Nitpick: Distrobution Channels kinda suck

2010-09-18 Thread Christ Schlacta
I went looking for a version of amanda for ubuntu that's up to date, and I found the version in ubuntu is 2.6x.. and the 3.x serries is only available as individual packages. I'd liek to request that the amanda site add repositories for any of the supported distrobutions, to make upgrading t

Re: My 3.1.2 server starts ok, but taper never writes anything

2010-09-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Stephen Corbesero wrote: > Also, if it is worth anything, the state of the process is listed as > 'umtxn' from top/ps.  (This is a FreeBSD 8.1 system.) Huh, so that sounds like a kernel lock: http://old.nabble.com/what-is-umtxn-td20860047.html Can you identify

Re: My 3.1.2 server starts ok, but taper never writes anything

2010-09-18 Thread Stephen Corbesero
Here it is. Again, this is the output from gdb after all the loading symbols messages. Also, if it is worth anything, the state of the process is listed as 'umtxn' from top/ps. (This is a FreeBSD 8.1 system.) [Switching to Thread 28469480 (LWP 100132)] 0x28af6225 in __error () from /lib/libthr

Re: My 3.1.2 server starts ok, but taper never writes anything

2010-09-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Stephen Corbesero wrote: >  (gdb) info threads >  * 1 Thread 28469480 (LWP 100148)  0x28af6225 in __error () >     from /lib/libthr.so.3 Can you run the 'bt' command here to see what that thread is up to? (gdb) bt Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://

Re: My 3.1.2 server starts ok, but taper never writes anything

2010-09-18 Thread Stephen Corbesero
I did the gdb thing, but it really didn't produce much info. I used the command line gdb /usr/bin/perl5 70805 and after all of the 'loaded symbols' messages, I generated the following output. [Switching to Thread 28469480 (LWP 100148)] 0x28af6225 in __error () from /lib/libthr.so.3 (

Re: Another nitpick / feature request

2010-09-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I'll certainly defer to you knowledge of the difficulty.  I was thinking > that the logic is already there for the split disk feature.  The added > code would be for saving its state and recreating it on the next flush. Yes, that would be tric

Re: Another nitpick / feature request

2010-09-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:37:48AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > When a large DLE doesn't tape all the split parts > > before running out of tapes, could the subsequent > > flush (amflush or autoflush) pick up where the > > original tapi

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > 1. The backup runs normally, to the holding disk, but times out writing to > the vtape, so it is all left sitting in the holding disk.  I have enough I > can do this for several days. Can you send the taper debug log? Taper doesn't "time ou

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:26:14 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > I assume that you're still using the "old" chg-disk, or have you > > changed that somewhere along the line to use > > chg-disk:/path/to/something? > > I did know I was supposed to be changing this, manpage please? http://wiki.zmanda.

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, September 18, 2010 12:14:24 pm Dustin J. Mitchell did opine: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > At this point I have a WTH expression on my ancient face. Go read > > changelog if all else fails. I see a lot of changes on about > > 08/29-30-31 but no mention

Re: Another nitpick / feature request

2010-09-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > When a large DLE doesn't tape all the split parts > before running out of tapes, could the subsequent > flush (amflush or autoflush) pick up where the > original taping left off? > > I just had a large DLE (23 3GB parts) fail on > the last part

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > At this point I have a WTH expression on my ancient face.  Go read > changelog if all else fails.  I see a lot of changes on about 08/29-30-31 > but no mention of chg-disk-slot? And, indeed, that hasn't changed. Now that you've experimen

Another nitpick / feature request

2010-09-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
When a large DLE doesn't tape all the split parts before running out of tapes, could the subsequent flush (amflush or autoflush) pick up where the original taping left off? I just had a large DLE (23 3GB parts) fail on the last part by just 800MB. On the subsequent amdump the DLE autoflushed the