Re: amanda tape header stripped, why?

2019-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 28 May 2019 11:09:43 pm Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 21:19:55 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Mine, when running 3.3.7p1 on wheezy, had this good header in every > > vtape "header" > > Note that the "0.*" file is simply the table label written by >

Re: amanda tape header stripped, why?

2019-05-28 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 21:19:55 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Mine, when running 3.3.7p1 on wheezy, had this good header in every > vtape "header" Note that the "0.*" file is simply the table label written by amlabel -- there is no "data" in it, the only point of the file is to contain the

Re: amanda tape header stripped, why?

2019-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 28 May 2019 12:49:05 pm Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2019 11:40:33 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > In my build on stretch the tape header, with normally contains > > instructions for a gzip/tar only system, the recipe for bare > > recovery has disappeared. It now looks

Re: amanda tape header stripped, why?

2019-05-28 Thread Debra S Baddorf
Agreed - the short form is: the tape header needs no instructions, and each DLE file might be done with a different mechanism (true for me) so each DLE backup has the instructions in the header. Deb Baddorf Fermilab > On May 28, 2019, at 11:49 AM, Charles Curley > wrote: > > On Tue, 28

Re: amanda tape header stripped, why?

2019-05-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 28 May 2019 11:40:33 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > In my build on stretch the tape header, with normally contains > instructions for a gzip/tar only system, the recipe for bare recovery > has disappeared. It now looks like this: > AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE 20190527162707 TAPE Dailys-1 > >

amanda tape header stripped, why?

2019-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
In my build on stretch the tape header, with normally contains instructions for a gzip/tar only system, the recipe for bare recovery has disappeared. It now looks like this: AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE 20190527162707 TAPE Dailys-1 There is supposed to be a 2nd line, showing how to unpack the

I cannot see what is wrong: I am getting 'tiny' chunks, why?

2014-06-09 Thread Robert Heller
I am using 2.6.1p2-8.el6 on a CentOS 6.5 system. I am using virtual tapes (chg-disk) as my backup device. I want to use 5G 'tapes' and a split size of 1G. But amanda is using a splitsize of 10meg. Why is it doing this? Here is my amanda config file (*I* cannot find the error): org Wendell

Re: I cannot see what is wrong: I am getting 'tiny' chunks, why?

2014-06-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
. But amanda is using a splitsize of 10meg. Why is it doing this? Here is my amanda config file (*I* cannot find the error): org Wendell Free Library # Organization name for reports mailto hel...@deepsoft.com# Email address to receive reports netusage 1 Kbps

Re: I cannot see what is wrong: I am getting 'tiny' chunks, why?

2014-06-09 Thread Robert Heller
on a CentOS 6.5 system. I am using virtual tapes (chg-disk) as my backup device. I want to use 5G 'tapes' and a split size of 1G. But amanda is using a splitsize of 10meg. Why is it doing this? Here is my amanda config file (*I* cannot find the error): org Wendell Free Library

Re: I cannot see what is wrong: I am getting 'tiny' chunks, why?

2014-06-09 Thread Toomas Aas
Mon, 09 Jun 2014 kirjutas Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com: Question: when using a disk-based 'virtual tape changer', is there is any point in using a holding disk? I understand that a holding disk is a good idea when using real tapes, as this helps in keeping the tape drive streaming --

Re: I cannot see what is wrong: I am getting 'tiny' chunks, why?

2014-06-09 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 09 Jun 2014 22:42:00 +0300 Toomas Aas toomas@raad.tartu.ee wrote: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 kirjutas Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com: Question: when using a disk-based 'virtual tape changer', is there is any point in using a holding disk? I understand that a holding disk is a

Re: I cannot see what is wrong: I am getting 'tiny' chunks, why?

2014-06-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 04:13:51PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: At Mon, 09 Jun 2014 22:42:00 +0300 Toomas Aas toomas@raad.tartu.ee wrote: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 kirjutas Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com: Question: when using a disk-based 'virtual tape changer', is there is any

Re: I cannot see what is wrong: I am getting 'tiny' chunks, why?

