Re: amvault $config_overrides

2010-11-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Same problem with amdump. Try the attached patch. Jean-Louis Gunnarsson, Gunnar wrote: Hi, I a minor issue regarding $config_overrides that are not beeing propagated to the call in amreport thus ignoring setting such as tapettype mailto etc. debug(invoking amreport..);

Re: amanda 3.1.2 on Solaris 10x86

2010-11-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The amzfs-snapshot failed, you might find the reason in the amzfs-snapshot or sendbackup debug files. With the attached patch, the error message will be in the report. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: client==server # amdump ran perfectly otherwise. Periodically we see errors like this, but

Re: snapshot already exists

2010-11-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian Cuttler wrote: Amanda 3.1.2 on Solaris 10x86. Occasionally we see this failure, even when the prior run ends cleanly. Can you find in the debug files why the destroy failed in the prior runs? I'm not sure how amanda handles it, does sit fail to create the snapshot ? does it

Re: Potential Bug

2010-11-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Rhys Rhaven wrote: Using amanda 3.2.0 on everything. I have 2 hosts and a server currently. 1 host and the server are ubuntu 10.04 and the other host (that I'm having issues with) is 8.04. I can run amdump for each host individually with no problem. Running amdump for the config (daily) will

Re: Potential Bug

2010-11-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Rhys, It's a bug, can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Rhys Rhaven wrote: Using amanda 3.2.0 on everything. I have 2 hosts and a server currently. 1 host and the server are ubuntu 10.04 and the other host (that I'm having issues with) is 8.04. I can run amdump for each host

Re: Having some trouble using amanada 2.6.1p2 on OpenSolaris

2010-11-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's the time difference between the first and last line in the amandad.debug file? Is it bigger than your etimeout setting? If so, increase etimeout Jean-Louis Klas Heggemann wrote: Hi list. We're trying backup snapshots of some zfs filesystems on a OpenSolaris host. Client is running

Re: taper-parallel-write

2010-11-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
There is a million of reason, What's the error reported by amanda? Do you have enough data to fill more than one tape? Jean-Louis Jack O'Connell wrote: I've upgraded to version 3.2.0 and have enabled parallel writes to tape as follows. Although 2 tapes get mounted, only one gets written to.

Re: taper-parallel-write

2010-11-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jack O'Connell wrote: There were no errors reported as shown in the taper log below. There is not enough data to fill one tape in the test disklist I was using but it contain 14 DLEs. I assumed it would use both drives. No, it use only one tape is all the data fit in it. Jean-Louis

Re: planner bumps to level 4 are actually done as level 0's

2010-11-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It probably did a level 0 because it was time to do it. What's the dumpcycle? When was the last level 0? Post the amdump.1 log file. Gene Heskett wrote: From the canary; Someone using tapes which do have a fixed, finite size, is going to get bitten, but so far my messages appear to be going

Re: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2010-11-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
jf...@bnext.stucen.gatech.edu wrote: I have been trying to get this issue resloved all week, and finally decided to ask others. I did searching on the web and tried what I have read, but no success. I am using Amanda 2.5.1. Yes, I know it is old, but it works. Well, it had been working until I

Re: Question about amrecover and deleted files.

2010-11-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amrecover will recover the full dump followed by the dump of day 3. The full dump will restore files a, b c The dump of day 3 will delete file a b The result is you get get only the file c. You get the filesystem as it was while the latest restored backup was done. Jean-Louis Robert Heller

Re: planner bumps to level 4 are actually done as level 0's

2010-11-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Don't use tar-1.24 or 1.25, they don't works with amanda according to: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-...@gnu.org/msg02993.html Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday, November 14, 2010 02:48:23 am Jean-Louis Martineau did opine: It probably did a level 0 because it was time to do

Re: What causes this error?

