Re: amcheck fails but backup works

2007-04-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
! Yogesh --- Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yogesh, Always look in the log and debug files if you have a problem. What's in the amcheck.*.debug, amandad.*.debug and selfcheck.*.debug files? Jean-Louis Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi, We use Amanda 2.5.0p2 in our backup setup

Re: amcheck fails but backup works

2007-04-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
not responding partition. - reboot Jean-Louis Regards Yogesh --- Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The selfcheck process is hang. Could you strace it and attach a debugger to it and get a backtrace. It's often because of a stale mount point. Did 'df' succeed? Jean-Louis Yogesh Hasabnis

Re: Q: amanda mail report

2007-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Because someone ran amreport or amcleanup. Jean-Louis Sebastian Kösters wrote: Hi! I have a question about the amanda mail report. Amanda sends the report while the backup is still running. I thought this report only comes when the Backup is finished? How is this possible? Amanda version

Re: restore not finding all incremental levels

2007-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Paul Yeatman wrote: So, as I continue to look at the problem, I haven't seen before that an amflush is require for the directories on holding disk to be included in a recovery yet . . . this kinda of seems to be the case now (that is as much a question as it is a statement). I see in the

Re: solaris, zfs, holding disk

2007-04-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
This problem was fixed a few days after 2.5.1p3 release. You can use the latest 2.5.1p3 snapshot from http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php The scale function should be: off_t scale( off_t r, off_t s) { if (r == (off_t)-1) return (off_t)-1; if (s % 1024 == 0)

Re: amrestore with disk with spaces in name

2007-04-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Michael, This bug is already fix in the latest 2.5.1p3 snapshot. You can download it from http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php The snapshot have many bugs fixed since the release of 2.5.1p3. Jean-Louis Michael Keightley wrote: I am trying to use amrecover with with directory names in

Re: port xxx not secure errors

2007-04-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The dumper must be installed suid root. What's in the dumper.timestamps.debug file? Jean-Louis Charles Sprickman wrote: Any ideas on this one? Should I just consider it a bug? I'm not clear at all on why the server is picking a port over 1024, but that does seem to be clearly happening, and

Re: port xxx not secure errors

2007-04-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
the complete debug file. You can try to remove some service from /etc/services. Jean-Louis Charles Sprickman wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: The dumper must be installed suid root. [devel2]/tmp/amanda/server/DailySet1 # ls -l /usr/local/libexec/amanda/dumper -r-sr-x--- 1

Re: which report do I believe?

2007-04-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You should believe everything. Steven Settlemyre wrote: I am looking to restore a disk from one of my machines and am having a little trouble understanding which report to believe. Using amadmin find, I see there was a level 0 on 4/12 and again on 4/19. When I look at the daily reports I see

Re: amrecover using ssh-auth

2007-04-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Because the host key is not known. Try: ssh ng.oops.intern -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa -l amanda and accept the host key. ssh doesn't use xinetd. Jean-Louis Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: This doesn't work for me since I tried it first with 2.5.1p2 on client and server : Followed the zmanda-howto

Re: port xxx not secure errors

2007-05-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Amanda try to use proviledged port in the range 512-1023. It will not use port reserved for other services, as listed in /etc/services. There appear to be very few ports available in that range. There is less port

Re: amrecover issue

2007-05-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Check amrecover and amandad debug files. anthonyh wrote: The following are some of my config files /etc/xinit.d/amanda service amanda { only_from = x.com y.com socket_type = dgram protocol= udp wait= yes user= amanda

Re: Problem With Solaris 2.5.2

2007-05-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Could you post the amanda.*.debug from episun7.med.utah.edu and the sendbackup.*.debug if one is created. Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote: I run my server on Red Hat AS4 Linux 4.x and back up 5 clients, one of which is a Solaris 2.8. After upgrading to 2.5.2 yesterday, last night I got:

Re: GNUTAR hanging

2007-05-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amanda version? tar version? Any other amanda process running? Send the complete debug files: sendbackup.*.debug and amandad.*.debug from the client dumper.*.debug from the server. anthonyh wrote: Hi guys, Any solution to the GNUTAR hanging issue yet? I'm having the same problem as the tar

Re: Problem With Solaris 2.5.2

2007-05-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steven, Could you try the attached patch? You should not get a Could not bind to any port: Invalid argument error in the debug file. Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote: Could you post the amanda.*.debug from episun7.med.utah.edu and the sendbackup.*.debug if one is created. amandad: time

Re: Invalid value for ai_flags

2007-05-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Richard, Could you try this simpler patch instead of the previous one? Jean-Louis Richard Stockton wrote: OS: FreeBSD 6.2 amcheck displays this; Amanda Tape Server Host Check - ERROR: Cannot

Re: Invalid value for ai_flags

2007-05-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Richard Stockton wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, At 11:10 AM 5/4/2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Richard, Could you try this simpler patch instead of the previous one? It failed for 3 hunks, bsd-security.c, amcheck.c, and dumper.c. I edited these 3 files by hand with your changes, and re-compiled

Re: Invalid value for ai_flags

2007-05-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Post the amandad and sendsize debug files from bak-05 Jean-Louis Richard Stockton wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, At 11:10 AM 5/4/2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Richard, Could you try this simpler patch instead of the previous one? It failed for 3 hunks, bsd-security.c, amcheck.c, and dumper.c

Re: question about error message

2007-05-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
This failure is due to a change in tar behavior (in tar 1.16) Amanda was updated for this new behavior in amanda-2.5.1p3. You need amanda-2.5.1p3 or 2.5.2. Jean-Louis Freels, James D. wrote: Hello, I am running amanda-server 2.5.1p1-2.1 on several clients of the same version; all under

Re: Invalid value for ai_flags

2007-05-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Richard Stockton wrote: Is this the same problem that Steven was having with Solaris?? Will the same patch work for me? Or is this something different? It's the same problem, patch attached. diff -u -r --show-c-function --new-file --exclude-from=/home/martinea/src.orig/amanda.diff

Re: Invalid value for ai_flags

2007-05-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Can you post the dumper.*.debug file? amanda-2.5.1p3 doesn't have the IPV6 code, it should not have theses problems. Jean-Louis Richard Stockton wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, At 02:05 PM 5/4/2007, you wrote: Richard Stockton wrote: Is this the same problem that Steven was having with Solaris??

Re: Invalid value for ai_flags

2007-05-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I forgot this chunk in the first patch. Jean-Louis Richard Stockton wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, At 03:19 PM 5/4/2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Can you post the dumper.*.debug file? bak-05:root: more /tmp/amanda/server/bak13/dumper.20070505143046002.debug dumper: debug 1 pid 79452 ruid 1001

Re: Autoflush not working in 2.5.2

2007-05-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steven Can you post: amflush.1 or amflush.2 log file, the one with the error amflush.datestamp.debug file with the error. Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote: My solaris machine seems to have backed up fine last night, however, none of my holding disks were drained. I do nightly backups to

Re: amstatus returns uninitialized value!

2007-05-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Can you post the amdump.X log file that show this error in amstatus. Jean-Louis FL wrote: I'm using amanda version 2.5.1p3 amstatus Daily works for a while, then returns the following: MP line 3238. Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 681, AMDUMP line

Re: 2.5.2 compilation failure on irix-6.5.x

2007-05-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Pieter, Jean-Francois, Can you try the attached patch for the vstrallocf problem. Jean-Louis Pieter Bowman wrote: ... First go at amanda-2.5.2 on a system running irix-6.5.x and compile fails with the error: ... This is the case on both IRIX and OSF/1. These compilers can't handle:

Re: Autoflush not working in 2.5.2

2007-05-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's the output of: amadmin genepi holding list It should be done with the amadmin of 2.5.2 when you have something on holding disk. Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote: My solaris machine seems to have backed up fine last night, however, none of my holding disks were drained. I do nightly

