=64k.
Did you try the above (bs=64k, remove the /tmp files)?
Jason
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reporting time came around it
defaulted to the above message (better than de-referencing a NULL
pointer :-).
So what happened to cause this message? Maybe we can fix planner to
recognize the situation and do a better job of reporting it.
Tanniel Simonian
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amanda how many amdump runs you will make
during one dumpcycle. However, since you're probably going to set
dumpcycle less than one week, I don't think runspercycle comes into play.
If you had enough tapes to let dumpcycle be one week (or more), then
you would set runspercycle to (e.g.) 5.
Tom
John
--with-smbclient=/path/..., ./configure will
get the value from this variable.
Brian Davidson
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/unistd.h. (notcompat)
extern int ruserok P((const char *rhost, int suser,
---^
John made this in response to my encounter with this, recently...
The fix is probably already in the cvs tree (I speculate)
This has the fix to the configure script so you will not have to fart
around commenting
+ 1.
In your case, dumpcycle should not be larger than six days.
B.N.C
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Exec'ing /sbin/vrestore with arguments:
restore
xbf
2
-
...
I assume you're talking about Amanda 2.4.2p2? And if you run vrestore
with the 'b' and '2' args it will work?
I fixed this a while ago and I think the following patch will take care
of it for you.
John
to run it from cron or
in the background some other way, look at the comments in the chg-manual
script itself to see how to set up the notification (via E-mail, or
console log messages, etc).
B.N.C
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(maxdumps) or there are spindle conflicts.
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*.*0 0 0 0 LISTEN
*.10083 *.*0 0 0 0 LISTEN
This assumes you have not changed the suggested service name or port
numbers, etc.
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the backups.
David Flood
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report this
to those folks so they can work on it. If they don't know about it,
it will never get fixed :-).
ben
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the amcheck again.
Leonie
P.S: Sorry, I know, my English is ugly ((-:
Your English is just fine. You should see some of the things my colleagues
write who have lived here their whole life :-).
i.A. Leonie Nuenighoff
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/amgetconf have roughly the same
modification timestamp? If so, what is the SUF variable set to in
amdump (just a few lines after the confdir assignment)?
Fabio.
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back on the server and run it through the appropriate sed
to create the file.
There's a reason nobody has fought this battle yet :-).
Sacha Panasuik
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the problem.
Personally, I put my tmp files elsewhere for this very reason. I keep
10 days worth of debug files and on the worst configuration I have
it's only 7 MBytes.
Deb Baddorf
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wrote before it got into trouble.
If that's close to your tape size, then you may have just banged into
the end. If it's way short, then it's a hardware or media problem.
--Ruth Anne
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/web lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to
incremental dump]
So, don't keep us in suspense, what's in the FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP
DETAILS portion of the E-mail??? :-)
What's in the corresponding /tmp/amanda/sendbackup*debug file on adv2?
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it reports everything else it sees. Not as nicely parseable
as your idea, but that's what sed is for :-).
Sacha Panasuik
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could, but I'm not sure you need to resort to this yet.
cosimo
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capacity, which puts this
squarely in the hardware error (as compared to end of media) problem
arena.
--Ruth Anne
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that go over this problem in depth.
Mary
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to crank up ctimeout (for check timeout).
Brad
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=1
mt rewind
dd if=$TAPE bs=32k of=/tmp/first-file
See how big /tmp/first-record is. That's the block size the tape was
written at.
If it's 4K, the second dd should tell you it read 0+8 records (no full
32K blocks, 8 partials), and /tmp/first-file should be 32K.
John R. Jackson, Technical
?
Which tape changer did you put in amanda.conf?
Weren't there other messages from amcheck before the ERROR? What were
they?
What does amtape Daily show have to say?
Masafumi Hikawa
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... if there's another failure, I can pretty
much pin it on the new scsi controller.
Or the termination. Or the cable. Etc.
BTW, your return address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) does not work.
It bounces with User unknown.
