Re: .amandahosts owned by id ## should be ##

2008-05-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Paul Yeatman wrote: -In response to your message- --received from Jean-Louis Martineau-- Paul, I haven't followed the thread and I don't have old mail. You should not need bsdudp. Your disklist should specify : auth bsdtcp Are you sure you have a correct plist for bsdtcp? Are you sure

Re: amdump freezes

2008-05-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You are doing a dump to tape and the taper failed. The dumper close the socket to the client, and the client detect the socket is close. The first error is the taper. sendbackup error is the result of the taper error. Jean-Louis Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Some infos from the

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 amrecover to server

2008-05-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It's not a .amandahosts problem. Check the xinetd configuration for the amindexd service. Check system log for xinetd error. Jean-Louis Johan Booysen wrote: Hope someone can help me out here. I'm testing Amanda 2.5.0 on RHEL5, to upgrade from our older version. Everything went well and I

Re: amdump freezes

2008-05-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It must abort the dump, and restart it. Jean-Louis Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: You are doing a dump to tape and the taper failed. The dumper close the socket to the client, and the client detect the socket is close. The first error is the taper. sendbackup

Re: amdump freezes

2008-05-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: It must abort the dump, and restart it. And what's the solution for my problem? Did it retried the dump on the next tape? Can you explain the problem, because i don't understand it, except you hit the end of a tape. Post the amdump

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 spanning

2008-05-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Everything look good. But it doesn't explain why amanda rejected those tape, the email report will tell you why. I'm not sure if the error is already written to the log file, but you can check them: (amdump or amdump.1) or (log or log.TIMESTAMP.*). btw, why are you installing an old amanda

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 spanning

2008-05-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Johan Booysen wrote: Well, there wasn't any email report because it was waiting for the job to finish... I eventually manually killed the job, but the email report only says: *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY! These dumps were to tape daily-3. The next 2 tapes Amanda expects to use are: a

Re: Day '31' out of range 1..30 at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 1148

2008-06-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
A bug in amstatus should not prevent your backup to run correctly. Changing amdump.1 can't help to start a backup run (amdump). Your backup should run correctly even if amstatus crash. Can you send me a copy of the bogus amdump.1 file? I would like to look at it. Which locale are you using?

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 spanning

2008-06-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
it give any sort of indication that it's time to insert the second tape? Just a little confused over that issue. Thanks very much. -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 May 2008 12:56 To: Johan Booysen Cc: Amanda user's group Subject: Re: Amanda

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 spanning

2008-06-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Johan Booysen wrote: Ok, on Thurday night at 21:00 I kicked off a backup job that should span over 2 tapes. I wasn't in the office on Friday, but this morning the first tape was ejected, and amstatus tells me the following: server:/whatever/clients 0127494663k writing to tape (9:43:32) I

Re: Amanda 2.5.0 spanning

2008-06-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
back with: /dev/nst0: Device or resource busy So, alas, I don't think it's doing anything. Any other suggestions at all? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 June 2008 13:25 To: Johan Booysen Cc: Amanda user's group Subject: Re: Amanda

Re: [Amanda-users] confusing problem with NO-NEW-TAPE

2008-06-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's is the runtapes setting? It's hard to read files when many characters are converted to HTML, it's a lot better if you attach a file, they will not be converted. Jean-Louis nbarss wrote: Can you send your whole amflush log, as well as the taper debug log? Sure. Here is

Re: dumper abort()ing occasionally

2008-06-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Douglas, Many bugs are already fixed in the 2.5.1 tree, but we didn't made a release. You can try the latest 2.5.1 snapshot from http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php It is only bug fixes since the 2.5.1p3 release. I don't remember if this bug was fixed. Jean-Louis Douglas K. Rand

Re: amdump fails: port open: Resource temporarily unavailable

2008-06-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Can you post the dumper.*.debug file? Jean-Louis Luc Romain wrote: I recently installed FedoraCore 9 and I am having trouble getting amdump to run. I am using amanda (amanda-2.5.2p1-10.fc9.i386). Amcheck runs clean but amdump fails. Here is the error I get when I run 'amstatus DailySet1'

Re: amdump fails: port open: Resource temporarily unavailable

2008-06-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Luc Romain wrote: dumper: time 319.981: stream_client: Could not bind to port in range 0-0. 0-0 ? that's strange, do you have set reserved-udp-port in amanda.conf? amadmin config config | grep -i reserved What was the value of --with-udpportrange setting when amanda was configured?

