Re: setting compression 'off' on a DLT4000

2000-12-13 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Matt McManus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20001213 04:00] thus spake: I have now got amanda running very happily on my network. I have a query about how to turn hardware compression 'off' on my Quantum DLT4000 drive. At the moment I use the 'density select' button on the front of the drive, but I

Re: custom barcode labels

2001-04-23 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Ron Snyder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20010423 15:50] thus spake: For those of you with tape changers and barcode readers: are any of you using any software to generate your own custom barcodes? It seems like it might be a bit nicer (for locating/moving tapes around) if the barcode label could

sendbackup: error [/bin/gtar returned 2]

2001-05-02 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, Amanda fails on /root on the tape server with the error in the Subject: line. Any ideas? I just added / on the amanda tape backup server using gtar (1.13.17) with compression. Here is some debug info: amandad: version 2.4.2-19991216-beta1 amandad: build:

Re: sendbackup: error [/bin/gtar returned 2]

2001-05-02 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello John, * John R. Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20010502 15:52] thus spake: Amanda fails on /root on the tape server with the error in the Subject: line. Any ideas? ... Here is some debug info: ... But not enough :-). Weren't there some messages in the FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP

Re: Read attribute dissapears on Irix

2001-06-14 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jan Boshoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20010614 10:27] thus spake: Hi everyone [...] Every once in a while, when running amcheck, it returns with an error stating that a filesystem is not readable. Maybe someone else has run into this problem, it only seems to occur on the SGI Irix 6.5

Amanda with VXA tape and autoPAK

2001-06-17 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, I searched the amanda archives but didn't see a conclusive answer to my question: any problem with an autoPAK library with a VXA-1 tape drive (V17 cartridge) driven by Amanda on a Linux box (Redhat-6.2) with a Adaptec AHA-2940U2/W? (This server will be upgraded to RH-7.1 real soon). How

Re: Running amanda as non-root on SGI

2001-07-02 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Brian Cuttler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20010702 14:14] thus spake: I should probably also say that I'm re-building amanda 2.4.2p2 on IRIX 6.5.x (usually 6.5.7m and up, currently installing 6.5.12m on some systems). I have amanda running as a client on 6.5.11 and 6.5.12 and I used the

Re: question about a ADIC Scalar 218 DLT jukebox..

2001-07-30 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
On what OS exactly? I have an adic-218 with a dlt7000 running on irix-6.5.6m and working with amanda-2.5.0 for more than a year now, thanks to patches provided by Thomas Hepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Relevent entries in amanda.conf: runtapes1# number of tapes to be used in a

Re: tape moving commands.

2001-08-08 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Mark P. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20010808 12:50] thus spake: I am an amanda super-newbie. I just got amanda [and on this mailing list] yesterday. Can amanda be used simply to move tapes around and access their various informations remotely? In other words, not to back stuff up. If so, or even

Re: dat compression control, lack thereof

2002-01-19 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Marty Shannon, RHCE ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020119 13:00] thus spake: The proper mechanism for this is obtained by man stinit under recent versions of Linux; Solaris has an analogous mechanism. Other systems probably also have it, but I don't know for sure. To use hardware compression,

Re: Problem backing up SNAP server via Samba

2002-02-15 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Dave Edick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020215 14:28] thus spake: Hi all, I'm in the process of setting up an Amanda backup server to back up a collection of new servers. The Linux and Solaris servers aren't posing any problems so far. But I also have to back up a SNAP 4100 appliance. In my

Re: Backing up index files

2002-03-14 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* John R. Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020314 23:15] thus spake: This looks to me to be a temporary index file that has been removed after tar started. Yup. Is this a problem? ... Nope. If it isn't a problem, is there a way to prevent it? ... You should be able to give GNU

Re: your mail

2002-03-20 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Eric Zylstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020320 14:00] thus spake: I'm running into an old problem--this is in the archives from a few years back. I have done `rm config.*` and rerun configure with the same result. Compiling amanda-2.4.2 (client only) on Irix 6.5.x, with gcc 3.0.3 and

Re: SGI IRIX xfsrestore

2002-08-12 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Anne M. Hammond ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020812 18:54] thus spake: The header at the beginning of the amanda dump file says to restore use dd if=tape bs=32k skip=1 | /sbin/xfsrestore -f... - However, this is producing errors from xfsrestore. and these would be? If you have used a dd

Amanda-2.4.3b4 and tar exclude lists working?

