Re: catch 22 in krb 5 client authentification

2009-04-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amcheck must always be run by the amandabackup user. Your xinetd config looks good. Are you sure you are running amandad for 2.6.0p2 on the client? The first line of the debug files should confirm it. Jean-Louis Daniel Novotny wrote: hello, one of our users has a problem while configuring

Re: client failure

2009-04-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Post dumper.*.debug files? Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Dustin, Jean-Louis, On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:37:24PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: ? everest /images3 lev 0 ?FAILED [dumper1 died] Check

Re: client failure

2009-04-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian, Can you try this patch? I need this path to connect to a 2.4.2p1 client, I was not able to compile 2.4.1 Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: I'm trying to migrate an amanda client, SGI/IRIX with amanda 2.4.1p1 from server Solaris 9 with amanda 2.4.4 to a server Solaris 10 with amanda

Re: [Amanda-users] Script Exec format error ?

2009-04-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What is /usr/libexec/amanda/application/abas-stop? file /usr/libexec/amanda/application/abas-stop head -1 /usr/libexec/amanda/application/abas-stop ldd /usr/libexec/amanda/application/abas-stop Jean-Louis Topper wrote: FAILED Script 'abas-stop' command 'PRE-HOST-ESTIMATE': sendsize: error

Re: Fwd: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 10, 2009

2009-04-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, Where do you the gtar state files? Do you remove them on reboot? Jean-Louis

Release of Amanda-2.6.1p1

2009-04-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
in distribution tarballs. * Many bugs fixed o S3 device driver o rait device driver o amstatus o configure o application-api o compilation on some platform o others small bug Jean-Louis Martineau

Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 10, 2009

2009-04-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, Knowing which release failed is useful, but it is more useful if we can find why it failed, can you post all debug files generated by a failed run? From both amanda client and server. From the client: amandad.*.debug, sendsize.*.debug, amgtar.*.debug, sendbackup.*.*debug. From the

Re: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR April 10, 2009

2009-04-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I committed a fix, thank for finding the bug. CHECK-DEVICE is correct, properties are sent send to the 'support' application command because they are not needed, the script just log the default value. Jean-Louis Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: OK, after some logfile exchange off-list, I think

Re: Can't connect to client on Solaris 10

2009-04-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You are using the bsdtcp auth mechanism, you must configure the client for it. /etc/services: add amanda 10080/tcp SCOPENAME=VALUE name=amanda endpoint_type=dytream proto=tcp isrpc=FALSE wait=FALSE exec=/libexec/amanda/amandad

Re: Timeout waiting for ACK

2009-05-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Add '-auth=bsdtcp in argument to amandad. Jean-Louis Abilio Carvalho wrote: I'm getting this message when trying to run amcheck. I've run amservice as is specified in the wiki page about this error, and I'm getting the same error, so it's a client issue. Can someone help me debug this?

Amanda does it again! - Wins LJ Readers' Choice Award

2009-05-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
All, Amanda has won Linux Journal's Linux Choice Award for 2009: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10451 Jean-Louis

Re: amrestore and multiple tapes

2009-05-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It is easier to restore a splitted dump with amfetchdump. It will write a 250Go file. There is no way to automatically rebuild index from tape. Jean-Louis Franck GANACHAUD wrote: Hello, Server and client are 2.5.1p1 on debian etch I've been trying to use amrestore but the backup is around

Re: amrestore and multiple tapes

2009-05-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
to manually get what's on various tapes? Btw, I changed the chunksize to 1Gb in amanda.conf as Dustin suggested. Jean-Louis Martineau a écrit : It is easier to restore a splitted dump with amfetchdump. It will write a 250Go file. There is no way to automatically rebuild index from tape. Jean

Re: amrecover and directory with special chars

2009-05-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You can try to set the locale before executing amrecover. A 'cd *niveau*' should change directory. Jean-Louis Franck GANACHAUD wrote: Hi, Server is debian etch using amanda 2.5.1p1 I have the following directory structure /export/users/fganacha/Directory with space - Directory_level_2 -

Re: Amanda always doing full backup?

