Re: Can you remind Amanda of holding file(s)?

2009-11-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's in 20091122180002? Mike Chesnut wrote: amdump got stuck for me the other day, and after running amcleanup, it seems to have lost track of a holding dir. My holding disk has these directories in it: 20091121180002 20091122180002 However, doing amadmin config holding list only lists

Re: amcheck vs amrestore

2009-11-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Try amfetchdump instead of amrestore. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Dustin, et al, Periodically while I'm performing a restore with # amrestore the cronjob # amcheck grabs and swaps out the tape on me. Is there a way to interlock these two jobs so that doesn't happen ? For my money, I

Re: full dumps not getting timestamp

2009-12-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do the backup succeeded? It looks it failed. flow...@hagsc.org wrote: I'm running a fresh install of amanda 2.6.1pl1 (I recently upgraded to p2 and experienced the same problem). When performing full dumps, the curinfo/machine/disk/info files are getting updated (they have proper ownership),

Re: post-host-backup script not executed on client

2009-12-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
pre-host-backup and post-host-backup can't be executed on client, they can be executed on the server only. execute-where server Jean-Louis Benjamin Boksa wrote: Hi List, I am using the Script API to execute some commands on the clients to be backed up. I would like to execute those

Re: post-host-backup script not executed on client

2009-12-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Benjamin Boksa wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, pre-host-backup and post-host-backup can't be executed on client, they can be executed on the server only. Thanks for your fast answer, I modified http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Script_API accordingly - maybe you or others could step in an

Re: post-host-backup script not executed on client

2009-12-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Benjamin Boksa wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, So as (pre|post)-host-backup can't be executed on the client: What is the best way to stop some services on the client before the first DLE is backed up and restart them after the client has been backed up? A solution is to run a script on

Re: post-host-backup script not executed on client

2009-12-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: After your hint I took a closer look at running (pre|post)-host-backup on the server. It seems that(pre|post)-host-backup gets executed for each DLE which is not exactly what I need

Re: post-host-backup script not executed on client

2009-12-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Benjamin, It's a bug, try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Benjamin Boksa wrote: I'd hate to see too much work go into hacking *around* the script API -- it's brand new! The best outcome would be to fix/improve the script API as appropriate, but at the very least, let's make sure that the

Re: post-host-backup script not executed on client

2009-12-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The first patch was not correct. Try this new one. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Benjamin, It's a bug, try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Benjamin Boksa wrote: I'd hate to see too much work go into hacking *around* the script API -- it's brand new! The best outcome would be to fix

Re: inparallel setting not being honored

2009-12-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Increase your holding disk size. Amanda reserve all the space needed for a dle when it start it, even if 'df' show it is free, the space is reserved. Nomad wrote: I've noticed that the inparallel setting appears to not be honored. The server is running 2.6.1p2, redhat enterprise 5.4, it has

Re: waiting for holding disk space during dumps

2009-12-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The backup size is larger than the estimate size. Amanda try to use more holding space, but it is reserved for others dle, it wait for some dle to be flushed to tape before it can use more holding disk and continue the dump. Jean-Louis Nomad wrote: (Sorry for the quickfire question

Re: amanda-client.conf ?

2009-12-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amrecover -oauth=bsdtcp Jean-Louis stan wrote: Tried to do some recovering yesterday, using amrecover, and could not get past the timeout waiting for ack on systems that were working, the last time I checked. Goggle led me to a post on the Zamnda forum suggesting that I needed an

Re: taper flush failure?

