Re: DLE name substitution.

2013-02-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 02/14/2013 03:16 PM, McGraw, Robert P wrote: In my disklist I have hertz /gauss/export/userswww-a /zvol/AMBKZFSCLONE/zvol/replicate/gauss/export/userswww { local-amgtar include ./a* } -1 local Is there a way to X= /zvol/AMBKZFSCLONE/zvol/replicate hertz

Re: Yes to all in a restore process with amrecover

2013-02-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Roberto, It is not possible to answer yes to all. A patch that do it will be accepted. Jean-Louis On 02/12/2013 03:48 PM, Roberto Pereyra wrote: Hello A simple question: Is there any way to answer Yes to all in a restore process with amrecover? In this step I would like to anser yes to

Re: problem with manual tape changer

2013-02-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Karsten, You must set an interactivity (man amanda-interactivity): define interactivity email { comment interactivity email plugin email property mailto root property resend_delay 0 } interactivity email Jean-Louis On 02/12/2013 09:06 AM, Karsten Fuhrmann wrote: Hello, i have a

Re: Two minor (?) issues.

2013-02-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
He can increase ctimeout, connect-tries and/or req-tries to give more time for the server itself to reply. Handling of vaulted tape will be a big enhancement in the next release of amanda. The best to do is to mark the vaulting tape as no-reuse with amadmin Jean-Louis On 02/06/2013 10:34

Re: amcheck fail with debian

2013-01-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/31/2013 06:12 AM, Raffaele Chiocchetti wrote: HI all, I am beginner with Amanda, last week I had setted without problem a simple system with 2 server (Ubuntu and Windows). Now, I am setting a system with 3 servers. I) Amanda Server on ubuntu 12.04 (ubuntu.server.com) II)Amanda Client on

Re: amcheck fail with debian

2013-01-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
superserver: xinetd. This is to verify if Server are able to connect the Client amandabackup@UbuntuServer:~$ amservice DebianServer bsdtcp noop /dev/null Request failed: Connection timed out 2013/1/31 Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com: On 01/31/2013 06:12 AM, Raffaele Chiocchetti wrote: HI

Re: amcheck fail with debian

2013-01-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/31/2013 09:31 AM, Raffaele Chiocchetti wrote: What is the problem? My installation is not completed? Is it executable? Did you check it? Ask the package maintainer.

Re: amserverconfig and S3

2013-01-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/29/2013 07:04 PM, Roberto Pereyra wrote: amserverconfig DailySet1 --template S3 --tpchanger chg-multi:s3:amanda-backup/DailySet1/slot-{01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08} mailtox...@.com.ar --dumpcycle 1week --runspercycle 7 --tapecycle 8 --runtapes 1 s/mailto/--mailto/ Add single quote

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

2013-01-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/26/2013 01:33 PM, neal lawson wrote: I've been working on a custom LVM snapshot script, I have the bulk of the script working, but i'm not sure how to message amanand to change the backup location to the snapshot location. and thoughts would be helpful. The script must print the

Re: scheduling of individual DLE

2013-01-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/25/2013 10:12 AM, Brian Cuttler wrote: Hi Amanda users, Think I saw a reference to this at some point, but not finding what I'm looking for on the wiki or in google (I may not be doing the right search). I'm being asked by the admin of a specific machine if I can dump the DLEs on that

Re: How to check the success or failure of the backup

2013-01-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amdup should exit with the same code as amreport. Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis On 01/21/2013 03:45 AM, watanabe hiroyuki wrote: hi I use Amanda version 3.3.3. I want to check the amdump exit code of the success or failure of a backup. However, infrequently amdump exit code is 0,

Release of Amanda-3.3.3

2013-01-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.3.2. 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: amcheck does not recognize lablestr

2013-01-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dennis, The attached patch fix the traditional taperscan bug. It's hard to say what's wrong with the oldest taperscan without more information: - the debug files - the changet state file - the output of: mtx -f /dev/sg?? status Jean-Louis On 01/07/2013 05:00 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote:

Re: amcheck does not recognize lablestr

2013-01-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
, it will read them if it can't find other tape to write to. amtape daily update 20=D01234 #The tape with label D01234 is load in slot 20. Jean-Louis Sorry for the noise ...regards, Dennis Am 07.01.2013 14:48, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Dennis, The attached patch fix the traditional

Re: / is an invalid directory.

