Re: Autoflush / Taper questions [was: How to priorize DLEs?]

2014-12-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 12/19/2014 02:39 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: Following and researching Debra Baddorf's thread raised some questions in my mind. In one posting, JLM said: On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 01:16:32PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: ... It autoflush is set, they should be flushed first. All flush

Re: Autoflush / Taper questions [was: How to priorize DLEs?]

2014-12-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 12/19/2014 05:28 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 03:20:09PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 12/19/2014 02:39 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: Following and researching Debra Baddorf's thread raised some questions in my mind. In one posting, JLM said: On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 01

Re: Leaving dumps on the holding disk?

2015-01-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/25/2015 10:27 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: My amanda server has a really large holding disk, because disk is cheap and because lots of disk striping generally equals better write performance. The usual restore operation I have to do is pulling things off of last night's backup, which

Re: Trouble with libUtil.so

2015-01-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jens, Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis On 01/26/2015 10:00 AM, Jens Berg wrote: Hi list, I compiled amanda 3.3.7 from source which completed successfully. However, each time I run a command which utilizes libUtil.so, e.g. amlabel or amcheck I get the following error message: /usr/bin/perl:

Re: amanda 2.6.1p2-8 issue

2015-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Why upgrade to an old version? You should upgrade again. It's hard to say something because you didn't posted enough information. I will guess is that amanda need more tape space to do the backup according to your configuration, you should increase runtapes. Jean-Louis On 02/03/2015 03:07

Re: amanda 2.6.1p2-8 issue

2015-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Lozitskiy -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 9:38 AM To: dmitry.lozits...@asparona.com; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: amanda 2.6.1p2-8 issue Why upgrade to an old version? You should upgrade again. It's hard

Re: S3 bucket at region s3-eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) not possible

2015-01-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I didn't knew about this new authorization mechanism. I will add it to amanda, one of the next amanda version will have it. Jean-Louis On 01/15/2015 05:49 AM, Dominik Schips wrote: Hi, I use Amanda 3.3.6 (Community Edition) with a CentOS 6.6 host (x86_64). Never had any problems with the use

Re: amcheck 0 problems, but timeout on reply pipe

2015-01-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You get error at estimate or at backup time? Look at the time in the sendsize and sendbackup debug file to find which one is slow. On 01/21/2015 02:40 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Folks, I have an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system running Amanda 3.3.6 server backing up a Solaris 10 system with Amanda

Re: sw_vers not found on FreeBSD

2015-01-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/14/2015 06:34 AM, Toomas Aas wrote: I just installed a new Amanda server, version 3.3.6 on FreeBSD 10.1 amd64. There seems to be a cosmetic issue during selfcheck, client tries to execute something called /usr/bin/sw_vers, which does not exist (snippet of selfcheck.debug attached).

Re: amrecover 3.3.1 fails to correctly handle compressed archives from Amanda server 2.6.1

2015-01-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Older server always do the decompression. In newer version (3.3.x), server compression is decompressed on the server and client compression is decompressed on the client. This bug is fixed in 3.3.6 Jean-Louis On 01/21/2015 03:41 AM, Schoepflin, Markus wrote: Hello, I'm facing an odd

Re: notify when library is running out of tapes

2015-02-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 02/18/2015 01:17 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: (a)oops, I didn’t mean to write plural. Just singular. amadmin config tape (b) the flag doesn’t work for me.I’m at version 3.3.7. RedHat; I compiled from a tar ball. The flag is completely ignored. I wonder what makes

Release of Amanda-3.3.7p1

2015-02-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Documentation can be found at * http://wiki.zmanda.com Jean-Louis Martineau

Re: separating dumpers and holdingdisks

2015-02-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 02/12/2015 11:05 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: How are multiple holding disks used? Do multiple dumpers write to separate holding disks in parallel? yes Is it possible to configure this? no, it is always done. thanks, Stefan

