Re: Converting to FILE
Hi, Gene Heskett, on Donnerstag, 09. September 2004 at 01:54 you wrote to amanda-users: GH That would be the only line in that config driver thats dbl GH quoted, but I tried it, nuked everything and re-built and GH installed it, no real diffs to be seen. GH I've rebuilt it several times with this config: GH -- GH #!/bin/sh GH # since I'm always forgetting to su amanda... GH if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then GH echo GH echo Warning GH echo Amanda needs to be configured and built by the user amanda, GH echo but must be installed by user root. GH echo GH exit 1 GH fi GH make clean GH rm -f config.status config.cache GH ./configure --with-user=amanda \ GH --with-group=disk \ GH --with-owner=amanda \ GH --with-gnu-ld \ GH --prefix=/usr/local \ GH --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes \ GH --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ GH --with-tape-server=coyote.coyote.den \ GH --with-amandahosts \ GH --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda GH make Ok. ... GH #tpchanger chg-scsi # the tape-changer glue script GH #tpchanger chg-mtx GH tpchanger changer GH #tapedev 0 # the no-rewind tape device to be used GH tapedev FILE:/amandatapes/DailySet1 GH rawtapedev FILE:/amandatapes/Dailyset1 GH changerfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer GH tapetype HARD-DISK GH labelstr ^DailySet1-[0-9][0-9]*$ # label constraint regex: all tapes must match GH amrecover_changer changer This should be: tpchanger chg-disk# the tape-changer glue script changerfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf # Just noticed that I have changer.conf here and not changer ... tapedev file:/amandatapes/DailySet1 changerdev file:/amandatapes/DailySet1 amrecover_changer chg-disk You don't need rawtapedev. GH And I now note that in my attempts to run amcheck or amlabel, GH I now have files in the /config/ dir named -access, -clean GH and -slot, which tells me the name string those are supposed GH to be appended to is a null string, probaby because the name GH 'changer' isn't correct, or is not correctly keyword identified. Maybe because it really has to be changer.conf as noticed above. If yes, another bug in the howto, but I wonder why noone else has hit this before ... GH and a run of amcheck gets this: GH --- GH [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda-2.4.5b1-20040831]$ amcheck DailySet1 GH amcheck: error while loading shared libraries: GH libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040831.so: cannot open shared object file: GH Nosuch file or directory GH GH The library does indeed exist: Run ldconfig. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Converting to FILE
On Thursday 09 September 2004 02:31, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett, on Donnerstag, 09. September 2004 at 01:54 you wrote to amanda-users: GH That would be the only line in that config driver thats dbl GH quoted, but I tried it, nuked everything and re-built and GH installed it, no real diffs to be seen. GH I've rebuilt it several times with this config: GH -- GH #!/bin/sh GH # since I'm always forgetting to su amanda... GH if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then GH echo GH echo Warning GH echo Amanda needs to be configured and built by the user amanda, GH echo but must be installed by user root. GH echo GH exit 1 GH fi GH make clean GH rm -f config.status config.cache GH ./configure --with-user=amanda \ GH --with-group=disk \ GH --with-owner=amanda \ GH --with-gnu-ld \ GH --prefix=/usr/local \ GH --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes \ GH --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ GH --with-tape-server=coyote.coyote.den \ GH --with-amandahosts \ GH --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda GH make Ok. ... GH #tpchanger chg-scsi # the tape-changer glue script GH #tpchanger chg-mtx GH tpchanger changer GH #tapedev 0 # the no-rewind tape device to be used GH tapedev FILE:/amandatapes/DailySet1 GH rawtapedev FILE:/amandatapes/Dailyset1 GH changerfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer GH tapetype HARD-DISK GH labelstr ^DailySet1-[0-9][0-9]*$ # label constraint regex: all tapes must match GH amrecover_changer changer This should be: tpchanger chg-disk# the tape-changer glue script I got that one fixed since I posted changerfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf # Just noticed that I have changer.conf here and not changer ... tapedev file:/amandatapes/DailySet1 changerdev file:/amandatapes/DailySet1 amrecover_changer chg-disk You don't need rawtapedev. Ok, that can probably go with no efect then GH And I now note that in my attempts to run amcheck or amlabel, GH I now have files in the /config/ dir named -access, -clean GH and -slot, which tells me the name string those are supposed GH to be appended to is a null string, probaby because the name GH 'changer' isn't correct, or is not correctly keyword identified. Maybe because it really has to be changer.conf as noticed above. If yes, another bug in the howto, but I wonder why noone else has hit this before ... When I had made that chg-disk, then I do get the chg-disk-access etc files properly named. GH and a run of amcheck gets this: GH --- GH [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda-2.4.5b1-20040831]$ amcheck DailySet1 GH amcheck: error while loading shared libraries: GH libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040831.so: cannot open shared object file: GH Nosuch file or directory GH GH The library does indeed exist: Run ldconfig. I got that one too. Theres a later message than this one as I still cannot amlabel the vtapes. Many Thanks. -- 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) 99.25% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: Converting to FILE
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] DailySet1]$ amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-00 slot 00
amlabel: could not load slot 00: illegal request
Perhaps Amanda doesn't like slot `00'? Have you tried slot `0'?