2009-05-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Small disk are often promoted to try to get a balanced schedule. If it is a problem, you can set the 'maxpromoteday' for this disk. Jean-Louis Brandon Metcalf wrote: I recently changed my config from dumpcycle 4 weeks runspercycle 20 tapecycle 25 tapes to dumpcycle 2 weeks

Re: Amanda always doing full backup?

2009-05-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jeffrey D Anderson wrote: Perhaps the solution is not in changing the planner behavior, but in taper options. It would be acceptible to me if amanda wrote most of the holding disk files to tape, but elected to save some for the next night if it meant better allocation of media. Look at

Re: Amanda must be run as user amandabackup when using bsdtcp authentication

2009-05-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Abilio Carvalho wrote: the log directory on the client only has the following: r...@backupclient:/tmp/amanda/amandad# cat amandad.20090519111556.debug 1242724556.328466: amandad: pid 18933 ruid 0 euid 0 version 2.6.1: start at Tue May 19 11:15:56 2009 ruid 0 euid 0 That's root user Do you

Re: exclude lists

2009-05-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brandon Metcalf wrote: m First, am I correct in thinking the '.' are required? If so, how can m Amanda be told to exclude, for example, /dumps on sda1 but still m backup /dumps on sda2 other than defining different dumps types with m their own exclude list? m m You can't. Seems

Re: exclude lists

2009-05-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The '.' is required, all excludes are relative to the dle you back up. Brandon Metcalf wrote: I have defined an exclude list in a dumptype using exclude list /etc/amanda/DailySet1/exclude-list with entries like $ cat /etc/amanda/DailySet1/exclude-list ./dumps

Re: exclude lists

2009-05-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brandon Metcalf wrote: m == martin...@zmanda.com writes: m Brandon Metcalf wrote: m m First, am I correct in thinking the '.' are required? If so, how can m m Amanda be told to exclude, for example, /dumps on sda1 but still m m backup /dumps on sda2 other than defining different

Re: 2.6.1 client with 2.4.3 server?

2009-05-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I try to keep them compatible, but I don't test with release before 2.4.5. index_server is used only by amrecover. Can you post the amandad.*.debug file from the client? Jean-Louis Mitch Collinsworth wrote: Hi, Is there any gross imcompatability that would prevent a 2.6.1p1 client from

Re: 2.6.1 client with 2.4.3 server?

2009-05-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amanda client 2.6.1p1 is compatible with server 2.4.3b4 and up. But it is not with 2.4.3b3 and previous. Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Mitch Collinsworth wrote: Hi, Is there any gross imcompatability that would prevent a 2.6.1p1 client from being backed up by a 2.4.3b3 server? I've

Re: amcheck error on local server

2009-05-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
In the inet log, syslog, /var/log/message In the amandad.*.debug files, selfcheck.*.debug, sendsize.*.debug, sendbackup.*.debug, ... ps -ef Jean-louis McGraw, Robert P wrote: I do not know where to start looking for the problem. Any suggestions.

Re: 2.6.1 client with 2.4.3 server?

2009-05-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Mitch Collinsworth wrote: Yes, this patch solved the problem. Thank you! Can we anticipate it being integrated into future versions? I committed the patch to SVN, it will be in the next release. Jean-Louis

Re: Amflush with a machine name change (same box)

2009-06-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Check the holding disk directory. amflush doesn't flush an image if the dle is removed from the dumplist file. You can remove the datestamp directories if you don't want to keep the backup. You must do the folowing f you want to keep theses backup and move them to tape: - Re-add the dle to

Re: Amflush with a machine name change (same box)

2009-06-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Yes, recovery works if the dle is not in the disklist. Jean-Louis Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:42:57AM -0700, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Check the holding disk directory. amflush doesn't flush an image if the dle is removed from the dumplist file. You can remove

Re: amrecover looking for .amandahosts in wrong directory

2009-06-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Onotsky, Steve x55328 wrote: Hi all, I’ve compiled a 2.6.1p1 client on Solaris 9 earlier this year, and for dumps it works great, but if I use amrecover to connect to my backup server (tapehost and index host are the same box), I get the following message from amrecover: NAK: user