2014-06-09 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:01:25 -0400 amanda-users@amanda.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 04:13:51PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: At Mon, 09 Jun 2014 22:42:00 +0300 Toomas Aas toomas@raad.tartu.ee wrote: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 kirjutas Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com:

Re: Why have my tapes 'shrunk' in size?

2014-04-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 01:30:46PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Wednesday, 12.03.2014 at 14:38 +, Dave Ewart wrote: What's going on? Why am I not getting to use the full capacity?? Just to follow up on this one: I was able to purchase two, replacement identical tape drives

Re: Why have my tapes 'shrunk' in size?

2014-03-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 12.03.2014 at 13:11 -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Don't know if its relevant, but I've got an LTO5/juke and it dropped in both speed and capacity. Interesting: was it a gradual decrease in performance or was there a sudden drop? Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing

Why have my tapes 'shrunk' in size?

2014-03-12 Thread Dave Ewart
brand) tapes - just like http://img.misco.eu/Resources/images/Modules/InformationBlocks/1210/TAN/TAN-2/202175-tandberg-LTO-5-tape-cartridge-small.jpg - and the second tapetype above was created using a previously-unused tape and they really are 1.5TB native! What's going on? Why am I not getting

Re: Why have my tapes 'shrunk' in size?

2014-03-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
using a previously-unused tape and they really are 1.5TB native! What's going on? Why am I not getting to use the full capacity?? A guess only. I note the measured speed has dropped by 45%. Due to what I haven't a clue, but maybe some hardware change or cables or ??? Perhaps your system's

Re: Why have my tapes 'shrunk' in size?

2014-03-12 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 12.03.2014 at 12:28 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: A guess only. I note the measured speed has dropped by 45%. Due to what I haven't a clue, but maybe some hardware change or cables or ??? Hmmm, yeah: I noticed that too, just after I'd posted. It's the same controller card as

Re: Why have my tapes 'shrunk' in size?

2014-03-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 04:55:30PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: On Wednesday, 12.03.2014 at 12:28 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: A guess only. I note the measured speed has dropped by 45%. Due to what I haven't a clue, but maybe some hardware change or cables or ??? Hmmm, yeah: I noticed

Re: Why have my tapes 'shrunk' in size?

2014-03-12 Thread Brian Cuttler
a previously-unused tape and they really are 1.5TB native! What's going on? Why am I not getting to use the full capacity?? A guess only. I note the measured speed has dropped by 45%. Due to what I haven't a clue, but maybe some hardware change or cables

Re: Why have my tapes 'shrunk' in size?

2014-03-12 Thread Brian Cuttler
using a previously-unused tape and they really are 1.5TB native! What's going on? Why am I not getting to use the full capacity?? A guess only. I note the measured speed has dropped by 45%. Due to what I haven't a clue, but maybe some hardware change or cables or ??? Perhaps

Why does Amanda not use my new labled tapes?

2011-07-27 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Hi, I increased my vTape pool during the last days, but amanda is still only writing to the old tapes that were already in use and not to the new ones. If I change the tapelist entry from 0 KDD181 reuse to an old date 210100 KDD181 reuse the vTape is used in the next run. I found a

Re: Why does Amanda not use my new labled tapes?

2011-07-27 Thread Dennis Benndorf
group amanda-users@amanda.org Betreff: Why does Amanda not use my new labled tapes? Hi, I increased my vTape pool during the last days, but amanda is still only writing to the old tapes that were already in use and not to the new ones. If I change the tapelist entry from 0 KDD181

Re: Why does Amanda not use my new labled tapes?

