Re: selfcheck request failed (again)

2007-02-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Cédric, Amanda can't find the IP for the hostname 'pc-cedric'. Check your name server configuration, /etc/hosts, ... Jean-Louis Cédric Lucantis wrote: hi! I'm actually trying to upgrade amanda to the latest svn version (from the cvs 2.51b2 version which was working fine) and by the same time

Re: amanda/tar deletes files

2007-02-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Sascha wrote: okay here is the complete way i did that back-srv:/backup/restore# amrecover daily AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p1. Contacting server on localhost ... 220 back-srv AMANDA index server (2.5.1p1) ready. Setting restore date to today (2007-02-13) 200 Working date set to 2007-02-13. 200 Conf

Re: amanda/tar deletes files

2007-02-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Sascha wrote: i did all of that. e.g. i want to revcover files from directory abc. then i add the directory to the extraction list and enter extract. amanda tells me that it needs 3 tapes (daily1, daily2, daily3) then i have to load daily1 (i enter "amtape daily slot 1") amanda starts to extrac

Re: selfcheck request failed

2007-02-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi, The output of the amandad..debug is as given below. But an interesting and unfortunate thing is that I downgraded from amanda-2.5.1p2 to amanda-2.5.0p2 and it started working fine. So I am giving up with amanda-2.5.1 at least for the time being. amandad: debug 1 pid 1

Re: wrapper for ufsdump with snapshots

2007-02-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Try setting the DUMP/RESTORE variables before executing ./configure Jean-Louis Chris Hoogendyk wrote: ok. just tried this. I have /usr/local/etc/amanda/tools/ with symlinks for gtar and ufsdump in that directory. Before doing the ./configure, I added that directory to the beginning of PATH and

Release of amanda-2.5.1p3

2007-02-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.1p3. This is a bug fix only release, it fix all known bug in 2.5.1. Source tar ball can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda or http://www.amanda.org If you find bugs or have feature requests, please sub

Re: Update - Strange problem with 2nd disklist on host

2007-02-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Alan, Could you send the amandad..debug file? You said all other client works, are they using the same amanda version? Do they have one or more DLE? Jean-Louis Alan Pearson wrote: Ok, I've managed to get more info on this. If I run amdump with the failing entry in the disklist on it's own,

Re: chg-zd-mtx broken in 2.5.1p2-20070202?

2007-02-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, Maybe it's an incompatibility with the sed command, could you try the attached patch? If it still doesn't work, could you send me the chg-zd-mtx..debug file. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, Just testing 2.5.1p2-20070202 and looking at the ChangeLog I see that

Re: Question about gtar error 1 and scheduling

2007-02-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Mark, Install latest amanda 2.5.1p2 snapshot from http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php, or wait for 2.5.1p3, it will be release next week. Jean-Louis Mark Hennessy wrote: I'm using AMANDA 2.51p2 and gtar 1.16. I want to make AMANDA ignore any error 1 response from gtar and react like

Re: bug from amstatus (amanda 2.5.1p2)

2007-02-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amanda is not localized, it doesn't understand the french date. The attached patch fit it by using a not localized time This patch works only run done with the patch. Jean-Louis Thomas Ginestet wrote: Hi list, When using amstatus this morning (february the first) and I've got the folllowing

Re: amadmin not happening on Solaris

2007-01-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Which release of amanda? There was a bug in amrestore, it stopped on the 10th file. You can fsf the the correct file before you execute amrestore. Jean-Louis Chris Cameron wrote: This is what I'm seeing: $ ./amadmin daily info devl2 '/dev/md/dsk/d8' Current info for devl2 /dev/md/dsk/d8: St

Re: Use of RegEx in exclude

2007-01-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Lars Monsees wrote: Hello, I´m quite new to amanda so I have left something out don´t slap me =) (I know from the documentation that it is possible to use ?* wildcards.) We have a server with several customer domains located at our ISP who controls the backup. Therefore, it is only possible f

Re: Has amanda's handling of vtape changed ?

2007-01-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Toomas Aas wrote: Hence my question: Does Amanda now enforce the "length" parameter when writing to a vtape? In such a way that if "length" is reached in the middle of taping the DLE then taping is stopped and "out of tape" announced? Yes, we fixed that bug. If you want old behavior, increase

Re: Dilog Libra 8 - experience anyone?