Re: amdump fails: port open: Resource temporarily unavailable

2008-06-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Sorry, it's not an error with an udp port, what's the setting of unreserved-tcp-port amgetconf config unreserved-tcp-port Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Luc Romain wrote: dumper: time 319.981: stream_client: Could not bind to port in range 0-0. 0-0 ? that's strange, do you have set

Re: amdump fails: port open: Resource temporarily unavailable

2008-06-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Martineau wrote: Sorry, it's not an error with an udp port, what's the setting of unreserved-tcp-port amgetconf config unreserved-tcp-port Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Luc Romain wrote: dumper: time 319.981: stream_client: Could not bind to port in range 0-0. 0-0 ? that's strange

Re: Intermittent FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] errors

2008-06-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do you have a firewall on the server? That would explain why amanda doesn't receive the packet even if the server receive it. Can you post the amandad.*.debug from the client and the dumper.*.debug from the server. Jean-Louis Wallace, Michael wrote: Hello, I have Amanda 2.5.1 running on a

Re: 2.5.2p1 under StrongBolt/CentOS on Cobalt Raq-4i - dump errors etc.

2008-06-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Craig Dewick wrote: ERROR: ziri: [could not access /dev/hda6 (/dev/hda6): Permission denied] ERROR: ziri: [could not access /dev/hda2 (/dev/hda2): Permission denied] ERROR: ziri: [could not access /dev/hda1 (/dev/hda1): Permission denied] which is rather strange as I've already made sure, as

Re: Should usetimestamps setting effect holding disk directory names?

2008-06-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Amanda use 14 digits for holding disk directory name since many releases, it is not related to usetimestamps. Jean-Louis Paul Yeatman wrote: Hi, Are 14 digit directory names on the holding disk only when using time stamps or in any case with amanda 2.6.0p1? I tried using time stamps for

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
xinetd must be configured to run amandad as root. Jean-Louis Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server and client --with-krb5-security, added a new principal to my KDC ([EMAIL PROTECTED] REALM), and wrote a keytab file and placed it on the server.

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Amanda lock the file while writing to it. What is the output of: amadmin vv version | grep LOCKING Which filesystem is used, is it NFS mounted? Jean-Louis Jukka Salmi wrote: Jukka Salmi -- amanda-users (2008-06-25 12:37:15 +0200): Hello, since I upgraded an Amanda installation from

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jukka Salmi wrote: What about using record locking on a file in the logdir (maybe on the logfile itself)? I.e. making sure that all involved processes always acquire an exclusive lock, then write the log and afterwards release the lock? Amanda already lock the 'log' file. But why it is not

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
): running as user root instead of amandabackup In the kerberos wiki it says amandad will relinquish root permissions after reading the keytab. It doesnt seem to be doing that. Also, What keytab on the client needs to be read as root? --Chad On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote

Re: Newbie's question: server is not allowed to execute ther service noop

2008-06-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It search the .amandahosts file in the home directory of the user. Jean-Louis Weiwei Luo wrote: Hi all, When I use amcheck, the following error message is returned. *** Amanda

Re: speeding up estimates

2008-07-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
John Heim wrote: # Do faster estimates estimate calcsize It must be in a dumptype. Jean-Louis

Re: tar vs. dump for / backup?

2008-07-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sendsize[7952]: time 0.003: /dev/sda2: Bad magic number in super-block while opening filesystem^M sendsize[7952]: time 0.003: DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. sendsize[7952]: time 0.004: . sendsize[7952]: time 0.004: estimate time for / level 0: 0.002

Re: another selfcheck problem

2008-07-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Mister Olli wrote: Hi... when I try to do an 'amcheck' on my daily backup jobs I have one system, that does not pass the selftest. it's configured identically to some other machines that work like a charm. the debug output of 'amandad' on the client side looks like this: -auth=bsd: debug 1