2013-01-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What is in the index file? $ zcat /usr/local/etc/amanda/client/state/index/example/tank_data/20121230122955_0.gz Jean-Louis On 12/30/2012 02:09 PM, Guy Sisalli wrote: Server is OpenIndiana 151a4, running Amanda 3.3.1, gzip 1.3.5, gtar 1.2.6 Client is a Solaris 11 test, running Amanda 3.1.1,

Re: / is an invalid directory.

2013-01-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/03/2013 09:37 AM, Guy Sisalli wrote: The index files are empty. I could get recovery to work when I replaced it with a gz file containing a / ZFS do not generate index. The index file was fixed on 2011-05-05. You must use a newer version on the client (or manually fix the index file as

Re: labelstr problem in latest svn snapshot

2012-12-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 12/20/2012 12:59 PM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello, those messages apear a lot in current backuplogs, but backup seems to work: /volume '' does not match labelstr '^D0[0-9]*$'/ Where exactly do you get that error message? My tapes are named D00351 for example. Those messages came up

Re: amrestore blocksize

2012-12-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Stefan, The -b argument of amrestore is not working in 3.2.1 The attached patch was commited a long time ago to fix it. Jean-Louis On 12/03/2012 10:01 AM, Stefan Gustafsson wrote: Hi, We have an running amanda environment (Amanda-3.2.1) based on Ubuntu 11.10 backing up some XEN hosts. Last

Re: Connection reset by peer

2012-11-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It is the amanda client host (ufo1000) that closed the connection, check the system log file and amanda debug files. Jean-Louis On 11/29/2012 08:51 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I have a strange combination of errors: [data read: Connection reset by peer] [index read: Connection reset

Re: building and installing Amanda 3.3.2

2012-11-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
library? jean-Louis On 11/26/12 1:27 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Chris, You must use the same compiler and compiler flags as used for compiling perl. Jean-Louis On 11/26/2012 01:07 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: I'm having some issues with an install. I have a T5220 running Solaris 10

Re: building and installing Amanda 3.3.2

2012-11-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/28/2012 12:23 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: On 11/28/12 12:01 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 11/28/2012 11:46 AM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: OK. I needed to do it anyway, so I bit the bullet and downloaded and built Perl 5.16.2. I then rebuilt Amanda (starting with a make clean

Re: building and installing Amanda 3.3.2

2012-11-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/28/2012 01:48 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: It is apparently explicitly looking for that version: find object=libamserver-2.5.1p3.so (from ldd -s). So, if I move the old libraries, the ldd fails. It isn't just looking for libamserver.so and finding one that links to 2.5.1p3. If I

Re: multiplexed NICs on Amanda server?

2012-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/27/2012 12:52 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 03:34:23PM -0600, Neil Carter wrote: Greetings: Yes, I've looked into this, the network engineer (separate group) is not interested in bonding, so that won't work. I have to use the four NICs as independent interfaces. ...

Re: multiplexed NICs on Amanda server?

2012-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
on the same subnet? Try adding a route on the server so that request to the client goes out from the IP you want. Jean-Louis Thanks! Neil On 2012.11.26 5:17 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Neil, Amanda resolve the hostname from the disklist to get an IP and send packet to that IP. You can

Re: multiplexed NICs on Amanda server?

