, but if the work is made minimal (by submitting well-documented patches), they might be reasonable

Re: amanda on solaris CMT chips

2009-03-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Krahn, Anderson akr...@gs1us.org wrote: I was wondering if their was any features with tar or Amanda that can take advantage of sun multi-threaded processors. Seems like Amanda will peg only 1 core on our server for tar processing. If you run multiple dumps in

Re: Two Questions - Clients and MySQL

2009-03-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
The must-be-logged-in problem sounds like it might be an Ubuntu security thing?? On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com wrote: I know that Zmanda does MySQL backups - but does Amanda as well?  Is that one of the differentiations for the products? ZRM is also

Re: More ranting about issues compiling 2.6.1 on older machines

2009-03-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:55 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: I think that most of the new features are conecntrated on teh server end, if I am not mistaken. The last client side enhancement that rose to a visibilty level for me was client side config files, so that you don't ahve to ahe many,

Re: 2.6.1 leaving files on the dumpdisk

2009-02-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: -rw--- 1 amanda amanda 32788 2009-02-24 22:42 pbuild3.wd0f.0 Shouldn't the nightly backup be deleting these files, and the parent directory? I am fairly certain that in the past, a failed backup did not result in an orphan

Re: 2.6.1 leaving files on the dumpdisk

2009-02-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:57 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: The point I am making is, to the best of myy knowledge, in the past, a failed backup set got written to the tape, and then deleted from the dumpdisk. Once it's on the tape, leaving it on the dumpdisk, is a problem, in that you will

Re: Glibc

2009-02-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:40 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: Now I am worried as it unpacked, I noted a number of files in a directory that seemed to pertain to specific machine types. Now I see that the list of supported hardware/OS combinations is very limited. I need to make this work on

Re: amanda 2.6.1 amrestore issue

2009-02-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: amdevchec liked the drive, and amlabel and amcheck report success when labeling or checking it. Sorry, I didn't mean to reply privately in my last message. Anyway, can you try running the amrestore under 'truss' to see

Re: freebsd port for 2.6.1 b0rked? [solved]

2009-02-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Angelo Höngens a.hong...@netmatch.nl wrote: And I got back an immediate answer that solved it: amgetconf was moved to amanda-client port. If you upgrade first amanda-client, and then amanda-server, amgetconf is removed when amanda-server deinstalled before

Re: Next 2.6.1 issue

2009-02-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:26 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: Notice that at the end, it looks for the next tape label DailyDump05 but it thinks it should be slot 4, vtape 4 (DailyDump05 is actually slot 6, vtape 6)! It looks like it is decrementing the count by 1, instead of incrementing it

Re: amdump log files from 2.6.1 run yesterda

2009-02-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Debbie O'Connell doc...@yahoo.com wrote: We think these are the files you wanted us to send to you. amdump.1 (vs amdump) had a timestamp from an earlier run yesterday, amdump is from the 3:30pm testing we did that corresponds to the taper debug file. btw, we

Re: amdump log files from 2.6.1 run yesterda

2009-02-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Telsin tel...@onholyground.com wrote: FYI, I've also been seeing this error/issue with 2.6.1. My setup is simpler (single manual tape drive), and it seems to be occurring when the dumps fill a tape. Looks like the wrong error is making it's way out of the taper

Re: amdump log files from 2.6.1 run yesterda

2009-02-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
be. Hopefully this will help me figure out what's up. Thanks for sticking with this problem! Dustin On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: I'm still trying to figure out what could be wrong, and supply some additional debug logging to see if I can spot

Re: amdump log files from 2.6.1 run yesterda

2009-02-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: OK, stan, can you try applying this patch: http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/958280d5ba03e94595ceeb02dfe0b67a3055d3df.patch and sending back the taper logfile? Oops, slightly dated URL -- I meant http

Re: changer problems with 2.6.1

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:07 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: So, in addition to thanks, I have a question. Since this _is_ the direction we have chosen to go in, I would like to put the requisite perl modules in this tree also. Is there a way to get the build process to do this? Sure thing!

Re: 2.6.1 build process anomoly

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: But, if one is already puting amanda in it's own tree, as we are (/opt/amanda) then this just adds another (confusing) directory to the path (EG /opt/amanda/libexec/amanda) `. Is it possible to overide this behavior? Yep -- see

Re: [Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:41 AM, rory_f amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: i know i can `amadmin tor find | grep DLE` to find the amanda tape, and then compare that to changer-barcodes - but its a bit of a long process I think that's the quickest way to map amanda labels to paper labels,

Re: Next 2.6.1 issue

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: Any thoughts as to what might be going on here? From the look of it, the taper begins writing a TAPESTART header (well, two -- one for each child device), then 11s later, fails and goes looking for a new tape. It finds a new tape,

Re: [Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:52 PM, rory_f amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: how hard would it be to migrate our naming convention over to match our labels ? is there any way of doing it? Well, the Amanda label is written on each tape, at the beginning -- so you'd need to do some tape-drive

Re: Next 2.6.1 issue

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
What does amdevcheck DailyDump rait:{file:/vtapes/DailyDump/vtape5,tape:/dev/nst0} give you, now that the perl errors are resolved? Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Solaris x86 build

