Re: disk offline?
Cameron Matheson wrote: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: devdb.tons /dev/ida/c0d0p2 lev 0 FAILED [disk /dev/ida/c0d0p2 offline on devdb.tonservices.com?] gatorade.t /dev/sda6 lev 0 STRANGE Ok, the whole /dev/ida/c0d0p2 thing is a word device i will admit, but it's definitely not offline... Does this setup pass amcheck? Could you have a look in devdb.tons' /tmp/amanda/sendbackup.* file whether there's something suspicious going on? It's most probably either a typo or a permissions problem. Are you using GNUTAR or DUMP? In case of GNUTAR, can you try giving the mountpoint instead of the device file, if my first suggestions don't help? FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- gatorade.t /dev/sda6 lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [gatorade.tonservices.com:/dev/sda6 level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -f... - sendbackup: info end ? gtar: ./ton/spool/doc_send/fax/oldstuff/064106020107: Warning: Cannot st at: No such file or directory | gtar: ./tmp/.font-unix/fs-1: socket ignored ? gtar: ./ton/spool/doc_send/fax/oldstuff/064106020107/01.tif: Warning: Ca nnot stat: No such file or directory | gtar: ./var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock: socket ignored | Total bytes written: 11511255040 (11GB, 8.7MB/s) sendbackup: size 11241460 sendbackup: end ok, so i guess tar probably has problems w/ sockets? Sockets get routinely ignored by tar, nothing to worry about. The `Cannot stat' errors in the spool directory are certainly harmless, just a file that disappeared between the moment tar constructed its list of files to backup, and the moment it wanted to actually read them. (that isn't so big of a deal), what is a problem is that it shouldn't even be backing up anything in /tmp/ or oldstuff (here's my exclude file): ./tmp/* ./proc/* ./dev/* *oldstuff* ./mnt/* ./opt/naroot/* ./var/tmp/* ./var/www/* ./sys/* there's another thread on the whole amanda ignoring excludes going on right now, but it doesn't seem like any definite conclusion has been reached. is this a bug, or do i just have a badly formed exclude file? Actually, there is no known problem whatsoever with exclude lists. The other thread that you allude to, will most probably just debug the exclude file's syntax. Same thing for you, are you sure that your exclude file is correctly taken into account? Again, the files in /tmp/amanda/ on the client will tell you that. You will notably find the complete command line that amanda uses for tar, in one of these files. It doesn't hurt to try that line and see whether it fails; most probably the solution will pop out immediately if you try that. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
Re: disk offline?
Cameron Matheson wrote: hmm, there is no sendbackup file... i'm assuming it never got that file. i did look around in a few of the other files, and the problem seems to be here at how it's running tar: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /dev/ida/c0d0p2 --one-file-system --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/devdb.tonser vices.com_dev_ida_c0d0p2_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals . --directory /dev/ida/c0d0p2!! i'm not sure why that is... here's the entry from my disklist file: devdb.tonservices.com /dev/ida/c0d0p2 root-tar it's similar to my other clients which are all working fine... why would it be sending this tar command? (the other clients are all having '/' be their directory) Actually, I thought that you could give either a device name or a directory, and amanda would convert either one to whatever is needed for your dump program (device for DUMP, path for GNUTAR). Apparently, this doesn't work out in your case; I remember there having been a bug some time ago, but I can't recall the specifics. (Anybody remember more detail here?) Anyway, if using the path instead of the device is fine with you, I'm pretty sure that would work. Are you using GNUTAR or DUMP? In case of GNUTAR, can you try giving the mountpoint instead of the device file, if my first suggestions don't help? hmmm, i never even thought about that... does that mean that instead of specifying the device, i can just type '/' and it will back up everything (except for the stuff in excludes)? Almost, yes. Note the `--one-file-system' option to tar above: tar will stay within the same mounted filesystem, heeding excludes obviously. Barring an eventual bug in amanda, use whatever notation you are more comfortable with; to me, that would be directories, for other, that might be devices. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
Re: disk offline?
--On June 2, 2005 12:05:58 PM -0700 Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: devdb.tonservices.com /dev/ida/c0d0p2 root-tar it's similar to my other clients which are all working fine... why would it be sending this tar command? (the other clients are all having '/' be their directory) Whenusing tar reference MOUNTED filesystems not raw disk devices. / is a mounted file system, the above is pretty clearly not, it should be like /var, /home, /usr, or somesuch. You can't dump an unmounted filesystem or raw device with tar.
