RE Strange Dump Behavior

2006-08-21 Thread Cyrille Bollu
/-- server2.localdomain /usr lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [server2.localdomain:/usr level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/sbin/restore -f... - sendbackup: info end ? device-mapper: version ioctl failed: Permission denied | DUMP: Date of this level 0

Amanda Server on Cygwin amdump not working :-S

2006-08-21 Thread David Sánchez Martín
Hi list: I'm pretty new to amanda, but i'll try to explain myself :-) I am trying to use amanda for backups using a Windows host for backups (just to disk, no tape dev.) I succesfully (aparently) compiled amanda server following the instructions on:

amandad on client

2006-08-21 Thread Natalia García Nebot
Hi all! I have a doubt: Is it possible run a daemon for amanda (amandad) on client instead of inetd or xinetd?

Re: Amanda Server on Cygwin amdump not working :-S

2006-08-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-21 09:48, David Sánchez Martín wrote: $ /usr/local/sbin/amcheck DailySet1 Amanda Tape Server Host Check - WARNING: program /usr/local/libexec/planner: not setuid-root WARNING: program /usr/local/libexec/dumper: not setuid-root WARNING: program

Re: amandad on client

2006-08-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-21 10:03, Natalia García Nebot wrote: Hi all! I have a doubt: Is it possible run a daemon for amanda (amandad) on client instead of inetd or xinetd? No, amandad relies on an external program to do that. In all the Unix-variants I know there is at least inetd or xinetd provided.

RE: Amanda Server on Cygwin amdump not working :-S

2006-08-21 Thread David Sánchez Martín
On 2006-08-21 09:48, David Sánchez Martín wrote: $ /usr/local/sbin/amcheck DailySet1 Amanda Tape Server Host Check - WARNING: program /usr/local/libexec/planner: not setuid-root WARNING: program /usr/local/libexec/dumper: not setuid-root WARNING: program

Re: Amanda Server on Cygwin amdump not working :-S

2006-08-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-08-21 11:23, David S�nchez Mart�n wrote: The programs on cygwin shell seem correctly setuid to root (the user i've created). Maybe is a permissions problem but i tried to change owner to SYSTEM (Windows best equivalent to God... err ...

RE: Amanda Server on Cygwin amdump not working :-S

2006-08-21 Thread David Sánchez Martín
On 2006-08-21 11:23, David Sánchez Martín wrote: On 2006-08-21 09:48, David Sánchez Martín wrote: $ /usr/local/sbin/amcheck DailySet1 Amanda Tape Server Host Check - WARNING: program /usr/local/libexec/planner: not setuid-root WARNING: program

may be getting a StorEdge L9

2006-08-21 Thread Craig Dewick
I might be getting hold of a StorEdge L9 with a DLT-8000 in it sometime in the next few weeks. Is anyone using one of those arrays with Amanda? Are there any gotcha's to watch out for? Any recommendations on the 'interfacing' software to go between Amanda and the array? Is 'mtx' still the

Problem: acces denied

2006-08-21 Thread Natalia García Nebot
Hi all! when i execute su amanda -c amcheck DiariaPrueba i get this message: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: aroprod: [could not access /home/natalia (/home/natalia): Permission denied] Client check: 1 host checked in 10.011 seconds, 1

Re: Problem: acces denied

2006-08-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-21 12:58, Natalia García Nebot wrote: Hi all! when i execute su amanda -c amcheck DiariaPrueba i get this message: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: aroprod: [could not access /home/natalia (/home/natalia): Permission denied]

Re: Problem: acces denied

2006-08-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-21 13:40, Natalia García Nebot wrote: Ok! I've ignored the message from amcheck but when i try to execute su amanda -c amdump DiariaPrueba in the directory /var/log/amanda i have two debug files. I have a error message here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]# cat

backup still messed up...

2006-08-21 Thread Kristian Rink
Hello all; after getting last weeks issues fixed, downgrading amanda (now 2.5.0-20060424) as well as tar (now 1.14-2.2), Thursday and Friday incremental dumps worked out. However, weekend dump once again didn't to as it is supposed to. I had an eye on the amanda processes all the weekend and it

Re: suspiciously terrible performance of 2.5.1 beta on OpenBSD/amd64 (now a crash...)

2006-08-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
David, Could you try the attached patch? It should fix the driver crash. Jean-Louis David Golden wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:18, David Golden wrote: so switched nearly-2.5.1 to vanilla bsd with holding disk in order to try another test with nearly-2.5.1 to try to eliminate that

Re: {Spam?} backup still messed up...

2006-08-21 Thread Martin Hepworth
Kristian Rink wrote: Hello all; after getting last weeks issues fixed, downgrading amanda (now 2.5.0-20060424) as well as tar (now 1.14-2.2), Thursday and Friday incremental dumps worked out. However, weekend dump once again didn't to as it is supposed to. I had an eye on the amanda processes

Re: Amanda Server on Cygwin amdump not working :-S

2006-08-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:23:13AM +0200, David Sánchez Martín wrote: On 2006-08-21 09:48, David Sánchez Martín wrote: $ /usr/local/sbin/amcheck DailySet1 Amanda Tape Server Host Check - WARNING: program /usr/local/libexec/planner: not setuid-root

Re: suspiciously terrible performance of 2.5.1 beta on OpenBSD/amd64 (now a crash...)