Re: Trouble with libUtil.so

2015-02-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 02/15/2015 10:46 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 15.02.2015 um 12:09 schrieb Eric Björkvall: Thanks! This patched also fixed the problem with libUtil.dylib that I had on x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0 ( Mac OS X 10.10.2 ). Had to install swig with homebrew first, seems to be working now. Will

Re: Trouble with libUtil.so

2015-02-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Stefan, I made a new 3.3.7p1 release!!! It also include a new fix for swig-3.0.5. I appreciate if you can test it before I announce it to mailing list. The fix in the comment #6 to require swig is not required. The swig files should be correctly generated this time. You can download it

Re: Recovering from test backup gives error: amidxtaped: critical (fatal): Insecure dependency in unlink while running setgid at /usr/local/share/perl/5.18.2/Amanda/Changer/disk.pm line 480.

2015-03-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What is setgid? There should be nothing setgid when running amrecover/amidxtaped. Jean-Louis On 03/20/2015 01:10 PM, Schlacta, Christ wrote: So Running an amrecover after following the 15 minute guide gives me a strange error, and I'm unable to recover.. summary: Add files to backup using

Re: amvault: copying backups to new tape format

2015-03-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
--src-timestamp 20150208180002 --fulls-only --dst-changer vtapes-on-spool --label-template VTAPE-%%% daily and the “from” changer was the main one in the configuration. Deb Baddorf Fermilab On Dec 5, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: It is a lot easier

Re: amvault - must host be in disk list still?

2015-03-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Debra, The Dle must be in the disklist to be vaulted. You can keep them in the disklist with 'strategy skip' so that new backup are not done. Jean-Louis On 03/05/2015 07:09 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: I’m testing out AMVAULT for eventually copying some LTO2 tapes to LTO5 (with VTAPES in

Re: 3.3.1 tape specification on NetBSD?

2015-03-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Greg, Looks like your amanda does not support tape device. Check for the configuration log file (config.log) to find why. Maybe some required package are not installed. Jean-Louis On 03/24/2015 09:20 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: I've been quiet, mostly because our amanda installs have been working

Re: 3.3.1 tape specification on NetBSD?

2015-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Greg, I committed that patch. amanda should print: error opening device 'tape:/dev/nst0': Device type tape is not known Jean-Louis On 03/24/2015 10:37 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: Thanks very much for the hint. It would be nice if instead of that error message one got you tried to use a tape:

Re: problem with restoring dump gzipped on client-side

2015-03-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
release. Jean-Louis On 03/30/2015 01:25 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: On Mar 30, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: On 03/30/2015 04:05 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi all, I've been using Amanda v2.5 for years an switched to v3.3.6 on freshly installed FC21 server

Re: problem with restoring dump gzipped on client-side

2015-03-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 03/30/2015 04:05 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi all, I've been using Amanda v2.5 for years an switched to v3.3.6 on freshly installed FC21 server and all clients (SLES11) a few days ago. My configuration contains the definition define dumptype my-dump { global auth ssh

Re: Re-occurence of tcpm_recv_token: invalid size

2015-03-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
it can be because a subprocess write garbage to the socket. Check the debug files. Jean-Louis On 03/30/2015 02:18 PM, Glen Eustace wrote: A number of weeks ago, I posted a query regarding the failure of one of our servers with the error ERROR Request to x failed: tcpm_recv_token:

Re: Behavior when no tape in the library is free

2015-04-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jason, Which taperscan are you using? The default 'traditional' read all slots. Try the 'lexical' or 'oldest'. Jean-Louis On 04/02/2015 02:20 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: I'm running 3.3.6 (but could easily upgrade if it would help). For a long time I've been wondering about amanda's

Re: Is this list dead?

2015-05-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amrecover can remove everything in the directory you restore to, so it must not be /, it should always be an empty directory. Debra, what you say doesn't make sense, if the dle is /var then the /var path is not in the backup so it can't be restored. But if the dle is / with and include or

Re: Is this list dead?