2007-01-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
device priority use by mtx: the -f argument CHANGER environment variable TAPE environment variable /dev/changer chg-zd-mtx set the TAPE environment variable, mtx use it unless you have the CHANGER variable set. maybe we should set CHANGER too. I don't know why it doesn't use -f, but I

Re: using removable virtual tapes [changed subj line]

2007-01-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: There is an implied assumption in the chg-disk script that the virtual tapes will be online at all times. This comes from the line: LASTSLOT=`amgetconf$SUF tapecycle` In tape changer scripts like chg-mtx the last slot and tapecycle are not linked. You might submit a Requ

Re: amidxtape req'd on clients?

2007-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Tell amrecover to connect to your tape server with the -s and -t options. You don't need to install amidxtaped on the client Deb Baddorf wrote: My clients seem to fail at doing recovers unless I have the amidxtaped process installed (and in inetd.conf) on the client. Yet doing an install

Re: -auth vs 2.4.4p1 clients & 2.5.1p2 server

2007-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Since you are using the old amindexd/amidxtaped protocol, you must configure them in your server xinetd the same way you did for your amanda 2.4.5 server. Deb Baddorf wrote: What kind of configuration do I need, now that I've upgraded my server to 2.5.1p2? Most of the clients are 2.4.so

Re: Splitting Dumps

2007-01-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amverify/amverifyrun can't verify split dump. Jean-Louis Gordon J. Mills III wrote: I have recently setup my config to be able to split dumps across tapes due to an increase in size. I get the following message in the backup report: taper: no split_diskbuffer specified: using fallback split siz

Re: Multiple instances of amcheck.

2007-01-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
chg-manual require user input. You can't run it from cron. Jean-Louis Hans Almqvist wrote: Hi all! I am a bit puzzled of the behavior of amcheck. System : OpenBSD 4.0. Amanda : amanda-2.5.1p2 crontab: #minute hourmdaymonth wdaycommand 5 2 * * 1,3,6 su

Re: MAILER configuration

2007-01-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amanda remove most the environment variable for security reason. mailx require the HOME environment variable to find the user .mailrc file Could you try the attached patch. Do someone know if the HOME environment variable can be used to break suid program? Jean-Louis Thomas Steiger wrote: I

Re: Problem with tar 1.16

2007-01-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Nicki, The next amanda version will understand tar returning 1. You can already use the latest snapshot or CVS. Jean-Louis Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, another problem with my backup with debian testing as a client was

Re: Backup Problems 2.4.4 Server <-> 2.5.1 Client

2007-01-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Nicki, Amanda 2.4.4p3 and 2.5.1p1 should be compatible. These two versions might not have been tested, but I believe they are compatible. Could you send me the complete following debug files: client: /tmp/amanda/client//sendbackup..debug client: /tmp/amanda/amandad/amanda..debug server: amd

Re: amflush oddity

2006-12-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Frank Smith wrote: Debian package 2.5.1p1-2.1 At home I leave the tape out of the drive most of the time and only insert a tape and run amflush when the space used on the holding disk approaches the capacity of my tape. This has been working well until the latest upgrade (which overwrote the pat

Re: odd behavior after adding DLE

2006-12-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Now I remember, The bug is with the use of "strategy skip" or "ignore". If you want to use them, you must upgrade your server to 2.5.1p2. Jean-Louis I moved the dumptype define for this DLE to the bottom of amanda.conf and the problem was still there. When I added "strategy skip" to the dumpty

Re: odd behavior after adding DLE

2006-12-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You hit a known bug in 2.5.p1 with parsing the disklist file, it is fixed in 2.5.1p2. I didn't remember the detail, but try 2.5.1p2 Jean-Louis Joel Coltoff wrote: Hi, I added a new DLE today cluster1-node1.wmi.com /services /services { system-files } 1 local Along with the

Re: Error in compiling Amanda

2006-12-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Thorsten, Could you try the attached patch? If it doesn't work, could you send me the config/config.h file? Jean-Louis Thorsten Bremer wrote: Hi, I'm using the pre-build package of Amanda from Debian 3.1 until now. But I want to try to improve my DLT-Streamer by feeding him with a bigger bloc

Re: not allowed to execute the service noop: Please add "amdump" to the line in /root/.amandahosts