Re: Autoflush not working in 2.5.2

2007-05-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Then I don't understand why amflush doesn't work. Send me the amdump log file, it is in `amgetconf genepi logdir` I tried to send you email but it always fail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: conversation with whimsy.med.utah.edu[155.100.158.59] timed out while sending MAIL FROM Jean-Louis Steven

Re: 2.5.2 compilation failure on irix-6.5.x

2007-05-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Pieter Bowman wrote: This is the case on both IRIX and OSF/1. These compilers can't handle: #define vstrallocf(...) debug_vstrallocf(__FILE__,__LINE__,__VA_ARGS__) I fix it in the 2.5.2 tree, but the next release will require that syntax, which is in the C99 standard. Do you

Re: amanda upgrade questions

2007-05-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Upgrading amanda is always easy if you keep the same config, we always maintains compatibility. Only the new features (amrecover use security-api, auth (ssh), ...) require config change. If you use the 2.4 amrecover, no config change is needed. 2.5.2 is stable on linux, all problem seen on

Re: no backups since a week ago (data write: Connection reset by peer)

2007-05-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steven Settlemyre wrote: From amdump log: This similar flow happens every time it fails. At first I was worried about the not enough diskspace message, but this is just because my holding disk filled up. I see the same thing happening in successful runs. In some case, this error is fatal,

Re: Ooops

2007-05-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I build a new snapshot with the compilation problem fixed. Thanks for reporting the problem. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I just tried to build 2.5.2-20070510 got this gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../config -I../gnulib -Wall -Wextra -Wparentheses

Re: first attempt with tape spanning...nogo.

2007-05-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You can't mmap a 10 Gb and alloc a 2GB buffer. I don't know what are the limit on irix. Compile in 64 bits mode and/or use lower value for tape_splitsize and fallback_splitsize split_diskbuffer is on the server. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: My first attempt at using tape

Re: RegEx not working?

2007-05-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It was a bug if it worked before. The regex works correctly. [14] is 1 or 4 You want ^VOL14[0-9]. Jean-Louis Richard Stockton wrote: Hi there, I have 3 separate configs running on one server (bak13, bak14, bak15). In the past I have made sure that they did not use each other's tapes by use

Re: Autoflush not working in 2.5.2

2007-05-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The log file doesn't help. Try http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/community-builds/amanda-2.5.2-flush.tar.gz it add a lot of debugging statement. Send me the output of: ls -altr /home1/dumps/amanda/ ls -altr /home2/dumps/amanda/ amadmin genepi holding list run: amflush genepi -o

Re: Autoflush not working in 2.5.2

2007-05-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The information was useful, I found a problem. Try http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/community-builds/amanda-2.5.2-flush-1.tar.gz Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote: Try http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/community-builds/amanda-2.5.2-flush.tar.gz it add a lot of debugging

Re: span + amcrypt-ossl-asym == not able to recover data

2007-05-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
This bug is already fixed in latest 2.5.1p3 snapshot. Patch attached. Jean-Louis Christopher McCrory wrote: Hello... 2.5.1p3 RHEL4 amfetchdump -a DailySet1 server /data 20070513 ... amfetchdump: 23: restoring split dumpfile: date 20070513000503 host server disk /data part 1/24 lev 0 comp

Re: Autoflush not working in 2.5.2

2007-05-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The patch is already in the latest 2.5.2 snapshot. That snapshot have a lot of bug fixed. Jean-Louis Christopher McCrory wrote: Hello... On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 19:39 -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: The information was useful, I found a problem. Try http://www.zmanda.com/downloads

Re: amrecover problems

2007-05-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Your inetd.conf must be: amanda dgram udp waitbackup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amandad -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, i tried to set up a mix of http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Test_environment_with_virtual_tapes and