2015-05-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/07/2015 04:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Thats odd Paul. I was sitting in /home/gene/linucxcnc, and it created a gene/linuxcnc directory for the recovery. when i asked it to recover the linuxcnc subdir of /home/gene. Which dle are you restoring, what is the path inside the dle? Are you

Re: Excluding AutoFS 'directories' when using tar

2015-06-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amanda.conf Konsole output exclude [ list | file ][[optional][append][ string]+] Konsole output For GNU-tar, exclude expressions must always be specified as relative to the top-level directory of the DLE, and must start with ./. See the manpages for individual

Re: ampgsql - ignores amanda-client.conf ?

2015-06-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man ampgsql Konsole output STATEDIR Directory for saving state about backups already made. The default is set when Amanda is built by the --with-gnutar-listdir configure option. ampgsql to not use the gnutar_list_dir from amanda-client.conf You must set

Re: amrmtape - what I'm doing wrong?

2015-06-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Look for error in the debug file. Jean-Louis On 21/06/15 09:01 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote: When I try to execute: --8---cut here---start-8--- sudo -u backup amrmtape --cleanup --erase -v alfa alfa-6-100 --8---cut

Re: transition to new tape library

2015-06-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Chris, Define a new changer and set tpchanger to that changer. If you don't already define a changer, then also define one for the old changer. I would also use a different labeling scheme. See: man amanda-changers Jean-Louis On 16/06/15 02:41 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: This ought to be a

Re: Trouble with breaking up large directory

2015-05-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/26/2015 02:20 AM, Alan Murrell wrote: OK, so by way of an update I can't seem to make this work. By way of test, I have tried the following in my DLE for the Windows server: exclude list /etc/amanda/DailySet1/excludes-server_data in which I made the following entries: ./Accounting

Re: Problems recovering when using amrecover with amgtar

2015-08-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jose, See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-09/msg6.html It is a known bug in gtar-1.27 and 1.28 The bug is already fixed but is not released yet. Downgrade to gtar-1.26 or compile gtar from the git repository. Jean-Louis On 20/08/15 10:25 AM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: Hi,

Re: [Amanda-users] amzfs-sendrecv - restore how?

2015-08-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 31/07/15 02:51 AM, harpingon wrote: Hello This is probably a stupid question, but I'm not finding the answer by searching I'm backing up a SPARC/Solaris 11 server with amzfs-sendrecv via pfexec , and I do get my dumps okay. They show up on the amanda server tape files as ZFS shapshot

Re: meaning of plus (+) in amanda.conf(5)

2015-08-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/08/15 03:35 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: When replying to Gene H's thread I quoted the amanda.conf(5) manpage estimate [ client | calcsize | server ]+ I thought I knew the meaning of the + at the end of parameter specifications -- the final term can be repeated. But now I'm not certain.

Re: amlabel problem

2015-10-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
When reporting a problem, can you at least report which version you are using. We also need a way to reproduce the issue, the minum it hat case is the amlabel command line argument and all setting related to the changer. Bug get fixed a lot faster when enough information to reproduce the

Re: amfetchdump option bug

2015-11-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 05/11/15 02:01 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello, I am facing a bug when running amfetchdump like this: /usr/local/sbin/amfetchdump --exact-match -lan -O /dir config client dle timestamp/ Error message is: /ERROR: -p is not compatible with -n/ But -p is not set and in the

Re: amanda scripts

2015-11-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Orion, I appreciate that you post your scripts, it allow me to see how user use amanda and how I can improve it. On 03/11/15 06:22 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: In case anyone finds these useful: https://git.nwra.com/nwra-it/amanda/tree/master This repository contains various scripts in

Re: Hanging Amanda Problem

2015-11-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 03/11/15 11:12 AM, Steven Backus wrote: It can only be done by monitoring the system and only you can do it. Can you give me some advice how to do this? And sorry there wasn't enough information. Do any processes use CPU? (ps, top command) What are they doing? (strace command) Do the index

Re: amfetchdump option bug

2015-11-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
ne 206/207 (amanda3.3.7p1) to usage("-p is not compatible with -n") if ($opt_pipe and $opt_no_reassembly); fixes it, because -p and $opt_pipe goes together Could you please commit the patch? Regards, Dennis Am 05.11.2015 um 13:53 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: On 05/11/15

Re: To flush or not to flush, that is the question....