2006-12-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
mario wrote: Hello List, i am running Amanda version 2.4.5 on Ubuntu Breezy and i get this error: These dumps were to tape TEST-2. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. The next new tape already labelled is: TEST-3. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: planner: ERROR testserverNAK

Re: tar backups fail if a file changes

2006-11-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It's a new features of tar-1.16 Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Tony Lill wrote: I'm running amanda 2.5.1p1 on sparc/solaris with gnu tar v1.16, and tar is exiting with error code 1, presumably because some files have changed while they were being read. I thought that amanda was supposed t

Re: dump cycles and such

2006-11-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
dumcycle is a number of days? you set it to 4 days. The scheduler work in days, not in number of tapes or run. Jean-Louis René Kanters wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up my test system so that I get on 5 tapes 2 full backups at any time and incremental ones in between them. I thought that I sh

Re: upgrade issue, 2.5.1 to 2.5.1p2

2006-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve, Could you try the attached patch for 2.5.1p2? It remove the check for tapedev if tpchanger is defined. All changer check tapedev if it require it. Jean-Louis Steve Newcomb wrote: I'm using chg-multi. It works under 2.5.1. When I upgraded to 2.5.1p2, it stopped working, even with no c

Re: 2.5.1p2: planner returns error=EOF on read

2006-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, Could you try the attached patch, it should kill the tar process. If it still doesn't work, could you attach a debugger to the sendbackup process to know where it is? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061123 17:

Re: upgrade issue, 2.5.1 to 2.5.1p2: things are worse than I thought

2006-11-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve, Could you send me the amdump.1 log file? What is at the beginning of the holdingdisk files? Could you send me one of the header? Jean-Louis Steve Newcomb wrote: As a temporary measure, I have re-installed 2.5.1 on my server and it's working again, but I'd prefer to be running the same

Re: 2.5.1p2: planner returns error=EOF on read

2006-11-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Amanda expect tar to exit with a "broken pipe". I looks that we need to kill it. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061123 17:20]: Do amandad is running? To be sure that I would hit the problem again I didn't lo

Re: lev 1 FAILED [no backup size line]

2006-11-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Hi, Since a few days one of my DLEs consistently fails with: | /-- anakin /home/src lev 1 FAILED [no backup size line] | sendbackup: start [anakin:/home/src level 1] | sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar | sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f -

Re: 2.5.1p2: planner returns error=EOF on read

2006-11-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
of a DLE's sendbackup and runtar debug file. It's not the first time I notice that when a DLE fails to make it to tape successfully processes are left running... * Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061122 09:32]: Could you post amandad..debug file from yorick? J

Re: 2.5.1p2: planner returns error=EOF on read

2006-11-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Could you post amandad..debug file from yorick? Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: On a server running irix-6.5 and amanda 2.5.1p2 planner debug shows: security_getdriver(name=bsdtcp) returns 4075aa8 security_handleinit(handle=1001d4a8, driver=4075aa8 (BSDTCP)) security_streaminit(stream=1005e538, dr

Re: 2.5.1: underscores in diskname lead to full backup upon upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, A s/__/_/ should be enough, you will need to also do it in the gnutar-lists. A will release a patch that do the rename automatically. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, Upgrading from 2.4.5 to 2.5.1p1 and 2.5.1p2 I've noticed that if a DLE has a diskname with an underscore in

Re: More Debian Amanda package upgrade issues (this time with amdump)

2006-11-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Frank Smith wrote: Thanks to Jean-Louis for the reply on my amcheck issues. I got some really strange results from my first amdump run last night after my upgrade. I updated my home Amanda server and clients (Debian etch packages) from 2.5.0p2-2.1 to 2.5.1p1-2, and tar from 1.15.91-2 to 1.1

Re: Debian Amanda package upgrade issues

2006-11-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Frank, In 2.5.1, we removed all old options/syntax from the configurations files. For the problem of holdingdisk 'use' set to 0, it's a bad check that was added to amcheck, amdump will work as expected with the use set to '0' Jean-Louis Frank Smith wrote: Since I play further on the edge wi

Re: Wildcards in disklist--revisited, only using exclusions:

2006-11-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Ian, Remove the trailling '/' from your include/exclude. Jean-Louis Ian R. Justman wrote: Hi, all. To summarize, I'm trying to back up a hashed spool of mailboxes on our mailserver at work. The top directory of that spool has five hundred directories numbered 0-499 and I want to back

Re: chg-scsi used to work then it stopped: details inside.

