Re: request for enhancement

2008-05-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, Send us a PS color template and I will be happy to include it in the distribution. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; One of the reasons my old epson c82 has been such a hockey puck is amanda, as I have it printing the nightly report, and this does a quite decent job of

Re: problem deleting DLE from backup

2008-05-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Mister Olli wrote: Why do you want to do that? cause the host does not exist anymore. so there's no need to backup the system, and the recorded data is useless for me. oh by the way, does deleting a DLE also delete the used tape space, if you use vtapes? No, the delete command only

Re: Amcheck crashing on CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-05-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Which amanda release? Post the amcheck.*.debug file Jean-Louis Steve Jacobson wrote: All A couple of weeks ago ­ after working for about two months ­ amcheck started crashing on my system. It dumps the following trace to stderr. Any thoughts on where to begin looking to track this down

Re: two dumps, when combines, larger than the holding disk

2008-04-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Sven, Jordan I swear i already tested it and it behaved as i explained. It was in the 2.4.x timeframe. I found the bug Jordan hit and it will not be easy to fix, amandad get hung trying to write data for one dle and doesn't proceed the other dle. - two DLEs on the same client. - bsd (or

Re: two dumps, when combines, larger than the holding disk

2008-04-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Amanda should stop one of the dle, terminate the second, write it to tape and restart the first dle. Which release are you using? Can you post the amdump log file? Jean-Louis Jordan Desroches wrote: Dear Amanda community, I am running two dumpers simultaneously, and using software

Re: Invalid Service?

2008-04-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 25 Apr at 13:22 Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony van der Hoff schrieb: Using Amanda 2.5.1p1 under Debian Etch, my backups work fine, and I can recover partitions from tape using dd, etc. However: [EMAIL

Re: more re Amanda on Cobalt Raq-4i - 2.6.0 source tree configure fails

2008-04-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You don't need to upgrade gcc or glibc. You need to install pkg-config and glib. Jean-Louis Craig Dewick wrote: Ok well putting the problems with 2.5.2p1 aside for now, I decided to give the brand new 2.6.0 source tree a go, but it's failed during the configure phase with this: start

Re: Amanda on a Cobalt Raq-4 web server?

2008-04-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Craig, What's the output of: grep HAVE_SOCKADDR_STORAGE config/config.h If it is defined, then how 'struct sockaddr_storage'is defined on your machine? It should be in socket.h under /usr/include Jean-Louis Craig Dewick wrote: Hi everyone, Ok I've had another go at compiling Amanda

Re: amanda 2.6.0 planner segfaulting when the estimate for a pending backup is larger than the tape size

2008-04-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Darrell, Thanks for reporting the problem. Can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Telsin wrote: I noticed this problem after upgrading to 2.6.0 from 2.5.something. All of a sudden it wouldn't complete a backup run and I was getting messages from cron about the planner segfaulting. I

Re: timeout waiting for ACK for our REP

2008-04-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Good, your client works as expected. Do you upgraded something else on the server? or just amanda? Do the server receive the PREP and REP packet, look in amdump.1 log file. Disable all firewall on the client and server. On the 2.5.2 client, add 'debug_auth 1' in /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf Use

Re: 2.6.0: Failed reading dump header.

2008-04-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Post the complete log and debug files. amdump.X, log.TIMESTAMPS and the taper.TIMESTAMPS.debug files Jean-Louis imacat wrote: Dear all, Hi. This is imacat from Taiwan. I downloaded and upgraded the newly-release Amanda 2.6.0 a couple of days ago. After that, I saw this message for

Re: failures in 2.6.0 (cannot read header ...)

2008-04-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles, Dustin, I think the 127.0.0.2 is the source of the problem. Check the named configuration and host database, NIS, /etc/hosts. Why the hostname (fiume.localnet) resolve to 127.0.0.2? Do you have an interface configured for 127.0.0.2? Jean-Louis Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Apr

Re: Do not start Job if label not correct?

