timeouts

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
I'm running 2.6.1 on Solaris 10 for both client and server (client != server), one is x86, the other sparc. We have, er, 60+ DLE on the client, finsen, I don't know why we get dumper retries or estimate timeouts, and the badly formatted response is new behavior. I'm not too concerned about the

empty amdump output

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
I have an amanda 2.6.1 running on Solaris 10x86 (different from my earlier email). Single client for this server, Client == Server, name=cascade. I have yet to get my runs under 24 hours reliably, we are working on HW striping the work area (technical issue with our understanding of the raid inc

format error in request packet

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
I thought we would get by when we saw this error for a single partition, but its now preventing the client from amchecking at all. Server Amanda 2.6.1, Solaris 10/x86 Client amanda 2.6.1 Solaris 10/Sparc On server. amcheck -c curie finsen Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

Re: format error in request packet

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
is a single DLE, but perhaps 'a few' DLEs rather than 1 or 1000. ug, how long will my amdump report be... thanks, Brian On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 03:59:31PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: I thought we

Re: [Amanda-users] Doesn amanda no longer do estimates for a given host in para

2009-09-18 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 02:31:15AM -0400, tkimball wrote: You'll want to be careful around Sun LDOMs; They don't have a tx in the filesystem designation: Filesystemkbytesused avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 8261657 4113861 406518051%/ Related but

I/O saturation

2009-09-15 Thread Brian Cuttler
I am running amanda 1.6.1.p1 on Solaris 10/x86. The only client is the server itself. There are 17 DLEs in amanda's disklist, while only 15 mount points are listed, I'd divided /stations (it needs to be divided differently but that is a negligable issue). I am running zfs-snapshots with server

Re: Multiple tape servers

2009-09-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:54:56PM -0700, Dominic Lepiane wrote: Dear list With our Amanda setup, we've got two tape autoloaders attached to two separate servers. I had initially tried to run both autoloaders on 1 server, but they were giving me a lot of trouble so we went with two

Re: taped DLEs

2009-09-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:02:21PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:03:04PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: flying wild guess -- the 3rd DLE was split? So is part on tape 1 and part on tape 2? Tape spanning isn't enabled, unless it is by default in the latest release

taped DLEs

2009-09-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
6 DLEs taped, 3 to the first tape and 4 to the second ? SUMMARY part real estimated size size partition : 17 estimated : 17 1480735m flush : 0 0m failed : 00m

Re: taped DLEs

2009-09-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
on my LTO drive would be great, if I wasn't obsoleting those drives soon (don't apply to my amanda servers that don't have jukeboxes, and my smallest juke has LTO), but spanning on LTO4 ? That is a lot of data. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:26:06PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Brian Cuttler wrote

Estimate timeout

2009-09-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris 10/Sparc Amanda 2.6.1, Solaris 10x86 Server has 21 clients with a total of 109 DLEs. One of the client systems has 51 DLEs, 1 ufs and 50 zfs partitions. The partitions/DLE are all part of the same ZFS pool, which I believe (listening to another discussion earlier this

Snapshots, redundant ?

2009-08-31 Thread Brian Cuttler
Here is a fun thought question. Assuming that we are running daily snapshots for the purposes of easing file restores and providing recovery for users that accidently remove files they still need (or corrupt spreadsheets or whatever they do)... daily snapshots on a rolling basis. /usr1 has

ZFS mount points

2009-08-27 Thread Brian Cuttler
Well, looks like we shot ourselves in the foot. disklist - finsen /export zfs-snapshot [finsen] ~ 61 cd /exp* [finsen]: /export ls home/ pax/ samba/ source/ testing/ zones/ Looks like it'll backup everything - however if you create additional mountpoints... [finsen]: /export zfs list

Re: ZFS mount points

2009-08-27 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 04:26:10PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Brian Cuttler wrote: Well, looks like we shot ourselves in the foot. disklist - finsen /export zfs-snapshot [finsen] ~ 61 cd /exp* [finsen]: /export ls home/ pax/ samba/ source/ testing/ zones/ Looks like

