Re: Odd amrecover and amverify issue in 2.5.0b2 (SOLVED)

Anthony Valentine wrote: Hello everyone! I am having an odd issue with amverify and amrecover and am wondering if anyone can tell me why? Using 2.5.0b2 (upgraded from 2.4.2), the amdump seems to run fine, without any errors in the status e-mail, but I am getting some strange output when

Re: Odd amrecover and amverify issue in 2.5.0b2

** No header 0+0 in 0+0 out Too many errors. -- Anthony Valentine Asst. I.T. Manager Spenard Builders Supply UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Re: Odd amrecover and amverify issue in 2.5.0b2

Ian Turner wrote: Anthony, On Thursday 02 March 2006 21:30, Anthony Valentine wrote: When I run amverify, I get errors at the beginning and the end of the status mail, however it shows the complete tape listing in the middle. Here it the output, edited for length (let me know if you want

Odd amrecover and amverify issue in 2.5.0b2

[?/Y/n/r]? ? Enter yes to continue, no to stop or retry this tape Continue [?/Y/n/r]? y amrecover quit 200 Good bye. Thanks! -- Anthony Valentine Asst. I.T. Manager Spenard Builders Supply UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you

Re: Client install tree

If you plan on using amverify, you should make sure that the GNU tar path is the same on all of your systems, or amverify will report errors like this: Skipped sbsdp._var_spool_cron_crontabs.20050729.1 (** Cannot do /usr/local/libexec/amtar dumps) Anthony Valentine Gene Heskett wrote

2.4.5's selfcheck segfaulting

Hello everyone! I am having problems with 2.4.5's selfcheck segfaulting. Vital statistics: OS = AIX 5.2.0.0 AMANDA = 2.4.5 COMPILER = C for AIX Paul Bijnens suggested that I run gdb, which I have. The output is below. Does it matter to gdb that I compiled Amanda with IBM's C for AIX and

Re: Search file in amanda database

and Amanda index directory searching # for specified patterns and (optionally) a date # --- #begin: Thu Jul 25 09:02:56 AKDT 2002 #version : 0.2 #copyright: (C) 2002 by Anthony

Re: Problem with 2.4.5's selfcheck

Paul Bijnens wrote: Anthony Valentine wrote: I get a seg fault when I try that command. Output is below (tabs added for readability). sbsdp|amanda: /home/amanda (echo 'OPTIONS features=feff9ffe7f;' ; echo 'GNUTAR / 0') | /usr/local/libexec/selfcheck Segmentation

Re: Problem with 2.4.5's selfcheck

Jon LaBadie wrote: Anthony, would you please post your messages in ascii text rather than html. Many unix people don't use a mail reader that does html and to read your messages requires invoking a separate program. My appologies, I didn't know I was. It appears that is the default

Re: Problem with 2.4.5's selfcheck

Paul Bijnens wrote: Anthony Valentine wrote: I am attempting to upgrade from 2.4.2p2 to 2.4.5. The configure and compile seemed to run fine, with only a warning about missing gnuplot. However, the selfcheck program doesn't seem to be working. Below is the output from the 2.4.5

Problem with 2.4.5's selfcheck

! Anthony Valentine

Re: Problem with 2.4.5's selfcheck

Opps. Forgot to mention that the client is 2.4.5, but the server is still 2.4.2p2. Anthony Anthony Valentine wrote: Hello everyone. I am attempting to upgrade from 2.4.2p2 to 2.4.5. The configure and compile seemed to run fine, with only a warning about missing gnuplot. However

Upgrade from 2.4.2p2 to 2.4.5

, or do they need to be changed/updated? Thanks in advance! Anthony Valentine begin:vcard fn:Anthony Valentine n:Valentine;Anthony org:Spenard Builders Supply;IT adr:;;4507 Lois Dr.;Anchorage;AK;99517;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Asst. IT Manager tel;work:907-261-9132 tel;fax:907-261

Re: problems compiling amanda 2.4.4p3 or p2 on AIX 5.2...

to this problem, please let me know! Thanks! Anthony Valentine Asst. IT Manager Spenard Builders Supply [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 11:13, Anthony Nguyen wrote: Hello everyone. Isthere anyone who can help me with this little problem I am havingduring compilation? I have the latest

Changing tape sizes

have to do or will Amanda just start using the extra capacity? Thanks in advance! Anthony Valentine

Re: Anything against set suid amflush?

Alternate syntax for sudo: sudo -u amanda amflush CONFIG This is exactly the type of situation sudo was made for. Give certain people the ability to sudo su amanda -c amflush CONFIG. -- Anthony Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with /etc/xinetd.d/amanda

. Jan 29 02:07:24 curly xinetd[1460]: Activating service amanda -- Anthony Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Replacing a partially bad tape

it's going to be overwritten (which isn't for 60 days, and I don't want to forget), can I label the new tape but still have Amanda keep the index for the old one, just in case I need it? Thanks in advance! -- Anthony Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone compiled 2.4.3 on AIX?

Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't work, but it did point me in a new direction. In the configure script, I changed a line from from: GETCONF_LFS=XBS5_ILP32_OFFBIG to GETCONF_LFS= Then ran './configure' which completed without errors. I do not know if this will cause problems

Re: Host name aliases in disklist

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 03:03, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, your assumption about the hostnames is correct. What you are doing is one of the big NO!NO!'s of amanda. Just like I suspected ;-/ Never list a single host in multiple concurent amanda runs, or, in your case, with different

Re: Anyone compiled 2.4.3 on AIX?

I have the development bundle installed. Unfortunately, it doesn't include the compiler itself. I've installed and gcc-2.9 which has worked fine for me in the past, even for compiling Amanda 2.4.2p2. Apparently, gcc doesn't like the output of AIX's getconf command and is failing due to that.

Re: Amanda Backup Client Host Check

Would it look in /home/backup if Amanda were compiled with 'backup' as the amanda user? On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 07:16, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 14 October 2002 10:57, O-Zone wrote: Hi All, i've just solved any problems with conf but i have a new worry...when i'm running amcheck it say

Anyone compiled 2.4.3 on AIX?

Hello everyone! Has anyone gotten 2.4.3 to compile on AIX? I am having problems getting the configure script to work and I have a few questions. Anthony -- UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Re: Anyone compiled 2.4.3 on AIX?

I don't even get as far as compiling. My error comes up during the configure script. Here is what I get: checking for shmget... (cached) no configure: WARNING: *** Neither shmget() nor mmap() found! configure: WARNING: *** This system will not support the Amanda server. While a configure of

Re: Anyone compiled 2.4.3 on AIX?

I tried all of that, but I still get the same results. Just for grins, I also did a ./configure in 2.4.3b4 and got the same results. I even downloaded a fresh copy from the amanda.org website to make sure I didn't get a corrupt copy. No dice on that either. I take it that you did NOT get

Re: backing up postgres / informix ?

then comes along and backs up those files. There is a version of the script for Informix, though I have not used it. You can find it here: http://www.storagemountain.com/free-backup-software1.html Good Luck! Anthony Valentine -- UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things

Re: Sony DLTtape III XT Tapetype

You may also want to make sure that you have the latest version of tapetype. I seem to recall seeing a message a few days ago about a new and better version of tapetype that didn't make it into 2.4.3. On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 09:08, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 11 October 2002 10:30, Steve

Re: tar, amrecover problems

date set to 2002-10-03. amrecover ls 2002-10-03 . 2002-09-27 .sh_history 2002-10-03 amv/ 2002-10-03 bat/ 2002-10-03 btj/ . . . 2002-10-03 vsifax/ amrecover Good luck. Anthony Valentine On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 09:39, James Shearer wrote

RE: tar, amrecover problems

Well, so much for that. . . What do the directories and data look like in your curinfo directory? I don't remember if that tar problem corrupts it also. Anthony On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 10:26, James Shearer wrote: I get this error every time I run amrecover from a directory that isn't

Problem running ./configure on 2.4.3b4 on AIX

: *** This system will not support the Amanda server. configure: WARNING: *** No working file locking capability found! configure: WARNING: *** Be VERY VERY careful. I don't get any of these when running configure on 2.4.2p2 Anyone have any ideas? Anthony Valentine -- UNIX was not designed

Re: Restore from tape (not using Amanda) syntax

of each tape file, and it will tell you the command to extract: mt -f tapedev rewind mt -f tapedev fsf 1 dd if=tapedev bs=32k count=1 Be sure to rewind the tape again after you do that. Good luck! Anthony Valentine On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 03:38, Gordon Cormack wrote: Hi Peoples

Re: trailing garbage

I am currently running 2.4.2p2. I will upgrade to the latest version and see what happens. Thanks! Anthony On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:55, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: On 23 Sep 2002, Anthony Valentine wrote: When I manually extract a tar image from tape, then list or extract it's

Any upgrade issues I need to know about?

Hello all. I am about to compile and install the latest Amanda version. I will be upgrading from 2.4.2p2. Does anyone know of any issues with making this, or any, upgrade that I should know about? Thanks! Anthony Valentine -- UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things

Re: trailing garbage

, /gnu/gzip doesn't exist on that server so I have to go find gzip 1.3 elsewhere. If anyone know where I can get it, please let me know. Anthony Valentine On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:55, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: On 23 Sep 2002, Anthony Valentine wrote: When I manually extract a tar image from

trailing garbage

is that this is OK, and is just what is left of the last 32K block that has no actual data in it. Is this correct? If not, what is this and is it bad? Thanks in advance! Anthony Valentine -- UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever

Can Amanda put its index on a tape?