2009-12-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The dump is still on holding and will be flushed on the next run. The error is because amanda tried to flush it, but failed because the tape was full and your flush_* criteria doesn't allowed amanda to use another tape. You will et an error like this at every run, it is the latest dle amanda

Re: The Return of the README

2009-12-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Charles, Thanks for the good work. I have a few comments: * Written in C. should be: * Written in C and perl * Supports Kerberos 4 and 5 security, including encrypted dumps. should be: * Supports Kerberos 5 security, including encrypted dumps. Kerboros 4 is no longer supported. * Full

Re: Fwd: The Coyote Den AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR December 20, 2009

2009-12-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's the output of: amadmin CONF version | grep BUILT_REV. This bug is fixed in 2362 Download the latest 20091218 snapshot if you have an early build. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; More of the same with 20091217's snapshot. Comments inserted. -- Forwarded Message

Re: snapshot cleanup

2010-01-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Amanda should remove the snapshot. It's a bug if it doesn't. The pre_dle_* scripts create the snapshot and the post_dle_* scripts remove them. Do you configured the post_dle_* scripts? Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Amanda 2.6.1p1 on Solaris 10/x86. We have been running great! However

Re: snapshot cleanup

2010-01-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
In case of hard failure, the post_dle_* scripts are not executed and the snapshot are not removed, you must removed them manually. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Jean-Louis, On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:15:48AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Amanda should remove the snapshot. It's

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve Wray wrote: On the client, in the sendbackup.20100106012630.debug log I see: sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.056: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 3348 sendbackup: time 0.057: started backup sendbackup: time 90.352: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] sendbackup: time 90.352: pid 3346 finish time

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve Wray wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Steve Wray wrote: On the client, in the sendbackup.20100106012630.debug log I see: sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.056: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 3348 sendbackup: time 0.057: started backup sendbackup: time 90.352: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve Wray wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Steve Wray steve.w...@cwa.co.nz wrote: Am I to understand that there could be a problem in having 'too many' DLE's for bsd or bsdudp to cope with? I never thought of there being a limit to the number of DLE's

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Run 'amadmin CONFIG disklist' and check the auth is set as expected for all dles. Jean-Louis Steve Wray wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Steve Wray wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Steve Wray wrote: On the client, in the sendbackup.20100106012630.debug log I see: sendbackup-gnutar

Re: Best way of performing a yearly backup?

2010-01-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Don't edit the tapelist by hand, run: amadmin CONF no-reuse DailySet107 Jean-Louis mailinglis...@brennt.net wrote: Hello, On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:34:18 -0800, Paul Yeatman pyeat...@zmanda.com wrote: I think the command you are thinking of is amrmtape? Running this will cause Amanda to

Re: index removal question

2010-01-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, It is a bug that the index files are removed for 'strategy skip' dles. The attached patch fix it. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, Last Friday we got bitten by a rather vicious raid controller firmware/codeset that corrupted some of our raidsets when a disk failed

Re: What is this log file trying to tell me?

2010-01-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What is the error you get from amcheck? The '229.046' time is high for amcheck, try increasing ctimeout. Jean-Louis stan wrote: WE are still having major issues with our Amanda backups. Most of the machines that are failing still use UDP, and we recognize the need to get newer version of

Re: Amanda (and I) are confused :-)

2010-01-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Stan, can you post the problem at the beginning of your post, I don't like to read a long post when I don't know why I read it. It's worse than top-posting :-).Subject should describe the problem, not how you feel. Post the taper debug files Jean-Louis ps. according to amcheck output, you

Re: Amanda (and I) are confused :-)

2010-01-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
stan wrote: 1263560285.332896: taper: changer: 3 rait:{file:/vtapes/DailyDump/vtape3,tape:/dev/nst0} 1263560285.333214: taper: status = complete 1263560285.447278: taper: warning: Inconsistent volume labels/datestamps: Got DailyDump52/20100113222821 on file:/vtapes/DailyDump/vtape3 against

Re: Amanda (and I) are confused :-)

2010-01-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Are you sure the current slot is the correct one, Check the /vtapes/DailyDump/data link? Did it link to the slot with the DailyDump53 volume? Jean-Louis stan wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:31:47AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: stan wrote: 1263560285.332896: taper: changer

Re: amrecover problem

2010-01-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The recover protocol changed, you are still configured for the old protocol, you can use it with the 'amoldrecover' command. But you can also configure the server for the new protocol. Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, We are using amanda 2.5.2p1 in our setup. The backup server and the client

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: If I restart euclid's inetd config to run it with the wrong -auth parameter, then amcheck says: WARNING: euclid: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK Client check: 2 hosts checked in 30.030 seconds. 1 problem found. xinetd is still configured to accept

Re: FW: History report?

