Hi,
as i'm using chg-scsi with some changers under linux let's check a few
things :
1.) remove all comments from chg-scsi.conf, sometimes i had problems
with chg-scsi which went away after removing them all.
2.) set lastslot to 4 or your cleaningtape will be loaded in every
search cycle
Hello Everyone.
I have a problem with my Amanda setup.
Amdump sometimes goes crazy apparently eating up all the machine resources
and I can't get any access to anything when this happens, because I think
it's lost managing memory swap pages or something.
I think the responsible is one of the
Dan Brown wrote:
During a backup, or a flush, the tape drive writes data for 4
seconds, then rewinds for 1 second, then writes for 4 seconds, then
rewinds for 1 second, etc. This seems like a good way to wear out a
drive.
That's usually a symptom of a too fast tapedrive connected
to a too slow
James Marcinek wrote:
OK I got you. Could I still add options, enclosing them with them within the
'{}' fields (eg exlcude /var/holding )
servername /var root-tar { exclude /var/holding }
Note that the braces syntax REQUIRES that a line break must
follow the left curly bracket (from the amanda
Flynn wrote:
Amdump sometimes goes crazy apparently eating up all the machine resources
and I can't get any access to anything when this happens, because I think
it's lost managing memory swap pages or something.
I think the responsible is one of the dumper process
(I caught it and killed it once
Hi, Gene,
on Donnerstag, 04. November 2004 at 01:33 you wrote to amanda-users:
You mean the append meta-data-scripts?
Haven't found the time yet to improve them, sorry.
Another curious cat, maybe ...
GH Hmm, I pretty sure it was you as I haven't sent them out exactly
GH willy-nilly. And I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On further inspection, it's a kernel problem - bad UDP checksums.
I'll go bug them now. :)
To avoid falling in the same trap, what kernel version was that?
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On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:48:23AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On further inspection, it's a kernel problem - bad UDP checksums.
I'll go bug them now. :)
To avoid falling in the same trap, what kernel version was that?
2.6.9. I have a dozen other machines
Hello
Has anybody had experience of setting up Amanda on MacOS 10.3
server ?
regards
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On Thursday 04 November 2004 04:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:48:23AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On further inspection, it's a kernel problem - bad UDP checksums.
I'll go bug them now. :)
To avoid falling in the same trap, what kernel
Hi,
Call amcheck with -m to mail the outputs from the checks.
man amcheck
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Marcinek
Sent: 04 November 2004 00:19
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Question about backing up (multiple tapes per session on
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:23:10 +0100, Christoph Scheeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
as i'm using chg-scsi with some changers under linux let's check a few
things :
1.) remove all comments from chg-scsi.conf, sometimes i had problems
with chg-scsi which went away after removing them all.
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 08:31:31AM -0600, Erik Anderson enlightened us:
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:23:10 +0100, Christoph Scheeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
as i'm using chg-scsi with some changers under linux let's check a few
things :
1.) remove all comments from chg-scsi.conf,
Do you have a changer? If so, Amanda will automatically load the next tape
when needed (once you've configured it properly, of course). If not, you
can use chg-manual (a 'virtual' tape changer where you are the changer
and manually swap out tapes as needed). I believe if you have enough
Hello all - is there a way to get more information out of chg-scsi?
I'm trying to debug a wierd issue:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] LPD $ amcheck LPD
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 36514756 KB disk space available, that's plenty
amcheck-server: could
On Thursday November 04 2004 8:55 am, Erik Anderson wrote:
Hello all - is there a way to get more information out of chg-scsi?
I'm trying to debug a wierd issue:
Good luck. I tried to get chg-scsi and chg-zg-mtx to works with a Spectra
2000 Treefrog and finally gave up. I ended up writing my
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:44:38 -0800, Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good luck. I tried to get chg-scsi and chg-zg-mtx to works with a Spectra
2000 Treefrog and finally gave up. I ended up writing my own changer control
program.
That's encouraging. ;-(
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:55:48AM -0600, Erik Anderson wrote:
Hello all - is there a way to get more information out of chg-scsi?
I'm trying to debug a wierd issue:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] LPD $ amcheck LPD
Have you tried reading the debugfiles of amcheck and maybe
(I've not used it) of
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 11:52:16AM -0600, Erik Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:44:38 -0800, Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good luck. I tried to get chg-scsi and chg-zg-mtx to works with a Spectra
2000 Treefrog and finally gave up. I ended up writing my own changer control
On Thursday 04 November 2004 12:52, Erik Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:44:38 -0800, Stephen Carville
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good luck. I tried to get chg-scsi and chg-zg-mtx to works with a
Spectra 2000 Treefrog and finally gave up. I ended up writing my
own changer control
Gene Heskett writes:
- On Thursday 04 November 2004 12:52, Erik Anderson wrote:
- On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:44:38 -0800, Stephen Carville
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Good luck. I tried to get chg-scsi and chg-zg-mtx to works with a
- Spectra 2000 Treefrog and finally gave up. I ended up writing
On Thursday November 04 2004 9:52 am, Erik Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:44:38 -0800, Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Good luck. I tried to get chg-scsi and chg-zg-mtx to works with a
Spectra 2000 Treefrog and finally gave up. I ended up writing my own
changer control
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:52:57 -0500, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you tried reading the debugfiles of amcheck and maybe
(I've not used it) of chg-scsi?
