Re: very large filecount filesystems

2008-08-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Vectorz Sigma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a mail server that has a very large number of files on its fs. We're talking in the 10's of millions of files. Therefore, as you can imagine, the differential comparison calculations nightly take a very long time

Re: Backups to disk and tape

2008-08-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Peter Spikings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that possible? (because I can't see how from reading the man pages). What you're asking about is called D2D2T, and Amanda doesn't support it directly just yet, although preliminary support is a goal for the next release

Re: 2.6 upgrade file locations

2008-08-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:11 AM, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But 2.6 seems to be installing things in /opt/amanda/lib/amanda Tjis is resulting in things like it looking for the config file (which is installed in /opt/amanda/etc/DailyDump) in /opt/amanda/etc/amanda/DailyDump We did move some

Re: backup more than 1 time a day

2008-08-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Mister Olli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there some way to instruct amanda to backup the maildirs for example every 2 hours??? Sure, make sure 'usetimestamps' is true, and then run Amanda every 2 hours from your crontab. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer

Re: Theoretical question

2008-08-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Steffan Vigano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because the LTO tapes only hold 100GB natively, and you can't backup a file system with dump that's larger then the actual capacity of the tape. .. A) Was there any truth to his original statement? Nope -- that was a

Re: Port xxx is not secure

2008-08-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
This funny port number is coming from the NAT operations in your firewall. There are ways to maneuver Amanda around that, but you might be better served to simply use ssh authentication, if that's an option. Otherwise, you should either set up a static NAT on the firewall or set the Amanda

Re: problem with amflush?

2008-08-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
The DUMPS DID NOT COMPLETE message comes when no FINISH log message (except planner) is seen. If you compare the logfile in the previous emails to your own, successful logfiles, you'll see that line is missing. The most likely cause is a segfault or other bug in the driver. The task, then, is

Re: Busted Tape Drive

2008-08-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Steven Backus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to John Hein and everyone. I haven't followed this too closely, but are there some takeaway messages that could be worked into a FAQ here? http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer

Re: Busted Tape Drive

2008-08-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Steven Backus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FAQ:Why can I write new labels to my tapes but can't read the old ones? Check your blocksize. This behavior occurs when the tape unit is set to have a particular block size (that may not match at read time what was used

Re: Sources for replacement tape drive in Sun L9 array

2008-08-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Craig Dewick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can any generic DLT-8000 raw drive be used to replace the existing one? I believe they're all made by Quantum. Other than the tape drive issue, I've got Amanda working fine backing up all my systems including my

Re: Busted Tape Drive

2008-08-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
This all sounds great. Not to sound like an overworked developer, but could you all please update the FAQ entry accordingly? ;) http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ:Why_can_I_write_new_labels_to_my_tapes_but_can%27t_read_the_old_ones%3F Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer

Re: Can't open tape device /dev/nst0

2008-08-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Vectorz Sigma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Ultrium LTO-4, and cannot get it to work with Amanda. You had pasted some other diagnostic output that I didn't recognize to #amanda. Can you give some more details? Also, please have a look in your kernel logs to

Re: Can't open tape device /dev/nst0

2008-08-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Vectorz Sigma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doyle, thanks for the tip but I got errors when trying it without the tape: in the string. I forgot to mention that I'm using 2.6.0p1 The tape: thing is not the issue here -- the code that writes the deprecation warning

Re: Can't open tape device /dev/nst0

2008-08-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
The mystery deepens. Can you run 'amlabel' under strace or truss or your local equivalent? I'd like to know what syscall is returning EBADFD (Bad file descriptor). Also, please remind me what version of Amanda you're running. You can send the strace output to me privately for analysis if you'd

Re: Can't open tape device /dev/nst0

2008-08-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Vectorz Sigma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downgraded to Amanda 2.5.2p1 and it gave me a better clue when running amlabel. Basically it said /dev/nst0 = permission denied. I've been running the amlabel command as amandabackup but didn't realize you need to give

Re: Busted Tape Drive

2008-08-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Steven Backus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This could be it, does amanda use this for tape commands? Amanda uses what was supplied in the TAPEDEV parameter directly. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Testing for Amanda-2.6.0p2