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: I don't expect this to be an issue once I label tapes, but thought it was odd enough to meantion. It's doing exactly what you suggest -- looking through the whole changer to see if it can find a suitable tape. The

Re: changer problems with 2.6.1

2009-02-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:22 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: Interesting -- did you submit patches? No, we never had the time to figure out what problem had been introduced. But, I suspose we must do this now, as we cannot make 2/`.6.1 work at all, the old script does not work with it. I'm

Re: changer problems with 2.6.1

2009-02-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:30 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: However, what I am suspecting is that we have been using a corner case for years which may not work now. The new design appears to be able to more correctly describe our confguration, so I am suspecting that I need to change the

Re: flush questions

2009-02-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
You may want to consult http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Fill_tapes_to_100%25 and possibly add to it anything you learn in this thread. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: changer problems with 2.6.1

2009-02-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:06 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: OK, now we have uncovered what is probably the root cause of my problems: Yay! It exists and seems to have a set of permissions that I would think would work. Try running 'ldd' on it -- perhaps it cannot find the amanda libraries

Re: changer problems with 2.6.1

2009-02-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Frank Smith fsm...@hoovers.com wrote: Quick and dirty fix is to add the directory where the Amanda libraries are to your /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. Better (IMHO) option is to recompile Amanda either statically linked or with runtime library paths.

Re: changer problems with 2.6.1

2009-02-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:49 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: This is a real problem for established (longtime) users of Amanda that have many, many machines - many flavors of OS, some very old hardware and mission critical production software that can't be replaced. ... It appears as though a

Re: [Amanda-users] LTO drives

2009-02-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Archer amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hello Guys, Can you give a link where to find RHEL 5 driver for Tandberg LTO 3 SCSI Drive? I've been going around the internet but cant find anything. I appreciate if you can direct me where to get it. Thanks.

Re: changer problems with 2.6.1

2009-02-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:06 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: When we upgraded from 2.5.1p2 to 2.5.2p1, we had to copy the chg-multi script from the 2.5.1p1 release into the new tree, as the newer script did not work correctly. Interesting -- did you submit patches? 2.5.1p2 chg-multi does

Re: [Amanda-users] LTO drives

2009-02-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Archer amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: So you mean to say, if I do cat /proc/scsi/scsi, I should be able to see the LTO 3 HH SCSI drive? I will try it out. Yes -- you would be able to see it even if you didn't have the 'st' driver loaded, in fact. If

Re: Interpreting Amanda errors

2009-02-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Johan Booysen jo...@matrix-data.co.uk wrote: taper: Will request retry of failed split part This means that one of the parts that Amanda tried to write to tape failed. Amanda generally assumes that any tape error means it's out of tape, since many UNIX tape

Re: configure tests?

2009-02-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:26 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: I am having some problems with incorrect results with configure detecting function prototypes on Solaris 2.5. What is happening is configure is not detecting that these exist, when they do, and is therefore causing an mismatched

Re: Interpreting Amanda errors

2009-02-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: If size of backup is definitely not the issue, what about the age of the tapes. You have been using amanda for several years. Might the tapes be getting old and failing? Alternatively, might a tape head cleaning be due?

Re: 2.6.2alpha-20090216 busted by typu

2009-02-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: restore.c: In function 'restore': restore.c:989: error: stray '`' in program Weird - the last time that file was changed was on the 10th, and it wasn't anywhere near that line. I don't see a ` character anywhere in

Re: Compile errors on Solaris 2.5 (Amanda 2.6.1)

2009-02-13 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:17 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: Looking at this a bit, the problem sems to be with some #igndefs in common-src/amanda.h which are invoked if function declerations have not been fond by configure. Now I guess this means that the detection for this is broken in

Re: --without-server configure flag, and restore

2009-02-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:32 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: I just got a message from configure on 2.6.1 saying that because I gave configure the --without-server , it is not going to build the restore tools on this machine. This does not seem correct to me. Do I need to force restore to be

Re: 2.6.1 configure failure on Solaris 2.5

2009-02-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:29 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: I am trying to build 2.6.1 (client only) on Solaris 2.6.1, and the configure seems to go fine, but somehow correct Makefiles are not getting generated. For instance line 15 in the top level Makefile looks like this: @SET_MAKE@

Re: 2.6.1 configure failure on Solaris 2.5

2009-02-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:57 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: I could send you a complete diff, if it would help? I have no other ideas for you, so why not? :) Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: --without-server configure flag, and restore

2009-02-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: So, to put data back on the client, then we are talking recover tools? Perhaps I just misunderstood. Yes, that's correct. The option in question is --without-amrecover. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: 2.6.1 configure failure on Solaris 2.5

2009-02-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:57 PM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: Interesting. And to answer your question yes, for instance: 2c2 # Makefile. Generated from Makefile.in by configure. --- # @configure_input@ 86c86 Strange. I could send you a complete diff, if it would help? Having peeked

