Re: amrecover: Why does it use disklist and log files

2003-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
doesn't mean that the dump is somewhere. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834

Re: amoverview output

2003-10-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
0 machine3/vm machine3/vw tar-low tar-med }-1 }1 -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax

Re: FAILED [[parse of reply message failed]]

2003-10-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
seems to suggest it's a problem with the client's version but I'm not sure, would appreciate any help or pointers. regards, Stephen -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext

Re: Amanda overwrites level 0 dumps?

2003-10-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
this happens to planner and amcheck). I think it should be: tapecycle = runspercycle * runtapes but because you might not use runtapes tapes at every run, something like tapecycle = #tape_use_in_last_dumpcycle_days may be better. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Initial setup

2003-10-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
of your nightly dump (eg. 3*tape_length). Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834

Re: [Fwd: Amanda 2.4.4 and Samba 3.0.0 problems]

2003-10-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
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Re: Having trouble with chg-scsi

2003-10-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
/overland.label Yet this doesn't seem to work. Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance! -- Seeya, Paul GPG Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right! -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL

Re: Amrecover Problem

2003-11-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
/dev/sg1 I built amanda with --with-user=bin and --with-group=disk Who run the amidxtaped process? Look at your xinetd configuration. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343

Re: no backup size line SAMBA 3.0

2003-11-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
DISKL ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -- - tempsrv -2.218/doc$ 0 FAILED --- (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1-20031031) -- Jean-Louis Martineau

Re: Amrecover Saga

2003-11-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
] University of Oklahoma - Computer Science -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834

Re: Network recovery with changer

2003-11-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
use any string for amrecover_changer, but you must use the same string for the settape command in amrecover. Could you provide your amidxtaped.timestamp.debug file? Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ

Re: Have 2.4.4p1 RAIT over file: working sort of...

2003-11-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Dana, Your setup should works correctly, what's in the changer debug file? Jean-Louis On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:52:26PM -0800, Dana Bourgeois wrote: Is there no one who has an idea of what's wrong here? I followed the examples but used the chg-multi changer rather than the chg-mtx. Any

Re: include problems with Amanda-2.4.4-20030428?

2003-11-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
an include statement. It will be fixed in today snapshot. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834

Re: AMANDA in the holidays

2004-01-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:39:57PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: 0 13 * * 1-5 /usr/local/sbin/amcheck -m daily 30 2 * * 2-6 /usr/local/sbin/amdump daily /usr/local/sbin/amverify daily /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/st0 offl I noticed that I try to take /dev/st0 offl instead of /dev/nst0.

Re: What is a 'chunker' ?

2004-01-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:11:25AM +0100, Georg Rehfeld wrote: Dear group, in 'amstatus.pl.in' from the CVS 1.56 there is handling for _chunkerN_ (besides dumperN and taper). What might that be? Possibly a dumper splitting large dumps, to be distributed over more than one tape? It's the

Re: proper way to re-run dump

2004-01-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:58:15AM -0600, Fran Fabrizio wrote: One of my filesystem dumps failed last night - it was a new one that I added, biggest one yet, and the estimate timed out. Is this the proper thing to do? - bump up the timeout (was 300 seconds, this was a 50Gig filesystem,

Re: Scheduled backup being prevented?

2004-01-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:43:55PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:22:27AM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Why the heck would we get no estimate? Take a look at the debug files on that client, especially the relevent sendsize.TIMESTAMP.debug. Why would it say

Re: Anyone know how to do a planner-only run?

2004-01-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:40:46PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering if anyone knows how to kick off an amdump that doesn't actually write to tape (nor to holdingdisk nor even to /dev/null), but rather just stops after the planning stage, so one could see how much *would* have

Re: Can't open exclude file ???

2004-01-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, Amanda will always give an error if it can't access the exclude file unless it's a ENOENT (no such file) with the optional option. It's a configuration mistake, you told amanda to use a file and it can't check if the file exist. first solution: Change your DLE for this disk to remove the

Re: amcheck privileges (Was Re: Can't open exclude file ???)

