Re: tape size question

2013-05-24 Thread McGraw, Robert P
McGraw, Robert P wrote: I use hardware compression to max the size of the tape. Uncompressed the tape is 800GB compressed the theoretical max size is 1.6TB. I know that I will not get the 1.6TB. In the amanda.conf file I tell amanda that my tape is length 1500 gbytes and that my tape drive

tape size question

2013-05-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Amanda Server Info: Thu May 23 05:36:00 2013: amandad: build: VERSION=Amanda-3.2.3 Thu May 23 05:36:00 2013: amandad:BUILT_DATE=Tue Feb 5 17:10:59 EST 2013 BUILT_MACH= Thu May 23 05:36:00 2013: amandad:BUILT_REV=3994 BUILT_BRANCH=3_2_3 Thu May 23 05:36:00 2013:

DLE name substitution.

2013-02-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P
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 /gauss/export/userswww-a /$X/gauss/export/userswww {

RE: level 1 dumps on ZFS with snapshots

2011-10-10 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I do something similar to what you are doing and my backup is work correctly so here is my amgtar settings if that will help. define application-tool app_amgtar { comment amgtar plugin amgtar property GNUTAR-PATH /usr/sfw/bin/gtar property GNUTAR-LISTDIR /var/amanda/gnutar-lists

multihome and amanda

2011-08-31 Thread McGraw, Robert P
The last couple days we have been getting the following errors (see below). After some searching on the errors someone mentioned about doing am amcheck on these hosts. Our Backups were working fine until a few days ago but I decided to run amcheck on the host that had the errors just to be

IGNORE- I FOUND THE PROBLEM- multihome and amanda

2011-08-31 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Please ignore this email. I have found the problem. The host has a service port that is shared with subnet 40. Another system had to pull the cable for the service port, which I knew about, but had forgotten that the service port and subnet 40 sared the same port. Sorry to bother you. Robert

RE: Do you use this library

2011-08-24 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Subject: Re: Do you use this library On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:17:33 AM McGraw, Robert P did opine: JF, Recently you sent me your tapetype for an lto4 drive. I have a question about the length parameter. An lto-4 tape has a non-compress length of ~800GB and in compress about

RE: Recovering Metadata from Tape?

2011-08-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Have you considered doing an rsync of your amanda home directory and /var/amanda directories to another disk on another machine. You could set this up to run after you back is complete. From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of Alden Timme Sent:

RE: Do you use this library

2011-08-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P
in compress mode so should the length value be double or ~1.4TB. Thanks Robert -Original Message- From: Jean-Francois Malouin [mailto:Jean- francois.malo...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:33 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Subject: Re: Do you use this library * McGraw

Do you use this library

2011-07-21 Thread McGraw, Robert P
We just purchased a Oracle/Sun StorageTek SL24, SCSI, with HP LTO4 FH tape drive. Does anyone use this model unit. If so could you send me your tapetype for the LTO4 drive. _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System

RE: Tape order

2011-07-08 Thread McGraw, Robert P
to sorts the tapes into the ascending slots in ascending order after they are labeled. This should resolve my problem. Thanks Robert -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 5:22 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: 'amanda-users

amgetconf question

2011-07-08 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I want to get my changer slot information from the amanda.conf file and it seems that amgetconf should do the job. But. My amanda.conf snippet of the changer tapedev c4 define changer c4 { tpchanger chg-robot:/dev/changer/0 changerfile chg-zd-mtx-state property tape-device

Tape order

2011-07-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am trying to determine what tape order amanda uses when requesting a reuse tape. My amanda.conf is configured to use slots 31-36 for my archive tapes. These slots contain the following tapes. Storage Element 31:Full :VolumeTag=A00224L2 Storage Element

RE: Tape order

2011-07-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
, July 07, 2011 3:20 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: Re: Tape order Always post which amanda release you are using! Try chg-robot for your changer. Jean-Louis On 07/07/2011 02:21 PM, McGraw, Robert P wrote: I am trying to determine what tape order