Re: Enforce the use of level other than level 0

2009-06-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Use a different strategy for week and friday. eg . strategy nofull# on the week, could be 'incronly' strategy standard # on friday Editing the disklist or amanda.conf is not an easy solution, but you can do the following: If all DLE inherit from a 'my_strategy' dumptype, you could

Re: recover when backup server dies

2009-06-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Same things as a real changer, you must tell it to use slot1. $amtape conf slot 1 $amrestore -p file:/nas1/amanda/vtapes/DailySet1/slots blah or $ rm /nas1/amanda/vtapes/DailySet1/slots/data $ ln -s slot1 /nas1/amanda/vtapes/DailySet1/slots/data $ amrestore -p

Re: amrecover looking for .amandahosts in wrong directory

2009-06-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Onotsky, Steve x55328 wrote: Hmm... I added the requisite lines to .amandahosts on the server, and now I get amindexd: invalid service, add 'amindexd' as argument to amandad. I added the parameters to the appropriate line in the client's inetd.conf but no joy. Add it to the amanda server.

Re: amrecover looking for .amandahosts in wrong directory

2009-06-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Onotsky, Steve x55328 wrote: -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:martin...@zmanda.com] Sent: June 10, 2009 14:41 To: Onotsky, Steve x55328 Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: amrecover looking for .amandahosts in wrong directory Hmm... I added the requisite

Re: Increase parallel processes

2009-06-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amanda.conf maxdumps int Default: 1. The maximum number of backups from a single host that Amanda will attempt to run in parallel. See also the inparallel option. Note that this parameter may also be set in a specific dumptype (see

Re: broadcast traffic

2009-06-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve, Amanda doesn't use broadcast. Jean-Louis Steve Wray wrote: Hi there, We have a server hosted with our ISP and we have recently started to run amanda backups from this server to our main backup server. The ISP has contacted us about broadcast storms emanating from this server.

Re: incremental restore

2009-06-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Just enter 'S' (skip) when it ask for the level 0 tape. Jean-Louis Brandon Metcalf wrote: I've been looking through the docs, but can't find anything on this. Is there a way with amrecover to restore only the data in the latest level 1 backup? For example, let's say I've extracted all of

Re: FAILED [data write: Broken pipe]

2009-06-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: gzip: stdout: Connection timed out This is weird, do your system automaticaly close connection after some time? After how many it happens? is it always the same? Jean-Louis

Re: FAILED [data write: Broken pipe]

2009-06-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Post the complete amdump.? file Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: --- On *Thu, 6/18/09, Jean-Louis Martineau /martin...@zmanda.com/* wrote: No it doesn't. The backup system with amanda was working fine all these days. The problem has cropped up since last 4 days. All of the last 4 daily

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda dump error

2009-06-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You can try to increase the 'etimeout'. Jean-Louis ay4you wrote: Hi i am getting a weird error from my amdump it has been working fine up until last night and i got an error These dumps were to tape DailySet11-014. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet11-016. FAILURE DUMP

Re: 2.6.1p1 amcheck-clients: amanda/tcp unknown protocol

2009-07-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Just upgraded a server from 2.6.0p2 to 2.6.1p1 and now amcheck outputs: Server check took 0.004 seconds amcheck-clients: amanda/tcp unknown protocol This message is misleading when configured with '--with-testing'. amanda use the 'amanda-av48-2/tcp' service,

Re: Amcheck fails

2009-07-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's your xinetd config? Did it execute amandad? Check system log. If amanda get executed, post its debug file. localhost resolve to an IPv6 address, can you use a name that resolve only to an IPv4 address. Jean-Louis aminukapon wrote: Hello all, I ran across a problem when I tried to

Re: 2.6.1p1 amcheck-clients: amanda/tcp unknown protocol

2009-07-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
We made no change in 2.6.1 for --with-testing, but we didn't test it either... What's the value of AMANDA_SERVICE_NAME is config/config.h in the build directory? That's the service name it is using. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com [20090708

Re: problems using amrecover with changer

2009-07-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Edit chg-lib.sh and set MTX to the full path: MTX=/opt/csw/sbin/mtx Jean-Louis Andreas Kuntzagk wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Andreas Kuntzagk wrote: Hi, I'm trying to do a (test) recovery using our SL24 changer. I set amrecover_changer and use setdevice but still get an error message