2004-01-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
selfcheck, sendsize and sendbackup are run on client as the amanda user. They have the same permission. It's only the backup program that is sometime run as root. Jean-Louis On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:04:26AM -0600, Frank Smith wrote: --On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:28:28 -0500 Jon

Re: amrmtape question

2004-02-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, Amanda should not use a tape if it's label is not in the tapelist file. Could you try this patch. Jean-Louis On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:27:36PM +0100, Christoph Scheeder wrote: Hi, amrmtape only removes the entrys for the tape from all databases, but amanda will happily use it if she

Re: no incremental backups when using gnu tar

2004-02-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
-A, ...* * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * *** -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343

Re: big filemark

2004-02-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:14:45PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: When people have expressed terrible concern for large filemarks in their measured tapetypes I have often said basically don't worry. Well I think we have a new champion filemark. Just posted to the Faq-O-Matic list was:

Re: ? mistake sh in amverifyrun 2.4.4p1

2004-02-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:46:08PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:27:23PM -0500, Allen Liu --- work wrote: I am not sure if this is an error in amverifyrun script. I run amverifyrun and got a error : test: argument expected. When I viewed the script I found

Re: accidental amrmtape

2004-03-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:00:54AM -0500, Kurt Yoder wrote: Hello list So I accidentally ran amrmtape against my DailySet1 tape CDS1tape07. Is there any way for me to un-amrmtape and put it back the way it was? Add it to tapelist file. It should works if you have not run other amanda command

Re: flush full dumps only

2004-03-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
$i/$f end end -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834 diff -u -r --show-c-function --exclude-from=amanda.diff

Re: planner: balance per host?

2004-03-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
, right? Finally, I would like to repear my question whether it's possible to run the planner standalone to find out what it would do on the next run without actually performing the backup.. thanks Mathias Körber [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL

Re: Problems compiling 2.4.4p3 on Solaris 2.51

2004-08-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
. -- Benjamin Franklin -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834

Re: amtapetype deleting label?

2004-09-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Andreas, On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 08:01:18PM +0200, Andreas wrote: Normally you only run it on a new installation, or when you install a new type of drive. It would be nice if it did check for a label first and not happily clobber some of your data without warning, especially since

Re: autoflush not working, found amgetconf isn't either

2004-09-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * *** -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ

Release of amanda-2.4.4p4

2004-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.4.4p4. It is the latest stable release of amanda. It fix many small bug. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/ -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de

Release of amanda-2.4.5b1

2004-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
, a lot faster but less acurate. SERVER: estimate based on statistic from previous run, take second but can be wrong on the estimate size. -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514

Re: amtapetype bug - 2.4.4p4 - new tape

2004-11-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
wanted to file a report so it might be fixed. /Andreas Sundström -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834

Re: calc size question

2004-12-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Computer Science Department University of New Mexico 505-277-6502 Fax: 505-277-6927 -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7

Re: forcing skipped incrementals into holding disk

2005-02-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
set maxdumpsize to a bigger value. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834

amanda-2.4.5 released

2005-04-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
. SERVER: estimate based on statistic from previous run, take second but can be wrong on the estimate size. Jean-Louis Martineau For the Amanda Team

Re: v2.5 ssh defunct

2005-05-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
. My current solution is to kill everything owned by the backup user at fixed times via cron, but that is just a work-around, not a fix. This is on both debian (testing) and redhat (9). -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P

Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle

2005-05-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
possibly circumvent this problem? Fortunately, we know exactly at what time an old DLE can completely be forgotten about (when its last index has been killed). Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29 -- Jean-Louis

Re: Show required tapes for the next X runs ?