2015-10-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Chris, You can use the following command to list all amanda dump in holding disk: $ amadmin CONFIG holding list -l What's in the holding (with the 'ls' command), it looks you have a lot of files not recognized by amanda. Jean-Louis On 30/10/15 01:14 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote: No

Re: Restore Problem

2015-10-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steven, Maybe your disk was corrupted before that backup was done, and the backup is corrupted. Try to restore from an older backup. Jean-Louis On 08/10/15 12:09 PM, Steven Backus wrote: I'm having a problem with a restore: /local/sbin/amrecover gen2 -oauth=local AMRECOVER Version 3.3.7.

Re: interactivity hangs amanda and blows out email

2015-07-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
2:28 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Chris, Amanda should continue to do the backup to holding disk while it wait for a new tape, this is constructive work. You could remove the interactivity setting if you don't what its behaviour. What can be done is to add a timeout to the intertivity

Re: interactivity hangs amanda and blows out email

2015-07-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Chris, Amanda should continue to do the backup to holding disk while it wait for a new tape, this is constructive work. You could remove the interactivity setting if you don't what its behaviour. What can be done is to add a timeout to the intertivity plugin to abort if there is no tape

Re: archive and near-line usage

2015-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 18/11/15 11:35 AM, David Simpson wrote: Hi Deb, Jon Hopefully this will cover both responses. Thanks again... Holdingdisk is already configured as 2000GB that as much as I can do on that server. Chunksize I have already set to 500MB Advice on 1/4 of tape size for max DE noted. Archive

Re: xinetd is being deprecated. What will replaec it?

2015-08-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
systemd (which you probably already run) replace xinetd. Most services are already started by systemd. We just need systemd configuration files for amanda. Jean-Louis On 26/08/15 08:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Heads up in case yopu haven't heard it yet. From a comment I just read on another

Re: Tape write rate much slower efter upgrade

2015-09-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gunnar, Do the number by DLE always differ? Are you using a holding disk? Can you monitor the server to find some bottleneck, memory, cpu, network, disk I/O, ... Jean-Louis On 03/09/15 02:49 PM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar wrote: Hi, See below slow down in avg tp write rate after having upgraded

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

2015-10-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 06/10/15 09:20 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have been following the recomendations spit out by amcheck as I am needing to restore a machine after the machine in that spot failed. I am now down to this error, and apparently something in the installer did setup the amanda-client

Re: failed to change dir (error from selfcheck / amcheck)

2015-12-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
: 01865 617697 ext: 17697 *From:*Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] *Sent:* 10 December 2015 16:51 *To:* David Simpson <david.simp...@eng.ox.ac.uk>; amanda-users@amanda.org *Subject:* Re: failed to change dir (error from selfcheck / amcheck) On 10/12/15 11:45 AM, David Simpson

Re: failed to change dir (error from selfcheck / amcheck)

2015-12-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Tel: 01865 617697 ext: 17697 *From:*Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] *Sent:* 10 December 2015 16:17 *To:* David Simpson <david.simp...@eng.ox.ac.uk> <mailto:david.simp...@eng.ox.ac.uk>; amanda-users@amanda.org <mailto:amanda-users@amanda.o

Re: failed to change dir (error from selfcheck / amcheck)

2015-12-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 10/12/15 10:37 AM, David Simpson wrote: Hi I’m seeing this from an amcheck /Config/ at the moment. If I comment the DLE it warns about, it’ll happen on the next one too. /service selfcheck: selfcheck: Failed to chdir(/export/some/directory/): Permission denied/ /Do the amanda user

Re: failed to change dir (error from selfcheck / amcheck)

2015-12-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Road Campus Research Building Oxford, OX3 7DQ Tel: 01865 617697 ext: 17697 *From:*Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] *Sent:* 10 December 2015 16:17 *To:* David Simpson <david.simp...@eng.ox.ac.uk>; amanda-users@amanda.org *Subject:* Re: failed to change dir (error from sel

