Re: Amanda::Config::getconf($CNF_LABELSTR) now returns a ref to a hash in 3.4.1

The labelstr setting changed in 3.4 $ man amanda.conf labelstr string | MATCH-AUTOLABEL Default: MATCH-AUTOLABEL. The tape label constraint regular expression. All tape labels generated (see amlabel(8)) and used by this configuration must match the

Re: need to have samba-4.2.11 on amanda server

Hi All, The attached patch fix amsamba in 3.4.1 to works with newer version of samba. In 3.3.9 you also need the patch from https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/commit/585b2139153f8d4a93ccc796983eedfa5a38e6ce Jean-Louis On 06/01/17 09:08 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 06/01/17 07:18 AM

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda -- "backup" user under Debian

Steve, The amanda-client can be run with any user. The user is compiled in, but it doesn't need to be the same on the amanda server and amanda-client. What was the problem? Jean-Louis On 09/01/17 02:41 PM, Steve Wray wrote: For what its worth, this creates problems with inter-operability

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda

Jose, Thanks for the patch. I committed the attached patch. Jean-Louis On 08/01/17 01:35 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: > I am reviewing the patches used by Debian to build amanda 3.3.9 and > updating them for amanda 3.4.1. I think some of them are not specific > to Debian. My plan is to present

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda

On 08/01/17 04:56 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 06:35:39PM +, Jose M Calhariz wrote: >> I am reviewing the patches used by Debian to build amanda 3.3.9 and >> updating them for amanda 3.4.1. I think some of them are not specific >> to Debian. My plan is to present the

Re: need to have samba-4.2.11 on amanda server

On 06/01/17 01:47 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2017-01-06 um 19:42 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: 3.3.9 will not work with newer samba, you must use 3.4.1 The amsamba patch is in the 3_3 branch, you can get it from svn or git. This server runs amanda-3.4.1 samba-3.4.5 You point me

Re: need to have samba-4.2.11 on amanda server

On 06/01/17 12:29 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2017-01-06 um 15:08 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: If setting an environment variable is required, try setting it in the amsamba script before all exec call $ENV{'LANG'} = 'en_US.UTF-8' I edited amsamba accordingly, test failed again

Re: need to have samba-4.2.11 on amanda server

On 06/01/17 12:29 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2017-01-06 um 15:08 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: If setting an environment variable is required, try setting it in the amsamba script before all exec call $ENV{'LANG'} = 'en_US.UTF-8' I edited amsamba accordingly, test failed again.

Re: need to have samba-4.2.11 on amanda server

On 06/01/17 07:18 AM, Mike Höhn wrote: > Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2017, 11:40:44 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Anyone using smbclient for backups with late amanda? >> If yes, which version of samba? > Stefan, > > I've had the same problems with samba 4.4.5 and amanda 3.3.9 on Slackware. > I had

Re: Backing up the backup server

Automatically dumping the amanda configuration is complicated * output of 'amgetconf build.config_dir' # default to /etc/amanda * /etc/amanda/security.conf # in 3.4.2: output of 'amgetconf build.security_file' * Must check all includefile directive from $config_dir/amanda-client.conf

Re: Possible fix for 3.3.8 that maybe relevant for 3.4.1

Jose, The patch is good and I committed it. Thanks for reporting the issue. Jean-Louis On 03/01/17 02:51 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: > A user of amanda on Debian have sent me a patch to fix a problem in > amanda 3.3.8. I do not know enough perl to validate the patch. But a > quick look to the

Re: amtoc doesn't properly generate tape content in amanda 3.4.1

On 17/12/16 12:27 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau <jmartin...@carbonite.com> [20161216 12:10]: On 16/12/16 10:33 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: This config has 'taper-parallel-write' set to 2 and during the amdump run both tape drives were in use at the sam

Re: amtoc doesn't properly generate tape content in amanda 3.4.1

On 16/12/16 10:33 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: This config has 'taper-parallel-write' set to 2 and during the amdump run both tape drives were in use at the same time at some point. Could this explain the discrepancy between both outputs? yes, amtoc print the dump in the order they are

