Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Frank Smith schrieb: Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I'm using 1.16 (from Debian) since a while. Seems to work fine (no restore done so far, though ;-) General suggestion (maybe I already suggested that sometimes): Why not test for the version of tar inside amanda? configure could test for it at

changerfile

2007-05-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
The following is from the chg-lib.sh file. What file is the changerfile that is mentioned below. # These are the defaults discovered by configure when Amanda was installed. # They can be overridden here, or by by 'mt_binary' and 'mtx_binary', # respectively, in the changerfile (currently only for

Re: Amflush Slow in 2.5.2

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Is it amflush or amdump? Send me the amflush.* or amdump.* log, so that I can understand what's going on. Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote: Friday night I was somewhat more successful with autoflush in that my disks were emptied correctly, albeit very slowly. The new amflush took ~24 hours to

Re: changerfile

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
configure should find mt and mtx binaries if they are in your PATH. You can override it by setting mtx_binary in the changerfile. changerfile is defined in your amanda.conf file. Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P. wrote: The following is from the chg-lib.sh file. What file is the changerfile that is

Re: changerfile

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
McGraw, Robert P. wrote: The following is from the chg-lib.sh file. What file is the changerfile that is mentioned below. # These are the defaults discovered by configure when Amanda was installed. # They can be overridden here, or by by 'mt_binary' and 'mtx_binary', # respectively, in the

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:37:46AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: General suggestion (maybe I already suggested that sometimes): Why not test for the version of tar inside amanda? configure could test for it at compile-time, amcheck at check-time. Grep tar --version, compare the result

Re: changerfile

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:03:37AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: The following is from the chg-lib.sh file. What file is the changerfile that is mentioned below. # These are the defaults discovered by configure when Amanda was installed. # They can be overridden here, or by by 'mt_binary'

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: That's a great point! It would also be great to have the relevant versions more prominently displayed in the wiki -- currently the relevant documentation is scattered in a few forum posts and mailing list archives. Maybe this is a starting point (outdated a bit

Re: Amflush Slow in 2.5.2

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The tape usage is normal, amanda always put the dump in datestamp order to the tape, it tried a big DLE on tape genepi042, it didn't fit and retried it on next tape. It's the normal behavior. For the performance issue, amanda is waiting in write system call to the tape drive (wrwait is

amanda - site inventory

2007-05-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hello Amanda users, We just did a quick head count at our site (we are updating our wiki) and found the following 21 Amanda servers over 70 amanda clients over 293 DLEs - We have Solaris, IRIX and Linux servers and clients. - We have DLT, SDLT and LTO series tape units, we have obsoleted

Re: Amflush Slow in 2.5.2

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Both 2.5.1p3 and 2.5.2 have wrwait close the the time use (sec) which is the good behavior. Nothing changed between 2.5.1p3 and 2.5.2 in this area of amanda. I suggest you check system log message and monitor the server during the next time you write on tape. Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote:

chunker error

2007-05-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I have installed amanda 2.5.2 on a Solaris SPARC server. My clients are amanda 2.5.1p1. I manually ran amdump config on a small dle list to test the new install, and I get the following errors in the chunker. zorn-[20] cat chunker.20070523161733.debug chunker: debug 1 pid 18782 ruid 30002

Re: chunker error

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:55:27PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I looked in the amanda group searching for could not bind to any port but did not fine any helpful hits. There were a few errors on Solaris builds in the 2.5.2 release. Could you try the latest snapshot from

Fwd: Amanda newbie with permissions error on labeling and connecting to client

2007-05-23 Thread Nick Peterson
Hello Amanda users, I've just started installing Amanda for my first time and I seem to have run into a snag. I am using virtual tapes and the ammt status check comes back saying they're online but when I try to do a amlabel or amcheck I get the following. I hope I didn't send this message

Re: Fwd: Amanda newbie with permissions error on labeling and connecting to client

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:48:25PM -0700, Nick Peterson wrote: file://space/vtapes/DailySet1/slots: Permission denied amcheck-server: slot 19: tape_rdlabel: tape open: What are the permissions on that directory? It should be owned by the amanda user. Post the output of 'ls -alR