2005-05-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Guy, amadmin tape will show you the required tapes for next run only. Is there a way to show tapes for the next X runs ? Try the latest amanda snapshot from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda amadmin conf tape [--days num] Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email

Re: driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner

2005-05-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics | Opinions are mine, not my employer's. | -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax

Re: amverify looping

2005-06-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
: $ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~ -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834 --- amanda-2.4.4/restore-src/amrestore.c

Re: Antw: Re: Problems with amverifyrun

2005-07-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
written by amanda. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834

Release of amanda-2.5.0b1

2005-10-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0b1. It is a redesign of many part of amanda. The span/split patch from John Stange was ported to 2.5.0 and is integrated in this release. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/ Here's a list of the changes

Release of amanda-2.4.5p1

2005-10-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.4.5p1. It contains some bug fixe and a few new features. It should be the latest release in then 2.4 tree. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/ Here's a list of the changes for release 2.4.5p1 (from the NEWS

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

2005-11-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
: FAILED 00-00031 -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 1-3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834 --- amanda-2.4.5p1.orig/server-src/dumper.c 2005-09-20 20

Re: trouble with AMANDA server (taper) on amd64 using Debian/AMD64/Sarge

2005-11-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 1-3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834

Re: Can't get a level 0 backup.

2005-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Joe wrote: I just set up a new CentOS 4.2 server with Amanda 2.4.4p3. I can't seem to get a level 0 backup. I want a level 0 M-F and when I'm not there S-Sun it is for a degraded backup. I have tried to set everything up correctly and what follows are pieces of amanda.conf and logs...

Re: amstatus error

2005-11-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, Many program write to the amdump log file in parallel without lock file. So there might be line that get split/merge and amstatus can't parse them. The log file is used only by amstatus, your backup should have been done correctly. I you like to see the log file to know what was wrong, I

Re: amrecover index empty

2005-11-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Have you run amcheck? Did it succeded? It should give you an error. Jean-Louis Jehan PROCACCIA wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: You say you use tar. But your ps output below says otherwise. Yes, sorry , indeed I use dump ! Anyway .. we found the solution :-) It's just a question of

Re: Dumps way tooooo big

2005-11-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Todd, If you want more backup in a run, why you don't set maxdumpsize to a larger value? Jean-Louis todd zenker wrote: Thanks for all the good information. I have 2 holdingdisk each 100 GB.(Two partitions on the server) What I don't understand is why I have so much disk space the dumps

Re: how to dd if=... a chunked dump blob?

2005-12-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Alexander Jolk wrote: Will Partain wrote: dd if=foo.verilab.com._.1 bs=32k skip=1 | tar tfv - | sort +2nr | head [...] What if, instead, my dump blob is chunked, as in this case (1GB chunks): Well, you either do some shell magic: for i in foo.verilab.com._.1*; do dd if=$i bs=32k

Re: amanda performance

2005-12-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Roy Heimbach wrote: Backing up a 10 GB test partition, we're seeing dumper and taper performance around 2.5 MB/sec, a fraction of what the hardware is capable of. Are you sure you are using the holding disk? if both the dumper and taper report the same speed, that's because you don't use it.

Release of amanda-2.5.0b2

2006-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0b2. It is stable and we hope to release 2.5.0 soon. test it and report it if you find a bug in this release. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/ Here's a list of the changes for release 2.5.0b2 (from the

Re: Why no incrementals in degraded mode?

2006-01-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Josef, What was your version? If you upgraded from 2.4.4p2 or earlier to a 2.4.5 then could you try the untested attached patch. As your log show, the start_degraded_mode is done before the schedule is read, it should be done after. Jean-Louis Josef Wolf wrote: Hello! Since I have

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.0b2

2006-01-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Josef, I don't see a success report? Where did you see it? The dump never got written to tape, that's what I see from the log below. Amanda never retried to write it to the second tape, that's a real bug, I will investigated it. Jean-Louis Josef Wolf wrote: I just noticed a problem that

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.0b2

2006-01-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Josef, This simple patch should fix the problem. Thanks for reporting it. Jean-Louis Josef Wolf wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:53:30AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: I don't see a success report? Where did you see it? I meant this line: taper: writing end marker. [VOL02 OK kb