Re: Tape order

2011-07-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) From: Jean-Louis Martineau Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 9:21:48 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: Re: Tape order % amadmin archive tape The next Amanda run should go

Failed Dumper

2011-05-24 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Amanda-users: I have started getting the following failed messages. hertz /gauss/export/pkgs lev 1 FAILED [data timeout] hertz /gauss/export/pkgs lev 1 FAILED [dumper returned FAILED] hertz /gauss/export/pkgs lev 1 FAILED [data timeout] hertz /gauss/export/pkgs lev 1 FAILED [dumper

man pages for Solaris

2011-05-10 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Has anyone figured a way to get the Amanda man pages to work with Solaris? I use the web man pages, but it would be nice to have them local some times. Thanks Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System

egrep syntax error

2011-05-10 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am compiling amanda on the following: [332][root@hertz]:src/amanda/amanda# uname -a SunOS hertz.math.purdue.edu 5.10 Generic_142901-11 i86pc i386 i86pc This is the script that I use: +\ PATH=/opt/SunStudio/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin export PATH

RE: egrep syntax error

2011-05-10 Thread McGraw, Robert P
...@charlescurley.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 1:28 PM To: McGraw, Robert P; amanda-users Subject: Re: egrep syntax error On Tue, 10 May 2011 12:11:33 -0400 McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: Throughout the compile I get the egrep syntax error. It does not seem to cause problems

RE: man pages for Solaris

2011-05-10 Thread McGraw, Robert P
-Original Message- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:36 PM To: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: Re: man pages for Solaris On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:44:47AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P wrote: Has

RE: man pages for Solaris

2011-05-10 Thread McGraw, Robert P
. Robert -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:39 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: Re: man pages for Solaris How do you install amanda (and the man page) From svn repository? source

RE: man pages for Solaris

2011-05-10 Thread McGraw, Robert P
. Again I do apologize. Robert -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:39 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: Re: man pages for Solaris How do you install amanda (and the man page

LEOM question

2011-05-09 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am getting ready to install amanda-3.2.3 and want to start using the part_size tape splitting to get better tape usage. Question1: is device_property = device-property and part_size = part-size i.e. is _ and - interchangeable in the amanda.conf parameter names? Question2: below is a snippet

Does amflush read the amanda.config file

2011-04-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P
QUESTION: Does amflush read the amanda.config file? I ran an amflush of my holding disk files. Amstatus shows the following: *** ** * [69][amandabacku@hertz]:~/archive% amstatus archive Using /var/amanda/archive/amflush.1 From Mon Apr 4 10:33:30 EDT 2011 banach:/ 0

amadmin xxx tape question

2011-03-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I have six new tape ready to be used by my archive backup. :~/archive% amadmin archive tape The next Amanda run should go onto 6 new tapes. The next 6 new tapes already labelled are: A00190, A00196, A00197, A00198, A00199, A00200 From above I run amadmin archive tape and

RE: Cannot alloc contig buf for I/O error.

2011-03-01 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I have resolved the problem but not sure how. I changed device-property BLOCK_SIZE 1024k to device-property BLOCK_SIZE 1 mbytes and I rebooted the system. My amflush is running with out the errors. Robert -Original Message- From: McGraw, Robert P Sent: Monday

RE: Cannot alloc contig buf for I/O error.

2011-03-01 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Pieter, Thanks very much for the bug report. I will keep an eye on this. I agree I think it was the reboot. I do have 6GB of memory. Robert -Original Message- From: Pieter Bowman [mailto:bow...@math.utah.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:13 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: bow

Cannot alloc contig buf for I/O error.

2011-02-28 Thread McGraw, Robert P
build: VERSION=Amanda-3.2.0 on a Sun x86 Solaris 10 host I just started getting the fillowing errors. Feb 28 15:57:36 hertz.math.purdue.edu scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci10de,376@a/pci10b5,8114@0/pci1000,10b0@8/st@1,0 (st1): Feb 28 15:57:36 hertz.math.purdue.edu Cannot

RE: Cannot alloc contig buf for I/O error.