They are probably in the /tmp/amanda directory.
No I haven't tried that. They're not in /tmp/amanda. Is that path
set at
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:28:11 -0600, Eric Schnoebelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that chg-scsi seems to need, and I didn't see
in the configuration file, is a non-blocking control device for
the tape drive, in addition to the blocking device node used for
writes.. On linux, the
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:54:12 -0600, Erik Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I just tried putting /dev/sg2 into my chg-scsi.conf. I
re-ran amcheck, and not it appears that it's actually doing something.
We'll see how this turns out after it finishes.
Okay - we're getting closer here.
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:02:23PM -0600, Erik Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:52:57 -0500, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you tried reading the debugfiles of amcheck and maybe
(I've not used it) of chg-scsi?
They are probably in the /tmp/amanda directory.
No I
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:05:05 -0500, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tough to remember all details of a multi-post thread.
No problem.
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:53:59PM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote:
Hmm, when setting dumpcycle to zero, to what value should runspercycle
be set if amdump runs once a day? Zero (same as dumpcycle) or one?
Both settings are equivalent. From planner.c:
if (runs_per_cycle = 0) {
Hi again,
you need WRITE-permisions on the sg-device-nodes to issue commands to
the devices, but your listing only shows read and execute permisions.
mine look like
crw-rw 1 root backup 21, 0 Aug 28 2000 /dev/sg0
crw-rw 1 root backup 21, 1 Aug 28 2000 /dev/sg1
crw-rw 1 root backup
Eric Siegerman -- amanda-users (2004-11-04 14:02:13 -0500):
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:53:59PM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote:
Hmm, when setting dumpcycle to zero, to what value should runspercycle
be set if amdump runs once a day? Zero (same as dumpcycle) or one?
Both settings are equivalent.
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:11:18AM -0500, foo wrote:
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:48:23AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
To avoid falling in the same trap, what kernel version was that?
2.6.9. I have a dozen other machines running 2.6.9 without this
problem, though. I'm not 100% sure, but it
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:51:54 -0600, Erik Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay - here's the deal. My /dev/sg* entries are symlins. They're
pointing as follows:
/dev/sg0 - scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/generic
/dev/sg1 - scsi/host1/bus0/target1/lun0/generic
/dev/sg2 -
--On Thursday, November 04, 2004 13:03:43 -0600 Erik Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:54:12 -0600, Erik Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I just tried putting /dev/sg2 into my chg-scsi.conf. I
re-ran amcheck, and not it appears that it's actually doing
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 20:37:13 +0100, Christoph Scheeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi again,
you need WRITE-permisions on the sg-device-nodes to issue commands to
the devices, but your listing only shows read and execute permisions.
mine look like
Okay - here's the deal. My /dev/sg* entries are
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:56:55 -0600, Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'operation not permitted' could be either using the wrong device,
such as trying to rewind the changer device instead of the tape device,
or the permissions on the devices don't allow access to your backup user.
Do you
--On Thursday, November 04, 2004 14:51:54 -0600 Erik Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 20:37:13 +0100, Christoph Scheeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi again,
you need WRITE-permisions on the sg-device-nodes to issue commands to
the devices, but your listing only shows
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:36:05 -0600, Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe, mabe not. Depends on the user/group of the devices and the
user/group Amanda runs as.
Also, while sg is the proper device to use to control the changer,
it doesn't understand tape commands like rewind, so make
On Thursday 04 November 2004 14:37, Christoph Scheeder wrote:
Hi again,
you need WRITE-permisions on the sg-device-nodes to issue commands
to the devices, but your listing only shows read and execute
permisions. mine look like
crw-rw 1 root backup 21, 0 Aug 28 2000 /dev/sg0
crw-rw 1
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:12:59 -0500, Gene Heskett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I probably shouldn't jump in here, but are you aware that some
changers actually have the changer robot at the same scsi address,
but at the next higher LUN? I ask, because the default kernels
shipped with redhat, do not
On Thursday 04 November 2004 16:40, Erik Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:36:05 -0600, Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe, mabe not. Depends on the user/group of the devices and the
user/group Amanda runs as.
Also, while sg is the proper device to use to control the changer,
it
Paul Bijnens wrote:
Dan Brown wrote:
During a backup, or a flush, the tape drive writes data for 4
seconds, then rewinds for 1 second, then writes for 4 seconds, then
rewinds for 1 second, etc. This seems like a good way to wear out a
drive.
That's usually a symptom of a too fast tapedrive
On Thursday 04 November 2004 17:17, Erik Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:12:59 -0500, Gene Heskett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I probably shouldn't jump in here, but are you aware that some
changers actually have the changer robot at the same scsi address,
but at the next higher LUN? I
I believe I have asked this question before but have not had
a solution. There is a digest version for this list. It's available
through yahoo-groups. However, to be able to post to the list, one
needs to be subscribed to the original list, which means I get
the full list plus the digest.
I
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:38:13PM -0600, Dan Brown wrote:
This may be a problem then as the IDE holding disk is NFS mounted from a
third machine. The server with the backup is a SCSI only system and
doesn't support IDE. It was worth neither the cost of an expensive SCSI
drive
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