dump fails with bread and lseek trouble

Hi, Has anyone seen or hear of this problem. --8--snip*--- /-- geko60.ehb /usr lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 3] sendbackup: start [geko60.ehbas.com:/usr level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/sbin/restore -f... - sendbackup: info

Re: No such file or directory

Is $IFS being changed somewhere from the default? Sorry, but what is $IFS?

Re: Dumper hangs

Thanks. The latest release note (0.4b25) says: Found a workaroung for the dump deadlock problem (3 childs stuck in pause(), father in read()). The workaround seems to work for me and several beta-testers. If it doesn't work for you, please report back. I didn't try it yet, but this looks like

Re: I don't understand this

This is my FIRST tapelist file: 0 Diaria-000 reuse 0 Diaria-001 reuse 0 Diaria-002 reuse 0 Diaria-003 reuse 0 Diaria-004 reuse 0 Diaria-005 reuse 0 Diaria-006 reuse I do “amdump Diaria” today, and the tapelist file is now: 20011214 Diaria-004 reuse 0 Diaria-000 reuse 0 Diaria-001 reuse 0

Probs with configure readline

Hello, I have a bit of a problem with getting ./configure to recognize the readline library. From its log file, it looks as though configure tries to #include readline.h, but that is installed in /usr/include/readline/readline.h Is that a problem with configure, or am I missing something? --

Smbclient Question

Hello All, I have successfully been using amanda now for a week on all my Linux servers, and it works beautifully. Now I would like to try it on a few NT4 and W2K machines. I have created a NT4 domain user that can mount all the windows shares that I would like to backup. I have tested that

Re: Is this correct?

Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez wrote: Hi all: I have 5 tapes for one HP24DAT SCSI unit. I want to use one tape per day, not including saturday/monday. Is this the correct configuration? dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 5 days tapecycle 5 tapes thanks You probably want at least

Re: I don't understand this

Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez wrote: Hi all: I have an HP24DAT SCSI over Linux RH 7.1. I want to backup the weekdays only, using 5+1 tapes. I've this in the amanda.conf: dumpcycle 7 runspercycle 5 tapecycle 6 The tapes are labeled: Daily-000 (monday) Daily-001 (tuesday)

Re: Smbclient Question

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Richard B. Tilley (Brad) wrote: My question is this: what do I do now? How can I make amanda automate the mounts and perform the backups? If this info is on the Net somewhere, please forgive my question and simply point me to it. See docs/SAMBA in your amanda

Re: Linux dump

I was using dump to backup my linux clients; Apparently the previopus Sysadmin got no problems with dump on linux until one day dump got stuck dumping a huge backup (more than 12GB of data). I replaced the dump version for a new one, but then i got more weird status errors from amanda. I gived

Re: I don't understand this

0 Diaria-006 reuse I do “amdump Diaria” today, and the tapelist file is now: 20011214 Diaria-004 reuse 0 Diaria-000 reuse 0 Diaria-001 reuse 0 Diaria-002 reuse 0 Diaria-003 reuse 0 Diaria-005 reuse 0 Diaria-006 reuse The report says: These dumps were to tape Diaria-004

Re: I don't understand this

file is now: 20011214 Diaria-004 reuse 0 Diaria-000 reuse 0 Diaria-001 reuse 0 Diaria-002 reuse 0 Diaria-003 reuse 0 Diaria-005 reuse 0 Diaria-006 reuse The report says: These dumps were to tape Diaria-004. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Diaria-006. Why not the Diaria-005

Re: Is this correct?

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 at 9:17am, Kurt Yoder wrote You probably want at least one more tape in tapecycle, so at least 6. Everyone is always saying you want extras in case there's a bad run. (Not that I understand this; after all, if there's a bad run, why not just increment tapecycle then?)