Re: archive and near-line usage

2015-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 18/11/15 05:54 AM, Chris Lee wrote: Hi All, As I read this thread and think of the many others I have seen with people talking of multiple configs in order to make things work I think maybe there is scope for a feature request for an enhanced holding disk config: A holding disk system

Re: [focus...@focus1data.com] DLEs not being backed up properly, only dumping 1-10kB each run

2016-01-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 13/01/16 05:47 PM, Focus1 IT wrote: I have run amdump with our configuration file numerous times, results are the same. My director did supply me with a helpful clue he uncovered this afternoon, it appears that amdump is trying to backup incorrect directories... For example, instead of

Release of Amanda-3.3.9

2016-02-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
and modifiable only by root. o On restore, check the restore_by_amanda_user setting if not run by root. Jean-Louis Martineau

Re: Problems with amanda-3.3.8, the data stream includes message errors

2016-02-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Thanks for reporting the problem, The attached patch fix it. Jean-Louis On 10/02/16 02:56 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: In preparation for a new amanda 3.3.8 in Debian I created a preview package for jessie that I testing on my backup machine. I found that I can't backup some DLE. Looking into

Re: Problems compiling amanda on Debian jessie or sid

2016-02-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
M Calhariz wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 05:05:03PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 03/02/16 04:54 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 04:40:09PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: $ rm common-src/amcrc32chw.lo As a workaround, add '-msse4.2' to the 'CFLAGS =' line in

Re: Problems compiling amanda on Debian jessie or sid

2016-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
RRORS -MT amcrc32chw.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/amcrc32chw.Tpo -c -o amcrc32chw.lo amcrc32chw.c $ make $ cd .. $ make Jean-Louis On 03/02/16 04:11 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 03:52:45PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: The compilation flag do not have the -msse4.2 flag as expecte

Re: Problems compiling amanda on Debian jessie or sid

2016-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
SSH-AGENT Wed Feb 03 21:28:15 CWD=~/source.amanda/amanda/amanda-3.3.8/common-src cal@picard[3592]> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 04:21:22PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: It correctly detect it must use the -msse4.2 flags, but why it doesn't use it?? Can you try to manually comp

Re: Problems compiling amanda on Debian jessie or sid

2016-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
A-Za-z]msse4.2[^0-9A-Za-z]' 2>&1 Jean-Louis On 03/02/16 03:36 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:43:49PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, Which gcc version? 4.3 and above should have theses instructions. $ gcc --version gcc --version gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9

Re: Problems compiling amanda on Debian jessie or sid

2016-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 03/02/16 04:54 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 04:40:09PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: $ rm common-src/amcrc32chw.lo As a workaround, add '-msse4.2' to the 'CFLAGS =' line in common-src/Makefile Does -msse4.2 means it is needed a relatively recent i386 CPU

Re: Problems compiling amanda on Debian jessie or sid

2016-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, Which gcc version? 4.3 and above should have theses instructions. $ gcc --version Jean-Louis On 03/02/16 02:20 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: Hi, I am trying to compile amanda 3.3.8 on Debian but I get some errors during linking phase. Both on Debian sid or jessie. The error is: /bin/sh

Re: amanda 3.3.8, SELinux, Fedora

2016-01-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 27/01/16 03:06 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2016-01-27 um 00:04 schrieb Uwe Menges: On 01/26/16 12:27, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: fedora tells me to use star: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux_FAQ#How_can_I_back_up_files_from_an_SELinux_file_system.3F I think this is outdated,

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 27/01/16 11:47 AM, jflack wrote: On 01/26/2016 05:51 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What is the taperalgo setting? largestfit man amanda.conf: largestfit The largest dump image that will fit on the current tape. The full dump is too large to fit on the tape, so

Release of Amanda-3.3.8

2016-01-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.3.8. Source tarballs are available from * http://www.amanda.org * https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Binaries for many systems are available from *