2012-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
should be used. define interface lo0 { src-ip 127.0.0.1 } All dles for one host must use the same interface. Jean-Louis Thanks! Neil On 2012.11.27 6:19 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 11/26/2012 06:50 PM, Neil Carter wrote: Greetings: It's using the BSDTCPAuth(?), the default

Re: building and installing Amanda 3.3.2

2012-11-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Chris, You must use the same compiler and compiler flags as used for compiling perl. Jean-Louis On 11/26/2012 01:07 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: I'm having some issues with an install. I have a T5220 running Solaris 10 that has been an Amanda 2.5.1p3 client for some time. The storage

Re: multiplexed NICs on Amanda server?

2012-11-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Neil, Amanda resolve the hostname from the disklist to get an IP and send packet to that IP. You can add network route to route some IP to some interface. Which auth are you using? Jean-Louis On 11/26/2012 04:34 PM, Neil Carter wrote: Greetings: Yes, I've looked into this, the network

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 killed my Amanda

2012-11-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Olivier, You should start with the beginning, what is the error message you get in the email report? Also post the amdump.1 log file. Jean-Louis On 11/20/2012 06:36 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Dear Brian, Did some parameter in amanda.conf get reset? No, it is using the exact same

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 killed my Amanda

2012-11-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/20/2012 08:32 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Jean-Louis, You should start with the beginning, what is the error message you get in the email report? Hostname: amanda.cs.ait.ac.th Org : CSIM Normal Config : normal Date: November 20, 2012 There are 3587383k of dumps left in the

Re: Driver exit signals?

2012-11-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/13/2012 11:17 AM, Mike Neimoyer wrote: Good day! Noticed today that our amanda (3.3.1 on CentOS) complained in the daily report: === driver: Taper protocol error driver: going into degraded mode because of taper component error. === This happened after setting up an exclusion list, so

Re: backup amanda config server with S3 storage

2012-11-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/10/2012 04:55 PM, Roberto Pereyra wrote: Hello I would like to backup my amanda server, for disaster recovery case . I'm using S3 as storage system. I'm making backup these directories: /etc/amanda /var/lib/amanda /var/amanda Is there others directories or files to backup for

Re: re-assemble dump from tape drive

2012-11-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/06/2012 06:49 AM, Gour wrote: On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:42:15 -0500 Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: Assuming they are compressed with gzip you might try this untested piece. This worked: amrestore -p /dev/nst0 host allparts executed on the last tape image. You should have use

Re: Segmentation fault with amanda-backup_server-3.3.2-1.rhel6.i686.rpm - SOLVED

2012-11-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/06/2012 10:12 AM, Roberto Pereyra wrote: I found that is an issue with my perl version. This server is a cpanel vps. Cpanel runs its own perl version: --- perl -v This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i686-linux --- With this perl version I have the Segmentation

Re: Rv: Segmentation fault with amanda-backup_server-3.3.2-1.rhel6.i686.rpm

2012-11-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/05/2012 04:35 PM, contenidos2000-aman...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: I'm again. Debuging the amanda file I have this error: root@server4 [/usr/src]# gdb /usr/sbin/amlabel GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2-56.el6) Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU

Re: Segmentation fault with amanda-backup_server-3.3.2-1.rhel6.i686.rpm

2012-11-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 11/05/2012 05:02 PM, Roberto Pereyra wrote: amlabel is a perl script. run: gdb /usr/bin/perl and in gdb: run /usr/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-1 slot 1 Jean-Louis hello Jean-Luis root@server4 [/usr/sbin]# gdb /usr/bin/perl GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2-56.el6)

Re: amreport taper stats bug in 3.3.2

2012-10-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, I already committed many fixes that should improve it a lot. There are still some case where it will report too much time (waiting for the driver or operating the changers), they are on my list of things to fix, but as they are only cosmetic, they do not get a high priority.

Re: amreport taper stats bug in 3.3.2

2012-10-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 10/19/2012 01:12 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com [20121019 12:39]: Jean-Francois, I already committed many fixes that should improve it a lot. There are still some case where it will report too much time (waiting for the driver or operating

Re: How amanda deals with write-protected tapes?