2008-04-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Theodotos Andreou wrote: Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 2 Apr at 9:47 Theodotos Andreou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way to tell a Backup job not to start if there is no correct label found on the changer? I do not want to use amflush later because

Release of Amanda-6.2

2008-04-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
via 'make installcheck'. * Amanda configuration file changes o amanda.conf changes + flush-threshold-dumped + flush-threshold-scheduled + taperflush + device_property + usetimestamps default to yes Jean-Louis

Re: Release of Amanda-6.2

2008-04-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080401 14:33]: Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 6.2. It takes courage to release on April 1st! And I suppose this is meant to be 2.6 :) I'd love to test but how to I get

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Mister Olli wrote: I just re-read the docs about ports, and I hope to understand it right. - If I have a firewall between the backup client and server, the easiest thing is to compile the client with custom --with-tcpportrange and --with-udpportrange settings, and then open these ports in the

Re: [bis] discrepency between amadmin, logs and tape content?

2008-03-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: However amadmin info' still reports only one tape at level 0. Is this the expected behaviour? It's expected behavior, 'amadmin info' reports only the tape for the last PART. Jean-Louis

Release of amanda-2.6.0b3

2008-03-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the third beta release of Amanda 2.6.0, the 2.6.0b3 release. It has a complete rewrite of the tape handling code (Device API). It can be downloaded from http://www.amanda.org or https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120

Re: [bis] discrepency between amadmin, logs and tape content?

2008-03-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, It's a known bug in amrecover, (will be fixed in 2.6.0b3). it try to recover from dump even if not all part are available. From amdadmin, only part 158, 159 and 160 are available. You said all the parts are available on tapes, but why amadmin doesn't list them? Did it gives

Re: dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps

2008-03-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
John, By defaults, amanda will never do more than runtapes * tape_length, unless you set 'maxdumpsize', added in 2.4.4. Jean-Louis John Hein wrote: Yes, it's the classic problem. I understand the cause, but I have a question. a little background for those who don't know about this one...

Re: Define what holding disk to use?

2008-03-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
There is no option to do that. Jean-Louis Nicki Messerschmidt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is it possible to define (in a dumptype) what holding disk to use? I have a server which backups itself and this server has two raid arrays. I placed a holding disk on each

Re: tar returned 2

2008-02-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's in the FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS section of the email report? Which amanda release? Which tar release? Did you upgraded something on the system? Jean-Louis Rodrigo Ventura wrote: Hello, I'm getting sporadically errors like this: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: omni/

Re: Best Amanda Setup for Restores

2008-02-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
to restore before. Like I said, I have included the files in case you want to look at them. I can understand if you don't since this appears to be a case of a bad backup (from my humble guess). Thanks again for all of your time and trouble. Regards, Gordon -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis

Re: amrecover via ssh: client using amanda user instead of amandabackup

2008-02-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Set an CLIENT_USERNAME in amanda-client.conf. Jean-Louis Donald Murray, P.Eng. wrote: I'm attempting an amrecover on a Fedora 8 client (amanda-client-2.5.2p1-8.fc8), with a Fedora Core 6 tape-server (amanda-backup_server-2.5.1p3-1.fc6). I've done all the mucking around with ssh keys as

Re: Best Amanda Setup for Restores

2008-02-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Gordon J. Mills III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first question is: How can I have Amanda use a different path for this task. I have an NFS mounted external drive that has much more room on it. If you're using amrecover, you

Re: Best Amanda Setup for Restores

2008-02-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amrecover only write to disk the files you asked for extraction. amrecover extract in the current directory when we executed amrecover (not on /tmp/Amanda), you can use the lcd command to change the cwd. Can you post the complete output of the amrecover session and the complete

Re: splitdump_buffer

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
julien brule wrote: Hello, i'm using the split parameter and i see that the splitdump_buffer file have always the size i wrote in the amanda.conf file. is it ok ? yes. i got another question. when you use two or more set of tape. sometimes you are in the situation where one tape is