2010-11-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Because ravel:/mnt/RAID0 was not dumped. Check the email report to know why or the client debug file (on ravel) Jean-Louis Robert Heller wrote: Using /var/log/amanda/60villagedrive/amdump.1 From Mon Nov 15 00:10:02 EST 2010 bach:/ 183m finished (0:17:59) haydn:/ 1

Re: What causes this error?

2010-11-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
I attach the patch that was committed. Jean-Louis Robert Heller wrote: At Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:03:23 -0600 Rhys Rhaven r...@rhavenindustrys.com wrote: Looks like the bug that I posted, which I believe Jean-Louis sent the patch for. I've been unable to test it as of yet. I compared

Re: amanda 3.2.0 build

2010-11-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do you get more error if you run 'gmake -k'? Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: I followed the same build process as I did for the last several version, including 3.1.2. The ./configure seems to have run ok, but I ran into a problem with the # gmake -- or at least it looks like a problem to me.

Re: [Amanda-users] amcheck fails

2010-11-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Your email are unreadable! The message was: /opt/csw/etc/amanda/.amandahosts#58; incorrect permissions; file must be accessible only by its owner Try: chmod 700 .amandahosts Jean-Louis upengan78 wrote: -rwxr-xr-xnbsp; nbsp;1 amandanbsp; nbsp;sysnbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; 0 May

Re: amanda 3.2.0 build

2010-11-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian Cuttler wrote: Gerhard, Oh - continue if errors. Running # gmake again, with the -k I have the following result. I have to ask at this point, what is activate-devpay ? It's a utility program if you use the S3 device. Can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis diff --git

Re: Connection refused, timed out, successfully retried (v3.1.3)

2010-11-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Bonjour Luc, It's a known bug in 3.1.3 The attached patch fix it. Jean-Louis Luc Lalonde wrote: Hello Folks, Since I've upgraded from Amanda-2.5.2p1 to Amanda-3.1.x, I've been getting connection errors almost every day... Here's a snipet of the type of errors I'm getting: ###

Re: amanda 3.2.0 build

2010-11-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
. thanks, Brian On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 08:02:31AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Brian Cuttler wrote: Gerhard, Oh - continue if errors. Running # gmake again, with the -k I have

Re: Connection refused, timed out, successfully retried (v3.1.3)

2010-11-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Luc Lalonde wrote: Hello Jean-Louis, Two days of backups and no more deconnection errors... Will this patch be included in the next version (v3.1.4)? sure, the patch is already committed. Thanks again!

Re: Connection refused, timed out, successfully retried (v3.1.3)

2010-11-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
This patch was committed to the 3.2 branch a long time ago. Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hi, I allready posted this to the list four weeks ago: This problem is not just in 3.1.x. We have it here too, since we switched the server to 3.2.0. Is there a patch for that version available,

Re: Weirdness with amvault (Amanda 3.2.0 under CentOS 5.5)

2010-11-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Use attachment to include a file, never cutpaste it inline. Look in the taper debug file. How many slot do you have for the changer (in /etc/amanda/60villagedrive/vault-changer)? Jean-Louis Robert Heller wrote: I am trying to use amvault to create a collection of 'fulls' (to be sent

Re: Wrong error for execute_on

2010-11-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hi, the wiki says, that there are *-selfcheck values for execute_on. This seams to be wrong and has to be *-amcheck. I haven't changed the wiki, because I don't know if maybe older version had *-selfcheck and when it was renamed. Which wiki page. But if the

Re: Wrong error for execute_on

2010-11-23 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Am 23.11.2010 21:04, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Which wiki page. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Script_API#Script_calling_convention Thanks, I fixed it. Jean-Louis

Re: Status 'OK FAIL Missing part' in amadmin find

2010-11-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Always report which amanda version you are using. Send me the log.datestamp.? for the KDD152 volume. Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hi, what does status OK FAIL Missing part in amadmin find mean? 2010-10-21 21:00:02 nucleus.mr.lfmg.de / 1 KDD136 7 1/28 OK FAIL Missing part 2010-10-22

Re: Status 'OK FAIL Missing part' in amadmin find

2010-11-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Send me the log.datestamp.? for the KDD152 volume. There's no log.* logfile. I attached the only one that contains KDD152 from that day. If you need a different one, just tell me which. log.* files are in `amgetconf CONF logdir` Jean-Louis

Re: Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 1122.