Re: suprising amtapetype error

2006-03-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: Uhh, yeah, I used it for a tar. And you used it after that for the -c check. But you didn't complain for the -c check. Amanda was not able to read the output of tar, maybe a blocksize problem. Amanda was able to read what amtapetype wrote, it was 32k block. Jean-Louis

Re: suprising amtapetype error

2006-03-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: I can attempt to confirm this. The tar was written before I setup the stinit definitions. I can redo the tar using the 32K block device and see if amtapetype -c complains. A clarification please, Jean-Louis. Are you saying that amtapetype only checks for previous 32K

Re: One DLE too many!

2006-03-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Mitch Collinsworth wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:44:50PM -0500, Vytas Janusauskas wrote: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: hal: [Can't open disk '/mnt/data06/Deforest3'] ERROR: hal: [No include for

Release of amanda-2.5.0

2006-03-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0. It is a significant milestone in Amanda project. It can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda or http://www.amanda.org Here's a list of the changes for release 2.5.0 (from the NEWS file): Look

Re: Problem compiling 2.5.0

2006-03-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Richard, Which gcc are you using? Could you try the attached patch? We use a construct thjat is not valid for all compiler. Jean-Louis Richard Burridge wrote: Hi, I'm trying to upgrade from 2.4.2 (which is running perfectly), but having trouble compiling the new 2.5.0 release and got an

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 - using multiple holding disks and spanning tapes

2006-04-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Paul, Are you on a machine where a LONG is 4 bytes in size? Then it's an overflow, could you try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Paul Haldane wrote: I've just installed 2.5.0 on one of our backup servers (output from amadmin config version at end) and have some odd behaviour to do with

Re: Repeating Level 0

2006-04-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:46:05AM -0500, Jim Summers wrote: Hello List, I am experiencing an odd behavior from amanda. I have a client that I have been backing up for a couple of years now. A while back, I noticed that it was doing multiple level 0's on one DLE

Re: error processing config file with amcheck

2006-04-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, no-record is a predefined dumptype, you can't redefine it. See 'man amanda.conf' or 'man amanda' for all predefined value. The message could be more explicit. Jean-Louis Thomas Ginestet wrote: Hi list, I've got the following error running amcheck: backup:/# amcheck DailySet

Re: amtape update command missing?

2006-04-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles, Alan, The update command was added to the 2.4 branch but not to the 2.5 branch. I will send you a patch when it will be ready. Jean-Louis Charles Smith wrote: Hello, Was there ever a response to this question? I couldn't find one in the archives. I'm having the same problem.

Re: amtape update command missing?

2006-04-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles, Alan, Could you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Charles, Alan, The update command was added to the 2.4 branch but not to the 2.5 branch. I will send you a patch when it will be ready. Jean-Louis Charles Smith wrote: Hello, Was there ever

Re: Dumps performed, but also MISSING ???

2006-04-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, I found the problem, it will report a MISSING for all dump that doesn't start the same day you run your amdump. I will provide a patch soon. Jean-Louis jeffrey d anderson wrote: The strange behavior described here started when I upgraded my server to amanda-2.5.0. I was wondering if

Re: Dumps performed, but also MISSING ???

2006-04-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, Could you try this patch? It's the datestamp in the chunker line that are not correct, they should be the same as the dumper line. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, I found the problem, it will report a MISSING for all dump that doesn't start the same day you run your amdump

Re: FW: Re: Mutliple configs sharing the same indexes

2006-04-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
stan wrote: This thread seesm to have died out. But I still don't quite see how to solve my restore issues. Can someone point out the error of my ways here? You must share the complete database between both config, that include the disklist, tapelist file and logdir. The output of

Release of Amanda 2.5.0p1

2006-04-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0p1. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org/ Here's a list of the changes for release 2.5.0p1 (from the NEWS file): Look at the ChangeLog file for more details. Changes in release 2.5.0p1 * Add the 'amtape