2012-10-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 10/02/2012 04:58 AM, Attila Bogár wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, On 01/10/12 16:13, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: So the bug is that amanda reported: These dumps were to tape Daily-24. which is not true since amanda did not succeed to write to it. Not exactly as I see the how many data is left

Re: Negative Tape utilization?

2012-10-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Guy, The reporting issue in amstatus (reporting negative value) is already fix, check the svn tree. I'm surprised that you complain about a small amstatus reporting issue but not about the fact that your backup failed, you should have at least posted the error from the email report. I

Re: How amanda deals with write-protected tapes?

2012-10-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Attila, The attached patch fix amstatus and amdump to report that the tape is write protected. I do not have a tape drive on hand so I can't test it. I appreciate if someone can test it. Jean-Louis On 10/02/2012 08:46 AM, Attila Bogár wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, On 02/10/12 13:30, Jean-Louis

Re: How amanda deals with write-protected tapes?

2012-10-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 10/02/2012 10:10 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Attila, The attached patch fix amstatus and amdump to report that the tape is write protected. I mean amcheck and amdump. I do not have a tape drive on hand so I can't test it. I appreciate if someone can test it. Jean-Louis On 10/02

Re: How amanda deals with write-protected tapes?

2012-10-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 10/01/2012 06:55 AM, Attila Bogár wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if this is a known-problem? I do not understand the problem, one tape is write-propected, so amanda use another tape. Wha'ts wrong? We have two tape drives configured for taper-parallel-write, but actually there is only tape

Re: Negative Tape utilization?

2012-10-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Guy, Can ypou post the complete /usr/local/etc/amanda/dailyset/state/log/amdump.* file for that run? Jean-Louis On 10/01/2012 09:21 AM, Guy Sisalli wrote: We're noticing peculiar behavior running Amanda 3.3.2 under FreeBSD 9. Backups appear to work fine until dealing with a sizable DLE

Re: How amanda deals with write-protected tapes?

2012-10-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 10/01/2012 10:50 AM, Attila Bogár wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, On 01/10/12 15:16, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: I do not understand the problem, one tape is write-propected, so amanda use another tape. Wha'ts wrong? Snippets from amanda email reports: -- Date: September 25, 2012 These dumps

Re: Report complaining about host which is not in disklist

2012-09-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 09/27/2012 01:46 AM, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! This may be something that is fixed in most recent version (I'm running 3.2.2), but I still decided to mention it, since initially I was quite baffled by the error message. I recently added a new client to my Amanda setup. I had two DLEs from

Re: Not doing a full backup when using --notaper

2012-08-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Matt, What's the 'reserve' configuration? By default, amanda do only incrementals when run without tape. Jean-Louis On 08/01/2012 02:07 PM, Matt wrote: Here's what I have in my crontab 0 10 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump --no-taper dell 0 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amflush -b dell Here's what I have in my

Release of Amanda-3.3.2

2012-07-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.3.2. 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: multiple parallel dumps on the same host

2012-06-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 06/18/2012 07:36 PM, Joel Franco Guzmán wrote: Hi all again, man disklist says: spindle Default: -1. A number used to balance backup load on a host. Amanda will not run multiple backups at the same time on the same spindle, unless the spindle

Re: conflicting types for 'g_queue_free_full'

2012-06-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Leo, You asked the same question last Friday, please read the answer you ge from John Hein. Jean-Louis On 06/19/2012 03:51 AM, Leo List wrote: As there is no Amanda 3.3.1 binary build for 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04, I've downloaded the latest stable version, but when I run the make I get the

Re: conflicting types for 'g_queue_free_full'

2012-06-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
: invalid size: amandad: cannot look up client user \amanda\\n Client check: 1 host checked in 0.010 seconds. 1 problem found. (brought to you by Amanda 3.3.1) Leo On 19/06/12 22:16, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Leo, You asked the same question last Friday, please read the answer you ge from John

Re: autoflush and planner

2012-06-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 06/17/2012 11:22 AM, Joel Franco Guzmán wrote: Hi, Eventually some backups stay in holding disk because the planner have no information about the real compression of some folders. I have activated autoflush. Then, when the next backup starts, the holding disk is flushed together with the