Re: ????Cleaning up old amanda files because you've moved them, and an amplot bug

2008-02-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The files are installed in /usr/local/libexec/amanda if gnuplot is found at configure time. I don't know why the font are big on fc8. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Has amplot and friends been removed from amanda? The reason I ask is that when I got done cleaning up duplicated

Re: Test 2.6.0b2 backup failed

2008-02-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Paul Crittenden wrote: FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: maple.simpson.edu /export/home/pdc/Patches RESULTS MISSING driver: FATAL schedule line 1: syntax error (bad estimated time) This is strange, can you send me the amdump.X log file and the planner.*.debug files. Jean-Louis

Re: 2.6.0b2 amrecover question

2008-02-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Your xinetd config doesn't have the correct path for the amandad binary. Jean-Louis Paul Crittenden wrote: Thanks to Jean-Louis I got backup working but when I try to do an amrecover I get another error: # amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.6.0b2. Contacting server on maple.simpson.edu ...

Release of amanda-2.6.0b2

2008-02-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the second beta release of Amanda 2.6.0, the 2.6.0b2 release. It has a complete rewrite of the tape handling code (Device API). It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org or https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120

Release of amanda-2.6.0b1

2008-01-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Amanda 2.6.0, the 2.6.0b1 release. It has a complete rewrite of the tape handling code (Device API). It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org (not yet available) or

Re: can't make on Solaris 10: Failed make install!

2008-01-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote: Starting from scratch now, yields the following similar but different all-recursive error. I got rid of my old Amanda-2.5.2p1 directory and did a fresh tar -xvf and then a fresh ./configure. My path is: -bash-3.00# echo $PATH

Re: amrecover: NAK: unknown service: amindexd

2008-01-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You must use the 'amoldrecover' command. The amrecover command (in 2.5.1 and newer) can only talk to 2.5.1 or newer server. amoldrecover must be used to talk to older server. Jean-Louis Scot Hetzel wrote: We have an Amanda backup server running 2.4.4, we are able to run amrecover on this

Re: amrecover: NAK: unknown service: amindexd

2008-01-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Scot Hetzel wrote: Thanks for the hint to use amoldrecover, but I'm still having problems with it: # amoldrecover -C Daily -s backup -t backup AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p1. Contacting server on backup ... 220 backup AMANDA index server (2.4.4p3) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today

Re: automount and raw devices

2007-12-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20071220 15:57]: Tim, Amanda add the 'r'. It's historical, it try to be smart and do the following conversion. /dev/sd0a - /dev/rsd0a /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 - /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 - /dev/dsk/rc0t0d0s0 Because DUMP works

Re: 2.4 vs 2.5

2007-12-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
A 2.4 server should works with a 2.5 client. We could help you if you posted your error. Jean-Louis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Recently I tried to add a host to our backup system. The client was running amanda 2.5, the server 2.4 After a few tries I gave up and installed 2.4 on the

Re: automount and raw devices

2007-12-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Tim, Amanda add the 'r'. It's historical, it try to be smart and do the following conversion. /dev/sd0a - /dev/rsd0a /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 - /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 - /dev/dsk/rc0t0d0s0 Because DUMP works with the raw device, not the block device. Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Tim Bunnell wrote:

Re: how to recover the whole month backups

2007-12-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
zuki wrote: There are a number of issues here that are hard to answer without more information about your setup, volume of data and budget. These are things that every backup administrator has to answer, and there is no particular right answer. One issue is how and when to do archives with

Re: problem with maxpromoteday set to 0

2007-12-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Thomas Ginestet wrote: Sorry for the delay, we just changed the backup server and it does the same thing on the new one (i suppose there is a mistake in my amanda configuraiton). Like before, the full dump should have been made on 2007-11-30 instead of the incremental level 4. I expected:

Re: Amanda with Debian Etch and Sarge

2007-11-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Your xinetd amanda service is configure for bsdtcp auth, but you are using bsd. Edit your dumptype to include: auth bsdtcp Jean-Louis Tech wrote: I am in the process of learning Amanda and I am hoping someone can help me with a problem I am having. I have been using this website as a

Re: add option --occurrence to gnutar amrecover command [Was: Re: Problems accessing my new autoloader]

2007-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I tested it, and tar doesn't exit after the first occurrence. Maybe because it read from a pipe. Anyway, amidxtaped will read the complete image from tape, decompress it, send it to amrecover. amrecover will fail because tar would have exited. Jean-Louis Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2007-11-23

Re: Trying to backup to disk, getting dump to tape failed, will try again

2007-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's the error message in the email report? Jennifer Luisi wrote: Hi there, I'm new to Amanda and am trying to get a disk-to-disk backup going. When I run amcheck, everything seems fine. Then, when I run amdump, nothing ever gets written to disk (virtual tape). The amanda log file

Re: amrecove does not connect

2007-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
your amanda service is configured for bsdtcp auth, which auth are you using in amrecover, the default is 'bsd', you can set it in amanda-client.conf or using '-oauth=bsdtcp' as argument to amrecover. Jean-Louis Charles Stroom wrote: Hi all, today I tried to restore a couple of files, but

Re: Trying to backup to disk, getting dump to tape failed, will try again

2007-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I don't know why the backup seems to hang. Nothing say the problem is with the vtape. Post the dumper.*.debug, taper.*.debug, amdump.1 and log.200711... files Alos post the amandad.*.debug file from the client. Jean-Louis Jennifer Luisi wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What's the dumper

Re: amrecove does not connect

2007-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles Stroom wrote: I tried Jean-Louis's suggestion: fiume:~ # amrecover -oauth=bsdtcp AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2p1. Contacting server on localhost ... [request failed: recv error: Connection reset by peer] the reply is different now and instantaneous. So I checked a bit further and my

Re: Disk was stranded on waitq, but estimates OK.. Meh? (server 2.5.2p1 - client 2.4.4p3)

2007-11-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I only want debug files for a failed run. I think I found the problem, can you try the attached patch on the server. The hmm, disk was stranded on waitq message hide a connection problem. Jean-Louis Francis Galiegue wrote: Le Wednesday 21 November 2007 20:07:47, vous avez écrit : You

Re: Wasted Space, capacity under 50% over multiple tapes

2007-11-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Are you sure about the size of your tape? DLT4000 is 20GB Native, 40GB compressed. Since you use software compression, you can only write 20GB to each tape. Jean-Louis Martin.Hepworth wrote: Wayne So what happens if you change runtapes to 1? Ie use a minimum of 1 tape. -- Martin Hepworth Snr

Re: Disk was stranded on waitq, but estimates OK.. Meh? (server 2.5.2p1 - client 2.4.4p3)

2007-11-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You should never get a hmm, disk was stranded on waitq error message. Post the complete amdump.X log file from the server and the complete amanda.*.debug and sendsize.*.debug files from the client. Jean-Louis Francis Galiegue wrote: [Resend... Without the attachments. Looks like the mailing

Re: amdump doesn't listen to -o option

2007-11-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The problem is in the changer script, it doesn't use the -otapedev. The fix is to tell amdump to not use the changer: amdump ... -o tapedev=/no/such/device -o tpchanger= Jean-Louis Gerrit A. Smit -TI- wrote: We have a tape-robot with tapes to dump on, but sometimes I don't want to dump to

Re: Problem with Exclude Lists

2007-11-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steven Backus wrote: Here is gen13-excludelist: ./gen13/coal/r03/noback/ I'm using amanda 2.5.2p1. Is this too deep to exclude? Can anyone help me debug this? I think your exclude will match nothing, you should read gnutar documentation. Use './gen13/coal/r03/noback' or