2011-02-28 Thread McGraw, Robert P
-Original Message- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda- us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of McGraw, Robert P Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 4:19 PM To: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: Cannot alloc contig buf for I/O error. build: VERSION=Amanda-3.2.0

having problem with amrecover under 3.2.0

2010-12-10 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Running amanda 3.2.0 on a Sun Solaris 10 server. ./amrecover archive AMRECOVER Version 3.2.0. Contacting server on hertz ... [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK] 123][r...@hertz]:amanda/client/archive# cat amrecover.20101210142059.debug Fri Dec 10 14:20:59 2010: amrecover: pid 275 ruid 0

RE: having problem with amrecover under 3.2.0

2010-12-10 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Robert -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 2:57 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: Re: having problem with amrecover under 3.2.0 amrecover get a timeout, you must check why

RE: ZWC 3.1.3 backup problems.

2010-10-21 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Joshi Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:01 AM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: ZWC 3.1.3 backup problems. Hi Robert, You can use noinc in the disklist.conf file. Looks like the ZWCService crashed while trying a level 1 backup of C:/Alligate. Can you run Start Menu

RE: ZWC 3.1.3 backup problems.

2010-10-19 Thread McGraw, Robert P
backup everyday unit this problem can be resolved? Thanks Robert -Original Message- From: McGraw, Robert P Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 10:49 AM To: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: ZWC 3.1.3 backup problems. I believe something similar was described in another email

ZWC question

2010-10-13 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I just upgraded my ZWC to 3.1.3 on a Window 2003 client. How can I tell that 3.1.3 is running on the client? Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer SystemEMAIL: rmcg...@purdue.edu Purdue

3.1.3 man pages

2010-10-13 Thread McGraw, Robert P
In the past I have had problem with the man pages shipped with amanda. With 3.1.2 this seemed to be fine. I could even run nroff -man amraw.5 and I would get the document. Now with 3.1.3 I am back to the shipped man pages not working. If I run the nroff command all I get is

No space left on device question

2010-10-11 Thread McGraw, Robert P
The following is telling me that I have hit the end of tape and amanda goes to the next tape. The next 2 new tapes already labelled are: A00182, A00183 FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: hertz /gauss/export/users-a lev 0 partial taper: No space left on device hertz /gauss/export/users-m lev 0 partial

RE: No space left on device question

2010-10-11 Thread McGraw, Robert P
. Mitchell Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 12:15 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: No space left on device question On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:47 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: hertz        -ss/export/users-w 0    50143    50143     --  PARTIAL

RE: Re:

2010-10-08 Thread McGraw, Robert P
- From: djmit...@gmail.com [mailto:djmit...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 12:35 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Re: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:01 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: I had been using

RE: Re:

2010-10-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
[mailto:djmit...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 2:50 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:33 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:  hertz /gauss/export/users-s lev 0  partial taper: Error

[no subject]

2010-10-05 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Over the last several nights I have gotten the following amdump error. The next 4 tapes Amanda expects to use are: D01013, D01014, D01015, D01016. FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: hertz /gauss/export/users-s lev 0 FAILED [too many taper retries] hertz /gauss/export/users-s lev 0 partial taper: Error

RE: amoverview under 3.1.2

2010-09-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P
[mailto:djmit...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 1:53 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org; Orion Poplawski Subject: Re: amoverview under 3.1.2 On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:16 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: I went

amoverview under 3.1.2

2010-09-13 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I have compiled and installed amanda 3.1.2 My dumps ran ok over the weekend with no errors. But I am getting the following warnings in amoverview. Robert ** (process:11519): WARNING **: Use of uninitialized value in substr at (eval 15) line 3. ** (process:11519): WARNING **: Use of