2002-09-03 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, I just installed and configured amanda-2.4.3b4-20020829 on a Linux box with an ecrix tape library and I might be stumbling on some bug and/or feature: relative path exclude list don't seem to be used at all... Perusing in the posts for 2.4.3b4 announcement from Jean-Louis I see that this

Re: Amanda-2.4.3b4 and tar exclude lists working?

2002-09-03 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Frank Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020903 11:18] thus spake: --On Tuesday, September 03, 2002 10:10:18 -0400 Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just installed and configured amanda-2.4.3b4-20020829 on a Linux box with an ecrix tape library and I might

Re: Amanda-2.4.3b4 and tar exclude lists working?

2002-09-03 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Frank Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020903 12:53] thus spake: [...] --- exclude file --- [root@blade]# cat .amanda-gnutar-exclude-list.txt ./diffusion/ ./extra-TLE/ ./F_MRI/ ./MRI_misc/ ./MT/ ./neda/ ./PREVIOUS/ ./relaxo/ ./restore/ ./samson/ ./thalamus/

Re: Amanda-2.4.3b4 and tar exclude lists working?

2002-09-05 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Bonjour Jean-Louis, * Jean-Louis Martineau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020904 20:21] thus spake: Hi Jean-Francois, The relative exclude list works for me. Could you send me all the log files for an amcheck and amdump run? amandad.*.debug selfcheck.*.debug selfcheck.*.exclude

[2.4.3b4-20020829] amrecover problem.

2002-10-03 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
I have stumbled on this in the past but looks like I'm brain dead today...when I run amrecover I get [blade]# cat /tmp/amanda/amindexd.20021003153113.debug amindexd: debug 1 pid 1683 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Thu Oct 3 15:31:13 2002 amindexd: version 2.4.3b4-20020829 amindexd: time 0.000: could

Re: [2.4.3b4-20020829] amrecover problem.

2002-10-03 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jean-Francois Malouin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20021003 16:21] thus spake: I have stumbled on this in the past but looks like I'm brain dead today...when I run amrecover I get Replying to myself...I'm brain dead, but not totally flat-lined (yet)! ;) Turns out that I had a bogus server_args

Re: dumpers exiting with signal 11 in version 2.4.3?

2003-01-05 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, * David Trusty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030105 13:25] thus spake: I have more information on this problem. I see these messages in the 'amdump' file: dumper: logfile.c@202: memory allocation failed (28 bytes requested) dumper: debug.c@345: memory allocation failed (22 bytes

Re: buggy gnutar

2003-01-18 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Joshua Baker-LePain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030117 16:54] thus spake: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 4:17pm, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote So after going through some index files and cleaning them and verifying that amrecover can deal with them I wonder what else might have gone wrong using

Re: LTO Ultrium

2003-01-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, * Martin Oehler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030124 11:52] thus spake: Hi, Jon! Am Fre, 2003-01-24 um 16.27 schrieb Jon LaBadie: Maybe you hit what Gene describes in another posting today. Once a tape has been written to with HW compression, the drive senses it and automatically

amanda refuses to use tapes

2003-03-30 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi, I have amanda version 2.4.3b4-20020829 running on a SGI Origin2000 since last September and even I had a few problems (mainly I was hitting known bugs with tar and exclude lists) the last one just got me stumped and I can't clearly anymore even though I know the answer must be staring at me

Re: amanda refuses to use tapes

2003-03-30 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, * Jon LaBadie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030330 17:02] thus spake: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:32:52PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, I have amanda version 2.4.3b4-20020829 running on a SGI Origin2000 since last September and even I had a few problems (mainly I was hitting

Re: amanda refuses to use tapes

2003-03-30 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi again, * Jon LaBadie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030330 19:10] thus spake: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:32:27PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, * Jon LaBadie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030330 17:02] thus spake: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:32:52PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote

Re: Mailreport debugging

2003-03-31 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jon LaBadie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030331 10:26] thus spake: On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:39:04PM +0200, Mats Blomstrand wrote: In amanda.conf, set mailto to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Yes, i know about that option. But that is not the problem that i have. Sorry for being inprecise. I

sendbackup timeout

2003-04-01 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, I have a directory with which amanda experiences timeouts problems after adding a *lot* of files and directories in it (something of the order of 500,000). How can I increase the timeout value (and which one is it?). I'm running Amanda 2.4.3b4-20020829 (soon to upgraded to 2.4.4) on an

Re: sendbackup timeout

2003-04-02 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi, * Dietmar Goldbeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20030402 02:59] thus spake: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:07:11PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, I have a directory with which amanda experiences timeouts problems after adding a *lot* of files and directories in it (something

Re: LTO1 tapetype

2003-06-19 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030619 16:43]: Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 at 4:57pm, Tom Brown wrote ISTR you saying this is Linux? If so, then 'mt compression 0' should do it. You can check the status by pointing 'tapeinfo' (from the mtx distribution) at

Re: howto disable hardware compression on redhat linux

2003-09-22 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Bruno Negrão [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030922 14:36]: Hi Martinez, The devices /dev/*st0 Various letters in front of st0 mean different things, like no-rewind, no-compress, etc. I already knew that. But I´m asking for what is the exact letter for disabling hardware compression - if

exclude question

2003-10-07 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi, I have a little situation here: a large disk partition (500GB) to be backed up using amanda with LTO 100GB tapes in a STK-L40 library. Trying to break up that partition in chunks less than 100GB is a bit difficult: one subdir contains more than 100GB but also has something close to 2000

include problems with Amanda-2.4.4-20030428?

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi, I'm having strange problems with the include thingy in an entry in my disklist: bullcalf /data/nihpd/nihpd1/data/assembly_0 /data/nihpd/nihpd1/data/assembly { include ./0* exclude ./[1-9]* high-tar } 1 Looking at what got written to tape (a full backup) I see only directories (no files at

Re: include problems with Amanda-2.4.4-20030428?

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello again, Oups, forgot to mention one important fact: the gnutar version: /usr/freeware/bin/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 * Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031124 12:00]: Hi, I'm having strange problems with the include thingy in an entry in my disklist: bullcalf

Re: include problems with Amanda-2.4.4-20030428?

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031124 13:02]: Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, I'm having strange problems with the include thingy in an entry in my disklist: bullcalf /data/nihpd/nihpd1/data/assembly_0 /data/nihpd/nihpd1/data/assembly { include ./0* exclude ./[1-9]* high-tar

Re: include problems with Amanda-2.4.4-20030428?

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031124 14:15]: On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:59:41AM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, I'm having strange problems with the include thingy in an entry in my disklist: bullcalf /data/nihpd/nihpd1/data/assembly_0 /data/nihpd/nihpd1/data/assembly

Re: include problems with Amanda-2.4.4-20030428?

2003-11-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031124 15:23]: On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 02:57:56PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031124 14:15]: On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:59:41AM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, I'm having strange problems

Re: include problems with Amanda-2.4.4-20030428?

2003-11-25 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031125 02:48]: FWIW, I am doing the same thing (splitting the stuff), my DLEs look something like this: host /home/all /home { always-full exclude ./hugemap ./evenhugermap ./*/.sambarecycle } host /home/hugemap /home { always-full include

Re: include problems with Amanda-2.4.4-20030428?

2003-11-25 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031125 11:04]: Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: different than yours. in /.../assembly I have a few thousands of subdirs, 186 of them starts with a '1'. I just calculated their total combined size: 11286948 KB or a little less than 11GB. OK, now look

Re: include problems with Amanda-2.4.4-20030428?

2003-11-26 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031126 06:02]: Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: The relevent sendbackup file for this DLE with include stanza: sendbackup: debug 1 pid 10655570 ruid 666 euid 666: start at Tue Nov 25 04:41:51 2003 /opt/amanda/amanda1/libexec/sendbackup: version 2.4.4p1

Re: include problems with Amanda-2.4.4-20030428?

2003-11-26 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031126 08:26]: Maybe the line 'include ./[1]*' makes a difference? (instead of ./1*) Martin Turns out that the include stanza will show up if it is *after* the dumptype line, ie: bullcalf /data/nihpd/nihpd1/data/assembly_1 /data/nihpd/nihpd1/data/assembly {

Re: include problems with Amanda-2.4.4-20030428?

