take a shot at it in between). I'm sure
it's just some header file magic that has to be dealt with.
Marc Davignon
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I think the --with-smbclient and --with-samba-user options will be most
helpful.
As you say, --with-smbclient is the real problem. However the
--with-samba-user option is deprecated in favor of putting the user name
in the amandapass file.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL
(e.g. in your
/etc/services file) or account for their potential use by making the
portrange larger.
You should also look at:
http://www.amanda.org/patches.html
for a related portrange patch to 2.4.2p2.
--david
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the connection for some reason?
What's in amrecover*debug on the client? Did it try to run the right
restore command?
-James
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being worked on)
exclusion pattern in the dumptype, e.g.:
exclude some-pattern
The other possibility, if you're using 2.4.3, is that the new multiple
exclusion file code has a problem. If you're using 2.4.3, what does
amadmin config disklist client have to say?
David Flood
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a normal Unix shell
pipeline in the amdump script. You could insert a filter of your own
to fake the estimated time field down to zero to trick driver into
doing important things first. Or, at 2.4.3, we could probably add a
new dumporder flag to do things by priority, or something like that.
John R
in a different order.
FRank
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really, really, have to have DBM support, it can probably be
fixed up. Although I'll be away at a conference next week (at the UofMD,
birthplace of Amanda, I just realized :-) and won't be able to help
until after that.
Marc Davignon
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. Cables. SCSI
termination. Media. CPU. ...
[root]# tapetype -f /dev/tape -e 35g=20
Are you sure /dev/tape had hardware compression turned off?
Klavs Klavsen
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of tape).
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. Then your config
file is probably closer to reality. But if you want to use chg-zd-mtx,
you need to look at the comments in the chg-zd-mtx script itself for
what the config file looks like and rework it.
Greg
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the second server?
If you're asking if Amanda can use other transport mechanisms that
provide better security (i.e. encrypt the streams), the answer is yes.
It already supports Kerberos, and the 2.5 security structure (in theory)
allows others to be added.
raymond
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dumper is dieing for some reason.
Take a look in /tmp/amanda on the server and see if you have any core
files. If you do, fire up a debugger (e.g. gdb or dbx) on them and
get/post the stack traceback.
Also, look at the amdump.1 file for all references to dumper0.
Michael Murph Robbert
John R
?
The book chapter covers it (bottom of the www.amanda.org web page).
I also tried to make the man page explain it. If you need to know more
than those two, just ask.
David Flood
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tape changer out of all this. Just comment
out tpchanger in amanda.conf when going to the holding disk.
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a debugger on the dumper executable (as root) and that pid. Let
it run (cont) then wait for it to crash and get a backtrace.
Michael Murph Robbert
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(or go back to 1.12
and apply the Amanda patches).
I couldn't get 1.13.25 to compile. ...
This isn't really the forum for this, but if you post what went wrong
we might be able to help. Or you might back off to 1.13.19 and see if
it behaves better.
Jenn
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/null?
Close. You would set it to null:, which is another Amanda output
driver that throws data away.
I think. I'd certainly want to experiment with this a bit.
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an error (since you cannot rewind it :-). But I
would still strongly recommend the /no/such/device technique -- you
know for certain what's going on with that.
Frank
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compatibility with 2.3 (not one of our
finer moments -- sigh), so you have to upgrade everything at once.
Gardiner Leverett
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this (if amrecover can't figure it out for
itself):
sethost shakira.r-tec.int
setdisk /usr/local
Leonie Nuenighoff
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with Amanda. It was a big deal when Amanda was
first being written and the silly ExaByte 8200 file mark was measured
in MBytes :-).
Klavs Klavsen
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variables named startuse, enduse or cleancart.
Greg
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. What does it say?
Michael Murph Robbert
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.
David Flood
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or /etc/hosts or whatever setup.
I just took a note to add a test for this to amcheck.
Axel
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Ex. Total bytes written: -594548736
I'm using gnutar ...
What version (gnutar --version)? You **must** use 1.13.19 (or later)
or else 1.12 plus the patches at www.amanda.org.
Jenn
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on the command line to have it
do those lookups:
./getfsent /home /opt
EZ
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about this.
Frank
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(sigh), I think
you're right that it will be time for b4.
Holger
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Worked like a charm. ...
Did you have to do anything I didn't remember in my list? If not,
then I'll take your advice and get this posted to the FAQ.
Doug
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, I would say yes to both.
Vijay
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automounter thing)
and dump isn't doing what you think it is.
David Flood
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./configure, then make then make install?
What did you put in your changer config file?
What is in the changer log file?
Why do you think it's not working?
/gat
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of the messages to show which
file is being processed. You can either get a new copy or I've appended
the patch.
/gat
BTW, thanks for helping test this. I don't run mtx here (it's a long
story), and testing this script has been a real adventure.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL
--with-rundump. Do you recall doing that?