Re: ZFS mount points

2009-08-27 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 04:58:04PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Brian Cuttler wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 04:26:10PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Brian Cuttler wrote: Well, looks like we shot ourselves in the foot. disklist - finsen /export zfs-snapshot [finsen] ~ 61

MP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to attempt to continue? (yes or no)

2009-08-26 Thread Brian Cuttler
What is the recommended solution to this problem ? sendbackup: time 473.920: 93: normal(|): DUMP: Warning - block 2801050268 is beyond the end of `/dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s6' sendbackup: time 473.920: 93: normal(|): DUMP: Warning - block 2934464164 is beyond the end of `/dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s6'

Re: Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris x86

2009-08-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
Dustin, Thank you - failure to read critically, I had to install an updated curl on the system .2 needed .4, and I was just looking for unresolved libraries, didn't take the next step. Thank you, will update and try again. I'm not sure I understand where this came from though... something in

Re: Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris x86

2009-08-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
and does amcheck, so its time to kick off an amdump run. thank you, Brian On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:06:09AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Dustin, Thank you - failure to read critically, I had to install

Re: Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris x86 - library dependency

2009-08-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
# ls -l amandad -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 41436 Aug 14 13:16 amandad There is something going on here that I clearly do not understand. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:57:39PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: I'm not at all certain I understand this. [curie] /usr/local/libexec/amanda 2 hostname curie

Re: Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris x86 - library dependency

2009-08-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
I'm not at all certain I understand this. [curie] /usr/local/libexec/amanda 2 hostname curie [curie] /usr/local/libexec/amanda 3 pwd curie:/usr/local/libexec/amanda [curie] /usr/local/libexec/amanda 4 ldd amandad libamandad-2.6.1p1.so =

Re: Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris x86 - library dependency

2009-08-14 Thread Brian Cuttler
Chris, We will remove the old libraries, that should take care of it. for completeness though, I just don't understand why we get two different results in the same binary ? Actually, for the binary on Curie we only search for object=libamandad-2.6.1p1.so, where on Cascade we seem to be

Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris x86

2009-08-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
I've copied my installation from Solaris 10x86 to another solaris 10x86 (2.6.1 with patches). Seemed to be ok, all load libraries present, but an error when I try to run amlabel. The named .so file is present, the correct version of Perl seems to be there... ls -l

Re: Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris x86

2009-08-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 05:02:12PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Brian Cuttlerbr...@wadsworth.org wrote: I installed on Cascade using the compilation that I created for/on Curie. The # make install seemed to go well. Try running ldd on libDebug.so?

Re: Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris x86

2009-08-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
Dustin, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:52:23PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Brian Cuttlerbr...@wadsworth.org wrote: I'm sure its something minor...but I'm not seeing it. libDebug.so should require libamanda.so -- is that requirement in place? and

amanda client issue, dumps failing

2009-08-12 Thread Brian Cuttler
. thanks, Brian - Forwarded message from Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org - Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:37:35 -0400 From: Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org To: daver da...@wadsworth.org, amanda-users@amanda.org, Chris Knight kni

Re: amanda client issue, dumps failing

2009-08-12 Thread Brian Cuttler
having good backups to start. Apreciate your helping us out of yet another situation we created ourselves. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: cool thanks. its working, but its crawling. 20 minutes and little actual data moved. Which I realized is not an amanda issue. mailserv:/usr1 0

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
Our shop is running with zfs-snapshots. We don't/haven't attempted ufs-snapshots. Snapshots are great - but not the solution to all problems, files that are open when the snapshots are created are 'open' when you back them up (not everyone here seems to understand this). On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at

Re: amanda probelm

2009-08-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
Reviewing the issue. Server, Solaris 10x86, Amanda 2.6.1 (with patches) Client, Solaris 9, Amanda 2.4.4 The problem performing level 0 dumps is that there are a large number of files in flux -- its the mailhost system -- so ufsdump eventually asks for help, to continue or quit. There is no

Re: AMANDA demanda new tape...

2009-07-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - - Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: what are the values for dumpcycle runspercycle runtapes tapecycle On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:45:46PM -0400, Sam Hooker wrote: ... [r...@inara NOISEPLANT]# for opt in dumpcycle

Re: AMANDA demanda new tape...