2010-11-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Send me the amdump or amdump.1 log file. Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hi, I currently saw amstatus showing a warning: ... genome.mr.lfmg.de:/shares/AppleBackUp 1 14m waiting for dumping genome.mr.lfmg.de:/shares/IMGM 4 395m waiting for dumping ** (process:15658):

Re: amdump successful but ends with empty dumps

2010-11-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
tar-1.24 and tar-1.25 are broken, downgrade to an earlier version or use their git repository. Jean-Louis omer wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup amanda (dev branch from github) on a debian sid i386. I've created a test environment as described in the wiki, with virtual tapes and bsdtcp auth,

Re: Backup multiple DLEs in parallel on some hosts

2010-11-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
run 'amstatus' while the backup is running, what's the reason why some dupers are idle? Do you set a spindle on the dles? Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hi, I'm running Amanda 3.2.0 and I want on some clients to backup two DLEs at the same time. Currently I have globally configured

Re: Common exclude lists

2010-11-29 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amgtar Jean-Louis Johan Stuyts wrote: Hi, My Amanda backup system has gone live recently. I still have to keep an eye on it and check if everything is alright. It took a while, but it was worth the effort. I use VMWare Server on one of my servers. I get 'strange' results from this

Re: chunker failed: error accepting header stream

2010-12-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian Cuttler wrote: Jean-Louis, This is the first amdump run with amanda build 3.2.0.svn.3663 on my Solaris 10x86 amanda server. Which logs can I send to help with the debugging ? The amdump.1 log file and the first chunker.*.debug that failed, with the associated dumper.*.debug file.

Re: chunker failed: error accepting header stream

2010-12-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's the output of: $amgetconf curie reserved-udp-port $amgetconf curie reserved-tcp-port $amgetconf curie unreserved-tcp-port Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Jean-Louis, Looking a little more closely/smartly, the chunker file with the error is for DLE /export2/samba/sharcor, which seems to

Re: chunker failed: error accepting header stream

2010-12-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian Cuttler wrote: amgetconf curie reserved-udp-port 932,948 amgetconf curie reserved-tcp-port 512,1023 amgetconf curie unreserved-tcp-port 10084,10100 You have inparallel set to 18 with bsd auth, so the range must be larger 18*5 = 90 Smaller range can also

Re: chunker failed: error accepting header stream

2010-12-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
thank you, Brian On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 12:25:25PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Brian Cuttler wrote: amgetconf curie reserved-udp-port 932,948 amgetconf curie reserved-tcp-port

Re: amanda and atime

2010-12-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hello, I'm currently migrating from ReiserFS to XFS. I've read that the mount options noatime,nodiratime are recommended for performance. Do no-atime parameter affect amanda and incremental backups in any way? It doesn't affect incremental backups. Jean-Louis

Re: having problem with amrecover under 3.2.0

2010-12-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amrecover get a timeout, you must check why the server did not respond. Do hertz (128.210.3.201) in the name of the amanda server? What's the inetd config for the amanda service on hertz? What's in the amandad.*.debug file on hertz? Any error in syslog? Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P wrote:

Re: having problem with amrecover under 3.2.0

2010-12-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amanda-client.conf is not required. Maybe you added some config in it? Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P wrote: After a little more searching I found the problem. Even thought the debug files did not say, it seem that I needed an amanda-client.conf file in ~amandabackup/etc/amanda. Once I added

Re: Configuring Auth SSH for a client behind a firewall

2010-12-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Debbie O Connell wrote: Hi, We are trying to setup Amanda for 1 client behind a firewall with Auth SSH for the first time. The machines behind the firewall are all NATed. The firewall will not allow us to port redirect port 22. As a result, all the machines behind the firewall have

Re: A question about how ssh auth works

2010-12-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
stan wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:32:39AM -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: In the case, what does the ssh daemon on the clinet machhine do when it recies the requst from the Amanda server ? The server essentially does 'ssh client /usr/local/libexec/amandad ...'

