Re: LTO8 tape profile - amtapetype

ineer ARCCA, Redwood Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB David Simpson - peiriannydd uwch systemau ARCCA, Adeilad Redwood, King Edward VII Avenue, Caerdydd, CF10 3NB simpso...@cardiff.ac.uk <mailto:simpso...@cardiff.ac.uk> +44 29

Tape partitionning

Hello Folks, Since LTO-4, we're supposed to be able to partition the tapes. Is this supported by Amanda?   If so, what tools are you using to partition the tapes? Thank You! -- Luc Lalonde, analyste - Département de génie informatique: École polytechnique de MTL

Re: tape device order in amanda.conf

On 2018-01-15 08:10 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Luc, The assignment of 'Data Transfer Element 0' to '/dev/nst1' and 'Data Transfer Element 1' to '/dev/nst0' is done by the kernel. You can use the 'amtape CONF verify' command to check if you correctly configured amanda. Jean-Louis On 13/01/

tape device order in amanda.conf

Hello Folks, I’m getting a strange result when I do an ‘amcheck’: slot 3: Tape device /dev/nst1 is not ready or is empty slot 4:Slot 4, label '000279L7', mismatch barcode between changer '000280L7' and tapelist file '000279L7' ERROR: Slot 4, label '000279L7', mismatch barcode between changer

Re: Amtapetype wrongly reporting compression?

ompression flag off. -- Luc Lalonde, analyste - Département de génie informatique: École polytechnique de MTL (514) 340-4711 x5049 luc.lalo...@polymtl.ca -

Re: Amtapetype wrongly reporting compression?

:56 PM, Luc Lalonde wrote: I sent the wrong output in the last email Here's the correct 'tapeinfo': Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'IBM ' Product ID: 'ULTRIUM-HH7 ' Revision: 'G9Q1' Attached Changer API: No SerialNumber: '123456789A' MinBlock: 1 MaxBlock: 8388608 SCSI ID: 4 SCSI LUN: 0 Read

Re: Amtapetype wrongly reporting compression?

4400 mode1 blocksize=32768 compression=1 mode2 blocksize=32768 compression=0 mode3 disabled=1 mode4 disabled=1 Sorry, about that! On 2018-01-11 02:43 PM, Luc Lalonde wrote: Hello Folks, I'm wondering if there's a bug with 'Amtapetype' (version 3.5.1). We're migrating from LTO5 to LTO7 and I'm get

Amtapetype wrongly reporting compression?

s: 3 Am I missing something? Thanks!| -- Luc Lalonde, analyste - Département de génie informatique: École polytechnique de MTL (514) 340-4711 x5049 luc.lalo...@polymtl.ca -

amreport: ERROR error: the mailer '/bin/Mail': No such file or directory

one? Thanks! -- Luc Lalonde, analyste - Département de génie informatique: École polytechnique de MTL (514) 340-4711 x5049 luc.lalo...@polymtl.ca -

Amcheck fails for several clients if one of them is not reachable

Hello Folks, I think that this is an old bug that has come back in version 3.4.5. If one of the clients is not reachable for an ‘amcheck’, then I get multiple errors: # [root@beagle amandad]# su amandabackup -c '/usr/sbin/amcheck Journalier-VTAPE' Amanda Tape Server Host Check

Re: Labelstr issues with 3.4.3

Salut Jean-Louis, I can confirm that the patch version 3.4.4 solves the ‘labelstr’ bug mentioned below. Thank You! > On May 3, 2017, at 4:17 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 2017-05-02 um 15:21 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: >> Bonjour Luc, >> >> You found a bug, In

Labelstr issues with 3.4.3

Hello Folks, Since upgrading to 3.4.3 I seem to having problems with Amanda recognizing my tapes. Here’s the ‘labelstr’ directive in my ‘amanda.conf’: labelstr "^000[0-9][0-9][0-9]*” This worked fine when I was running version 3.3.4-1… But now, I’m getting errors. Here are examples of some

Balancing dumps automatically?