Re: disk offline?
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:23:34PM +0200, Alexander Jolk wrote: Cameron Matheson wrote: it's similar to my other clients which are all working fine... why would it be sending this tar command? (the other clients are all having '/' be their directory) Actually, I thought that you could give either a device name or a directory, and amanda would convert either one to whatever is needed for your dump program (device for DUMP, path for GNUTAR). Apparently, this doesn't work out in your case; I remember there having been a bug some time ago, but I can't recall the specifics. (Anybody remember more detail here?) Not the details of the bug. What I was wondering was about /etc/fstab. The translation between device and mounted file system is done, I think, by using the fstab file. Recent practice in linux (at least recent to me) is to use some symbolic tokens in fstab. I see one of my laptop fedora entries is: LABEL=//ext3 defaults1 1 From that, I've no idea what disk device contains /. Probably amanda doesn't either. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: disk offline?
Hey, you're exactly right... that box (i'm not even sure what distro it's running... mandrake?) is also using that weird naming scheme (i actually had to check mtab to see what the root really was). that seems kind of lame to do it by label instead of device file, but i guess that's the way it goes. thanks for the info, Cameron Matheson --- Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not the details of the bug. What I was wondering was about /etc/fstab. The translation between device and mounted file system is done, I think, by using the fstab file. Recent practice in linux (at least recent to me) is to use some symbolic tokens in fstab. I see one of my laptop fedora entries is: LABEL=//ext3 defaults1 1 From that, I've no idea what disk device contains /. Probably amanda doesn't either. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: disk offline error
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:14:16PM -0700, gen2 wrote: /dev/sda9 is NOT a mount point, its a descriptor only and will probably fail forever. now, if that disk is mounted someplace, as in /mnt/sda9 on the machine whose alias is node1, and it is mounted when amdump runs, it should work like a champ. Ok, what I'm experiencing lends that a lot of credence, but what sent me off in this direction was (from the amanda distribution, example disklist entries) # Dump Joe's NetBSD machine, with the mounted MS-DOS partition dumped # using tar. #joespc wd0a comp-root #joespc wd0e comp-user #joespc /msdos comp-user-tar which seems to imply that it's possible to back up unmounted partitions, and that would be really great! I've always been under the impression that this was amanda-possible somehow, but never have been able to make it happen. Seems like this would be the way to back up a partition regardless of formatting (like an HFS+ or NT part, which is really what I'm after). If the program you tell amanda to use for the backup is a version of tar, then it can only backup files and directories. That is a property of tar, not amanda. And of course, for there to be files and directories, the partition must be mounted. If instead you tell amanda to use a version of dump, those programs generally work at the device level (even when told to work on a mount point) and should be able to backup umounted partitions. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: disk offline error
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:26:57AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: If [...] you tell amanda to use a version of dump, those programs generally work at the device level (even when told to work on a mount point) and should be able to backup umounted partitions. To add a bit more detail, dump does this by understanding the file-system data structures, just about as intimately as the kernel file-system code does. Every file-system type needs its own specific pair of dump and restore programs if you want to back up unmounted partitions. Which is why using dump instead of gtar does *not* get you this: On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:14:16PM -0700, gen2 wrote: Seems like this would be the way to back up a partition regardless of formatting (like an HFS+ or NT part, which is really what I'm after). -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau
Re: disk offline error
/dev/sda9 is NOT a mount point, its a descriptor only and will probably fail forever. now, if that disk is mounted someplace, as in /mnt/sda9 on the machine whose alias is node1, and it is mounted when amdump runs, it should work like a champ. Ok, what I'm experiencing lends that a lot of credence, but what sent me off in this direction was (from the amanda distribution, example disklist entries) # Dump Joe's NetBSD machine, with the mounted MS-DOS partition dumped # using tar. #joespc wd0a comp-root #joespc wd0e comp-user #joespc /msdos comp-user-tar which seems to imply that it's possible to back up unmounted partitions, and that would be really great! I've always been under the impression that this was amanda-possible somehow, but never have been able to make it happen. Seems like this would be the way to back up a partition regardless of formatting (like an HFS+ or NT part, which is really what I'm after).