2006-08-21 Thread David Golden
On Monday 21 August 2006 13:42, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: David, Could you try the attached patch? It should fix the driver crash. Thanks! Think it has indeed fixed it: Have only managed to test one combo (still got the performance+indexing issue, of course), but a run with DLEs 2/2 ::

Re: Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-21 Thread Fabio Corazza
Jon LaBadie wrote: [snip] If go with amanda you definitely should do that GFS filesystem as multiple DLEs. If I got your data size correct, you have about 1 TB of GFS data plus 0.4 TB of misc OS data, about 1.4TB total. This in the case I will decide to split the actual filesystem into more

Re: Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-21 Thread Cyrille Bollu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 21/08/2006 16:45:18 : Jon LaBadie wrote: [snip] If go with amanda you definitely should do that GFS filesystem as multiple DLEs. If I got your data size correct, you have about 1 TB of GFS data plus 0.4 TB of misc OS data, about 1.4TB total. This in the

Virtual tapes (a/k/a disks) filling up.

2006-08-21 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
[Sorry if this is a double; my initial one was sent from a non-list address.] Hi, all -- I've got a bunch of virtual tapes that work in a round-robbin fashion, and they're filling up to 100%. So, a few questions: - Shouldn't Amanda be smart enough not to fill them (assuming filesizes don't

RE Tuning for performance

2006-08-21 Thread Cyrille Bollu
Hi all, I would like to proceed with my thread about server tuning for BOT performance. The goal is to summarize in one place what I did, I'm doing, and will do, to improve my BOT system performance in the hope that it will helps others one day. Tape drives are becoming faster than ever (even

amanda client on a linksyss NSLU box

2006-08-21 Thread Marc O'Brien
Hi I've been struggling to get an amanda client running on an unslung linksys NSLU box (wonderful little things). Amanda client and server versions: 2.5.0p2 (also tried2.5.1b2) Server Solaris: 9 client details: Linux client name 2.4.22-xfs #1 Thu Feb 3 22:51:32 CST 2005 armv5b unknown unknown

Tr : RE Tuning for performance

2006-08-21 Thread Cyrille Bollu
Oups I forgot to mention that the backup server is also the only client (about 1TB of data split in about 30 DLE).

Re: Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-21 17:07, Cyrille Bollu wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 21/08/2006 16:45:18 : [ ??? owner-amanda-users ??? I believe the quoting is wrong ] But if I stick with just one big GFS fs, I think I will have just one DLE and then Amanda will take care to span the tar volume

Re: Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-21 16:45, Fabio Corazza wrote: I'd rather go with 3 chunks each of 400GB (at least, the first two of 400GB and the third with the remaining). Or if this does not fit well for Amanda, I can create multiple chunks of 200GB, but not less, since this is the size of the virtual disks on

no holding disk degraded mode

2006-08-21 Thread Cyrille Bollu
Hi Jon, thank you for your answer. But you didn't answered the more crucial question: Is there something else I have to configure or is this an intended behaviour of Amanda? From your answers, I believe that it is an intended behaviour of Amanda. But I don't think it should be. As you

Re: Backup plan and big filesystems

2006-08-21 Thread Cyrille Bollu
What they definitely need to know is which tapes are to be pulled off. All the tapes in the changer will have a bar code label. Can I instruct Amanda to send an email with which tapes have been used for a determined backup (the full weekly off-site, in this case) so that the people

Re: RE Tuning for performance

2006-08-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 at 5:28pm, Cyrille Bollu wrote For the record my BOT system is made of: 1) 1 Dell Poweredge 2850 with 1 1.4TB RAID5 array made of 6 U320 SCSI HD What RAID controller? Have you benchmarked the array itself with something like bonnie++ or tiobench? 2) 1 Dell

Re: may be getting a StorEdge L9

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 21, 2006 8:22:52 PM +1000 Craig Dewick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might be getting hold of a StorEdge L9 with a DLT-8000 in it sometime in the next few weeks. Is anyone using one of those arrays with Amanda? Are there any gotcha's to watch out for? Any recommendations on the

Re: amtapetype problems

2006-08-21 Thread Nick Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]#./amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 -e 400g amtapetype: could not open /dev/nst0: Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]#mtx -f /dev/nst0 inquiry cannot open SCSI device '/dev/nst0' - Input/output error I don't have mt. I figured mtx is a suitable replacement. Not sure if it

Re: amtapetype problems

2006-08-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:58:16PM -0500, Nick Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]#./amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 -e 400g amtapetype: could not open /dev/nst0: Input/output error [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]#mtx -f /dev/nst0 inquiry cannot open SCSI device '/dev/nst0' - Input/output error I don't