Re: gtar version

2007-05-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
'gtar' (not GNUTAR), from any directory in $PATH to the GNU tar binary, e.g., # ln -s /usr/bin/gtar /usr/local/bin/tar (assuming that the sunfreeware package installed the binary at /usr/local/bin/tar). Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc

Re: gtar version

2007-05-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:46:21PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: I'm not entirely clear on your situation, but I *think* that you should be able to add a link, named 'gtar' (not GNUTAR), from any directory in $PATH to the GNU tar binary, e.g., # ln -s /usr/bin/gtar /usr/local/bin/tar

Re: planner: estimate of level 1 failed.

2007-05-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:04:47PM -0300, Bruce S. Skinner wrote: I'm only getting level 0 dumps for all my disks as estimates for level 1 are failing. I'm using gnu tar to do the dumps. I've included some excerpts pertaining to an example disk (/boot) from two days consecutive amdump log

Re: amverify lockup

2007-05-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
no mouse, which seems to imply X. X behaves very badly when it's heavily paged, so if 'mt' or some other application is burning through CPU and RAM, you might see the behavior you've described. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
be appreciated -- anyone want to produce a configure.in patch and/or edit up the wiki? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: changerfile

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
of thing a lot of people need to do (speak up!), I can add --with-mt and --with-mtx options. Dustin [1] Meaning something like, Everyone knows mtx is always in /foo/bar/frob/bin on Mynix 4.3.2! -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: chunker error

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php And see if that works better? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Fwd: Amanda newbie with permissions error on labeling and connecting to client

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
/DailySet1/slots' if that doesn't help. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amflush problem with 2.5.2-20070508

2007-05-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
? for i in `find /holddisk/conf4/stk_80 -type f`; do echo $i; head -n1 $i; done Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Amanda - unable to create temporary directory

2007-05-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
, and / - ufsdump not running as the correct user - selinux or other kernel-based security mechanisms As Jon said, the problem is on the Amanda client, not on the server. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: feature request : infos about holdingdisk-content

2007-05-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
1 knuth /tmp/amanda/prefix/etc 20070529 'amadmin holding delete' can then be used to delete files from the holding disk and update indexes appropriately, if you'd like. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: feature request : infos about holdingdisk-content

2007-05-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:54:51AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Is that documented somewhere? Only in the manpages at the moment. It's on my wiki todo list. When was it added? 2.5.2. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http

Re: Configure error

2007-05-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
=USER to your invocation of ./configure ;) Amanda needs to know the user and group it will run as -- probably ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=amanda ... But you should *definitely* look at ./configure --help to see what other options you'll be interested in! Dustin -- Dustin J

Re: amdump - backup error

2007-05-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
for chipping in and answering others' questions while you're asking your own! -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amdump - backup error

2007-05-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Amanda needs (and my GNU tar install doesn't include anything named 'backup'..) Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amdump - backup error

2007-05-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
... See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda.conf#DUMPTYPE_SECTION You want to use 'program GNUTAR' in your dumptypes. Amanda has detected 'backup' as the local DUMP implementation (other, completely different programs are called 'backup' on other systems) Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell

Re: FW: amrecover problem

2007-05-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
(stderr, path_on_disk_slash: %s\n, path_on_disk_slash); nb_found = 0; -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amdump - backup error

2007-05-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
(http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Test_environment_with_virtual_tapes), otherwise, the rest were already present in there... Which dumptypes are you using in your disklist? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: autoflush doesn't?

2007-05-31 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
-lR /path/to/holding/. Thanks! Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: autoflush doesn't?

2007-05-31 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
a datestamp. But that was fixed on 5/15 (r329), and you're not using usetimestamps=no, so I'm somewhat stumped. Please also send the output of 'amadmin Daily holding list -l'. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: autoflush doesn't?

2007-05-31 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
you apply the attached patch and see if it helps? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/ Index: server-src/holding.c === --- server-src/holding.c

Re: amtapetype - silly thing I tried

2007-06-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
, amtapetype runs until the OS returns ENOSPC (No space available) and then terminates, probably with a pretty accurate description of the amount of space available on the partition. Sound about right? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http

Re: autoflush doesn't?