if there was a way of getting amanda do that automatically. Thanks! -- Luc Lalonde, analyste - Département de génie informatique: École polytechnique de Montréal (514) 340-4711 x5049 luc.lalo...@polymtl.ca -

Re: Balancing dumps automatically?

ideas why I'm getting this? And 'maxpromoteday' is not specified in my configuration. So it must be using the default value of '1000'. Bye. - Original Message - From: Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com To: Luc Lalonde luc.lalo...@polymtl.ca Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Sent

amidxtaped v3.1.3 bug (critical (fatal): Modification of non-creatable array value attempted)

Message - From: Luc Lalonde luc.lalo...@polymtl.ca To: Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:39:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: amidxtaped v3.1.1 bug (critical (fatal): Modification of non-creatable array value attempted

Re: Connection refused, timed out, successfully retried (v3.1.3)

Hello Jean-Louis, Two days of backups and no more deconnection errors... Will this patch be included in the next version (v3.1.4)? Thanks again! On 2010-11-19, at 8:22 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Bonjour Luc, It's a known bug in 3.1.3 The attached patch fix it. Jean-Louis Luc

Re: Connection refused, timed out, successfully retried (v3.1.3)

I've patched and installed the new version on my server-clients... I'll send an update to the list tomorow once tonight's backup run finishes to confirm that this fixes the problem. Merci! - Original Message - From: Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com To: Luc Lalonde

Connection refused, timed out, successfully retried (v3.1.3)

:39:45 2010: dumper: send request: ## end dump debug # Anyone have ideas on how to resolve this problem? Thanks! -- Luc Lalonde, analyste - Département de génie informatique: École polytechnique

Re: amidxtaped v3.1.1 bug (critical (fatal): Modification of non-creatable array value attempted)

Fantastic! That did the trick. Will you be including this in 3.1.2? For the moment, I patched the RPMSRC from the Zmanda binary repo and it works great with your modifications. Thank you very much! - Original Message - From: Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com To: Luc Lalonde

Re: amidxtaped v3.1.1 bug (critical (fatal): Modification of non-creatable array value attempted)

Hello Dustin, Apart from what I've already sent, I can't seem find anything else... All I can say is that I don't get this problem using 2.6.1p2 only 3.1.1 on the server side. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com To: Luc Lalonde luc.lalo...@polymtl.ca

amidxtaped v3.1.1 bug (critical (fatal): Modification of non-creatable array value attempted)

using tape drive chg-disk:/amanda/VTAPE/slots on host localhost. ## Any ideas? -- Luc Lalonde, analyste - Département de génie informatique: École polytechnique de

LTO4 library recomendations

StorageTek SL500 (2 FC LTO4 drives, redundant power supply, 50 slots) I'd be interested in reading some of your comments regarding these units... Which one would you recommend above all others? Do they behave well with Amanda, mtx, etc. Thanks! -- Luc Lalonde, analyste

Re: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK (with secondary addr on eth0 only)

Thanks, that did the trick (added bind address)... ­Force the listen address in the relevant xinetd.d file. This will do the trick. -- Luc Lalonde, analyste - Département de génie informatique: Éole polytechnique de Montréal

selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK (with secondary addr on eth0 only)

with Heartbeat-DRBD configuration. The secondary address is used for failover. Thanks in advance for your help. Luc Lalonde.

Re: Amanda migration from SGI-Irix to Linux

blocksize (mentionned by J. Labadie, thx Jon ;-) with 'mt': mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 32768 Bye. PS: Hope you server room move went well ;-) Luc Lalonde wrote: Hello Jean-François, I seem to be having problems with the SCSI controller: st0: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x8

Re: Amanda migration from SGI-Irix to Linux

or LVD... and what controller are you using? I'm using the same model (QLA1240) that was on the SGI... with no luck it seems. Bye. Luc Lalonde wrote: Hello Jean-François, I think I found the problem. I have another old binary 'mt' in the PATH that is causing the problem. After removing I