RE: amoverview under 3.1.2

2010-09-13 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Message- From: McGraw, Robert P Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 11:40 AM To: McGraw, Robert P Subject: RE: amoverview under 3.1.2 As a followup, I ran amoverview and removed the WARNINGS and it seems to be working correctly. Robert -Original Message- From: owner

RE: amoverview under 3.1.2

2010-09-13 Thread McGraw, Robert P
1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 Robert -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 12:38 PM To: Dustin J. Mitchell Cc: McGraw, Robert P; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re

RE: amoverview under 3.1.2

2010-09-13 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Applied the patch and the problem has been resolved. Thanks Robert -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 12:38 PM To: Dustin J. Mitchell Cc: McGraw, Robert P; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: amoverview

RE: amoverview under 3.1.2

2010-09-13 Thread McGraw, Robert P
: Monday, September 13, 2010 12:38 PM To: Dustin J. Mitchell Cc: McGraw, Robert P; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: amoverview under 3.1.2 Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: Robert, can you try the attached patch

amvault question suggestions.

2010-08-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Using amanda 3.1.1 on Solaris 10 x86 I presently run a daily backup every day with dumpcycle 7 runspercycle 0 tapecycle 30 tapes Once a month I run an archive in place of a daily backup which we store. This is working ok. Looking through the sbin directory I see the amvault program. Instead

amoverview question

2010-08-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Amanda 3.1.1. on Solaris 10 x86 There was recent talk about a problem and possible fix for the amoverview in amanda 3.1.1. Was there a patch for this problem? Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System

device error.

2010-08-05 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am using amanda 3.1.1 on a Sun Solaris 10 x86. I have been running my daily backups with no problem but, by using taperflush=100, my daily backups only require one tape and the rest of the data is kept in the holding disk to be flushed at the next daily backup. I have just started doing my

device error.

2010-08-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am using amanda 3.1.1 on a Sun Solaris 10 x86. I have been running my daily backups with no problem but, by using taperflush=100, my daily backups only require one tape and the rest of the data is kept in the holding disk to be flushed at the next daily backup. I have just started doing my

RE: ZWC backup level.

2010-07-30 Thread McGraw, Robert P
[mailto:djmit...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 9:47 AM To: Prashant Joshi Cc: McGraw, Robert P; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: ZWC backup level. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Prashant Joshi prash...@zmanda.com wrote: Dustin, can you please

RE: ZWC backup level.

2010-07-30 Thread McGraw, Robert P
] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 11:26 AM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: Prashant Joshi; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: ZWC backup level. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:50 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: planner: time 113.487: got result for host mailrelay

ZWC backup level.

2010-07-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am running Amanda server 3.1.1 on a Solaris 10 x86 box and a Win2003 ZWC. I have noticed that ever backup is always a level 1. Is that suppose to be the case? mailrelayC:/Alligate 0 2468 2468-- 38:27 1095.3 mailrelayC:/Alligate 0

RE: 3.1.1 zfs-snapshot error

2010-07-23 Thread McGraw, Robert P
We are also running Solaris 10 x86 zfs. I am wondering if you are seeing the same problem. From what I read the zfs_snapshot api call amgtar. There is a bug in gtar in how it handles .zfs 1) Search the zmanda archive for runtar error that I do not understand 2) Look at the bug reported to

RE: zwc 3.1.1 problem

2010-07-20 Thread McGraw, Robert P
[mailto:paddy.sreeniva...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paddy Sreenivasan Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 7:18 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: zwc 3.1.1 problem It appears estimate server is failing. Can you please try different estimate algorithm? I will ask others

RE: zwc 3.1.1 problem

2010-07-19 Thread McGraw, Robert P
- From: paddy.sreeniva...@gmail.com [mailto:paddy.sreeniva...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paddy Sreenivasan Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 6:26 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: zwc 3.1.1 problem Hi Robert, Can you try the 3.1.1 images which are available under