Re: build 2.6.1 Solaris x86 problem

2009-02-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed. Your

Re: 2.6.2alpha-20090206 snapshot, total failure

2009-02-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: My .configure driver script does use the uppercase, always has: --with-tape-device=FILE:/amandatapes \ So why the uppercase in amanda.conf is an error, I'll leave you with that conundrum. One of those things

Re: 2.6.2alpha-20090206 snapshot, total failure

2009-02-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: That's where the uppercase FILE in your example configs is coming from, too. Recall that you were using --with-tapedev earlier, which has never had any effect. By switching to --with-tape-device, you've introduced an

Re: 2.6.2alpha-20090206 snapshot, total failure

2009-02-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: In going through amanda.conf, I found a note tpchanger chg-disk # deprecated, use amanda_changer now. #amanda_changer chg-disk A quick grep has me baffled as to where this came from. I can find no mention

Re: 2.6.2alpha-20090206 snapshot, total failure

2009-02-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: If this is automatic now, and moved to the amanda.conf, how exactly is that to be specified in ones own amanda.conf? The tape device is specified with the amanda.conf parameter named 'tapedev'. I still can't find

Re: Error at ./configure for 2.6.2alpha-20090204

2009-02-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: When did this become an error? ... configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-tapedev I don't recall that being an option, and brief search of the revision history doesn't turn it up (which means that, if it

Re: Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris 10/Sparc build

2009-02-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: I did a # make uninstall, I'd thought before the build, but I ran it a number of times across a number of builds... do I need to run the make uninstall from my 2.4.5 installation directory ? That would be one solution.

Re: 2.6.2alpha question.

2009-01-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Benjamin - thanks! Both the autogen fix and your patch are committed in r1623. FWIW, we don't monitor the SF trackers, so if you (or anyone) have other patches to submit, please mention it on the mailing list. Clean out and hide the SF tracker is on my TODO list... Dustin -- Storage Software

Re: 2.6.2alpha question.

2009-01-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: /usr/bin/smbclient \\not.a.host.name\notashare -U nosuchuser -N -Tx /dev/null I'm guessing that this line, for whatever reason, takes 30 seconds or so to complete. Maybe newer versions of samba or a different config

Re: 16 slots, 16 loads/reads?

2009-01-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Nicholas Brockner nbroc...@hamilton.edu wrote: Any clues as to what I might try? I have the barcodes file that matches tape name to barcode and everything. . It looks like your barcode reader is working fine. But in this case Amanda was loading the next tape

Re: 2.6.2alpha question.

2009-01-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: What else can I fiddle with? Something in smb.conf maybe? It seems to me that there should be something there to restrict the search to local, but I don't seem to find that. And I'd consider having samba go out on

Re: 16 slots, 16 loads/reads?

2009-01-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Nick Brockner nbroc...@hamilton.edu wrote: Is there a way to get barcodes working in this version of amanda so that it wouldn't even have to do the reads, and if not, is there a way to tell it to stop reading until it gets to 16 (ONLY READ FULL SLOTS)??? You

Re: 2.6.2alpha question.

2009-01-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: I've been following along and doing my usual canary imitation with the 2.6.2 tree as its released, and I've noted that the configure script has been hanging for about 30 seconds, looking for /usr/bin/smbclient before

Re: amanda 2.6.1b2 build

2009-01-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Where is libcrypto.so? I'm guessing under /opt/sfw/lib. Note, regarding --with-libraries: --with-libraries=LIBRARY-DIRS deprecated; use ./configure LDFLAGS='-L.. -L..' (add -R on Solaris, NetBSD) Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer

Re: Best way to set up backup

2009-01-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com wrote: I have three jobs set up Since nobody else has jumped in .. you have a *lot* of data you want to get on S3, and S3 transfers just take a long time. There's no good way around that. You can control the amount of data

Re: Fw: RPM files for openSUSE 11.1

2009-01-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Charles Stroom char...@stremen.xs4all.nl wrote: after adaptation of the configuration files, I have, at this very moment, my first amdump running on 11.1. I noticed a small point (but I am not even sure this is a point!), that the xinetd entry of

Re: RPM files for openSUSE 11.1

2009-01-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Ingo Schaefer i...@ingo-schaefer.de wrote: You should in this case also define disttag and distver to some kind of default value, because if not set the RPM naming will be some kind of weird. (As far as I can understand the spec file some lines below. The idea

Re: request failed: timeout waiting for REP

2009-01-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Jeremiah Millay mil...@sover.net wrote: Thanks for the reply. No the DLE is not on a physically separate disk. This particular server is a straight raid 1 mirror with all the partitions I backup (/, /var, /tmp, /usr) all on that single mirror. The only one that

Re: RPM files for openSUSE 11.1

2009-01-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Charles Stroom char...@stremen.xs4all.nl wrote: Looking at this, am I missing my version 11.1, as my suse_macros include a line %suse_version 1110 which is not in the snippet? ack, yes! %if %{_vendor} == suse %define dist SuSE %if

Re: RPM files for openSUSE 11.1

2009-01-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Ingo Schaefer i...@ingo-schaefer.de wrote: No, that is not the point. _vendor is defined, but none of the three cases is the right one, so dist will not be defined. Shows the limited extent of my rpm-fu :) I've attached a new version of the spec file with

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