Re: How can I specify the correct tape device to amrecover for vtpaes?
stan schrieb: But when I run amecover disk_only, it defaults to the compiled in /dev/nst0 Make sense? Use the option -d of amrecover. Stefan
Re: How can I specify the correct tape device to amrecover for vtpaes?
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: stan schrieb: But when I run amecover disk_only, it defaults to the compiled in /dev/nst0 Make sense? Use the option -d of amrecover. Right, but what tape device should I specify? -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967
More problems with 2.5.0p1
I am running Amanda 2.5.0p1 on a Solaris 10 sparc. QUESTION 1 These are errors from the email report. What do they mean. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: zorn /export/users:wilkerlev 0 FAILED [missing result for /export/users:wilker in zorn response] zorn /export/users:santoslev 0 FAILED [missing result for /export/users:santos in zorn response] zorn /export/users:phillips lev 0 FAILED [missing result for zorn /export/users:pkeskar lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] zorn /export/users:pkeskar lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] zorn /export/users:bfrigyik lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] zorn /export/users:bfrigyik lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] zorn /export/users:aedquist lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768] FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- zorn /export/users:pkeskar lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] ? dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup] \ /-- zorn /export/users:bfrigyik lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] ? dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup] \ /-- zorn /export/users:aedquist lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] ? dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup] \ QUESTION 2 The following is a ps of running amanda jobs. 1) I see a gzip --best entry. I have compress none. Why would this be running? 2) I get a lot of the defunct processes. What causes this? amanda 21622 19420 0 12:53:22 pts/5 0:00 chunker0 daily amanda 19431 19420 0 12:43:57 pts/5 0:00 dumper5 daily amanda 717 703 0 16:08:16 pts/1 0:02 tcsh amanda 19479 621 0 12:43:57 ? 0:01 /local/Amanda/amanda/libexec/amandad amanda 19426 19420 11 12:43:57 pts/5 0:14 dumper1 daily amanda 21472 19428 0 12:52:38 pts/5 0:00 /bin/gzip --best amanda 19801 19479 0- ? 0:00 defunct amanda 21684 19479 3 12:53:51 ? 0:01 /local/Amanda/amanda-2.5.0p1/libexec/sendbackup amanda 703 5 0 16:08:15 pts/1 0:00 -sh Thanks Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of MathematicsPHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street FAX: (419) 821-0540 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: More problems with 2.5.0p1
McGraw, Robert P. schreef: I am running Amanda 2.5.0p1 on a Solaris 10 sparc. QUESTION 1 These are errors from the email report. What do they mean. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: zorn /export/users:wilkerlev 0 FAILED [missing result for /export/users:wilker in zorn response] Different causes. Did you go throught the list here: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amdump:_results_missing 1) I see a gzip --best entry. I have compress none. Why would this be running? The index-files are compressed with this command. 2) I get a lot of the defunct processes. What causes this? amanda 21622 19420 0 12:53:22 pts/5 0:00 chunker0 daily amanda 19431 19420 0 12:43:57 pts/5 0:00 dumper5 daily amanda 717 703 0 16:08:16 pts/1 0:02 tcsh amanda 19479 621 0 12:43:57 ? 0:01 /local/Amanda/amanda/libexec/amandad amanda 19426 19420 11 12:43:57 pts/5 0:14 dumper1 daily amanda 21472 19428 0 12:52:38 pts/5 0:00 /bin/gzip --best amanda 19801 19479 0- ? 0:00 defunct amanda 21684 19479 3 12:53:51 ? 0:01 /local/Amanda/amanda-2.5.0p1/libexec/sendbackup amanda 703 5 0 16:08:15 pts/1 0:00 -sh defunct means that the parent process did not yet collect the exit status of this child process. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Re: C2 Jukebox with LTO3 drive
