Re: command line syntax host !disk

2010-10-13 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: I wonder if a syntax extension that would be backward compatible is possible.  Blue-skying here, maybe a single argument with a separator between host and disk.  Something like 'host|disk' or 'host/disk'. For those playing

Re: command line syntax host !disk

2010-10-13 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: Surprisingly, the amanda-match(7) manpage is not included in the pre-built binaries I've installed (version 3.1.2-1). I added it in 3.2 However the installed amanda(8) manpage does include the same Host and Disk Expression

Re: amvault - version 3.2.0beta3

2010-10-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: Does such a configuration exist?  I thought your config was named HANSA? Did you sort this out? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: command line syntax host !disk

2010-10-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: The manpage Amanda(8) where Host and Disk Expression are documented indicates some wildcarding is allowed. Thus, for a host where I wanted all DLEs excpet one that began with the letter A I tried:        amdump config host

Re: No space left on device question

2010-10-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:47 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: hertz        -ss/export/users-w 0    50143    50143     --      PARTIAL         25:45  33234.0 says that when it went to the next tape that the complete {user-a, users-m, users-w} were written on the next tape.

Re: No space left on device question

2010-10-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
looks like they did... On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:03 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: 2010-10-09 23:10:45 hertz      /gauss/export/users-w               0 A00184          1   1/1 OK 2010-10-09 23:10:45 hertz      /gauss/export/users-w               0 A00180          6  1/-1

Re: amvault report - *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!

2010-10-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: ok then I must overide the tapetype def with -o option in the amvault command. I'm not sure about that. Your amvault run demonstrated that your tapes can actually hold almost 6 times the data you've suggested in

Re: amvault report - *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!

2010-10-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: Sat Oct  9 22:23:08 2010: amgtar: Spawning /usr/local/bin/tar /usr/local/bin/tar --create --verbose --file - --directory / --one-file-system --no-check-device --listed-incremental

Re: Testing amvault

2010-10-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: Good work releasing beta3. Few thing that come to my mind while testing amvault regarding slections of dumps. Maybe I'm misunderstanding come to mind, but these are all possible now. Have I failed to document

Re: Re:

2010-10-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:40 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: Dustin, thanks very much for your help in resolving this. Sure thing. Jean-Louis has, in the interim, fixed the problem of not being able to eject when a fatal error occurs in the tape device. So this one is fixed twice

Re: amvault - version 3.2.0beta3

2010-10-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: I'm vaulting from config hansa and I'm getting parse error about hansa-vault config  ? Does such a configuration exist? I thought your config was named HANSA? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer

Re: Testing amvault

2010-10-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Thanks for the tip about --autolabel any, by the way. I accidentally implemented it as --autolabel all. The fix is easy :) On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: ok this will vault all full dumps in my configuation but can I select only the most

Re: 3.1.2

2010-10-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: Feature request (?) - There are checks for DLE tape, seems almost                      silly but a check for                         SUM(DLEs) (tape_capacity * runtapes) One DLE with a full size larger than available

Re: amvault report - *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!

2010-10-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: Is this because amvault is considered a flush ? Tape usage statistic is rather odd as well. Can you send the trace log that generated this report? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: 3.1.2

2010-10-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: I realize that there IS NO Solution within amanda. This is a capacity planning issue for the humans to solve, but amanda can warn via the amdump report, that problems are imminent and that human capacity planning is

Re: long running amandad on client

2010-10-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:07 PM, John Hein jh...@symmetricom.com wrote: I have a client with an amandad that has been running since Sep 23... .. 2000 APPLICATION 36 |;auth=BSD;compress-fast;index;exclude-file=.no-amanda-backup;exclude-file=.nobak;exclude-file=.noback;exclude-file=.nodump;

Re: amvault report - *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!

2010-10-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: Is this because amvault is considered a flush ? .. *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY! No, it was a bug - amvault didn't write the FINISH driver line before calling amreport, so amreport didn't think it was

Re: amvault report - *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!