Re: Amanda migration from SGI-Irix to Linux

second time I try to view the contents of this file Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Luc Lalonde [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060814 12:08]: Hello Jean-Franois, I seem to be having problems with the SCSI controller: st0: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x8). scsi(0

Re: Amanda migration from SGI-Irix to Linux

the changer seems to be struggling... I'm continuing my investigations... Thanks again for your input... Luc Lalonde wrote: Hello Jean-François, I'm getting this weird message with 'mt': [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mt -f /dev/nst0 status Unknown tape drive type (0x72): residual= 0 ds = 200 er

Amanda migration from SGI-Irix to Linux

and lose the backups created with the old SGI Amanda server. Thanks! -- Luc Lalonde, analyste - Département de génie informatique: Éole polytechnique de Montréal (514) 340-4711 x5049 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Amanda migration from SGI-Irix to Linux

QLA1240. What are you using on your Linux box? Thanks again. PS: 'mtx -f /dev/sg0 status' seems to work fine. I get a full report of the contents of my library. Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Luc Lalonde [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060811 11:52]: Hello Folks, I'm getting this error when I

Re: split disklist aphabetically

hanx. Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:50:02PM -0400, Luc Lalonde wrote: Hello Folks, What are your recommendations for spliting directories with excludes without having to reorganize directories in a partition that I want to backup? Basically, I want: cli

Re: split disklist aphabetically

The Amanda operator did not have the proper permissions... The problem is now fixed. Thanks. Paul Bijnens wrote: Luc Lalonde wrote: I can't seem to get 'amcheck' to accept your suggestion. Here's what I have in my 'disklist': zeus /store/homes/students/ag /store/homes/students { # all

split disklist aphabetically

that can be done? What are the problems associated with this aproach? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. PS: I seem to remember someone else asking the same question on this mailing-list. However, I can't seem to find the reference. -- Luc Lalonde, analyste

Re: AMANDA Documentation at www.oops.co.at (SGI Irix additions)

I think that it should go into the SGI-Irix section... Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Luc Lalonde, on Donnerstag, 05. August 2004 at 04:09 you wrote to amanda-users: LL Hello Stefan, LL Thanks for the enormous work that you've done putting together this LL document. Thank you ... LL I've to some

Re: AMANDA Documentation at www.oops.co.at (SGI Irix additions)

Hello Stefan, LL Here's a few corrections (in blue): LL Cut Here** LL Luc Lalonde [EMAIL PROTECTED] LL mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You mean the email-adress?? The format is pretty strict in my XML-DTD. Or do I miss the point again? best regards, Stefan

Re: AMANDA Documentation at www.oops.co.at (SGI Irix additions)

, Stefan G. Weichinger -- Luc Lalonde, analyste - Département de génie informatique: École polytechnique de Montréal (514) 340-4711 x5049 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - War

Rsync, Amanda's best friend

and configurations without mucking about and trying to find it on the backup tapes without an online Amanda setup. I just thought I'd put my two cents worth after reading the message about Gavin Henry's backup server crash. Bye. -- Luc Lalonde, analyste

UDP and TCP portrange directives

other clients that do not have the strict UDP and TCP portranges established at compile time. Thank You. -- Luc Lalonde, analyste - Département de génie informatique: École polytechnique de Montréal (514) 340-4711 x5049 [EMAIL

client-side enforced excludes

it in the configure script: ./configure --prefix=/opt/amanda --with-user=amanda --with-group=backup \ --with-gnutar=/opt/bin/tar-wrapper The wrapper would have a line like: /bin/tar -exclude-from /etc/amanda/exclude.gtar $@ Any other suggestions? Cheers. -- Luc Lalonde, analyste