Jon, I want to thank you for your reply. The information is correct, and I'm not at all suprised that the Amanda list and contributers have extensive knowledge of specific operating systems. Unfortunately I didn't see the message until this morning (it arrived saturday), I had already sent a follow-up myself, I hope it arrived at the list as I don't recall seeing my own posting. I have access to the C2 robot now, the tape drive is available but I haven't yet been able to perform any real testing. I am waiting for v31 of the firmware as v30 has known issues (it arrived with v12) and I have some ongoing issues with the loading and movement of the tapes. thank you, Brian On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:56:18AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:22:04PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Hi y'all, I'm running Solaris 9 with Amanda 2.4.4 (hoping to find the time to upgrade soon, but its working great), MTX is v 1.2.17rel We have been running the data to a StorEdge L9 jukebox with LTO tapes. We are in process of installing a StorEdge C2 jukebox with an LTO3 tape. We see the new tape drive at /dev/rmt/2, but do not have a device file for the jukebox. Quantum says that its just offset by the LUN number, SUN says to install Legato or Netbackup or something so I have a passthrough driver. Have any of you installed this jukebox ? Do I need the additional software in order to create a proper device file for the jukebox ? The StorEdge L9 jukebox has a sepate scsi id from its tape drive and I'm able to see a device in directory /dev/scsi/changer/ but this is not the case with the C2. I'm uncertain how the L9 changer device was created. Check out two files in /kernel/drv, st.conf and sgen.conf. The st.conf file as supplied does not look at lun's 0. I think the end of the st.conf file looks like this as supplied. #--- name=st class=scsi target=0 lun=0; name=st class=scsi target=1 lun=0; name=st class=scsi target=2 lun=0; name=st class=scsi target=3 lun=0; name=st class=scsi target=4 lun=0; name=st class=scsi target=5 lun=0; name=st class=scsi target=6 lun=0; # # In case there are wide tape drives, one can use these targets # #name=st class=scsi target=8 lun=0; #name=st class=scsi target=9 lun=0; #name=st class=scsi target=10 lun=0; #name=st class=scsi target=11 lun=0; #name=st class=scsi target=12 lun=0; #name=st class=scsi target=13 lun=0; #name=st class=scsi target=14 lun=0; #name=st class=scsi target=15 lun=0; Note, even the higher numbered scsi targets are not looked at. If you know your scsi target, say 5 like mine, add a line like: name=st class=scsi target=5 lun=1; I think the only problem with adding more lines or uncommenting existing lines is slightly slower boot times. The sgen.conf file has similar lines that may need uncommenting or editing. And you may need to add something like this from my edited sgen.conf: # # Added by jhl # device-type-config-list=changer; inquiry-config-list=HP, HP DDS-3 4mm DAT loader, HP, C1557A; The strings are what is identified during boot and can be seen with a prtconf -??? sorry, forget the options. This would give you devices under /dev/scsi/???, where ??? might be changer or sequential. After the changes, you will need to do a reconfigure reboot. Or, devfsadm might work without the reboot. HTH jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773
Re: How can I specify the correct tape device to amrecover for vtpaes?
On 2006-05-01 14:12, stan wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: stan schrieb: But when I run amecover disk_only, it defaults to the compiled in /dev/nst0 Make sense? It has always been like that. Yes, I would like too less compiled in defaults. Patches welcome :-) Use the option -d of amrecover. Right, but what tape device should I specify? In pre 2.5.0 you can use the changer if you specify a config option amrecover_changer and use that string there. Since 2.5.0 you may use the changer specified in tpchanger as argument to the -d or the settape command too. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, * * F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Delaying tape flushing ?
Is there a way to tell amanda to wait until x% of the backups have been dumped on the holding disk before it starts to put the files to tape ?Right now, my tape drive seems to start/stop often and I don't think it's good for the tapes/the motors/the performance.
Re: Delaying tape flushing ?
On 2006-05-01 16:20, Guy Dallaire wrote: Is there a way to tell amanda to wait until x% of the backups have been dumped on the holding disk before it starts to put the files to tape ? Not implemented (yet?). Right now, my tape drive seems to start/stop often and I don't think it's good for the tapes/the motors/the performance. You can work around it a little bit by changing the dumporder to: dumperorder # as many as inparallel parameter -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, * * F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Re: Delaying tape flushing ?