BTW, mine are called $(seq 32), i.e. I started counting at slot `1', not `0'.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
Re: Converting to FILE
Hi, Gene Heskett, on Mittwoch, 08. September 2004 at 18:02 you wrote to amanda-users: GH Greeting, particularly to Stephan W. GH I'm in the process of trying to duplicate my old tape GH setup with a VLD, (very large disk, a 200 gigger) GH In going thru your howto, I get to the point of doing GH the labeling and bomb out with illegal requests. GH [EMAIL PROTECTED] DailySet1]$ amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-00 slot 00 GH amlabel: could not load slot 00: illegal request GH The lines modified in amanda.conf are: GH --- GH runtapes 10 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump GH #tpchanger chg-scsi # the tape-changer glue script GH tpchanger chg-disk GH #tapedev0 # the no-rewind tape device to be used GH tapedev FILE:/amandatapes/DailySet1 GH #changerfile/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/chg-scsi.conf GH changerfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/chg-disk.conf This should be changerfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer and chg-disk creates changer.conf-access changer.conf-clean changer.conf-slot changer.stat From the HOWTO: --- The changerfile-parameter is used to give chg-disk the prefix for the %s-changer, %s-clean, %s-slot files it needs. Use something like changer in your config-dir. Please note that this file does NOT have to exist, but it won't hurt anyway. --- What does amtape DailySet1 show tell you? For my setup this starts with slot 1, 2, ... Seems like you hit an error in my HOWTO. The loop to create the vtapes runs from 1 to 12, the loop to label starts with 01, 02, ... This should be the cause. I will correct this in a minute (gets in the online-docs). Sorry for the problem, thanks for digging it up. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Converting to FILE
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 12:23, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] DailySet1]$ amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-00 slot 00
amlabel: could not load slot 00: illegal request
Perhaps Amanda doesn't like slot `00'? Have you tried slot `0'?
BTW, mine are called $(seq 32), i.e. I started counting at slot `1',
not `0'.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
Back when I was running real tapes, Geert, the tapes were labeled with
a string like DailySet1-01 thru DailySet1-28.
The regex string in amanda.conf:
labelstr ^DailySet1-[0-9][0-9]*$ # label constraint regex: all
tapes must match
The leading zero in the 01 is because I have other scripts that search
the databases that couldn't be made to cope with the 9 to 10
transition but worked just fine if it was from 09 to 10, or 19 to 20.
Probably my fault, but they all work that way and have been for
years. And I didn't have any trouble applying the labels.
One thing that bothers me is that my former configuration file had the
tape device named in it, so that was hard-coded in the objects.
What or how do I now specify that what was formerly /dev/nst0, but is
now a FILE: type device, when doing the .configure options?
This isn't discussed in Stephans W.'s howto.
And one other thing, its amanda-2.4.5b1-20040831 I'm playing with
here.