2010-10-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: No is a HP Ultrium LTO 3 tape drive: Yes I think the data was written to tape I will verify that next week. OK. You should adjust the length in your tapetype definition, then - your tape appears to be at least

Re: FW: amrecover bug?

2010-10-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Titl Erich erich.t...@ruf.ch wrote: I guess this finding should give you something to chew on Indeed! If I'm reading the hex dumps correctly, then, the first file is padded at the beginning with exactly 28424 bytes of zero. The file lengths differ by the same

Re: Re:

2010-10-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:01 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: I had been using 2048KB, which I had defined in tapetype,  when I was running Amanda 2.x and never got this error. Yes, it's a new error for something that used to be handled quietly. Basically, the kernel takes the

Re: FW: amrecover bug?

2010-10-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: Again, if trying from the server, might this be yet another tar version incompatibilities? This is unlikely, but worth checking out all the same - can the version of tar that amrecover is using successfully extract the

3.2.0 beta3 release

2010-10-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Thank you to everyone who tested beta2 - we caught a number of bugs, none of which are huge, which gives me confidence that the upcoming 3.2.0 release will be a sturdy one. As promised[1], we have another beta release available this morning. Please test! Those of you who have been holding off on

Re: [Amanda-users] amrecover 3.1.1 issue

2010-10-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: The value of '-1' show that something is corrupted, the backup image is probably not valid, that's why you can't restore it. Can you post the complete log.timestatmp.0, the amdump.? log file and the dumper.*.debug

Re: [Amanda-users] amrecover 3.1.1 issue

2010-10-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:39 AM, mezzie amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: The logs here are on a different date than the original post but I have verified that it is still happening for the files attached. So it looks like mvsu.edu:/home/tk20/fileshighered is a problematic DLE. Looking at

[SECURITY ALERT] Vulnerability in Amanda-3.1.2 - Upgrade to 3.1.3

2010-10-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Amanda development team has discovered a security vulnerability introduced in Amanda-3.1.2. The vulnerability affects both Amanda servers and clients, and could lead to remote execution of code as the Amanda user. The problem is fixed in

3.2.0beta2 tomorrow - last call!

2010-10-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
We're planning another beta tomorrow, so if you have anything you'd like to see fixed in that beta, let me know ASAP. That includes manpage typos and other actual nitpicks :) Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re:

2010-10-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:33 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:  hertz /gauss/export/users-s lev 0  partial taper: Error writing block: Mysterious short write on tape device: Tried 2097152, got 1052672 as amanda hit the end of tape. .. and you're using a block size (2M) that's

Re: 3.2.0 beta1 release

2010-10-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: Done. I also upgraded to amanda-3.2.0beta1.svn.3489.tar.gz, per today's announcement. I just ran 15 amchecks in a row, then an amdump, and no problems. Great! I should be clear - and I'll reiterate in

Re: amreport version 3.1.2

2010-10-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: Yes this is much better - log is attached. Fixed up in http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/z12092.patch Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: amreport version 3.1.2

2010-10-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Incidentally, I can't help but notice that you're backing up disks named /var/amanda/amandatapes/ems/slotNN. Will amvault be able to help you out? If so, could you find some time to test it before I set sail in a week and a half? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: amreport version 3.1.2

2010-10-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: Yes I hope so. What version should I go for ? This - or rather a version improved by Jean-Louis' suggestion to print the more precise flush successfully retried - will be in the next 3.2.0 beta, which we're

Re: Compile time enhancement: make the amanda user directory owned by the amanda user

2010-10-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: It might be nice if the installation process not only made the directory but changed its ownership to the amanda user. The only reason that Amanda references its home directory is for .amandahosts, which is

Re: Compile time enhancement: make the amanda user directory owned by the amanda user

2010-10-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: Understandable. Yes, useradd should set it up correctly. However, on debian and Ubuntu, the default user directory, /var/backups, is already created by the time you run make install, and so is the backup user.