Was there something changed between 2.4.1p1
and 2.4.2p2 that would affect this?
No.
I don't want to appear to be nagging ...
No problem. I'd be curious how you had it working, too.
David Flood
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,
for instance).
Use whatever your browser provides to do a save as (e.g. for Netscape
on Unix it's Shift-Button1) to get the file.
If that's a problem, let me know and I'll drop a copy in my ftp area.
EZ
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. ...
Again, I need the debug files to see what the script did.
/gat
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the lines you
don't need (it doesn't handle comments) and put keyword=value entries
in exactly like it says (the new version tries to be a bit more tolerant).
Greg
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and let
Amanda sort it all out, which will take a few runs, but it's going to
take a few runs anyway.
John Rodkey
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commands to change the host
(client) and disk as well as the date, so I would think those would let
you move around pretty much wherever you wanted to go.
Georg
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mean that silly cat step :-). It more closely mimics
how the command is run in the Amanda pipeline.
Warrren
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Is it possible to run amanda without-tapes so it dumps only to holding
disk?
Set tapedev to /no-such-device. Amanda will not be able to access
that as a tape device and fall back to degraded (incremental only,
unless you change reserve in your holding disk definition) mode.
John R. Jackson
problem you're having, but .amandahosts
should be owned by your Amanda user (amanda) and mode 0400 or 0600.
Balu
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that means
the script I sent will not be helpful (unless you mess with it a lot).
What happens if you do this:
mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
/usr/local/sbin/amrestore -p /dev/nst0 bertha /boot \
restore -tvf - /tmp/index-file
-Adam
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by their name, so localhost
would all of the sudden mean something else), and there is no gain to
using localhost.
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in /tmp/amanda on frigo. Make sure there aren't
any errors in it, and that the start and end time (first and last lines)
fit within your etimeout value.
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tell Amanda not to do full dumps during the period
you just want to be using DDS2's. Then do a SDLT run once in a while
and tell it to do lots of fulls to get back in sync.
Chris Dahn
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backup782336 Jun 28 2001 sbin/amcheck
Everything else should just be owned by the Amanda user/group and normal
modes.
Greg Mohney
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testing. Only then would I get rid of the originals.
-Adam
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amreindex.sh
Description: amreindex.sh
certainly possible. I have
no idea how you restored the server.
-Adam
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size appears to work now ( i get an error now )
Thanks for getting back to me about these.
/gat
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chg-zd-mtx.diff
Description: chg-zd-mtx.diff
it in. Sigh. I've
removed it from 2.4.3.
-- Stephen Carville
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Extracting from file /opt/amanda/dumps/20020405/cain._.2
EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on cain.
...
There is no amidxtaped.debug to be found.
It would be in /tmp/amanda on host cain and might have other junk in
the name. Look for /tmp/amanda/amidxtaped*.debug.
- db
John R. Jackson
.
That could point to the CPU time limit issue Chris mentioned (I'd look in
my process accounting files to check for that) or it might be something
like a firewall (or whatever) timeout between the machines.
Ricky
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.
Ward.
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(the names stream_server and stream_accept imply a stream, a.k.a.
TCP, connection).
Doug Silver
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, that there aren't problems buried in there
someplace. Just that the developers are not aware of any. If you know
of something, *please* let someone on the development team know so we
can get it fixed.
Ward.
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have to read that error message *very* carefully. It says the request
came in from cain, not cain.usace.army.mil. For whatever reason,
you're not using fully qualified domain names (*). Adding this line
should fix (get around) your problem:
cain root
- db
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, though. I'm
guessing it looks something like this:
A.B.C.D cain cain.usace.army.mil
If you make it like this:
A.B.C.D cain.usace.army.mil cain
the reverse lookup will give you the full name.
- db
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) be a more appropriate place to ask the questions?
Questions involving coding should (in general) go to amanda-hackers.
Paul
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there is between images on the tape. Most modern drives have
a small enough value that it's not much of an issue.
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thing to
try when anything bad starts happening.
If that doesn't help, look on vitsika in /tmp/amanda for a debug file
named sendsize*debug (ditto for localhost). Hopefully there will be
some error messages in there that will point you toward the problem.
Hery Zo
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as a workaround for something very, very odd/bad
with the way tar is working on your system.
/gat
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expression. When you just enter /
it matches anything with a / in it.
You want to do this:
amrestore -p /dev/nst0 host '^/$'
Warren
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that corresponds to this run. It's in the logdir
directory (amgetconf config logdir).
Ricky
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through and lock the databases
individualy as it works but that I fear is close to impossible. Oh well.
thanks in advance for any help
-john
to the tape.
And in the case of a changer, offlining the drive may cause other things
to happen, such as dropping the stack and loading the next tape, which
might not be what you want. Better that we leave things alone and if
a particular setup needs something different, it's easy for them to do.
John
of other things on the TODO list).
btw, what do u mean each operation. ...
I meant amdump and amflush.
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backup. The server would shut down its
side in that case and let the client fend for itself.
So what else is in the Amanda mail report?
Ricky
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, but you'll have to poke around in those OS areas for
more information.
igor.
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turning the restore completely loose).
Greg Mohney
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the postings
from a while back about turning it back on.
/gat
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also want to search the mailing list archives for references
to Onstream. There have been quite a few problems reported, but also
some possible solutions (as I recall, certain microcode versions,
certain kernel versions, etc).
Gottfried
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The second and sort-of corollary to that is what is the exact syntax of
exclude files referenced from disklist? ...
Andrew Hall wrote a nice description of exclusion patterns. It is
part of the 2.4.3 docs directory, so you could grab a recent beta from
www.amanda.org.
Matthew Boeckman
John
In the files, chg-manual and chg-mtx there is a function in the code
labelled loadslot(). In this funciton the dd command is used to look
at the tape.
I have excerpted some code from chg-mtx, below...
This appears to be post-processing code following that event wherein a
tape is newly
prevents Amanda from doing
some of the incremental estimates it might normally try, which in turn
prevents it from ever even attempting an incremental dump.
Don
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)
$prefix may be set with --prefix (default: /usr/local)
The gnutar-listdir area would only be altered if you are using GNU tar.
Tom Van de Wiele
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by
the device name. The specific value depends on your OS, by usually is
a name with an 'n' in it, which I think for your OS would be /dev/nst0
(or maybe /dev/st0n).
Doug
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is broken.
Figures :-). I just put it on the Amanda patches page (where it
should have been a long time ago):
http://www.amanda.org/patches.html
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to look at the client to find out why the data is
not moving.
Darin Perusich
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in the chg-mtx below. ...
That's because chg-mtx is not meant for mtx (go figure). What you want
to be using is chg-zd-mtx. As I understand it, chg-mtx is for an old
version of mtx (or something that was called mtx) on some HP boxes.
J
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one, disklist file for a particular configuration, and it must
be named disklist. You make all your changes to it.
John Rodriguez
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they are new disks you shouldn't need to do anything -- Amanda
will insist on doing a full dump. Although doing a force won't hurt
anything.
Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I can't seem to find the file you are referring to...
It's in `amgetconf config logdir` (sorry, I forget that because that's
the same as my amanda.conf directory).
Dick
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Anyone have a DDS-3 (4mm, 12 GB native) unit that has been removed
from service? I am looking for a unit that is considered obsolete by
the current owner; which I hope would make it nearly worthless and
therefore quite inexpensive to procure from you... :)
Thank you...
I have amanda (2.4.3b2) running for the most part but it will not send
me a report
When I run amreport I get the following message
sh: NONE: command not found
amreport: mail command failed: NONE -s MEC Denver AMANDA MAIL REPORT
FOR March 28, 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would think that I could
a file system? If not, you can't do this. Dump (in
general, and apparently for sure with your version) only works for file
systems, not directories.
Doug Silver
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of these but not the other.
Dick
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find any
of those.
Get whichever one is appropriate in your PATH, then make distclean
and start over with ./configure, or else set MAILER on the command line:
./configure MAILER=/path/to/your/mail/program ...
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On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 19:01, Kirk Strauser wrote:
At 2002-04-02T01:46:18Z, Doug Silver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So for the non-rewinding tape device I put in /dev/nsa0, which seems to
make sense after reading the mt and sa man pages (I know, I shouldn't be
RTFM'ing before hand, but oh
of these messages (depending on other settings):
dump larger than tape, but cannot incremental dump skip-incr disk
dump larger than tape, but cannot incremental dump new disk
Dump larger than tape: full dump of XXX delayed.
dump larger than tape, skipping incremental
/gat
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out to be larger, Amanda will
try to do them all.
Dick
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at that time, the dump will have to
do it and that would throw everything out of whack.
And is there any consideration on fitting a large partition onto one or
more tapes?
Definitely. All it takes is a few weeks of dedicated programming time
by someone and a whole lot of testing.
John R. Jackson
an appropriate patch for you)?
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OK, I was able to reproduce your problem on a 2.4.2p2 build.
The following patch seems to take care of it. Let me know how it goes.
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planner-tape-length.diff
Description: planner-tape-length.diff
for a third estimate (level 2 in this case)
if it's time (bumpdays) that a bump to the next level might be possible.
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amrecover: did not get a reserved port: 50846
What IS this? how do I solve it? ...
I answered this exact same question three days ago:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/34226
Tom Van de Wiele
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writers. The intent was to give a general feeling for how things were
going, not an amadmin type for certain answer.
Wait for the E-mail report to show up before panicing :-).
David Flood
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name would make life simpler.
Would I also have to be running
the same version of amanda on both servers?
Nope. There should not be any incompatibility problems with those
versions.
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