Re: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

2012-06-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 06/10/2012 02:48 AM, Subscriptions wrote: I've posted the following in the Forum too, but have so far not had any replies. Have been using amanda for quites some time now; great product After a recent upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04, backups are now not working as I'm getting the following error on

Re: taper stops when the requested tape is in the wrong drive

2012-06-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 06/12/2012 11:51 AM, Sven Rudolph wrote: Hello, I got an unexpected error message: FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: fileserver /data lev 1 partial taper: the requested volume is in drive 0, which this changer instance cannot access My configuration uses drive 1, so the message is correct.

Re: aclocal fails since AMANDA_INIT_VERSION call in configure.in

2012-06-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 06/09/2012 12:08 PM, Kervin L. Pierre wrote: I'm building on a stock Amazon Linux server with all available patches. But it seems that since the new AMANDA_INIT_VERSION macro call was added a few weeks ago to configure.in, I haven't been able to run autogen.sh without error. Removing the

Re: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

2012-06-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 06/10/2012 02:48 AM, Subscriptions wrote: I've posted the following in the Forum too, but have so far not had any replies. Have been using amanda for quites some time now; great product After a recent upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04, backups are now not working as I'm getting the following error on

Re: multitape span always starts from first chunk again on the next tape

2012-06-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 06/07/2012 05:47 AM, Karsten Fuhrmann wrote: Hello, i have DLEs which are bigger than a single tape now. And i thought the solution would be to change the following in my amanda.conf runtapes 2 holdingdisk hd1 { comment first holding disk directory /mnt/amanda-holding # where

Re: multitape span always starts from first chunk again on the next tape

2012-06-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
tty_email See the documentation in 'man amanda-interactivity' Jean-Louis On 07.06.2012, at 14:11, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 06/07/2012 05:47 AM, Karsten Fuhrmann wrote: Hello, i have DLEs which are bigger than a single tape now. And i thought the solution would be to change

Re: Taper died

2012-06-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Chris, Apply the attached patch, this bug is already fixed in 3.3.1 Jean-Louis On 06/06/2012 11:13 AM, Chris Nighswonger wrote: I woke up this morning to the following in my last evening's backup report: FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: taper: FATAL TypeError in method 'log_add', argument 2 of type

Re: Amzfs_sendrecv: Use of uninitialized value $status at Script_App.pm

2012-05-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Leon, Do the error are at the time you run amcheck? Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis On 05/27/2012 09:33 PM, Leon Meßner wrote: Hi, i'm seeing the following errors in syslog using amanda-3.3.1: /var/log/messages: May 28 02:52:07 silo Amzfs_sendrecv[61918]: Use of uninitialized value

Re: server v3.3.1 clients v2.6.1p2 (and maybe p1)

2012-05-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Debra, Which program are you executing when you get the error? What is the exact error message you get? Can you post the associated debug files? Jean-Louis On 05/25/2012 07:23 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: I'm working on upgrading to amanda v3.3.1. I thought I had read that one should update

Re: DLEs stuck in 'force' state

2012-05-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/25/2012 01:01 AM, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! While exploring the recent GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect issue, I forced some DLEs with 'amadmin force'. My understanding of 'force' has been that it forces the DLE to do a full backup on next run, and then returns to

Re: DLEs stuck in 'force' state

2012-05-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/25/2012 08:27 AM, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello Jean-Louis! What are the first two lines of their info file, .../curinfo/kuller.raad.tartu.ee/_storage/info .../curinfo/kuller.raad.tartu.ee/_storage_lists/info A command of 0 means there is no force command. Both files begin with these two

Re: unable to bind port

2012-05-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/25/2012 11:39 AM, Brian Cuttler wrote: New installation Amanda 3.3.0 installed on openSUSE 12.1 (Asparagus) (x86_64) kaveri:/etc/amanda/kaveri # amgetconf kaveri unreserved-tcp-port 1025,65535 How about reserved-tcp-port? However the

