wait for dumping

2003-12-16 Thread rwk
Hi amanda-users, I have just encountered a problem with amanda-2.4.4p1... I run: amadmin Daily force-bump basement furnace media I then run: amdump Daily Running amstatus Daily prints that it is estimating. It then changes to "wait for dumping" as each estimate is complete. When all estimates

Re: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:51:51PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > ** there still are no [gtar] point releases listed from 1.13.25 - 1.13.89 :)) > yet 1.13.90 was followed five weeks later with 1.13.91 and a week > after that 1.13.92. I've seen this before. It seems to be a new(ish) conve

Re: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Dan L. Ostrom
Gene, Thanks, our version of tar here is 1.13. Looking into upgrading it. I am currently running amanda-2.4.4p1. I'll check into the patches available. I'll post to the group the success/failure of all of this. At 07:23 PM 12/16/2003, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 16 Decem

Re: Backing up via NFS.

2003-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 18:07, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: >Dan L. Ostrom wrote: >> I was then able to do an amcheck, and it succeeded. Doing >> an amdump still >> fails however. Looking into the log file (sendsize.-.debug) it >> indicated that >> amdump is not receiving the size informat

Re: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 17:38, Paul Bijnens wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Question: Is it to be understood that versions of gnutar >> _greater_ than 1.13.25 are also incompatible? Or is it implied >> that those are also valid & acceptable for use with Amanda? >> >> I ask because I'm see

Second config

2003-12-16 Thread S. Keel
Hey eveyrone, Now that I've got a set of tapes running, I'm trying to figure out how to include another set of tapes. What I would like to do is have an identical set of tapes same number, same tapecycle, etc., but named sligtly differently that I can rotate off-site. For example: My current se

RE: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Mark_Conty
I'm in a bind, though. Ironically, I don't seem to have a backup copy of gnutar 1.13.25, so I'm in the process of rebuilding it. But I get build errors; both GCC and ANSI/C fail with the same file: GCC: gmake[2]: Entering directory `/src/gnu/tar-1.13.25/lib' source='xstrtoimax.c' object='xstrt

RE: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Mark_Conty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > That is 10800 seconds for each DLE on that host. If you have 5 DLE's > on that host, the timeout would become effective after > 5*10800 seconds. > > How many DLE's do have for that host? Ohhh! I interpreted that to mean that it would wait seconds with each DLE, no

RE: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Mark_Conty
> In answer to Mark's question, Don't know, yours is the first report > of using 1.13.9X. You'll have to tell US how it works :)) > > However, given the rapid release of 1.13.91 and .92, I don't think I'd > stick with 1.13.90. Yeah, I think I'll attribute my locked-up DLEs to -gnutar- version .

Re: Backing up via NFS.

2003-12-16 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Dan L. Ostrom wrote: I was then able to do an amcheck, and it succeeded. Doing an amdump still fails however. Looking into the log file (sendsize.-.debug) it indicated that amdump is not receiving the size information (presumably from sendsize module) that it needs to complete the t

Re: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:24:56PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 13:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Jon LaBadie writes: > >> > >> ... , is not a suitable version for use with amanda. > >> It is only 1.13 and what is needed is 1.13.25. > > > >Question: Is it to be underst

Re: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fact that it's doing a 'tar -tf -', though, in conjunction with the errors from amstatus when I finally killed it, indicated that it was still in the estimate stage: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: s3sme /var/opt/ignite/recovery RESULTS MISSING s3sme

Re: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Is it to be understood that versions of gnutar _greater_ than 1.13.25 are also incompatible? Or is it implied that those are also valid & acceptable for use with Amanda? I ask because I'm seeing the same problem as is Mr. Kato, only I'm on an HP-UX server,

RE: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Mark_Conty
[Sorry to keep replying to my own posts, but things keep occurring to me after I've sent the last one! :-] > But I'm puzzled as to why, after 15+ hours of working on the > same DLE, the dump hasn't timed out?? These are the Amanda processes on the client side of a second DLE that gives the sam

RE: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Mark_Conty
> BTW, etimeout is set to 7200 seconds, which has long since > elapsed. Correction -- I meant to say that it's _dtimeout_ that's set to 7200 seconds: etimeout10800 # 3h estimate timeout per f/s; default is 300s. dtimeout7200# 2h amdump time

RE: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Mark_Conty
In fact, when I tried to build 1.13.25 a couple of weeks ago, I kept hitting a build error: gmake[2]: Entering directory `/src/gnu/tar-1.13.25/lib' source='xstrtoimax.c' object='xstrtoimax.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/xstrtoimax.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/xstrtoimax.TPo' \ depmode=gcc /bin/sh ../dep

Re: gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 13:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Jon LaBadie writes: >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:15:07PM +0100, Zoltan Kato wrote: >> > /home is not NFS mounted and the directories are not transient >> > (they > >are > >> > the actual home dirs of individual users). runtar is seduid >

gnutar version -- exactly 1.13.25 or just 1.13.25 and above?

2003-12-16 Thread Mark_Conty
Jon LaBadie writes: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:15:07PM +0100, Zoltan Kato wrote: > > /home is not NFS mounted and the directories are not transient (they are > > the actual home dirs of individual users). runtar is seduid root. I tryed > > to run the gtar command from the log file manually as r

Re: Backing up via NFS.

2003-12-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Ken D'Ambrosio, on Montag, 15. Dezember 2003 at 22:56 you wrote to amanda-users: KDA> Hello, all. I've got some HP/UX 11.11 and 11.00 that I want to back KDA> up. However, I've run into some problems: KDA> 1) I can't find an Amanda client to install on 11.11 and 11.00 systems. KDA> 2) I t

Re: Backing up via NFS.

2003-12-16 Thread Dan L. Ostrom
All, Along these lines, I too have tried doing an NFS backup using Amanda, without much luck. The *client* machine, is an SANS, so installing client daemons on it is out of the question. Doing an amcheck pointing to the nfs mount point in the conf file would fail

Re: Backing up large Filesystems

2003-12-16 Thread Paul Bijnens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First backup went fine, but amanda seems to get trouble with the large filesystems. One of them /var is about actually /usr from the report below 70 Gig, but only 4% of it about 2.5 GB, are filled with data. What ist amanda calculating to determine whether a backup fits

Re: Backing up large Filesystems

2003-12-16 Thread Martin
Maybe because you are using dump instead of tar, Amanda tries to dump the entire filesystem instead of content only?   Martin   Hello Amanda-Users, maybe this is a very newby question, but i am running amanda 2.4.4 to dump several filesystems to a DLT Tape. First backup went fine, but amanda

Re: Backing up via NFS.

2003-12-16 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Try using GnuTar for your dump program instead. Running 'dump' over an NFS > mount if it ever works, is likely to be frought with problems. Hey, Paul: yah; I'm already using tar instead of dump. > To compile amanda, you may well need to install a bunch of things like

Backing up large Filesystems

2003-12-16 Thread S . Krumme
Hello Amanda-Users, maybe this is a very newby question, but i am running amanda 2.4.4 to dump several filesystems to a DLT Tape. First backup went fine, but amanda seems to get trouble with the large filesystems. One of them /var is about 70 Gig, but only 4% of it about 2.5 GB, are filled with d

Re: Backing up via NFS.

2003-12-16 Thread pll+amanda
In a message dated: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:56:38 EST "Ken D'Ambrosio" said: >Any idea on where I'm going astray? Ken, Try using GnuTar for your dump program instead. Running 'dump' over an NFS mount if it ever works, is likely to be frought with problems. To compile amanda, you may well need to