2003-11-26 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031126 11:17]: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:42:14AM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Turns out that the include stanza will show up if it is *after* the dumptype line, ie: ... ah! A bug? It would be the normal behavior if tar-high contain

Re: SGI amanda install

2004-02-09 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
I didn't see any follow up on this one. Which version of GNU make/automake/autoconf? I remember hitting this but that was years ago on a O200 with irix-6.5.x, x small with a beta amanda regards, jf * Brian Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040206 11:41]: SGI 6.5.19 (both build and

Re: Amanda/MTX/SGI/Jukebox

2004-03-02 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Brian Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040302 15:19]: Hello Amanda users, Sorry that I don't have a better defined question... I think mtx is working correctly but I've got some odd results - most likely my glue config. the cross post. I've installed amanda 2.4.2p2 mtx

Re: build - gtar

2004-03-17 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Brian Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040317 16:40]: IRIX 6.5.19 Amanda 2.4.2p2 I've installed gtar on a new amanda-server, a system that was never a client nor a server before. Currently its only client is itself. This server mounts /usr/local from another system (another IRIX system).

Re: tape device /dev/st0 not responding - RH9

2004-03-30 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Byarlay, Wayne A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040330 11:14]: Greetings all. I have a computer here, that I'm trying to get amanda installed configured on. The OS is RedHat9, and I've got an adaptec SCSI card with a Quantum DLT7000 in there. I know the tape device is fine hardware-wise,

Re: tape device /dev/st0 not responding - RH9

2004-03-30 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Byarlay, Wayne A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040330 11:27]: from dmesg: scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.8 Adaptec 2944 Ultra SCSI adapter aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs blk: queue c14f6214, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask

Re: gnutar and IRIX ACLs

2004-07-31 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040730 11:20]: On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 at 10:50am, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote I find myself forced to use ACLs for a finer-grained permissions setup of a few filesystems (Irix CXFS) and I wonder if any of you had done a similar thing. The irix tar

Re: hp ultrium 100GB lto-1 tape

2004-08-13 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Ernest Byaruhanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040813 10:31]: hello amanda-users, i am a newbie to backups and amanda in particular. i am trying to get the parameters for the HP-Ultrium LTO-1 100/200G tape so that i can paste in amanda.conf. I don't have HP but Seagate and IBM, shouldn't make

Re: hp ultrium 100GB lto-1 tape

2004-08-13 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Ernest Byaruhanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040813 10:57]: On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Ernest Byaruhanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040813 10:31]: hello amanda-users, i am a newbie to backups and amanda in particular. i am trying to get the parameters for the HP

Re: hp ultrium 100GB lto-1 tape

2004-08-13 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Ernest Byaruhanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040813 11:31]: On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: make sure you use a no rewind no compression tape device. i am still fuguring amanda out - where do i specify this? If you mean in amanda.conf then its called 'tapedev

Re: please help - autoloader problem !

2004-08-17 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Ernest Byaruhanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040817 09:11]: hello, On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Christoph Scheeder wrote: Hi you definitly use the wrong wrapperscript for your changer. okay, i have now changed the script from chg-multi to chg-zd-mtx. does anyone have a sample config file for

Re: Problem with includes, with workaround - is this a bug?

2004-09-09 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Andreas Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040909 14:31]: I set my DLE up like this to try and split a 430Gb area so it can fit on my 40Gb tapes, similar to what's described in Chapter 18 of the ALPHA docs, under the size-question: archimedes.atc.no home-a /mnt/san0 {

Re: tar/gzip problems on restore (CRC error, Archive contains obsolescentbase-64 headers...)

2004-10-13 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20041013 09:43]: Alexander Jolk wrote: Toralf Lund wrote: tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers 37800+0 records in 37800+0 records out gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error tar: Child returned

Re: Looking for tape drive suggestions

2004-10-27 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Mike Brodbelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20041027 06:03]: Hi, I've been using Amanda for ages, but the data volume I'm trying to back up has grown, and I'm looking for a new tape drive. Currently, I'm using an internal SCSI Quantum DLT7000, 35Gb native, with Amanda 2.4.2p2 on Debian Woody.