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

2016-01-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, You can also use 'amadmin CONF find' to list all available dump. On 26/01/16 03:45 PM, jflack wrote: Hi, First time -users question, I have inherited an amanda installation. My question might be a FAQ. I notice that if I run 'amadmin daily info' after a daily run, I see a bunch of

Re: big update killed 1 host

2017-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Ask the amanda and systemd package maintainer for centos. Since your problem is to backup the amanda server,you can try to use the "local" auth. Jean-Louis On 02/02/17 04:04 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:45:37PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> I added updates to my CentOS

Re: Result of backup is FLUSH from client with 3.4.1

2017-02-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Post more information. The amdump., log..0 and all debug files. Jean-Louis On 01/02/17 03:11 AM, Henrik Johansson wrote: Hi, I have a server with CentOS-7 and one client with Fedora-24. The server runs amanda 3.3.8, the backups of the client stopped working, when the client was upgraded to

Release of Amanda-3.4.2

2017-01-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
* fix compilation without SSE4_2 when configure detect it * amtoc fix * amlabel -f fix * many more fixes Jean-Louis Martineau

Re: Build problem amanda-3.4.2 sparc Solaris 11

2017-02-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The attached get_sse42.diff patch is required. Jean-Louis On 06/02/17 08:14 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar wrote: > Hi > > I'm building amanda-3.4.2 on SunOS 5.11 11.2 sun4v sparc sun4v using gcc: > gcc --version > gcc (GCC) 4.5.2 > > cal/lib/amanda > Undefined first referenced >

Re: amanda-3.3.9 : permission issues ?

2017-02-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 02/02/17 04:34 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > gentoo linux, amanda 3.3.9 > same installation worked for months > > now the tape isn't written anymore, amflush or amlabel fails. > > we cleaned the tape drive, reloaded st module > > $ amcheck daily > Amanda Tape Server Host Check >

Re: FreeBSD client fails with 'error opening /usr/local/share/amanda/bsdtar'

2017-02-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do amcheck reported an error? $ man ambsdtar STATE-DIR The directory where ambsdtar stores the database it uses to generate incremental dumps. The default is set when Amanda is built. Create the /usr/local/share/amanda/bsdtar directory of set the property

Re: FreeBSD client fails with 'error opening /usr/local/share/amanda/bsdtar'

2017-02-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You can't do a level 1 backup if there is no state file for the level 0 (full) backup. Force a full backup of the dle with amadmin CONF force HOST DISK Jean-Louis On 02/02/17 11:05 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > * Jean-Louis Martineau <jmartin...@carbonite.com> [20170202 10:5

Re: ERROR smbclient: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED on some files => Amanda doesn't backup anything on that share

2017-02-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The problem look to be that smbclient do not print the 'Total number of bytes' on it's stderr, so the estimate will never succeed. You can try to set: 'estimate server' for that dle. But you will probably get a similar error when doing the backup. What can we do if smbclient do not tell if the

Re: big update killed 1 host

2017-01-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon, Why systemd print the ExecStart on the socket? it's a systemd bug or a misconfiguration. Jean-Louis On 30/01/17 12:38 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Follow-up, > > amrecover gives the same error whether run from the server/client > or from another client. > > On the server/client I also ran: >

Re: segfault from planner (3.4.2-1)

2017-02-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Uwe, Thanks for your good bug report and patch. Can you tried the attached patch instead of yours? Jean-Louis On 18/02/17 06:31 PM, Uwe Menges wrote: Hi, Today I got a segfault from planner when I tried to run the weekly backup on my Fedora 24 workstation: Feb 18 12:16:26 lima audit[4905]:

Re: Result of backup is FLUSH from client with 3.4.1

2017-02-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
? Where should I report a bug, amanda or Fedora? There are an installed amanda-policy: [root@uw000140 ~]# semodule -v -l | egrep amanda amanda Must I add the my-amandad policy after every reboot or when should I remove it? BR, Henrik On 2017-02-18 14:09, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Henrik