Re: amtoc doesn't properly generate tape content in amanda 3.4.1

Jean-Francois, amtoc was not fixed for the new log file format in 3.4 Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis On 15/12/16 02:46 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, Still getting acquainted with amanda-3.4.1 new feature but for the moment I'm having problems correctly generating table-of-content

Re: amdump_client

Can you run 'amcheck -c DS1 cyber' on the server (mums.jgcomp.com)? Jean-Louis On 15/12/16 10:23 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: I have finally gotten amdump_client "trying" to work. Had to modify the systemd amanda@.service unit file. Of the three amdump_client commands, list works, check fails

Re: amservice

On 09/12/16 12:24 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 09:48:17AM +0100, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Hello, Jon LaBadie (Do 08 Dez 2016 19:36:07 CET): Is amservice a client-side program or server-side? In Fedora packages it does not come in with the client package.

Re: amservice

On 08/12/16 01:36 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: Is amservice a client-side program or server-side? In Fedora packages it does not come in with the client package. Playing with amanda_client I get this error: amdump_client: open3: exec of /usr/sbin/amservice -f /dev/null \ -s

Re: Client triggered backup

On 08/12/16 03:56 AM, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Jon LaBadie (Do 08 Dez 2016 06:05:17 CET): I'm thinking of systems, like laptops, that are booted irregularly and are unlikely to be running during the normal backup time period. … You're looking for amdump_client, aren't you?

Re: amanda-security.conf

On 04/12/16 02:27 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: My first contact with this config file. If I properly understand its purpose I think the comment section has an error. # If a program and symbolic name is not listed, then the # # configured binary is allowed to be run as root. #

Re: amanda-3.4.1: first tests with vtapes

On 29/11/16 03:33 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2016-11-28 um 15:16 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Are you running with the aggregate-slots.diff patch I already sent? Can you send me your amanda.conf and the changer state files? ah, I seem to have found it, although I don't know how

Re: amanda-3.4.1: first tests with vtapes

On 28/11/16 08:46 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2016-11-28 um 14:28 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: On 26/11/16 10:25 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: $ amtape vtape inventory slot 1:1: label vtape-002-001 (vtape-004) [retention-no] It is strange that the meta label is vtape-004

Re: amanda-3.4.1: first tests with vtapes

On 26/11/16 10:25 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2016-11-26 um 14:08 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Are you sure amanda can reuse one of those tapes? The 'amtape vtape inventory' command should list the retention of each tape. $ amtape vtape inventory slot 1:1: label vtape-002-001 (vtape

Release of Amanda-3.4.1

-Louis Martineau

Re: amanda-3.4.1: first tests with vtapes

On 26/11/16 05:54 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2016-11-25 um 15:23 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: What is the result of 'amtape vtape show'? Any error in the debug files? $ amtape vtape show mount: UUID=5a5a9927-995f-4f0f-98ff-d222561f84ff kann nicht gefunden werden scanning all 20 slots

Re: amanda-3.4.1: first tests with vtapes

What is the result of 'amtape vtape show'? Any error in the debug files? On 25/11/16 09:03 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2016-11-25 um 14:29 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Stefan, Try the attached aggregate-slots.diff patch. applied, does not change behavior: ERROR: No acceptable

Re: amanda-3.4.1: first tests with vtapes

Stefan, Try the attached aggregate-slots.diff patch. Jean-Louis On 25/11/16 03:29 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2016-11-24 um 17:52 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: But amcheck fails: $ amcheck vtape -t Amanda Tape Server Host Check - mount: can't find UUID

Re: amanda-3.4.1: first tests with vtapes

On 24/11/16 05:19 AM, s...@amanda.org wrote: compiled 3.4.1 on three machines today, works fine on 2 of them, on the third I have an issue with my vtapes on the external disks. I run an aggregated changer combining 2 external disks with 20 vtapes each. define changer disk1 {

Release of Amanda-3.4.1

-Louis Martineau

Release of Amanda-3.4

works even if the client is behind a NAT Jean-Louis Martineau

Re: Problems with amanda-3.3.8, the data stream includes message errors

Thanks for reporting the problem, The attached patch fix it. Jean-Louis On 10/02/16 02:56 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: In preparation for a new amanda 3.3.8 in Debian I created a preview package for jessie that I testing on my backup machine. I found that I can't backup some DLE. Looking into