2006-11-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Tanniel, You are the second person to report this problem with the debian package. Could you try http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda/amanda-2.5.1p2-chg-scsi.tar.gz Compile it, you don't need to install it. cd to your config directory. run '/path/to/new/chg-scsi -info' send me the /

Re: upgrade to 2.5.1p1 running extremely slow

2006-11-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, It is slow because it doesn't use the holding disk. You must find why? Could you send the amdump.1 log file? Jean-Louis Steffan wrote: So, Last night was the first run of my upgraded Amanda server. In fact, this morning is too... since it's still running and is only about 1/4 of the way

Re: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump

2006-10-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Lee, Could you start from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda/amanda-2.5.1p1-20061020.tar.gz and apply the attached patch. The patch will send the -o options to taper/dumper and chunker process. changer will not get the options. run: amdump DailySet1 -o tapedev=/dev/null -o tpchanger=

Re: autoflush off, but still flushing to tape after amdump

2006-10-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
H, The -o flags are not sent to all subprocess. the taper process never get your tapedev overwrite. I will try to make a patch available for that soon. Are you using a changer? It might need fix too. Jean-Louis Lee, Raymond wrote: Thanks, Sven. That's exactly what I'd like to do. However,

Re: FATAL Did not get DATE line from planner

2006-10-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amanda generate a lot of debug and log files, have you looked at them? What's in amdump.1 and planner..debug? Jean-Louis Giuseppe Sacco wrote: Hi list, I am (still) configuring amanda for the first time. I am at the point where everything should be configured, but, when running amdump, I get t

Re: udp packet trucation with planner and sendsize

2006-10-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Mike, The patch is not required with amanda 2.5.1 Could you send me the amandad..debug file and the sendsize..debug file Jean-Louis Mike Coyne wrote: I am currently working with amanda2.5.1-p1 on a HPUX 11.11 machine. I seem to be getting my packets truncated to about 1024 bytes or so

Re: Problems with gtar

2006-10-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I have been seeing the same thing for about two weeks. I'm running Fedora Core 5, and the same version of Amanda. Last night my computer crashed, so I ran fsck on everything. There were numerous errors on my / file system, where /var/lib/amanda resides. If those were real errors I would think t

Re: [2.5.1] more tidbits

2006-10-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, Could you try these two patch? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Irix-6.5.x amanda-2.5.1p1. o- amcleanup exits with an error: # su amanda -c "amcleanup config" amcleanup: no unprocessed logfile to clean up. amcleanupdisk: Usage: amcleanupdisk amcleanup: amcleanupdisk ex

Re: bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-10-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve Newcomb wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Your bug is also with: chmod -R 6770 /home/amanda/libexec/* /home/amanda/sbin/* Setting all binary to suid and sgid is a bad idea, especially since you set their owner to root. From my script

Re: bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-09-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Your bug is also with: chmod -R 6770 /home/amanda/libexec/* /home/amanda/sbin/* Setting all binary to suid and sgid is a bad idea, especially since you set their owner to root. With the owner set to amanda, it's not a good idea either. You should only set suid and sgid on required binary wi

Re: amverify cannot /x/y/tar dumps

2006-09-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amverify try to match the name of the program with tar/gtar/gnutar. Your /usr/local/bin/gtar should work but not /usr/local/bin/mygtar, you must add mygtar to the list. But this features was added after 2.4.2p2 Jean-Louis Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, This may be because I am using a prehistoric

Re: Failed with strange errors

2006-09-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, The "timeout waiting for ACK" is a known problem in 2.5.1 It is fix in amanda 2.5.1p1. Jean-Louis JB Segal wrote: Kevin Till wrote: Nick Brockner wrote: Hi All, I am new to amanda, and I have just set up a backup scheme and am trying to test (using 2.5.1). When I have only one o

Release of amanda-2.5.1p1

2006-09-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.1p1. This is a bug fix only release, it fix all known bug in 2.5.1. Source tar ball can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda or http://www.amanda.org If you find bugs or have feature requests, please sub