2009-07-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
| grep changer-config; done [r...@inara NOISEPLANT]# Cheers, - -sth sam hooker|s...@noiseplant.com|http://www.noiseplant.com We're the Internet's old guard: Paralyzed on the event horizon of the black hole that is social networking... - - Brian Cuttler br

continuing problems - hung client, etc

2009-07-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
Continuation of previous initiated thread. Server, Solaris 10/x86 amanda 2.6.1p1, I believe -20090227 Client, also 2.6.1p1, Solaris 10/Sparc. Have reduced maxdumps to 3, client still hanging... [lyra] ~ 117 ps -ef | grep amanda amanda 9087 7436 0- ? 0:00 defunct

Re: continuing problems - hung client, etc

2009-07-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
Tried a truss with Dustin last week, hung, I believe he said at a wait for a signal from the server, if you tell me how to run a backtrace I'll be happy to forward the output. On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:45:30AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Brian, Can you run a debugger on the live

Re: continuing problems - hung client, etc

2009-07-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:52:43AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Type the 'where' command in gdb: $ gdb -p 7436 where quit The server always runs down 'normally', output was in today's first email. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Tried a truss with Dustin last week, hung, I

Re: continuing problems - hung client, etc

2009-07-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:51:44AM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian Cuttlerbr...@wadsworth.org wrote: If only it was that simple... mailserv is our mailhub, cyrus imap, individual files/email plus index, virus scanner (sophos)... we see a couple of

Re: continuing problems - hung client, etc

2009-07-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:34:34AM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Brian Cuttlerbr...@wadsworth.org wrote: | ? DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to attempt to continue? (yes or no) ? DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. There look to be a number of funny

Re: continuing problems - hung client, etc

2009-07-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
(0x000A0278, 1, 0xFFBFF988, 0x) (sleeping...) pollsys(0x000A0278, 1, 0xFFBFF988, 0x) = 0 Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Tried a truss with Dustin last week, hung, I believe he said at a wait for a signal from the server, if you tell me how to run a backtrace I'll be happy

Re: continuing problems - hung client, etc

2009-07-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:52:43AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Type the 'where' command in gdb: $ gdb -p 7436 where quit pollsys(0x000A0278, 1, 0xFFBFF988, 0x) (sleeping...) Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Tried a truss with Dustin last week, hung, I believe he said

New tape drive

2009-07-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
Amanda users, I just met with my manager and he offered me a new tape drive, an SL48, with 2 LTO4 drives. It was my understanding that amanda will use tape drives RAIT, moving its output stream from one drive to the other when the tape in the first drive becomes full. If I understand, this is a

Re: continuing problems - hung client, etc

2009-07-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
:32PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Can you apply the attached patch to lyra? And run the following command on the amand server: $ amdump curie lyra / -otapedev=/no/such/device -otpchanger= Post the complete sendbackup.*.debug file Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Continuation

Re: planner - old information

2009-07-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:44:30PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:32:20AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: my god... that was a hell of a guess. Thank you ! That's it, Dustin and Jean Louis guess to come up with their insightful answers. Its not analysis based

Re: starting from scratch with vtapes

2009-07-16 Thread Brian Cuttler
# amadmin configname force On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:16:49PM -0500, Brandon Metcalf wrote: d == dus...@zmanda.com writes: d On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Brandon d Metcalfbran...@geronimoalloys.com wrote: d I had to rebuild the disk array where our vtapes were stored. ??After I

planner - old information

2009-07-15 Thread Brian Cuttler
I have an older version of amanda 2.4.4 on a Solaris 10/sparc server. It is both client and server. Oddly, planner seems to be trying to backup clep:/xerox DLE, which was removed from the disklist 2 years ago... I guess its been running so smoothly and successfully that we never looked closely

Re: planner - old information

2009-07-15 Thread Brian Cuttler
-0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: I have an older version of amanda 2.4.4 on a Solaris 10/sparc server. It is both client and server. Oddly, planner seems to be trying to backup clep:/xerox DLE, which was removed from the disklist 2 years ago... I guess its been running so smoothly