Release of Amanda-3.3.9

and modifiable only by root. o On restore, check the restore_by_amanda_user setting if not run by root. Jean-Louis Martineau

Re: Problems compiling amanda on Debian jessie or sid

M Calhariz wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 05:05:03PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 03/02/16 04:54 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 04:40:09PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: $ rm common-src/amcrc32chw.lo As a workaround, add '-msse4.2' to the 'CFLAGS =' line in

Re: Problems compiling amanda on Debian jessie or sid

RRORS -MT amcrc32chw.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/amcrc32chw.Tpo -c -o amcrc32chw.lo amcrc32chw.c $ make $ cd .. $ make Jean-Louis On 03/02/16 04:11 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 03:52:45PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: The compilation flag do not have the -msse4.2 flag as expecte

Re: Problems compiling amanda on Debian jessie or sid

SSH-AGENT Wed Feb 03 21:28:15 CWD=~/source.amanda/amanda/amanda-3.3.8/common-src cal@picard[3592]> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 04:21:22PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: It correctly detect it must use the -msse4.2 flags, but why it doesn't use it?? Can you try to manually comp

Re: Problems compiling amanda on Debian jessie or sid

A-Za-z]msse4.2[^0-9A-Za-z]' 2>&1 Jean-Louis On 03/02/16 03:36 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:43:49PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, Which gcc version? 4.3 and above should have theses instructions. $ gcc --version gcc --version gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9

Re: Problems compiling amanda on Debian jessie or sid

On 03/02/16 04:54 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 04:40:09PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: $ rm common-src/amcrc32chw.lo As a workaround, add '-msse4.2' to the 'CFLAGS =' line in common-src/Makefile Does -msse4.2 means it is needed a relatively recent i386 CPU

Re: Problems compiling amanda on Debian jessie or sid

Hi, Which gcc version? 4.3 and above should have theses instructions. $ gcc --version Jean-Louis On 03/02/16 02:20 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: Hi, I am trying to compile amanda 3.3.8 on Debian but I get some errors during linking phase. Both on Debian sid or jessie. The error is: /bin/sh

Re: amanda 3.3.8, SELinux, Fedora

On 27/01/16 03:06 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2016-01-27 um 00:04 schrieb Uwe Menges: On 01/26/16 12:27, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: fedora tells me to use star: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux_FAQ#How_can_I_back_up_files_from_an_SELinux_file_system.3F I think this is outdated,

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

On 27/01/16 11:47 AM, jflack wrote: On 01/26/2016 05:51 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What is the taperalgo setting? largestfit man amanda.conf: largestfit The largest dump image that will fit on the current tape. The full dump is too large to fit on the tape, so

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

Hi, You can also use 'amadmin CONF find' to list all available dump. On 26/01/16 03:45 PM, jflack wrote: Hi, First time -users question, I have inherited an amanda installation. My question might be a FAQ. I notice that if I run 'amadmin daily info' after a daily run, I see a bunch of

Release of Amanda-3.3.8

Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.3.8. Source tarballs are available from * http://www.amanda.org * https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Binaries for many systems are available from *

Re: [focus...@focus1data.com] DLEs not being backed up properly, only dumping 1-10kB each run

On 13/01/16 05:47 PM, Focus1 IT wrote: I have run amdump with our configuration file numerous times, results are the same. My director did supply me with a helpful clue he uncovered this afternoon, it appears that amdump is trying to backup incorrect directories... For example, instead of

Re: failed to change dir (error from selfcheck / amcheck)

: 01865 617697 ext: 17697 *From:*Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] *Sent:* 10 December 2015 16:51 *To:* David Simpson <david.simp...@eng.ox.ac.uk>; amanda-users@amanda.org *Subject:* Re: failed to change dir (error from selfcheck / amcheck) On 10/12/15 11:45 AM, David Simpson

Re: failed to change dir (error from selfcheck / amcheck)

Tel: 01865 617697 ext: 17697 *From:*Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] *Sent:* 10 December 2015 16:17 *To:* David Simpson <david.simp...@eng.ox.ac.uk> <mailto:david.simp...@eng.ox.ac.uk>; amanda-users@amanda.org <mailto:amanda-users@amanda.o