Re: disk offline ?
--On Thursday, January 08, 2004 15:51:21 +0100 Oliver Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Group ! Maybe anyone has a hint for me ? We have about 30 Servers, all UNIX. They are all backed up with amanda, which worked very good, until some problems occured. I defined a TestSet an tried to put in a new host. But I don´t get it to work. I want to do a dump of the following partitions, which are really partitions on the target-host. -snip disklist daisy / comp-hd-dump daisy /boot comp-hd-dump daisy /optcomp-hd-dump daisy /usrcomp-hd-dump -/snip If I put comp-hd-tar in here, all works fine ... !? -snip report FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: daisy /usr lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr offline on daisy?] daisy /opt lev 0 FAILED [disk /opt offline on daisy?] daisy /lev 0 FAILED [disk / offline on daisy?] Disk offline messages are generally a result of permissions problems (if the disk were really offline you would have much bigger problems). Make sure your backup user is part of the correct group to have access to the disk. Try to 'su - backupuser' and check if you can see those disks. Tar works because Aamnda uses a suid runtar wrapper script that runs tar as root (although it isn't used by amcheck, so you would still get errors from amcheck even though amdump would work). Frank ... DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -- - daisy / 0 FAILED --- daisy /boot 06410 5472 85.4 0:023511.7 0:023484.9 daisy /opt0 FAILED --- daisy /usr0 FAILED --- /snip Why does /boot work ??? Ups, just saw it worked only the first time ... Now its the same message ... And, does comp-hd-tar eat more cpu ? I would think so, or am I false ? Last Backup this night Were great anyone had a tip ! ...olli -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: disk offline ?
I can su to amanda and chdir to usr and everything else thats failling ? Is it maybe because of the filesystem xfs on the target-machine ? I think amanda wants to do a xfsdump there, right ? I tried to run it as amanda and got it complaining to be root to run ... !? Thanks in advance ...olli Am Do, 2004-01-08 um 16.39 schrieb Frank Smith: --On Thursday, January 08, 2004 15:51:21 +0100 Oliver Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Group ! Maybe anyone has a hint for me ? We have about 30 Servers, all UNIX. They are all backed up with amanda, which worked very good, until some problems occured. I defined a TestSet an tried to put in a new host. But I don´t get it to work. I want to do a dump of the following partitions, which are really partitions on the target-host. -snip disklist daisy / comp-hd-dump daisy /boot comp-hd-dump daisy /optcomp-hd-dump daisy /usrcomp-hd-dump -/snip If I put comp-hd-tar in here, all works fine ... !? -snip report FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: daisy /usr lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr offline on daisy?] daisy /opt lev 0 FAILED [disk /opt offline on daisy?] daisy /lev 0 FAILED [disk / offline on daisy?] Disk offline messages are generally a result of permissions problems (if the disk were really offline you would have much bigger problems). Make sure your backup user is part of the correct group to have access to the disk. Try to 'su - backupuser' and check if you can see those disks. Tar works because Aamnda uses a suid runtar wrapper script that runs tar as root (although it isn't used by amcheck, so you would still get errors from amcheck even though amdump would work). Frank ... DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -- - daisy / 0 FAILED --- daisy /boot 06410 5472 85.4 0:023511.7 0:023484.9 daisy /opt0 FAILED --- daisy /usr0 FAILED --- /snip Why does /boot work ??? Ups, just saw it worked only the first time ... Now its the same message ... And, does comp-hd-tar eat more cpu ? I would think so, or am I false ? Last Backup this night Were great anyone had a tip ! ...olli
Re: disk offline ?