2007-06-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:31:27PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: if (strcmp(dl-name, workdir-d_name) == 0) { I note this patch didn't make it into the Amanda 2.5.2-20070531 snapshot. The general practice has been to post fixes and wait

Re: chg-zd-mtx can't find mtx command.

2007-06-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
on a machine without mtx installed, so it recorded the path to mtx as just 'mtx'. Then chg-zd-mtx, assuming it is given a fully qualified path, checks that the file exists. Because 'mtx' is an unqualified filename, the check fails. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software

Re: old server 2.4.2p2 fails to backup newer client 2.5.1p1

2007-06-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
: 1299 conf_init_string(conf_data[CNF_AUTH], bsd); Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Amanda 2.5.1p3 gnutar permissions trouble

2007-06-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
, the wiki page on the topic: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_Partitions_Mounted_via_NFS -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY

2007-06-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
that are not already posted there. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Amanda crashes if /tmp/amanda is full

2007-06-13 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
will simply stop writing debug messages as you've described. If someone would like to do some additional investigation and suggest a fix or even submit a patch, that would be great! Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: OT: LTO Barcodes

2007-06-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
://wiki.zmanda.com (see Useful Amanda Tools), either as a link or as text included in a new article, with any necessary accompanying documentation. Be sure to give yourself credit! Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Virtual tape to Real tape cycles

2007-06-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
to generate some additional developer documentation. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Virtual tape to Real tape cycles

2007-06-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
the door to more complex migrations down the road. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Backup all drives on server

2007-06-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
for* newly-added filesystems, and send an email (rather than adding them directly). Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: debug files for restore

2007-06-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
should see debug files for amrestore on the machine where you ran it -- the client. The server will produce several other debug files as it provides data to the client. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: suggestion for a disk-to-disk backup server

2007-06-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
a [ hostname [ diskname ..] ] argument, if you only want to dump certain DLEs. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Problems after splitting up a DLE

2007-06-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
the more unlikely that Amanda itself is somehow modifying that library. This is probably something you should take up with the FreeBSD folks. You can feel free to direct them to this list, or me personally, if they have any questions. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software

Encryption questions

2007-07-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
encryption, potentially using GPG. Please see http://wiki.zmanda.com for information on how to install and configure it. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: suggestion for a disk-to-disk backup server

2007-07-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
-multi) supply their own tapedev. The best solution, in this case, is to completely disable the changer, too: amdump -o tapedev=/no/such/dev -o tpchanger= I hope that helps. I'll work on the documentation. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc

Re: suggestion for a disk-to-disk backup server

2007-07-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
to Amanda, rather than leaving her to use tapedev. Ok, maybe we just need to document that when someone overrides tapedev they should also override tpchanger if they have one. See the attached patch. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc

Re: amanda server on Mac OS X ?

2007-07-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
did some work on this a while back. Everything that I understand is summarized on that page. To answer your specific question, you can run an Amanda server on a Mac, with the caveat that Mac OS X itself doesn't support any tape drives. Clients work great. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell

Re: amanda server on Mac OS X ?

2007-07-17 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
a lot easier. My apologies for my own hand-waviness at throwing that information out there in my original email with no supporting evidence! As for BSDs in general -- Apple has basically *removed* support that's available in the base BSD systems, so no worries. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell

Last Day To Vote! - SourceForge Community Choice Award

2007-07-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Just a reminder that this is the last day for voting in the Community Choice Award. If you haven't already, please cast your vote at http://sourceforge.net/awards/cca/vote.php Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Multiple Tape Devices ?

2007-07-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
specify a single tapetype). These are all limits we'd like to remove, but they're all also very difficult to remove. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Multiple Tape Devices ?

2007-07-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
: http://www.amanda.org/docs/rait.html http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Set_Up_RAIT_(Redundant_Array_of_Independent_Tapes) I should have mentioned RAIT, but note that with two tape drives RAIT will only do mirroring, not striping. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software

Re: amtypetype taking 51 hours??