Re: another selfcheck problem

2008-07-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
... are there any hints on what to check, or how to trace/ debug this failure in more detail? greetz olli Am Mittwoch, den 16.07.2008, 07:20 -0400 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Mister Olli wrote: Hi... when I try to do an 'amcheck' on my daily backup jobs I have one system, that does not pass

Re: amanda ssh security

2008-07-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Which release of amanda? Are you sure you are running the newly compiled amcheck? Use the full patch when running it and show me the file is recent with 'ls -l'. Post the configure output, did it find the ssh binary? Post the output of make, did it compiled the ssh-security.c file? Jean-Louis

Re: amanda-2.5.1p3 ignores no-reuse

2008-08-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
As Jon said, it's a problem with new tape marked as no-reuse, only the report is bad, amanda will works as expected. The attached patch fix 'amadmin CONF tape' and amreport. I don't know if the patch apply to 2.5.1p3. Jean-Louis Olivier Nicole wrote: Hello, I am setting up a new Amanda

Re: tar ignoring --one-file-system

2008-08-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
--one-file-system doesn't works for NFS mountpoint. You must exclude the ./rabbit.honeypot.net directory. Jean-Louis Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm using Amanda 2.5.1p3 and GNU tar 1.20 on a FreeBSD 7 system. I noticed something was askew when Amanda made an 11GB backup of a 6GB filesystem: #

Re: gtar 1.13.25 follows symlinks?

2008-09-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man tar -C, --directory DIR change to directory DIR It change the directory to '/data/nihpd/nihpd3/users' and then backup '.' It is the expected behaviour. The DLE should not be a symlink if you don't want to follow it. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: A funny

Re: Dumps cannot be retrieved from tape...

2008-09-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do 'amadmin config find' list the dump you want to restore? What error do you get from amrecover? no longer accessible is not helpful to find the problem. Which amanda release are you using? You can try to use amrestore on the server. Jean-Louis Dan Brown wrote: Hi, I've got a backup set

Re: Dumps cannot be retrieved from tape...

2008-09-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amrecover require a level 0 to still exist to works. You have no level 0 dump of the disk (according to amadmin), it is very dangerous, it is impossible for amanda to restore the complete disk. I'm surprised amrecover show you the level 2 dump that are on holding disk, it should not.

Re: Space in directory name

2008-09-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hans Sandsdalen wrote: Hi I use amanda 2.4.4p3 and have a problem with a space ( ) in a directory name in a disklist. How do I specify a directory name with a space in it? You can't, newer version can do it easily. Easiest solution is to create a simlink: cd /disk1/vmuser ln -s Virtual\

Re: Logs and reporting

2008-09-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Prashant Ramhit wrote: Hi All, Thanks for your help. Attached is the amdump.1 Do you think its because it is not using the tape FULLBACK-01. How can I make it to reuse fullback-01 again. Do the following two command: amrmtape fullbackfullback-01 amlabel -f fullback fullback-01 Your

Re: amanda and live directory

2008-10-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Increase the estimate timeout setting (etimeout) in amanda.conf. Jean-Louis aminukapon wrote: Hello all, I have 2 directories that I'm trying to backup ...both directories are live and constantly running (P.s:- running a website off them).. I have tried to backup them up but amanda keeps

Re: DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory

2008-10-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Like the message says: You can't use DUMP to backup a subdirectory, DUMP work only on partition. You must use GNUTAR to backup a directory. Jean-Louis Neil Marjoram wrote: Hello all, I'm a little confused, I've been running the same config for years, last change a couple of years ago, and

Re: DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory

2008-10-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
to recover it On day 12, it will be on the level 0 backup of /home/bar. Jean-Louis Aaron J. Grier wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:15:52AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: sendbackup: info end | DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory | DUMP: The ENTIRE dump

Re: Disklist question

2008-10-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amanda.conf: diskfile string Default: disklist. The file name for the disklist file holding client hosts, disks and other client dumping information. You can use: amdump -odiskfile=disklista Why do you want to do use different disklist file? You could have one

Re: [Fwd: Re: Tape Autoloader]

2008-10-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Prashant Ramhit wrote: Changer problem: mtx command (mtx) doesn't exist changer problem: mtx command (mtx) doesn't exist (expecting a new tape) mtx was not in your when you configured amanda, add it to your PATh and reconfigure amanda. Check the configure output to know if it find it.