--Ruth Anne
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its not happy:
...
root@bast:~# dd if=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target15/lun0/mtn of=/tmp/first-record count=1
dd: reading `/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target15/lun0/mtn': Cannot allocate memory
You forgot the bs=32k. What happens if you add that?
And you need to do a rewind between the two dd's.
John R
this again and make sure you remove the /tmp files first.
Also, try it with bs=64k.
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has anyone been able to make arkc recognise tape names with spaces?
U, what does arkc (whatever that is) have to do with the Amanda
backup package (www.amanda.org)?
Tom
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some more entries in the NOTES section.
Jon H. LaBadie
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variant (sh, ksh, bash) rather than csh, so
you should really be using this syntax (which is the equivalent of ):
/usr/sbin/amdump BIG1 /tmp/debug 21
Karl Bellve
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important thing.
--Chris
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of the changer
options (tpchanger in particular).
If you want to use chg-manual and you are not running amdump from a
tty session, you need to look at the comments in that script for how
to alter it to notify you of mount requests (e.g. via E-mail or system
log message).
Tom
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to trouble.
If that doesn't help, I'll need to see the un-edited amrecover*debug
(from the machine you run amrecover on) and amindexd*debug (from the
server) side. Feel free to send that to me offline of the mailing list.
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that's compiling, installing and configuring a maildaemon just to
transfer a report... that's a bit overkill, no?
Depends. I get all kinds of E-mail reports from my systems in addition
to the Amanda report. So you would be supporting that as well.
Tom Van de Wiele
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or incremental backups. As Joshua said, until enough
history is available, Amanda uses 50% (0.5).
Don
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is closer to what cron does than su amanda -c
Karl Bellve
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?
If not, you might try touch recover-src/uparse.y to force it to happen
and then see if that rebuilt file behaves any better.
Robert D. Haskins
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/04 00:18:15 1.4
+++ client-src/getfsent.h 2001/04/12 00:58:47 1.4.4.1
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
void close_fstab P((void));
What I would have done is cd to the top level of the Amanda sources
(the directory with configure.in in it) and done:
patch advfs.diff
John R. Jackson
Question: Have all these patches been rolled into post-2.4.2p2 builds?
Yup.
Oh... and the no-record option does perform the backup however with
this dumptype specified the backup command (e.g. dump, vdump, etc)
will not update its state file (e.g. /etc/dumpdates)
Right.
John R. Jackson
it is a member of?
Lieven
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(this has nothing to do with Amanda). If not, tell them to fix it.
Ward.
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using
the latest version of libtool to see if the problem will just go away.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
(Let me know if this is better served on amanda-hackers) ...
Topics this deep probably should go to amanda-hackers.
Peter Losher
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of file system is this? XFS? FAT? etc.
There are /etc/amandates files that are owned by amanda but they never appear
to be written to. ...
That file is (essentially) unused and may be ignored.
Glen and Rosanne Eustace,
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not do
but Amanda does lots of.
I don't have any first hand experience with this drive, but I can confirm
what Moritz said, they have been mentioned on this list often and almost
always with very bad results.
Dick
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amanda to compile under MP-RAS?
First, I suggest you take this to the amanda-hackers list instead of
amanda-users. Then I'd suggest posting the initial errors you're seeing
and we'll see if they can be dealt with.
What version of Amanda are you working with?
Brian Davidson
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if you run
amcheck a third time? What happens if you use amtape to position to
some other tape, then run amcheck?
What happens if you run amtape config show?
Anders Rosendal Bostream
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with Amanda does a very good job of this -- if it's happy, you're almost
certain to be able to do restores.
If you're using dump, amverify will tell you the tape itself is readable
but it cannot tell you whether the internal (dump) structure is sane.
Only a real restore can do that.
John R
Using AMANDA version 2.4.2p2 on OSF/Tru64 v5.1
On the client side, amanda is sending an inappropriate parameter to
the /sbin/dump
=
sendsize: running /sbin/dump 0Esf 1048576 - /net/home1
running
are still running, let me know and I'll get you a better
version of amcleanup.
