sites
like rpmforge start to adopt the standards represented in our SPECs,
but I realize that this often creates upgrade headaches for
distrubution maintainers. Such is life..
Dustin
[1] Oh, and it makes it a lot easier to support too!
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Ingo Schaefer i...@ingo-schaefer.de wrote:
Why did it fail to build.
I would assume, that you don't have the filled all requirements for it
to build.
I talked briefly with Dan, our packaging expert. We (Zmanda) don't
build for OpenSUSE, but the source RPM
DSL in Cleveland -- but
even tripling your speed will still leave you taking ~100h to upload
56G. S3 backups are more appropriate to data sizes around 1-2G/night
(about a 7 hour backup window at your speed). There's just no good
way to upload 56G quickly, unless you have a very fat pipe[1].
Dustin
the course of your dumpcycle. I use this
technique to keep my nightly backups to about 800M.
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to figure that out.
We're also open to translation of the applications themselves. There
is some support for this built into teh C code (it uses gettext),
although the new perl is not yet localized. Again, if you know how to
fix this, I'm more than happy to commit the necessary equipment.
Dustin
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Christiaan de Vries ch...@baxter-fx.com wrote:
Hello again,
Please find all the requested info, I am lost!
The amanda-auth(7) manpage may help to straighten all of this out. See
http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-auth.7.html
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, there's a new (Perl) Changer API that has a bit
more support for such things. Currently, chg-zd-mtx hasn't been
reimplemented in this new API, but it should happen soon. Are you
interested in helping out?
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authentications are built to handle;
they all essentially use DNS to authenticate machines.
If you're runnning a recent enough Amanda, you could switch to using
SSH authentication.
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2:11 1140224K 28.8 1 0
which is 28% of the length you specified in your tapetype definition.
Is there a problem with the tape? Or is the tapetype definition
incorrect?
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for this
host, so I may get a result that will fit on the tape.
amadmin $conf holding delete $host [ $disk [ .. ] ]
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.
The fix (along with a bunch of other fixes we've made while waiting
for S3 to fail) will be in the next beta.
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, this conversation is also here:
http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?t=1602
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56GB. Anyone have experience with this?
Good news -- of a sort. I got the same error last night from my own
system. Hopefully the testing Nikolas suggested offline will help us
to narrow down the cause.
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we're not seeing
logfiles that align with one another.
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that along to both of us off-list. Thanks for your patience :)
By the way, I've been doing S3 backups with Amanda for almost two
years now, and I just upgraded to 2.6.1b1 on my home systems. We'll
figure out what's going on.
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:27 AM, Gerhard den Hollander
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MOre tiem consuming ?
As in it will take 5 minutes longer to setup ?
Or as in the backups will last longer ?
Set up and maintain, yes.
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issues.
Do you have any local network issues that might be causing this sort of thing?
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/4a75a637ffc4a96189a14484034d29bbd3947330
This will be available in the next 2.6.1 beta, as well. Note that it
is *EXPERIMENTAL*. Please try it out, and send along patches (it's in
perl, of course) or suggestions!
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for more than
60 seconds? Can you upload multi-megabyte files to S3 using other
utilities (e.g., JetS3t)?
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you want (small tapes to big tapes), but I'd like to solve the
more general problem.
- Is there a way to verify that the data is restoreable after copying? Or
do I just have to restore to find it out?
You can use amcheckdump, but a restore would probably be best.
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backup of Music rolls
around, your backup size is going to be much larger than other days
(particularly since incrementals of that directory are probably very
small). So this would be a better, if somewhat more time-consuming,
solution.
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:00 PM, McGraw, Robert P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where does the estimate server get it guess of the last backup?
It uses the compression rate and dump sizes from the curinfo database.
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with the next
desired label.
If you look at your changer debug file, you can verify that the loads
are by barcode.
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this sounds like a good idea for your case. It will cause
your estimates to be off a bit if, for example, a user decides to
download a few DVD ISO's, but I expect that such occasional
inconvenience will be dwarfed by the time savings from 'estimate
server'.
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On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WARNING: 192.168.1.102: selfcheck request failed: tcpm_recv_token: invalid
size: amandad:
What do you see if you telnet to that IP on port 10080?
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will need to modify the
algorithm to make it a little bit to be more explicit about handling
unlabeled tapes, etc.
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
57 * 1) If there is a barcode reader, and we have a recyclable tape, use the
58 *reader to load the oldest tape.
Ah, the key here is that recyclable means a tape which has been
previously written
to the platform experts. We are in
need of Linux Platform Experts, too -- any volunteers?
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to the list.