Re: invalid ai_flags error with 2.5.2

2007-05-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Use latest 2.5.2 snapshot from http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php All patches are included in it. The 2.5.2 tree is not on cvs, it is on svn, check http://www.amanda.org/download.php Jean-Louis Chris Cameron wrote: I read the thread involving this error, and applied the two patches

Re: amanda-2.5.1p3-20070516 amfetchdump broken

2007-05-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Christopher McCrory wrote: Hello... I am testing amanda-2.5.1p3-20070516 to get over the flush issues and crypt+span issues. amfetchdump -ap DailySet1 server /data 20070513 | /sbin/restore -iovf - Verify tape and initialize maps Input is from a local file/pipe Checksum error 34765635674,

Re: estimates display wrong?

2007-05-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The bug is present since 2006/05/12, so it is in all 2.5.1 release. Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Christopher McCrory wrote: Hello... Since upgrading amanda, I'm seeing estimates ( via amstatus) way larger than they should be. I went from something before 2.5.1p3 , to 2.5.2, to

Re: amanda 2.4.4, compression issue

2007-05-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
index are always compressed on the server with --best. Why do you think your data is compressed? Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Good morning amanda users, I'm running amanda 2.4.4 on solaris 9, just built it on solaris 8. Finding that my TAR dumptypes seem to be running compression though I

Improving community participation in Amanda release process

2007-05-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, There has been much recent discussion in amanda-hackers, and -users about testing and support for the wide variety of platforms and architectures on which Amanda runs, and the wide variety of configurations in which folks use it. Amanda's ability to compile and run on a wide variety

Re: Amflush Slow in 2.5.2

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Is it amflush or amdump? Send me the amflush.* or amdump.* log, so that I can understand what's going on. Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote: Friday night I was somewhat more successful with autoflush in that my disks were emptied correctly, albeit very slowly. The new amflush took ~24 hours to

Re: changerfile

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
configure should find mt and mtx binaries if they are in your PATH. You can override it by setting mtx_binary in the changerfile. changerfile is defined in your amanda.conf file. Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P. wrote: The following is from the chg-lib.sh file. What file is the changerfile that is

Re: Amflush Slow in 2.5.2

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The tape usage is normal, amanda always put the dump in datestamp order to the tape, it tried a big DLE on tape genepi042, it didn't fit and retried it on next tape. It's the normal behavior. For the performance issue, amanda is waiting in write system call to the tape drive (wrwait is

Re: Amflush Slow in 2.5.2

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Both 2.5.1p3 and 2.5.2 have wrwait close the the time use (sec) which is the good behavior. Nothing changed between 2.5.1p3 and 2.5.2 in this area of amanda. I suggest you check system log message and monitor the server during the next time you write on tape. Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote:

Re: amflush problem with 2.5.2-20070508

2007-05-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Bug fixed 2007-05-15. Try latest snapshot. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: My first attempt at flushing the holdding disk with Amanda-2.5.2-20070508 fails: su amanda -c /opt/amanda/amanda4/sbin/amflush stk_80-conf4Scanning /holddisk/conf4/stk_80... 20070408091512: found Amanda

Re: report status of amanda-2.5.2-20070523 which fixed chuncker port problem

2007-05-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
McGraw, Robert P. wrote: zorn-[41] ./amstatus --config daily -t is on the #! line, it must also be used on the command line at ./amstatus line 1. If I removed the -t -T from the #! line amstatus worked ok. What your perl version? `perl --version` Jean-Louis

Re: report status of amanda-2.5.2-20070523 which fixed chuncker port problem

2007-05-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Can you try different ordering in perl argument on the first line? Try: #!/opt/csw/bin/perl -t -T -w -W Try: #!/opt/csw/bin/perl -T -t -w -W Try: #!/opt/csw/bin/perl -t -w -W Try: #!/opt/csw/bin/perl -T -w -W Try: #!/opt/csw/bin/perl -tTwW Try: #!/opt/csw/bin/perl -wWtT Jean-Louis McGraw,