Re: Some questions about Amanda's emailing of backup reports

2005-03-03 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello Matt, * Matt Emmott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050303 11:22]: Hi all, I can't find any documentation on this, but if I'm just missing something, please point me in the right direction, and I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time. 2 questions: First, where can I specify who amanda sends

Re: After make distclean and re install amanda Now get permission error .

2005-04-18 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Chuck Amadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050418 11:17]: Hi reinstalled amanda as Root make distclean As amanda ./configure --( My preferences) As amanada make As Root make install Thus checked /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amcheck ls -al command the output as below: -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk

Re: split disklist aphabetically

2005-05-12 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Luc Lalonde [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050512 12:51]: Hello Folks, What are your recommendations for spliting directories with excludes without having to reorganize directories in a partition that I want to backup? Basically, I want: client /foo/a* dumptype-a client /foo/b*

Re: can not run amanda check

2005-05-27 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Nina Pham [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050527 15:34]: I can't run amcheck, the error message is : amcheck:running as user root instead of general. Then run it as user=general: su general -c /usr/sbin/amcheck @conf@ and replace @conf@ with your specific conf name. I configure amanda to run

Re: What will i do if a backup is not successfull?

2005-06-06 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050603 20:36]: Ryan Pagquil wrote: 2005/6/3, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: man amdump shows: SYNOPSIS amdump config [ host [ disk ]* ]* Hi guys, The scenario is this, one night one of the servers to be backed up hanged and it will not

Re: What will i do if a backup is not successfull?

2005-06-06 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Alexander Jolk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050606 16:17]: Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: su amanda -c /opt/amanda/amanda6/sbin/amdump archival-conf6 bullcalf \ /data/ipl/ipl10/broche/colindata The DLE from the disklist: bullcalf /data/ipl/ipl10/broche/colindata /data/ipl/ipl10/broche

tar returned 2 error???

2005-08-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi, In the last few days I've been getting this error: [/usr/freeware/bin/tar returned 2] in the sendbackup report on a client running 2.4.4p3-20040805 and the whole backup run fails. This is the system disk / on the client. Anyone has run into this before? The client is an O200 SGI

Re: tar returned 2 error???

2005-08-25 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050824 17:08]: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:59:03PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, In the last few days I've been getting this error: [/usr/freeware/bin/tar returned 2] Return code (exit status) 2 seems, I think, to be reserved by tar

Re: Problem with backup

2005-10-18 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi there, * Robert Tilden [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051018 13:14]: I'm having a problem with amanda backups on one node in our group of linux boxes. The error in the daily report reads: node1 / lev -1 FAILED [no estimate] The error in the node1 sendsize.20051018004609.debug file from

Re: Problem with backup

2005-10-18 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Robert Tilden [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051018 15:05]: On Tue, October 18, 2005 12:23 pm, Jean-Francois Malouin said: Hi there, * Robert Tilden [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051018 13:14]: I'm having a problem with amanda backups on one node in our group of linux boxes

Re: distlist order ?

2005-10-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, * FM [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051024 12:40]: Hello, Is there a way to backup backup server after all the others server and not in the same time ? I have perf issue because the backup server is backed up in the same time as the other servers ? If you have a tape changer with multiple

Re: distlist order ?

2005-10-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051024 13:59]: On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:13:46PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, * FM [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051024 12:40]: Hello, Is there a way to backup backup server after all the others server and not in the same time ? I have

2.4.5: dumping directly to tape failure: no retry?

2005-11-01 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi, [ BTW, I noticed a thread addressing this question yesterday or so but I don't want to hijack it... ] I just upgraded to 2.4.5 and noticed that if a DLE is sent directly to tape it is not retried if it hits EOT (a full dump that won't fit in the holdding space). I have runtapes = 10 and

Re: 2.4.5: dumping directly to tape failure: no retry?

2005-11-01 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051101 16:02]: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:55:28PM -0500, Scott R. Burns wrote: I observed this same issue with: 2.4.4p4 NetBSD/i386 HP DAT24*6 My last DLE was than the remaining tape, but would fit entirely on the next empty tape in the

Re: 2.4.5: dumping directly to tape failure: no retry?

2005-11-02 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
. Thanks a bunch, jf On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:37:02AM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: dumper: driver: result time 23806.848 from dumper0: FAILED 00-00031 -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE

Re: 2.4.5: dumping directly to tape failure: no retry?