Re: problems with amtape and amanda 2.6.0p2

2008-10-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Are you sure /dev/rmt/1cn is the device for the tape drive? What's the output of: mt -f /dev/rmt/1cn status mt -f /dev/rmt/1cn rewind Jean-Louis Krahn, Anderson wrote: Trying to label my tapes and I get the following errors: ]#/opt/amanda/amanda-2.6.0p2/server-src/amtape Full update

Re: Indexing a client

2008-10-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Prashant Ramhit wrote: Hi Paddy, Thanks for you email. I am using GNUTAR. Index is set to yes in amanda.conf and all other clients are being indexed. What's the output of: amadmin config disklist Did it list 'index YES' for the DLE? Do you get index under your indexdir (amgetconf config

Re: [Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
rakesh wrote: Hi amandad.*.debug is not generating any new logs Then check your xinetd config and system log. Jean-Louis

Re: amrecover, enter directory with a space

2008-10-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Thomas Vogt wrote: Hello I use amanda-server-2.5.1p3 and amanda-client-2.5.1p3 with FreeBSD 6.3. Today I tried to restore a file from a directory with spaces in the name. I started amrecover, set host and disk and tried to access my directory called Data Check. When i type ls in amrecover

Re: [Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
rakesh wrote: Hi I have tried to apply the recommended changes and after doing so i started to get the error, i have copied syslog along with .amandahosts contents and xinetd config details for amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/amanda_hold/DailySet1# amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p1.

Re: [Amanda-users] Amrecover is not starting

2008-10-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
rakesh wrote: Hi Thanks a lot your recomendations worked, atlast amrecover has started but i haven't recovered any files till now.I would like to share some entries of the same , what am i missing in here ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/amanda_hold/DailySet1# amrecover AMRECOVER Version

Re: amfetchdump: running as user root instead of amanda ??

2008-11-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Running amanda-2.6.0p2 an attempting to restore a run: # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) # amfetchdump -p -d tape:/dev/nst0 conf1 gustav | tar -xpGf - amfetchdump: running as user root instead of amanda ugh? jf amfetchdump must be able to access the

Re: amfetchdump: running as user root instead of amanda ??

2008-11-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Is this a new feature? I've done restore as root in the past I'm sure and never seen this before. Have been living blind all this time? :) So I guess I was lucky enough to do the amfetchdump in a dir owned by amanda and then it could recreate the dir structure and

Re: amfetchdump: running as user root instead of amanda ??

2008-11-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20081104 13:46]: Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Is this a new feature? I've done restore as root in the past I'm sure and never seen this before. Have been living blind all this time? :) So I guess I was lucky enough

Re: Stranded on waitq failure (planner: Message too long)

2008-11-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Ian Turner wrote: I don't know if 2.5.1 is old enough to qualify for this issue, but it used to be the case that the entire set of disklists for a client had to fit in a single packet. What that meant is that if you had more than a few dozen disks on one client (depending on disklist options),

Re: amrecover ignores --prefix

2008-11-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What are the other configure option? Is it amrecover that use /usr/local or is it amindexd and amidxtaped? check you xinetd config to be sure you run the amandad in /local/... Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote: I'm doing a trial installation of amanda and don't want to mess up my regular

Re: amanda-2.6.0p2: a few remarks and questions

2008-11-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Jean-François, Can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello, I've finally got to install amanda-2.6.0p2 on a system going soon into production and while getting used to the new features and I noticed a few things that have changed since 2.5.x : - I use

Re: amanda-2.6.0p2: a few remarks and questions

2008-11-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Try this newest patch. Some fix will works only if the dump is done with the patched version. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008 20:12]: Hi Jean-François, Can you try the attached patch? Tried it but something is still

Re: only one slot recognized

2008-11-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's in your changer config file? What's the output of : mtx -f /dev/sg? status What's in the debug file? Jean-Louis Nicholas Brockner wrote: Hi All, I have been banging my head against this all day: I have a superloader3 16 slot LTO3 unit I am trying to set up. For some reason, the glue