--On Thursday, January 08, 2004 17:21:48 +0100 Oliver Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can su to amanda and chdir to usr and everything else thats failling ? Is it maybe because of the filesystem xfs on the target-machine ? I think amanda wants to do a xfsdump there, right ? I tried to run it as amanda and got it complaining to be root to run ... !? You must use the right version of dump for the filesystem. Was Amanda built with support for xfsdump ? Are the disks on all your clients xfs or just on the one new client? If you have a mixture of filesystem types, I'm not sure how you configure multiple flavors of dump in one setup, hopefully someone else here has done it and will say how. Frank Thanks in advance ...olli Am Do, 2004-01-08 um 16.39 schrieb Frank Smith: --On Thursday, January 08, 2004 15:51:21 +0100 Oliver Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Group ! Maybe anyone has a hint for me ? We have about 30 Servers, all UNIX. They are all backed up with amanda, which worked very good, until some problems occured. I defined a TestSet an tried to put in a new host. But I don´t get it to work. I want to do a dump of the following partitions, which are really partitions on the target-host. -snip disklist daisy / comp-hd-dump daisy /boot comp-hd-dump daisy /optcomp-hd-dump daisy /usrcomp-hd-dump -/snip If I put comp-hd-tar in here, all works fine ... !? -snip report FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: daisy /usr lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr offline on daisy?] daisy /opt lev 0 FAILED [disk /opt offline on daisy?] daisy /lev 0 FAILED [disk / offline on daisy?] Disk offline messages are generally a result of permissions problems (if the disk were really offline you would have much bigger problems). Make sure your backup user is part of the correct group to have access to the disk. Try to 'su - backupuser' and check if you can see those disks. Tar works because Aamnda uses a suid runtar wrapper script that runs tar as root (although it isn't used by amcheck, so you would still get errors from amcheck even though amdump would work). Frank ... DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -- - daisy / 0 FAILED --- daisy /boot 06410 5472 85.4 0:023511.7 0:023484.9 daisy /opt0 FAILED --- daisy /usr0 FAILED --- /snip Why does /boot work ??? Ups, just saw it worked only the first time ... Now its the same message ... And, does comp-hd-tar eat more cpu ? I would think so, or am I false ? Last Backup this night Were great anyone had a tip ! ...olli -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: disk offline ?
Hello again ... Am Do, 2004-01-08 um 17.37 schrieb Frank Smith: --On Thursday, January 08, 2004 17:21:48 +0100 Oliver Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can su to amanda and chdir to usr and everything else thats failling ? Is it maybe because of the filesystem xfs on the target-machine ? I think amanda wants to do a xfsdump there, right ? I tried to run it as amanda and got it complaining to be root to run ... !? You must use the right version of dump for the filesystem. Was Amanda built with support for xfsdump ? Yes, we have about 15 (SuSI´s/SLES/SLOX) hosts running with xfs. No problem there. Are the disks on all your clients xfs or just on the one new client? The rest is 10 Solaris (ufs) and some other linux´ (redhat ext3). If you have a mixture of filesystem types, I'm not sure how you configure multiple flavors of dump in one setup, hopefully someone else here has done it and will say how. Thought, amanda examines it itself, and takes the correct version (dump/xfsdump) from the clients ?? Frank ...olli Thanks in advance ...olli Am Do, 2004-01-08 um 16.39 schrieb Frank Smith: --On Thursday, January 08, 2004 15:51:21 +0100 Oliver Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Group ! Maybe anyone has a hint for me ? We have about 30 Servers, all UNIX. They are all backed up with amanda, which worked very good, until some problems occured. I defined a TestSet an tried to put in a new host. But I don´t get it to work. I want to do a dump of the following partitions, which are really partitions on the target-host. -snip disklist daisy / comp-hd-dump daisy /boot comp-hd-dump daisy /optcomp-hd-dump daisy /usrcomp-hd-dump -/snip If I put comp-hd-tar in here, all works fine ... !? -snip report FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: daisy /usr lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr offline on daisy?] daisy /opt lev 0 FAILED [disk /opt offline on daisy?] daisy /lev 0 FAILED [disk / offline on daisy?] Disk offline messages are generally a result of permissions problems (if the disk were really offline you would have much bigger problems). Make sure your backup user is part of the correct group to have access to the disk. Try to 'su - backupuser' and check if you can see those disks. Tar works because Aamnda uses a suid runtar wrapper script that runs tar as root (although it isn't used by amcheck, so you would still get errors from amcheck even though amdump would work). Frank ... DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -- - daisy / 0 FAILED --- daisy /boot 06410 5472 85.4 0:023511.7 0:023484.9 daisy /opt0 FAILED --- daisy /usr0 FAILED --- /snip Why does /boot work ??? Ups, just saw it worked only the first time ... Now its the same message ... And, does comp-hd-tar eat more cpu ? I would think so, or am I false ? Last Backup this night Were great anyone had a tip ! ...olli
Re: disk offline on remote server
--On Friday, November 07, 2003 00:01:08 + Mohammad Meskarian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All. I have some strange report on Amanda starting after no change on Amanda or at least I don't know what is Changed. I receive disk offline ?. only for remote servers. ServerName /etc/ lev 0 FAILED [disk /etc/ offline on ServerName?] I think every thing was fine for remote server and we hadn't any change Or possibly this occurs after recent compile. Amcheck doesn't report anything strange every thing is normal And amcheck shows every thing is fine. However I tried all Amanda ports all are available and listening for incoming port! I would suspect you lost the setuid bits on the various Amanda programs that need them (rundump, runtar, dumper, etc.). Frank Any help really appreciated. Best regards Mohammad -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: disk offline?
