OK, I solved this: it was a broken Perl install (I think cpanel caused this), reinstalling/updating Perl cured the problem.
At Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:07:13 -0400 Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote: > > OS: CentOS 6 > Amanda version: 2.6.1p2-9.el6_6.x86_64 > > I am trying to use Amazon S3 as a tape changer, but I am getting an error > from > amlabel: "amlabel: could not load slot "1": unexpected EOF" > > I set things up using the documentation at > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_to_Amazon_S3#Old_chg-multi_.28Amanda_2.6_and_later.29 > > amanda.conf contains: > > tapedev "null:" # the no-rewind tape device to be used > device_property "S3_ACCESS_KEY" "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" > device_property "S3_SECRET_KEY" "**********************************" > device_property "S3_SSL" "YES" > changerfile "/etc/amanda/xxxxxxx/changer.conf" > #changerdev "/dev/sg1" > tapetype S3 # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below) > > define tapetype S3 { > comment "S3 Bucket" > length 10 gigabytes # Bucket size 10GB > } > > And in changer.conf contains: > > multieject 0 > gravity 0 > needeject 0 > ejectdelay 0 > statefile /etc/amanda/xxxxxxx/changer-status > firstslot 1 > lastslot 40 > > slot 1 s3:xxxxxxx-backups/slot-01/ > slot 2 s3:xxxxxxx-backups/slot-02/ > slot 3 s3:xxxxxxx-backups/slot-03/ > slot 4 s3:xxxxxxx-backups/slot-04/ > slot 5 s3:xxxxxxx-backups/slot-05/ > slot 6 s3:xxxxxxx-backups/slot-06/ > slot 7 s3:xxxxxxx-backups/slot-07/ > slot 8 s3:xxxxxxx-backups/slot-08/ > slot 9 s3:xxxxxxx-backups/slot-09/ > slot 10 s3:xxxxxxx-backups/slot-10/ > (more slots) > > And this is what is in the amlabel debug log: > > 1458323720.494262: amlabel: pid 16385 ruid 33 euid 33 version 2.6.1p2: start > at Fri Mar 18 13:55:20 2016 > 1458323720.498339: amlabel: pid 16385 ruid 33 euid 33 version 2.6.1p2: rename > at Fri Mar 18 13:55:20 2016 > 1458323720.498880: amlabel: changer: >> -slot 1 > 1458323720.527899: amlabel: changer: ERROR <error> unexpected EOF > 1458323720.527952: amlabel: critical (fatal): could not load slot "1": > unexpected EOF > /usr/lib64/libamanda-2.6.1p2.so(+0x21a99)[0x7fa3e4c19a99] > /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_logv+0x1b9)[0x7fa3e39e9519] > /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_log+0x83)[0x7fa3e39e9933] > amlabel(main+0x887)[0x7fa3e55014f7] > /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7fa3e1e3ad5d] > amlabel(+0x1b49)[0x7fa3e5500b49] > > What am I doing wrong? > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services
