OpenAFS 1.6.14 was released to fix this problem .  You should use that
instead of 1.6.13.

Jeffrey Altman

On 8/4/2015 7:54 AM, Giovanni Bracco wrote:
> Does this mean that generally speaking openafs backup does not work
> anymore with version 1.6.13 on servers?
> 
> Giovanni
> 
> 
> On 04/08/15 13:02, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> On 04 Aug 2015, at 11:29, Gunnar Krull <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yesterday I upgraded the OpenAFS packages on our servers running
>>> Debian Wheezy from 1.6.9-1~bpo70+1 to 1.6.13-1 (compiled and build
>>> from sid source).
>>>
>>> Since then the backup command stopped working with an error, e.g.:
>>>
>>> # /usr/sbin/backup dump -volumeset coursebackup -dump /aug
>>> Starting dump of volume set 'coursebackup' (dump level '/aug')
>>> backup: Volume name is illegal ; Failed to evaluate volume set
>>>
>>> The backup volume set looks like this:
>>>
>>> backup> listv
>>> Volume set coursebackup:
>>>     Entry   1: server .*, partition .*, volumes: course\..*\.backup
>>>
>>> Everything else seemed to be okay, no problems with fileservers and
>>> volume servers.
>>> Now, I've gone back to the old version, installing the 1.6.9
>>> packages. With this version the backup is working again.
>>>
>>> Any idea what could cause the error in the latest version?
>>
>> it's a known regression introduced with commit
>> 63087b338e3d0fbbb26ee183a039052bf07aaaec  in 1.6.13. An alternative
>> solution is being worked on in http://gerrit.openafs.org/1196{7,8,9}
>> and should be released soon.
>>
>> The changes will need some tweaking when applied to 1.6.
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>>
>> - Stephan
>>
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