Re: Warning messages from amstatus

2010-12-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
...@alcf.anl.gov Index: ChangeLog === --- ChangeLog (revision 3576) +++ ChangeLog (revision 3580) @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2010-10-29 Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com + * server-src/amflush.c: Open 'amflush' log file in append mode

Re: No index records after upgrade

2010-12-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do all tapes are listed in the tapelist file? Do all log.dataestamp are in logdir? What's the output of: amadmin BACKUP find Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I just finished a major system upgrade on a small one-machine setup (client=server). This involved upgrading the OS from FreeBSD 6.4 to 8.1

Re: Got no header and data from server / Can't locate object method

2010-12-13 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do you have the '/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2/Amanda/XferServer.pm' file? How do you configured amanda? Jean-Louis Toomas Aas wrote: Hello again! Now that I got my tapelist problem sorted out, I still have a problem recovering backups. Example session:

Re: How do send dumped DLEs to tape earlier?

2010-12-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc, Post the 'amdump' or 'amdump.1' log file. Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: First I thought, amanda would collect n% of my tape space (66 GB here for my vtape) before writing to tape. But at the moment I have 415 GB wait for writing and the taper is idle: ... dumping : 2

Re: Got no header and data from server / Can't locate object method

2010-12-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Toomas, Try this one line patch, you can patch the installed Clerk.pm file Jean-Louis Toomas Aas wrote: Hello Jean-Louis! Do you have the '/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2/Amanda/XferServer.pm' file? Yes. How do you configured amanda? I installed Amanda from FreeBSD port, the

Re: Configuring Auth SSH for a client behind a firewall

2010-12-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Debbie O Connell wrote: The host name in the Host line must be the exact name amanda use. * Yes, we have the exact name on the Host line. And we are able to SSH from the command line using this name. Amanda use the canonical name. Add 'debug_auth 1' in amanda.conf, run amcheck, then look

Release of amanda-3.2.1

2010-12-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.2.1. It is a bug fix 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: Got no header and data from server / Can't locate object method

2010-12-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What's the output of: grep -i AMANDA_COMPONENTS /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2/Amanda/Constants.pm Add the same 'use Amanda::XFerServer;' in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2/Amanda/Taper/Scribe.pm Jean-Louis Toomas Aas wrote: T, 14 dets 2010 kirjutas Jean-Louis Martineau

Re: Got no header and data from server / Can't locate object method

2010-12-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Toomas Aas wrote: Hello Jean-Louis! What's the output of: grep -i AMANDA_COMPONENTS /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2/Amanda/Constants.pm $AMANDA_COMPONENTS = client amrecover ndmp; That's the problem, it looks like the server code is installed but it is not in that line. I don't know

Re: [Amanda-users] Backing up 50TB (ZFS) with Amanda using disk to disk

2010-12-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
NetWatchman wrote: Here are some of the challenges/questions: My full backups are huge (multi-TB) so filling tapes is not a problem. However, daily incremental might only be 20-30GB. Since I'm using 1.5 and/or 2TB drive for tapes I'm able to get good filling of the tapes when doing full

Re: Problems with flush-thresholds

2010-12-22 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Kevin, Post the amdump.? log file, I want to look at it. Jean-Louis Kevin Zembower wrote: I'm having problems when I try to set amanda up to completely fill my tapes. One of my disklist entries is about 600GB at level 0. I'm using amanda 3.2.1 on a RHEL5 tapehost with Ultrium tapes that hold