2011-07-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
Linux 6 (x86_64). I don't know why it will not use the new tapes, maybe order in the tapelist? However, as a workaround, if you increase the tapecycle parameter above the number already used, amanda should go looking for a new tape. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com JG

Re: Multiple level 0 backups: why does Amanda do that and how to make her stop doing it

2011-01-18 Thread Robert Heller
. Amanda does a full backup of the /data on one day of the week and then does level one backups for the rest of the week. It does a level one backup of the other 6 disks on the day it does the full of /data, and then does full backups of the other 6 disks on the other 6 days. Why does

Re: Multiple level 0 backups: why does Amanda do that and how to make her stop doing it

2011-01-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
of the week and then does level one backups for the rest of the week. It does a level one backup of the other 6 disks on the day it does the full of /data, and then does full backups of the other 6 disks on the other 6 days. Why does Amanda make so many full backups? Is there a configuation

Re: Multiple level 0 backups: why does Amanda do that and how to make her stop doing it

2011-01-18 Thread gene heskett
days. Why does Amanda make so many full backups? Is there a configuation parameter we need to set to change this? Amanda tries to level out, or balance, the amount of data sent to tape each day of the seven day dumpcycle. The mechanism it has to achieve this balance is to bump a DLE

Multiple level 0 backups: why does Amanda do that and how to make her stop doing it

2011-01-17 Thread Robert Heller
a level one backup of the other 6 disks on the day it does the full of /data, and then does full backups of the other 6 disks on the other 6 days. Why does Amanda make so many full backups? Is there a configuation parameter we need to set to change this? -- Robert Heller -- 978-544

Re: Multiple level 0 backups: why does Amanda do that and how to make her stop doing it

2011-01-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
and then does level one backups for the rest of the week. It does a level one backup of the other 6 disks on the day it does the full of /data, and then does full backups of the other 6 disks on the other 6 days. Why does Amanda make so many full backups? Is there a configuation parameter we need

Re: Multiple level 0 backups: why does Amanda do that and how to make her stop doing it

2011-01-17 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! Amanda does a full backup of the /data on one day of the week and then does level one backups for the rest of the week. It does a level one backup of the other 6 disks on the day it does the full of /data, and then does full backups of the other 6 disks on the other 6 days. Why does

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: I picked a 'virtual' tape size to match the capacity of a DVD-R: 4.3Gig, with the idea of migrating the fulls and the more major incrs to DVD-Rs for long-term archival. Ah! You should take a look at both the dvdrw device

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:11:57 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: I picked a 'virtual' tape size to match the capacity of a DVD-R: 4.3Gig, with the idea of migrating the fulls and the more major incrs to

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Also I am pretty much stuck with 2.5.0, since that is what comes with CentOS... (I don't at this point want to 'experiment' with a bleeding edge self-built package, not for something like this.) Yikes, you may be *very*

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 3 Oct 2010 11:37:25 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Also I am pretty much stuck with 2.5.0, since that is what comes with CentOS... (I don't at this point want to 'experiment' with a

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: One of the downsides of using a very *stable* Linux distro with long term stable support.  OTOH, it avoids the fun of re-installing everything every 6-12 months and then spending a couple of months getting all of the

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-03 Thread Robert Heller
actually helped -- it helped me understand what Amanda was upto and why it is doing what it does. From another post I got the idea of have two configs (with a shared common config), one for archival fulls (run manually, once a month) and one for dailyincr (run from cron). The archival fulls use large

Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-02 Thread Robert Heller
Why does Amanda do multiple level 0 backups? I only want 1 (and only 1) level 0 backup (of any given disk) in the backup cycle (4 weeks / 28 days). The documentation for the bump* parameters is not clear (to me). I want Amanda to aggressively bump dump levels. I don't have enough virtual tapes

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 09:05:44AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: Why does Amanda do multiple level 0 backups? I only want 1 (and only 1) level 0 backup (of any given disk) in the backup cycle (4 weeks / 28 days). The documentation for the bump* parameters is not clear (to me). I want Amanda

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-02 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:15:29 -0400 amanda-users@amanda.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 09:05:44AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: Why does Amanda do multiple level 0 backups? I only want 1 (and only 1) level 0 backup (of any given disk) in the backup cycle (4 weeks / 28 days

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: runtapes 2 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump I hope very few dumps take more than one tape, like none :) To be clear on the planner's reasoning: it considers itself to have runtapes * tapetype:length kb

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-02 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:59:38 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: runtapes 2 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump I hope very few dumps take more than one tape, like none :) To be clear

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: So I would be better off setting runtapes to 1?  And then manually 'flushing' at the beginning of the cycle to deal with the larger fulls? Arg... This sort of thing is not really well explained in the man pages...