Re: unable to bind port

2012-05-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/25/2012 02:02 PM, Brian Cuttler wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 01:06:45PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Charles, Jean-Louis, I did include the amgetconf reserved-tcp-port info in my email, I get the same results you do. I am logged in as root when running amcheck. I was afraid that was

Re: Multiple Wildcard DLE

2012-05-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amanda.conf include [ list | file ][[optional][append][ string ]+] All include expressions are expanded by Amanda, concatenated in one file and passed to GNU-tar as a --files-from argument. They must start with ./ and contain no other /. You can't do

Re: correct amrecover and Amazon S3 syntax

2012-05-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/22/2012 09:06 AM, Roberto Pereyra wrote: Hello I'm testing amazon S3 with amanda. I just enabled to backup, it's works well. Now I testing recover data: I can't define the correct device, can someone help me ? What is the correct syntax to restore a backup from Amazon S3? You should

Re: correct amrecover and Amazon S3 syntax

2012-05-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/22/2012 10:17 AM, Roberto Pereyra wrote: You should tell amrecover to use the same changer as when you did the backup. Did you defined a changer in amanda.conf? Jean-Louis Hello Jean- Louis Yes, I have this line in amanda.conf: tpchanger

Re: correct amrecover and Amazon S3 syntax

2012-05-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/22/2012 10:17 AM, Roberto Pereyra wrote: You should tell amrecover to use the same changer as when you did the backup. Did you defined a changer in amanda.conf? Jean-Louis Hello Jean- Louis Yes, I have this line in amanda.conf: tpchanger

Re: GNU tar --one-file-system flag seems to have no effect

2012-05-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/18/2012 12:33 AM, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello Nathan! What exactly happened that convinced you the contents of /storage/lists was still getting included in the dump for /storage ? First I noticed in the e-mail report that level 1 backup of /storage was just a little bit bigger than

Re: amvault segmentation fault

2012-05-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Benndorf wrote: Hello Jean-Louis, got annother segmentation fault this morning now running amanda 3.3.1.svn.4721. Regards, Dennis Am 14.05.2012 16:14, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: On 05/14/2012 08:26 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: after updating our backup server to Ubuntu Server 12.04

Re: amvault segmentation fault

2012-05-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/15/2012 07:54 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Log file /usr/local/etc/amanda/daily/catalog/log.20120506180002.0 stamped 20120506180002, expecting 20120505180458! I never saw amanda print this message. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x75dcd7b0 in g_str_hash ()

Re: amvault segmentation fault

2012-05-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dennis, The attached patch fix the crash. You have log corruption because of amdump and amvault running simultaneously. Jean-Louis On 05/15/2012 08:20 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Am 15.05.2012 14:14, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: On 05/15/2012 07:54 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Log file

Re: amvault segmentation fault

2012-05-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dennis, The attached patch make amvault to check if a log file already exists and abort in this case. It will abort if amdump is already running. Jean-Louis On 05/15/2012 09:16 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Dennis, The attached patch fix the crash. You have log corruption because

Re: amvault segmentation fault

2012-05-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/14/2012 08:26 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: after updating our backup server to Ubuntu Server 12.04 and recompiling amanda 3.3.1 amvault fails with segmentation fault everytime it is started. Might this have something to do with the removal of g_queue_free_full, which was needed to compile

Re: Specified file list matches multiple dumps

2012-05-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Sven, Send me the log.datastamp.* files for the three tapes. Jean-Louis On 05/09/2012 11:43 AM, Sven Rudolph wrote: Hello, I have a problem with amrecover: amrecover add cpio.ry Added file /cpio.ry amrecover list TAPE

Re: Device type s3 is not known

2012-05-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 04/30/2012 08:07 PM, Kervin L. Pierre wrote: After building from trunk to fix a few other issues, I started configuring Amazon S3 support. But amlabel reported... Device type s3 is not known Similar to this issue... https://forums.zmanda.com/archive/index.php/t-2581.html To fix this I

