by supporting both an ambiguous and unambiguous
syntax -- Amanda's match expressions are pretty complex already.
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directly to amanda(8), which serves as
a table of contents for the other manpages
http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda.8.html
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Does such a configuration exist? I thought your config was named HANSA?
Did you sort this out?
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. But as soon as you added such a host, the syntax would
stop working.
That said, it's the syntax we've got, and backward compatibility is job #1.
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.
Actually, all that says is that the dump to the first tape (that
filled up) was partial. If you see that DLE again in the list, then
you know it was successfully re-flushed later. The 3.2.0beta3
amreport also puts a note at the top of the report to indicate this.
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PARTIAL PARTIAL
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related
to the multi-taper implementation, so perhaps Jean-Louis can jump in
here?
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for a script to change the diskdevice for a DLE? Did that work in
3.1 and not in 3.2?
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version.
What does most recent version mean in this case?
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On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:40 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
Dustin, thanks very much for your help in resolving this.
Sure thing. Jean-Louis has, in the interim, fixed the problem of not
being able to eject when a fatal error occurs in the tape device. So
this one is fixed twice
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar
gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote:
I'm vaulting from config hansa and I'm getting parse error about hansa-vault
config ?
Does such a configuration exist? I thought your config was named HANSA?
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not build every possible use-case
into amvault as an option.
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on tape anyway. When
the planner *fails* to pull this off, it will warn.
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On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar
gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote:
Is this because amvault is considered a flush ?
Tape usage statistic is rather odd as well.
Can you send the trace log that generated this report?
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may be only a few megabytes wide - easy enough to miss.
I wonder if the taper could add warnings to the trace log (such that
they would show up in amreport) when it starts bumping DLEs to keep
its total under tapelength*runtapes. Jean-Louis, what do you think?
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stuck waiting for a new packet.
The file-descriptor leaking is still a problem - amandad is in awful
shape, to be honest - but zombie collection has improved somewhat
(with band-aids, not a fix, but..)
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you off when they reach
their configured length (this will become configurable in 3.3).
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-root/: Warning: Cannot stat: No such
file or directory
You probably should be excluding ./devices?
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(crypto or compression) going on, right?
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the 2MB write and breaks it up into two
1MB writes, only one of which succeeds.
So since is thinks that I need to give it 1M I will give it 1M block size.
Good plan.
Q1 Is defining the block size in the changer section an ok place to add
this parameter as below?
Yes.
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corrupt data in there. It would be good to know
at what offset the corruption begins.
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the Amanda team is targetting a 3.2.0 release around
Monday the 18th, but that is of course subject to change. Also, there
are strong rumors of a 3.1.3 ZWC release coming soon that will fix a
number of bugs, including the two Jon has been chasing down.
Dustin
[1] Almost: I messed up the beta2 release, so
file.
You're right - this suggests something very wrong in the original
backup. That said, I'll adjust Amanda::DB::Catalog to not die on such
logfiles.
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. Does bzip2 need an argument to compress stdin? I think
this is the core of your problem. I'm not sure why the taper wrote
'sec -1.', when the taper run actually took 0.045 seconds, but
that's secondary to the problem, and has, I believe, been remedied in
newer versions.
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We're planning another beta tomorrow, so if you have anything you'd
like to see fixed in that beta, let me know ASAP. That includes
manpage typos and other actual nitpicks :)
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bigger than your tape
drive can handle (1M).
As for the device-busy error, do you get this error if you don't see
the Mysterious short write?
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of a lot of stuff I don't need.
Ah, cool - thanks!
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On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar
gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote:
Yes this is much better - log is attached.
Fixed up in
http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/z12092.patch
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Incidentally, I can't help but notice that you're backing up disks
named /var/amanda/amandatapes/ems/slotNN. Will amvault be able to
help you out? If so, could you find some time to test it before I set
sail in a week and a half?
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considering releasing midweek.
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be created and populated by useradd or
whatever utility you use to create the necessary user account.
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/amandahosts, and to update amcrypt to pass
explicit paths to gpg.
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like an xinetd bug, somehow. Are you using UDP or TCP?
Are the stream/dgram settings appropriate to that?
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to be
legacy backward-compatibility modes. TCP/IP is the wave of the
future! (also, SSL which incidentally looks like it will wait until
Amanda-3.3).
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On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar
gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote:
I upgraded Amanda version from 2.6.1 to 3.1.2 and amreport reports:
...
But they are written on the next tape, I'm not using tape spanning.
OK .. so what's the problem?