Re: amfetchdump returns 'Error writing to fd 7: Broken pipe'

2017-02-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 20/02/17 11:47 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > Hi, > > Attempting to restore a DLE with amfetchdump with: > > su amanda -c "~amanda/sbin/amfetchdump -p -d tape:/dev/nst0 top localhost > /data_/mica1 20170219 " | tar -xpGf - > > returns 'Error writing to fd 7: Broken pipe'. The logfile

Re: Result of backup is FLUSH from client with 3.4.1

2017-02-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
From server /tmp/var_log_amanda_server_DailySet1_20170130.tgz From server /tmp/var_lib_amanda_DailySet1_20170130.tgz BR; Henrik On 2017-02-01 17:02, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Post more information. The amdump., log..0 and all debug files. Jean-Louis On 01/02/17 03:11 AM, Henrik Johansson wrote

Re: amanda-3.4.2: amrecover doesn't do recursive restores?

2017-02-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
mcgill.ca> [20170222 > 12:09]: >> * Jean-Louis Martineau <jmartin...@carbonite.com> [20170222 11:02]: >>> Jean-Francois, >>> >>> Which application are you using? >> amgtar >> >>> Post the debug files, amrecover and th

Re: A few minor fixups

2017-02-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 21/02/17 05:28 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > While working on 1:3.4.2-1~rc2 for Debian: > > In the sample amanda.conf: > > define tapetype HARD-DISK { > global > comment "DAT tape drives" > # data provided by Rob Browning > length 1930 mbytes >

Re: amanda-3.4.2: amrecover doesn't do recursive restores?

2017-02-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, Which application are you using? Post the debug files, amrecover and the one for the application. Jean-Louis On 22/02/17 10:52 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > Hi, > > I had this buried into another post... > > When using amrecover, 'add .' at the prompt of amrecover will not >

Re: how to use taper-parallel-write effectively?

2017-02-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 14/02/17 12:51 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > * Jean-Louis Martineau <jmartin...@carbonite.com> [20170214 12:39]: >> On 14/02/17 12:18 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've never really understood how to make use of the amand

Re: amsamba ignore property?

2017-02-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 14/02/17 04:38 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Is there a "ignore" for amsamba as well? no > manpage doesn't tell. > > I have to ignore that: > > > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > > ERROR: booze: smbclient: WARNING: The security=share option is deprecated

Re: amsamba ignore property?

2017-02-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Stefan, Try this patch. Jean-Louis On 14/02/17 08:04 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2017-02-14 um 13:05 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: On 14/02/17 04:38 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Is there a "ignore" for amsamba as well? no manpage doesn't tell. I have to ignore that

Re: 3.4: eject-volume=yes with interactivity keeps tape device open

2017-02-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
to finish both tapes. Will try a real backup next week. Thanks alot, Thilo On 09/02/17 17:33, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: This patch is also needed. Please try them and let me know if they works. Jean-Louis On 09/02/17 10:58 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, Can you try the attached patch

Re: recent amanda on Debian?

2017-02-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
valgrind is a useful tool to find memory corruption. Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis On 10/02/17 09:35 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > * Jean-Louis Martineau <jmartin...@carbonite.com> [20170210 07:54]: >> Jean-Francois, >> >> I was not able to find the

Re: how to use taper-parallel-write effectively?

2017-02-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 14/02/17 12:18 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > Hi, > > I've never really understood how to make use of the amanda.conf > parameter 'taper-parallel-write'. > > I have this tape library with 2 LTO6 tape drives and in the amanda > (3.4.2) config storage section I have set taper-parallel-write=2

Re: 3.4: eject-volume=yes with interactivity keeps tape device open

2017-02-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, Can you try the attached patch. Jean-Louis On 08/02/17 12:58 PM, ts...@portrix-systems.de wrote: Hi, tried this with: http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/Amanda/3.4.2/Redhat_Enterprise_6.0/amanda-backup_server-3.4.2-1.rhel6.x86_64.rpm (and also 3.4.1) Oracle Linux Server release

Re: recent amanda on Debian?