Re: Status 'OK FAIL Missing part' in amadmin find - bug is back in 3.2.1

2011-01-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The patch was committed after the 3.2.1 release. Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hi, your patch fixed it for 3.2.0. But wasn't it applied to the sources of 3.2.1? This version is still having the bug: $ amadmin KDD find nucleus / Warning: no log files found for tape KDD173 written

Re: What is script output porperty

2011-01-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
A pre-backup script can send property to the application, this is useful if the pre-script create a snapshot and you want the application to backup the snapshot. It's use by amzfs-snapshot script to send the DIRECTORY property to amgtar. Read the application man pages to know which properties

Re: amcrypt-ossl-asym: trailing garbage

2011-01-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
lxnf9...@comcast.net wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Peter Norden s0678...@mail.zih.tu-dresden.de wrote: I tracked down the problem to the amcrypt-ossl-asym script itself. In the simple test case $ echo foo | amcrypt-ossl-asym |

Re: Odd email this morning from amanda

2011-01-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, When you have an amstatus bug, always post the amdump log file use, it is printed on the first output line. Jean-Louis Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; REPOST #4, what the heck??? Why are my posts going into a black hole? Never mind, I was using the wrong account, this is still a

Re: Odd email this morning from amanda

2011-01-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene Heskett wrote: Another followup on this, I just noticed that the size figures printed, and emailed to me, are all trashed and nonsensical. I'm going to backup one version, these reports are less than useful. Do you expect someone to fix a bug with only that information? Post the

Re: How to specific multiple *different sized* virtual changers?

2011-01-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Robert Heller wrote: How do I bind a specific tapetype to a changer and implement different *sized* virtual tapes? Amcheck seems to insist I specify a single *global* tapetype that is used for all changers. Is this really how things work? yes. A few global parameters should be in the changer

Re: amanda 3.2.1 on Solaris x86 -- open file limit

2011-01-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Brian Cuttler wrote: Jean-Louis, I think the Solaris 10x86 build does in fact create a 32-bit binary. x86 is 32 bits. [finsen]: /usr/local/libexec/amanda file amandad amandad:ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1 [FPU], dynamically linked, not stripped If I'm understanding

Re: amanda 3.2.1 on Solaris x86 -- open file limit

2011-01-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
IXDR_GET_U_LONG is defined in /usr/linclude/rpc/xdr.h (on linux) This file is included from /usr/linclude/rpc/rpc.h which is included in ndmp-src/ndmp?.h I don't know what's wrong with the solaris include. Reconfigure with '--without-ndmp' to disable the compilation of the ndmp-src directory.

Re: Fwd: Cron amanda@coyote /GenesAmandaHelper-0.6/backup.sh Daily

2011-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, If you have a bug with amstatus, post the error message and the amdump log file used. I can do nothing if I don't see the log file. Jean-Louis gene heskett wrote: I tried the newest 3.2.1 last night, this is from my wrappers log. An amstatus returns the same list of errors.

Re: amanda 3.2.1 on Solaris x86 -- open file limit

2011-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
/ndmp-src/.libs/libndmlib.so ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/amndmjob On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 03:16:37PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: IXDR_GET_U_LONG is defined in /usr/linclude/rpc/xdr.h (on linux) This file is included from /usr/linclude/rpc/rpc.h

Re: Incorrectly out of holding space in degraded mode

2011-01-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Douglas, There is a bug if the taper crash early, the attached patch fix, the dump should go to holding disk. Douglas K. Rand wrote: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1 .) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/Amanda/Device.pm line 34 It would seem that the error Can't locate

Re: amadmin find shows more than wanted

2011-01-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amanda-match, use disk expression $ amadmin KDD find genome '^/shares$' Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hello, how can I make 'amadmin find' just to show the disk I have told and not all others below that directory also? # amadmin KDD find genome /shares shows me the entries for

