Errors with amcheck (ioctl, tapes in rack)

2004-03-16 Thread Pablo Quinta Vidal
Hi all !! When I run amcheck Diaria y get this: amcheck-server: slot 1: rewinding tape: Inappropriate ioctl for device ..(this for all the slots)... ERROR: new tape not found in rack (expecting a new tape) . How can I solve this??

amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Sergio Pereira
Hi List, when trying to recover a file using amrecover I get this error message: Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? EOF, check amidxtaped.timestamp.debug file on bkpserver. amrecover: short block 0 bytes UNKNOWN file amrecover: Can't read file header extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 what is

Re: amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 at 12:57pm, Sergio Pereira wrote when trying to recover a file using amrecover I get this error message: Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? EOF, check amidxtaped.timestamp.debug file on bkpserver. And what are the contents of the file it's telling you to check? -- Joshua

Re: amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Sergio Pereira
it's a text file with some network configuration, nothing else. I doing some tests with amrecover because I don't want to run into problems when the real recover show up. thx, sergio On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:06, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 at 12:57pm, Sergio Pereira wrote

Re: amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
Please respond below quoted text -- it makes it easier to follow the conversation. On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 at 1:26pm, Sergio Pereira wrote On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:06, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 at 12:57pm, Sergio Pereira wrote when trying to recover a file using

Re: amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Sergio Pereira
$ amidxtaped: time 0.000: DATESTAMP=20040316 amidxtaped: time 0.000: END amidxtaped: time 0.001: amrestore_nargs=0 amidxtaped: time 0.001: Ready to execv amrestore with: path = /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrestore argv[0] = amrestore argv[1] = -p argv[2] = -h argv[3] = -l argv[4] = daily1 argv[5] = -f

Re: amrecover error

2004-03-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
] = 20040316 Wrong label: 'daily6' Here's your error -- you have the wrong tape loaded. It's looking for daily6, but you have daily1 there. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

Re: Errors with amcheck (ioctl, tapes in rack)

2004-03-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 11:39, Pablo Quinta Vidal wrote: Hi all !! When I run amcheck Diaria y get this: amcheck-server: slot 1: rewinding tape: Inappropriate ioctl for device ..(this for all the slots)... ERROR: new tape not found in rack (expecting a new

filesystem limit?

2004-03-16 Thread Geoff Swavley
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone could tell me why amanda seems to split my filesystem into 2 holding files? An error has occurred so these filesare left on the disk. Here is the filesystem listing: at the files: 465921 drwxr-xr-x 4 amanda sys 512 Mar 17 00:45

Re: filesystem limit?

2004-03-16 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 at 8:02am, Geoff Swavley wrote I was wondering if anyone could tell me why amanda seems to split my filesystem into 2 holding files? An error has occurred so these filesare This is normal, and the size of the chunks are set by the 'chunksize' parameter in amanda.conf.

emailing the correct report.

2004-03-16 Thread jlm17
I have a question about the name of the log file generated by amdump. So the format is log.date.number, where number starts at 0. If I run two amdumps in one day, would log.date.0 be the log file for the first amdump to start, or the first amdump to finish? The reason I am asking this is

Re: filesystem limit?

2004-03-16 Thread Geoff Swavley
35GB AIT-1 tapes (Native) plus I also have compression on the drives DISABLED (advice from the list about double compressing a file, resulting in a larger file than what you started with). It has slowed down the backups but the large (already compressed thanks to oracle) export database files seem

Re: filesystem limit?

2004-03-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 16:02, Geoff Swavley wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if anyone could tell me why amanda seems to split my filesystem into 2 holding files? An error has occurred so these filesare left on the disk. Here is the filesystem listing: at the files: 465921 drwxr-xr-x 4

Re: emailing the correct report.

2004-03-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 16:46, jlm17 wrote: I have a question about the name of the log file generated by amdump. So the format is log.date.number, where number starts at 0. If I run two amdumps in one day, would log.date.0 be the log file for the first amdump to start, or the first amdump to

Re: filesystem limit?

2004-03-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 17:51, Geoff Swavley wrote: 35GB AIT-1 tapes (Native) plus I also have compression on the drives DISABLED (advice from the list about double compressing a file, resulting in a larger file than what you started with). It has slowed down the backups but the large (already

Re: filesystem limit?

2004-03-16 Thread Jonathan Dill
Geoff Swavley wrote: I was wondering if anyone could tell me why amanda seems to split my filesystem into 2 holding files? An error has occurred so these filesare It sounds like you have other, unrelated problems, but check the setting of chunksize in amanda.conf, that is usually what