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-02 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 2 Oct 2010 16:06:17 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: So I would be better off setting runtapes to 1?  And then manually 'flushing' at the beginning of the cycle to deal with the larger

Re: Confused by amanda's 'planner': why multiple level 0?

2010-10-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
Robert, I had another thought. You could set all your DLEs to be set to do incremental only. I forget whether this is strategy nofull or strategy incronly or ???. With this you may be able to set you runtapes to 1 and maybe use a larger tape size as you would not be archiving them to DVDs. You

Why vtapes are filled up to 100% and LTO3 tapes not?

2010-07-05 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Hi, I'm using amanda 2.6.1p2 and I'm wondering, why my vtapes are allways filled up to 100%, while LTO3 tapes are not: vtapes: LabelTime Size %NbNc KDD103 2:5366457M 100.084 101 KDD104 1:0066459M 100.01535 KDD105 2:06

Re: Why vtapes are filled up to 100% and LTO3 tapes not?

2010-07-05 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Am 05.07.2010 08:51, schrieb Christ Schlacta: first thing I see is that your LTO3 drives are SIGNIFICANTLY larger than your vdisks. That's true. But in which way this results in not filling up to 100%? -- Marc Muehlfeld Zentrum fuer Humangenetik und Laboratoriumsmedizin Dr. Klein und Dr.

Re: Why vtapes are filled up to 100% and LTO3 tapes not?

2010-07-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Marc Muehlfeld marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote: I'm using amanda 2.6.1p2 and I'm wondering, why my vtapes are allways filled up to 100%, while LTO3 tapes are not: vtapes size themselves to precisely LENGTH bytes, whereas tape capacity can vary based

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

Re: Why is this an error

2010-05-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
McGraw, Robert P wrote: Running Amanda-2.6.1-p2 On Solaris 10 X86 Why is this considered an error? No reason, already fixed it in 3.1, it is not an error. Jean-Louis I check the error status of my amdump and base on the error status after it finishes I take certain actions

Still the puzzle, and I'm feeling ignored, why?

2010-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
20100408011908_1.gz So the indices are there. Why can't amrecover find them? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Except for 75% of the women, everyone in the whole world wants

Re: Still the puzzle, and I'm feeling ignored, why?

2010-04-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: 500 No dumps available on or before date 2010-04-08 Actually, this means there are no catalog entries for that date. I think I had asked last time, what amadmin Conf find will show for that particular DLE? Dustin

Re: Still the puzzle, and I'm feeling ignored, why?

2010-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 April 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: 500 No dumps available on or before date 2010-04-08 Actually, this means there are no catalog entries for that date. I think I had asked last time, what amadmin

Re: Still the puzzle, and I'm feeling ignored, why?

2010-04-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
--- 1 amanda disk81455 2010-04-07 02:36 20100407011911_1.gz -rw--- 1 amanda disk 525945 2010-04-08 16:42 20100408011908_1 -rw--- 1 amanda disk81455 2010-04-08 02:27 20100408011908_1.gz So the indices are there. Why can't amrecover find them?

Re: Still the puzzle, and I'm feeling ignored, why?

2010-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 April 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: 500 No dumps available on or before date 2010-04-08 Actually, this means there are no catalog entries for that date. I think I had asked last time, what amadmin

Re: Still the puzzle, and I'm feeling ignored, why?