Re: failed to change dir (error from selfcheck / amcheck)

On 10/12/15 10:37 AM, David Simpson wrote: Hi I’m seeing this from an amcheck /Config/ at the moment. If I comment the DLE it warns about, it’ll happen on the next one too. /service selfcheck: selfcheck: Failed to chdir(/export/some/directory/): Permission denied/ /Do the amanda user

Re: failed to change dir (error from selfcheck / amcheck)

Road Campus Research Building Oxford, OX3 7DQ Tel: 01865 617697 ext: 17697 *From:*Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] *Sent:* 10 December 2015 16:17 *To:* David Simpson <david.simp...@eng.ox.ac.uk>; amanda-users@amanda.org *Subject:* Re: failed to change dir (error from sel

Re: archive and near-line usage

On 18/11/15 11:35 AM, David Simpson wrote: Hi Deb, Jon Hopefully this will cover both responses. Thanks again... Holdingdisk is already configured as 2000GB that as much as I can do on that server. Chunksize I have already set to 500MB Advice on 1/4 of tape size for max DE noted. Archive

Re: archive and near-line usage

On 18/11/15 05:54 AM, Chris Lee wrote: Hi All, As I read this thread and think of the many others I have seen with people talking of multiple configs in order to make things work I think maybe there is scope for a feature request for an enhanced holding disk config: A holding disk system

Re: amfetchdump option bug

On 05/11/15 02:01 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello, I am facing a bug when running amfetchdump like this: /usr/local/sbin/amfetchdump --exact-match -lan -O /dir config client dle timestamp/ Error message is: /ERROR: -p is not compatible with -n/ But -p is not set and in the

Re: amfetchdump option bug

ne 206/207 (amanda3.3.7p1) to usage("-p is not compatible with -n") if ($opt_pipe and $opt_no_reassembly); fixes it, because -p and $opt_pipe goes together Could you please commit the patch? Regards, Dennis Am 05.11.2015 um 13:53 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: On 05/11/15

Re: amanda scripts

Hi Orion, I appreciate that you post your scripts, it allow me to see how user use amanda and how I can improve it. On 03/11/15 06:22 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: In case anyone finds these useful: https://git.nwra.com/nwra-it/amanda/tree/master This repository contains various scripts in

Re: Hanging Amanda Problem

On 03/11/15 11:12 AM, Steven Backus wrote: It can only be done by monitoring the system and only you can do it. Can you give me some advice how to do this? And sorry there wasn't enough information. Do any processes use CPU? (ps, top command) What are they doing? (strace command) Do the index

Re: To flush or not to flush, that is the question....

Chris, You can use the following command to list all amanda dump in holding disk: $ amadmin CONFIG holding list -l What's in the holding (with the 'ls' command), it looks you have a lot of files not recognized by amanda. Jean-Louis On 30/10/15 01:14 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote: No

Re: amlabel problem

When reporting a problem, can you at least report which version you are using. We also need a way to reproduce the issue, the minum it hat case is the amlabel command line argument and all setting related to the changer. Bug get fixed a lot faster when enough information to reproduce the

Re: Restore Problem

Steven, Maybe your disk was corrupted before that backup was done, and the backup is corrupted. Try to restore from an older backup. Jean-Louis On 08/10/15 12:09 PM, Steven Backus wrote: I'm having a problem with a restore: /local/sbin/amrecover gen2 -oauth=local AMRECOVER Version 3.3.7.

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

On 06/10/15 09:20 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have been following the recomendations spit out by amcheck as I am needing to restore a machine after the machine in that spot failed. I am now down to this error, and apparently something in the installer did setup the amanda-client

Re: Tape write rate much slower efter upgrade

Gunnar, Do the number by DLE always differ? Are you using a holding disk? Can you monitor the server to find some bottleneck, memory, cpu, network, disk I/O, ... Jean-Louis On 03/09/15 02:49 PM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar wrote: Hi, See below slow down in avg tp write rate after having upgraded

Re: xinetd is being deprecated. What will replaec it?

systemd (which you probably already run) replace xinetd. Most services are already started by systemd. We just need systemd configuration files for amanda. Jean-Louis On 26/08/15 08:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Heads up in case yopu haven't heard it yet. From a comment I just read on another

Re: Problems recovering when using amrecover with amgtar

Jose, See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-09/msg6.html It is a known bug in gtar-1.27 and 1.28 The bug is already fixed but is not released yet. Downgrade to gtar-1.26 or compile gtar from the git repository. Jean-Louis On 20/08/15 10:25 AM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: Hi,

Re: [Amanda-users] amzfs-sendrecv - restore how?