Re: 3.2.0 beta1 release

2010-10-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: I'm no expert on configure, so that could be wrong. BTW, are the options for configure documented anywhere? Only in ./configure --help. It looks like you got things figured out, though. That done, I was

Re: 3.2.0 beta1 release

2010-10-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: I plan to go back to tcp and auth=bsdtcp once I get this issue solved. Of course it could be that making those changes will solve this issue. I'd recommend that. I consider BSD and BSDUDP authentications to

Re: amreport version 3.1.2

2010-10-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: I upgraded Amanda version from 2.6.1 to 3.1.2 and amreport reports: ... But they are written on the next tape, I'm not using tape spanning. OK .. so what's the problem? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: I picked a 'virtual' tape size to match the capacity of a DVD-R: 4.3Gig, with the idea of migrating the fulls and the more major incrs to DVD-Rs for long-term archival. Ah! You should take a look at both the dvdrw device

Re: amreport version 3.1.2

2010-10-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote: It is reported as failed see below and those parts are added twice - filesystem 66 parts 68. In earlier version it is reported correctly. Perhaps this is a change in behavior, but I think that this version

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Also I am pretty much stuck with 2.5.0, since that is what comes with CentOS... (I don't at this point want to 'experiment' with a bleeding edge self-built package, not for something like this.) Yikes, you may be *very*

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: One of the downsides of using a very *stable* Linux distro with long term stable support.  OTOH, it avoids the fun of re-installing everything every 6-12 months and then spending a couple of months getting all of the

Re: 3.2.0 beta1 release

2010-10-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: OK, in trying to duplicate this, I'm getting dumper segfaults, which is probably the same bug -- it looks like dumper is printing random memory in the error message above.  So consider it replicated - and I'll try

Re: 3.2.0 beta1 release

2010-10-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: Sorry, it doesn't apply when using my amanda-3.2.0_beta1.ebuild ;-( Will look into it tomorrow. There's a version rebased onto the 3.2.0_beta1 tag at http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/z12066.patch Dustin --

Re: 3.2.0 beta1 release

2010-10-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: applies and seems to work. encrypted DLE dumped. Great! I'll wait to hear back from Jean-Louis about the potential memory leak, then, before committing. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: bumpdays clarification

2010-10-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: Thinking about a recent post caused me to wonder about the bumpdays directive.  Is it truely measured in days as opposed to amdump runs? Neither, actually - it's measured in tapes / runtapes. So if your runtapes is large but

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: runtapes 2 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump I hope very few dumps take more than one tape, like none :) To be clear on the planner's reasoning: it considers itself to have runtapes * tapetype:length kb

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: So I would be better off setting runtapes to 1?  And then manually 'flushing' at the beginning of the cycle to deal with the larger fulls? Arg... This sort of thing is not really well explained in the man pages...

Re: trivial amtape defect

2010-10-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: When running amtape --help the usage message is printed twice. A *real* nitpick! Cool! Fix is here: http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/z12091 If that works for you, let me know and I will commit. You should be able

Re: 3.2.0 beta1 release

2010-10-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: ? encrypt: dumper: error: couldn't exec server encryptionÈÏ  HÃ  8 . OK, in trying to duplicate this, I'm getting dumper segfaults, which is probably the same bug -- it looks like dumper is printing random memory in

amvault oversight

2010-10-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
FYI, in 3.2.0beta1 amvault always uses a part size of 2MB, which can cause *huge* logfiles for large (or even medium-sized) dumps. This is an oversight on my part, and I'll get it fixed up, but in the interim, don't vault anything too large in 3.2.0 or your logfiles will get huge and thus your

Re: Amanda changes bite me again.

2010-09-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: For SG, I removed the data link from the test setup.  Running amcheck test does restore it. Removing it from the running setup and running amcheck Daily does not.  But it doesn't seem to effect amdump or amcheck in

Re: FW: amrecover bug?

2010-09-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Titl Erich erich.t...@ruf.ch wrote: It takes a while and I can observe data transfer with tcpdump. OK, I suspect, then, that this is a timing-related bug in 3.1.2, that is fixed in the 3_1 branch. Do you have the capacity to build from a tarball on the server?

Re: FW: amrecover bug?