Re: Amrecover fails when using tape spanning: Unexpected EOF in archive

2006-09-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
David Trusty wrote: Hi, I checked the logs. There is no error message, and I have no cron running either. I can duplicate the problem every time. Is it always at the same place (part 51)? Could you provide the "LABEL=" line from the amidxtaped.*.debug file? What is the output of `amadmin

Re: Illegal density on dump command

2006-09-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Fabio, You installed amanda-2.5.1-20060922.tar.gz on the client? Could you send me the sendbackup..debug file? Jean-Louis Fabio Corazza wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Fabio, It's a known bug, it is already fixed. Get the latest 2.5.1 snapshot from http://www.iro.umontre

Re: 2.5.1 nitpicks

2006-09-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, Could you try this patch? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, I've been testing 2.5.1 for a few days now and I have 2 nitpicks: With 2.4.5 'amtoc -a' produces outputfile with names .toc as per the man page. This doesn't seem to be the case anymore with 2.5.1 where I

Re: amrecover 2.5.1

2006-09-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, Irix doesn't have the same return value for vsnprintf as linux have. Could you try this patch. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060921 13:04]: Jean-Francois, Could you send the amrecover..debug and amindexd..

Re: amrecover 2.5.1

2006-09-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, Could you send the amrecover..debug and amindexd..debug files? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, amanda-2.5.1 on irix-6.5.x using bsdtcp auth amrecover don't want to play ball: yorick 130# /opt/amanda/amanda10/sbin/amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1. Contacting s

Re: Does a mixed environment of 2.5.1 server with pre-2.5.1 clients work?

2006-09-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Bruce, I committed the suggested fix to the 2.5.1 tree. Thanks Jean-Louis Bruce Thompson wrote: Hi Paddy, I've located what appears to be the source of the _keytable errors. in common-src/util.h there appears: - BEGIN - typedef struct {/* token table entry */ char *keyw

Re: amanda over ssh

2006-09-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve, Anything about ssh in your system log? Could you ssh from the server to the client without amanda? Did it create /tmp/amanda/amanda/amandad.*.debug files? Jean-Louis Steve Newcomb wrote: We've been using Amanda continuously since 1999. Amanda has minimized our backup effort and headach

Re: FIX: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-09-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 19 September 2006 08:10, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, I found the problem that lead to the "timeout waiting for ACK" error. If you have this problem, try the latest 2.5.1 snapshot from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda Jean-Louis

Re: changes to amanda.conf for amanda 2.5.1?

2006-09-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, amanda 2.5.1 doesn't support old syntax/obsoletes options. Use holdingdisk and logdir instead. Jean-Louis Chan, Victor wrote: To all, I’ve changed up to Amanda 2.5.1. For some reason, these three parameters that used to work in Amanda.conf didn’t work anymore. diskdir “var/tmp: disk

Re: More ACK Woes

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steven Backus wrote: I've changed common-src/protocol.c to: #define ACK_WAIT 100 /* time (secs) to wait for ACK - keep short */ #define ACK_TRIES 10 /* num retries after ACK_WAIT timeout */ Don't increase ACK_WAIT, keep it to 10. Jean-Louis

Re: Amanda use subversion for newer development

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:30, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, Amanda development will now use subversion instead of CVS. Fix for 2.5.1 are still done with CVS in the amanda-251-branch branch. Newer development that will lead to 2.5.2 are done with subversion. You

Re: 2.5.1 bsdtcp auth under irix: which ports?

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Looking at the selfcheck debug files for the client (server is the only client at the moment) there is a warning about amanda-client.conf not being in the (wrong) place I assume but then it proceed to find it at the right place. I'm not sure if it's the normal behavio

Amanda use subversion for newer development

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, Amanda development will now use subversion instead of CVS. Fix for 2.5.1 are still done with CVS in the amanda-251-branch branch. Newer development that will lead to 2.5.2 are done with subversion. You can checkout the latest development with: svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ama

Re: 2.5.1 bsdtcp auth under irix: which ports?

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, bsdtcp is always using the "amanda" service, this is a bug. With the attached patch, it will use the '--with-testing' setting, the 'amanda-conf10' service will be used. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, Thanks to some Jean-Louis who provided a patch to make amand

Re: 2.5.1 parsing conf problems?

