On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:54:06PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > > stan wrote: > >I recently tried to upgrade several of my OpenBSD machines to 4.5 (X86). I > >also upgraded the Amanda clients on them to 2.6.1, which I have working on > >FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris 5, Solaris 8, and HP-UX. > > > >Despite my best efforts, I have yet to get the OpenBSD 4.5 clients to back > >up correctly. All the configurations are set up to match what has been done > >on FreeBSD. Amcheck works fine, and when I start a backup, the size > >estimates step works. But 80% of the time the actual dumps fail. They > >start, but fail in mid dump. They are returning a EAGAIN error on the > >network pipes back to the Amanda master machine. I have connected one of > >the > >OpenBSD machines directly to the Amanda master with a crossover cable to > >eliminate any possible firewall/router et all issues. > > > >I notice that the port of Amanda is quite an old version, and the > >developers of this project are (unfortunately) breaking compatibility with > >older clients. I don't like this, but, at this point in time, it is beyond > >my resources to address this breakage. > > > >Has anyone gotten an newer version of Amanda to work on OpenBSD 4.5? Can > >anyone suggest what I should do to try to diagnose this problem further? > > Sounds like you've had a fair bit of experience on various platforms > implementing Amanda. > > Since you upgraded the OpenBSD, perhaps for sanity and just checking and > troubleshooting, you should grab an older Amanda that you already have > implemented, and get that working on the upgraded OpenBSD. That might > just work, or it might clue you in to what's going on.
One more thing thta's going to make this df`ificult is that the contractor I had do this upgrade installed 86 OpenBSD, when we had AMD64 previously. So my old binaries are not any good either :-( -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