Re: problems using amrecover with changer

2009-07-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Andreas Kuntzagk wrote: Hi, I'm trying to do a (test) recovery using our SL24 changer. I set amrecover_changer and use setdevice but still get an error message when trying to extract files. Could the reason be that I did the dumps before setting amrecover_changer ? no. Look for message in

Re: planner - old information

2009-07-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do you have a dump on holding disk? Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: I have an older version of amanda 2.4.4 on a Solaris 10/sparc server. It is both client and server. Oddly, planner seems to be trying to backup clep:/xerox DLE, which was removed from the disklist 2 years ago... I guess its

Re: continuing problems - hung client, etc

2009-07-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian, Can you run a debugger on the live amandad process and print a backtrace? or with truss? I want to know where it is hung Jean-Louis

Re: continuing problems - hung client, etc

2009-07-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
at 10:45:30AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Brian, Can you run a debugger on the live amandad process and print a backtrace? or with truss? I want to know where it is hung Jean-Louis --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support

Re: continuing problems - hung client, etc

2009-07-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Can you apply the attached patch to lyra? And run the following command on the amand server: $ amdump curie lyra / -otapedev=/no/such/device -otpchanger= Post the complete sendbackup.*.debug file Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Continuation of previous initiated thread. Server, Solaris

Re: starting from scratch with vtapes

2009-07-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amadmin CONF force '*' Brandon Metcalf wrote: d == dus...@zmanda.com writes: d On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Brandon d Metcalfbran...@geronimoalloys.com wrote: d I had to rebuild the disk array where our vtapes were stored. After I d recreate the vtapes is there anything in

Re: bsd works but not bsdtcp

2009-07-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brandon Metcalf wrote: I've changed all of my Amanda hosts to use bsdtcp instead of bsd authentication, but one isn't cooperating. The client works using service amanda { socket_type = dgram protocol= udp wait= yes user= backup group

Re: bsd works but not bsdtcp

2009-07-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do the clients are set for the bsdtcp auth? Jean-Louis Brandon Metcalf wrote: m == martin...@zmanda.com writes: m Brandon Metcalf wrote: m I've changed all of my Amanda hosts to use bsdtcp instead of bsd m authentication, but one isn't cooperating. The client works using m m

Re: Weekly level 0 not completing

2009-07-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The tapetype definition and the complete amdump.X are needed to understand what amanda do wrong. Maybe the estimate are bigger than the actual backup size, or ... You can try to set 'maxdumpsize' to a value bigger than 1600GB. Jean-Louis Mark Fisher wrote: Hi everyone, We have been running

Re: Upgrading amanda

2009-07-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You should look at the REQ packet in the amandad.*.debug file to find what is bogus in it. I don't understand why you want to increase rep_tries? Jean-Louis Bryan wrote: Looking for some guidance on a perplexing problem, plus a summary update on my earlier note (below): Answers to my earlier

Re: Upgrading amanda

2009-07-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Bryan wrote: Jean-Louis, Thank you for replying. OK ... but I'm beginning to think there are network issues. Last night this machine failed during the auth phase. First time that's happened. 'amcheck -c' later succeeded. Would the amandad.*.debug REQ packet received be an entry like this?

Re: sendbackup: critical (fatal): Can't dup2: Bad file number

2009-07-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Darin, Gunnar, I committed a fix for this bug a few minutes ago. Chris was right, this bug could only be seen with an UDP auth (bsd or bsdudp). Jean-Louis Darin Perusich wrote: I should have posted a follow-up to an earlier post of mine which is similar it this if not the same. Chris Ritson

Re: [Amanda-users] amlabel syntax error

2009-07-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The syntax is: amlabel daily daily-21 slot 21 Which amlabel are you executing? Specify the full path of the installed binary. Jean-Louis crom84 wrote: Hi all :) I am trying to use amlabel to label some more slots that I have created for my daily backup configuration. Here is the command

Re: Are you running snapshots?