Re: No such file or directory

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:28:57AM +0100, Tom Beer wrote: Is $IFS being changed somewhere from the default? Sorry, but what is $IFS? Internal Field Separator. See man bash -- - Dan Wilder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical

Re: I don't understand this

On Thursday 13 December 2001 12:58 pm, Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez wrote: Hi all: I have an HP24DAT SCSI over Linux RH 7.1. I want to backup the weekdays only, using 5+1 tapes. I've this in the amanda.conf: dumpcycle 7 runspercycle 5 tapecycle 6 The tapes are labeled: Daily-000

Weird amdump problem on Linux machine: Unable to get an size estimate

Greetings, I'm backing up now my development network using Amanda and appears to run fine on almost all the machines; I running the tape server on a Linux machine, taping to hardisk (no tape unit) and have several Linux and Solaris clients. I'm unable to get a backup size estimate with one of

Re: I don't understand this (the Response)

Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez wrote: This is my FIRST tapelist file: 0 Diaria-000 reuse 0 Diaria-001 reuse 0 Diaria-002 reuse 0 Diaria-003 reuse 0 Diaria-004 reuse 0 Diaria-005 reuse 0 Diaria-006 reuse I do ?amdump Diaria? today, and the tapelist file is now: 20011214 Diaria

Re: Smbclient Question

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 at 8:52am, Richard B. Tilley (Brad) wrote My question is this: what do I do now? How can I make amanda automate the mounts and perform the backups? If this info is on the Net somewhere, please forgive my question and simply point me to it. from docs/SAMBA: ===

Re: I don't understand this

amadmin config-name no-reuse tape-name that'll put a specific tape on hold until you release it and allow you to resequence the tapes without editing any of the amanda files. Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez wrote: Hi all: I have an HP24DAT SCSI over Linux RH 7.1. I want to backup the

Re: dump fails with bread and lseek trouble

In a message dated: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:29:54 GMT Thomas Robinson said: Hi, Has anyone seen or hear of this problem. Ayup, I get it all the time. I have no idea what the problem is though. It seems to come and go sporatically. I've run e2fsck -c /dev/sda5 to no avail. I also upgraded the

Re: Full dump not running in dumpcycle days (FIXED and a question)

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 at 9:53am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I figured out what my issue was late last week so please forgive in the delay in reporting my findings. What I am doing is not putting a tape in the drive, so that forces amanda to write my incrementals to disk. What appears to be

Re: Is this correct?

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 at 12:40pm, Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez wrote I have 5 tapes for one HP24DAT SCSI unit. I want to use one tape per day, not including saturday/monday. Is this the correct configuration? dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 5 days tapecycle 5 tapes Yep. Except, as I

Re: SOLVED: Newbie: Can't get amanda user to work

Hi Kevin: It's still puzzling to me why the .amandahosts file, with the two additional hosts, was being recognized in /home/amanda, but still giving me the error with the tapeserver host. Oh, well, I'm not going to spend too much time pondering it. The .amandahosts file that is used

RE: replacing full tapes?

Michael, I think you will want 'dumpcycle 1 week' instead of 2 weeks. This means that every 1 week, you will have a level 0 backup of every partition, which is what I think you mean by 'a 2 week latency of backups.' With 8 tapes, you will be creating the current week's backups, and have the

Re: taper tunning to achieve tape streaming

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Mihai Lozoveanu wrote: Does anyone know how to modify the buffering ot the taper so that I can achive tape streaming. I'm using an dlt8000 tape on an enterprise e250 sun server. When Are you using a holding disk? Or backing up direct to tape? -Mitch

Re: Newbie: Can't get amanda user to work

Try changing .amandahosts on the client (which appears to be the same as the server in this case) to: admin amanda On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: - I'm trying to get my first setup of amanda working. Running amcheck - gives me: - admin:/home/amanda # su amanda -c

Amanda wants to dump(8) 'sd2e' instead of '/dev/sd2e'?