Re: amstatus problem

2006-05-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, Thanks for pointing me to the right RFC. The attached should fix the problem. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060501 13:34]: amstatus doesn't like ':' in diskname because we use at as separator between the hostname

Re: amverifyrun in 2.5.0p1

2006-05-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Sean, Could you try this patch. Jean-Louis Sean Walmsley wrote: Has anyone successfully used the amverifyrun utility in version 2.5.0p1? When I run it, I get the error message: changer: got exit: 2 str: none Illegal slot: -1 amtape: could not load slot none: Illegal slot: -1 amtape: could

amanda-2.5.0p2 released

2006-05-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.0p2. It fix a bug in the client code that could lead to corrupted backup in some rare case, you must have the maxdumps set to a value bigger that 10 for an amanda client. You should upgrade your amanda client code as

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:40, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: And there is the likely culprit, exclude file vs. exclude list. I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern amanda.exclude. What

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 upgrade weirdness

2006-05-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brad, Upgrade to 2.5.0p2 The 'amtape update' was missing from 2.5.0 and barcode will not work with this release. Jean-Louis Brad Willson wrote: Hi, More information from the log chg-zd-mtx.20060515215442.debug chg-zd-mtx: debug 1 pid 3280 ruid 34 euid 34: start at Mon May 15 21:54:42

Re: Amverifyrun not working in 2.5.0

2006-05-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gordon J. Mills III wrote: It did work in 2.4.5. I have 2 other servers that are running 2.4.5 successfully (as this one was before yesterday). I used this one as a test since it is not in production yet, but will be soon. I compared the versions of the script and they are identical. It is the

Re: missing result ... in ... response ???

2006-05-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Michael, If the problem is that you have too many DLE for a udp packet, try the attached patch which will double the size of the packet. Jean-Louis Michael D Schleif wrote: Something has changed in amanda. I have been running amanda on this lan for several years. For the most part, DLE's

Re: strange dump sizes

2006-06-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: Following up to my own reply: I checked the most recent debug files and they show the *.new files are being used. For example, corresponding to the last listing above, two lines from sendbackup...debug: sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.207: doing level 1 dump as listed-incremental

Re: strange dump sizes

2006-06-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:28:40PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: Following up to my own reply: I checked the most recent debug files and they show the *.new files are being used. For example, corresponding to the last listing above, two

Re: determining backup set

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: And the following command said I had no dumps to list :(( amadmin tstvt find -sort ldhk It list all dump of host '-sort' and 'ldhk'. Try 'amadmin tstvt find --sort ldhk'. Jean-Louis

Re: determining backup set

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:42:16AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: And the following command said I had no dumps to list :(( amadmin tstvt find -sort ldhk It list all dump of host '-sort' and 'ldhk'. Try 'amadmin tstvt find

Re: Problems with new Amanda release (2.5.0p2): amcheck not reporting tape errors via e-mail

2006-07-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, This problem was fixed after the 2.5.0p2 release, use CVS or the latest 2.5.0p2 snapshot from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda/ Jean-Louis Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:03:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded the first of our Amanda

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, | sendsize[11906]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /home/p72 --one-file-system --numeric-owner --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_p72_orig_3.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, I tried tar-1.15.91 and I have the same problem. tar-1.15.91 is buggy, you should not use it. Jean-Louis Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: | sendsize[11906]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /home/p72 --one-file

Re: planner: disk xxx:/, estimate of level N failed

2006-07-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, It's not a bug in tar, it's a bug in amanda. The new file format is not compatible whit the way we read it. I will send a patch soon. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, I tried tar-1.15.91 and I have the same problem. tar-1.15.91 is buggy, you should not use it.