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 11:53, LaValley, Brian E wrote: I have not been able to backup anything on my local system. AMANDA reports that it thinks the disk is offline. Where should I start looking to find out what is wrong? Start in the disklist and get rid of any localhost entries, use only FQDN's there. Make sure your /etc/hosts file is complete, including a direct translation of the servers FQDN to the servers IP address. And make sure the .amandahosts file is correct, including perms, which for security should be 0600. Amanda will read it with more permissive perms ok, but you don't exactly want half the planet reading that. Then make sure the amanda related files in /etc/xinetd.d are correct. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: disk offline?
--On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 11:53:59 -0400 LaValley, Brian E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been able to backup anything on my local system. AMANDA reports that it thinks the disk is offline. Where should I start looking to find out what is wrong? Make sure you're not trying to back up the raw device with tar. su - to your backup user and see if you can acces the device. Some (RedHat?) machines had problems mapping paths to device names if the fstab used labels for partitions. If none of those help, try posting your OS, Amanda version, disklist and dumptype entry for the problem disk. Frank
Re: disk offline
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 at 2:39pm, Chad Morland wrote backup. /backup lev 0 FAILED [disk /backup offline on backup.domain.com?] (I have also tried using the device [/dev/vinum/striped]) *snip* My backup partition is a 430G striped vinum partition on FreeBSD. I have followed everything that is in the FAQ on this subject but nothing seems to be solving it. Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? What's in /tmp/amandad*debug and /tmp/sendsize*debug on backup? Can you access the device *as the amanda user*? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: disk offline
Error from sendsize*debug: runtar: error [must be invoked by operator] However, amanda is in my operator group. torbackup# id amanda uid=1000(amanda) gid=1000(amanda) groups=1000(amanda), 5(operator) And the from amandad*.debug: cut (Environment variables cut out) Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 000-00360708 SEQ 1035907903 SECURITY USER amanda SERVICE noop OPTIONS features=feff9f00; sending nack: Amanda 2.4 NAK HANDLE 000-00360708 SEQ 1035907903 ERROR unknown service: noop /cut -CM - Original Message - From: Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chad Morland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 3:08 PM Subject: Re: disk offline On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 at 2:39pm, Chad Morland wrote backup. /backup lev 0 FAILED [disk /backup offline on backup.domain.com?] (I have also tried using the device [/dev/vinum/striped]) *snip* My backup partition is a 430G striped vinum partition on FreeBSD. I have followed everything that is in the FAQ on this subject but nothing seems to be solving it. Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? What's in /tmp/amandad*debug and /tmp/sendsize*debug on backup? Can you access the device *as the amanda user*? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: disk offline
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 at 3:20pm, Chad Morland wrote Error from sendsize*debug: runtar: error [must be invoked by operator] However, amanda is in my operator group. torbackup# id amanda uid=1000(amanda) gid=1000(amanda) groups=1000(amanda), 5(operator) Are you using inetd or xinetd? If it's xinetd, you need groups = yes in your amanda service file to pick up secondary groups. When you configured and compiled amanda, what USER and GROUP did you define? You did 'make install' as root, right? And the from amandad*.debug: cut (Environment variables cut out) Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 000-00360708 SEQ 1035907903 SECURITY USER amanda SERVICE noop OPTIONS features=feff9f00; sending nack: Amanda 2.4 NAK HANDLE 000-00360708 SEQ 1035907903 ERROR unknown service: noop This is a result of running 2.4.3 on the server but not on this client (I think). It's not a problem in itself. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
RE: disk offline - runtar as root