Thanks Tom
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Thanks for that info. At least we'll know what set of code to be
looking at.
Greetings Tom
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on the mailing list.
And believe me, that is **greatly** appreciated.
Assuming you get this figured out, make sure you post an FAQ item.
I'm pretty sure this symptom has shown up before, and a CPU time limit
never occurred to me.
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names a given feature (Perl) might
be known as and goes hunting for the best (however it wants to define
that) one it can find.
dk
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deltas. Or get:
ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/amdumpts
which will convert the file to wallclock.
Stan Brown
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and Rosanne Eustace,
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you're talking about CD-RW?). I think this can be resolved by having
plenty more CD's than actual data, but I'd want to think through a lot
more scenarios first.
Miquel
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if it catches the problem (it certainly won't fix
anything for you now). If it doesn't report the error, we need to work
on that.
Glen and Rosanne Eustace,
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+ compression) mode
amrestore: 0: restoring agree-10._boot.20020124.1
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
OK, that's good (well, sort of :-).
Glen and Rosanne Eustace
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the work of managing what that includes
(or excludes).
Jeff Bearer
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://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/140.html
If they don't work, please post exactly what you tried and what the
results were.
Brian Davidson
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(in general) cannot do backups
of subdirectories of file systems. It is meant for doing the whole
partition. If you want to do subdirectories you should use GNU tar.
Alvaro A. Rosales Rojas. a.k.a. RAZA
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(probably via group ownership) have read access?
Gene
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are allowed?
Brian
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have worked.
Are you running inetd or xinetd? If xinetd, you need groups = yes
in the config file.
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expect me to take this
system down once a day to do backups? That you don't expect
your system to stay up more than 24 hours?
At this point, the relationship usually turns ugly :-).
- Steve
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Yeah, still have a problem. ...
Nuts! I was hoping your problem would just go away on its own :-).
Am I doing this on the troublesome client or on the tape host?
The client.
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as a limiting factor for startup decisions,
but it does not represent anything real.
I recommend logical interface names, such as fddi-back-door or
enet-100 rather than real hardware names, to avoid confusion.
Don
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, it
requires a license and anything you do generates an error), ./configure
is going to say lots of things were not found when what it really means
is the test failed for some other reason.
Not saying that's what's going on with your setup, but it's happened
more than once.
-J
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backups by reaching out to the clients (and yes, that client/server
terminology is confusing). The tape server does not just sit there
waiting for clients to connect and start dumping data at it.
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ownership
or modes.
* Some other process (e.g. a cron job) is going around cleaning out
old files in /tmp. You will either need to tell it to leave
/tmp/amanda alone, or put the Amanda temp area someplace else (I
change mine using --with-tmpdir=/var/amanda/tmp).
Sascha
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for client1 says the latter (bsd). It looks like you need
-krb4 on your amandad line in inetd.conf to get krb4 security turned on
(check client2 and see how it is started).
--Ruth Anne
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on)?
If nothing pops to mind, you should be able to amadmin config force
those two disks and get Amanda to rebuild the level 0 files on the
next run.
Oscar
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ERROR: sicily: [host bali: port 11834 not secure]
See this FAQ item:
http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/14.html
Brian
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at what's going on. Exactly what did you try to run and what did it say
(please post everything -- don't edit! :-).
Are you using dump or GNU tar to back up the Linux box? Were you doing
the restore on the Linux box or were you doing it on a Sun box?
-Pranav
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you
need to do a force to start over (on the changed disks).
oscar
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Prior to the run a netstat -a | grep amanda shows
udp0 0 *:amanda*:*
...
That's normal.
After the failure a netstat -a | grep amanda doesn't return anything.
Then amandad is probably dieing. The FAQ talks about how to debug this.
Shawn
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output, you might try:
/usr/bin/strace -e 'trace=!read,write' -o /tmp/gzip.strace.$$ /bin/gzip $@
This is fast becoming a gzip or Linux debugging session rather than an
Amanda one.