Re: planner - old information

2009-07-15 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jean, On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:31:14AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Do you have a dump on holding disk? Yes, Dustin and you where right on it! Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: I have an older version of amanda 2.4.4 on a Solaris 10/sparc server. It is both client and server

Re: planner - old information

2009-07-15 Thread Brian Cuttler
my god... that was a hell of a guess. Thank you ! # ls -lR /am* /amwork1: total 20 drwx-- 2 root root8192 Oct 20 2004 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Oct 13 2006 restore drwxr-xr-x 2 amanda sys 512 Jul 14 22:04 work /amwork1/lost+found: total

Re: defunct jobs - again

2009-07-10 Thread Brian Cuttler
Dustin, I was playing with dividing a large DLE, 270Gig (which is yet another thread for this same server) and started a run yesterday morning, so the PM run with maxdumps reduced from 4 to 3 did not run last night. The client is in a 'good' state, so we should be set for tonight, but a known

defunct jobs - again

2009-07-08 Thread Brian Cuttler
Server is Solaris 10 x86 (on an X4500), Amanda 2.6.1p1 Lyra client is the same version on also running Solaris 10, but Sparc, on a T1000. Both Lyra:/ and Curie:/ are standard comp-root, ufs file systems. (Other DLEs on both systems use zfs-snapshots). (amnda client) Lyra has defunct jobs again.

Re: defunct jobs - again

2009-07-08 Thread Brian Cuttler
Dustin, The job on the server completes, the amandad on the client does not terminate, causing the 'dump' failures following days on the particular client. There is no apparent ill effect on the server (nor does the issue on this client seem to affect other clients, but one wouldn't expect

Re: zfs issue ?

2009-07-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
Yes, when I killed the days-old amandad the zombies went away and the subequent amdump ran fine. I just don't know why the zombies recurred. On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:03:32PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Brian Cuttlerbr...@wadsworth.org wrote: Good news,

Re: Amcheck fails

2009-07-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
Not sure if this is your issue, but... I've had some funny issues when I've been unable to resolve client names, or clients not properly resolving amanda server names, as in when the amanda client is a solaris zone or in an odd segement of my network. I never rely on localhost and always use

Re: zfs issue ?

2009-07-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:47:50PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Brian Cuttlerbr...@wadsworth.org wrote: Does amanda check port restrictions against max_client ? should it ? This kind of got dropped.. Jean-Louis, what do you think about this suggestion?

Amanda, separable but related problems, cross architecture.

2009-07-03 Thread Brian Cuttler
I am perfroming dump from Solaris 10 x86, using amanda 2.6.1 to an SL24/LTO4. The following is cronological, some of the issues are separable. The particular client with the issue is a MAC server with over 250Gig of data. The dumps where taking a _lot_ time, so I tried to divide the DLE into 2

Re: Amanda, separable but related problems, cross architecture.

2009-07-03 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:14:47PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Brian Cuttlerbr...@wadsworth.org wrote: amrestore /dev/rmt/0n trel amrestore: 7: skipping FILE: date 20090702183001 host nlascar disk /boot lev 1 comp .gz program /sbin/dump amrestore:

Re: zfs issue ?

2009-07-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
wondering if amanda allowed me to shoot myself in the foot. Does amanda check port restrictions against max_client ? should it ? thank you, Brian On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:38:42PM -0400, Brian Cuttler

Re: Amanda's planning for use of holding disk space

2009-07-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:28:34PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2009-06-30 19:52, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: So, the question is, if Amanda has more than one holding disk (partition), and they differ in size, will Amanda know when the smaller one is inadequate for a

Re: Amanda's planning for use of holding disk space

2009-06-30 Thread Brian Cuttler
Chris, Amanda uses chunksize to break a DLE in the holding area down into managable pieces (you can set the chunksize per holding area). You do not need single spindle holding areas that are large enough to contain whole DLEs (anymore, at one time this was true). You do still want a large

Re: Amanda's planning for use of holding disk space

2009-06-30 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 02:05:54PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Chris, Amanda uses chunksize to break a DLE in the holding area down into managable pieces (you can set the chunksize per holding area). You do not need single spindle holding areas that are large enough to contain whole

zfs issue ?