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 --
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a
hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer
or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
--
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)
99.25% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message
by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: Converting to FILE
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 12:53, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett, on Mittwoch, 08. September 2004 at 18:02 you wrote to amanda-users: GH Greeting, particularly to Stephan W. GH I'm in the process of trying to duplicate my old tape GH setup with a VLD, (very large disk, a 200 gigger) GH In going thru your howto, I get to the point of doing GH the labeling and bomb out with illegal requests. GH [EMAIL PROTECTED] DailySet1]$ amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-00 slot 00 GH amlabel: could not load slot 00: illegal request GH The lines modified in amanda.conf are: GH --- GH runtapes 10 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump GH #tpchanger chg-scsi # the tape-changer glue script GH tpchanger chg-disk GH #tapedev0 # the no-rewind tape device to be used GH tapedev FILE:/amandatapes/DailySet1 GH #changerfile/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/chg-scsi.conf GH changerfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/chg-disk.conf This should be changerfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer Aha! Thanks and chg-disk creates changer.conf-access changer.conf-clean changer.conf-slot changer.stat From the HOWTO: --- The changerfile-parameter is used to give chg-disk the prefix for the %s-changer, %s-clean, %s-slot files it needs. Use something like changer in your config-dir. Please note that this file does NOT have to exist, but it won't hurt anyway. --- What does amtape DailySet1 show tell you? For my setup this starts with slot 1, 2, ... Seems like you hit an error in my HOWTO. The loop to create the vtapes runs from 1 to 12, the loop to label starts with 01, 02, ... I made them by hand, and chown-ed everything after. This should be the cause. I will correct this in a minute (gets in the online-docs). Sorry for the problem, thanks for digging it up. Let me save the fixed amanda.conf and see what happens, but I think the installed libs are hardcoded to use /dev/nst0 thanks to my gh.cf that I've published since forever here on this list. How should I modify that? Its presently: #!/bin/sh # since I'm always forgetting to su amanda... if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then echo echo Warning echo Amanda needs to be configured and built by the user amanda, echo but must be installed by user root. echo exit 1 fi make clean rm -f config.status config.cache ./configure --with-user=amanda \ --with-group=disk \ --with-owner=amanda \ --with-gnu-ld --prefix=/usr/local \ --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes \ --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ --with-tape-server=coyote.coyote.den \ --with-amandahosts \ --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda make --- Is this anywhere near usable? -- 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) 99.25% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: Converting to FILE
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 12:23, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] DailySet1]$ amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-00 slot 00
amlabel: could not load slot 00: illegal request
Perhaps Amanda doesn't like slot `00'? Have you tried slot `0'?
BTW, mine are called $(seq 32), i.e. I started counting at slot `1',
not `0'.
Back when I was running real tapes, Geert, the tapes were labeled with
a string like DailySet1-01 thru DailySet1-28.
The regex string in amanda.conf:
labelstr ^DailySet1-[0-9][0-9]*$ # label constraint regex: all
tapes must match
The leading zero in the 01 is because I have other scripts that search
the databases that couldn't be made to cope with the 9 to 10
transition but worked just fine if it was from 09 to 10, or 19 to 20.
Probably my fault, but they all work that way and have been for
years. And I didn't have any trouble applying the labels.