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(for writing to
DVDs) and at amvault (for copying dumps to other volumes). In 3.2,
amvault will be able to do exactly what you want - pluck the fulls off
vtapes and put them on DVDs.
Then you can adjust your vtape size to something that fits your backup
schedule better.
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that
produced this, and I will add the successfully retried?
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your runtapes to 1.
You're in a pretty constrained set of circumstances, and I'm not sure
2.5.0 was flexible enough to get you what you want.
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of the settings tweaked just right...
Sure, I understand - I just can't offer you much help in that case :)
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On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
OK, in trying to duplicate this, I'm getting dumper segfaults, which
is probably the same bug -- it looks like dumper is printing random
memory in the error message above. So consider it replicated - and
I'll try
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote:
Sorry, it doesn't apply when using my amanda-3.2.0_beta1.ebuild ;-(
Will look into it tomorrow.
There's a version rebased onto the 3.2.0_beta1 tag at
http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/z12066.patch
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On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote:
applies and seems to work. encrypted DLE dumped.
Great! I'll wait to hear back from Jean-Louis about the potential
memory leak, then, before committing.
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have a hard look at the results of
amvault (there are some known gotchas in the manpage, and probably
some unknown) and the multi-taper support (I'm sure there are some
edge cases here; I just haven't found them). That's a big part of the
rationale for the 3.2.0beta1 release.
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available to play with. So it very well
may be *promoting* level-0's in order to try to fill both tapes.
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, but you can work that out.
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to apply it directly to /usr/sbin/amtape.
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in the error message above. So consider it replicated - and
I'll try to get a fix put together this weekend.
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recoveries slow.
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in any way.
So we need to figure out what's different between these two. Any ideas?
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? I don't have any pre-built packages for that
branch at the moment, but I may be able to get one for you if
necessary.
If you can build from a tarball, please pick the latest amanda-3.1.3
snapshot from
http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php
and see if that fixes things.
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want to build a .deb file, you can do so easily (hopefully) by running
./packaging/deb/buildpkg
from the root of the untarred tarball.
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Valeriu Mutu vm...@pcbi.upenn.edu wrote:
What do you mean by shoe-shining?
shoe-shining is when a tape drive must stop the tape repeatedly while
it buffers more deta. It creates a lot of wear on the tape, and also
kills performance.
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$target = readlink($curlink);
Amanda::Debug:debug(get_current: $curlink = $target);
473 if ($target =~ ^slot([0-9]+)/?) {
and see what appears in the amcheck-device debug log?
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to check and enable VSS?
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Amanda, if that's easier.
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?
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, although we're considering adding it
during the beta period.
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When you do the recovery with amrecover, does it take a while for the
tar error to appear, or is it immediate? I'd like to figure out if
it's transferring any data at all.
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On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
That said, the new chg-disk *is* supposed to duplicate the data
symlink quirk, so I'll take a look at why it's not doing that.
And I just verified that this works for me -- it's also tested for by
the installchecks
(/boot or something like
that), and see how amtape and amcheck behave? Don't run amdump..
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway, its setup, and awaiting orders Cap'n. Next?
Can you replicate any of the failure-to-update-data errors with this
test config?
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FSF_AFTER_FILEMARK.
With that in place, can you try running amfetchdump (which is
basically a command-line version of amidxtaped) for that dump and see
what comes out? Is the result a truncated version of the dumpfile?
Is there any extra data in the dumpfile?
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not tried dump/restore anymore).
Meaning with 'mt' and 'dd'? That's good to know!
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in the ways of selinux who was
willing to write them in a maximally flexible way, and keep them up to
date. That's probably more than just using the permissive mode and
recording what Amanda does.
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the
two scripts that are changed privately, just yelp.
There's a copy of the tarball on the wiki, so perhaps you can upload a new copy?
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, and
isn't intended to reproduce every quirk of the old one.
That said, the new chg-disk *is* supposed to duplicate the data
symlink quirk, so I'll take a look at why it's not doing that.
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my work, and that of others, on Amanda.
I know the company, through the work of Jean-Louis and others, will
continue its dedication to Amanda and I expect to see more exciting
new developments in upcoming versions.
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a HowTo and/or FAQ on the wiki. Do you
want to get that started, and maybe the others in this conversation
can add their suggestions?
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-1.72.0
app-text/docbook-xml-dtd
to DEPENDS
(you may need mutiple docbook-xml-dtd versions, but I don't know how
to specify a slot in DEPENDS)
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Everyone on the list should feel encouraged to edit the wiki, either
fixing mistakes or adding new content.