Re: Amanda 2.5.2 bug report

2007-05-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Can you try latest 2.5.2 snapshot from http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php? Do: AMANDA_CFLAGS=-g before you configure Add the following lines to amanda.conf: debug_auth 1 debug_protocol 1 debug_dumper 1 Send me the Backtrace and the dumper.*.debug if it still crash. Jean-Louis Bruce

Re: Amanda-2.5.2-20070523 amstatus

2007-05-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P. wrote: When I run amstatus --config daily --date zorn-[13] amstatus --config daily --date Using /var/amanda/daily/amdump from Fri May 25 07:51:23 EDT 2007 20070525075123 bers:/ 0

Re: amanda-2.5.2

2007-05-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
, checking label, done. regards, jf * Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070524 09:26]: Hello, It's time for everyone to test the latest 2.5.2 snapshot before we release 2.5.2p1. Some bugs were found in amanda-2.5.2, most of them because of the new IPv6 code and incompatibility

Re: autoflush and amstatus

2007-05-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
James Brown wrote: Hi, After enabling 'autoflush' in amanda.conf, and starting new amdump, I saw two entries for a backup job that was already on holding disk. One was waiting to be flushed, the other was getting estimates. (I had to kill the job since I didn't want to run the 500GB backup

Re: autoflush and amstatus

2007-05-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
, amdump record full dump once they are on holding disk. Jean-Louis James Brown wrote: --- Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Brown wrote: Hi, After enabling 'autoflush' in amanda.conf, and starting new amdump, I saw two entries for a backup job

Re: FW: amrecover problem

2007-05-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The regex library you use is more strict than mine. Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I am forwarding this from my partner SA. Is this a know problem with a fix or something newly discovered? Thanks Robert -Original Message- From: Chapman Flack

Re: autoflush and amstatus

2007-05-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
tape. What I have been doing in these cases is to fill the rest of our terabyte holdingdisk, and then flush to two tapes. It would be nice if the autoflush could take away a step for me. BTW, we have reserve set to 0. JB --- Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why run amdump

Re: amtapetype - silly thing I tried

2007-06-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon, amtapetype should terminate once it fill the disk. Jean-Louis Jon LaBadie wrote: Back to back posts to the list on amtapetype and the file:driver made me wonder, will amtapetype work with virtual tapes? Not that it would be of any benefit, just wondered if it would. Well, to my

Re: tape spanning problem with 2.5.2-20070523

2007-06-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You can't retrieve the split_file separately, you must concatenate them before untaring. You can use amfetchdump: amfetchdump -p -d /hw/tape/tps21d1nrnsv config yorick /data/narsad/narsad1 20070530 | /usr/freeware/bin/tar -tf - or: mt -f /hw/tape/tps21d1nrnsv rewind mt -f

Re: Amanda always flushes holding-disk

2007-06-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I'm always happy to see that amanda do what it should do. amanda always write up to runtapes tapes if it has data to write. Why do you configure a tapedev if you don't what to use it? Try the following command if you don't want to use a tape: amdump conf -o tapdev=/no/such/device -o tpchanger=

Re: amanda-20070530 amrecover problem with restoring from older amanda version.

2007-06-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's in the amidxtaped.*.debug on the server? Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P. wrote: My configuration: build: VERSION=Amanda-2.5.2-20070530 BUILT_DATE=Thu May 31 09:14:26 EDT 2007 BUILT_MACH=SunOS zorn.math.purdue.edu 5.10 Generic_118833-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R

Re: Another Configure error

2007-06-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do you have a /tmp/conftest.lock file ? remove this file before running configure. Jean-Louis Paul Crittenden wrote: I am trying to install amanda backup software on my Sun server running Solaris 9.0. At the end of the configuration I get: checking whether posix fcntl locking works...