Re: Problems with flush-thresholds

2011-01-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Kevin. The problem is because one of the dle is bigger than a tape. I'm working on a fix. Jean-Louis Kevin Zembower wrote: Sorry this has taken so long. Thank you for any help or advice you can provide. -Kevin On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 07:15 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Kevin, Post

Re: amidxtaped v3.1.3 bug (critical (fatal): Modification of non-creatable array value attempted)

2011-01-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Luc, Dustin committed the patch only to the 3.2 branch. I committed it to the 3.1 branch (svn 3820). Jean-Louis Luc Lalonde wrote: Hello Dustin, I've been re-bitten by the bug described below while doing an 'amrecover' with version 3.1.3 I used the same patch that you provided me for 3.1.1

Re: Problems with flush-thresholds

2011-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Kevin, Can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Kevin Zembower wrote: Sorry this has taken so long. Thank you for any help or advice you can provide. -Kevin On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 07:15 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Kevin, Post the amdump.? log file, I want to look at it. Jean

Re: Error: disk /usr, all estimate failed

2011-02-08 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Which tar are you using? It must be gnutar. If it is gnutar, which version is it? Jean-Louis Mike Neimoyer wrote: Okay, looking further, I see the following in the file server:/tmp/amanda/sendsize.20110207020002.debug - sendsize[77723]: time 5.145: getting size via gnutar for

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda 3.2.1 on Solaris x86 -- open file limit

2011-02-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Sebastian, Thanks for that useful information. The correct fix is probably to also change all u_long variables to u_int32? Jean-Louis shesselbarth wrote: IXDR_GET_U_LONG is defined in /usr/linclude/rpc/xdr.h (on linux) This file is included from /usr/linclude/rpc/rpc.h which is included

Re: ...not allowed to execute the service noop: Please add amdump to the line in //.amandahosts

2011-03-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amanda looks for the .amandahosts file in the home directory of the bin user? What is the home directory of the bin user? Is it / or /home/bin, the default is /. So you must create the /.amandahosts file like amanda told you to do, have you tried it? It is bad to use a user that have

Release of amanda-3.2.2

2011-03-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
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Re: Status 'OK FAIL Missing part' in amadmin find - Bug is still in 3.2.2

2011-03-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc, It is not the same bug I fixed. Can you try this path? Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Hi Jean-Louis Martineau wrote Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:15:43 -0800: your patch fixed it for 3.2.0. But wasn't it applied to the sources of 3.2.1? This version is still having the bug The patch

Re: Please explain tape blocksizes

2011-03-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Attila Bogár wrote: Dear Amanda Users, I have some question regarding tape blocksizes. I inherited an amanda system with default (32k?) blocksize. Then by doing some testing with dd bs=nk I found, that the Quantum LTO-4 tape drive honours the 128k blocksize with the fastest speed. I have

Re: monthly archive config

2011-03-28 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Post the server/montly/amindexd.*.debug file Johan Booysen wrote: On Friday, I tried a full monthly backup using the config as mentioned in the email below. The backup seems to have run successfully, and I received the amanda email showing that all disklist entries had a level 0 backup

Re: silly client down question

2011-03-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Tim Johnson wrote: Hello all... This might be a silly quetion, however there are times that some clients are down. My setup aborts the backups, and then looses the indexes/log files of pervious backup history. So two questions, is there an option somewhere in the config to tell amanda

Re: Please explain tape blocksizes

2011-03-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Attila Bogár wrote: Hi Jean, On 25/03/11 18:05, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Question 1) If I set the blocksize to 128k via mt, then I can't read the tapes. Do I need to set this up directly via mt. If so, then do I have to re-initialize old tapes? (amrmtape, mt erase, amlabel)? Don't do

Release of amanda-3.3.0beta1

2011-03-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The first beta of amanda-3.3.0 is available from http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php (binary packages; version 3.3.0beta1) http://amanda.org/download.php (tarball; under Development) The more testing this release can get, the better, try it. New features are: * chg-aggregate: new

