Re: Strange FORMAT ERROR with 2.6.1

2009-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Stefan, This bug is already fixed and is available in the latest snaphot. I attach the patch. Jean-Louis Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Greets, I have to debug some backup-related problems for a customer ... Running amanda 2.6.1 on gentoo linux there (my own ebuild). For some DLEs I get:

Re: Strange FORMAT ERROR with 2.6.1

2009-03-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: Stefan, This bug is already fixed and is available in the latest snaphot. I attach the patch. thanks a lot ... S

Re: Can you use an FTP Server for your tape device?

2009-03-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com wrote: I was just wondering if it's possible to use an FTP server as your backup tape device - sort of like S3.  I've seen Adding an FTP device on the wiki, but didn't know if it made it in. Nope, not yet. If it's not in

Is partial taper Expected?

2009-03-25 Thread Steven Backus
Last night some dumps were left on my holding disk, the Failure Dump Summary says: harmony.med.utah.edu / lev 0: partial taper: tranquility.med.utah.edu / lev 0: partial taper: episun7.med.utah.edu c0t0d0s0 lev 1: partial taper: genepi.med.utah.edu c0t3d0s0 lev 1: partial taper:

Re: Can you use an FTP Server for your tape device?

2009-03-25 Thread Vlad Popa
Hi Matt ! Matt Burkhardt schrieb: I was just wondering if it's possible to use an FTP server as your backup tape device - sort of like S3. I've seen Adding an FTP device on the wiki, but didn't know if it made it in You might want to mount the FTP share via FUSE filesystem and

Re: Is partial taper Expected?

2009-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The 4 DLEs are already flushed. There is a bug in 2.6.1 that don't erase them from holding disk, this bug is already fixed in SVN. You can securely remove the files from holding disk. Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: You get this message if

Re: Is partial taper Expected?

2009-03-25 Thread Steven Backus
Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: You get this message if the dump is not complete. The taper successfully wrote an incomplete image to tape. Since they are autoflushed image, check in previous report to know why the dump failed. The night before one of the machines was

increasing tar failures

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Wray
Hi there, over the last month or so I've been seeing increasing amounts of disk list entries showing this in the amanda report: FAILED [/bin/tar returned 1] I've gone to the hosts involved and checked their logs and really thats about as informative as it gets. I've checked the tar

Re: increasing tar failures

2009-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The email report should give you the complete output of tar, check the DETAIL section of the report. Jean-Louis Steve Wray wrote: Hi there, over the last month or so I've been seeing increasing amounts of disk list entries showing this in the amanda report: FAILED [/bin/tar returned 1]