Re: Another Configure error

2007-06-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon, Send me your config.log Jean-Louis Jon LaBadie wrote: I've encountered the same error with configure on Solaris since my earliest days with amanda. I don't know why the configure script tests don't detect the locking facilities properly. At the time I was looking into it Solaris had

Re: Another Configure error

2007-06-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Chris is right, The test program configure execute doesn't find the library in /usr/local/lib You need some of before you run configure: CFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib' CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib'

Re: amanda-20070530 amrecover problem with restoring from older amanda version.

2007-06-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Robert, Did you configure with --with-maxtapeblocksize? What is the value? What is your blocksize setting in the tapetype? Did the tape labeled D5 was written with the same blocksize? Can you try the attached patch. Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P. wrote: Jean-Louis, Here is the

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

2007-06-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It looks like a sendsize crash. We haven't tested compatibility with older release like 2.4.2p2. A compatibility bug was fixed on 2007-05-15. Can you try latest 2.5.1p3 or 2.5.2 snapshot from http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php? Jean-Louis Carl D. Blake wrote: I am running a 2.4.2p2

Re: tape spanning problem with 2.5.2-20070523

2007-06-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070604 15:58]: * Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070601 09:55]: You can't retrieve the split_file separately, you must concatenate them before untaring. You can use amfetchdump: amfetchdump -p -d /hw

Re: tape spanning problem with 2.5.2-20070523

2007-06-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Try the attached patch, it will gives more debug output on stderr. Which changer script are you using? what is its config? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: The amfetchdump debug file must be in /tmp/amanda/server/spantest, can you send it? no such file: find .

Re: tape spanning problem with 2.5.2-20070523

2007-06-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Patch attached. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Try the attached patch, it will gives more debug output on stderr. Which changer script are you using? what is its config? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: The amfetchdump debug file must be in /tmp/amanda/server/spantest, can

Re: Amanda 2.5.1p3 gnutar permissions trouble

2007-06-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The amanda users also need rx on the directory. Jean-Louis Jordan Desroches wrote: I would love to run AMANDA directly on our Netapp filer, but can't :( Root is not being squashed, and I'm able to successfully backup /tfs/common/thayer-images when thayer-images is the NFS mount-point (report

Re: estimate timeouts at 6hrs?

2007-06-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amandad have a hard limit of 6h (see REP_TIMEOUT in amandad-src/amandad.c) in waiting for the reply from sendsize. Try the attached patch, it reset the timeout after each estimates. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, A new problem that has me stumped: all the amdumps from client to

Re: more restore problems with tape spanning...

2007-06-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The '-d' option is ignored if you use a changer. What is your tapedev? `amgetconf stk_80-conf2 tapedev` Is it valid? What's in the amfetchdump.*.debug? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: with amanda-2.5.2p1 trying to pull the last full of a DLE using amfetchdump. All needed tapes are

Re: amfetchdump - inventory mode

2007-06-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon, Can you try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Jon LaBadie wrote: I haven't used amfetchdump before and thought I'd try its inventory mode, option -i. As I understand it, with this option amfetchdump will examine the tapes (vtapes in my case) and generate output showing the contents in a

Re: 2.5.2p1 make install oddity

2007-06-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The static library *.a are not needed at execution time. All executable link with the version numbered dynamic library, the symlink is not use by amanda. Can you give more detail of your problem? an `ldd` of your executable an `ls -l` of the library. Jean-Louis Frank Smith wrote: While

Re: 2.5.2p1 make install oddity

2007-06-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
. Jean-Louis Thanks for the clarification, Frank Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: The static library *.a are not needed at execution time. All executable link with the version numbered dynamic library, the symlink is not use by amanda. Can you give more detail of your problem? an `ldd` of your

Re: I'm lost

2007-06-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Maybe localhost resolv to an IPv6 address and that network is not configured? grep localhost /etc/hosts netstat -nr Add 'debug_auth 1' to amanda.conf and retry. Post the taper.*.debug and dumper.*.debug files. Jean-Louis Paul Crittenden wrote: I have set up amanda-2.5.2p1 on Solaris 9, with

Re: Use multiple drives in tape robot

2007-06-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
--with-testing was needed with amanda 2.4.* if a client could be accessed by 2 different config at the same time. --with-testing is not needed with amanda-2.5.*, the amandad deamon allow multiple request simultaneously. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: I'll just add that you must

Re: more restore problems with tape spanning...