Hi list, after upgrading from amanda-2.4.2 to amanda-2.4.2p2 on an NetBSD/i386 1.5+ machine, I see the following in the nightly log: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: heap sd2e lev 0 FAILED [disk sd2e offline on heap?] /tmp/amanda/sendsize.20011213224502.debug then shows me:

Re: taper tunning to achieve tape streaming

Mitch == Mitch Collinsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I'am using 20G for holding disk. I had two files produced by amdump each one 9G. The taper doesn't achieve streaming when write them to the tape (and the rate is around 4MB/s instead of 5.9MB/s which is nominal). I tried to

Re: changing the /tape/dev

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:04:48AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 at 7:38pm, BRINER Cedric wrote One of the problems that I see is : Imagine that the dump0 was happenning when we were doing a software compression and that the dump1 with a hard compression...So

RE: Full dump not running in dumpcycle days (FIXED and a question)

Check out the RESERVE parameter in amanda.conf. It specifies how much of the holding disk can be used for degraded mode (no tape) dumps to the holding disk. IIRC, it defaults to 30%. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001

Amrecover is not working with Gnu Tar: help needed

Greetings, I'm using Amrecover to try to recover some file; I did a full dump (forced using amadmin) and i here is the output of a failed recover procedure: amrecover setdate ---08 200 Working date set to 2001-12-08. amrecover sethost lnxsrv0001 200 Dump host set to lnxsrv0001. amrecover

RE: Problem with windows 2000 Professional

I use Amanda 2.2.4p2 on a Linux Red Hat 7.1 and without any tape for the test. The backup works fine on linux. I use samba 2.2.2 for the windows clients : that works with NT and 98, but on windows 2000, the amdump starts and finally freeze. After a complete and clean

Re: Redundancy in Amanda

Stephen Carville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My boss just asked me about redundancy in amanda. I explainmed to him (...) dumpcycle 7 days tapecycle 15 runspercycle 5 runtapes 2 What is the value of 'bumpdays' in your setup. If it's 1 you might increase to 2 to have more

Re: [Amanda-users] Win32 client portrange...

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:53:40AM -0500, Chris Noon wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to get the win32 client up and running. I followed Kurt Yoder's instructions (below), but amcheck is still timing out. I'm almost certain that it has to do with the tcp/ip ports amanda is using. My server was

samba backups offline

I'm backing up a single W2K machine to my tape server. There are 4 partitions on the windows box. Some nights al 4 partitions are processed normally. Most nights 1 or more of the partitions fail with the query host offline? which obviously it is not as the other partitions are backing up. I've

Re: Smbclient Question

I want to thnak everyone for the samba tips. Everything works fine now. I did have some problems with the white spaces under the Windows naming convention; you know, like //MACHINE/Documents and Settings/user name/My Documents Anyway, I made a share named amanda diretly under the W2K root, and

Re: Amanda wants to dump(8) 'sd2e' instead of '/dev/sd2e'?

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 at 12:47pm, Hauke Fath wrote after upgrading from amanda-2.4.2 to amanda-2.4.2p2 on an NetBSD/i386 1.5+ machine, I see the following in the nightly log: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: heap sd2e lev 0 FAILED [disk sd2e offline on heap?] Try applying the

Amanda+Samba : exclude setting

I've just set up 2.4-2 Samba 2.2.2 on RH7.1 with STT2A IDE 10Gb Travan tape. It seems to work fine, once I realised you had to enable the ide-scsi kernel module and use /dev/nst0 instead of /dev/nht0... (this would be a good addition to the FAQ). I have a few problems, all relating to the

Re: Weird amdump problem on Linux machine: Unable to get an size estimate

Please ignore my previous post, i found what the problem was: the /etc/amandates was a directoy, not a file! (i made a mistake during one of the amcheck messages). I solved the problem checking the /tmp/amanda losg on the client side, they were very helpfull :) JV. --- José Vicente Núñez

timeout and etimeout

Hi, I have a set up where the backup server is backing up a linux box. the first backup went fine, however, since then this linux client has been generating timeout error msgs. I tried to adjust the etimeout on the backup server to 900, 1,800, and 3,000 (the last one seems to be too big, as

Re: [Amanda-users] Win32 client portrange...

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:46:28AM +1100, Jason Thomas wrote: no you just want the udp port that it listens on. and maybe the tcp port. try: start amandad -udp=10800 -no-exit sorry wrong port: 10080 msg08936/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda+Samba : exclude setting

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:01:36PM -, Philip Cooper wrote: It seems to work fine, once I realised you had to enable the ide-scsi kernel module and use /dev/nst0 instead of /dev/nht0... (this would be a good addition to the FAQ). why would this matter, aren't they both block devices?