2005-11-03 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051102 07:58]: * Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051101 19:56]: Hi Jean-Francois, Thanks for the good report. The problem is the result of the dumper, which is FAILED, in that case the dump is not retried. Could you try

more problems with dumper/taper/flush retries failures

2005-11-09 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Amanda-2.4.5 WITH the dumper retry patch provided by Jean-Louis Martineau on Nov 1st. I'm having a LOT of problems right now with failed retries and to me it makes no sense that amanda should not be able to dump/tape or flush an image of a DLE weather it's in the holding disk or still sitting

Re: more problems with dumper/taper/flush retries failures

2005-11-09 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello Joshua, * Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051109 07:07]: On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 at 6:26am, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote I'm having a LOT of problems right now with failed retries and to me it makes no sense that amanda should not be able to dump/tape or flush an image of a DLE

planner timeouts and udp packet size

2005-12-06 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi, I've got this amanda client (server and client at v2.4.5) with a 1.5TB raid splitted/chunked in ~70 DLEs (using gtar) and some of them don't make it to tape as the planner timeouts. Now, would someone be kind enough to jolt my memory as to what is the relationship between UDP packet size and

Re: planner timeouts and udp packet size

2005-12-07 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051207 07:41]: Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:06:19PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: I've got this amanda client (server and client at v2.4.5) with a 1.5TB raid splitted/chunked in ~70 DLEs (using gtar) and some of them don't make

Re: planner timeouts and udp packet size

2005-12-07 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Replying to myself, * Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051207 16:03]: * Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20051207 07:41]: Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:06:19PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: I've got this amanda client (server and client at v2.4.5

Re: amstatus problem

2006-05-01 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060501 13:34]: amstatus doesn't like ':' in diskname because we use at as separator between the hostname and diskname. Anyone know if ':' is a valid character in a hostname? What are the valid characters of a hostname? RFC 952 says: 1. A name

Re: Cannot restore XFS partitions with Amanda 2.4.5

2006-05-23 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* James Lamanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060522 21:52]: Hi. I have a couple of XFS + TAR partitions that I'm backing up onto tape. There are no errors thrown when backing up, however whenever I try to amrestore one of the XFS partition dump files I get the following: # amrestore /dev/nst0

Re: Cannot restore XFS partitions with Amanda 2.4.5

2006-05-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* James Lamanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060523 11:02]: On 5/23/06, Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * James Lamanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060522 21:52]: Hi. I have a couple of XFS + TAR partitions that I'm backing up onto tape. There are no errors thrown when backing up, however

Re: Fiber Channel Library with amanda and linux

2006-06-07 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Anne M. Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060606 13:59]: Is anyone using a fiber channel tape drive or library with amanda and linux? We have a STK-L180 library and LTO drives (all fibre channel) on a SAN and even though it's not in use by amanda right now I did some tests when we got the unit

Re: irix 6.5 install help

2006-07-03 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi, * Sung, Raymond CW [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060627 10:40]: Dear Amanda Users, I'm new to using makefiles and I need to install the client part of Amanda on an IRIX 6.5 machine. I was away all week last week so I'll jump in even though this thread seems to be dead. I have an irix box

Re: making xfs dump work

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Julian C. Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060713 15:44]: I've got a Linux workstation which uses xfs as one of its volumes (/dev/md2), but which I can't back up using Amanda because Amanda appears to call /sbin/dump on it, which under Linux blows up (/sbin/dump is ext2/3 only). How do I make

Re: making xfs dump work

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Oups! Forget that! xfsdump is a package by itself on Debian. Mea Culpa jf * Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060713 15:49]: * Julian C. Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060713 15:44]: I've got a Linux workstation which uses xfs as one of its volumes (/dev/md2), but which I can't back

all of a sudden all estimates are off...

2006-07-25 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, I'm experiencing estimates that are way off with the result that level 0s and 1s use the same space on tapes and now obviously that throws the balance completely and every amdump eats through a lot of tapes. I'm using calcsize in my DLEs but it's the first time that the estimate are

Re: all of a sudden all estimates are off...