2007-07-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Following on my previous post: here's what I get /opt/amanda/amanda2/sbin/amfetchdump -p -l stk_80-conf2 yorick /data/ipl/ipl10 20070630 -o stk_80-conf2 | /usr/freeware/bin/tar -xvGpf - (null), line 0: Must specify a value for stk_80-conf2. You can remove the

Re: more restore problems with tape spanning...

2007-07-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Try the attached patch with amfetchdump, it included the previous patch. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070705 16:05]: Hold on to answer this one Jean-Louis. I think I've found the problem and I'm doing a amfetchdump run and it went

Re: amrestore does not work NAK: amindexd: invalid service

2007-07-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amrestore doesn't use the network and can't fail with NAK: amindexd: invalid service. amrestore and amrecover are two distinct commands, don't say amrestore when you talk about amrecover, it's really confusing. Your config looks good, are you sure you restarted xinetd? amrecover in 2.4.* will

Re: amrestore does not work NAK: amindexd: invalid service

2007-07-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
-Louis Bjoern B wrote: Hi, you are right i mean amrecover. sorry Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: Your config looks good, are you sure you restarted xinetd? I did a /etc/init.d/xinetd restart To be sure, i have done a server restart and tested it again. Same message. amrecover in 2.4

Re: amrestore does not work NAK: amindexd: invalid service

2007-07-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Frank Smith wrote: amandad: time 0.000: amindexd: invalid service amandad: time 0.000: sending NAK pkt: ERROR amindexd: invalid service My interpretation of this error is that it couldn't find the service named amindexd. Is this something new in 2.5, as in 2.4 it was named amandaidx,

Re: amrestore does not work NAK: amindexd: invalid service

2007-07-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Can you upgrade to 2.5.2p1? Jean-Louis Bjoern B wrote: Hi, Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: The only way to get this error is if amandad doesn't get amindexd as argument. But it is listed in the server_args of /etc/xinetd.d/amanda You should recheck that file, verify that it doesn't have

Re: Changing the label of an Amanda tape

2007-07-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Before you try to label a tape, you should fix the changer configuration. Which changer script are you using? If it's chg-zd-mtx, can you use mtx to move tape in the library? What is your config? What is in the changer debug file? Use the amtape command to move tape. Once that will work, you

Re: Firewall, amanda client and ports

2007-07-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Since you are using amanda-2.5.2p1, I suggest you use the bsdtcp auth. It will require no firewall rules. Port 10082 and 10083 are not use in 2.5.2 and above, your server need them only if you have older client (amrecover). To use bsdtcp auth: - change your dumptype to have: auth bsdtcp -

Re: Firewall, amanda client and ports

2007-07-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: Since you are using amanda-2.5.2p1, I suggest you use the bsdtcp auth. It will require no firewall rules. Where do I don't need firewall rules? I guess, I at least need to allow connecting the server to the clients. But did the other

Re: Firewall, amanda client and ports

2007-07-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Morning, Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: Yes you only need to allow connection to port 10080. This isn't added to the wiki right now, isn't it? At least I didn't saw it there. Just some more questions about that: * destination-port is 10080 udp, thats clear. But from

Re: Restoring from virtual tapes

2007-07-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's in the amrecover.*.debug file? Any amandad.*.debug file on ns1.pil.net? What is your xinetd configure on ns1.pil.net for the amandaidx and amidxtaped services? Check your system log for firewall Jean-Louis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've restored amanda file systems in the past from

Re: Anyone using Kerberos in 2.5.2 and having trouble with performance due to encryption?