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them?
amcheck isn't really in the business of trusting things, so I'm not
sure I'd like that. Amanda does use the barcodes to load a tape
directly, rather than cycling through the changer until it finds the
desired tape.
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a few
days since you posted..
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problems you
encounter to the list. As always, this beta needs a lot of testing!
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-disk in amanda.conf on the server?
Otherwise, Amanda is probably trying to load a tape device named
chg-disk, which won't work very well :)
The new Changer API should clear up this ugly hack, by the way.
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when scanning
(calling -slot next $nslots times). It's harmless, and will be
fixed in the new changer API.
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, then.
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mechanism to
find the server (look for auth in /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf),
or because something is wrong with your xinetd configuration -- is the
executable that's pointing to still at that location?
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example using *only* tar, and
leaving Amanda out of the situation.
I think you determined that the holding-disk problems were a disk failure.
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have a look at the parameters, and at the
example Amanda configuration[1], and fill this section out!
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[1]
http://amanda.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/amanda/amanda/trunk/example/amanda.conf.in?revision=1285view=markup
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this kind of problem, it occurs because the tape drive
hasn't settled down by the time Amanda starts writing to it.
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the configuration and mechanics to utilize that.
What most folks do is collect dumps on holding disk until they have a
tape's worth. The parameters taperflush, flush_threshold_dumped, and
flush_threshold_scheduled are relevant.
Could someone who's using this technique add a How-To to the wiki?
Dustin
, are you using? Can you send along the taper
debug log?
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to email rory_f directly.
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.
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in CONFIGURATION-OVERRIDE. See
CHECK-DEVICE in amgtar(8):
http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amgtar.8.html
I don't recall if this is in 2.6.0p2, but it is in trunk.
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On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Older? 1.17 is the default for an F8 install. Are you saying that this has
finally been addressed, and that amanda can now tell tar to ignore that?
Yep -- check the amanda-users and bug-tar archives.
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to you by version, the
uname -r output also, so we can more easily correlate amanda's upset tummy
with which kernel was running during the backup.
Could this be added?
Sounds like a great project. Patches welcome!
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?
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by
amanda and then it could recreate the dir structure and file
ownerships...
We improved how Amanda checks userids. There may have been a bug that
accidentally allowed amfetchdump to run as root in a previous version.
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through its entire changer and cannot find a suitable tape. You might
want to check the taper debug log to see what reasons it had for not
finding tapes or not accepting the tapes it found.
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;
Note that amtapetype overwrites the tape..
Also, it's very hard to read the above with all of the HTML entities
in it. The logfile you excerpted was unreadable.
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not result. I'm interested
to hear what sort of corruption you're seeing.
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at the 2.5.2 source, this wasn't a legal
amanda-client.conf parameter.
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to increase initial_poll_delay in your changer.conf so
that it gives the tape drive more time to unload while scanning for
tapes.
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its operation (rewoffl vs.
eject, returns early for which operations, etc.).
In the interim, inserting sleeps is a good solution.
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Amanda accept a hostname localhost that is comming over the network? If
this is possible, shouldn't this be fixed? I think not the posibility to
configure it is the security hole itself.
I don't know will let Dustin
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Brian Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd thought there was a switch on make, so that you could
# make install-client
or something along these lines.
Nope -- Prashant's answer is correct.
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Krahn, Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm getting the following errors with amcheck –c Full
Have you considered using bsdtcp authentication?
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), but I don't see
any benefit.
Dustin
. HD's have many fewer moving parts
than tapes/drives. Even if the critical failure rate is similar,
the annoying failure rate of tape drives is much higher. Which is
to say, they require a lot more fiddling.
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am :)
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that come to mind while looking at this new
code.
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the command-line?
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
Does Mail itself work properly from the command-line?
Sure. I even tested it by piping echo foo into the same command line that
amreport was running.
Interesting -- can you run a strace
:
accept error: user root from localhost is not allowed to execute the service
amindexd: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts: incorrect permissions; file must be
accessible only by its owner
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point to some documentation to support your assertion?
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.
From the amcheck output, it doesn't look like you've ever run an
amdump. When you run amdump, what happens? Do you get a report by
email?
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Prashant Ramhit
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I've run amdump several times and but there is nothing on the console.
amdump does not output anything to the console.
The log files are not created either.
Run amdump under sh -x to see what's failing?
Dustin
What is the exit status of amdump?
Have you checked that all necessary directories exist and have the
proper permissions? curinfo, log directories, etc.
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other tool to generate the configuration.