2010-04-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You lost all log files, They should in the `amgetconf Daily logdir`/oldlog directory, moved them to `amgetconf test logdir`. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 22 April 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net

Re: Still the puzzle, and I'm feeling ignored, why?

2010-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 April 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: 500 No dumps available on or before date 2010-04-08 Actually, this means there are no catalog entries for that date. I think I had asked last time, what amadmin

Re: Still the puzzle, and I'm feeling ignored, why?

2010-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 April 2010, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Gene, Do the tapelist is correct? Tapelist was the culprit, see previous next msg from me, that test recovery was done without incident this time, pulling 4 dirs in /usr/share that might be why it won't boot. Thanks Dustin. -- Cheers

Re: Holdingdisk no - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: It's important to do the dump direct to tape at the end if you have a small holding disk, Amanda was designed for this case. But hard disk are now cheap, what you propose is a good idea. Patch is welcome. Maybe we should show this to the hackers-list ? S

Re: Holdingdisk no - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: However, the driver always schedules its PORT_WRITE (direct to tape) dumps *after* its holding-based runs. The idea is that dumping directly to tape basically monopolizes the entire server infrastructure, so it's better to get the cooperating dumps out of the way

Re: Holdingdisk no - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It's important to do the dump direct to tape at the end if you have a small holding disk, Amanda was designed for this case. But hard disk are now cheap, what you propose is a good idea. Patch is welcome. Jean-Louis Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: However, the

Re: Holdingdisk no - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
OK, I'll take a swing at this :) On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: I want to avoid to copy ~60 GB from disk to holdingdisk internally at every amdump, so I decided to set them to holdingdisk no -- write the to tape directly. taperalgo first, btw The

Holdingdisk no - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
At a client I have two DLEs which are local directories on the amanda tapeserver. There is new data dumped there every day during the day. I want to avoid to copy ~60 GB from disk to holdingdisk internally at every amdump, so I decided to set them to holdingdisk no -- write the to tape directly.

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-14 Thread Zanga Chimombo
issue sorted. thanks everyone. i had to sort out /etc/sysconfig/iptables!

Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Zanga Chimombo
a clue: dumper: stream_client: connect to 192.168.0.60.46830 failed: No route to host why is the server trying to dump to the client? please help! Zanga.

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:55:57AM +0200, Zanga Chimombo wrote: rant i have a problem with setting up amanda but more of that later. i have the following configurations: AMANDA_DBGDIR=/var/log/amanda CONFIG_DIR=/etc/amanda i have been looking in /var/log/amanda for clues to my problem to

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-07-11 08:55, Zanga Chimombo wrote: rant i have a problem with setting up amanda but more of that later. i have the following configurations: AMANDA_DBGDIR=/var/log/amanda CONFIG_DIR=/etc/amanda i have been looking in /var/log/amanda for clues to my problem to no avail. i have only

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
: stream_client: connect to 192.168.0.60.46830 failed: No route to host why is the server trying to dump to the client? The dumper just tries to connect to the client GET the dump. Does simple networking between the client and host work? Depending on which version of amanda you use and which

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Zanga Chimombo
i should've said that my rant is against the documentation not the design rationale. They may have a substring in the name having the letters log, but during the history of amanda, they are used for much more then the initial purpose of logging only. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Log_Files

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Zanga Chimombo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the following line in amdump.X seems to give a clue: dumper: stream_client: connect to 192.168.0.60.46830 failed: No route to host why is the server trying to dump to the client? Since Jon and Paul have addressed

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Zanga Chimombo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i should've said that my rant is against the documentation not the design rationale. ..it *is* on a wiki, nudge nudge. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Amverifyrun not verifying the entire run -- anyone know why?

2008-04-23 Thread Donald Murray, P.Eng.
Thanks Dustin, On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Donald Murray, P.Eng. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Around line 432 it's finished checking the last dump it checks, then it starts the first dump from godel. I've

Amverifyrun not verifying the entire run -- anyone know why?