Re: Question about dumporder

2007-11-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
bandwidth estimation is done using the previous backup of the DLE, You can get the 'dump rates' with: amadmin config info Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hello, I have a question about the dumporder parameter. To what are the two bandwidth options (B and b) related? Client/Server connection

Re: amadmin force question

2007-11-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amanda Look at the HOST DISK EXPRESSION section. Jean-Louis Francis Galiegue wrote: Le Friday 16 November 2007 20:40:36 Jean-Francois Malouin, vous avez écrit : [...] adadmin conf force [ hostname [ disks ]* ]+ ^ this is a regex so you have to

Re: tape_splitsize Problem: Resulting Splits Are Too Small

2007-11-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You must defined a split_diskbuffer if the dump go directly to tape without using a holding disk. In this case, there is no advantage to use a tape_splitsize bigger than your memory size. Also, on a 32 bit system, it is limited to below 2Gb. Jean-Louis Charles Curley wrote: I added

Re: dump hangs at getting estimates

2007-11-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The problem is with the sendsize program, wah't in the sendsize.*.debug file? Did amcheck succeed? Jean-Louis Mark Scheufele wrote: Hi amanda users, I am currently having the problem that yesterday's dump is hanging at the stage of getting estimates. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/opt/amanda]#amstatus

Re: Copying data to new tapes

2007-11-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amanda can't do it automaticaly, but it is planned. You could restore everything on the holding disk and use amflush to flush them to the new tape. amrecover will correctly works with the new tape. if your blocksize on tape is 32k, it is a simple as: cd /holding/disk/path. mkdir

Re: amanda 2.4.4, amanda.conf, logdir

2007-11-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian Cuttler wrote: Hello amanda users, This isn't an issue of great import, I'm just trying to avoid clutter in the config directory. I must be using logdir in amanda.conf incorrectly... I'd thought this would allow me to push my log files (log.YYMMDD and amdump.N) into a subdirectory, but

Re: could not connect DATA stream

2007-11-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
fedora wrote: this is the logs on dumper on server: dumper: connect_portrange: connect from 0.0.0.0.5 failed: Connection timed out dumper: connect_portrange: connect to 202.53.250.159.37782 failed: Connection timed out dumper: stream_client: Could not bind to port in range 5 - 50100.

Re: Restore from file, not tape

2007-11-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Linda Pahdoco wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: Amrecover, not amrestore, would be the command to extract a directory tree from that holding disk (or tape). If that is what you used, and you were unable to see the index of files in the dump, was the record parameter set to yes when the dump was

Re: discrepency between amadmin, logs and tape content?

2007-11-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20071030 10:40]: This bug is fixed in 2.5.3alpha, but the patch was not backported to 2.5.2p1. Can you try the attached patch? Looks like the patch did it. amadmin now reports correctly and amfetchdump can

Re: amrecover failed - time out contacting to server itself

2007-10-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Are you sure the server receive the request? Did amandad get execute on the server? Post its debug log. Check your firewall/network log. Jean-Louis fedora wrote: hi all, I am having problem with amrecover.. amrecover DailySet1 AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p3. Contacting server on server.com ...

Re: discrepency between amadmin, logs and tape content?

2007-10-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
This bug is fixed in 2.5.3alpha, but the patch was not backported to 2.5.2p1. Can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, With amanda-2.5.2p1 I did an archive a few days ago and trying to restore it caused me a few problems: amfetchdump tells me that there is

Re: new client problems

2007-10-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Your disks are new, only full dump is possible. You have no tape. amanda go in degraded mode. You don't allow full dump in degraded mode (see reserve option) amanda can't dump the new disks. Either set 'reserve' to a smaller value or put a tape. The amanda-client.conf files are not needed, even

Re: Unexpected read EOF

2007-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On a 32 bits machine, tape_splitsize is limited to 2gb. Jean-Louis Julien Brulé wrote: hi, i try to split a DLE with this dumtype define dumptype nocomp-high-split { global tape_splitsize 4 gb split_diskbuffer /Data/amanda/amanda_split fallback_splitsize 1 gb comment very