2017-02-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
-resolution=high --track-origins=yes amadmin top tape And send me the resulting valgrind.amtape.output file. Jean-Louis On 09/02/17 02:19 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > * Jean-Louis Martineau <jmartin...@carbonite.com> [20170209 14:09]: >> Jean-Francois, >> >>

Re: 3.4: eject-volume=yes with interactivity keeps tape device open

2017-02-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
This patch is also needed. Please try them and let me know if they works. Jean-Louis On 09/02/17 10:58 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, Can you try the attached patch. Jean-Louis On 08/02/17 12:58 PM, ts...@portrix-systems.de <mailto:ts...@portrix-systems.de> wrote: > Hi,

Re: amsamba ignore property?

2017-02-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 14/02/17 08:52 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2017-02-14 um 14:33 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Stefan, Try this patch. JL, great, amcheck without error now. amdump later this evening, thanks. Stefan, Can you confirm the patch works? For backup and recovery? Jean-Louis

Re: recent amanda on Debian?

2017-02-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, Can you run amadmin in gdb and get a stacktrace? $ gdb ~amanda/sbin/amadmin (gdb) run top tape (gdb) bt (gdb) quit Jean-Louis On 09/02/17 01:56 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > * Stefan G. Weichinger [20170209 13:36]: >> Does anyone use amanda 3.4.2 packages

Re: Backup of Btrfs snapshots

2017-01-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 18/01/17 05:43 AM, Jonas Hagen wrote: Hi We have an amanda server / client setup. Now one client has the root directory on a btrfs filesytem and we would like to back it up with the following procedure: 1) make a btrfs snapshot 2) mount this snapshot 3) make a backup of the snapshot using

Re: AW: need to have samba-4.2.11 on amanda server

2017-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
e? Isn't it supported anymore and/or won't be fixed? For the next round I'll try the amsamba dumptype. Greetings, Tobias *Von:*owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] *Im Auftrag von *Jean-Louis Martineau *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 10. Januar 2017 15:00 *An:* Mike Höhn

Re: GNUtar 1.29 on FreeBSD doesn't support --atime-preserve='system' option

2017-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 19/01/17 09:49 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > Hi,, > > I've got this FreeBSD 11.0 box (virtual at the moment but will become > real metal soon) for which I've installed an Amanda client (v3.3.6) and > while testing it, tar (GNU tar) 1.29 complains when the Amanda run is > started with

Re: Issues backing up very old (2.5 era) clients with 3.4

2017-01-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
jason, Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis On 14/01/17 07:21 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>>>>> "JM" == Jean-Louis Martineau <jmartin...@carbonite.com> writes: > JM> Removing the leading semicolon was a mistake. Your patch looks > JM>

Re: What is POOL and STORAGE?

2017-01-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 17/01/17 07:30 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2017-01-13 um 11:13 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: As far as I understand so far now all the dumps should go to both the tapes and the vtapes. As soon as that works and looks good I will try to make up a more specific setup with defining

Re: What is POOL and STORAGE?

2017-01-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 17/01/17 10:11 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2017-01-17 um 15:33 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: The tapecycle is used to set the policy retention-days Each storage can have a different policy and each policy can have a different retention-days OK, so I created an extra policy-block

Re: ./.libs/libamanda.so: undefined reference to `OPENSSL_init_ssl'

2017-01-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The command line do not include the required '-lssl -lcrypto' What is the output of: pkg-config openssl --libs Do you have the openssl.pc filerequired for pkg-config? Jean-Louis On 20/01/17 03:48 AM, Tobias Köck wrote: > > Hi, > > after trying to compile Amanda 3.4.1 on in Debian I get the

Re: GNUtar 1.29 on FreeBSD doesn't support --atime-preserve='system' option

2017-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 19/01/17 12:36 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > * Jean-Louis Martineau <jmartin...@carbonite.com> [20170119 10:29]: >> On 19/01/17 09:49 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: >>> Hi,, > ... >>> >>> Question: are they any drawbacks, performance, e

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