Re: Release of amanda-3.3.0beta1

2011-04-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: This looks great. If there were one or two things to brag about in this release, what are they? How can we show them off? Dustin chg-aggregate (man amanda-changers) Support for removable hard drive in chg-disk (man amanda-changers,

Re: Bug in 3.2.2: No acceptable volumes found for new labled tapes

2011-04-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc, Do you know if it is changing the datestamp or removing the barcode from the tapelist that help? Can you also post the taperdebug file when it worked, I want to see the difference. What's the output of 'amtape KAS inventory'. What's the output of 'amtape KAS taper', it should find the

Re: Taperflush bug in 3.2.2?

2011-04-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello @all, after updating to 3.2.2 amanda uses more tapes (LTO4) as expected: USAGE BY TAPE: Label Time Size % DLEs Parts D3 2:32 797382M 100.4 137 279 D1 0:30 190514M 24.0 038

Re: Bug in 3.2.2: No acceptable volumes found for new labled tapes

2011-04-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Do you know if it is changing the datestamp or removing the barcode from the tapelist that help? No. Nothing changed or was removed from the tapelist entry. Can you also post the taperdebug file when it worked, I want to see the difference. After I changed

Re: Linux --- FreeBSD migration problem

2011-04-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
logdir is configurable in amanda.conf Run 'amgetconf CONF logdir' to find where amanda expect them. Do the index are there? They should be in 'amgetconf CONF indexdir' Do the tapelist file list all label with the correct date? Do 'amadmin CONF find' list the dump? What's in the amindexd debug

Re: Linux --- FreeBSD migration problem

2011-04-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What was the amanda release on the linux box, What is the release on the FreeBSD box? Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:01:13 -0400 Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: logdir is configurable in amanda.conf OK. Run 'amgetconf CONF logdir' to find

Re: Linux --- FreeBSD migration problem

2011-04-05 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:43:58 -0400 Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: What was the amanda release on the linux box, What is the release on the FreeBSD box? Linux: 3.2.2 FreeBSD: 3.2.1 A downgrade, some log line format changed, you must

Re: incremental backup

2011-04-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
ruslan usifov wrote: I'm new in amanda world so have a question: If i do incremental backup. For example if in very big file changed only few bytes, what amanda do? Send all file, or only changed part of file? Amanda is file level backup, the complete file will be sent. Jean-Louis

Re: Bug in 3.2.2: No acceptable volumes found for new labled tapes

2011-04-15 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Marc, Can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Anything new about this bug? diff --git a/perl/Amanda/Changer.pm b/perl/Amanda/Changer.pm index a6857a5..5bc63c6 100644 --- a/perl/Amanda/Changer.pm +++ b/perl/Amanda/Changer.pm @@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ has one of the

Re: kerberos and Amanda

2011-04-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
It's not possible to do it, but it should be easy to make a patch for it. Jean-Louis Trever L. Adams wrote: For technical reasons, I have a set of hosts I must backup. They are in different kerberos realms. The realms cannot and do not trust each other (hopefully the technical reasons for this

Re: kerberos and Amanda

2011-04-16 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
This untested patch might do it. It should apply cleanly to the 3.3 branch and trunk. Jean-Louis Trever L. Adams wrote: For technical reasons, I have a set of hosts I must backup. They are in different kerberos realms. The realms cannot and do not trust each other (hopefully the technical

Re: ERROR: /usr/bin/gzip exited with status 1

2011-04-17 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
amrestore -r Jean-Louis Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: Hello, during my migration from Linux to FreeBSD I lost Amanda's logs and cannot use amrecover. In the attempt to re-do backup I wanted to amrestore content from the tapes, but one set of tapes was dumped with software compression enabled and

Re: amlabel --barcode fails

2011-04-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello, testing 3.3beta1, fails for me when using the new feature amlabel --barcode: amlabel -f --barcode D10080 -olabelstr='^D1[0-9]*$' -otpchanger=l700-robot-MRO daily Reading label... barcode: D10080 sl_barcode: D10080 slot: 269 Found an empty tape. Writing label

Re: amlabel --barcode fails

2011-04-18 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:10:24 -0400 Von: Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com An: Dennis Benndorf dennis.bennd...@gmx.de CC: amanda-users@amanda.org Betreff: Re: amlabel --barcode fails Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello, testing 3.3beta1

Re: amanda 3.3beta: amrecover fails because of decompression?