Re: chg-scsi: dev and scsitapedev on IRIX

for IRIX in Amanda-2.4.3. Everything worked fine when I used chg-scsi in 2.4.2p2. I'm willing to help the people who are maintaining the chg-scsi in Amanda to get it back in working order for IRIX. For know I'm using chg-zd-mtx. Cheers, Luc. Eric Schnoebelen wrote: Luc Lalonde writes: - What

chg-scsi: dev and scsitapedev on IRIX

Hello folks, What would be the difference between dev and scsitapedev? Would dev be the tape device name and scsitapedev be the scsi controller device name? I'm trying to use the chg-scsi from amanda-2.4.3 and am having no success. My chg-scsi.conf works fine with amanda-2.4.2. Would

chg-scsi error after upgrade from 2.4.2p2 to 2.4.3

Hello Folks, I have a working chg-scsi.conf with 2.4.2p2 under IRIX with a StorageTek L40. However, when I try to upgrade to 2.4.3, I get this error: amcheck-server: could not get changer info: could not read result from /opt/amanda/libexec/chg-scsi I'd like to take advantage of the new

Re: Manual Tape changing

. If you do an amadmin config tape before the run, slot zero means the first tape, slot 1 means the second and so on. Luc Lalonde John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Luc Lalonde, Responsable du reseau GIREF Telephone: (418) 656-2131 poste 6623 Courriel

Manual Tape changing

config with great success (Thanks!). However, I can't fit the Monthly full dumps on one tape. Cheers. -- Luc Lalonde, Responsable du reseau GIREF Telephone: (418) 656-2131 poste 6623 Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Monthly config

ly" and "Monthly" running on two seperate configs, what will there be conflicts with /etc/dumpdates and /etc/amandates? Is there an other potential conflicts that I should know about? Cheers. -- Luc Lalonde, Responsable du reseau GIREF Telephone: (418) 656-2131 poste 6623 Cou

Monthly config

. Cheers. -- Luc Lalonde, Responsable du reseau GIREF Telephone: (418) 656-2131 poste 6623 Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard n:Lalonde;Luc x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Universite Laval;GIREF adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Administateur de reseau x-mozilla-cpt:;0

Hardware Compression and tape capacity

Hello Folks, Many thanks to John R. Jackson and Yura Pismerov for their answers concerning estimating the tape size by hand for hardware compression. Regards... -- Luc Lalonde, Responsable du reseau GIREF Telephone: (418) 656-2131 poste 6623 Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard

Re: Amanda and xinetd

to be using xinetd and not inetd. Can anyone help? Ray. -- Luc Lalonde, Responsable du reseau GIREF Telephone: (418) 656-2131 poste 6623 Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard n:Lalonde;Luc x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Universite Laval;GIREF adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED

amdump and eject

e only one complaint though. I can't seem to get estimates from Solaris 2.7. "sensize" takes forever with "tar". I eventually have to kill it. I just bypass the problem and use "ufsdump". Is this one of the bugs that is fixed in 2.4.2p1? -- Luc Lalonde, Responsable du

Re: selfcheck permission weirdness (Linux ok, but not Solaris)

permission on the raw device. Luc Lalonde, Responsable du reseau GIREF -Ben -- Luc Lalonde, Responsable du reseau GIREF Telephone: (418) 656-2131 poste 6623 Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard n:Lalonde;Luc x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Universite Laval;GIREF adr:;; version:2.1 email;inter

Solaris timeouts with 2.4.2, slowness with Linux clients

Hello Folks, I'm getting weird timeouts with Solaris 2.7 clients but not with Linux clients. Here's the debug message: Amanda 2.4 NAK HANDLE 005-80C20708 SEQ 980329506 ERROR amandad busy Also, I'm finding that the backups are very slow compared to when done manually. I used to mount the

Re: Solaris: suid root stuff

Hello John, You put your finger right on the solution! The former admin put a"nosuid" mount on the partition that had Amanda installed! I removed it and it corrected the problem. Thanks! Luc Lalonde "John R. Jackson" wrote: I can't seem to figure this one out. I'

Solaris: suid root stuff

Hey folks, I can't seem to figure this one out. I've got my Linux host running Amanda-2.4.2 and all the Linux clients working allright but not my Ultra10's running Solaris 2.7. Here's a listing of runtar: -rwsr-x--- 1 root backup 216808 Jan 20 21:19 runtar And here's the error I get in