I wasn't talking about the labels, but about the _slot numbers_.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
Re: Converting to FILE
Hi, Gene, on Mittwoch, 08. September 2004 at 19:27 you wrote to amanda-users: The loop to create the vtapes runs from 1 to 12, the loop to label starts with 01, 02, ... GH I made them by hand, and chown-ed everything after. I fixed the HOWTO anyway. GH Let me save the fixed amanda.conf and see what happens, but I think GH the installed libs are hardcoded to use /dev/nst0 thanks to my gh.cf GH that I've published since forever here on this list. How should I GH modify that? Its presently: ONCE AGAIN ;-) : I think I have to add this to the tarball to stop you from doing this ;-) GH ./configure --with-user=amanda \ GH --with-group=disk \ GH --with-owner=amanda \ GH --with-gnu-ld --prefix=/usr/local \ GH --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes GH Is this anywhere near usable? I don't know. I assume it is ok. Maybe use --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes Could you try this and tell us? Thanks. Apart from that, AFAIK the configure-options are just defaults, and your amanda.conf-settings override them so you are able to use chg-disk in your conf without recompiling. While I type this, I realize that I even use it that way myself. ;-) -- best regards, Stefan
Re: Converting to FILE
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 14:31, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Gene, on Mittwoch, 08. September 2004 at 19:27 you wrote to amanda-users: The loop to create the vtapes runs from 1 to 12, the loop to label starts with 01, 02, ... GH I made them by hand, and chown-ed everything after. I fixed the HOWTO anyway. GH Let me save the fixed amanda.conf and see what happens, but I think GH the installed libs are hardcoded to use /dev/nst0 thanks to my gh.cf GH that I've published since forever here on this list. How should I GH modify that? Its presently: ONCE AGAIN ;-) : I think I have to add this to the tarball to stop you from doing this ;-) GH ./configure --with-user=amanda \ GH --with-group=disk \ GH --with-owner=amanda \ GH --with-gnu-ld --prefix=/usr/local \ GH --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes GH Is this anywhere near usable? I don't know. I assume it is ok. Maybe use --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes Could you try this and tell us? Thanks. That would be the only line in that config driver thats dbl quoted, but I tried it, nuked everything and re-built and installed it, no real diffs to be seen. I've rebuilt it several times with this config: -- #!/bin/sh # since I'm always forgetting to su amanda... if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then echo echo Warning echo Amanda needs to be configured and built by the user amanda, echo but must be installed by user root. echo exit 1 fi make clean rm -f config.status config.cache ./configure --with-user=amanda \ --with-group=disk \ --with-owner=amanda \ --with-gnu-ld \ --prefix=/usr/local \ --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes \ --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ --with-tape-server=coyote.coyote.den \ --with-amandahosts \ --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda make -- This is run as user amanda, and root then installs the build. Here is the whole amanda.conf, in case I've got a name clash someplace. -- # # amanda.conf - sample Amanda configuration file. This started off life as # the actual config file in use at CS.UMD.EDU. # # If your configuration is called, say, csd, then this file normally goes # in /usr/local/etc/amanda/csd/amanda.conf. # org DailySet1 # your organization name for reports mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] # space separated list of operators at your site dumpuser amanda # the user to run dumps under inparallel 3 # maximum dumpers that will run in parallel (max 63) # this maximum can be increased at compile-time, # modifying MAX_DUMPERS in server-src/driverio.h maxdumps 3 # allowing one per disk make sense to me taperalgo largestfit # will help fill tapes if runtapes 1! netusage 800 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec dumpcycle 8 days # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 8 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays) tapecycle 28 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation # 4 weeks (dumpcycle) times 5 tapes per week (just # the weekdays) plus a few to handle errors that # need amflush and so we do not overwrite the full # backups performed at the beginning of the previous # cycle autoflush yes dumporder STTT # specify the priority order of each dumper # s - smallest size # S - biggest size # t - smallest time # T - biggest time # b - smallest bandwidth # B - biggest bandwidth # try BTBTBTBTBTBT if you are not holding # disk constrained # BUT, if you want streaming, start with the # big ones and work down ### ### ### # WARNING: don't use `inf' for tapecycle, it's broken! ### ### ### bumpsize 20 Mb # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 - 2 bumpdays 2 # minimum days at each level bumpmult 2 # threshold = bumpsize * bumpmult^(level-1) etimeout 900 # number of seconds per filesystem for estimates. #etimeout -600 # total number of seconds for estimates. # a positive number will be multiplied by the number of filesystems on # each host; a negative number will be taken as an absolute total time-out. # The default is 5 minutes per filesystem. dtimeout 1800 # number of idle seconds before a dump is aborted. ctimeout 4 # maximum number of seconds that amcheck waits # for each client host tapebufs 120 # A positive integer telling taper how many 32k buffers to allocate. # WARNING! If this is set too high, taper will not be able to allocate # the memory and will die. The default is 20 (640k). # I wonder what the limit might be, its been running at 60 for months # so try 80. Still works fine, I have a gig of ram. # Specify tape device and/or tape changer. If you don't have a tape # changer, and you don't want to use more than one tape per run of # amdump, just comment out the