2010-01-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Parse the output of: amadmin CONF find Not exactly what you want: amanda CONF due Jean-Louis stan wrote: Beacuse of the ongoing problems we ar having with getting reliable Amanda backups here, it has dawned on me that it would be nice to have a report showing how old the newest level zero is

Re: pre script problem

2010-02-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
William, pre-host-backup and post-host-backup script can only be run on server. Jean-Louis William Taylor wrote: Im having a problem with getting a pre script to run. Here is my relevant config. I have tried pre-dle-backup and pre-host-backup amanda.conf: define script-tool

Re: pre script problem

2010-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
1265152485.007169: sendbackup: Spawning /usr/libexec/amanda/application/findnetappfulls findnetappfulls PRE-DLE-BACKUP --execute-where client --config DailySet1 --host foo.host.net http://foo.host.net --disk /backups/ --device /backups/ --level 1 in pipeline The debug file show the script is

Re: Preventing simultaneous dump + write.

2010-02-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jerome Ibanes wrote: This is a followup from the forum's question: http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?p=9221 Why did you recommend 1000 and not 100 for the thresholds? Must be something above runtapes*100, I just took a big value. The method I'm using right now is to do the dump first

Re: Store on holding disk and dumpin weekly on tapes?

2010-02-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Easy to do. Every days run: amdump CONF -otpchanger= -otapedev= -oreserve=0 To flush to tape: amflush CONF Jean-Louis Dimiter Maznekov wrote: Is it posible to be setup this way of backuping? Daily make backup according DLE, but storring on holding disk and at the end of the week to be

Re: exclude list not working on clients.

2010-02-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jobst, What you do looks good, post the sendbackup.*.debug file. Jean-Louis Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Hi. I have one client host that refuses to listen to the exclude list option in the dumptype. I know it works, for example I backup a 120GB /amanda directory/parition on the tape host

Re: exclude list not working on clients.

2010-02-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
). They should be in /tmp/amanda but they are not (except on the tape host itslef). Bugger. Need to do some research. Jobst -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com To: Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.au Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: exclude list

Re: Amanda's future?

2010-02-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, Neither Dustin nor me had the privilege to fix the permission issue. Permission get fixed, I uploaded the latest snapshot. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 28 February 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net

Re: 2 config, noinc and nofull

2010-03-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I never like using two configs. Recovery is complex. Why not use one config? amanda don't allow it, but you can cheat. Edit amanda.conf every days to change the tpchanger and strategy, if could be done by a simple script, or more easily, put the difference in separate file and use

Re: 2 config, noinc and nofull

2010-03-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian Cuttler wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:28:08AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: I never like using two configs. Recovery is complex. Why not use one config? amanda don't allow it, but you can cheat. Edit amanda.conf every days to change the tpchanger and strategy, if could

Re: Force a dump to remain in holding disk

2010-03-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Disable the tapedev and tpchanger: amdump CONF -otapedev= -otpchanger= Jean-Louis Dr 440 wrote: Is there a way to get a backup to remain in the holding disk? In the morning when I get in to work, I review the backup jobs from the night prior, and occasionally there is an error in one of

Release of Amanda-3.1.0beta1

2010-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
* configuration override for dumptype works with inheritance. Jean-Louis Martineau

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
With the amgtar application (in 3.1.0), an exit status of 1 from runtar is not an error. file changed as we read it will still result in STRANGE result, but you can add a regex to turn it into a SUCCESS. Jean-Louis Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I upgraded Amanda from 2.5.1p3 to 2.6.1p2 on my

Re: [Amanda-users] amlabel error on 3.1.0beta1

2010-03-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Look in the amlabel.*.debug file, it might gives a better error message. Jean-Louis whale wrote: Hi, I testing amanda-3.1.0rc08-20100317 with chg:robot on ubuntu server 8.04 LTS and everything is working fine. I tried to upgrade to beta1 I'm able to compile and install from source. Config

Re: Trying to buld amanda on mandriva-2010-x64 fails

2010-04-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, You need perl-devel. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Trying to run my scripts to make amanda on an mdv system ends with: libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../config -I../common-src -I../common-src -I../amandad-src -I../amar-src -I../xfer-src -I../perl/amglue

Re: Still the puzzle, and I'm feeling ignored, why?