2007-07-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
the details of your tape device, but keep in mind that amtapetype does things that are not usual for a tape device, and that for enormous tapes, it can, indeed, take a while. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Question to: Friday tape question - Top 10

2007-08-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
-- Amanda will do her level best -- but it should not be a surprise that level best is not always good enough, especially when unexpected things happen. I think the bottom line is: this is your Wednesday email telling you to buy more tapes ;) Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage

Re: bugs: amanda server's ip have to add in client host file?

2007-08-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
, for all machines? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Client backup fails with Timeout error

2007-08-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
) Amanda Report hal2/mnt/hdb1/Can_Fin_photos lev 1 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] Could you post the debug logs? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]

2007-08-02 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
upgrading? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Client backup fails with Timeout error

2007-08-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:18:52PM -0400, Vytas Janusauskas wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: Could you post the debug logs? Hi Dustin, Attached are the log files. If there is anything else required please let me know. Just FYI, those are the Amanda log files, not the debug logs. Anyway

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
on the compilation problems with 2.5.2p1? What OS/architecture? What error(s) did you see? Thanks! Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
and place it somewhere I can download it, and give me the url in private email, I'll see if I can figure out what's going on. Thanks for the bug report -- ideally Amanda should build on just about anything that smells vaugely like UNIX. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage

Re: Changed network address on server, and clients not working

2007-08-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: ssh tunneling from wherever

2007-08-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
, unless this is a months-long conference :) Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Amanda client on SCO Openserver

2007-08-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
. Unless a SCO user speaks up here (come out, come out, lurkers!), I think your best bet is to look for general advice on compiling from source, particularly relating to gnulib. Sorry I can't be more help.. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc

Re: a client disappeared

2007-08-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
changed Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: 2 tape drives?

2007-08-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
drives) This actually just came up: http://marc.info/?t=11857373941r=1w=2 Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: tar dumps, performance

2007-08-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
is sent to the server in a stream parallel to the data stream, where the dumper writes it to the gnu-tar index files directory, possibly compressing it first. I hope that helps! Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: 2 tape drives?

2007-08-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
and will not be here too soon. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: 2 tape drives?

2007-08-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
a similarly configured Amanda to recover your data. In particular, if one of your tape drives dies, you won't be able to[1] reassemble any of the dumps on striped tapes. All in all, none of these are showstoppers, but they're worth considering. Dustin [1] not easily, anyway. -- Dustin J

Re: how to notify syslog the backup execution result by amanda

2007-08-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
, Takashi Kurakata wrote: Hello all, I want to notify syslog(ex. /var/log/messages) the backup execution result by amanda. Has this been done?$B!!(BPlease teach how to have achieved it in case of being. Thanks in advance. Takashi Kurakata -- Dustin J. Mitchell

Re: amandates ?!

2007-08-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
-client.conf should do the trick. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda-client.conf You can change the default with a one-line patch to common-src/conffile.c, if you'd rather. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: tar dumps, performance

2007-08-13 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
/^\\.//' the output of which is also sent to the server (on the indexfd). Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: gtar program still running after backup failed

2007-08-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
for killing such processes. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: gtar program still running after backup failed

2007-08-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
, but with enough time to correct any errors before heading home for dinner. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amverify reports problems

2007-08-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
these errors before. It's worth noting that amverify is basically a shell script that uses these tools itself. The 0+0 in lines are from 'dd', and indicate that it couldn't read anything from the tape at that particular point. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software

Re: config issue

2007-08-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
you build Amanda. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amdump not working

2007-08-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
disktype for this client. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amdump not working

2007-08-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
is compatible, but on 10.4 and above, you should just use GNU tar. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amtape question

2007-08-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
DailyDump slot 1 Try running '/opt/amanda/libexec/chg-multi' manually? Any suggestions as to where start looking for this? I've already confirmed that I have the GNU version of mt installed. chg-multi doesn't use 'mtx' -- you probably want chg-zd-mtx. -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage

Re: Question about performance

2007-08-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 8/30/07, Mario Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, with amanda running in the remote server, to perform the same backup during the nights takes almost 6 hrs. I am not compressing the information, it is just sending the raw backup through the network. It sounds like your VPN connection is

Re: amdump not working

2007-09-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/4/07, Maya Bercovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that launchd replaces xinetd. Do I have to delete the amanda entry for xinetd? Yes -- I'm not sure what happens if both are present. You may also want to look in your system log for launchd-related messages, although it's not very

Re: amdump not working

2007-09-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/4/07, Chris Hoogendyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm kind of shooting in the dark here (not having tried to set up amanda client on my Mac desktop yet), but when I installed Timbuktu, I had to open a Timbuktu specific port in the Mac OS X firewall. If Amanda is coming in on another port,

Re: etimeout ignored?