2008-08-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running it every night Dustin the only wart is the reported compression in the emailed report, that is generally completely bogus. I have posted about it, but no one replied AFAIK. OK, my apologies for not getting back to

Re: Testing for Amanda-2.6.0p2

2008-08-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When was that, Dustin? This has been a minor niggle to me since back in the 2.5.x days. Am I the only one that actually reads these email reports amanda can send? You're probably reading them more closely than others :)

Testing for Amanda-2.6.0p2

2008-08-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Amanda Hackers: We're gearing up for a new patch release of 2.6.0 in about 3 weeks, and I'd like to make sure that we get a lot of testing before that happens. I've already sent out an email to the platform experts, and have heard back from a few. We quashed a few bugs this way, and there are a

Re: Testing for Amanda-2.6.0p2

2008-08-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typically off just enough to be obvious, occasionally wildly, glaringly obvious. Most reports aren't this wild though: Avg Compressed Size (%) 467.0--52.0 (level:#disks ...) Other than that, I don't

Re: Testing for Amanda-2.6.0p2

2008-08-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you send the trace logfile that generated this report? It should be titled log.200807* and should be in your logdir. Logdir is available from 'amgetconf DailySet1 logdir'. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer

Re: SELinux attrs

2008-07-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Application API in Amanda 2.6.0p1? I'm asking because I cannot configure my application for ZFS dumping as per description from Zmanda site? I get the following error when I try to test the configuration: No -- we cut

Re: Checking for GLIB error

2008-07-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a question - how do I report Amanda bugs these days? I've uncovered two bugs which corrupt memory but only cause crashes with the SunStudio version! Just report them here, or on amanda-hackers if you'd rather limit your

Re: SELinux attrs

2008-07-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just experimented with 2.6.0p1 and found the the Application API *does* work - cool!! Maybe it's just the configuration for the application and properties that wasn't included. I was wrong, sorry. It's an early

Re: SELinux attrs

2008-07-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Albrecht Dreß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, rebuild amanda with the configure option --with-gnutar=/usr/sbin/amgtar (this should be easier with 2.6, where an application can be defined in the runtime config? Is that correct?). In a first quick test, this

Re: directory locations and dumpuser after new install of amanda 2.6.0p1

2008-07-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Doyle Collings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have decided to clean out my old installations of Amanda 2.46, 2.6.0p1 rpm, and 2.6.0p1 from source and start fresh. I noticed that the defaults of the install from source do not match the rpm from zmanda. For

Re: directory locations and dumpuser after new install of amanda 2.6.0p1

2008-07-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Doyle Collings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you say thay your getting rid of --with-maxtapeblocksize in Amanda-2.6.1, does that mean I will be able to specify blocksize in my tapetype definition without it? Is is neccesary now or does it just specify the

Re: Checking for GLIB error

2008-07-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM, McGraw, Robert P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume that this is not working because of the compile error. I assume that the invalid option is the -mt. I am not sure what is causing this option in be inserted. Any suggestions.

Re: Is there a log that tells me the block size of a Backup Job

2008-07-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Doyle Collings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I need to do next to troubleshoot a misconfiguration or hardware problem. If I am using a bad installation, I am not averse to wiping the machine clean of Amanda and re-installing from source.. Try setting up a

Re: usage of holding disk

2008-07-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Andre Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've configured our tape backup with amanda a few weeks ago. Everything is fine - the backup is done every night without any problems. The problem is, that our office is closed from time to time. And if the tape isn't

Re: sizeof error for 2.6.0p1 compile

2008-07-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:52 PM, McGraw, Robert P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking size of int... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (int) See `config.log' for more details. Any suggestions on what is causing this? The error is a bit misleading -- this just happens to be the first thing

Re: Is there a log that tells me the block size of a Backup Job

2008-07-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Doyle Collings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, same error. What should I put quotes to treat it as an integer? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root /usr/local/sbin/amdump fullback -o runtapes=1 argument : an integer is expected ** (process:9825): CRITICAL **: parse error

Re: Is there a log that tells me the block size of a Backup Job

2008-07-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Doyle Collings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried those with runtapes=4 and 'runtapes=4' with the same results how do I hop into #amanda on IRC You can actually use a web-based client: http://www.mibbit.com/ The network is freenode.net, and the channel is