2010-09-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Titl Erich erich.t...@ruf.ch wrote: Downloading the current snapshot, could you provide compiling and packaging information? The instructions for compiling from a tarball are here: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation/Installing_Amanda_Source If you

Re: iSCSI holding disk: slow read.

2010-09-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Valeriu Mutu vm...@pcbi.upenn.edu wrote: What do you mean by shoe-shining? shoe-shining is when a tape drive must stop the tape repeatedly while it buffers more deta. It creates a lot of wear on the tape, and also kills performance. Dustin -- Open Source

Re: Amanda changes bite me again.

2010-09-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Note the --with-config=Daily \, but the subdir when running am* Daily is /amandatapes/Dailys,  note the plural.  Is this line even required? No, --with-config is largely ignored, and the name of the vtape directory

Re: Corrupted dumps from windows client

2010-09-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Christian Kratzer ck-li...@cksoft.de wrote: it looks like I might have found the problem.  Both windows hosts had the shadow copy service disabled.  I startetd the service and will check tomorrows full dumps. Can you post some info to the wiki about how to

Re: Amanda changes bite me again.

2010-09-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: Line 473 should have a double colon rather than a single... ie. Amanda::Debug::debug rather than Amanda::Debug::debug Sorry about that, Gene. You can just edit the file under /usr, rather than re-making

Re: Amanda changes bite me again.

2010-09-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Wed Sep 29 14:41:23 2010: amcheck-device: set_current: symlinking /amandatapes/test/data to slot1 And is this link in place on the filesystem now? What's the difference between the 14:31 and 14:41 runs of amcheck?

3.2.0 beta1 release

2010-09-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
As promised, we have the first beta version of Amanda-3.2.0 out today. It's available from http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php (binary packages; version 3.2.0beta1) http://amanda.org/download.php (tarball; under Development) The more testing this release can get, the better. And the

Re: FW: amrecover bug?

2010-09-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
When you do the recovery with amrecover, does it take a while for the tar error to appear, or is it immediate? I'd like to figure out if it's transferring any data at all. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Amanda changes bite me again.

2010-09-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: That said, the new chg-disk *is* supposed to duplicate the data symlink quirk, so I'll take a look at why it's not doing that. And I just verified that this works for me -- it's also tested for by the installchecks

Re: Amanda changes bite me again.

2010-09-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: I now see a 'data' link to slot 5, I nuked that 2 days ago because nothing was paying an attention to it, and neither amcheck nor amdump was updating it, and the loss causes no errors, none, nada, zip.  My helper script

Re: Amanda changes bite me again.

2010-09-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, its setup, and awaiting orders Cap'n.  Next? Can you replicate any of the failure-to-update-data errors with this test config? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: FW: amrecover bug?

2010-09-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Titl Erich erich.t...@ruf.ch wrote: Just before you drop the ball completely, have you or someone else had time to look at the debug files I had skimmed it briefly, and didn't see anything obvious. I suspect that you've fixed the basic problem by changing

Re: FW: amrecover bug?

2010-09-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Titl Erich erich.t...@ruf.ch wrote: Here for your reference the outcome of amfetchdump does not look good subversion:/backup# amrecover that's amrecover. Is there any extra data in the dumpfile? Not that I know of. During amrecover I can observe the data

Re: amanda and selinux

2010-09-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: Including appropriate selinux policies for Fedora builds might be another feature enhancement request or nitpick. I'd like to see them, too, but I'm not sure how quickly they'd get out of date. They'd need someone savvy in

Re: Amanda changes bite me again.

2010-09-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: At some point in the last roughly a month, amanda stopped using the link named 'data' to point at the correct slot in a vtape directory. I think you figured out, in a previous thread, that you switched to the new

Re: Amanda changes bite me again.