Re: what is the proper way to delete a particlur backup ( slot )

2012-05-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/01/2012 11:41 AM, Kervin L. Pierre wrote: What is the proper way to delete a particular backup slot and free the space it's holding? amrmtape --erase I've tried 'amadmin DailySet1 delete ...' to remove 'slot1', but the files are still there in 'slot1'. Is it ok to 'rm -rf' in the

Re: amrecover failure

2012-04-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 04/26/2012 11:43 AM, Greg Copeland wrote: Trying to recover a file via amrecover. I set the host and disk. I add the file in question. I confirm the tape is in the drive. I tell it to extract. I get: Got no header and data from server, check in amidxtaped.*.debug and amandad.*.debug files

Re: More amadmin /config/ balance problems

2012-04-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, Thanks for reporting the problem, I broke it two days ago, I committed a fix. Jean-Louis On 04/19/2012 11:03 PM, gene heskett wrote: Greetings; The amadmin reporting function balance is only working 'bare bones'. According to the help screen, and the manpage we are supposed to be

Re: Splitting disk list entries using regular expressions

2012-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 04/19/2012 09:58 AM, Alan Orth wrote: The disk list in question looks like this: localhost /export_homes1 /export { user-tar include ./homes/[a-d]* } $ man amanda.conf include [ list | file ][[optional][append][ string ]+] All

Re: using amdump_client

2012-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
\n isn't numeric in numeric ne (!=) at /usr/sbin/amdump_client line 101,GEN2 line 4. -- Later, Darin On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: Darin, The 'amservice' binary must set suid root. Jean-Louis On 04/17/2012 03:43 PM, Darin Perusich wrote

Re: push a dump to the server

2012-04-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Darin, There is a 'amdump_client' command that can be run on an amanda linux client. I'm not sure it can be run on window. Jean-Louis On 04/17/2012 10:58 AM, Darin Perusich wrote: Is there anyway to push a dfump to the amanda server from the client? I'm starting to use ZWC on a bunch of

Re: using amdump_client

2012-04-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Darin, The 'amservice' binary must set suid root. Jean-Louis On 04/17/2012 03:43 PM, Darin Perusich wrote: Is there any documentation on using amdump_client? Nothing comes up when searching the wiki other than mentions in release notes and the man page isn't proving very helpful. I've

Re: Really strange issues in recovering (maybe due to tape spanning??)

2012-04-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 04/11/2012 07:12 AM, Marco Carcano wrote: amfetchdump DailySet1 alu01.alumetal.local D:/Contract 20120407112059 4 volume(s) needed for restoration The following volumes are needed: DailySet1-08 DailySet1-09 DailySet1-010 DailySet1-011 Press enter when ready amfetchdump: 1: restoring split

Re: New problem, no access to ubuntu clients

2012-04-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 04/06/2012 01:08 AM, gene heskett wrote: Beside having inet and xinetd file, which one are the machine using? root@shop:/etc# cat xinetd.d/amanda # default: on # description: The amanda service service amanda { #only_from =coyote.coyote.den socket_type = dgram

Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2

2012-04-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do 'amadmin config_name find' list all dump? Do the tapelist file list all tapes? Do you have all the log.datestamp.* files? Do 'amcheck -s config_name' print errors or warnings? Jean-Louis On 04/02/2012 06:36 AM, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, Our AMANDA backup configuration consisted of

Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2

2012-04-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do 'amadmin config_name find' list all dump? Do the tapelist file list all tapes? Do you have all the log.datestamp.* files? Do 'amcheck -s config_name' print errors or warnings? Jean-Louis On 04/02/2012 06:36 AM, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, Our AMANDA backup configuration consisted of

Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2

2012-04-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 04/02/2012 09:38 AM, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Warning: no log files found for tape FULLBACK-19 written 2012-03-12 Warning: no log files found for tape FULLBACK-05 written 2012-02-07 Warning: no log files found for tape FULLBACK-18 written 2012-01-13 Warning: no log files found for tape

Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2

2012-04-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 04/02/2012 09:57 AM, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hello Jean-Louis, The log.datestamp.* files have gone with the older OS that crashed. Does that mean I wont be able to use amrecover for any of my existing backups ? You wont be able to use amrecover for any of your existing backups.