2007-08-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Klas Heggemann wrote: Hi! We are inte transition from amanda 2.4.2 to 2.5.2. We seem to have a working build and configuration. We've also switched from Solaris 9 to 10, and newer hardware. However, with 2.5.2 encryption is no longer an option, when using Kerberos 5 authentication. The

Re: Anyone using Kerberos in 2.5.2 and having trouble with performance due to encryption?

2007-08-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Klas, Try amanda-2.5.3alpha-kencrypt.tar.gz from http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php It add support for the DLE kencrypt option with krb5. I don't know how to changer the encryption method. Jean-Louis Klas Heggemann wrote: 20 aug 2007 kl. 19.13 skrev Jean-Louis Martineau: Klas

Re: Restoring from a holding disk?

2007-09-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Josh Kelley wrote: I checked the wiki and Google and couldn't find an answer. How do I restore from files on a holding disk if the dump has been split across multiple chunks on the holding disk? I have the following files: alva._home.4alva._home.4.2 alva._home.4.4 alva._home.4.1

Re: Expected completion of an add * for a DLE with 378k files (2.4.4p3)?

2007-09-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
2.4.? and early 2.5.? can become extremely slow because in some case, the index are not sorted correctly. A 'add .' might be faster than a 'add *', but I'm not sure. Jean-Louis Francis Galiegue wrote: Hello again! I have a DLE with more than 378k files in it (that's not a joke), I'm trying

Re: no index records

2007-09-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The tapelist file must list the label from the log.20060701.0 file. Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P wrote: I am trying to manually merge some old amanda index data into my present date. When I run amrecover I get the following message. 200 Working date set to 2006-07-02.

Re: no index records

2007-09-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
McGraw, Robert P wrote: Jean-Louis, Thanks for your reply. Sorry I did not indicate that I had the following in my tapelist. 20060701 071012 no-reuse 20060701 071011 no-reuse 20060701 071010 no-reuse 20060701 071009 no-reuse This is a grep of my log file. ##R##-zorn-[90] ## grep 0710

Re: The question about ssh encryption

2007-09-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You should read the documentation for your release. ssh_keys was added in 2.5.1. With 2.5.0, it used the default key of the user. Jean-Louis Takashi Kurakata wrote: Hi all, I am using amanda that the bundle is being done by RHEL5 now. The version of amanda is 2.5.0p2-4. I want to construct

Re: The question about krb5 encryption

2007-09-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
krb5keytab and krb5principal are global parameter, they are not dumptype parameter. If you want to use ssh or krb5, I strongly suggest to upgrade to 2.5.2p1. Jean-Louis Takashi Kurakata wrote: Hi all, I am using amanda that the bundle is being done by RHEL5 now. The version of amanda is

Re: The question about krb5 encryption

2007-09-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Takashi Kurakata wrote: Thank you for answering my question. krb5keytab and krb5principal are global parameter, they are not dumptype parameter. I deleted krb5keytab and krb5principal from dumptype. When I executed amcheck in the kerberos environment, the following messages were output.

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

2007-09-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It looks like your system include files doesn't define the in_port_t type. Find where it is defined with: grep -r in_port_t /usr/include Try to include this file from common-src/amanda.h Jean-Louis Craig Dewick wrote: Now that I seem to have sorted out Amanda on the server host, I've turned

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

2007-09-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I have: /usr/include/netinet/in.h: typedef uint16_t in_port_t; Can you fix your reply-to to have a valid field. Jean-Louis Craig Dewick wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: It looks like your system include files doesn't define the in_port_t type. Find where

Re: amcrypt vs. autoflush

2007-09-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What failed? You show us the taper wrote it's TAPEEND block, it's good. What's the error? Jean-Louis Christopher McCrory wrote: Hello... RHEL5 x86_64 , amanda 2.5.2p1 I am using 'server_encrypt /usr/sbin/amcrypt-ossl-asym ' I can do backups. I can flush to tape. If I add 'autoflush

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