Re: sizeof error for 2.6.0p1 compile

2008-07-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:52 PM, McGraw, Robert P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to compile amanda-2.6.0p1 on a Sparc Solaris 9 10 host and get the following error: The actual error in config.log (sent privately) is configure:49348: /pkgs/gcc-3.4.3/bin/gcc -o conftest -g -O2

Re: Is there a log that tells me the block size of a Backup Job

2008-07-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is all very strange. Did you compile from source? If so, can I get you to put some dbprintf's in apply_config_overwrites and send me the results? Better, is there any chance you could hop into #amanda on IRC

Re: amanda-2.5.2p1 on SCO 5.0.4

2008-07-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Michael Reuland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have stripped the ~etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf file to only the actual configuration keywords and options. I still get the similar response reporting the first line of configuration data from the file. What happens

Re: Is there a log that tells me the block size of a Backup Job

2008-07-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
It looks like you don't have a holding disk configured, so your writes to tape are limited to the speed of the dump. You should configure a holding disk. Also, the tape drive gave an error after only ~2.5G. I'm not sure why that would happen -- your tapes are 80G, right? The taper log may have

Re: Is there a log that tells me the block size of a Backup Job

2008-07-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Ian Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This appears to be a bug in Amanda. I can't reproduce it on my end, though; is there any chance you can run amcheck in a debugger with these options and see what you get? If you break on get_int and generate a backtrace from

Re: amanda on Mac OS X (10.5.4) Leopard

2008-07-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:42 PM, myron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation/OS_Specific_Notes/Installing_Amanda_on_Mac_OS_X#Version-Specific_Notes and it doesn't mention leopard. Do I follow the same instructions? As far as I know. My machines are

Re: amanda on Mac OS X (10.5.4) Leopard

2008-07-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:11 PM, myron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may take a while. I went to the step on setting up the amanda user and the niutil command is no longer there. Read the whole page - there's a fix for that already. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Is there a log that tells me the block size of a Backup Job

2008-07-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Doyle Collings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to manually define the tapetype from the command line and echo the results of each command? amdump -o tapetype=mytapetype or maybe you mean amdump -o tapetype:LTO4:blocksize=2048 Is there some kind of

Re: amanda-2.5.2p1 on SCO 5.0.4

2008-07-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Michael Reuland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WARNING: apd50.coop.com: selfcheck request failed: tcpm_recv_token: invalid size: /usr/local/etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf, line 5: a quoted string is expected /usr/local/etc/aman Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.161

Re: Amanda 2.6 on OpenSolaris 2008.05?

2008-07-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Paul Crittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed on Solaris 9 and just yesterday on Solaris 10. I have some environment variable settings and configure settings I used. However, they are at work and I am at home. If you would like or need them I can

Re: Proble with amanda and MacoS X

2008-07-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Good to hear you're building on a Mac! Have you set up the necessary launchd script on the mac? There's information about it at http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation/OS_Specific_Notes/Installing_Amanda_on_Mac_OS_X Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: amdump return code quesion

2008-07-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:05 AM, McGraw, Robert P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an exit code check of my amdump last night and I got an exit code 8 Don't know the status of a dle (RESULTS_MISSION in the report) Can some one tell me what this means. I think you meant RESULTS_MISSING :) It

Re: [Amanda-users] Full/Incremental and retension

2008-07-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Debux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to help set up the Amanda backup for weekly full, incremental, in the other day and retensão of two weeks. I have 6 tapes LTO3. This is possible? My setup so far is this: dumpcycle 1 weeks runspercycle 7 days

Re: [Amanda-users] Full/Incremental and retension

2008-07-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Debux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: correct? Yes. And how does the retention? In the next cycle (next week) will be overridden in the data used tapes or recording sequence occurs? Amanda's retention policy is based exclusively on the tape cycle. Data is retained

Re: how to check for a good amanda run

2008-07-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:35 AM, McGraw, Robert P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I determine the status of an amdump run? Amdump has a rather detailed exit status. See http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amdump.8.html Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: how to check for a good amanda run

2008-07-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:55 PM, McGraw, Robert P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seem that the local man page did not have anything about exit codes for amdump, but the zmanda man pages did. I believe I got what I needed. We just added that to the manpages a while ago, so no worries. Dustin --

Re: another selfcheck problem

2008-07-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Mister Olli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: amanda dgram udp waitamanda /usr/local/libexec/amandad -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped It looks like amandad is thinking that -auth=bsd is its name, which means that it saw that in argv[0] Try amanda dgram

Re: another selfcheck problem

2008-07-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
The debug logs *do* look different, so this was at least a minimal improvement: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Mister Olli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: amandad: debug 1 pid 80108 ruid 1002 euid 1002: start at Wed Jul 16 20:21:46 2008 vs. (earlier) -auth=bsd: debug 1 pid 76969 ruid 1002 euid

Re: tar vs. dump for / backup?

