and
even after extending the timeout period to something crazy like 6 hours it
still times out. Anyone have any performance suggestions for doing daily
differential calculations?
Use calcsize or server-side estimates? see the 'estimate' dumptype parameter.
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Amanda require explicit instructions on which
dumps to migrate and when? We're still laying the low-level
groundwork for migration, so there's lots of time to pontificate.
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the whole script?
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On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Mister Olli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there some way to instruct amanda to backup the maildirs for example
every 2 hours???
Sure, make sure 'usetimestamps' is true, and then run Amanda every 2
hours from your crontab.
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balancing act is much more effective
when it has multiple DLEs of approximately the same size to shuffle
around, so it probably makes sense to continue using multiple
partitions instead of lumping everything into one DLE.
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client's port ranges wide open
(1024-65535, or to whatever your firewall's range of dynamically
assigned ports happens to be).
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, then, is to find it. Andre, can you send along your debug logs
for the driver? Also, what version of Amanda are you running on the
server? (and as always, my apologies if you've already specified)
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Steven Backus
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Thanks to John Hein and everyone.
I haven't followed this too closely, but are there some takeaway
messages that could be worked into a FAQ here?
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ
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to write a tape).
Looks good:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ:Why_can_I_write_new_labels_to_my_tapes_but_can%27t_read_the_old_ones%3F
Are there more details to add? The 'mt' invocations in rc.conf may be
helpful to others, for example.
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, and it has to fit into the library's
mounting brackets.
So I don't have the answer, but I'd be very interested if someone else does!
Dustin
[1] Well, had. I gave it to Dan Locks. Hi, Dan.
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This all sounds great. Not to sound like an overworked developer, but
could you all please update the FAQ entry accordingly? ;)
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ:Why_can_I_write_new_labels_to_my_tapes_but_can%27t_read_the_old_ones%3F
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to see if any HW errors have been detected.
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, access the
device using dd or mt, and so on.
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like, rather than spamming the list (it will be *large*)
Dustin
should be in that group.
However, it's definitely a bug to not report that as permission
denied, so I'll take a look. Thanks for chasing this down.
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Steven Backus
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This could be it, does amanda use this for tape commands?
Amanda uses what was supplied in the TAPEDEV parameter directly.
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On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Running it every night Dustin the only wart is the reported compression in
the emailed report, that is generally completely bogus. I have posted about
it, but no one replied AFAIK.
OK, my apologies for not getting back
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When was that, Dustin? This has been a minor niggle to me since back in the
2.5.x days. Am I the only one that actually reads these email reports amanda
can send?
You're probably reading them more closely than others
production systems. Positive or negative, please let me know
what you find out. I'm completely available to help, too -- here, on
#amanda, or wherever else you need me.
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have any indications of trouble. If I did, you would
already know about it. :)
Great -- thanks!
Can you send the trace logfile that generated this report?
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On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you send the trace logfile that generated this report?
It should be titled log.200807* and should be in your logdir. Logdir
is available from 'amgetconf DailySet1 logdir'.
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2.6.0 to *include* the Device API but *exclude* the
Application API, on the grounds that adding two significant new chunks
of code in one release would introduce too many bugs. The App API is
present in trunk, however, and will be in 2.6.1.
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audience.
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provide.
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, this /seems/ to work. I didn't test it thoroughly, so
*please* be careful if you want to go ahead with it on a production system!
Yes, easier in 2.6.0.
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version of SLES
10SP1 and want to compile with the 64 bit code.
Your best bet may be to take the source RPM and tweak the .spec file
tp specify your --with-maxtapeblocksize, then build your own RPM.
FWIW, we're getting rid of --with-maxtapeblocksize in Amanda-2.6.1.
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to the list.
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, so you'll need to use that.
Compiling on Solaris is annoying, but I'm probably preaching to the
choir on that point :)
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a more typical Amanda configuration -- a DLE with more
than one file in it, multiple DLEs, a holding disk, and so on -- and
see if you can get that working.
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the tapes within that
time, you should be OK.
By the way, even while Amanda is waiting for a tape, it is spooling
dumps to holding disk.
If you know the days the office will be unstaffed, you can also run
amdump Conf -o tapedev= -o tpchanger=
to avoid even requesting a tape.
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that caused the compile to fail. If it's not
obvious how to fix it, post it here and we'll take a look.
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/local/sbin/amgetconf Conf -o runtapes=4 runtapes
/usr/local/sbin/amgetconf Conf -o 'runtapes=4' runtapes
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is #amanda.