Chris_Marble
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/RESTORE).
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code]
Do you need to see this code, John?
I am suspecting that my problem is that I am not calling a gnu linker
checking for history.h... no
checking for readline.h... no
checking for readline/history.h... no
checking for readline/readline.h... no
[Note: These are installed
Oopsie!
I forgot the most important error of the bunch
the file locking...
Why is configure missing these on OSF1 v5.1?
From config.log
configure:9534: checking for fflush declaration in stdio.h
configure:9593: checking for flock
configure:9621: gcc -o conftest
on.
BTW, please keep some notes on all the fun you're having porting to a
new OS :-). Amanda has a docs/SYSTEM.NOTES file that I'll be happy to
make you a prominent contributor to.
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Why is configure missing these on OSF1 v5.1?
Why is it missing what? The config.log piece you sent implies it found
flock and then the test worked. Was that all there was in the log?
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it's going wrong.
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on the off chance I didn't have the uncompress program during such a
disaster recovery.
S.
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I wonder how hard it would be to train amanda to rotate holding
areas (partitions) on a raid instead of tapes? ...
That's already part of 2.4.3 (or the amanda-242-tapeio CVS branch).
Gene
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.
Terri Eads
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outside the first .. last bounds
(e.g. cleanslot=99).
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as Amanda is concerned. It still makes a
network connection (even though it's through the local host interface).
In particular this means inetd has to be set up right, which is the most
common source of trouble.
Don Potter
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... Can Amanda backup the 4 filesystems to the 4 tape-drives
simultaneously from one config file? ...
No. That will take a major overhaul (although it's definitely needed).
Aaron Rainwater
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'
...
As long as you don't need that changer (which you probably don't)
then I'd just go into config/config.h and #undef'ing HAVE_CHIO_H and
HAVE_SYS_CHIO_H. That should effectively disable that part of the build.
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disk. Then some clever hard
linking (to prevent removal) and multiple amflush runs should be able
to accomplish what you want.
Frank
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someplace), but be that as it may ...
Now i have another problem, when i make the source i get the next error:
collect2: ../common-src/libamanda.a:not a COFF file
Here's what I would try:
make distclean
./configure --disable-libtool ...
make
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/to/the/test/script ./configure ...
# Make sure ./configure found the right gzip
make
su -c make install
Then after a failed run, see if any of the /tmp/gzip.log.* files show
anything interesting.
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#!/bin
? As in,
we're still coding (and documenting), and if you run into trouble,
we sort of expect you to be able to do some debugging.
If you want a more stable release, I'd recommend 2.4.2p2.
--david
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with_group=amanda
with_tcpportrange=2000,2040
Just keep this file around and you'll know what you used the last time.
Jeremy Wadsack
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Take a look at config.log and see why the test programs are failing.
It might even be the ruserok() problem.
B) When I compile on OSF/1 v5.1 (or DEC ALPHA, or Tru64), I get an
error about ruserok being declared twice...
I am using a gnu make 3.79 and gcc 3.0.3.
Can I comment out
want
at least a weekend worth of logs left around.
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. In other words,
neat things like this take effort, sometimes magnitudes more than you
might think just from the basic idea.
That's not a gripe or anything. I've certainly made my fair share of
little suggestions to others, even to myself :-).
Jeremy Wadsack
John R. Jackson, Technical Software
Is it a bad assumption to think that amanda's build process will
bail if there is something that it needs which is not found by the
configure/autoconf programs?
Here are some samples of the more prominent complaints:
[ from ALPHA running OSF1 v5.1 ]
creating cache ./config.cache
checking
... Ran the amcheck again and the amanda ports would be shut
down with the following message in the /var/adm/message file:
Jan 29 10:50:54 svr1 inetd[189]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning] /var/adm/amanda/li
bexec/amandad: Hangup
...
What's your inetd.conf line look like?
Don Potter
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