Re: amrecover complains about missing index

2007-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Why /var/lib/amanda/DAILYSET/index does not exist? Do you generate index? What's the index setting on your dumptype? What's the output of: amadmin DAILYSET disklist Did it list 'index yes' for all DLE? Jean-Louis Ingo Freund wrote: Hi, when I try to run amrecover and call it like: [EMAIL

Re: amrecover complains about missing index

2007-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Index are needed for amrecover, you must enabled them. Add 'index yes' to your dumptype. amrecover will only works your newer dump. Ingo Freund wrote: On 22.10.2007 17:17, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote (please find the answer below the original text): Why /var/lib/amanda/DAILYSET/index does

Re: multiple lbl-templ lines?

2007-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You can only define one lbl-templ, but you can easily print another one: amreport config -o TAPETYPE:XYZ:lbl-templ=/path/to/label-8.5x11.ps -l /path/to/logdir/log.x Replace XYZ by the tapetype you use. Jean-Louis Paul Lussier wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to use multiple lbl-templ

Re: driver failed

2007-10-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Paul Lussier wrote: Hi all, I'm seeing an error I've never seen before, and google didn't turn up anything useful. amstatus is reporting this for several file systems on different machines: ra:/var 0 driver: (aborted:[request failed: error sending REQ: send REQ to

Re: amrestore

2007-10-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Krahn, Anderson wrote: After creating a amada-client.conf in /etc/Amanda.. I get the following error /opt/amanda/server/sbin/amrecover Full AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2p1. Contacting server on prdapp16-qa-master ... NAK: amindexd: invalid service, add 'amindexd' as argument to amandad #cat

Re: Amanda failing on sendsize

2007-10-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Look in amandad.*.debug files Check for a line with amandad: creating new service: sendsize send all following lines starting with OPTIONS, GNUTAR or DUMP to sendsize stdin. Jean-Louis Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Is there a way to manually run sendsize? What are the arguments? When I run it

Re: sendsize finishes, planner doesn't notice...

2007-10-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Paul Lussier wrote: You should add a spindle for dle on the same physical disk, it can be a lot faster. I don't understand this statement. Could you clarify please? man amanda search for spindle All DLE of a physical disk should have the same spindle (0). It's generally faster to run

Re: sendsize finishes, planner doesn't notice...

2007-10-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If sendsize is not running, it's because it crashed. Hmm, it's definitely not running, but I don't see any trace of a crash. Is there more verbose logging that can be turned on somewhere? I don't understand why amandad finish

Re: amanda client failing with too many dumper retry ... but amcheck says its fine...?

2007-10-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It's not a dtimeout problem. The socket can't be connected, do you have a firewall between client and server? Jean-Louis Rob Dyke wrote: Hello List, One of my backup clients started failing recently. All other clients are fine. Using /var/lib/amanda/cwnbackup/amdump.1 from Fri Oct 12

Re: sendsize finishes, planner doesn't notice...

2007-10-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Paul Lussier wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why you never posted the error in the amandad debug file? I thought I had. I've got etimeout set to 72000, so seeing it timeout near 21000 set off alarms for me

Re: sendsize finishes, planner doesn't notice...

2007-10-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Paul Lussier wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's weird. Do you have an amdump log file or just amdump.1? The only way to get this is if you killed amanda process on the server, maybe a server crash. Do you still have amanda process running on the server? I do

Re: client issues

2007-10-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
There is difference between system services (amanda, amanaidx and amidxtaped) and amanda services (amdump, selfcheck, sendsize, sendbackup, ...) amandad is neither. You want the amanda system service to be able to launch the amdump amanda service. change your inetd.conf to: amanda dgram

Re: problem with maxpromoteday set to 0

2007-10-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
They are not due for a full dump, why do you think they should do one? With your config, they will do a full at every 7 days. These DLE are done Monday, the will continue to be done Monday, that's your config. You must force them to the next full on Friday with (amadmin config force serv1).