2009-08-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: Hmm, well one problem is that that's a snapshot of the the 2.6.1 branch, which is pretty stable at this point. The other problem, which Jean-Louis might be able to address, is that it's now almost 20090812, so we should probably have a new build installed by now.

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
gzip: stdout: Resource temporarily unavailable I have no idea what's that error mean. Can you try the latest 2.6.1p1 snapshot from http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php Jean-Louis stan wrote: WE deployed 3 OpenBSD machines yesterday to replace older OpenBSD machines that had been

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Check system log Post complete amandad.*.debug and sendbackup.*.debug. You can try to disable client compression. Jean-Louis stan wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:50:22AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: gzip: stdout: Resource temporarily unavailable I have no idea what's that error

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
And what is the error? It's probably not a gzip: ... Jean-Louis stan wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:26:10PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Check system log Post complete amandad.*.debug and sendbackup.*.debug. You can try to disable client compression. It still fails

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amanda.conf compress [client|server] string Default: client fast. Set it to none if you don't want compression. ig. compress none Jean-Louis stan wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:26:10PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Check system log Post complete amandad

Re: Orphan directories in dumpdisk area

2009-08-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
This bug is already fixed. stan wrote: I am working on some issues that result in having failed partial dumps. Historically, these are written to the tape, and then deleted, which allows for the dumpdisk directory for that run to be automatically cleaned up. On my 2.6.1 server, these

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
stan wrote: Any thoughts as to why I have twice as many debug files as I expect? When a dump fail, amanda try it a second time.

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
' auth, it is a lot more firewall friendly. Jean-Louis stan wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:06:46AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: stan wrote: Any thoughts as to why I have twice as many debug files as I expect? When a dump fail, amanda try it a second time. Got

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
stan wrote: I know I have asked this before, but I can't recall getting a definative answer. Is port usage different between 2.5.x and 2.6 clients, when talkimng to a 2.6 server? No, the same port are used if configured with the same port range. Do yousee something in the firewall log?

Re: application/amgtar patch for review

2009-08-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Patch looks good. All code that copy/rename listed incremental files should be done only if it is used. If you disable --listed-incremental, you will get FULL backup at every run, is it what you want? The amgtar_support function must output MAX-LEVEL 0 in this case. Jean-Louis Christopher

Re: Error redirecting stderr to fd 52

2009-08-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
John Hein wrote: On a 2.6.1b1 client ... Hmm, beta software ... It's not fixed in 2.6.1 neither in 2.6.1p1. You must use the latest 2.6.1p1 snapshot from http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php Jean-Louis

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
This bug can't be fixed until we understand it. Ask on a OpenBSD list how a write to a blocking pipe can return EAGAIN. Or the pipe semantics changed and they don't default to blocking. You can also try the attached, it check the pipe are opened in blocking mode. Jean-Louis stan wrote: On

Re: failure of backups after reboot

2009-08-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Chris Hoogendyk wrote: driver: FATAL Did not get DATE line from planner The planner crashed, what's in the amdump.1 log file?

Re: failure of backups after reboot

2009-08-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Chris Hoogendyk wrote: planner: create debug directory /tmp/amanda: File exists It's a race, both planner and driver tried to create the directory at the same time. Next run should be fine. Jean-Louis

Re: failure of backups after reboot

2009-08-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Chris Hoogendyk wrote: planner: create debug directory /tmp/amanda: File exists It's a race, both planner and driver tried to create the directory at the same time. Next run should be fine. Thank you, Jean-Louis. Nice to know exactly

Re: MP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to attempt to continue? (yes or no)

2009-08-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian, I think you can't change ufsdump default. The untested attached patch might do what you want. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: What is the recommended solution to this problem ? sendbackup: time 473.920: 93: normal(|): DUMP: Warning - block 2801050268 is beyond the end of

Re: Doesn amanda no longer do estimates for a given host in parallel?

2009-08-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man disklist, look for spindle, set them to different value or '-1' if you want parallel estimate and dump. Jean-Louis stan wrote: In doing some testing, it appears that Amanda 2.6.1 no longer does estimates for multiple DLE's on a client in parallel. Is this true? If so, can I configure

Re: ZFS mount points

2009-08-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Is it the snapshot that doesn't have the subdir or is it because gtar see them to be on different filesystem? It the problem is because they have different device number, then you can set the ONE-FILE-SYSTEM property of the application amgtar to NO. And you must use the amgtar application.