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, dear -- the sourceforge bug tracker is completely unused these
days. If there are others on the list who have submitted things to
the sourceforge tracker, please post to the list. I should find a way
to hide
have on my box are the p2.so files - so do I need to
recompile, reuse, something?
Sounds like a recompile -- at least of amrecover.
Dustin
I used the Ubuntu deb package at
http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php
Not knowing a lot about packages, do I have to remove it with the package
have on my box are the p2.so files - so do I need to
recompile, reuse, something?
Sounds like a recompile -- at least of amrecover.
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devices, and then even if a drive is down, your
recoveries will work fine.
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that prevents two processes that
access tape to be running at same time (dump, flush, restore,
recover)?
The $logdir/log file gets locked via amflock by any process that
accesses the tape drive. This is much more exclusive than necessary,
but it is effective.
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to make amgpgcrypt. Stop
*** Error code 2
Stop in /root/amanda-2.6.0p2/common-src.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /root/amanda-2.6.0p2.
web#
Amanda requires GNU make now (gmake).
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to using GNU make pattern substitutions to
build all of these perl and shell scripts without a lot of Makefile
acrobatics.
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. Can you add
device_property VERBOSE YES
to your amanda.conf and re-run to see what additional information
appears in the logs?
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:12 PM, moekyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is what I posted to the bug tracker in sourceforge.
Oh, dear -- the sourceforge bug tracker is completely unused these
days. If there are others on the list who have submitted things to
the sourceforge tracker, please post
center.
Yep. See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Version_compatibility for
the full story.
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would not work properly
on that filesystem? One solution may be to recompile with a different
locking mechanism (the lnlock implementation should work).
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on NetBSD?
Check the sendbackup debug logs.
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and I'll try to see that this info
gets added.
The link is:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ:What_versions_of_GNU_Tar_are_Amanda-compatible%3F
which does specify that those versions will not get along, but not for
the reason you described, so it's definitely worth an edit.
Dustin
characters. I just added the word gnutar to the page, which
should help. I also added a link to it from the User Documentation
page.
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that one host/disk is the same as another. When we have
a more expressive catalog, it might be interesting to have some kind
of redirect that amrecover could follow when browsing the history of
a DLE -- similar to Subversion's copy-from.
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Have a look at the runtar debug log to see exactly how it's invoking
tar, just to be sure. Do your incremental files specify directories
that cross devices? Does Amanda cross devices even when doing a level
0?
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to upgrade their port at some point.
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).
I *think* that chg-manual will do what you want, perhaps with a little
bit of tweaking to recognize when vtapes are on the same disk.
This is a fairly common use-case, so if you're working against 2.6.0,
I'm sure a lot of other people would like to see your solution.
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Nouveaux Territoires
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Ok for the authentication but how do you run the amandad server ?
Like Tiger ?
I don't have Leopard yet, so I don't know. You should try it out, and
report your success on the wiki, or any problems here.
Dustin
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:33 PM, aminukapon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to find out if i could run amdump on several DailySet at the
same time. If it is possible ,how should I go about doing this
I wouldn't recommend it. Why do you want to do this?
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directory as a separate DLE.
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:)
If Amanda uses the tapedev returned by the changer, I think that
chg-disk could be rewritten to avoid using symlinks, returning the
directory of the slot each time, and so could work with file systems
that does not implement symlinks (NTFS/FAT32 USB disks).
Yep, sounds like a good plan.
Dustin
://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Chg-zd-mtx). Chg-multi is for a
setup where you have no autoloader but multiple drives.
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:10 AM, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I cna sned config.log, if it will help.
That would be great. Just a look at it may give some additional
information, too.
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this is a C99 thing), but that you're not
building Amanda with such a compiler. It looks like configure is
finding gcc-2.7.2.1. Amanda itself requires a C99 compiler, so you'll
probably need to use a newer gcc.
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I just added
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Could_not_run_GLIB_test_program%2C_checking_why
for the Glib problems we seem to be hearing so much about. Please
feel free to add your own suggestions there!
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.*/ { exit 1; }'
/etc/redhat-release; echo $?)
You can edit the .spec file similarly.
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/Makefile.am.
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If you are in the Washington, DC area, I'm giving a talk at the
Columbia Area Linux Users' Group at 7pm tonight.
More information is at
http://calug.org
The last guy who heckled me at a talk is now a full-time Zmanda
employee, if that's any incentive!
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://wiki.zmanda.com/images/a/a4/Amanda-calug.pdf
(note that some of these slides were held in reserve and were not
presented tonight).
Please have a look. I'd be happy to continue any of these
conversations online, for those who were there or whose interest is
piqued by the slides.
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, and
--with-amperldir.
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