2010-04-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, Do the tapelist is correct? Do all log files are found? Do the dump are listed in the output of: amadmin Daily find Post the amindexd debug file. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: Greeting all; I just built the latest snapshot, and I still cannot do an amrecover as it is not finding the

Re: Still the puzzle, and I'm feeling ignored, why?

2010-04-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
You lost all log files, They should in the `amgetconf Daily logdir`/oldlog directory, moved them to `amgetconf test logdir`. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 22 April 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net

Re: amrecover 3.1.0beta2 with dumps spanning tapes

2010-05-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois, Thanks for testing. Can you try the attached patch? It fix a bug I added :-( Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, More toying with 3.1.0beta2. Using amrecover to extract a multi virtual tape dump I see something confusing even though in the end the dump is

Re: amdump -o

2010-05-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
$man amdump SYNOPSIS amdump config [host [disk...]...] [{-o configoption}...] The config must be the first argument: Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Amanda 2.6.1p1 I thought this used to work, its current in the man page. # amdump -o tapedev=/dev/nst1 cascade cascade

Re: The canary died

2010-05-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Gene, Can you confirm you are using the 'bsd' auth? Try the attached patch. Thanks for testing. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Built 3.2-3003 earlier today, amcheck worked fine. amrecover OTOH, killed the canary: [r...@coyote amanda-3.2.0alpha.svn.3003]# amrecover

Re: amflush question

2010-05-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Robert, You can override it like all amanda confoguration. $ amflush CONF -otaperflush=0 Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P wrote: Running amanda 2.6.1/p2 Sun Solaris 10 x86 In my amanda.conf file I have flush-threshold-dumped100 flush-threshold-scheduled 100 #taperflush

Re: Why is this an error

2010-05-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
McGraw, Robert P wrote: Running Amanda-2.6.1-p2 On Solaris 10 X86 Why is this considered an error? No reason, already fixed it in 3.1, it is not an error. Jean-Louis I check the error status of my amdump and base on the error status after it finishes I take certain actions. Is there

Re: amrecover core dumps Amanda 3.1.0beta2

2010-05-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gunnar, This bug is already fixed in the svn repository. Thanks for testing and reporting the problem. Jean-Louis Gunnarsson, Gunnar wrote: While testing amrecover I got core dump see below on Solaris sparc amrecover extract Extracting files from holding disk on host localhost. The

Re: New options autolabel Amanda 3.1.0bet2

2010-05-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gunnar, As a workaround, you just need to create an empty tapelist file. Thanks for reporting this problem. Jean-Louis Gunnarsson, Gunnar wrote: I got the fatal error see below while testing the new option autolabel, the configuration was empty and amcheck -s was ok. The next tape Amanda

Release of amanda-3.1.0

2010-06-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.1.0. Source tarballs are available from * http://www.amanda.org * https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Binaries for many systems are available from *

Re: amanda taking way to long to finish

2010-06-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Robert, You are using calcsize for the estimate, it doesn't use check the device number. But when you do the backup, tar check the device, as you mount it every time, it have different device number and it backup all files. Set the CHECK-DEVICE property of amgtar to NO. (man amgtar)

Re: Estimate crossing file system boundries

2010-06-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
exclude doesn't works amstar. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Amanda Users, Dustin, We are using amanda 2.6.1p1 on a Solaris 10x86 system with ZFS snapshots. We where aware that one of the file systems was too large to fit on a single tape volume, even though it was an LTO4 tape. This is

Re: After upgrading to 3.1.0: ETIMEOUT must be positive

2010-06-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
But the manpage says: etimeout int . A negative value will be interpreted as a total amount of time to wait per client instead of per disk. Who's wrong? Manpage or program code? Well, it was changed in this commit: commit 1a2051ece2e27fea65b9bf05dac235a7e358f52a Author: Jean-Louis