2008-07-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Searching the web for 'amanda all estimate failed' has turned up many hits, but few fixes. Is this a broad error, or could some fix for it go in the FAQ? It's a broad error: essentially something funny happend on the

Re: How Do I Back Up a Smartstor?

2008-07-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Steven Backus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Description: SMARTSTOR NS4300N 4BAY NAS SATA RAID5 SOHO/SMB .. And am wondering how one would back up this beast with amanda? I would think you would format it into vtapes, assuming it supports NFS or something else

Re: tar vs. dump for / backup?

2008-07-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I do about it? What does it mean? Is this a manifestation of the reiserfs-dump incompatibility? Perhaps -- but you said /boot was reiserfs too, and was backed up fine? Are you sure both partitions are

Re: How Do I Back Up a Smartstor?

2008-07-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Thanks, Jon -- somehow I read back up TO this beast, which is an entirely different issue :) Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Zanga Chimombo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the following line in amdump.X seems to give a clue: dumper: stream_client: connect to 192.168.0.60.46830 failed: No route to host why is the server trying to dump to the client? Since Jon and Paul have addressed the

Re: debian client

2008-07-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Ian Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's not there, you'll can look at the contents of the libamanda.so shared library using the strings command. That file will name a directory called AMANDA_TMPDIR; the client should create a subdirectory 'amanda' of that.

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Zanga Chimombo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i should've said that my rant is against the documentation not the design rationale. ..it *is* on a wiki, nudge nudge. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Dump Write

2008-07-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Mike Fahey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I force amanda to write the dumps it has finished while it is still dumping? Amanda already does that! Note that Amanda can only write one dump to the device (even hard disk) at any given time. Still, that should go

Re: Amrecover: Header Problem

2008-07-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
2008/7/3 Weiwei Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: amrecover: Expected: lev Actual: null WEIRD file amrecover: bad header Extractor child exited with status 1 This is the result of an obscure re-entrancy bug that's been fixed in the latest releases. Can you try 2.6.0p1 on that machine? Dustin --

Re: Black nasty sex pictures

2008-07-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dustin, shut this off before I start feeding it to sa-learn -spam. Apologies for a potential duplicate here, but Todd Kover, Jon LaBadie, and the Zmanda IT folks are already on the case. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer

Re: inparallel setting

2008-07-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Mike Fahey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amanda is taking a very long time to write the dumps. My inparallel setting is set to 50. Amanda has all data waiting to be backed up in /hold. What are other people running inparallel at? If I got 500gb 8hours in /hold

Re: inparallel setting

2008-07-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Mike Fahey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not using a tape drive, I am dumping to a raid 5 array with 1TB of storage. It is currently dumping one server and in amstatus it shows waiting for dumping for several other servers. Are there any tweaks to increase

Re: Reading label

2008-07-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Sebastian Henrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm searching for the command to read the label of the currently inserted tape. Can somebody give me a hint? What Amanda version? The closest you can get to $ amreadlabel CONF CONF-012 is $ amtape S3 current slot

Re: don't want files to be divided up on holding disk

2008-07-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded form Amanda 2.4.4 to 2.6.0. I used to have chunksize commented out altogether for my holding disks to avoid having things divided up. Since the upgrade, it is defaulting to a cnunksize of 1G. Do I

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: found in the system, create a local copy of the file. I think that the compiler wasn't finding it because the amflock tests didn't ^^ I assume with it you mean the local copy of the file, and

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The attached patch fixes the problem for me, but I doubt it's the correct way to do it... Well, what works, works, I suppose, and you're welcome to add that to pkgsrc. From my perspective, I'd prefer that you get this