2009-06-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
I am running amanda server 2.6.1p1 on a Solaris x86 x4500 to an SL24/LTO4 jukebox. I'm seeing a couple of odd (and intermittent) problems with one of the clients. Another Solaris box, with a ZFS file system. Most partitions backup ok, but here are some extracts from last nights amdump run. The

Re: multiple questions: amlabel, solaris device for tape drive etc.

2009-06-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
Andreas, The type device is described in # man st(7D). Amanda has a value in amanda.conf called labelstr (One) of mine looks like this labelstr ^INFO[0-9][0-9]*$ that is (starts with) INFO and has at least two numerics (then ends) I believe there are newer faster ways to label tapes, even a

Re: owner of changer device

2009-06-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:53:03PM +0200, Andreas Kuntzagk wrote: Hi, I have another on: should I make the amandabackup user the owner of the changer device file or is there a better way to enable access to the changer for the amanda programs? I don't think I've ever had to alter the

Re: PLEASE DISREGARD FOUND THE PROBLEM-amcheck error on local server

2009-05-20 Thread Brian Cuttler
We have a tendance to JASS our systems to secure them, amanda ends up in an uninitialized state, with an enabled service and no errors in its config, because JASS disables INETD. You have to walk a whole new chain to find the errors these days. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:40:27AM -0700, Paul

Re: PLEASE DISREGARD FOUND THE PROBLEM-amcheck error on local server

2009-05-20 Thread Brian Cuttler
to creation of non-global zones. JASS itself installs as a package from SUN. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:20:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Brian Cuttler wrote: We have a tendance to JASS our systems to secure them, amanda ends up in an uninitialized state

Re: Tandberg Storageloader LT0-4 SAS drive

2009-05-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
I have a Tandberg T24 jukebox with an LTO4 scsi connected to a linux server. I don't recall where I got the tapetype definition, might have stolen it from my SL24/LTO4 fiber connected to my Sun x4500... but I don't know where I got that from... I know I didn't build it. I wonder now if its not

Re: client failure

2009-05-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
you know how I make out with the install/patch when I return. Thank you, Brian On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:46:21AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:04:21PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote

Re: client failure

2009-04-13 Thread Brian Cuttler
you know how I make out with the install/patch when I return. Thank you, Brian On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:46:21AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:04:21PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: # more

Re: client failure

2009-04-10 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:04:21PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: # more chunker.20090409164847.debug That's a chunker debug log -- do you have a dumper debug log? dumper.20090409164847.debug or something similar

client failure

2009-04-09 Thread Brian Cuttler
I'm trying to migrate an amanda client, SGI/IRIX with amanda 2.4.1p1 from server Solaris 9 with amanda 2.4.4 to a server Solaris 10 with amanda 2.6.1. I have an error, but don't see anything standing out in the client's /tmp/amanda tree. FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: everest /images3 lev 0 FAILED

Re: client failure

2009-04-09 Thread Brian Cuttler
Dustin, Jean-Louis, On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:37:24PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: ? everest /images3 lev 0 ?FAILED [dumper1 died] Check the dumper debug logs on the server, rather than the client. # more

Grifserv snapshot success

2009-04-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jean-Louis, I'm not sure I understand what has happened, but we have a successful level 0 with ZFS snapshot on that difficult partition. I don't know if the move to a 'local' connection helped with that, though it clearly affected the creation of the amandad.debug files. I don't like

zfs backup failure

2009-03-27 Thread Brian Cuttler
?? thanks, Brian On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:09:16PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: I really am confused... When we set up amanda I configured amanda to have priv to perform snapshots

Re: zfs backup failure

2009-03-27 Thread Brian Cuttler
mountpoint griffyp/csssoft| 1238176877.61: Amzfs_snapshot: running: /usr/bin/pfexec /usr/sbin/zfs snapshot griffyp/csss...@amanda-_griffyp_csssoft-check Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Ok, scratched my head a little and thought about was what different between testing in-preproduction and now

Re: no date from planner

2009-03-26 Thread Brian Cuttler
/virologypt 1048576 16222 1032353 2%/griffyp/virologypt On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:16:52AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: I'm sure this worked before I put the system into production. Amanda 2.6.1, Solaris 10/x86, ZFS with snapshots. I don't know how I have have no DLE to backup