Release of amanda-2.5.1b1

2006-07-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Amanda 2.5.1, the 2.5.1b1 release. It can be dowloaded from http://www.amanda.org (not yet available) or https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Here's a list of the changes for release 2.5.1b1

Re: upgrading amanda to 2.5.0

2006-07-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Rodrigo Ventura wrote: Hi all, regarding upgrading amanda to 2.5.0 (from 2.4.4) I have a couple of questions: 1- is there any upgrade issue between 2.4.4 and 2.5.0? Since there is an UPGRADE file, can I assume there is none? It should not. 2- I'm a bit confused about the patch levels;

Release of amanda-2.5.1b2

2006-07-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the second beta release of Amanda 2.5.1, the 2.5.1b2 release. It should be the latest beta before the release of 2.5.1. We plan to release the final 2.5.1 at the end of the august month. Please, test this latest beta release and report all bug

Re: suspiciously terrible performance of 2.5.1 beta on OpenBSD/amd64 (now a crash...)

2006-08-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
David, Could you try the attached patch? It should fix the driver crash. Jean-Louis David Golden wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:18, David Golden wrote: so switched nearly-2.5.1 to vanilla bsd with holding disk in order to try another test with nearly-2.5.1 to try to eliminate that

Re: amflush fails

2006-08-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles, It's a bug 2.5.1b1. Upgrade to 2.5.1b2, latest cvs or latest snapshot from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda We are close of a stable 2.5.1 release. Jean-Louis Charles Stroom wrote: Hi all, last day's dump of Amanda (version 2.5.1b1) failed and files were left over in

Re: False alarm in e-mail report

2006-08-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Toomas, I looks like the first attempt to dump tsensor.raad.tartu.ee:/usr failed but the seconds attempt succeeded. Could you send me the amdump.?? and log.datestamp file so that I can look at them and be sure of what I said. You sent the sendbackup.*.debug file for the successful dump, you

Release of amanda-2.5.1

2006-09-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 2.5.1. It is a significant milestone in Amanda project. Source tar ball can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda or http://www.amanda.org If you find bugs or have feature requests, please submit a

Re: amanda configuration file question

2006-09-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Robert, With amanda-2.5.1, you can do 'amadmin config config'. It will dump the config. Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P. wrote: Is there an amanda command that will list the .config parameters that will be used in a particular run. I have two types of runs; archive and daily. I have an

Re: 2.5.1 parsing conf problems?

2006-09-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, Your file parse correctly on my machine. Could you attach the amanda.conf file instead of putting it inline in the mail, maybe the mailer and or remove something. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: I've started from scratch and followed the order of keyword as explained

Re: 2.5.1 parsing conf problems?

2006-09-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060911 14:05]: Jean-Francois, Your file parse correctly on my machine. Mmmm, Interesting. You're running that on what? Irix? On linux. Could you attach the amanda.conf file instead of putting it inline

Re: 2.5.1 bsdtcp auth under irix: which ports?

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, bsdtcp is always using the amanda service, this is a bug. With the attached patch, it will use the '--with-testing' setting, the 'amanda-conf10' service will be used. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, Thanks to some Jean-Louis who provided a patch to make amanda

Amanda use subversion for newer development

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, Amanda development will now use subversion instead of CVS. Fix for 2.5.1 are still done with CVS in the amanda-251-branch branch. Newer development that will lead to 2.5.2 are done with subversion. You can checkout the latest development with: svn co

Re: 2.5.1 bsdtcp auth under irix: which ports?

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Looking at the selfcheck debug files for the client (server is the only client at the moment) there is a warning about amanda-client.conf not being in the (wrong) place I assume but then it proceed to find it at the right place. I'm not sure if it's the normal

Re: Amanda use subversion for newer development

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:30, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, Amanda development will now use subversion instead of CVS. Fix for 2.5.1 are still done with CVS in the amanda-251-branch branch. Newer development that will lead to 2.5.2 are done with subversion. You

Re: More ACK Woes

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steven Backus wrote: I've changed common-src/protocol.c to: #define ACK_WAIT 100 /* time (secs) to wait for ACK - keep short */ #define ACK_TRIES 10 /* num retries after ACK_WAIT timeout */ Don't increase ACK_WAIT, keep it to 10. Jean-Louis

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