Re: problem with maxpromoteday set to 0

2007-10-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
When you forced the full, did it succeeded? Thomas Ginestet wrote: Sorry, i forgot one thing: i've already forced on Friday all DLE to do a full, but it was the same problem the week after. Thomas Ginestet Jean-Louis Martineau a écrit : They are not due for a full dump, why do you think

Re: problem with maxpromoteday set to 0

2007-10-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Ginestet wrote: Yes, it did for all the DLE. Thomas Ginestet Jean-Louis Martineau a écrit : When you forced the full, did it succeeded? Thomas Ginestet wrote: Sorry, i forgot one thing: i've already forced on Friday all DLE to do a full, but it was the same problem the week after. Thomas

Re: testing with amanda.

2007-10-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Krahn, Anderson wrote: 2). I installed mtx on the system and using the tpchanger chg-mtx # the tape-changer glue script in Amanda.conf. How does Amanda know to use mtx when a tape becomes full during a backup? chg-mtx is not maintained, you should use 'chg-zd-mtx'. Jean-Louis

Re: testing with amanda.

2007-10-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Krahn, Anderson wrote: Here is the output of the sendsize file: sendsize: debug 1 pid 27914 ruid 30063 euid 30063: start at Fri Oct 5 12:07:00 2007 sendsize: version 2.5.2p1 Could not open conf file /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf: No such file or directory Reading conf file

Re: sendsize finishes, planner doesn't notice...

2007-10-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Paul Lussier wrote: Hi all, I'm using amanda 2.5.1p1-2.1 from Debian/stable. I have several file systems which take hours to estimate and dump. My amanda.conf contains: etimeout 10800 # 3 hours dtimeout 7200 # 2 hours ctimeout 30 My sendsize log reports the following: $ egrep

Re: sendsize finishes, planner doesn't notice...

2007-10-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Paul Lussier wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Look at the amdump log file, it list all estimate received from the clients. Are you sure the sendsize debug file you look at is the correct one? sendsize will continue even after an estimate timeout. It was the only

Re: variety of users w/ ssh-auth

2007-10-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amanda.conf DUMPTYPE SECTION client_username string Default: CLIENT_LOGIN. Specify the username to connect on the client, only use with rsh/ssh authentification. Cameron Matheson wrote: Hello, I have an amanda setup using auth-ssh, but I'm running into a bit of

Re: sendsize finishes, planner doesn't notice...

2007-10-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It's weird. Do you have an amdump log file or just amdump.1? The only way to get this is if you killed amanda process on the server, maybe a server crash. Do you still have amanda process running on the server? Paul Lussier wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you

Re: amanda not dumping in parallel?

2007-10-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's the maxdumps setting? Jean-Louis Paul Lussier wrote: Hi all, I recently changed my disklist such that all DLEs which pertain to my NFS appliance have a -1 spindle entry. My understanding of the man page was that a -1 spindle setting for a set of DLEs on the same host means they would

Re: Problem creating some clients' index file

2007-10-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
stan wrote: I added 2 new clients to a working amanda system. Both of these clients are Ubuntu Edgy machines running Amanda 2.5.2p1. The Amanda server(Amanda 2.5.2p1) is Ubuntu Fiesty 50+ clients of arious OSes/versions of Amanda which work. The error reported on the edgy machines from

Re: Problem creating some clients' index file

2007-10-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
stan wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:00:57AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: stan wrote: I added 2 new clients to a working amanda system. Both of these clients are Ubuntu Edgy machines running Amanda 2.5.2p1. The Amanda server(Amanda 2.5.2p1) is Ubuntu Fiesty 50+ clients

Re: trying another idea... the --without-ipv6 config option

2007-10-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The amdump log file show that one backup was done, the IPv6 problem is fixed. Craig Dewick wrote: Recompiling with the --without-ipv6 option didn't change anything unfortunately, and I noticed in the report email that all of the file systems targetted for backup are being reported as:

Re: trying another idea... the --without-ipv6 config option

2007-10-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Craig Dewick wrote: On 01/10/2007, *Jean-Louis Martineau* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The amdump log file show that one backup was done, the IPv6 problem is fixed. That is what I was thinking too. yoda /dev/dsk/c3t1d0s4 RESULTS MISSING driver

Re: running amdump manually at the moment with extra debugging enabled

2007-09-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Craig Dewick wrote: 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # more dumper.20070928130458000.debug dumper: debug 1 pid 15243 ruid 982 euid 0: start at Fri Sep 28 13:04:58 2007 dumper: debug 1 pid 15243 ruid 982 euid 0: rename at Fri Sep 28 13:04:58 2007 dumper: time 173.205: connect_port: Try port 0:

Re: running amdump manually at the moment with extra debugging enabled

2007-09-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Can you post a dumper.*.debug and chunker.*.debug files? Jean-Louis Craig Dewick wrote: Ok the manual run is completed and I've made the logfile with the extra debug information available at: http://jedi.apana.org.au/~amanda/amdump.28092007 I'd appreciate any feedback on what the extended

Re: amcrypt vs. autoflush

2007-09-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What failed? You show us the taper wrote it's TAPEEND block, it's good. What's the error? Jean-Louis Christopher McCrory wrote: Hello... RHEL5 x86_64 , amanda 2.5.2p1 I am using 'server_encrypt /usr/sbin/amcrypt-ossl-asym ' I can do backups. I can flush to tape. If I add 'autoflush

Re: best method to debug problems with amdump runs?

2007-09-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Craig, Can you fix the reply-to field of your email message. You can set 'debug_auth 1' in amand.conf, debug files will show more details. The problem is not with the planner, but with the dumper-chunker socket. Post dumper and chunker debug files. What's the resolution for localhost? What's

Re: best method to debug problems with amdump runs?

2007-09-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Craig Dewick wrote: What's the resolution for localhost? What's the resolution for 127.0.0.1? Do you have a route for 127.0.0.1 and localhost? I'm not sure what you're asking with these. 8-) ping localhost ping 127.0.0.1 grep localhost /etc/hosts

Re: problem building 2.5.2p1 on Cobalt raq-4i server appliance

2007-09-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I have: /usr/include/netinet/in.h: typedef uint16_t in_port_t; Can you fix your reply-to to have a valid field. Jean-Louis Craig Dewick wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: It looks like your system include files doesn't define the in_port_t type. Find where

Re: The question about krb5 encryption

2007-09-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Takashi Kurakata wrote: Thank you for answering my question. krb5keytab and krb5principal are global parameter, they are not dumptype parameter. I deleted krb5keytab and krb5principal from dumptype. When I executed amcheck in the kerberos environment, the following messages were output.

Re: problem building 2.5.2p1 on Cobalt raq-4i server appliance

2007-09-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It looks like your system include files doesn't define the in_port_t type. Find where it is defined with: grep -r in_port_t /usr/include Try to include this file from common-src/amanda.h Jean-Louis Craig Dewick wrote: Now that I seem to have sorted out Amanda on the server host, I've turned

Re: The question about ssh encryption

2007-09-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You should read the documentation for your release. ssh_keys was added in 2.5.1. With 2.5.0, it used the default key of the user. Jean-Louis Takashi Kurakata wrote: Hi all, I am using amanda that the bundle is being done by RHEL5 now. The version of amanda is 2.5.0p2-4. I want to construct

Re: The question about krb5 encryption

2007-09-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
krb5keytab and krb5principal are global parameter, they are not dumptype parameter. If you want to use ssh or krb5, I strongly suggest to upgrade to 2.5.2p1. Jean-Louis Takashi Kurakata wrote: Hi all, I am using amanda that the bundle is being done by RHEL5 now. The version of amanda is

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