Re: upd port restictions

2009-03-24 Thread Brian Cuttler
and I'll initiate amdump. thank you, Brian Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: I am running Amanda 2.6.1-20090227 on Solaris 10 with ZFS and snapshots !! to an LTO4 in a SL24 jukebox. I'm

no date from planner

2009-03-24 Thread Brian Cuttler
I'm sure this worked before I put the system into production. Amanda 2.6.1, Solaris 10/x86, ZFS with snapshots. I don't know how I have have no DLE to backup, unless there is some failure in producing the snapshot. Now that the system is in production we are running samba with about a dozen

upd port restictions

2009-03-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
I am running Amanda 2.6.1-20090227 on Solaris 10 with ZFS and snapshots !! to an LTO4 in a SL24 jukebox. I'm trying to add some remote clients, starting with the one that gives me the most trouble. Moving the MAC with 300 Gig of storage to the x4500 amanda platform with the Gig interface and

amanda 2.6.1 amrestore issue

2009-02-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
I'm running amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris 10/x86 and having a problem with my test of a file restore. tapedev is /dev/rmt/0hn, its an LTO4, should probably just use /dev/rmt/0n. Tape is imbedded in an SL24 jukebox, the the problem doesn't seem related to the robot. Interestingly, same version was

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

build 2.6.1 Solaris x86 problem

2009-02-09 Thread Brian Cuttler
Sorry to bother you all again, 2.6.1 on Solaris 10 Sparc tested out good but the build on Solaris 10 x86 is hitting a road block. I believe I have a sufficient version of GLIB, I know it tests for 2.2.0 but I believe I have 2.4.1 (which is greater for most tests, see note below). # pkg-config

amanda 2.6.1, Solaris 10/Sparc, amstatus error

2009-02-03 Thread Brian Cuttler
Successful run of the new version yesterday, performing a new run this morning with autoflush (production capacity tape drive is on the current production system). Ran amstatus and noted an error, thought I'd pass it on. Please let me know what additional detail I can provide. I do not consider

Re: amanda 2.6.1, Solaris 10/Sparc, amstatus error

2009-02-03 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:13:40AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: This bug is already fixed. Fix will be in 2.6.1p1. Cool! thanks. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Successful run of the new version yesterday, performing a new run this morning with autoflush (production capacity tape

Re: Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris 10/Sparc build

2009-02-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
Thank you all for your help. output of ldd is ldd /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/auto/Amanda/Config/libConfig.so libamglue.so = /usr/local/lib/amanda/libamglue.so libamanda-2.4.5.so =/opt/sfw/lib/libamanda-2.4.5.so libm.so.2 = /usr/lib/libm.so.2

Re: Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris 10/Sparc build

2009-02-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
Dustin, On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:16:38AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: I did a # make uninstall, I'd thought before the build, but I ran it a number of times across a number of builds... do I need to run the make

Re: Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris 10/Sparc build

2009-02-02 Thread Brian Cuttler
, Brian Brian Cuttler wrote: Yes! leaving the /opt/sfw/lib out of the path entirely seems to have done the trick, we linked against the correct library and I can now proceed with the next level of errors. Could have sworn I saw something about this on the list last week and I am

Re: amanda 2.6.1b2 build

2009-01-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
Chris, On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:15:09PM -0500, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: Where is libcrypto.so? I'm guessing under /opt/sfw/lib. Note, regarding --with-libraries: --with-libraries=LIBRARY-DIRS deprecated; use ./configure

Re: amanda 2.6.1b2 build

2009-01-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
chance the library path issue is related to the suid bit ? On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:37:47AM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: Chris, On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:15:09PM -0500, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: Where is libcrypto.so? I'm guessing under /opt/sfw/lib. Note