Re: perl scripting and the new API with amanda-3.1.0

2010-06-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
use-slots is a property, each property is an array. You should do something like: $properties = changer_config_getconf($ss, $CHANGER_CONFIG_PROPERTY); #get all properties @slot_range = $properties-{'use-slots'}; #get 'use-slots' property You must then use the first element of the

Release of amanda-3.1.1

2010-06-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.1.1. It is a bug file release. Source tarballs are available from * http://www.amanda.org * https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Binaries for many systems are available from *

Re: connection refued when switching to bsdtcp

2010-06-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
McGraw, Robert P wrote: inetadm -l amanda/udp SCOPENAME=VALUE name=amanda endpoint_type=dgram proto=udp isrpc=FALSE wait=TRUE exec=/local/amanda/amanda/libexec/amanda/amandad -auth=bsdtcp amdump amindexd amidxtaped

Re: What leads to FAIL ?

2010-07-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Since amanda-3.1.x my backups nearly always FAIL (the amanda-report-mails tell me so). Without going into detail: is there some list of events triggering that FAIL ? Is it just because not all DLEs fit onto tape every time? No, it's because one of the DLEs was

Re: exit-handling question

2010-07-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Exit code to amgtar and amdump are not related. Look at the amdump man page for exit code of amdump, you can filter the bit (16) you don't care about. Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P wrote: Running amanda-3.1.1 I am using the following to save on tape usage flush-threshold-dumped100

Re: amstar regex does not work

2010-07-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It works for me. Either it is a bug in your regex library or you are running an older amstar, its version is on the first line of the amstar debug file. Jean-Louis Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello @all, I had a conversation with Dustin about amstar and the regex. Here is what we discussed: I

Re: -o taperflush question

2010-07-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
try: amflush -otaperflush=0 daily solaris require that all dash argument are before the config name. except for amdump which is a shell script. Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P wrote: I am trying to run something like amflush daily -otaperflush=0 but I get Argument '-otaperflush=0'

Re: amstatus tape usage enhancement

2010-07-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Jean-François, Try the attached patch, it will works with newer log files only. Thanks for reporting the bug. Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hi, With amanda-3.1 seems we lost the tape usage in the summary report output by amstatus. Prior versions were showning which tape has been

Re: Incrementals always do full?

2010-07-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do you checked the debug log on the client? Any error in them? Do you have 'record' set to yes in the dumptype? post the output of: amadmin CONF disklist Can you stat a few files after two different backup to be sure that nothing change. Jean-Louis Jim Kusznir wrote: Hi all: I've got a

Re: amstatus tape usage enhancement

2010-07-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do the dump was done with the patched taper? Jean-Louis Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Hello Jean-Louis, I was away hence the delay. * Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com [20100719 08:31]: Hi Jean-François, Try the attached patch, it will works with newer log files only. Thanks

Re: No acceptable volumes found

2010-08-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I assume you put a tape you think amanda can use in the changer? What is on that tape? Is it labeled? is it new? What's is your autolabel setting? What is the tapecycle? How many reusable tape in the tapelist file? What's the output of: amtape CONF taper It fail on the first or second tape?

Re: No acceptable volumes found

2010-08-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian Cuttler wrote: What's the output of: amtape CONF taper It fail on the first or second tape? ~# su amanda -c ~amanda/sbin/amtape down taper slot 25: volume 'av48-2_down_Q00060' is still active and cannot be overwritten slot 26: volume 'av48-2_down_Q00061' is still active and cannot

Re: amoverview under 3.1.2

2010-09-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Robert, can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P wrote: As a followup, I ran amoverview and removed the WARNINGS messages and it seems to be working correctly. Here is a snippet date NM TO 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08

Re: amoverview under 3.1.2

2010-09-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: Robert, can you try the attached patch? (only the amoverview hunk is required, right Jean-Louis?) yes, The correct patch is attached. Jean-Louis diff --git a/server-src

Re: 3.1.2 : Problems with mails?