Re: newbie question - change config in working backup server

2012-03-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 03/30/2012 02:03 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:21:45 -0700 (PDT) contenidos2000-ama...@yahoo.com.ar contenidos2000-ama...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: No,I mean data storing encryptation, as this howto: http://www.crypt.gen.nz/papers/backup_encryption.html Ah, interesting. You

Re: Fit algorithm revisited

2012-03-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 03/29/2012 05:07 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Thursday, March 29, 2012 05:01:07 AM gene heskett did opine: On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:13:15 PM Jean-Louis Martineau did opine: Gene, Try this newer patch, remove the previous patch before applying this one. Jean-Louis Good news

Re: A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [runtapes volumes already written].

2012-03-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 03/29/2012 09:17 AM, Markus Lauterbach wrote: Hi there, during my daily backup I recieve the error-message for quite a few days. These dumps were to tape AKREG1-08. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [runtapes volumes already written]. There are 506710M of dumps left in the holding disk. Run amflush

Re: Fit algorithm revisited

2012-03-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
opine: On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 06:01:21 AM gene heskett did opine: On Saturday, March 24, 2012 02:43:58 AM gene heskett did opine: On Friday, March 23, 2012 09:45:12 AM Jean-Louis Martineau did opine: Hi Gene, Can you try the attached patch? (it is lightly tested and uncommitted). Jean-Louis

Re: Fit algorithm revisited

2012-03-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, The problem is when there is two or more large dles on the same day. Would it make sense to span the largest dles on different run? eg. if runspercycle is 5, then span the 5 largest dles on 5 different run? Do you see a case where it would be bad to do it? It will not fix all problems but

Re: Fit algorithm revisited

2012-03-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
02:43:58 AM gene heskett did opine: On Friday, March 23, 2012 09:45:12 AM Jean-Louis Martineau did opine: Hi Gene, Can you try the attached patch? (it is lightly tested and uncommitted). Jean-Louis Building now, I applied it to 4.0-4613. Last night it promoted about 20 DLE's some as much as 4

Re: Fit algorithm revisited

2012-03-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
-2.3% -- TOTAL 54 1466144294 1407372459 56294898 (estimated 25 runs per dumpcycle) Quoting Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com on Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:18:51 -0400: Hi Gene, Can you try the attached patch? (it is lightly tested

Re: Fit algorithm revisited

2012-03-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Gene, Can you try the attached patch? (it is lightly tested and uncommitted). Jean-Louis On 03/21/2012 12:48 PM, gene heskett wrote: Greetings from the canary; One of the things that constantly get under my skin is the apparent lack of amanda's ability to juggle backup order in order to

Re: General question about backups

2012-03-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 03/23/2012 10:33 AM, Matt wrote: I would like to be able to make sure that if my backup server dies with a catastrophic hard disk crash, I can get my backups restored from Amazon S3. Right now, I run my backups to Amazon S3. What additional files would I need to copy to another server to

Re: Fit algorithm revisited

2012-03-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, Did you set maxpromoteday? You should not. Amanda never promote a DLE if the sum will be larger that the means, eg. it will never promote your biggest dle, you havr to do it manually with 'amadmin force'. If oyu want that I look at it, then you post more informations, the amdump.? log

Re: error with amcheckdump

2012-03-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It is probably a corruption of one of the log.datastamp.* file Can you post the file with the string: [sec 2477.048 kb 1266208 kps 511 Jean-Louis On 03/20/2012 08:52 AM, Bernhard Erdmann wrote: Hi, when I call amcheckdump (Amanda version 3.3.1) it reports: $ amcheckdump --verbose be-full

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