Re: [Amanda-users] Bare metal restore problem

2009-08-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What program do you use to do the backup? dump or tar? Jean-Louis khalil_noura wrote: Hi all, I am trying to do a bare metal restore. After I partionsed the disk and restored the client to holding. I rebooted to rescue mode created a /mnt/sysimage directory mounted /dev/sda1 to

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
2.5.0p2 working, but could never get 2.5.1p3 working, even with the same config. No idea why. I started looking at the source code last night in the 0825 snapshot. I'll discontinue that search if there's a patch. This is interesting. I sent Jean-Louis Martineau an email

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
: Broken pipe 1251693126.825377: sendbackup: 90: normal(|): DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. 1251693126.833573: sendbackup: critical (fatal): error [dump (22791) /sbin/dump returned 3] Thanks, Michael On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
, and a quick, about-to-go-to-bed readthrough of the pipe write path shows that it shouldn't; is Amanda doing fcntls to the fd? If so, check those to be absolutely sure that they're not doing something hinkey. Thanks, Michael On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-09-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
We need to find a minimal patch that fix the problem. Cat you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Michael Burk wrote: I applied the patches to the 0827 version again (had to do the sendbackup-dump.c patch by hand since the patch was for another version). I ran a full backup again, and all 3

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-09-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Michael Burk wrote: So it seems reliable that those 3 lines fix the problem somehow. Anything else you want to try before I ask for help on the OpenBSD list? I have nothing else to try. The order of system call is a follow: In amandad process: pipe(pipefd) dup2(pipefd[1],b) fork in the

Re: Tapes are not filled up

2009-09-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Msiipola, Try with 'taperflush 100' Jean-Louis Msiipola wrote: I' trying to utilize tapes better by using a holdingdisk and by setting i amanda.conf: flush-threshold-dumped 100 flush-threshold-scheduled 100 taperflush 0 But looks like amanda does not take any notice about these settings.

Re: hard coded limit REP_TIMEOUT of 6hrs in amandad-src/amandad.c

2009-09-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com [20090908 13:08]: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Jean-Francois Malouinma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote: Hmmm, more than a week now and no replies. So I'll attempt to fix it myself: just to be on the safe side, any

Re: globbing

2009-09-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian Cuttler wrote: Using amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris 10 (server x86, client Sparc) I currently have entries in the disklist like these, currently there are 55+ entries. finsen /export/home/agaupelzfs-snapshot finsen /export/home/along zfs-snapshot finsen /export/home/amanda

Re: Scheduling a level 0 backup for Fridays only ?

2009-10-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Matt, On all fridays, before amdump, run: amadmin CONF force * In the dumptype, set maxpromoteday to 0. Jean-Louis Matt Ingram wrote: Hi All, We're having issues with our Level 0 backups taking an extremely long time.. (200-300GB taking 12-24 hours.. is that normal?) One temporary

Re: Backup leve tonight

2009-10-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Robert, You can't, but 'amadmin CONF due' tell you which DLE are due for a full dump tonight. Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P wrote: Is there a command that will tell me what backup level will run tonight on the different DLE? Robert

Re: using exclude with tar

2009-10-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
McGraw, Robert P wrote: I have a filesystem called /export/comm. In this filesystem I have ./ftppub/site/mirrors which has a lot files and take a long time to backup at level 0. Since this mirror directory can be rebuilt from the master site I have decided to not backup the mirrors with

Re: Forcing Level 0 Dumps on Different Days

2009-10-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
There is no automatic way to do that. You can force one of the dle to do a full toning, in 2 days, you force another dle to do a full on that day, and 2 days later you force the last dle to do a full. After that, amanda will probably not try to do the 3 full the on same day. eg. october 8:

Re: globbing

2009-10-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
-Louis Martineau wrote: Brian Cuttler wrote: Using amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris 10 (server x86, client Sparc) I currently have entries in the disklist like these, currently there are 55+ entries. finsen /export/home/agaupelzfs-snapshot finsen /export/home/along zfs-snapshot finsen