On 31/07/15 02:51 AM, harpingon wrote: Hello This is probably a stupid question, but I'm not finding the answer by searching I'm backing up a SPARC/Solaris 11 server with amzfs-sendrecv via pfexec , and I do get my dumps okay. They show up on the amanda server tape files as ZFS shapshot

Re: meaning of plus (+) in amanda.conf(5)

On 01/08/15 03:35 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: When replying to Gene H's thread I quoted the amanda.conf(5) manpage estimate [ client | calcsize | server ]+ I thought I knew the meaning of the + at the end of parameter specifications -- the final term can be repeated. But now I'm not certain.

Re: interactivity hangs amanda and blows out email

2:28 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Chris, Amanda should continue to do the backup to holding disk while it wait for a new tape, this is constructive work. You could remove the interactivity setting if you don't what its behaviour. What can be done is to add a timeout to the intertivity

Re: interactivity hangs amanda and blows out email

Chris, Amanda should continue to do the backup to holding disk while it wait for a new tape, this is constructive work. You could remove the interactivity setting if you don't what its behaviour. What can be done is to add a timeout to the intertivity plugin to abort if there is no tape

Re: ampgsql - ignores amanda-client.conf ?

man ampgsql Konsole output STATEDIR Directory for saving state about backups already made. The default is set when Amanda is built by the --with-gnutar-listdir configure option. ampgsql to not use the gnutar_list_dir from amanda-client.conf You must set

Re: amrmtape - what I'm doing wrong?

Look for error in the debug file. Jean-Louis On 21/06/15 09:01 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote: When I try to execute: --8---cut here---start-8--- sudo -u backup amrmtape --cleanup --erase -v alfa alfa-6-100 --8---cut

Re: Excluding AutoFS 'directories' when using tar

man amanda.conf Konsole output exclude [ list | file ][[optional][append][ string]+] Konsole output For GNU-tar, exclude expressions must always be specified as relative to the top-level directory of the DLE, and must start with ./. See the manpages for individual

Re: transition to new tape library

Chris, Define a new changer and set tpchanger to that changer. If you don't already define a changer, then also define one for the old changer. I would also use a different labeling scheme. See: man amanda-changers Jean-Louis On 16/06/15 02:41 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: This ought to be a

Re: Trouble with breaking up large directory

On 05/26/2015 02:20 AM, Alan Murrell wrote: OK, so by way of an update I can't seem to make this work. By way of test, I have tried the following in my DLE for the Windows server: exclude list /etc/amanda/DailySet1/excludes-server_data in which I made the following entries: ./Accounting

Re: Is this list dead?

amrecover can remove everything in the directory you restore to, so it must not be /, it should always be an empty directory. Debra, what you say doesn't make sense, if the dle is /var then the /var path is not in the backup so it can't be restored. But if the dle is / with and include or

Re: Is this list dead?

On 05/07/2015 04:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Thats odd Paul. I was sitting in /home/gene/linucxcnc, and it created a gene/linuxcnc directory for the recovery. when i asked it to recover the linuxcnc subdir of /home/gene. Which dle are you restoring, what is the path inside the dle? Are you

Re: Behavior when no tape in the library is free

Jason, Which taperscan are you using? The default 'traditional' read all slots. Try the 'lexical' or 'oldest'. Jean-Louis On 04/02/2015 02:20 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: I'm running 3.3.6 (but could easily upgrade if it would help). For a long time I've been wondering about amanda's

Re: problem with restoring dump gzipped on client-side

release. Jean-Louis On 03/30/2015 01:25 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: On Mar 30, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: On 03/30/2015 04:05 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi all, I've been using Amanda v2.5 for years an switched to v3.3.6 on freshly installed FC21 server