Re: only one slot recognized

2008-11-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Nicholas Brockner wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, Please see inline. Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What's in your changer config file? -sh-3.2$ more changer.conf changerdev=/dev/sg3 havereader=1 offline_before_unload=1 OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1 poll_drive_ready=10 Max_drive_wait=99 unloadpause=20 driveslot

Re: only one slot recognized

2008-11-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Try to put tape in the library, chg-zd-mtx automatically skip empty slot. Jean-Louis Nicholas Brockner wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Nicholas Brockner wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, Please see inline. Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What's in your changer config file? -sh-3.2$ more changer.conf

Re: 2.6.1alpha-20081121 oddity

2008-11-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What are you extracting? If the DLE have hard link you must extract the complete DLE. gtar save the DLE only for the first file, this file must be extracted. You tried to extract './sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts' but you didn't extracted './hosts'. Which release of amrecover are

Release of Amanda-2.6.1b1

2008-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
and improvement. * amgetconf '--client' option to retrieve config from amanda-client.conf on a client. * Amanda configuration file changes o new application-tool section o new script-tool section o new device section o new changer section Jean-Louis

Re: permissions

2008-12-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Seth Rothenberg wrote: I'm looking for a clue for troubleshooting a new amandaclient install. My main problem is that this hasn't been worked on in about 5 years... I have a dozen clients, including two ubuntu GNU/Linux, and we are trying to add one more. This one happens to be

Re: Fix the order of the dump in Amanda

2008-12-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Is it each samba dle that take take a long time or because they are done sequentially? If each dle take a long time, check for 'dumporder' setting. you might want to set it to TTT. If they are done sequentially, you should increase maxdumps, and be sure the DLEs are not on the

Re: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20081209

2008-12-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Check firewall Check xinetd configuration Check system log for error to start amandad Check amandad.*.debug files. Check selfcheck.*.debug files. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Its borken: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda-2.6.2alpha-20081209]# su amanda -c amcheck Daily Amanda Tape Server

Re: autoflush not working in 2.6.0p2?

2008-12-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve, you are just crying that autoflush is not working, you post nothing that show it. As a bug reporter, you should show us that you have a bug. Always prove what you say? Prove autoflush is set: what is the output of: amgetconf conf autoflush Prove you have something in the holding disk

Re: chg-zd-mtx strange behaviour

2008-12-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What is the error you get in the report? What is the number of 'reuse' tape in the tapelist? Is it greater than your tapecycle? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, An amanda run last night ended up in the holddisk due to the fact that chg-zd-mtx didn't hunt for the requested tape even

Re: Advice on flushing a large dump

2008-12-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Zembower, Kevin wrote: Is your 'holding delete' the same as this version's 'delete'? I'm nervous about something that just says, Delete from database. NO, it's not the same. You should move the holding files on another directory force a full dump of the disk: amadmin $conf force $host

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda backup problem - a tape error occured

2008-12-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
mandaillou wrote: NOTES: taper: tape DailySet-05 kb 1783648 fm 2 writing file: No space left on device The tape got full after 1783648 was written, you need bigger tape.

Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda backup problem - a tape error occured

2008-12-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amtapetype for amanda.conf configuration. Below is the extract from amanda.conf related to the tapetype definition. define tapetype HP-C1537A{ length 3868 mbytes filemark 225 kbytes speed 491 kps } Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: mandaillou wrote: Quote: NOTES: taper

Re: Amrecover issue...

2008-12-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Christiaan de Vries wrote: Hello all, (After quite some time spent on initial configuration issues...) It seems the dump works successfully, but when I try an amrecover from the client, I get the following error: = r...@chris-desktop:~# amrecover -s 10.100.100.150

Re: Amrecover issue...

2008-12-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Christiaan de Vries wrote: Hello Jean-Louis, File Permissions: == bac...@dub-amanda1:~$ ls -al /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16248 2007-11-09 01:08 /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped Xinetd.d conf: r...@dub-amanda1:/etc/xinetd.d# cat /etc/xinetd.d/amidxtape

Re: Weird compression results for DLE using 'compress NONE' (nocomp-root)

2009-01-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Tom Robinson wrote: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s --

Re: Weird compression results for DLE using 'compress NONE' (nocomp-root)

2009-01-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Tom Robinson wrote: Client: amanda: 2.4.4p3 It is an old release, sendbackup: time 2193.228: 93: normal(|): DUMP: Volume 1 4063380 blocks (3968.14MB) The block size is 1KB. It is improved in newer release. I can do nothing for the release you are using, if you have program with

Re: 2.6.2alpha question.