I could easily find it in an emergency. Thanks! Anthony Valentine -- UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Backup Logic Check

scenario, I should be able to recover the original file anytime, up until that tape is overwritten in 10 weeks (not counting an occasional amflush). Is that correct? Thanks for your help! Anthony Valentine

Index search script

to attach the script to this message, since it isn't very large, but for future reference, is there a better way to post this sort of thing? Anthony Valentine #!/bin/bash ### Start of Script ### amindexsearch

Re: amcheck

I believe that it isn't a problem. It is just telling you that the index directories for that disklist entry do not exist. Amanda should create those directories the next time amdump is run (assuming you have indexing turned on). Note that you will get similar messages any time you add a new

Re: Archival tape backup configuration help

If I wanted to do something similar, but I didn't want to reuse the tapes at all (I need to store each one for 7 years), how would I set Amanda up to do that? Thanks in advance! Anthony On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 12:53, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:57:07PM -0400, Cory Visi

Re: AGAIN amrecover: file is not on Volume

Is there a /tmp/amanda/amidxtaped.*.debug file with a matching date/time? What does it say? Does /usr/sbin/ufsrestore exist and is executable? On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 00:20, BRINER Cedric wrote: hi, I've tried amrecover without the -d switch without success, I've checked the amrecover file

Re: AGAIN amrecover: file is not on Volume

Briner, Try amrecover without the -d switch. Also, have you looked at your /tmp/amanda/amrecover.*.debug files for clues? Anthony On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 00:19, BRINER Cedric wrote: hi, I'm using amanda for a while (about a year now), and I get this strange output telling me that amrecover

Should I upgrade to 2.4.3b3?

Hello all. I am currently using Amanda version 2.4.2p2 without any problems. Are there any compelling reasons that I should upgrade to 2.4.3b3 since everything is working now? Thanks! Anthony

Backing up index files

started. Is this a problem? I wouldn't think so, but I'd like to make sure. If it isn't a problem, is there a way to prevent it? Should I not be backing up my indexes? If I should, am I doing it wrong? Thanks for you help! Anthony Valentine

RE: Question on level 0 dumps

subdirectories in my disklist. I hope this helps you out! Anthony Valentine -Original Message- From: Morse, Richard E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 5:29 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Question on level 0 dumps Hi! I would like to start using Amanda

RE: amtape: flaky false label doesn't match labelstr errors

Jay, It looks to me like you label doesn't match. Your label: ARCHIVE-10-14-2001 ^ look here. You label string: ARCHIVE-[0-9][1-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] ^ looks like it doesn't want a zero in this field Anthony -Original

Error compiling on AIX 4.3.3.0.09

where I currently run Amanda and was able to compile it there in the past. The only difference now, is that I patched AIX from 4.3.3.0 to 4.3.3.0.09. Does this mean anything to anybody? Thanks in advance for the help! Anthony Valentine Spenard Builders Supply [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S

Tape verification

Hello everyone. Does (or can) Amanda verify the contents of a tape after the backup to verify that it backed up properly? Or does it do something similar already? Thanks in advance! Anthony Valentine Spenard Builders Supply [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Amanda on AIX with an IBM MAGSTAR MP 3570 Tape Subsystem

. In order to use Amanda, I wrote custom shell scripts that let Amanda talk to the library through tapeutil. If your library uses the tapeutil program, I can e-mail you my scripts. YMMV, of course, but the scripts work fine for me. Anthony Valentine AIX Sys Admin/Oracle DBA Spenard Builders Supply

what files/scripts manage cleaning?

for the help! Anthony Valentine Spenard Builders Supply [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Compiling Amanda on AIX 4.3.3 (was: AIX 4.3.3 and MNTTAB)

Rick, For what it's worth, I just used gcc and other GNU tools such as automake, autoconf, etc. Amanda compiled and works fine using these tools. You can get them from IBM at the following address: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html Anthony Valentine

Trouble using amrecover. . .(Long Message)

information. Any suggestions would be very appreciated!! Thanks! Anthony Valentine Spenard Builders Supply AIX Sys Admin/Oracle DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: data write: File too large ???

Hello Katrina, Have you looked at your chunksize setting in your holding disk config? I believe that Linux has a 2GB limit on file sizes that may be causing your problem. Try setting this to just below 2GB (like 1999 MB) and see if that helps. Hope this was helpful! Anthony Valentine

tpchanger command clarification

but leave it in the drive, or to eject the tape and put it backup into it's original slot? Thanks in advance! Anthony Valentine Unix System Admin/Oracle DBA Spenard Builders Supply [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gtar error

a bunch! Anthony Valentine Unix System Admin/Oracle DBA Spenard Builders Supply [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Amanda 2.5.0 compile problems (Was: Amanda on AIX with an IBM 733 7 library)

:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Anthony Valentine; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Amanda 2.5.0 compile problems (Was: Amanda on AIX with an IBM 733 7 library) Hi, On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:06:09PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote

RE: Amanda on AIX with an IBM 7337 library

program in shell and perl). Anybody know what I can do to get this to compile? I only need the chg-scsi portion so I may not even have to compile the entire package. . . Thanks in advance for the help! Anthony Valentine -Original Message- From: Thomas Hepper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Amanda 2.5.0 compile problems (Was: Amanda on AIX with an IBM 7337 library)

to Tape_Ioctl in the files in the changer-src directory, but again, since I am not a C programmer (one of these days, I've just got to learn it!). . . Anybody know what I can do about these errors? Thanks in advance! Anthony Valentine -Original Message- From: John R. Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL