Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Freels, James D.
? Presently, it is out of the box, and we run ./configure before the make. On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 12:38 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Freels, James D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /-- aixclient hd3 lev 0 FAILED [missing size line from sendbackup] sendbackup: start

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Freels, James D.
for AMANDA and AIX. Not many folks still using AIX these days ... On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 15:35 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Freels, James D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We took a look at uustat and the only locked files were some batch jobs we had running

Re: trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-22 Thread Freels, James D.
For the could not unlock /etc/amandates: Bad file number problem: What is looking amanda choose to use? Look for LOCKING= in 'amadmin config version' output. Can you upgrade your client to 2.6.0p1? Jean-Louis Freels, James D. wrote: We have a linux amanda server that is working fine

trouble with AIX clients and Linux server

2008-05-21 Thread Freels, James D.
We have a linux amanda server that is working fine for linux boxes connected as clients. However, we are trying to connect two additional IBM AIX clients to this server, and having difficulty. One AIX client is at version 5.2 of AIX, while the second is at version 5.3 of AIX. Both AIX clients

question on splitsize

2007-05-07 Thread Freels, James D.
On another system with a smaller tape drive (limited to about 4-5 GB), I have been using the new capability in 2.5.x for manual tape changers and spanning tapes to more than one tape per backup. This has been working great and as expected except for the split size. Within my dumptype statement,

question about error message

2007-05-04 Thread Freels, James D.
Hello, I am running amanda-server 2.5.1p1-2.1 on several clients of the same version; all under linux/debian/stable (etch). This new version (from debian/sarge of v2.4.x vintage, have been using AMANDA for years) has a few new features, including different messages, so I need help interpreting

Re: strange behavior when tape drive needs cleaning

2007-04-16 Thread Freels, James D.
+0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Freels, James D. wrote: I discovered today that my tape drive was dirty and did not realize it. What happened was the drive sent a scsi error to the kernel/OS and somehow the root (/), home (/home), and holding disk area recognized

strange behavior when tape drive needs cleaning

2007-04-13 Thread Freels, James D.
I discovered today that my tape drive was dirty and did not realize it. What happened was the drive sent a scsi error to the kernel/OS and somehow the root (/), home (/home), and holding disk area recognized by AMANDA was changed from rw access to ro access. I believe this change was made by

questions on VXA-2/X23 tape drive configuration

2007-04-02 Thread Freels, James D.
I have a new set of X23 tapes from Exabyte (now Tandberg) that I want to make sure I get the most out of with my AMANDA backup system. The tapes are rated at 80/160 GB (uncompressed/compressed) for my VXA-2 drive. A few questions: 1) compresstion I read where hardware compression in the tape

Re: System Crash when using Amanda

2006-01-11 Thread Freels, James D.
: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Freels, James D. wrote: The problem I had started at kernels greater than 2.6.12.x (starting at 2.6.13.0) and was finally cleared at 2.6.15.0. Interesting ... I am using that module with kernel 2.6.13 and have no problems. Maybe this related

Re: System Crash when using Amanda

2006-01-10 Thread Freels, James D.
Do you happen to be using the aic7xxx driver ? If so, I had the same problem until the new kernel 2.6.15. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.comsol.com/stories/hfir/ ---BeginMessage--- I hope this is not a

Re: System Crash when using Amanda

2006-01-10 Thread Freels, James D.
--- --On January 10, 2006 3:43:56 PM -0500 Freels, James D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you happen to be using the aic7xxx driver ? If so, I had the same problem until the new kernel 2.6.15. I'm having problems in debian 2.6.8 related to aic7xxx as well...I use an aic7xxx HVD SCSI connected

linux 2.6.15 and tape problems with aic79xx driver

2006-01-06 Thread Freels, James D.
I have one machine that uses the aic7xxx driver of linux 2.6.15 and amanda and the tape driver are working fine. There is a fix in 2.6.15 to this driver that allowed this to happen that has been a bug since the 2.6.12.x kernels (starting at 2.6.13, the bug showed up) A similar bug on a second

Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-28 Thread Freels, James D.
have occurred in other machines. On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 23:23, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2003 18:31, Freels, James D. wrote: OK. I am learning from this. The number of 1k blocks on the first stored file on this tape is actually 384 and not 352. I should have looked

Re: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Freels, James D.
OK. I can do this. Let me summarize: I have a tape labeled fea12. This tape like all the tapes if all filesystems were backed up should contain 40 filesystems + front end + back end. I issued the command mt -f /dev/tape_norewind fsf 1 42 times before the end of tape occured and I received

RE: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Freels, James D.
Gregor, Thanks for responding. I also responded back to Gene Heskett with his suggestion and a little more information. I would like to try this idea. How can I determine from the amanda log files ? Once I output the data from the tape to the drive, how do I conver it back to a .tar

RE: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Freels, James D.
, James D. wrote: Gregor, Thanks for responding. I also responded back to Gene Heskett with his suggestion and a little more information. I would like to try this idea. How can I determine from the amanda log files ? Once I output the data from the tape to the drive, how

RE: amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-20 Thread Freels, James D.
OK. I am learning from this. The number of 1k blocks on the first stored file on this tape is actually 384 and not 352. I should have looked at the taper output and not the dumper output. I issue the following multiple times: mt rewind mt -f=/dev/tape_norewind fsf 1 dd if=/dev/tape_norewind

amrecover problem: need help/advice

2003-07-19 Thread Freels, James D.
Hello I have used amanda for a long time and have used the amrecover command to recover files/directories in the past without problems. Recently, I accidently deleted a large chunk of my home directory (you don't really want to know how this happened do you--long story). Normally, if something