Re: changer problems with 2.6.1

2009-02-19 Thread stan
Good morning. Thanks to all you patient help, we seem to be very close to getting the new client working! Thanks. We mad a bad decision years ago to store all of the Amanda related stuff in /opt/amanda. This would include the Amado software, configs, and history. This makes upgrading a bit

2.6.1 build process anomoly

2009-02-19 Thread stan
Why, given the following arguemnts to configure: ./configure \ --with-config=DailyDump \ --prefix=/opt/amanda \ --with-index-server=amanda.meadwestvaco.com \ --with-tape-server=amanda.meadwestvaco.com \ --with-tape-device=chg-multi \ --with-changer-device=chg-multi \ --with-user=amanda \

Next 2.6.1 issue

2009-02-19 Thread stan
OK, we moved foward, only to trip over yet another issue. I got far enough to try to run a backup set. Looks like that trigered a problem with taper. amstutus is reporting, in addition to lot's of other normal stuff: AW0400:/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 150m failed to tape: runtapes volumes

Re: 2.6.1 build process anomoly

2009-02-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
./configure --help --with-amlibexecdir[[[=PATH]]] Where amanda own programs are installed, default: $libexecdir/amanda --without-amlibexecdir Amanda own

Re: changer problems with 2.6.1

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:07 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: So, in addition to thanks, I have a question. Since this _is_ the direction we have chosen to go in, I would like to put the requisite perl modules in this tree also. Is there a way to get the build process to do this? Sure thing!

Re: 2.6.1 build process anomoly

2009-02-19 Thread stan
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:23:59AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: ./configure --help --with-amlibexecdir[[[=PATH]]] Where amanda own programs are installed, default: $libexecdir/amanda

Re: 2.6.1 build process anomoly

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: But, if one is already puting amanda in it's own tree, as we are (/opt/amanda) then this just adds another (confusing) directory to the path (EG /opt/amanda/libexec/amanda) `. Is it possible to overide this behavior? Yep -- see

Re: 2.6.1 build process anomoly

2009-02-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
stan wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:23:59AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: ./configure --help --with-amlibexecdir[[[=PATH]]] Where amanda own programs are installed, default:

[Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 Thread rory_f
hi, we're trying to organise back up logs for our users to interface with and tell us when they need files restored from tape. i've created all the listings from the index/ directory, made a copy, gzip -d'd them to get the filelisting for each entry - but i'm trying to find a way to figure

Re: [Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:41 AM, rory_f amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: i know i can `amadmin tor find | grep DLE` to find the amanda tape, and then compare that to changer-barcodes - but its a bit of a long process I think that's the quickest way to map amanda labels to paper labels,

[Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 Thread rory_f
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:41 AM, rory_f amanda-forum at backupcentral.com wrote: i know i can `amadmin tor find | grep DLE` to find the amanda tape, and then compare that to changer-barcodes - but its a bit of a long process I think that's the

Solaris x86 build

2009-02-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
Well, the amcheck did complete, after running through 23 tapes. I have slots 1-23 configured in the config file, just surprised me that we examined 23 tapes rather than 23 slots. It termined just fine, dispite going over the 10 loaded tapes 2+ times. === Hi guys, I'll detail the

Re: Next 2.6.1 issue

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: Any thoughts as to what might be going on here? From the look of it, the taper begins writing a TAPESTART header (well, two -- one for each child device), then 11s later, fails and goes looking for a new tape. It finds a new tape,

[Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 Thread rory_f
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:41 AM, rory_f amanda-forum at backupcentral.com wrote: i know i can `amadmin tor find | grep DLE` to find the amanda tape, and then compare that to changer-barcodes - but its a bit of a long process I think that's the

Re: 2.6.1 build process anomoly

2009-02-19 Thread stan
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:18:37AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: But, if one is already puting amanda in it's own tree, as we are (/opt/amanda) then this just adds another (confusing) directory to the path (EG

Re: 2.6.1 build process anomoly

2009-02-19 Thread stan
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:18:37AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: But, if one is already puting amanda in it's own tree, as we are (/opt/amanda) then this just adds another (confusing) directory to the path (EG

Re: 2.6.1 build process anomoly

2009-02-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Read previous post and './configure --help' output. Add --without-amlibexecdir Jean-Louis stan wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:18:37AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: But, if one is already puting amanda in it's own

Re: Next 2.6.1 issue

2009-02-19 Thread stan
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 01:34:13PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: Any thoughts as to what might be going on here? From the look of it, the taper begins writing a TAPESTART header (well, two -- one for each child device), then

Re: [Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:52 PM, rory_f amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: how hard would it be to migrate our naming convention over to match our labels ? is there any way of doing it? Well, the Amanda label is written on each tape, at the beginning -- so you'd need to do some tape-drive

Re: Next 2.6.1 issue

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
What does amdevcheck DailyDump rait:{file:/vtapes/DailyDump/vtape5,tape:/dev/nst0} give you, now that the perl errors are resolved? Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

[Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 Thread rory_f
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:52 PM, rory_f amanda-forum at backupcentral.com wrote: how hard would it be to migrate our naming convention over to match our labels ? is there any way of doing it? Well, the Amanda label is written on each tape, at the

Re: Solaris x86 build

2009-02-19 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: I don't expect this to be an issue once I label tapes, but thought it was odd enough to meantion. It's doing exactly what you suggest -- looking through the whole changer to see if it can find a suitable tape. The

Re: Next 2.6.1 issue

2009-02-19 Thread stan
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 01:34:13PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: Any thoughts as to what might be going on here? From the look of it, the taper begins writing a TAPESTART header (well, two -- one for each child device), then

Re: [Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 Thread Frank Smith
rory_f wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: how hard would it be to migrate our naming convention over to match our labels ? is there any way of doing it? If you're talking about changing barcodes to match Amanda's tape label, couldn't you just replace the barcodes on the tapes with ones

Re: [Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 19 February 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:52 PM, rory_f amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: how hard would it be to migrate our naming convention over to match our labels ? is there any way of doing it? Well, the Amanda label is written on each tape,

[Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 Thread rory_f
Frank Smith wrote: rory_f wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: how hard would it be to migrate our naming convention over to match our labels ? is there any way of doing it? If you're talking about changing barcodes to match Amanda's tape label, couldn't you just replace the

[Amanda-users] best way to organise tape file listings ?

2009-02-19 Thread rory_f
rory_f wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:52 PM, rory_f amanda-forum at backupcentral.com wrote: how hard would it be to migrate our naming convention over to match our labels ? is there any way of doing it? Well, the Amanda label is written