I guess it must be a check thats compiled in? Try recompiling, if I remember (its been a while...) its something like --with-amanda-user=amanda [or whichever user you are using] --with-amanda-group=sys [in your case] Best to check this in the docs though! -Original Message- From: Jonathan Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 June 2002 18:25 To: Spicer, Kevin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: disk offline - runtar as root borzoi 63# pwd /usr/freeware/libexec -rwsr-x---1 root sys21876 May 31 17:36 runtar /etc/group: borzoi 6% cat /etc/group sys::0:root,bin,sys,adm,amanda root::0:root daemon::1:root,daemon bin::2:root,bin,daemon adm::3:root,adm,daemon mail::4:root uucp::5:uucp rje::8: lp:*:9: nuucp::10:nuucp user::20:amanda CMWlogin::994: other::995: demos:*:997: guest:*:998: nobody:*:60001: runtar attempt as user amanda: borzoi 8% whoami amanda borzoi 7% ./runtar runtar: error [must be invoked by root] How do did you get runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda] ? thank you, -Jonathan Murray Spicer, Kevin wrote: cd /usr/local/libexec chown root:amanda runtar chmod 4750 runtar assuming runtar is in usr/local/libexec and that the amanda user is in the amanda group... But... I suspect that you haven't got runtar in the right group (or the amanda user in the right group) as your message suggests runtar is generating the error. When try to invoke runtar on my system (as myself) I get runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda] I don't know whether this check is hardwired in at compile time - in which case you may need to recompile? -Original Message- From: Jonathan Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 June 2002 15:25 To: Jonathan Murray Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: disk offline - runtar as root It appears that the client isn't running runtar as root. Does anyone know how to force the client to run runtar as root? Thanks, Jonathan Murray from report: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: borzoi /dev/dsk/dks0d2s7 lev 0 FAILED [disk /dev/dsk/dks0d2s7 offline on borzoi?] borzoi /dev/dsk/dks0d1s0 lev 0 FAILED [disk /dev/dsk/dks0d1s0 offline on borzoi?] on client: calculating for amname '/dev/dsk/dks0d2s7', dirname '/borzoi' sendsize: getting size via gnutar for /dev/dsk/dks0d2s7 level 0 sendsize: missing exclude list file /usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar discarded sendsize: spawning /usr/freeware/libexec/runtar in pipeline sendsize: argument list: /usr/freeware/bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /borzoi --one-file-system --listed-incremental /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/borzoi_dev_dsk_dks0d2s7_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals . runtar: error [must be invoked by root]
RE: disk offline - runtar as root
cd /usr/local/libexec chown root:amanda runtar chmod 4750 runtar assuming runtar is in usr/local/libexec and that the amanda user is in the amanda group... But... I suspect that you haven't got runtar in the right group (or the amanda user in the right group) as your message suggests runtar is generating the error. When try to invoke runtar on my system (as myself) I get runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda] I don't know whether this check is hardwired in at compile time - in which case you may need to recompile? -Original Message- From: Jonathan Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 June 2002 15:25 To: Jonathan Murray Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: disk offline - runtar as root It appears that the client isn't running runtar as root. Does anyone know how to force the client to run runtar as root? Thanks, Jonathan Murray from report: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: borzoi /dev/dsk/dks0d2s7 lev 0 FAILED [disk /dev/dsk/dks0d2s7 offline on borzoi?] borzoi /dev/dsk/dks0d1s0 lev 0 FAILED [disk /dev/dsk/dks0d1s0 offline on borzoi?] on client: calculating for amname '/dev/dsk/dks0d2s7', dirname '/borzoi' sendsize: getting size via gnutar for /dev/dsk/dks0d2s7 level 0 sendsize: missing exclude list file /usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar discarded sendsize: spawning /usr/freeware/libexec/runtar in pipeline sendsize: argument list: /usr/freeware/bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /borzoi --one-file-system --listed-incremental /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/borzoi_dev_dsk_dks0d2s7_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals . runtar: error [must be invoked by root]
Re: disk offline error
Hi! Recently had a drive fail on a RAID I am backing up. Since replacing the drive and re-building the RAID, amanda has been failing on all of the partitions on this computer. The error I see in the amanda report is the following: hostname /dev/da0s1f lev 0 FAILED [disk /dev/da0s1f offline on hostname?] Does the amanda user have permissions to read /dev/da0s1* ? -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Life would be easier if I had the source code.