2009-01-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What do you get if you run: /usr/bin/smbclient '//not.a.host.name/notashare' -U nosuchuser -N -Tx /dev/null Maybe your DNS is slow to return that 'not.a.host.name' is not a valid hostname Check your DNS configuration. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2009, Dustin J.

Re: Error on backup

2009-01-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The DETAIL section of the report list the output of tar, you should see why it failed (exit with code 2). Jean-Louis Prashant Ramhit wrote: Hi All. Does any one knows what this error code means FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: backupserver /mnt/fileserver1/bb-share/project/ lev 0 FAILED

Re: Error on backup

2009-01-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Louis Martineau Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 06:01 To: Prashant Ramhit Cc: amanda-users Subject: Re: Error on backup The DETAIL section of the report list the output of tar, you should see why it failed (exit with code 2). Jean-Louis Prashant Ramhit wrote

Re: Amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris 10/Sparc build

2009-02-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amzfs-snapshot You must give to the 'amanda' user the right to execute some zfs command. Use 'zfs allow' or set the 'PFEXEC' and 'PFEXEC-PATH' properties. Brian Cuttler wrote: Yes! leaving the /opt/sfw/lib out of the path entirely seems to have done the trick, we linked against the correct

Re: amanda 2.6.1 - configuration problem ?

2009-02-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Stefan, Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Greets, as I start to explore the wonders of opensolaris I have a testbox running OpenSolaris 2008.11. I installed the amanda-packages from zmanda and set up amanda 2.6.1 to give zfs-snapshots a try. Things work fine

Re: amanda 2.6.1, Solaris 10/Sparc, amstatus error

2009-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
This bug is already fixed. Fix will be in 2.6.1p1. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Successful run of the new version yesterday, performing a new run this morning with autoflush (production capacity tape drive is on the current production system). Ran amstatus and noted an error, thought I'd

Re: Using amrecover with amgtar has trouble

2009-02-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Yoshihiro Ishikawa wrote: [r...@centos32 recover-src]# diff -uNr extract_list.c.o extract_list.c --- extract_list.c.o2008-12-13 02:59:47.0 +0900 +++ extract_list.c 2009-02-06 12:40:52.0 +0900 @@ -1755,6 +1755,10 @@ if (file.program != NULL) { if

Re: 2.6.1 build process anomoly

2009-02-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
./configure --help --with-amlibexecdir[[[=PATH]]] Where amanda own programs are installed, default: $libexecdir/amanda --without-amlibexecdir Amanda own

Re: 2.6.1 build process anomoly

2009-02-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
stan wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:23:59AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: ./configure --help --with-amlibexecdir[[[=PATH]]] Where amanda own programs are installed, default

Re: 2.6.1 build process anomoly

2009-02-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Read previous post and './configure --help' output. Add --without-amlibexecdir Jean-Louis stan wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:18:37AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: But, if one is already puting amanda in it's own

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda error

2009-02-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Check the client amandad.*.debug and sendsize.*.debug files. Jean-Louis ay4you wrote: Hi i am getting an error with amanda backup i am using amanda 2.6.0 on the server and 2.5.1 on the client. the error is FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: LON-TI-OFF-01 /home/company lev 0 FAILED [missing result

Re: amstatus error on 2.6.1

2009-02-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Stan, It's known bug, remove the line 1042. Jean-Louis stan wrote: When I ran amstatus to check on last nights run, I got a serries of the follwing error messages: :Use of uninitialized value in addition (+) at /opt/amanda/sbin/amstatus line 1042. Looking at that line of the script makes me

Re: amstatus error on 2.6.1

2009-02-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
stan wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 07:31:44AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Stan, It's known bug, remove the line 1042. So, that element of the structure does not need to get aded to the acumulation It's done a few line below. Jean-Louis

Re: [Amanda-users] how to use amrestore

2009-02-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Why you can't open the file? Jean-Louis ay4you wrote: Hi Can anyone tell me how to use amrestore i have done amrestore tapefile host now i have a big file which i cant open how do i extract the files there +-- |This was

Re: More ranting about issues compiling 2.6.1 on older machines

2009-03-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I have numerous clients still running amanda 2.4.x clients and talking to my 2.6.1 server. I would think that maintaining backward compatibility within the amanda server is a more fruitful path than trying to build the latest version on all sorts of older platforms. Is there reason to believe

Re: BUILT_MACH wrong ?