2010-09-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Try to do the same command as amanda do: MAILER=`amgetconf daily mailer` $MAILER -s subject off...@123.at l...@345.at w@678.at Type a small message and end it with ctrl-D Do the email are sent? Jean-Louis Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: For a while I have problems with missing mails from

Re: DLE size change with estimate server

2010-09-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian, The only workaround is to remove the big dump from the history. Go in the curinfo/HOST/DLE directory, edit the info file. Remove the 'history:' line for the dump. First number is the level Second number is the uncompressed size Third number is the compressed size forth number is the date

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Big change to the driver and taper was committed yesterday. Can you post the taper debug file and the amdump.1 file. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: Yesterdays 3411 failed last night, all DEL's timed out waiting for writing to tape. The install, which ends in an amcheck: install done, now

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Can you provide the complete amflush.1 or amdump.1 files Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote: does that help? Perhaps. I'm strongly suspecting that this is a problem with the new multi-tape support. Jean-Louis, do

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's your flush-threshold setting? amgetconf CONF flush-threshold-scheduled amgetconf CONF flush-threshold-dumped amgetconf CONF taperflush Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 21.09.2010 00:09, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Can you provide the complete amflush.1 or amdump.1 files

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
gene heskett wrote: Butting in here, but a nice bright light bulb just came on. I get a big fat 0 for all three amgetconf's above. Izzat my problem? [r...@coyote amanda]# amgetconf Daily flush-threshold-scheduled 0 [r...@coyote amanda]# amgetconf Daily flush-threshold-dumped 0 [r...@coyote

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I can't find why it flush nothing. Can you upgrade to latest SVN and try the attached patch, it add mode degugging. Add 'debug-driver 1' in amanda.conf Retry amflush and send me the resulting amflush.1 file. Jean-Louis Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 21.09.2010 00:09, schrieb Jean-Louis

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Attachment included. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: I can't find why it flush nothing. Can you upgrade to latest SVN and try the attached patch, it add mode degugging. Add 'debug-driver 1' in amanda.conf Retry amflush and send me the resulting amflush.1 file. Jean-Louis Stefan G

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Stefan, Remove the log, amdump or amflush file from the log dir. Jean-Louis Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 21.09.2010 19:55, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Attachment included. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: I can't find why it flush nothing. Can you upgrade to latest SVN

Re: 3.2.0svn3411

2010-09-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's the taperalgo? Is it firstfit, largestfit or smallest Have you enabled splitting? Try the attached patch Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 06:01:08 am Jean-Louis Martineau did opine: Attachment included. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote

Re: trivial amtape defect

2010-10-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Try this one! Jean-Louis Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 04:24:46PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote: When running amtape --help the usage message is printed twice. A *real* nitpick! Cool! Fix is

Re: amrecover verson 3.1.2

2010-10-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Add: amrecover-changer chg-manual in amanda.conf Jean-Louis Gunnarsson, Gunnar wrote: Hi, I'm using the the poor mans changer-manual on one system and amrecover is not so happy with it. The setup works with andump. Thanks Gunnar Gunnarsson amanda.conf tpchanger chg-manual

Re: [Amanda-users] amrecover 3.1.1 issue

2010-10-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
mezzie wrote: Mon Oct 4 09:18:28 2010: amidxtaped: critical (fatal): '[sec -1.00 kb 32 kps -32.00 orig-kb 1290]' at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Amanda/DB/Catalog.pm line 677 The value of '-1' show that something is corrupted, the backup image is probably not valid, that's why you

Release of Amanda 3.2.0

2010-10-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
to import/export slots when completed o command-line syntax has changed incompatibly; see manpage or 'amvault --help' * Rewritten and improved: o amoverview o amcheckdump Jean-Louis Martineau

Re: 3.2.0: Bug with German umlauts

2010-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Can you restore file that have no umlaut? try: add * Can you post the debug files amrecover.*.debug from the client amandad.*.debug, amindexd.*.debug and amidxtaped.*.debug from the server Send them for both run, with the 2.6.1p2 and 3.2 client. Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: It's