2008-04-12 Thread Donald Murray, P.Eng.
Hey, I've been using amanda for years now to backup linux boxes on my home network. Data is written to vtapes on a 3ware RAID-1. I recently upgraded the OS on one of the amanda clients, which might be related to what I'm seeing here. The problem: I just noticed that amverifyrun is not verifying

Re: Amverifyrun not verifying the entire run -- anyone know why?

2008-04-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Try running amverify directly, using 'sh -x' to give debugging information. amverify basically runs amrecover under the hood, and there may be some error that is causing amrecover to not pick up where it left off after file 12. Alternately, there may be some problem with the doonefile shell

Re: Amverifyrun not verifying the entire run -- anyone know why?

2008-04-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Donald Murray, P.Eng. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Around line 432 it's finished checking the last dump it checks, then it starts the first dump from godel. I've included that section below: ... ++ grep 'reached end of information'

Why amanda creates incremental dumps to holding disk?

2008-01-23 Thread Takashi Kurakata
if they are possible or not? 1) Why amanda creates incremental dumps to holding disk? Amanda is supposed to redirect the dumps to a holding disk in the follow case: - No tape drive. - The cable became disconnected. Why amanda doesn't fail backup and creates incremental dumps to holding disk? 2) Do

Re: Why amanda creates incremental dumps to holding disk?

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
to my questions follow whether if they are possible or not? 1) Why amanda creates incremental dumps to holding disk? Amanda is supposed to redirect the dumps to a holding disk in the follow case: - No tape drive. - The cable became disconnected. or the wrong tape in the drive

Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Zembower, Kevin
-get.') --/var/spool/cron/crontabs Empty --/var/amanda/* (All my amanda database information is missing.) One common thread is that all of these directories are in /var/. However, other files in this branch, such as /var/lib/apt/lists/* seem to be restored just fine. I don't understand why

Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Alexander Jolk
Zembower, Kevin wrote: I thought that after all this, I'd be done. However, I'm discovering pockets of files and directories that seem to have never made it to the backup tapes in the first place. Some examples: --/service/tinydns, dnscache, qmail-send, ... All these were soft links to the

Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Frank Smith
don't understand why these files and directories are missing. My disklist includes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/amanda/DBackup$ grep -i center disklist centernet sda2 tar #/ centernet sda14 tar #/boot centernet sda3 tar #/usr centernet sda5 tar #/opt/analog/logdata centernet

RE: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Zembower, Kevin
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:20 PM To: Zembower, Kevin Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)? Did you have an exclude list? Were any of those directories symlinks to other filesystems or NFS mounts

Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:47:26PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote: Frank and Alex, thanks for replying. Alex, you're right, I believe, GNUtar behaves differently than tar with respect to symbolic links, and I'm using GNUtar: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.14 Likely

Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Gene Heskett
infrequently. I'll have to check into this, too. Thanks, again. -Kevin -Original Message- From: Frank Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:20 PM To: Zembower, Kevin Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should

Re: Why didn't my backup work (the way I thought it should)?

2006-09-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 15:02, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:47:26PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote: Frank and Alex, thanks for replying. Alex, you're right, I believe, GNUtar behaves differently than tar with respect to symbolic links, and I'm using GNUtar: [EMAIL

Why tar with amanda?

2006-08-22 Thread Natalia García Nebot
Hi! I have one doubt. Amanda use gnu-tar to backup subdirectories and amanda can access to all files and directories in disklist file not being the owner. But gnu-tar hasn't suid bit activated then, How can amanda access them? which internal mechanism use amanda?

RE Why tar with amanda?

2006-08-22 Thread Cyrille Bollu
/usr/lib/amanda/runtar [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 22/08/2006 10:28:03 : Hi! I have one doubt. Amanda use gnu-tar to backup subdirectories and amanda can access to all files and directories in disklist file not being the owner. But gnu-tar hasn't suid bit activated then, How can

Re: Why tar with amanda?