2006-09-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060911 14:05]: Jean-Francois, Your file parse correctly on my machine. Mmmm, Interesting. You're running that on what? Irix? On linux. Could you attach the amanda.conf file instead of puttin

Re: 2.5.1 parsing conf problems?

2006-09-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, Your file parse correctly on my machine. Could you attach the amanda.conf file instead of putting it inline in the mail, maybe the mailer and or remove something. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: I've started from scratch and followed the order of keyword as explained on

Re: amanda configuration file question

2006-09-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Robert, With amanda-2.5.1, you can do 'amadmin config'. It will dump the config. Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P. wrote: Is there an amanda command that will list the .config parameters that will be used in a particular run. I have two types of runs; archive and daily. I have an includefile fo

Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.1.   It is a significant milestone in Amanda project. Source tar ball can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda or http://www.amanda.org If you find bugs or have feature requests, please submit a

Re: False alarm in e-mail report

2006-08-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Toomas, I looks like the first attempt to dump tsensor.raad.tartu.ee:/usr failed but the seconds attempt succeeded. Could you send me the amdump.?? and log. file so that I can look at them and be sure of what I said. You sent the sendbackup.*.debug file for the successful dump, you should ha

Re: amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles, It's a bug 2.5.1b1. Upgrade to 2.5.1b2, latest cvs or latest snapshot from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda We are close of a stable 2.5.1 release. Jean-Louis Charles Stroom wrote: Hi all, last day's dump of Amanda (version 2.5.1b1) failed and files were left over in th

Re: suspiciously terrible performance of 2.5.1 beta on OpenBSD/amd64 (now a crash...)

2006-08-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
David, Could you try the attached patch? It should fix the driver crash. Jean-Louis David Golden wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:18, David Golden wrote: so switched nearly-2.5.1 to vanilla "bsd" with holding disk in order to try another test with nearly-2.5.1 to try to eliminate tha

Release of amanda-2.5.1b2

2006-07-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the second beta release of Amanda 2.5.1, the 2.5.1b2 release. It should be the latest beta before the release of 2.5.1. We plan to release the final 2.5.1 at the end of the august month. Please, test this latest beta release and report all bug y

Re: upgrading amanda to 2.5.0

2006-07-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Rodrigo Ventura wrote: Hi all, regarding upgrading amanda to 2.5.0 (from 2.4.4) I have a couple of questions: 1- is there any upgrade issue between 2.4.4 and 2.5.0? Since there is an UPGRADE file, can I assume there is none? It should not. 2- I'm a bit confused about the patch levels; th

Release of amanda-2.5.1b1

2006-07-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Amanda 2.5.1, the 2.5.1b1 release. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org (not yet available) or https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Here's a list of the changes for release 2.5.1b1 (from

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, It's not a bug in tar, it's a bug in amanda. The new file format is not compatible whit the way we read it. I will send a patch soon. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, I tried tar-1.15.91 and I have the same problem. tar-1.15.91 is buggy, you should not use it.

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, I tried tar-1.15.91 and I have the same problem. tar-1.15.91 is buggy, you should not use it. Jean-Louis Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: | sendsize[11906]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /home/p72 --one-file

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, | sendsize[11906]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /home/p72 --one-file-system --numeric-owner --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_p72_orig_3.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from /tmp/amanda/sendsize._home_p72_or

Re: Problems with new Amanda release (2.5.0p2): amcheck not reporting tape errors via e-mail

2006-07-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, This problem was fixed after the 2.5.0p2 release, use CVS or the latest 2.5.0p2 snapshot from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda/ Jean-Louis Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:03:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded the first of our Amanda ins

Re: determining backup set

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:42:16AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: And the following command said I had no dumps to list :(( amadmin tstvt find -sort ldhk It list all dump of host '-sort' and 'ldhk'. Try

Re: determining backup set

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: And the following command said I had no dumps to list :(( amadmin tstvt find -sort ldhk It list all dump of host '-sort' and 'ldhk'. Try 'amadmin tstvt find --sort ldhk'. Jean-Louis

Re: strange dump sizes

2006-06-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:28:40PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: Following up to my own reply: I checked the most recent debug files and they show the "*.new" files are being used. For example, corresponding to the last listing

Re: strange dump sizes

2006-06-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: Following up to my own reply: I checked the most recent debug files and they show the "*.new" files are being used. For example, corresponding to the last listing above, two lines from sendbackup...debug: sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.207: doing level 1 dump as listed-incrementa

Re: missing result ... in ... response ???