2011-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Do the dump are compressed on client or server? Post the amrecover and amidxtaped debug files. As a workaround, you can do the following in amrecover before the extract: set property command-options -z Jean-Louis Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello, after updating yesterday to 3.3beta amrecover

Re: amanda 3.3beta: amrecover fails because of decompression?

2011-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
. Regards, Dennis Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:00:45 -0400 Von: Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com An: Dennis Benndorf dennis.bennd...@gmx.de CC: amanda-users@amanda.org Betreff: Re: amanda 3.3beta: amrecover fails because of decompression? Do

Re: amgtar set_euid Fixed Bug Broken Again

2011-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
The fix is already committed. If you have a similar problem, then make a new bug report with all relevant information including the amgtar debug file. Jean-Louis Trever L. Adams wrote: Please reference: http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-amgtar-getting-Permission-denied-td28223185.html With

Re: Balancing dumps automatically?

2011-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Luc Lalonde wrote: Hello folks, Is there a way to get Amanda to balance automatically the full dumps for a given configuration? Amanda do it by default. I'm using version 3.1.3 and here's a 'amadmin config balance' output: due-date #fsorig kB out kB balance

Re: Balancing dumps automatically?

2011-04-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Luc Lalonde wrote: Hello Jean-Louis, I've not done a 'force' in a long time... However, I've added some new DLE's recently. So by default they've entered the cycle with a 'level 0'. Maybe that's why the backups are not balanced... It still strange that Amanda plans to do 311 full dumps

Re: amrecover fails - problems loading correct tape

2011-04-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: [amanda@amanda tmp]$ cat ./amanda/server/newbktest/amidxtaped.20110427135604.debug 1303930564.513325: amidxtaped: pid 933 ruid 511 euid 511 version 2.6.1p2: start at Wed Apr 27 13:56:04 2011 1303930564.513380: amidxtaped: amidxtaped: version 2.6.1p2 You are

Re: includefile functionality within disklist.conf?

2011-05-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Hi Mike, includefile do not works in the disklist file. Jean-Louis Mike Neimoyer wrote: Good morning! Does the include function, which works within the amanda.conf file to allow external files to be included in the configuration, work within the disklist file? This would allow easy

Release of amanda-3.2.3

2011-05-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
property. * amstar: Add ACL property. * amzfs-sendrecv: Implement restore. * vfs-device (vtapes): LEOM property default to TRUE. * fix amplot. * amrecover take correct group when foring amandad with local auth. * many others small fix. Jean-Louis Martineau

Re: LEOM question

2011-05-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
McGraw, Robert P wrote: I am getting ready to install amanda-3.2.3 and want to start using the part_size tape splitting to get better tape usage. Question1: is device_property = device-property and part_size = part-size i.e. is _ and - interchangeable in the amanda.conf parameter names?

Re: man pages for Solaris

2011-05-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
How do you install amanda (and the man page) From svn repository? source tarballs? a package? Which one? Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P wrote: [119][amandabacku@hertz]:~/sbin% uname -a SunOS hertz.math.purdue.edu 5.10 Generic_142901-11 i86pc i386 i86pc Amanda 3.2.3 Sorry. Reading the forum it

Re: man pages for Solaris

2011-05-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
McGraw, Robert P wrote: Well I am a little red faced and I apologize to the group. I was using the preconfigured man pages which were causing me problems. I went back and set --enable-manpage-build and reconfigured amanda, which rebuilt the man pages from the xml files, and no the man pages

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