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I'm looking for a clue for troubleshooting a new amandaclient install. My main problem is that this hasn't been worked on in about 5 years... I have a dozen clients, including two ubuntu GNU/Linux, and we are trying to add one more. This one happens to be Ubuntu/Linux on VMWARE. I can ssh into the new server without password. Is there a way to confirm that amanda is running as the correct user on the new client?Also, I was unable to locate the dumptypes file. I suspect that's where noop is referenced. The error is below - and I found the same text in the amandad log on the client. Thanks Seth Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: NAK jirahost: user root from eair2.montefiore.org is not allowed to execute the service noop: Please add amdump to the line in /var/backups/.amandahosts on the client
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Seth Rothenberg wrote: I'm looking for a clue for troubleshooting a new amandaclient install. My main problem is that this hasn't been worked on in about 5 years... I have a dozen clients, including two ubuntu GNU/Linux, and we are trying to add one more. This one happens to be Ubuntu/Linux on VMWARE. I can ssh into the new server without password. Is there a way to confirm that amanda is running as the correct user on the new client?Also, I was unable to locate the dumptypes file. I suspect that's where noop is referenced. The error is below - and I found the same text in the amandad log on the client. Thanks Seth Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: NAK jirahost: user root from eair2.montefiore.org is not allowed to execute the service noop: Please add amdump to the line in /var/backups/.amandahosts on the client Have you tried what it suggest? Read the amanda man page to know the format of the .amandahosts file. It need: eair2.montefiore.org root amdump Why are you running amcheck as root? It is highly recommended to user a different user for security reason. Jean-Louis
Re: Release of Amanda-2.6.1b1
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 08:53 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Amanda 2.6.1, the 2.6.1b1 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 * http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php If you use Amazon S3 you may encounter a segmentation fault. A fix has already been committed and is available in the more recent (20081202 or later) source tarballs. http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/community-builds/amanda-2.6.1b1-20081202.tar.gz Regards, -- Nikolas Coukouma Design Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Release of Amanda-2.6.1b1
Are the packages on http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php going to be updated soon? On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:21 -0500, Nikolas Coukouma wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 08:53 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Amanda 2.6.1, the 2.6.1b1 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 * http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php If you use Amazon S3 you may encounter a segmentation fault. A fix has already been committed and is available in the more recent (20081202 or later) source tarballs. http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/community-builds/amanda-2.6.1b1-20081202.tar.gz Regards, Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
Re: Release of Amanda-2.6.1b1
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the packages on http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php going to be updated soon? Amanda-2.6.1b1 is on that page. We'll be releasing another beta once we hear back from more testers. I should probably send an email to the platform experts. We are in need of Linux Platform Experts, too -- any volunteers? Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
Re: Release of Amanda-2.6.1b1
On Dec 3, 2008, at 2:42 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the packages on http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php going to be updated soon? Amanda-2.6.1b1 is on that page. We'll be releasing another beta once we hear back from more testers. I should probably send an email to the platform experts. We are in need of Linux Platform Experts, too -- any volunteers? What are the requirements? Cheers, Bruce.
Re: Release of Amanda-2.6.1b1
On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the packages on http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php going to be updated soon? Amanda-2.6.1b1 is on that page. We'll be releasing another beta once we hear back from more testers. I should probably send an email to the platform experts. We are in need of Linux Platform Experts, too -- any volunteers? Dustin The only thing I've noted here Dustin was amflush loses it and sends empty messages to the printer from amreporter if there is a *.tmp file left in /dumps from a machine crash, but no other files to flush. It also sends an email of the usual length but all results are missing. This occurred here when I was playing with mtools and locked the box completely, forcing a reset button reboot. That was while I was running my 'catchup' script which runs several backups and flushes in a row to get amanda restarted after a long hiatus due to a failed boot drive here that forced a re-install. I *think* everything else is working, but will find out tonight as this will be the first run via cron in about 50 minutes. Comment: The presence of a .tmp file in the holding disk when amdump is started is prima-faci evidence of a crashed dump or a machine reset. It is not in the database, so if found at the startup, it should just be deleted, it is of zero value anyway. Call this a feature request please. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.
Re: Release of Amanda-2.6.1b1
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comment: The presence of a .tmp file in the holding disk when amdump is started is prima-faci evidence of a crashed dump or a machine reset. It is not in the database, so if found at the startup, it should just be deleted, it is of zero value anyway. Gene, thanks so much for testing! I'll see what I can do about the crash. On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Bruce Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the requirements [for Platform Experts]? Basically, be willing to install beta versions of Amanda (not in production) and run them through their paces, and work out any kinks along the way. In detail, this means building from source, possibly after applying a patch or two, running the installchecks, and then running some test dumps and recoveries. For platforms we-the-developers are less familiar with, some platform-specific wisdom is also helpful. For example, Scott Bender helped test the last release on HP/UX, and his experience with building other applications on that platform was invaluable. Such experts are also the people I look to for help when someone posts platform-specific questions to the list. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
Re: Release of Amanda-2.6.1b1
On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comment: The presence of a .tmp file in the holding disk when amdump is started is prima-faci evidence of a crashed dump or a machine reset. It is not in the database, so if found at the startup, it should just be deleted, it is of zero value anyway. Gene, thanks so much for testing! I'll see what I can do about the crash. The crash wasn't amanda! It was mtools, which apparently have no timeouts when a floppy access dead ends in the manure pile. Locked up the whole machine, totally. So don't go beating on amanda because the old girl misbehaved. Just make her to the housekeeping needed to clean up the mess is all I'm requesting. On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Bruce Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the requirements [for Platform Experts]? Basically, be willing to install beta versions of Amanda (not in production) and run them through their paces, and work out any kinks along the way. In detail, this means building from source, possibly after applying a patch or two, running the installchecks, and then running some test dumps and recoveries. For platforms we-the-developers are less familiar with, some platform-specific wisdom is also helpful. For example, Scott Bender helped test the last release on HP/UX, and his experience with building other applications on that platform was invaluable. Such experts are also the people I look to for help when someone posts platform-specific questions to the list. Dustin -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You are the only person to ever get this message.
Re: barcodes?
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Nicholas Brockner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just wondering if there was a real use for the barcodes, i.e. setting up amanda so that during an amcheck run it doesn't have to load and read the amlabels of tapes, maybe it can just read the barcodes and trust them? amcheck isn't really in the business of trusting things, so I'm not sure I'd like that. Amanda does use the barcodes to load a tape directly, rather than cycling through the changer until it finds the desired tape. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