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: ./conftest
ld.so.1: conftest: fatal: libcurl.so.4: open failed: No such file or directory
I'm guessing this is related to Solaris' habit of requiring both a
runtime and compile-time library search path be specified. You can
probably fix this with
./configure LDFLAGS='-R/opt/csw/lib' ...
Dustin
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is all very strange. Did you compile from source? If so, can I
get you to put some dbprintf's in apply_config_overwrites and send me
the results? Better, is there any chance you could hop into #amanda
on IRC
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Michael Reuland
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I have stripped the ~etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf file to only the actual
configuration keywords and options. I still get the similar response
reporting the first line of configuration data from the file.
What happens
some additional information in it.
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never quite rule out a bug in Amanda. :)
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working.
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:11 PM, myron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may take a while. I went to the step on setting up the amanda user and
the niutil command is no longer there.
Read the whole page - there's a fix for that already.
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' or the
equivalent for your operating system. You should see a bunch of write
commands in /tmp/trace, and the size of the writes are the blocksize
Amanda is using.
There could be lots of other things slowing Amanda down. Are you
doing software compression? Are you using a holding disk?
Dustin
way we can continue to compile on this system.
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probably
remote in and get them for you.
Was this 2.6.0p1? I'd be interested to hear about any issues you
encountered, as we're gearing the 2.6.0 branch up for another patch
release.
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Good to hear you're building on a Mac!
Have you set up the necessary launchd script on the mac? There's
information about it at
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation/OS_Specific_Notes/Installing_Amanda_on_Mac_OS_X
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:)
It means that at least on DLE failed to back up. You should check the
report for more details.
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tapecycle 6 tapes
runtapes 1
Your runspercycle has to be less than your tapecycle, so you'll either
need more tapes or fewer runs.
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until the tape it is on is overwritten, at which
point it's gone.
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:35 AM, McGraw, Robert P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I determine the status of an amdump run?
Amdump has a rather detailed exit status.
See http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amdump.8.html
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:55 PM, McGraw, Robert P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seem that the local man page did not have anything about exit codes for
amdump, but the zmanda man pages did. I believe I got what I needed.
We just added that to the manpages a while ago, so no worries.
Dustin
udp waitamanda /usr/local/libexec/amandad
/usr/local/libexec/amandad -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped
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1002: start at Wed Jul 16
10:33:47 2008
What do the selfcheck logs say?
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on the
client, while I was asking for estimates
Check the sendsize debug log files on the client in question.
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mountable.
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?
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Thanks, Jon -- somehow I read back up TO this beast, which is an
entirely different issue :)
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of one single connection. If your client supports it,
consider switching to bsdtcp authentication. See the wiki for a bit
more detail.
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' of that. That
is, if libamanda.so contains the string 'AMANDA_TMPDIR=/foo/bar', then the
Amanda client will create debugging logs in /foo/bar/amanda.
You can also run 'amgetconf build.AMANDA_DBGDIR'
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Zanga Chimombo
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i should've said that my rant is against the documentation not the design
rationale.
..it *is* on a wiki, nudge nudge.
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pretty quickly.
Can you give some more evidence that the taper isn't starting until
all of the dumps are finished?
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Im trying to setup incremental backups. I would like to perform 1 full
backup during a 7 day period and then incremental the following days.
Here is my config.
dumpcycle 7 days
runspercycle 1
tapecycle 15 tapes
Here is my disklist
amoverview DailySet1
date 07
host
2008/7/3 Weiwei Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
amrecover: Expected: lev Actual: null
WEIRD file
amrecover: bad header
Extractor child exited with status 1
This is the result of an obscure re-entrancy bug that's been fixed in
the latest releases. Can you try 2.6.0p1 on that machine?
Dustin
Im trying to backup to some virtual tapes.
My hard drive is 1.2 tb.
The /home directory on the remote host is 4 gigs.
I want to run the backup every night and do a full backup on the first
night. I want to have a 7 day rotation.
When I run the backup I get this error.
65.0.0.0 /home lev 0
Im using amrecover on a ubuntu server. amdump and amcheck work great.
When I try to run amrecover I get this error.
AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p1. Contacting server on localhost ...
[
][request failed: timeout waiting for ACK]
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dustin, shut this off before I start feeding it to sa-learn -spam.