2006-07-25 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060725 16:22]: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:13:08PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, I'm experiencing estimates that are way off with the result that level 0s and 1s use the same space on tapes and now obviously that throws the balance

more fun with levels and estimates fubar

2006-07-27 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Continuing with my estimate saga... What would cause a level 1 backup of a DLE with gnutar be as big as a full? Estimates are done with calcsize and gnutar is 1.13.25 with amanda-2.4.5 Could it be that the gnutar-lists file is corrupted? Looking at them I see that they all have the same size for

Re: more fun with levels and estimates fubar

2006-07-28 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060727 12:11]: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:26:28AM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Continuing with my estimate saga... What would cause a level 1 backup of a DLE with gnutar be as big as a full? Estimates are done with calcsize and gnutar

Re: Amanda migration from SGI-Irix to Linux

2006-08-11 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Luc Lalonde [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060811 11:52]: Hello Folks, I'm getting this error when I try to use the tapes (LTO1) on a StorageTek L40 Jukebox: st1: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. st1: Incorrect block size. st1: Incorrect block size. scsi(0): Resetting Cmnd=0x01004a871b00,

2.5.1 parsing conf problems?

2006-09-07 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, I had my first compilation try at amanda-2.5.1 today on a SGI irix-6.5 and apart from the fact that I had to add '-lgen' to LDFLAGS while configuring everything went smooth. I read the release notes on the wiki on the new auth scheme and updated inetd.conf and the amandahost file and after

Re: 2.5.1 parsing conf problems?

2006-09-08 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Ronan KERYELL [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060908 06:41]: On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:34:36 -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jean-Francois Hello, I had my first compilation try at amanda-2.5.1 Jean-Francois today on a SGI irix-6.5 and apart from the fact that I Jean

Re: 2.5.1 parsing conf problems?

2006-09-08 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060908 15:01]: On Friday 08 September 2006 09:46, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Ronan KERYELL [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060908 06:41]: On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:34:36 -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jean-Francois Hello, I had my

Re: 2.5.1 parsing conf problems?

2006-09-11 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
something. attached. regards, jf Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: I've started from scratch and followed the order of keyword as explained on the wiki and I still get the error: line XXX: configuration keyword expected line XXX: end of line is expected where XXX is the 1

Re: 2.5.1 bsdtcp auth under irix: which ports?

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Sep 12 10:00:49 2006 Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, Thanks to some Jean-Louis who provided a patch to make amanda parse properly the config file when running irix-6.5.x Now next problem: amcheck complains that selfcheck failed due to connection refused. I wonder

amrecover 2.5.1

2006-09-21 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, amanda-2.5.1 on irix-6.5.x using bsdtcp auth amrecover don't want to play ball: yorick 130# /opt/amanda/amanda10/sbin/amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1. Contacting server on yorick ... 220 Setting restore date to today (2006-09-21) 200 Scanning /holddisk/conf10/stk_180... 200 200 Use

Re: amrecover 2.5.1

2006-09-21 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060921 13:04]: Jean-Francois, Could you send the amrecover.timestamp.debug and amindexd.timestamp.debug files? here they come attached. jf Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, amanda-2.5.1 on irix-6.5.x using bsdtcp auth

Re: amrecover 2.5.1

2006-09-22 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060921 13:04]: Jean-Francois, Could you send the amrecover.timestamp.debug and amindexd.timestamp.debug files? here they come attached. jf Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote

Re: amrecover question

2006-09-22 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* McGraw, Robert P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060922 10:58]: I have upgraded to amanda 2.5.1. I need to restore a file and when I run amrecover I get the following AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1. Contacting server on zorn ... NAK: user root from zorn.math.purdue.edu is not allowed to execute the

2.5.1 nitpicks

2006-09-22 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, I've been testing 2.5.1 for a few days now and I have 2 nitpicks: With 2.4.5 'amtoc -a' produces outputfile with names label_of_tape.toc as per the man page. This doesn't seem to be the case anymore with 2.5.1 where I just get a file called tape.toc. And in the situation where more than

Re: 2.5.1 nitpicks

2006-09-26 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060922 20:16]: Jean-Francois, Could you try this patch? sorry to get back that late... The patched amstat now show the tape usage and amtoc looks fine too. regards, jf Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, I've been testing

Re: amrecover question.

2006-09-26 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Lee, Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060926 16:02]: Sometimes the files you're recovering are on a tape that's no longer in the changer, so you must manually insert it into the changer and mount it to a drive before telling amrecover to continue. I think it would be nice if Amanda could mount

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