2006-05-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Michael, If the problem is that you have too many DLE for a udp packet, try the attached patch which will double the size of the packet. Jean-Louis Michael D Schleif wrote: Something has changed in amanda. I have been running amanda on this lan for several years. For the most part, DLE's h

Re: Amverifyrun not working in 2.5.0

2006-05-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gordon J. Mills III wrote: It did work in 2.4.5. I have 2 other servers that are running 2.4.5 successfully (as this one was before yesterday). I used this one as a test since it is not in production yet, but will be soon. I compared the versions of the script and they are identical. It is the a

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 upgrade weirdness

2006-05-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brad, Upgrade to 2.5.0p2 The 'amtape update' was missing from 2.5.0 and barcode will not work with this release. Jean-Louis Brad Willson wrote: Hi, More information from the log chg-zd-mtx.20060515215442.debug chg-zd-mtx: debug 1 pid 3280 ruid 34 euid 34: start at Mon May 15 21:54:42 200

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:40, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: And there is the likely culprit, exclude "file" vs. exclude "list". I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern "amanda.exclude".

amanda-2.5.0p2 released

2006-05-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0p2. It fix a bug in the client code that could lead to corrupted backup in some rare case, you must have the maxdumps set to a value bigger that 10 for an amanda client. You should upgrade your amanda client code as so

Re: amverifyrun in 2.5.0p1

2006-05-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Sean, Could you try this patch. Jean-Louis Sean Walmsley wrote: Has anyone successfully used the amverifyrun utility in version 2.5.0p1? When I run it, I get the error message: changer: got exit: 2 str: Illegal slot: "-1" amtape: could not load slot : Illegal slot: "-1" amtape: could not loa

Re: amstatus problem

2006-05-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, Thanks for pointing me to the right RFC. The attached should fix the problem. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060501 13:34]: amstatus doesn't like ':' in diskname because we use at as separator bet

Release of Amanda 2.5.0p1

2006-04-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0p1. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/ Here's a list of the changes for release 2.5.0p1 (from the NEWS file): Look at the ChangeLog file for more details. Changes in release 2.5.0p1 * Add the 'amtape up

Re: FW: Re: Mutliple configs sharing the same indexes

2006-04-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
stan wrote: This thread seesm to have died out. But I still don't quite see how to solve my restore issues. Can someone point out the error of my ways here? You must share the complete database between both config, that include the disklist, tapelist file and logdir. The output of 'amadmi

Re: Dumps performed, but also MISSING ???

2006-04-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, Could you try this patch? It's the datestamp in the chunker line that are not correct, they should be the same as the dumper line. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, I found the problem, it will report a MISSING for all dump that doesn't start the same day you run y

Re: Dumps performed, but also MISSING ???

2006-04-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, I found the problem, it will report a MISSING for all dump that doesn't start the same day you run your amdump. I will provide a patch soon. Jean-Louis jeffrey d anderson wrote: The strange behavior described here started when I upgraded my server to amanda-2.5.0. I was wondering if an

Re: amtape update command missing?

2006-04-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles, Alan, Could you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Charles, Alan, The update command was added to the 2.4 branch but not to the 2.5 branch. I will send you a patch when it will be ready. Jean-Louis Charles Smith wrote: Hello, Was there ever a

Re: amtape update command missing?

2006-04-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles, Alan, The update command was added to the 2.4 branch but not to the 2.5 branch. I will send you a patch when it will be ready. Jean-Louis Charles Smith wrote: Hello, Was there ever a response to this question? I couldn't find one in the archives. I'm having the same problem. chg-zd

Re: error processing config file with amcheck

2006-04-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, no-record is a predefined dumptype, you can't redefine it. See 'man amanda.conf' or 'man amanda' for all predefined value. The message could be more explicit. Jean-Louis Thomas Ginestet wrote: Hi list, I've got the following error running amcheck: backup:/# amcheck DailySet "/etc/amand

Re: 2.5.1b1 error

2006-04-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, Please use amanda-hackers for email about beta release. This bug was fixed yesterday, I'm building a new snapshot now. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I just built, making the jump from 2.5.0 from 3-23 to 2.5.1b1-20060405 and got a nasty surprise. No problem building or i

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