Re: problem with restoring dump gzipped on client-side

On 03/30/2015 04:05 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi all, I've been using Amanda v2.5 for years an switched to v3.3.6 on freshly installed FC21 server and all clients (SLES11) a few days ago. My configuration contains the definition define dumptype my-dump { global auth ssh

Re: Re-occurence of tcpm_recv_token: invalid size

it can be because a subprocess write garbage to the socket. Check the debug files. Jean-Louis On 03/30/2015 02:18 PM, Glen Eustace wrote: A number of weeks ago, I posted a query regarding the failure of one of our servers with the error ERROR Request to x failed: tcpm_recv_token:

Re: 3.3.1 tape specification on NetBSD?

Greg, I committed that patch. amanda should print: error opening device 'tape:/dev/nst0': Device type tape is not known Jean-Louis On 03/24/2015 10:37 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: Thanks very much for the hint. It would be nice if instead of that error message one got you tried to use a tape:

Re: 3.3.1 tape specification on NetBSD?

Greg, Looks like your amanda does not support tape device. Check for the configuration log file (config.log) to find why. Maybe some required package are not installed. Jean-Louis On 03/24/2015 09:20 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: I've been quiet, mostly because our amanda installs have been working

Re: Recovering from test backup gives error: amidxtaped: critical (fatal): Insecure dependency in unlink while running setgid at /usr/local/share/perl/5.18.2/Amanda/Changer/disk.pm line 480.

What is setgid? There should be nothing setgid when running amrecover/amidxtaped. Jean-Louis On 03/20/2015 01:10 PM, Schlacta, Christ wrote: So Running an amrecover after following the 15 minute guide gives me a strange error, and I'm unable to recover.. summary: Add files to backup using

Re: amvault: copying backups to new tape format

--src-timestamp 20150208180002 --fulls-only --dst-changer vtapes-on-spool --label-template VTAPE-%%% daily and the “from” changer was the main one in the configuration. Deb Baddorf Fermilab On Dec 5, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: It is a lot easier

Re: amvault - must host be in disk list still?

Debra, The Dle must be in the disklist to be vaulted. You can keep them in the disklist with 'strategy skip' so that new backup are not done. Jean-Louis On 03/05/2015 07:09 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: I’m testing out AMVAULT for eventually copying some LTO2 tapes to LTO5 (with VTAPES in

Re: notify when library is running out of tapes

On 02/18/2015 01:17 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: (a)oops, I didn’t mean to write plural. Just singular. amadmin config tape (b) the flag doesn’t work for me.I’m at version 3.3.7. RedHat; I compiled from a tar ball. The flag is completely ignored. I wonder what makes

Release of Amanda-3.3.7p1

://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Documentation can be found at * http://wiki.zmanda.com Jean-Louis Martineau

Re: Trouble with libUtil.so

On 02/15/2015 10:46 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 15.02.2015 um 12:09 schrieb Eric Björkvall: Thanks! This patched also fixed the problem with libUtil.dylib that I had on x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0 ( Mac OS X 10.10.2 ). Had to install swig with homebrew first, seems to be working now. Will

Re: Trouble with libUtil.so

Stefan, I made a new 3.3.7p1 release!!! It also include a new fix for swig-3.0.5. I appreciate if you can test it before I announce it to mailing list. The fix in the comment #6 to require swig is not required. The swig files should be correctly generated this time. You can download it

Re: separating dumpers and holdingdisks

On 02/12/2015 11:05 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: How are multiple holding disks used? Do multiple dumpers write to separate holding disks in parallel? yes Is it possible to configure this? no, it is always done. thanks, Stefan

Re: amanda 2.6.1p2-8 issue

Why upgrade to an old version? You should upgrade again. It's hard to say something because you didn't posted enough information. I will guess is that amanda need more tape space to do the backup according to your configuration, you should increase runtapes. Jean-Louis On 02/03/2015 03:07

Re: amanda 2.6.1p2-8 issue

Lozitskiy -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 9:38 AM To: dmitry.lozits...@asparona.com; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: amanda 2.6.1p2-8 issue Why upgrade to an old version? You should upgrade again. It's hard

Re: Leaving dumps on the holding disk?