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not familiar with the autotools and with m4, but AFAICT the source of this problem is in config/gnulib/alloca.m4. The resulting `configure' script unconditionally defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H which is obviously wrong. Actually,

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is on NetBSD/i386 where at least fcntl, flock and lockf are available; config.log reveals that the record locking function tests failed because HAVE_ALLOCA_H was defined but there's no alloca.h on my system. We had a

Another brief does anyone use this? poll: tape-{aix,uware,xenix}

2008-06-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
The old tapeio layer supported UWARE, XENIX, and AIX tape interfaces in addition to modern POSIX tape. The Device API also supports these tape devices, but we don't have any capacity to test the implementation at this point. Based on some googling, recent versions of AIX and HP/UX have POSIX

Re: Newbie's question: server is not allowed to execute ther service noop

2008-06-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Weiwei Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I know which setting make amcheck to check the directory at /home/amanda? It's the home directory of the 'amandabackup' user on the client (or whatever CLIENT_LOGIN is set to). Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had a closer look at this problem and it seems to be caused by a race condition between programs started by Amanda's driver program: all of these programs (dumper, chunker, taper) and the driver program itself write

Re: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning

2008-06-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Johan Booysen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still not 100% sure on how to perform restores if a disklist entry is spanned across two tapes, but one of the tape drives have died. Would I need to use amrestore instead of amrecover, and then manually untar all the

Re: Amanda 2.6.0 spanning

2008-06-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
If you give amrecover a specific tape drive to use, then it will prompt you to manually insert the correct tapes. If you configure chg-multi with only one tape device, though, then it will not prompt you -- it will just inform amrecover that it can't find the requested volume. So I'd recommend

Re: lots of log files

2008-06-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: driver: result time 35026.575 from dumper0: NO-ROOM 00-00016 0 Not sure what went so awry with this run. It is likely back from when Dustin was working with me on upgrading to 2.6.0 and making things work with a

Re: lots of log files

2008-06-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I really do have tapes that old. Is that unusual? Not really, but it does end up being a lot of logfiles, as you indicate :) Someday (wistful sigh) we'll have a DB-backed catalog, so folks like you with lots of tapes

Re: How do I config to store backup images in holding disk?

2008-06-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
2008/6/19 Yoshihiro Ishikawa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I understood we must have the misconfiguration(tapedev,tpchanger) to store backup images in holding disk and we must overwrite correct configuration when we want to backup the tape drive. If what you mean is this: # backup to holding-disk only

Re: Should usetimestamps setting effect holding disk directory names?

2008-06-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, I appreciate the offer. Interesting. I guess I'd have to know more about what the C module produces to know if it would be helpful. Take a look at server-src/holding.h. Even if the C is not your flavor, the comments

Re: Should usetimestamps setting effect holding disk directory names?

2008-06-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at server-src/holding.h. Even if the C is not your flavor, the comments give a pretty good description of how things get broken down. Sorry, here's a link: http://amanda.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc

Re: lots of log files

2008-06-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do people routinely clean up the log directory? I'm up to about 82 gigs. I think it is time. Do I really care about log log.20060512.0 anymore? Those logfiles are Amanda's tape catalog. Amanda should be cleaning out the

Re: Should usetimestamps setting effect holding disk directory names?

2008-06-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, thanks! That's what coming from 2.4.4p3 will do for ya! I had a script that used the old directory naming style. I will have to adapt my script (likely with some effort) unless there is a way to ask 2.6.0 to use the

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 spanning

2008-06-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Johan Booysen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: changer: got exit: 0 str: /usr/lib/amanda/chg-manual: line 85: /dev/tty: No such device or address slot /usr/lib/amanda/chg-manual:: tape_rdlabel: tape open: line 85: /dev/tty: No such device or address: No such file or

Re: dumper abort()ing occasionally

2008-06-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Douglas K. Rand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once or twice a week my amanda backups are failing when a dumper exits on signal 6, SIGABRT: Jun 5 23:27:38 scotch kernel: pid 82566 (dumper), uid 0: exited on signal 6 Jun 8 19:53:43 scotch kernel: pid 96672

Nominate Amanda for SourceForge Community Choice Awards

2008-06-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Reminder: nominations for SourceForge's community choice awards close soon. If you haven't already, please take a moment to nominate Amanda! http://sourceforge.net/community/cca08-nominate?group_id=120 You can nominate in multiple categories -- after your first nomination, simply click on the