Apologies for a potential duplicate here, but Todd Kover, Jon LaBadie,
and the Zmanda IT folks are already on the case.
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whats a reasonable setting to
set inparallel at ?
Inparallel controls the number of dumps that are done in parallel, not
the number of files written to tape. So it sounds like your
inparallel is not the issue here. You should be looking into tweaking
your tape drive's performance.
Dustin
why are DLEs waiting for dumping? Is your holding disk full?
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prefer
perlifying amtape and adding a handy new subcommand like
current-label. If you're into *that* idea, I'm at your disposal
with both assistance and an infinite supply of your beverage of
choice!
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simply set it to 0 to not use multiple files?
From my quick look at chunker.c, it looks like you have to have a
chunksize. Setting it to something really large should work.
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include alloca.h.
Thanks; you'll probably hear from me when I reconfigure my Amanda
systems to use Kerberos ;-)
That'd be great. We don't have many users of kerberos, and don't have
a test environment that uses kerberos, so it will be good to have
someone around to help out.
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this building by
whatever means necessary and move on to packaging 2.6.0! :)
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, we'd love to have you.
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a bit of this sort of trouble in 2.5.2, and the code has been
re-worked in 2.6.0. I imagine that some rather rough edits to the
source (removing #include alloca.h from amanda.h) will fix the
problem.
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support, and Xenix is basically gone at
this point. I assume UnixWare supports the POSIX standard.
Does anyone out there intend to install the Amanda server, version
2.6.0 or higher, on hardware that does not support the POSIX tape
interface? If not, I'd like to trim the fat..
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Weiwei Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
May I know which setting make amcheck to check the directory at /home/amanda?
It's the home directory of the 'amandabackup' user on the client (or
whatever CLIENT_LOGIN is set to).
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want to send along a patch?
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the restored chunks?
If a recover requires multiple tapes, then amrecover will ask for
them, either via the changer script (I've forgotten whether you're
using chg-manual or not) or manually.
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the first option.
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Paul Yeatman
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driver: result time 35026.575 from dumper0: NO-ROOM 00-00016 0
Not sure what went so awry with this run. It is likely back from when
Dustin was working with me on upgrading to 2.6.0 and making things work
won't have to worry about manually
manipulating this stuff. And hopefully we can be a bit more succinct
in how the catalog is stored.
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amdump -otapdev= -otpchanger=
# backup to tape
amdump
Then yes, that is correct.
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might change somewhat in that case.
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Take a look at server-src/holding.h. Even if the C is not your
flavor, the comments give a pretty good description of how things get
broken down.
Sorry, here's a link:
http://amanda.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc
the logs that correspond to overwritten tapes. Do you have tapes
that old?
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for analyzing the holding
disk. If it would help, I'd be happy to talk about SWIGging that into
perl, allowing your script to interface with it directly.
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bit to send its messages to
e.g., /var/log/chg-manual.log, and then just tail that to see what
it's up to.
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:). See if you can figure out why that connection is timing
out -- busy network? Downed client? Network partition?
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on the link nominate this project in another
category.
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On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a result of an error-messaging bug in the 2.6.0. Basically,
config error messages go to stderr, which xinetd routes to the server.
The bug has been fixed in trunk, but on double-checking, it hasn't
been
of that before the
next patch release.
Your fix -- touching the file -- should be adequate until then.
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of storing some lengths in kb and some in bytes. We're slowly
standardizing on bytes.
As for the rest -- I don't have an immediate answer. Can you send
your whole amflush log, as well as the taper debug log?
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on the wiki could use some help. If you
use chg-manual, head over to http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Changers
and make it better!
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.
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in /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf.
The client should be listening for TCP connections using the bsdtcp plist.
It's messy, I know -- it's all there for historical reasons.
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).
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,
right? Why am I lacking a driver of security type 'bsdudp'?
You probably didn't build it. I would strongly recommend that you use
bsdtcp, anyway.
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if there is a process holding a lock on this file?
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amandates, on the assumption that you are not using
it.
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?
Possible .. there's been quite a bit of work on the locking code since
the 2.4 series..
Is there a howto for AMANDA and AIX. Not many folks still using AIX
these days ...
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation/OS_Specific_Notes/Installing_Amanda_on_AIX
it's not much :(
Dustin
Hmmm, what's going on here?!
You'll need to use --with-amlibexecdir=/usr/local/libexec. Sorry about that :)
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for pw_uid-A. Please send the logfile along even if the
run succeeds.
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