2010-09-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Yes I did, but that didn't give me a clue that the 'data' link to whatever had been deprecated and that for cleanliness, I should go around an nuke it.  No mention of it in the ChangeLog, I read it again early this

3.2.0 beta on Wednesday .. and a personal note

2010-09-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
As we've hinted in various posts here, there's a lot of exciting new stuff coming up in 3.2: - multiple simultaneous tapers (!!) - LEOM support (lossless splitting) - new, simpler splitting parameters - massive amvault improvements - retirement of most old changers - a great deal of code

Re: not a nitpick, feature question

2010-09-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: This discussion has been a positive, showing that there are indeed several ways to approach this problem, all of which, when TSHTF, contain the seeds for an expedited full recovery. Great! This probably deserves a

Gentoo SVN ebuild buglet

2010-09-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Stefan -- With the way the ebuild is structured right now, Amanda's built with dummy manpages: dus...@euclid ~/code/amanda/t/amanda [z11904 *] $ man amreport DUMMY You may want to consider adding configure flag --enable-manpage-build to the ebuild, and adding

Re: not a nitpick, feature question

2010-09-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Do I have editing rights on the wiki? Everybody does (even spammers, ugh) - you may need to create an account first, but that's easy. Here's the direct link:

Re: Nitpicks?

2010-09-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: A flag to set in amanda.conf to force an mt -f $tapedev offl after successful amdump/amflush ... This has been a standing bug in Zmanda's bugzilla for a while, but it's never become clear where this should happen.

Re: Nitpicks?

2010-09-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: I would like to see it in my smaller installations as well, where there is no changer ... Well, there's always a changer, but some of them (like chg-manual and chg-single) do not support ejecting. That might be a good

Re: amrecover bug?

2010-09-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Titl Erich erich.t...@ruf.ch wrote: A few weeks ago I reported in the forum a problem with amrecover and compressed dump files. Meanwhile I changed to uncompressed backup, still no luck and, unfortunately not much replies either. So please bear with me when I

Re: not a nitpick, feature question

2010-09-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: Any thoughts on how desireable you feel be a separate copy of amanda data would be and other approaches? This comes up often, and I've never found a solution I'm happy enough with to make the official solution. Gene's

Re: not a nitpick, feature question

2010-09-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Christ Schlacta aarc...@aarcane.org wrote: Why keep a backup server up 24/7 when it only works durring bakup hours? Often the backup backup server is a server ordinarily devoted to other purposes, with a few megs available for catalogs. Why not append the

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:20 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: with taper_debug 9 I had a 174 meg taper log, which still didn't make any sense as it was reporting about 6 lines for every 32k write, so I dropped it to 2.  I grepped for the differences in the man tree but didn't see

Re: Nitpick - amreport statistics

2010-09-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: Looks better to my eye.  Any one else? With Jean-Louis' review, committed in r3428. Thanks! Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Gene, this is counterproductive at this point. You've named a few things that seem to be wrong, all of which are unrelated. You've changed things between each email, and claimed a number of different symptoms. PLEASE: slow down. Find *one* failure, describe it fully, and track it down to its

Re: Nitpicks?

2010-09-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: This may be a little late, but it would be nice to have a switch on most status, etc. utils to format the output for texting to a mobile device rather than email. Almost the exact same thing was requested

Re: My 3.1.2 server starts ok, but taper never writes anything

2010-09-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: It's impractical to run this check in ./configure, but what do you think about running this check even on 'make all'? I committed this - on FreeBSD, this test will occur on 'make install'. Do you mind adding

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: Added that debug-parameter and re-ran amflush, nothing special in the logs. What does this mean? Did the taper start up but not write anything? And what revision are you using? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer

Re: My 3.1.2 server starts ok, but taper never writes anything

2010-09-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Stephen Corbesero corbes...@ptd.net wrote: That did it Or may have done it. Sounds like this has worked out. I had added a test to Amanda, which runs in 'make check' that should have detected this: 536 thread-check: libTests.la 537 $(PERL)

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: does that help? Perhaps. I'm strongly suspecting that this is a problem with the new multi-tape support. Jean-Louis, do you see anything related here? I've upgrade my production Amanda to the latest trunk (thanks to

Re: Nitpick - amreport statistics

2010-09-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: Are you working on this?  Perhaps someone else on the list can jump in? Hmm, well, I just took care of this: http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/z11908.patch Total Full Incr