2007-09-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/4/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting, I'm running 2.5.1p1-2.1 from Debian packages, and I get: $ amgetconf offsite etimeout amgetconf: getconf_str: np is not a CONFTYPE_STRING|CONFTYPE_IDENT: 26 I'm not entirely sure what this means. I'm thinking that this is a

Re: etimeout ignored?

2007-09-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/4/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heres the function from amanda-2.5.1p1/server-src/conffile.c: snip I'm sorry -- I read 2.5.2p1 in your initial message. You're right -- it's a bug, but that file has been changed rather significantly and moved to common-src/ since 2.5.1p1, and

Re: amdump not working

2007-09-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Do you mind posting the debug logs from the client? It might be easiest to blow away everything in /tmp/amanda (or whatever AMANDA_DBGDIR is), run a dump, and then post the files that appear there. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: amdump not working

2007-09-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/6/07, Maya Bercovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6 Sep 2007, at 00:04, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: Do you mind posting the debug logs from the client? It might be root# cat amadmin.20070906110557.debug Hmm -- did you run 'amadmin' on the client? It's a server program, so that wouldn't

Re: Restoring from a holding disk?

2007-09-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/7/07, Josh Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I checked the wiki and Google and couldn't find an answer. How do I restore from files on a holding disk if the dump has been split across multiple chunks on the holding disk? snip I can restore from alva._home.4 using amrestore as normal:

Re: amrestore and tape changers: has it changed since 2.4.4p3?

2007-09-13 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/13/07, Francis Galiegue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One question though: is it really the role of amrecover to drive the tape changer? Isn't that done on the server side? What if I decide to upgrade the server to the latest 2.5.x but leave clients with 2.4.x? Yes, that's correct -- I was

Re: migrate amanda to new server

2007-09-20 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/20/07, fedora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My existing amanda version is 2.5.1p3. If I want to install amanda version 2.5.2 on my new box, would it be caused trouble? I don't expect so, but I'm not 100% confident in that proclamation. If possible, it would be prudent not to migrate and

Re: 2.5.2p1 build problems on FreeBSD

2007-09-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/24/07, Eric Schnoebelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beat up some of the developers for using non-portable code??? :D That'd be me, and I've been suitably castigated. It's fixed in subversion, and will be included in the next release. The workaround Eric gave should do until then.

Re: backup disk and compression

2007-09-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/25/07, Simpson, Kenneth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - is it possible to run amanda such that it backups up to disk instead of a tape? Sure -- we call it 'vtapes'. See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Set_Up_Virtual_Tapes and the wiki in general for more information. Dustin --

Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files

2007-09-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Just a guess -- is this a Linux machine that recently had hardware added/removed? If so, the device numbers may have changed for that partition, leading tar to think that all files have been changed. Gene Heskett chased down such a bug several months ago. Other than that, I can't see how this

Re: amfetchdump inventory mode

2007-09-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/27/07, Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you're right that it is manually feasable. However conceptually simple the task is, I feel that potential mistakes are bound to happen, particularly when doing a restore under pressure! Remember, you have the mob^H^H^Husers on

Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files

2007-09-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/27/07, John E Hein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed. I was looking for the format documented in the .info pages for gnutar, but couldn't find it. Not to toot my own horn, but there's a tool to display/edit these numbers in the tar scripts/ directory. It's available via CVS at

Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files

2007-09-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/27/07, John E Hein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And maybe adding a devno changed check in amcheck would be nice - the client has the gnutar-list files, so it would require some work in the client side of amcheck. This might be an interesting addition to the GNU Tar application,

Re: trying another idea... the --without-ipv6 config option

2007-09-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
I expect that will help you out. IPv6 support is a little tricky -- ./configure detects libc- and kernel-based IPv6 support -- as in, do the relevant socket functions exist. Unfortunately, on a system where these pieces are in place, but the actual admin-level configuration (either on the host