2006-08-22 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-22 10:28, Natalia García Nebot wrote: Hi! I have one doubt. Amanda use gnu-tar to backup subdirectories and amanda can access to all files and directories in disklist file not being the owner. But gnu-tar hasn't suid bit activated then, How can amanda access them? which internal

Re: Why tar with amanda?

2006-08-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Natalia Garc�a Nebot wrote: Hi! I have one doubt. Amanda use gnu-tar to backup subdirectories and amanda can access to all files and directories in disklist file not being the owner. But gnu-tar hasn't suid bit activated then, How can amanda access them?

Re: RE Why tar with amanda?

2006-08-22 Thread Cyrille Bollu
No idea. Maybe someone on the list knows better what this wrapper can do? Natalia García Nebot [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 22/08/2006 11:01:21 : and is this behavior safe? it wil not produce security holes? Cyrille Bollu escribió: exactly Natalia García Nebot [EMAIL PROTECTED] a

Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved! An amanda client that used to work on a debian host, before an apt-get update and an apt-get upgrade, and an installation of opennms (which installed the silly daemon identd for postgres) now gives me

Re: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Lengyel, Florian schrieb: An amanda client that used ... Please don't hijack threads ... Thank you, Stefan.

RE: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved! I have no idea what this means. I started a new thread in good faith. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Stefan G. Weichinger Sent: Thu 3/30/2006 2:12 PM To: amanda-users

Re: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Mike Delaney
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 03:34:02PM -0500, Lengyel, Florian wrote: I have no idea what this means. I started a new thread in good faith. You did not start a new thread. You replied to an unrelated message and simply changed the Subject: header, thereby hijacking the thread. Starting a new

Re: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Kevin Till
Lengyel, Florian wrote: An amanda client that used to work on a debian host, before an apt-get update and an apt-get upgrade, and an installation of opennms (which installed the silly daemon identd for postgres) now gives me timeouts when I try Hi, What version of Amanda are you using? ssh

Re: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Michael Loftis
--On March 30, 2006 1:01:29 PM -0800 Kevin Till [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the Did not receive identification string from:::10.10.32.247 should not have anything to do with Amanda. Seems to me someone try to login as amanda to that machine. It doesn't. This actually happens when

RE: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mike Delaney Sent: Thu 3/30/2006 3:53 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved! On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 03:34:02PM -0500, Lengyel, Florian wrote: I have no idea what

Re: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
when I try Hi, What version of Amanda are you using? ssh support was added to Amanda 2.5.0. ?ssh support? is it optional/default/??? What parts might use it? I wonder why Florian would be hitting it (i.e. even using any aspect of ssh) by simply upgrading an existing amanda

Re: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Kevin Till
it. I wonder why Florian would be hitting it (i.e. even using any aspect of ssh) by simply upgrading an existing amanda installation? please see other posts on this thread. -- Thank you! Kevin Till Amanda documentation: http://wiki.zmanda.com Amanda forums:http://forums.zmanda.com

Re: Attempt to contact amanda gives sshd error -- dont know why sshd is involved!

2006-03-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I had no idea that this way of composing a new thread, by moving the cc: = address amanda-users@amanda.org to the to: address amanda-users@amanda.org would = constitute=20 hijacking. It is mistaken wrong to suggest that this was in any way = intentional. This is not bad per se, I do

Re: Why no incrementals in degraded mode?

2006-01-25 Thread Josef Wolf
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:51:34AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What was your version? 2.4.5 If you upgraded from 2.4.4p2 or earlier to a 2.4.5 then could you try the untested attached patch. The patch seems to help. Thanks! Is this a new problem or is it already fixed in CVS?

Why no incrementals in degraded mode?

2006-01-20 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello! Since I have re-installed amanda, I get no more incrementals when it runs into degraded mode. From the logfiles I can't find any hint why it always does full-backups. All DLEs are affected by this problem. But in the description below, I list only one DLE. Here is what amadmin info

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