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: One thing that catches my eye, in the taper.log, it is searching for:  [ama...@coyote Daily]$ cat taper.20100919052724.debug Sun Sep 19 05:27:24 2010: taper: pid 5083 ruid 501 euid 501 version 3.2.0alpha.svn.3416:

Re: My 3.1.2 server starts ok, but taper never writes anything

2010-09-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Stephen Corbesero corbes...@ptd.net wrote: It still seems to hang right after the message about the 'Final linkage'.  That is coming from the link_elements() subroutine in xfer-src/xfer.c. Which is basically where the threading starts.. I am not sure what to

Re: My 3.1.2 server starts ok, but taper never writes anything

2010-09-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Stephen Corbesero corbes...@ptd.net wrote: I upgraded my FreeBSD sources to the latest 8.x stable and recompiled the world (and kernel).  I then compiled and installed Perl-5.10.1 for my FreeBSD by hand, specifically enabling its threaded option. Finally, I

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Your guess is as good as mine, there simply isn't anything to indicate the failure, or a hint of a reason in the logs I've grepped.  All I know at this point is that I have to back up to about svn3341 just to get

Re: Nitpick: Enterprise features

2010-09-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: So I'm invoking my that's complicated escape clause.  The only one of these that I could conceivably accomplish in the 3.2 timeframe is #2.  I could add 'amadmin $conf hosts' to list all of the hosts, avoiding the need

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: But that kills amcheck, when amcheck is svn3341.  How new do I have to be to have that work? Oops, sorry, it's debug_taper 9 not debug taper Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: My 3.1.2 server starts ok, but taper never writes anything

2010-09-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:05 PM, John Hein jh...@symmetricom.com wrote: (Currently, I don't think the amanda client executes threaded code, but that may change in the future - or may have already in 3.1/3.2 code - Dustin?). There is now a good bit of Perl running on the client side, but none

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: At this point I have a WTH expression on my ancient face.  Go read changelog if all else fails.  I see a lot of changes on about 08/29-30-31 but no mention of chg-disk-slot? And, indeed, that hasn't changed. Now

Re: Another nitpick / feature request

2010-09-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: When a large DLE doesn't tape all the split parts before running out of tapes, could the subsequent flush (amflush or autoflush) pick up where the original taping left off? I just had a large DLE (23 3GB parts) fail on the

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: 1. The backup runs normally, to the holding disk, but times out writing to the vtape, so it is all left sitting in the holding disk.  I have enough I can do this for several days. Can you send the taper debug log?

Re: Another nitpick / feature request

2010-09-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: I'll certainly defer to you knowledge of the difficulty.  I was thinking that the logic is already there for the split disk feature.  The added code would be for saving its state and recreating it on the next flush. Yes, that

Re: My 3.1.2 server starts ok, but taper never writes anything

2010-09-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Stephen Corbesero corbes...@ptd.net wrote:  (gdb) info threads  * 1 Thread 28469480 (LWP 100148)  0x28af6225 in __error ()     from /lib/libthr.so.3 Can you run the 'bt' command here to see what that thread is up to? (gdb) bt Dustin -- Open Source Storage

Re: My 3.1.2 server starts ok, but taper never writes anything

2010-09-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Stephen Corbesero corbes...@ptd.net wrote: Also, if it is worth anything, the state of the process is listed as 'umtxn' from top/ps.  (This is a FreeBSD 8.1 system.) Huh, so that sounds like a kernel lock: http://old.nabble.com/what-is-umtxn-td20860047.html

Re: 3.1.2 : Problems with mails?

2010-09-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: Attached my poor draft ... it pulls sources in already but fails with automake ... I know too less about that to debug that ... any hint? You should probably base it on the 3.1.2 ebuild - robbat made a number of

Re: Nitpicks?

2010-09-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: And as a bonus: the possibility to get these warnings to another mail-address than the usual reports. There have been a number of notification-related nitpicks so far. While they're good ideas, I don't want to

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