Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Frank Smith
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > I'm using 1.16 (from Debian) since a while. Seems to work fine (no > restore done so far, though ;-) > 1.16 works fine with the newer 2.5.x releases of Amanda (I've been using it for a while on my home network), but if you use it on a 2.4.5 system the estimates will fail

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Brian Cuttler wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:07:32PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:10:02PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > > > > > Jon, > > > > > > Think I found a good kit for 1.15.1, which seems to be on the > > > "good" list at amanda.org. >

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:07:32PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:10:02PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > > > Jon, > > > > Think I found a good kit for 1.15.1, which seems to be on the > > "good" list at amanda.org. > > > > Unless you advise otherwise I will try to bui

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:10:02PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > Jon, > > Think I found a good kit for 1.15.1, which seems to be on the > "good" list at amanda.org. > > Unless you advise otherwise I will try to build using that version. > It looks like 1.15.1 compiled easily on my Solaris 9

Re: Improving community participation in Amanda release process

2007-05-22 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hello, Several people have expressed an interest in helping to test and/or support the environments in which they are knowledgeable. After discussion with some other developers and Zmanda folks, We would like to formalize this process a bit.

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jon, Think I found a good kit for 1.15.1, which seems to be on the "good" list at amanda.org. Unless you advise otherwise I will try to build using that version. thank you, Brian On Tue, May 22, 20

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jon, Oddly I can't seem to find the source (no way to keep a repository of related software at amanda.org ?). I received a suggestion that blastwave.org might even have a precompiled binary, but I can only find the current (?) version of 1.15.91 there. Perhaps I'm overlooking as section of that

Improving community participation in Amanda release process

2007-05-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, There has been much recent discussion in amanda-hackers, and -users about testing and support for the wide variety of platforms and architectures on which Amanda runs, and the wide variety of configurations in which folks use it. Amanda's ability to compile and run on a wide variety o

Re: amanda 2.4.4, compression issue

2007-05-22 Thread Toomas Aas
Brian Cuttler wrote: When I tried a restore yesterday I found that the files I brought back had a long numeric number preceeding the original path. I will try a restore again when the current amdump run completes to see if this is still the case. Is this normal, or perhaps an artifact of not hav

Re: amanda 2.4.4, compression issue

2007-05-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
index are always compressed on the server with --best. Why do you think your data is compressed? Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Good morning amanda users, I'm running amanda 2.4.4 on solaris 9, just built it on solaris 8. Finding that my TAR dumptypes seem to be running compression though I

Re: amanda 2.4.4, compression issue

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
ONT_FILE 20070522 wcnotes /maildb2/five lev 0 comp N program /usr/local /bin/gtar To restore, position tape at start of file and run: dd if= bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/local/bin/gtar -f... - When I tried a restore yesterday I found that the files I brought back had a long numeric number precee

Re: Tape Retention?

2007-05-22 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Ian Turner wrote: > On Monday 21 May 2007 13:54, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > >> Jordan Desroches wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to figure out how to set backup retention, and was >>> wondering if it was as simple as making sure the number of tapes a >>> configuration has to use allows it to cycle

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:29:12AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > I want to thank you for your help. I did find an older version of > gtar - that I believe to be working. Its a 1.13 but I don't see a > more specific version number (from SFW collection). I will replace > as suggested if I have any

Re: amanda 2.4.4, compression issue

2007-05-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:21:50AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > Good morning amanda users, > > I'm running amanda 2.4.4 on solaris 9, just built it on solaris 8. > > Finding that my TAR dumptypes seem to be running compression though > I believe I've configured it not to. > > The (ufs)DUMP DLEs

amanda 2.4.4, compression issue

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
Good morning amanda users, I'm running amanda 2.4.4 on solaris 9, just built it on solaris 8. Finding that my TAR dumptypes seem to be running compression though I believe I've configured it not to. The (ufs)DUMP DLEs properly perform "compression none". Not only that, but the default, I believ

gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
Robert McCraw, Dustin Mitcher, Christopher McCrory, Peter Kunst, Amanda users, I want to thank you for your help. I did find an older version of gtar - that I believe to be working. Its a 1.13 but I don't see a more specific version number (from SFW collection). I will replace as suggested if I h

Re: planner: estimate of level 1 failed.

2007-05-22 Thread Bruce S. Skinner
Thanks Dustin, With tar 1.15 incremental backups are working again. regards :-) BruceS [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce S. Skinner) writes: > Right on. GNU tar version is 1.15.91 and > /var/log/amanda/sendsize.blahblah has the following errors: > > sendsize[16402]: argument list: /bin/tar --create -