2009-03-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
BUILT_MACH is set from the output of ./config/config.guess What is the ouput? Jean-Louis Peter Kunst wrote: Hi there, just noticed in another Solaris10/sparc machine's amandad debug file: 1237478934.669711: amandad: BUILT_MACH=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu BUILT_REV=1609 This amandad

Re: upd port restictions

2009-03-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi, Server use tcp port between 10084 and 10100 to connect to client trel.wadsworth.org on port 56446. It looks good. Do you have firewall on server or client? Disable them while you test amanda. Can you post server and client debug files? Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: I am running

Re: Strange FORMAT ERROR with 2.6.1

2009-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
(revision 1649) @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-02-06 Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com + * server-src/dumper.c: options is already unquoted. + * common-src/util.c: argument should not be quoted when added to argv. + 2009-02-06 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com * installcheck

Re: Is partial taper Expected?

2009-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The 4 DLEs are already flushed. There is a bug in 2.6.1 that don't erase them from holding disk, this bug is already fixed in SVN. You can securely remove the files from holding disk. Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: You get this message

Re: increasing tar failures

2009-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The email report should give you the complete output of tar, check the DETAIL section of the report. Jean-Louis Steve Wray wrote: Hi there, over the last month or so I've been seeing increasing amounts of disk list entries showing this in the amanda report: FAILED [/bin/tar returned 1]

Re: zfs backup failure

2009-03-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Post the output of: amadmin config disklist grifserv /griffyp/hiu and the client amandad.*.debug, sendbackup.*.debug and zfs*.*.debug Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Ok, scratched my head a little and thought about was what different between testing in-preproduction and now, we changed the

Re: upd port restictions

2009-03-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
-Louis Glenn Gillis wrote: Brian Cuttler wrote, On 3/24/2009 7:42 AM: Jean-Louis, On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:37:22AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi, Server use tcp port between 10084 and 10100 to connect to client trel.wadsworth.org on port 56446. It looks good. Do you have firewall

Re: amdump stopped working

2009-04-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
dump larger than available tape space, 40258881 KB, full dump delayed Do you know amanda have not done a full DUMP in the more than 327 days? I hope you have keep all the needed tapes otherwise you can't recover the complete dle. You should enabled splitting (I don't remember if it is possible

Re: Having problem using Amanda for permanent backup storage

2009-04-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Amanda use a new tape at every run. If you configure a big enough holding disk, amanda can be configured to write to a tape only it is has enough data in holding disk to fill the tape. You must at least do one full backup, you are configure to do only level 1 backup, but they are relative to

Re: 501 Could not read config file /etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf!

2009-04-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amrecover from 2.5.2p1 and 2.4.4p3 use different protocol to communicate with the server. What's the xinetd configuration for the amindexd and amidxtaped network services on the server? Jean-Louis Jukka Salmi wrote: Hello, I'm having a problem with amrecover(8) on Linux systems. The

Re: 501 Could not read config file /etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf!

2009-04-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Change it to: amandaidx stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd amidxtape stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped Other arguments should only be used for amandad. Jean-Louis Jukka Salmi wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau -- amanda-users (2009-04-03

Re: Holdingdisk no - why does amanda wait to tape those DLEs?

2009-04-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It's important to do the dump direct to tape at the end if you have a small holding disk, Amanda was designed for this case. But hard disk are now cheap, what you propose is a good idea. Patch is welcome. Jean-Louis Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: However, the

Re: [Amanda-users] Pre/Post script in Amanda 2.5.1 - posible?

2009-04-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
pre and post scripts are 2.6.1 features, it's not available in 2.5.1. Jean-Louis Topper wrote: Hello community, I'm just first time starter with Amanda. Due to machine limitation (kernel and software) we can't use the last vers 2.6.1 So we installed 2.5.1 works like a charm but now first

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