On 01/25/2015 10:27 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: My amanda server has a really large holding disk, because disk is cheap and because lots of disk striping generally equals better write performance. The usual restore operation I have to do is pulling things off of last night's backup, which

Re: Trouble with libUtil.so

Jens, Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis On 01/26/2015 10:00 AM, Jens Berg wrote: Hi list, I compiled amanda 3.3.7 from source which completed successfully. However, each time I run a command which utilizes libUtil.so, e.g. amlabel or amcheck I get the following error message: /usr/bin/perl:

Re: amcheck 0 problems, but timeout on reply pipe

You get error at estimate or at backup time? Look at the time in the sendsize and sendbackup debug file to find which one is slow. On 01/21/2015 02:40 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Folks, I have an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system running Amanda 3.3.6 server backing up a Solaris 10 system with Amanda

Re: amrecover 3.3.1 fails to correctly handle compressed archives from Amanda server 2.6.1

Older server always do the decompression. In newer version (3.3.x), server compression is decompressed on the server and client compression is decompressed on the client. This bug is fixed in 3.3.6 Jean-Louis On 01/21/2015 03:41 AM, Schoepflin, Markus wrote: Hello, I'm facing an odd

Re: S3 bucket at region s3-eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) not possible

I didn't knew about this new authorization mechanism. I will add it to amanda, one of the next amanda version will have it. Jean-Louis On 01/15/2015 05:49 AM, Dominik Schips wrote: Hi, I use Amanda 3.3.6 (Community Edition) with a CentOS 6.6 host (x86_64). Never had any problems with the use

Re: sw_vers not found on FreeBSD

On 01/14/2015 06:34 AM, Toomas Aas wrote: I just installed a new Amanda server, version 3.3.6 on FreeBSD 10.1 amd64. There seems to be a cosmetic issue during selfcheck, client tries to execute something called /usr/bin/sw_vers, which does not exist (snippet of selfcheck.debug attached).

Re: Autoflush / Taper questions [was: How to priorize DLEs?]

On 12/19/2014 05:28 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 03:20:09PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 12/19/2014 02:39 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: Following and researching Debra Baddorf's thread raised some questions in my mind. In one posting, JLM said: On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 01

Re: Autoflush / Taper questions [was: How to priorize DLEs?]

On 12/19/2014 02:39 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: Following and researching Debra Baddorf's thread raised some questions in my mind. In one posting, JLM said: On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 01:16:32PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: ... It autoflush is set, they should be flushed first. All flush

Re: using 2 or more tape drives for parallel writing

On 12/17/2014 01:15 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 16.12.2014 um 20:43 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: What's the flush* value? Did it have enough data to fill more than one tape? Very likely not. The holding disk is ~200G which is around one tape. So the parallel taping is initiated only

Re: How to priorize DLEs?

On 12/17/2014 12:48 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: Expounding on Jon’s ideas: how about, after all the backups are done and finished for the day. Then, I run another job amdump config —no-taper dumphost all-its-DLEs This would leave them sitting on the holding disk, waiting for tonight’s

Re: How to priorize DLEs?

starttime to is delay the dump of a dle. There is no way to order the dump of the dles. What kind or order do you want? 1 - dle A must start the dump after dle B started the dump. 2 - dle A must start the dump after dle B finished the dump. 3 - dle A must start the dump after dle B

Re: using 2 or more tape drives for parallel writing

What's the flush* value? Did it have enough data to fill more than one tape? On 12/16/2014 02:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Another config-question I have: I have a server with 2 LTO-2 drives, configured as: -- tapetype LTO2-200 tpchanger chg-multi:{/dev/nst0,/dev/nst1} changerfile

Re: block size mismatch

On 12/15/2014 05:37 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I was able to relabel the tape after a mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 32768 Is that OK? It is better to set the blocksize to 0 (variable), that way you can easily change it in amanda. If you set it to fixed block size, then amanda must use the

Re: moving amanda backups to a new tape format

It is a lot easier if you can plug the LTO2 tape drive directly on the machine B, that way you can use amvault to copy the dump directly from the LTO2 tapes to the LTO5 tapes. You can do it from both machines: - run amvault on machine A to copy the dump to vtapes - transfer the vtapes to

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