Re: 3.2.0: Bug with German umlauts

2010-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: /bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /bin/tar: Skipping to next header /bin/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers /bin/tar: Read 7944 bytes from - It has nothing to do with umlauts. I suspect a bug in the handling of the bsd auth in amrecover. Can

Re: 3.2.0: Bug with German umlauts

2010-10-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc, It's a bug that can only be seen with the bsd auth. Attached patch fix it, can you try it? Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Marc Muehlfeld wrote: /bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /bin/tar: Skipping to next header /bin/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64

Re: 3.2.0: Bug with German umlauts

2010-10-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Stupid me :-( Try this new patch, remove previous patch befora applying this one. Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, It's a bug that can only be seen with the bsd auth. Attached patch fix it, can you try it? thanks for the patch. I applied it to the client and server (both

Re: amgtar not using directory PROPERTY

2010-10-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gunnar, Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Gunnarsson, Gunnar wrote: Hi, I version 3.2.0 amgtar is not using PROPERTY directory amzfs-snapshot, has something changed regarding this in 3.2.0 ? This has been working in the previous version of amanda, snipped from debug file:

Re: 3.2 new parameters not recognized

2010-10-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon, What is the exact error message you get? Where do you put the allow-split? Post the complete dumptype. Jean-Louis Jon LaBadie wrote: My amanda server is running Fedora 13. I recently updated the amanda package from 3.1.3 to 3.2.0. Both versions were Zmanda-built packages for Fedora 12.

Re: 3.2 new parameters not recognized

2010-10-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
. In the dumptype, you write (allow-split) if you want the dle to be split or not. Jean-Louis Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:30:04AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Jon, What is the exact error message you get? Where do you put the allow-split? Post the complete dumptype

Re: Since 3.1.1: Can't open data output stream: Connection refused / successfully retried

2010-10-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What amanda version on the client that failed? Which auth are you using? On server, what's the output of: amgetconf CONF unreserved-tcp-port On client, what's the output of: amgetconf --client CONF unreserved-tcp-port Do the port are open on the firewall? Can you post the dumper.*.debug files

Re: Since 3.1.1: Can't open data output stream: Connection refused / successfully retried

2010-10-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
. * The problem disappears directly when I downgrade amanda back to 2.6.1p2. So should be no config/firewall issue. Am 27.10.2010 12:23, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: What amanda version on the client that failed? All clients run versions between 2.5.0 and 3.2.0. Most are 2.5.0p2. I checked

Re: recovery limit does not recognize the backupserver

2010-10-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hi, I am using the new reovery-limit which is set to: --- recovery-limit same-host localhost --- Is it the global or dle recovery-limit? What is the dle recovery-limit? That's what amindexd is using? Jean-Louis It was set to the DNS name of the server before but

Re: amstatus throwing Warnings of uninitialized values

2010-10-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Send me the amdump.? file for which you get the error. Jean-Louis Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello, after upgrading to 3.2.0 on the server `amstatus config` is throwing the following messeges: ** (process:20136): WARNING **: Use of uninitialized value $getest{***...} in

Re: amstatus throwing Warnings of uninitialized values

2010-10-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The bug is not with the amstatus program. The current log file is corrupted because many program write to it at the same time and they use buffered output. Try the attached patch, it make the file descriptor unbufferred. You should not see that error on the following run. Jean-Louis

Re: amstatus throwing Warnings of uninitialized values

2010-10-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Previous patch do not work, file are already in unbufferred mode. The file needs to be opened in append mode so that each process can append to the file. Newest patch fix it. Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: The bug is not with the amstatus program. The current log file is corrupted

Re: autoflush doesn't

2010-11-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 07:26:47AM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: On 11/1/10 10:10 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: I've started backing up my amanda files nightly in a separate amdump run after my primary amdump. My plan was to leave it on the holding disk and let it autoflush

Re: autoflush doesn't

2010-11-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Amanda dump and flush only the listed dle It is not flushing '.bigcow. Amanda' because it is not on the command line. We can change this behavior. What user expect from dle on the amdump command line: - dump/flush only the listed dle (actual behavior) or - dump only

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