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. Changers already
support an eject() operation as well as an eject = 1 argument to the
reservation release, so maybe it belongs in the taper?
By the way, amvault just grew an --export option that will move tapes
to import-export slots.
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thing to
fix.
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from the client
and the amidxtaped debug log file (with matching datestamp) from the
server?
Have a look at the FSF_AFTER_FILEMARK property in amanda-devices(7),
as that's my first guess for what's going wrong.
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a restore / amfetchdump / recovery
of any dump on any server without trouble. It's a very
non-Amanda-centric solution, but it's *very* effective.
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earlier would be
pretty easy to write. Amrestore would provide a nice basis for it.
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anything about the verbosity diffs.
So now it's writing to tape. So the problem is solved. Does it not
write to tape with a lower debug level?
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
Looks better to my eye. Any one else?
With Jean-Louis' review, committed in r3428. Thanks!
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cause, using logfiles if possible. Be as methodical as
possible.
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earlier, I think the better approach is to design a
generic notification interface into Amanda, and let other applications
do the required formatting/filtering.
That said, I wouldn't object to a patch to amcheck to generate pages
in the case of an error.
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
It's impractical to run this check in ./configure, but what do you
think about running this check even on 'make all'?
I committed this - on FreeBSD, this test will occur on 'make install'.
Do you mind adding
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote:
Added that debug-parameter and re-ran amflush, nothing special in the logs.
What does this mean? Did the taper start up but not write anything?
And what revision are you using?
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problem report, if there's not one
already? Can you give me a pointer so I can add myself as cc?
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to the
handy-dandy ebuild!), so we'll see if I encounter similar problems
myself.
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
Are you working on this? Perhaps someone else on the list can jump in?
Hmm, well, I just took care of this:
http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/z11908.patch
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not seeing the data/ link updated.
So the driver didn't even *try* to write anything to tape in the run
for which you just pasted a debug log. Any idea why?
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went un-answered at the time. The solution we found was to
build a threaded perl, using the same underlying threading library
that everything else is built against. If I recall, John ended up
doing a *lot* of custom builds for this. I'm not sure what the
right solution is here.
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if taper was made a lot more chatty. Is there a
debug level option I could pass to it?
Sure - add 'debug taper 9' to amanda.conf. But the taper doesn't have
anything to chat about - the driver never asks it to do anything after
starting it up.
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On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
So I'm invoking my that's complicated escape clause. The only one
of these that I could conceivably accomplish in the 3.2 timeframe is
#2. I could add 'amadmin $conf hosts' to list all of the hosts,
avoiding the need
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote:
But that kills amcheck, when amcheck is svn3341. How new do I have to be
to have that work?
Oops, sorry, it's
debug_taper 9
not debug taper
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:05 PM, John Hein jh...@symmetricom.com wrote:
(Currently, I
don't think the amanda client executes threaded code, but that may
change in the future - or may have already in 3.1/3.2 code - Dustin?).
There is now a good bit of Perl running on the client side, but none
that you've experimented a bit, can you put your finger on exactly
what symptoms you're seeing?
I assume that you're still using the old chg-disk, or have you
changed that somewhere along the line to use
chg-disk:/path/to/something?
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
When a large DLE doesn't tape all the split parts
before running out of tapes, could the subsequent
flush (amflush or autoflush) pick up where the
original taping left off?
I just had a large DLE (23 3GB parts) fail on
the
to be in the changelog, at least with a see
manpage so-and-so for details line.
Well, to be clear, I didn't say you should - I just asked if you did,
and the answer was no :)
In general, we're hoping that new users will use the new changers, and
existing users can migrate or not at their option.
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, that would be tricky, as would finding a way to record the
continuation of the dump in the catalog (the catalog is log-based, so
you can't edit an already-recorded dump).
I know, Suitable Patches Are Always Welcomed. :)
I've been trying not to say that too much, but yeah :)
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Stephen Corbesero corbes...@ptd.net wrote:
(gdb) info threads
* 1 Thread 28469480 (LWP 100148) 0x28af6225 in __error ()
from /lib/libthr.so.3
Can you run the 'bt' command here to see what that thread is up to?
(gdb) bt
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- can you do that now?
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of changes.
As for the automake errors - if you look at the autogen script
http://github.com/zmanda/amanda/blob/master/autogen
You'll see it does a number of things before calling aclocal and the
other autotools. You'll need to replicate that in the svn ebuild.
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, although it's not tested at all so
currently YMMV. But that might be a nice way to start to export
status data from Amanda into a tool designed for monitoring and
notification.
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