Re: globbing

2009-10-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian, What is the path of the snapshot, post the Amzfs_snapshot.20091019*.debug files. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Jean-Louis, I reconfigured one of my globs to use dumptype zfs-snapshot rather than user-tar. Backups ran well but I believe that we did a single snapshot of /export/home

Re: globbing

2009-10-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
-cf /tmp/amzfs-snapshots.tar Amzfs_snapshot.20091019* On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:21:55AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Brian, What is the path of the snapshot, post the Amzfs_snapshot.20091019*.debug files. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Jean-Louis, I reconfigured one of my

Re: globbing

2009-10-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
, 2009 at 11:50:34AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: It create one snapshot for each DLE. Yes, however I'm afraid that if it creates a single disklist for a glob, for instance /export/home/a*, creates snapshot /export/home which I think would be acceptable. But 'attempts' to create

Re: TCP Tuning

2009-10-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Use the amgtar application and set the TAR-BLOCKSIZE to a bigger value (half the STREAM_BUFSIZE. Why do you believe it is bottleneck? Jean-Louis Alan Griffiths wrote: Thanks for the pointer. I've re-compiled with define STREAM_BUFSIZE (NETWORK_BLOCK_BYTES * 16) And I can see that

Re: TCP Tuning

2009-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You talk about one dle or multiple dle? Are you using compression or encryption? on client or server? Are you using holding disk? or dumping directly to tape? Post the amdump.n file for when it use NFS and when it doesn't use it. Jean-Louis Alan Griffiths wrote: amgtar with blocksize set to

Re: badly formatted response

2009-10-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian, Post the amandad.*.debug file form finsen. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Amanda users, Dustin, Jean-Louis, We have updated amanda to Amanda-2.6.1p1-20091023 and applied a patch for zfs-snapshot names within disklist globs. We have run 2 nights with this config where client!=server

Re: badly formatted response

2009-10-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian Cuttler wrote: Jean-Louis, On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:50:43AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: With this patch, you will get the error reported by sendsize. So the error will be more explicite - or will the additional info help amanda development ? The error will be more

Re: badly formatted response

2009-10-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:05:25AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Brian, Post the amandad.*.debug file form finsen. attaching. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Amanda users, Dustin, Jean-Louis, We have updated amanda to Amanda-2.6.1p1-20091023 and applied a patch for zfs

Re: TCP Tuning

2009-10-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Alan, Most people report faster throughput without nfs, your result is weird. Your sample is small (1.5GB), is it possible it was cached by the nfs client? Do amanda and NFS use the same network route? Do the NFS server have enough memory and cpu to run the amanda client software? Check the

Re: glob include behavior change ?

2009-11-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Brian, The attached should fix the Too many open files problem. Can you try it and tell me the result. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: In order to work around the glob issue I removed the globs from my disklist and replace them with entries for each user directory. We at least doubled the

Re: amadmin due

2009-11-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do amdump is running? The output of 'amadmin due' is not reliable if it is. 'amadmin due' only looks at latest full, the holsing file have '.tmp' suffix, this dump is not successful. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: This is a very minor issue, but caught my attention. Clearly have have

Re: Dump failures

2009-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What is your tapecycle? How many vtapes do you have? What is the output of amcheck? Jean-Louis Mike R wrote: Good day all. I'm a fairly new amanda user, I used the 15 minute backup guide for my setup. During the first week my backups seemed to have gone off without a hitch as indicated by the

Re: Dump failures

2009-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's the complete output of: amcheck -s daily Mike R wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: What is your tapecycle? How many vtapes do you have? What is the output of amcheck? Jean-Louis Mike R wrote: Good day all. I'm a fairly new amanda user, I used the 15 minute backup guide for my setup

Re: Dump failures

2009-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What are in those slots? use 'amlabel' to label them. Jean-Louis slot 10: not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes) slot 11: not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes) slot 12: not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes) slot 13: not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes) slot 14: not an amanda tape (Read 0 bytes) slot 15: not an

<    3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   >