2006/5/1, Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2006-05-01 16:20, Guy Dallaire wrote: Is there a way to tell amanda to wait until x% of the backups have been dumped on the holding disk before it starts to put the files to tape ?Not implemented (yet?). Right now, my tape drive seems to start/stop often and I don't think it's good for the tapes/the motors/the performance.You can work around it a little bit by changing the dumporder to: dumperorder # as many as inparallel parameterOK thanks
Re: Delaying tape flushing ?
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:20:13AM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: Is there a way to tell amanda to wait until x% of the backups have been dumped on the holding disk before it starts to put the files to tape ? Right now, my tape drive seems to start/stop often and I don't think it's good for the tapes/the motors/the performance. I can think of three scenarios for causing this: a) one or more DLE's bypassing the holding disk and the combination of dumping, network, and feeding the drive is too slow b) your tape is really high speed relative to your computer and interface (I just had this with an lto drive and old scsi card) c) you have a lot of small DLE's For c, I don't think waiting for X% to complete would help. Amanda doesn't tape from holding disk until a DLE is complete and I think there would always be a pause between DLEs. For b it is a hardware issue and for a, unless compounded by b, you have to get the DLEs to the holding disk rather than direct. As to a direct answer to your question, there was a taperwait patch posted to the hackers list. You could find that and see if it fits your needs. The patch was not incorporated as further discussion on the list suggested an alternative design which is awaiting development. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Delaying tape flushing ?
Guy, I'm not sure I caught the start of this thread... but I can add that I've found amplot very valuable for helping me understand what is occuring, bottle necks, scheduling and such. Brian On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:08:57AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:20:13AM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: Is there a way to tell amanda to wait until x% of the backups have been dumped on the holding disk before it starts to put the files to tape ? Right now, my tape drive seems to start/stop often and I don't think it's good for the tapes/the motors/the performance. I can think of three scenarios for causing this: a) one or more DLE's bypassing the holding disk and the combination of dumping, network, and feeding the drive is too slow b) your tape is really high speed relative to your computer and interface (I just had this with an lto drive and old scsi card) c) you have a lot of small DLE's For c, I don't think waiting for X% to complete would help. Amanda doesn't tape from holding disk until a DLE is complete and I think there would always be a pause between DLEs. For b it is a hardware issue and for a, unless compounded by b, you have to get the DLEs to the holding disk rather than direct. As to a direct answer to your question, there was a taperwait patch posted to the hackers list. You could find that and see if it fits your needs. The patch was not incorporated as further discussion on the list suggested an alternative design which is awaiting development. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773
Errors Restoring From tars
I am having problems restoring using 2.5 and now 2.5p1, amrecover says: Restoring files into directory /tmp Continue [?/Y/n]? Extracting from file /home1/dumps/amanda/20060429150001/ambiance.med.utah.edu._.0 ./root/.amandahosts tar: Read 1088 bytes from - tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now amrecover: Extractor child exited with status 2 extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 Continue [?/Y/n/r]? n amindexd debug says: amindexd: time 10.041: 200 Opaque list of /tmp amindexd: time 35.786: ? unexpected EOF I've had to drop back to 2.4.5p1 and everything is ok there but would like to stay current. Any suggestions? Steve -- Steven J. BackusComputer Specialist University of Utah E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Biomedical Informatics Alternate: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 391 Chipeta Way -- Suite D150 Office: 801.587.9308 Salt Lake City, UT 84108-1266 http://www.math.utah.edu/~backus
Re: amstatus problem
* Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060501 13:34]: amstatus doesn't like ':' in diskname because we use at as separator between the hostname and diskname. Anyone know if ':' is a valid character in a hostname? What are the valid characters of a hostname? RFC 952 says: 1. A name (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus sign (-), and period (.). Note that periods are only allowed when they serve to delimit components of domain style names. (See RFC-921, Domain Name System Implementation Schedule, for background). jf Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I am running build: VERSION=Amanda-2.5.1b1-20060424 on a Solaris 10 hosts compile on a Solaris 9 host. When I run amstatus I get the following messages. I get many of these messages. zorn-[246] ./sbin/amstatus --config daily --date Using /var/amanda/daily/amdump from Fri Apr 28 16:36:07 EDT 2006 Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at ./sbin/amstatus line 250, AMDUMP line 1613. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ./sbin/amstatus line 254, AMDUMP line 1613. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at ./sbin/amstatus line 250, AMDUMP line 1901. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ./sbin/amstatus line 254, AMDUMP line 1901. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at ./sbin/amstatus line 250, AMDUMP line 1902. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ./sbin/amstatus line 254, AMDUMP line 1902. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at ./sbin/amstatus line 250, AMDUMP line 2333. From the amdump file the 1611 planner: time 14.327: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sega: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1612 planner: time 14.327: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sdouthit: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1613 planner: time 14.327: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sdong: 0 - 20K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1614 planner: time 14.327: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sdeleeuw: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1615 planner: time 14.327: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:scolbert: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1901 planner: time 14.573: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sdong: 0 - 20K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1902 planner: time 14.573: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sdeleeuw: 0 - 20K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1903planner: time 14.573: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:scolbert: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 2332 planner: time 14.890: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sfchang: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 2333 planner: time 14.890: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sega: 0 - 12460K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 2334 planner: time 14.890: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sdouthit: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K Any idea what is causing this? _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of MathematicsPHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street FAX: (419) 821-0540 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 -- °
Re: amstatus problem
Jean-Francois,
Thanks for pointing me to the right RFC.
The attached should fix the problem.
Jean-Louis
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
* Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060501 13:34]:
amstatus doesn't like ':' in diskname because we use at as separator
between the hostname and diskname.
Anyone know if ':' is a valid character in a hostname?
What are the valid characters of a hostname?
RFC 952 says:
1. A name (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
sign (-), and period (.). Note that periods are only allowed when
they serve to delimit components of domain style names. (See
RFC-921, Domain Name System Implementation Schedule, for
background).
jf
Jean-Loui
Only in amanda-2.5.1b1.new: oldrecover-src
diff -u -r --show-c-function --exclude-from=amanda.diff amanda-2.5.1b1.orig/server-src/amstatus.pl.in amanda-2.5.1b1.new/server-src/amstatus.pl.in
--- amanda-2.5.1b1.orig/server-src/amstatus.pl.in 2006-04-05 09:05:36.0 -0400
+++ amanda-2.5.1b1.new/server-src/amstatus.pl.in 2006-05-01 13:36:46.0 -0400
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ while(AMDUMP) {
push @datestamp, $gdatestamp;
}
}
- elsif(/setup_estimate: (\S+):(\S+): command .*, options: *(\S+) *last_level -?\d+ next_level0 -?\d+ level_days \d+ *getting estimates (-?\d) \(-2\) (-?\d) \(-2\) (-?\d) \(-2\)/) {
+ elsif(/setup_estimate: ([\-\d\.A-Za-z]*):(\S+): command .*, options: *(\S+) *last_level -?\d+ next_level0 -?\d+ level_days \d+ *getting estimates (-?\d) \(-2\) (-?\d) \(-2\) (-?\d) \(-2\)/) {
$host=$1;
$partition=$2;
$hostpart=make_hostpart($host,$partition,$gdatestamp);
Problem with chg-scsi