Re: Another amanda-client.conf not found thread

2008-06-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a result of an error-messaging bug in the 2.6.0. Basically, config error messages go to stderr, which xinetd routes to the server. The bug has been fixed in trunk, but on double-checking, it hasn't been

Re: Another amanda-client.conf not found thread

2008-06-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:07 PM, FL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, now I have the amanda-client.conf error, which makes a cameo appearance in a few amanda threads, but either leaves the scene before the role it plays is revealed, or else I am now so enfeebled that I lack the energy to

Re: [Amanda-users] confusing problem with NO-NEW-TAPE

2008-06-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:36 PM, nbarss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: taper: Total dump size should be 130801kb, part size is 21474836480kb .. It could just be an extra 'kb' tacked on the end, or a serious calculation error. It is just a typo, but should definitely be fixed. Amanda has a bad habit

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 spanning

2008-06-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Johan Booysen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One question: That's *three* questions ;) When amdump runs and fills up the first tape, what should I expect to see? Does Amanda simply eject the first tape and just waits until the second tape is inserted? Does it

Re: amdump freezes

2008-05-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sendbackup: time 11140.170: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] sendbackup: time 11140.214: pid 29495 finish time Thu May 29 05:53:19 2008 Seems as if the index-creation fails, correct? But why would it then

Re: .amandahosts owned by id ## should be ##

2008-05-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Sorry, there are a lot of moving parts here, and they all need to move in the same direction. Both server and client should be compiled to include bsdtcp (and whatever else -- doesn't matter). Both server and client should be configured to use bsdtcp - the server in the dumptype, and the client

Re: .amandahosts owned by id ## should be ##

2008-05-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So then I recompiled the client for both --with-bsdudp-security and --with-bsdtcp-security and loaded both plists. The server was still unable to connect in any way to the client. Then I realized the problem was with my

Re: .amandahosts owned by id ## should be ##

2008-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1211573838.146757: amandad: security_getdriver(name=bsdudp) returns NULL 1211573838.146772: amandad: critical (fatal): no driver for security type 'bsdudp' I believe this 'bsdudp' driver is specified in the plist file,

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Freels, James D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /-- aixclient hd3 lev 0 FAILED [missing size line from sendbackup] sendbackup: start [aixclient:hd3 level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/gtar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gtar -f... - sendbackup: info

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Freels, James D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We took a look at uustat and the only locked files were some batch jobs we had running. In addition, we have rebooted while trying to debug this, and have only run amanda after the reboot while debugging. So, if there

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Freels, James D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We know AMANDA uses some root-level modules that require suid to function correctly. Could it be that this is going on with AMANDA such that it conflicts with AIX in a manner that locks (or won't unlock) amandates ?

Re: .amandahosts owned by id ## should be ##

2008-05-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=wheel --prefix=/usr/local --without-server --with-config=laptops --with-gnutar=/usr/bin/tar --libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec --localstatedir=/Users LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/include

Re: .amandahosts owned by id ## should be ##

2008-05-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Paul Yeatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I had seen a mention that this was going to be included in future releases but couldn't find it in the 2.6.0 I had last downloaded. I see it now in the 2.6.0p1. Edited -- thanks for the nudge. I traded my plist files

Re: missing index

2008-05-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:42 AM, A.M.A.N.D.A. Materials [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: amrestore -f12 -p /dev/st0 brokenserver /media/disk | tar tvf - list.tar Can I use the listing as the index or is there a neat amanda command to build the index properly? You can use that file listing as an

HP/UX?

2008-05-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On #amanda, I've been working with Scott Bender, who's trying to build Amanda-2.6.0 on HP/UX 11.11. He's gotten all of the prereqs installed, but is having some trouble with network communication. We've boiled the problem down to recvfrom(..) not returning an address for incoming UDP packets. I

Re: HP/UX?

2008-05-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
So a little more digging shows that if _XOPEN_SOURCE and _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED=1 are defined, then the build succeeds and runs correctly. Would it make sense to automatically add CFLAGS='-D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED=1' and LIBS='-lxnet' on architectures matching *-hp-hpux*? The

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