RE: zwc 3.1.1 problem

2010-07-19 Thread McGraw, Robert P
DiskList Any ideas what is happening? Robert -Original Message- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda- us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of McGraw, Robert P Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 10:52 AM To: 'Paddy Sreenivasan' Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: RE: zwc

zwc 3.1.1 problem

2010-07-16 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am running Amanda 3.1.1 on Solaris 10 x86 and zwc is 3.1.1 beta. I installed zwc on host mailrelay without any errors. I ran amcheck on mailrelay: [381][amandaba...@hertz]:amanda/server/daily% amcheck -c daily mailrelay Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

RE: zwc 3.1.1 problem

2010-07-16 Thread McGraw, Robert P
-Original Message- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda- us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of McGraw, Robert P Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 4:47 PM To: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: zwc 3.1.1 problem I am running Amanda 3.1.1 on Solaris 10 x86 and zwc

zwc questions where do I install

2010-07-15 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Looking at the setup_15_nubytes and the zmanda wiki I am a little confused where things go on the window machine. I see that the amaddclient is really for Linux machines and that I need to manually move files to my Win2003 client. Please copy

-o taperflush question

2010-07-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am trying to run something like amflush daily -otaperflush=0 but I get Argument '-otaperflush=0' matches neither a host nor a disk. I have read the amanda CONFIGURATION OVERRIDE and have tried other variations of the -o but still no luck. Can someone give me the correct syntax for the

RE: -o taperflush question

2010-07-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P
. They will be flushed on the next run. So somehow the -o option is not overriding the amanda.conf file. Thanks Robert -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:04 AM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org

RE: -o taperflush question

2010-07-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P
: McGraw, Robert P Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:49 AM To: 'Jean-Louis Martineau' Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: RE: -o taperflush question Jean-Louis, Tried amflush daily -otaperflush=0 [32][amandaba...@hertz]:~/daily% amflush -otaperflush=0 daily

exit-handling question

2010-07-08 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Running amanda-3.1.1 I am using the following to save on tape usage flush-threshold-dumped100 flush-threshold-scheduled 100 taperflush100 #taperflush0 autoflush yes If amdump does not meet the flush values it seems to

RE: Tape Usage Question

2010-07-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
-Original Message- From: djmit...@gmail.com [mailto:djmit...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 1:14 AM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Tape Usage Question On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:56 PM, McGraw, Robert P

some notes on moving from 2.6.1 to 3.1.1

2010-07-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am running Amanda on a Sun Soalris 10 x86 server. I recently upgraded from Amanda-2.6.1p2 to Amanda-3.1.1. During the move I changed to the following: 1) Moved from auth=bsd to auth=badtcp. 2) Moved from username=amanda to username=amandabackup 3) Moved to using chg-robot changer. I found

RE: Tape Usage Question

2010-07-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
-Original Message- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda- us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 11:33 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Tape Usage Question On Wednesday 07 July 2010, McGraw, Robert P wrote

amstar amsuntar question

2010-07-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I ran the following: [375][amandaba...@hertz]:~/etc/amanda/archive% amcheck -c archive Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: hertz: application amsuntar doesn't support include-file ERROR: hertz: application amstar doesn't support include-file Client check: 1

amdump exit code

2010-07-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Running Amanda 3.1.1 on Solairs 10 X86 I am using the taperflush100 #taperflush0 autoflush yes To conserve tape usage. It seems that when amdump does not meet taperflush it assumes that this is an error and

RE: Tape Usage Question

2010-07-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P
From: djmit...@gmail.com [djmit...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell [dus...@zmanda.com] Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 1:00 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Tape Usage Question On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:22 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote

Tape Usage Question

2010-07-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am running Amanda 3.1.1 on a Sun Solaris 10 x86 server. MY QUESTION: As you can see below when tape D01004 was at 92% and amanda was looking for a file to finish writing to the remainder of the tape, amanda picked a file that was 37GB in size which is much greater than the remaining size

holding disk not being used in amanda 3.1.1

2010-07-02 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am trying to get amanda-3.1.1 up and running on a Sun Solaris 10 x86 host. The problem is that amanda is not using the holdingdisk configured in amanda.conf. To check this I set the global dumptype holdingdisk required and then ran an amdump. This is the email output: Hostname:

RE: connection refued when switching to bsdtcp

2010-07-01 Thread McGraw, Robert P
-Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 5:41 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: Re: connection refued when switching to bsdtcp McGraw, Robert P wrote: inetadm -l amanda/udp

A question about port usage

2010-07-01 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I read the information about port usage from Amanda-auth.7 wiki and I have a question. In the past I have been using auth=bsd, but with the move to Amanda 3.1.1 I have moved to auth=bsdtcp. I want to set the unreserved-tcp-port range to a smaller subset. Q1) How do I calculate the max number

connection refued when switching to bsdtcp

2010-06-30 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am trying to install amanda-3.1.1 on a Sun Solaris 10 x86 host. I have been running amanda 2.6.1p2 with auth=bsd and -with-user=amanda. This ran without any problems. I decided to upgrade to amanda.3.1.1, and decided to change the configure to auth=bsdtcp, and --with-user=amandabackup. I

I have one DLE that is acting up.

2010-06-18 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am running - Amanda 2.6.1P2 on Sun Solaris 10. My backup disklist file is set to do daily backups on about 54 files. For the last week 53 of the files are getting backed up. There is one that is not. *) In the email output I get the following: hertz /gauss/export/pkgs

auth question

2010-06-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P
My amanda server is 2.6.1p2 my clients are 2.5 Presently I am just using bsd security because that is what I have always been using. I am told that it would be best to go to bstcp as this is more up to date. I want to install the amanda for window and it says that I have to use bsdtcp for

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2010-06-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Amanda server 2.6.1p2. I am not quite sure how amanda uses the --with-tcpportrange=low/high. Does this parameter have to be defined in both the client and server software or does the server pass the ranges to the client? Robert

with-tcpportrange question

2010-06-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Amanda server 2.6.1p2. I am not quite sure how amanda uses the --with-tcpportrange=low/high. Does this parameter have to be defined in both the client and server software or does the server pass the ranges to the client? Robert

perl -pthreads questions

2010-06-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am in the process of installing the following amanda: Amanda=3.1.0 on a Solars 10 x86 The configure and compile run without any problems. When I t run gmake check it runs to completion without any pass errors but I do get the following in the gmake check output.

configure and api question

2010-06-05 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Is it true that if I set my gtar path in the amgtar API that I do not need to set it when I run configure? Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer SystemEMAIL: rmcg...@purdue.edu Purdue University

star question

2010-06-03 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Does any one use star in place gtar for amanda tar backup? If so can you give me your comment about the software? Thanks Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer SystemEMAIL: rmcg...@purdue.edu

I see a file core20100603

2010-06-03 Thread McGraw, Robert P
In /tmp/amanda I see for the first time a file core20100603 what is this file? Thanks Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer SystemEMAIL: rmcg...@purdue.edu Purdue University

RE: runtar error that I do not understand

2010-06-03 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Of McGraw, Robert P Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:23 AM To: 'Nathan Stratton Treadway'; 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Cc: 'jfl...@math.purdue.edu' Subject: RE: runtar error that I do not understand I am not sure if this got sent to the group so I an fordwarding. This explains what is going

RE: I see a file core20100603

2010-06-03 Thread McGraw, Robert P
...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 12:31 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: I see a file core20100603 On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:23 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: In /tmp/amanda I see for the first time

amgtar question

2010-06-03 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Amanda 2.6.1p2 and Solaris 10 x86 +++Amanda.conf has the following define application-tool app_amgtar { comment amgtar plugin amgtar property GNUTAR-PATH /usr/sfw/bin/gtar property GNUTAR-LISTDIR /var/amanda/gnutar-lists property CHECK-DEVICE NO property ACLS NO }

amanda taking way to long to finish

2010-06-02 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am running amanda 2.6.1P2 on a Solaris 10 X86 system. I have recently upgraded to 2.6.1P2 as the amanda server and move from a SPARC to a X86 system running Solaris 10. Compared to when it was running on an old SPARC system, I am finding that amanda is taking way to long to finish an using