I seem to be having an awful time with configuring chg-scsi: -bash-3.00$ amlabel dailyset dailyset0 slot 0changer: got exit: 2 str: error error could not read result from "/usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi" (got signal 11)amlabel: could not load slot "0": error could not read result from "/usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi" (got signal 11)amlabel: could not load slot "0": error could not read result from "/usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi" (got signal 11)amlabel: pid 731 finish time Mon May 1 13:47:55 2006-bash-3.00$ -bash-3.00$ chg-scsi -infoSegmentation Fault (core dumped)-bash-3.00$ -bash-3.00$ cat chg-scsi.conf number_configs 1eject 1 # Tapedrives need an eject commandsleep15 # Seconds to wait until the tape gets readycleanmax 10 # How many times could a cleaning tape get used#changerdev /dev/rmt/0cbn##config 0drivenum 0dev /dev/nrst36 # the device that is used for the tapedrive 0startuse 0 # The slots associated with the drive 0enduse 17 # statfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/tape5-slot # The file where the actual slot is storedcleancart 18 # the slot where the cleaningcartridge for drive 0 is locatedcleanfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/tape0-clean # The file where the cleanings are recordedusagecount /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup/totaltime Message transport securityby GatewayDefender2:49:37 PM ET - 5/1/2006
Re: Problem with chg-scsi
Use chg-zd-mtx. Chg-scsi seems to work well on some systems, and crash and die horribly on others. On Monday 01 May 2006 14:49, Carl Holzhauer wrote: I seem to be having an awful time with configuring chg-scsi: -bash-3.00$ amlabel dailyset dailyset0 slot 0 changer: got exit: 2 str: error error could not read result from /usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi (got signal 11) amlabel: could not load slot 0: error could not read result from /usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi (got signal 11) amlabel: could not load slot 0: error could not read result from /usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi (got signal 11) amlabel: pid 731 finish time Mon May 1 13:47:55 2006 -bash-3.00$ -bash-3.00$ chg-scsi -info Segmentation Fault (core dumped) -bash-3.00$ -bash-3.00$ cat chg-scsi.conf number_configs 1 eject 1 # Tapedrives need an eject command sleep 15 # Seconds to wait until the tape gets ready cleanmax10 # How many times could a cleaning tape get used #changerdev /dev/rmt/0cbn # # config 0 drivenum0 dev /dev/nrst36 # the device that is used for the tapedrive 0 startuse0 # The slots associated with the drive 0 enduse 17 # statfile/usr/local/etc/amanda/tape5-slot # The file where the actual slot is stored cleancart 18 # the slot where the cleaningcartridge for drive 0 is located cleanfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/tape0-clean # The file where the cleanings are recorded usagecount /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup/totaltime __ Message transport security by GatewayDefender.com 2:49:37 PM ET - 5/1/2006 -- Zmanda: Open Source Data Protection and Archiving. http://www.zmanda.com
Re: Problem with chg-scsi
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:49:35PM -0400, Carl Holzhauer wrote: I seem to be having an awful time with configuring chg-scsi: -bash-3.00$ amlabel dailyset dailyset0 slot 0 changer: got exit: 2 str: error error could not read result from /usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi (got signal 11) amlabel: could not load slot 0: error could not read result from /usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi (got signal 11) amlabel: could not load slot 0: error could not read result from /usr/local/libexec/chg-scsi (got signal 11) amlabel: pid 731 finish time Mon May 1 13:47:55 2006 -bash-3.00$ A segmentation violation doesn't seem to be a user configuration problem. It may be a defect triggered by a configuration error, but I suspect the error is probably in the C code. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
selfcheck problems with 2.5.0p1
I have just compiled amanda-2.5.0p1 on two systems. When I run amcheck on the server system the server checks out fine, but I get this for the client check: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: SystemA.local:/ does not support DUMPER-API. ERROR: SystemA.local: [BOGUS REQUEST PACKET] Client check: 1 host checked in 0.014 seconds, 1 problem found I can't find any reference to this problem except one indicating a mismatch between Amanda versions, which I know isn't the problem in this case. Does anyone know where I should start looking? Is this a configuration problem or a missing requirements problem? I've used Amanda for quite a while, but its always been the rpm version. The systems are both up-to-date Centos 4.3 systems. I made sure there were no existing rpm installations of amanda and then downloaded the same tarball to both systems. I extracted, configured, and ran make as an unprivileged user and then make install'd as root. I used a pretty straightforward configuration ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk Thanks for any ideas.