Re: Amanda exclusions

2007-10-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 10/5/07, Johan Booysen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What confuses me is that it's not really clear to me how amanda appends what you want to exclude to disklist entries. Like, if I have the following disklist entries: backupclientname/usr/local/clientscomp-tar backupclientname

Re: with-db=text solved remaining problems on Solaris 9 systems

2007-10-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 10/5/07, Craig Dewick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted to report that since I changed the configuration of Amanda on the Solaris 9 boxes to use '--with-db=text' instead of '--with-db=db' everything has begun to work properly and backups of the three Solaris 9 systems are operating as

Re: testing with amanda.

2007-10-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 10/5/07, Craig Dewick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Krahn, Anderson wrote: Seems that everytime I run a backup Amanda expects a new tape for another one. Standard behaviour is to use a new tape for each run. There might be a way to have a tape used for multiple runs but

Re: problem building 2.5.2p1 on Cobalt raq-4i server appliance

2007-10-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 10/6/07, Craig Dewick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: I have: /usr/include/netinet/in.h: typedef uint16_t in_port_t; Ah I've found this exists on my Raq-4i also. 8-) Looking at the compiler output again, I might be interpreting the errors

Re: backup is done , but they are not in tar file format !!!!

2007-10-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 10/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just set up Disk Based Amanda backup , and every thing is fine, I can do backup my files from remote computer, but backed up files are not in tar format, here is my config, would you please let me know why backed up files are not

Re: backup is done , but they are not in tar file format !!!!

2007-10-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 10/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you, I could open the files with dd and then pipe it to tar command. is there any way to just create the tar file, I don't want to use dd for restoring my backup ? is there any benefit of using dd ? The headers store information

Re: AManda Virtual Tape Manager (amvtm)

2007-10-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/28/07, Ronan Keryell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've written a small script to help us to use AMANDA on removable disks. It is in use for 6 months and is helpful, so it may be useful for someone else too. :-) We'd love to have a link to this on the wiki (http://wiki.zmanda.com). It looks

Re: problem building 2.5.2p1 on Cobalt raq-4i server appliance

2007-10-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 10/7/07, Craig Dewick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing a proper search through all the header files has produced no match for 'in_port_t' anywhere, not even in /usr/include/netinet/in.h (which I have included as an attachment so you can see what is in that file). OK -- so on systems without

Re: mutiple network interfaces

2007-10-09 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 10/9/07, Krahn, Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I tell Amanda to use a specific network interface if 2 exist on the system. You'll need to adjust the routing configuration of your machine -- Amanda just uses the usual IP-level sockets interface. Dustin -- Storage Software

Re: [amanda-2.5.2p1] Bug in chg-zd-mtx: prefix Missing

2007-10-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Thanks for reporting that! There were actually two more changers with this bug -- I've attached an updated patch, and will commit it shortly. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com chg-prefix.patch Description: Binary data

Re: Amanda failing on sendsize

2007-10-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
even without debug symbols, you should be able to get a backtrace from gdb. Do you mind sending that on? Note that there have been a *lot* of bugfixes since 2.5.1-p3 -- so many I don't even recall if something like this was among them. That said, the backtrace should help us find the culprit.

Re: Amanda failing on sendsize

2007-10-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 10/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: even without debug symbols, you should be able to get a backtrace from gdb. Do you mind sending that on? My bad, here it is. Hmm .. not so helpful after all. I configure with ./configure CFLAGS=-O0 -ggdb ... to get debugging

Re: problems with chg-zd-mtx and using 2 drives

2007-10-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 10/16/07, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, line 389 is a line from which mtx would be executed. It is the only place where mtx would be executed and it is only called to from three other places in the script. When called, the command name is passed as $MTX. From the message this

Re: problems with chg-zd-mtx and using 2 drives

2007-10-16 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 10/16/07, Krahn, Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are the debug logs: 15:17:56 Running: /usr/local/sbin/mtxRunning: status 15:17:56 Exit code: 1 Stderr: cannot open SCSI device '/dev/scsi/changer/c3t3d1' - Permission denied 15:17:56 Exit (2) - none no slots available

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