Re: amanda 2.6.1b2 build

2009-01-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
My apologies. I'm slow sometimes. I was told to use the -R flag and I didn't know how, botched it, ignored (dropped it) and caused my own problems. the config should have looked like this... #./configure LDFLAGS='-L/usr/sfw/lib -L/opt/sfw/lib -L/usr/local/lib/amanda \ -R/usr/sfw/lib

amanda 2.6.1b2 build

2009-01-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
Clearly I'm doing something stupid, but I don't see it. Trying to build latest because we want to take advantage of ZFS Snapshots, moving to Solaris ZFS, especially for things like samba shares. Downloaded new kit yesterday, expanded under /tmp # printenv PATH

Re: dumpcycle

2008-12-04 Thread Brian Cuttler
there are circumstances when someone would want to allow record yes when doing this, I decided that my setup wasn't one of them. On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:00:51PM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 11:53 -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: Anderson, I do something similar. Having an LTO3 what we don't

Request to client timed out

2008-12-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
Amanda users, I'm running amanda 2.4.4 on Solaris 9, I have multiple clients on the system, but one of the clients, ironically client == server see Request to 'client' timed out errors periodically. We see these perhaps once every couple of weeks, but because of the data volume it really throws

Re: Backing up virtual machines

2008-11-20 Thread Brian Cuttler
I've been backing up virtual hosts on Solaris. There are a couple of ways... If the virtual, er, lets use the proper vendor terms because they connote specific non-transferable things. In some cases I can backup my non-global zones from the global zone amanda client. This is fine if the whole

Re: amreport: a request for improvement?

2008-11-06 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:08:21PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, With faster tape drives it is not uncommon to get taper transfer rates above 100MiBs. amreport will then fill the entry Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) with '#.#' as reporter.c shows at line 821 for 2.6.0p2. My great

Re: [Amanda-users] How to read and interpret completed job emails from Amanda

2008-10-30 Thread Brian Cuttler
g00f, Don't know if this appies to you but... but for my site we have a number of configs where we use HW rather than SW compression. We have the tape length set to the tape capacity and have not altered it to account for the (somewhat unpredictable) value of HW compression at the drive. So

Re: Compiling Client

2008-10-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
I'd thought there was a switch on make, so that you could # make install-client or something along these lines. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:01:55AM +0100, Prashant Ramhit wrote: Thomas Linton wrote: I compiled the 2.6.0p2. This includes Server and Client. How do I separate them? I don't want

Re: Compiling Client

2008-10-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
I don't know where I got that (bugus) memory from, but checking the Makefile I clearly do NOT find such a target. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:51:47AM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Brian Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd thought there was a switch on make

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2008-10-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
Prashant, I most recently compiled amanda on Solaris, because I want to re-compile as rairly as possible I include anything that I am likely to require later on. That would include port restrictions for FW systems, tar for partitions that aren't amenable to being dumped, either too large and

Re: [Amanda-users] need advices on install/configure amanda on solaris 10

2008-10-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:11:34PM -0400, conandor wrote: ya. i running it on smf instead of xinetd. any idea how can i configure it to work? If I understand the issue... I add the amanda entries to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf, then when I hup inetd and check the system messages file,

Re: client errors

2008-10-21 Thread Brian Cuttler
I had that problem also, not the linking but when it came time to run # amcheck. --with-libraries=/opt/sfw/lib I resolved it by recompiling, with an additional ./configure option. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:19:35AM -0400, Krahn, Anderson wrote: Problem was with a library

Re: build 2.6.0p2 error, Solaris platform

2008-10-10 Thread Brian Cuttler
Chris, On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:12:38PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: You are right - and I did install it, now to find out why it doesn't seem to want to run... missing a library, shouldn't be a big deal. It needs libiconv. yup, installed libintl-3.4.0-sol10-sparc-local and that

Re: Disklist question

2008-10-06 Thread Brian Cuttler
Robert, On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:16:29AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P wrote: I want to be able to use a different disklist for different runs. Other than use shell scripting to mv disklista to disklist is there a way to tell amanda what disklist to use during a run. What needs to remain the same

Re: Backup using ZFS snapshots on OpenSolaris

2008-10-01 Thread Brian Cuttler
Yes, actually we are putting zfs partitions under the samba server and one of the oracle servers is solaris under the database partitions. On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:42:29PM +0200, Nick Smith wrote: Be aware that there isn't an offical beta (i.e. tagged versions) as yet - it's a snapshot of

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