RE: amstatus problem
Thanks to everyone who responded to my email. As indicated it was the : in the disklist diskname that was the problem. It was causing major problems with my amdump which affected amstatus when it ran. I changed the names from /export/users:username to /export/users-username. With this change the backup runs like it use to, the amstatus runs with out the errors. I went to from ^%#*^ to ah with one simple change. Thanks very much for all your answers to this problem. Thanks Robert _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of MathematicsPHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street FAX: (419) 821-0540 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 1:34 PM To: McGraw, Robert P. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: amstatus problem amstatus doesn't like ':' in diskname because we use at as separator between the hostname and diskname. Anyone know if ':' is a valid character in a hostname? What are the valid characters of a hostname? Jean-Louis McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I am running build: VERSION=Amanda-2.5.1b1-20060424 on a Solaris 10 hosts compile on a Solaris 9 host. When I run amstatus I get the following messages. I get many of these messages. zorn-[246] ./sbin/amstatus --config daily --date Using /var/amanda/daily/amdump from Fri Apr 28 16:36:07 EDT 2006 Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at ./sbin/amstatus line 250, AMDUMP line 1613. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ./sbin/amstatus line 254, AMDUMP line 1613. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at ./sbin/amstatus line 250, AMDUMP line 1901. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ./sbin/amstatus line 254, AMDUMP line 1901. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at ./sbin/amstatus line 250, AMDUMP line 1902. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ./sbin/amstatus line 254, AMDUMP line 1902. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at ./sbin/amstatus line 250, AMDUMP line 2333. From the amdump file the 1611 planner: time 14.327: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sega: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1612 planner: time 14.327: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sdouthit: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1613 planner: time 14.327: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sdong: 0 - 20K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1614 planner: time 14.327: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sdeleeuw: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1615 planner: time 14.327: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:scolbert: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1901 planner: time 14.573: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sdong: 0 - 20K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1902 planner: time 14.573: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sdeleeuw: 0 - 20K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 1903planner: time 14.573: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:scolbert: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 2332 planner: time 14.890: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sfchang: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 2333 planner: time 14.890: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sega: 0 - 12460K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K 2334 planner: time 14.890: got partial result for host zorn disk /export/users:sdouthit: 0 - -2K, -1 - -2K, -1 - -2K Any idea what is causing this? _ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of MathematicsPHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street FAX: (419) 821-0540 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: FreeBSD client
Some of you might remember I'm piecing together a previous, non-working, installation of amanda. The help I've received off here has been great, so thanks again! The next piece in this puzzle is a FreeBSD (5.4) machine that appears to have amanda already installed. First question is how was it installed? From the ports or from the source? If it si from the ports, it should be reported by pkg_info|grep amanda I can't find any documentation on getting the client working on BSD so started going by all the information I've gleened troubleshooting the Linux machines here. I can't find a .amandahosts file, do I need to create this and if so where? Or should this information go somewhere else? Cleints are working the same way on Linux or on FreeBSD (that is if you know how to install a cleint by hand). Assuming that amanda has been build with user amanda and group amanda... .amandahosts should go in the home directory of the user amanda on the client. It should be chown'ed to amanda:amanda and contains a line saying something like server.you.domain.com amanda banyanroot: ls -l .amandahosts -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 31 Oct 31 2005 .amandahosts if amanda on your server was compiled for the user amanda. In /etc you need to create an empty file called amandadates banyanroot: ls -l /etc/amandates -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 494 May 2 01:29 /etc/amandates It should belongs to amanda:amanda In /etc/inetd.conf you must have a line saying amanda dgram udp waitamanda /usr/local/libexec/amanda/amandad amandad with the correct path to amandad. You must make sure inetd is running (disabled by default on some security models, re-enable it in /etc/rc.conf) In /usr/local/var create amanda directory and in /usr/local/var/amanda create gnu-tar directory. Everything chown'ed to amanda:amanda I assume /tmp/amanda should exist on the machine and be writable and ownder by operator:operator (operator being the default username the client seems to install by, and operator being BSD's equiv of 'disk' group), is this so? /tmp/amanda is created automatically by the first run of amanda. That's all IO can think about right now. Bests, olivier