RE: runtar error that I do not understand

2010-06-02 Thread McGraw, Robert P
not understand On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 13:03:09 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:27 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: I setup a lookback for the snapshot and now gtar seem to be working. It sounds like you have a fairly good understanding of this problem

RE: amanda taking way to long to finish

2010-06-02 Thread McGraw, Robert P
] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:11 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: Re: amanda taking way to long to finish Robert, You are using calcsize for the estimate, it doesn't use check the device number. But when you do the backup, tar check the device, as you mount

timeout waiting for REP

2010-06-01 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am running Amanda 2.6.1p2 on a Sun Solaris 10 I am seeing several of the following dumper: [request failed: timeout waiting for REP](too) errors when I run the amstatus command. Below is a snippet of one of the errors. There were 57 DLE backups of the 57 4 gave the above error. I ran

Why is this an error

2010-05-21 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Running Amanda-2.6.1-p2 On Solaris 10 X86 Why is this considered an error? I check the error status of my amdump and base on the error status after it finishes I take certain actions. Is there some way that I can distinguish this error from a real amdump error? These dumps were to tapes

What is this an error

2010-05-20 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Running Amanda-2.6.1-p2 On Solaris 10 X86 What is this considered an error. I check error status of and amdump and base on if the amdump finished with our without errors my script does certain things. These dumps were to tapes A00161, A00162. *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [flush-threshold-dumped

amflush question

2010-05-20 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Running amanda 2.6.1/p2 Sun Solaris 10 x86 In my amanda.conf file I have flush-threshold-dumped100 flush-threshold-scheduled 100 #taperflush0 #archive so I want all data to tape. taperflush100 autoflush yes I tried to do a amflush to

RE: runtar error that I do not understand

2010-05-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P
-Original Message- From: djmit...@gmail.com [mailto:djmit...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 5:42 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: runtar error that I do not understand On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:31 PM

RE: SV: runtar error that I do not understand

2010-05-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P
[119][r...@hertz]:src/amanda/amanda# -Original Message- From: Chris Hoogendyk [mailto:hoogen...@bio.umass.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 9:49 AM To: Gunnarsson, Gunnar Cc: McGraw, Robert P; 'Dustin J. Mitchell'; 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: Re: SV: runtar error that I do

RE: runtar error that I do not understand

2010-05-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P
=0x -Original Message- From: Gunnarsson, Gunnar [mailto:gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 9:09 AM To: McGraw, Robert P; 'Dustin J. Mitchell' Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: SV: runtar error that I do not understand Sun is delivering old versions of GNU

Re: runtar error that I do not understand

2010-05-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P
] siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x [119][r...@hertz]:src/amanda/amanda# -Original Message- From: Chris Hoogendyk [mailto:hoogen...@bio.umass.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 9:49 AM To: Gunnarsson, Gunnar Cc: McGraw, Robert P; 'Dustin J. Mitchell

RE: runtar error that I do not understand

2010-05-04 Thread McGraw, Robert P
To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: runtar error that I do not understand On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 13:03:09 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:27 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: I setup a lookback for the snapshot and now gtar seem

runtar error that I do not understand

2010-05-03 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am trying to test new install of amanda-2.6.1p2 on a new system and I am getting a runtar error which I do not understand. Any suggestions as to what is causing the runtar sendsize problem. Thanks *** My DLE is hertz /export/jumpstart

RE: runtar error that I do not understand

2010-05-03 Thread McGraw, Robert P
[mailto:djmit...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dustin J. Mitchell Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 5:18 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: runtar error that I do not understand On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:01 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:   hertz /export/jumpstart

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