Re: disk offline
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 02:38 am, GIC MLs wrote: I would expect this to be a frequently asked question, but after looking through Google, I didn't see much specifically on it, so... My amdump email report starts out: These dumps were to tape daily001. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: daily001. This in itself, is odd, very odd. Your amanda.conf seems to be out of whack somehow. [snip] (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2) Was this an rpm installed version? And whats an 'amcheck /config/' report? I'm not really sure where to start looking for answers here. Can anyone suggest a starting point? Building your own from scratch has always worked here. I have a short script that I use for the ./configure step so that each succeeding version remains compatible with the previous one by having the exact same options each time, and I'm currently running the 2.4.3b3-20020422 snapshot with a seagate changer. Thanks, Shawn -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 98.8+% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a hillbilly
Re: disk offline
My amdump email report starts out: These dumps were to tape daily001. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: daily001. This in itself, is odd, very odd. Your amanda.conf seems to be out of whack somehow. Well, that could very well be, I suppose... (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2) Was this an rpm installed version? No. I am running FreeBSD ports. I installed Amanda in January... I think it was done using the FreeBSD ports collection. And whats an 'amcheck /config/' report? %amcheck daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check - NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Tape daily001 label ok NOTE: info dir /usr/local/etc/amanda/daily/curinfo: does not exist NOTE: it will be created on the next run Server check took 5.145 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check Client check: 1 host checked in 0.114 seconds, 0 problems found (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2) I'm not really sure where to start looking for answers here. Can anyone suggest a starting point? Building your own from scratch has always worked here. I have a short script that I use for the ./configure step so that each succeeding version remains compatible with the previous one by having the exact same options each time, and I'm currently running the 2.4.3b3-20020422 snapshot with a seagate changer. I have no changer... A script sounds like a good idea. Thanks, Shawn
Re: disk offline ?
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 at 7:56am, Martin Oehler wrote I got the same problem with one of my boxes. Are there known problems with amanda and ReiserFS? My log entries messages look like: got result for host pc20 disk /: 0 - -1K, -1 - -1K, -1 - -1K 0: pc20 / planner: FAILED pc20 / 0 [disk / offline on pc20?] Seems like amanda can't get the size of the disk. Any suggestions? Should I use tar unstead of dump? Well, seeing as there *is* no dump for ReiserFS, yes, you have to use tar. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: disk offline ?
Rainer Fuegenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After adding a new old server named fav to amanda, I keep getting the following message: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: fav/home2 lev 0 FAILED [disk /home2 offline on fav?] It doesn't matter if the disk is specified by device file or mount directory: favc1t4d0s6tar-srv-low# /home2 fav/home2 tar-srv-low# /home2 Looks familiar... Try to supply the absolute path for the obstinate drive. If that helps, we're two... hauke -- Hauke Fath /~\The ASCII tangro software components GmbH \ / Ribbon Campaign D-69115 Heidelberg X Against Ruf +49-6221-13336-0, Fax -21 / \ HTML Email!
Re: disk offline ?
Hi! Hauke Fath wrote: Rainer Fuegenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After adding a new old server named fav to amanda, I keep getting the following message: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: fav/home2 lev 0 FAILED [disk /home2 offline on fav?] It doesn't matter if the disk is specified by device file or mount directory: favc1t4d0s6tar-srv-low# /home2 fav/home2 tar-srv-low# /home2 Looks familiar... Try to supply the absolute path for the obstinate drive. If that helps, we're two... I got the same problem with one of my boxes. Are there known problems with amanda and ReiserFS? My log entries messages look like: got result for host pc20 disk /: 0 - -1K, -1 - -1K, -1 - -1K 0: pc20 / planner: FAILED pc20 / 0 [disk / offline on pc20?] Seems like amanda can't get the size of the disk. Any suggestions? Should I use tar unstead of dump? CU and thanks Martin
Re: disk offline
On 15 Jan 2002 at 2:47pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: sc01us0105 /software/amanda/share/ lev 0 FAILED [disk /software/amanda/share/offline on sc01us0105?] frostis.cf /export/home/setup/freeware/amanda-2.4.2p2/ lev 0 FAILED [disk /export/home/setup/freeware/amanda-2.4.2p2/ offline on frostis.cf.jcyl.es?] Does anybody know why? My disklist is #hostname diskdevice ldumptype spindle interface sc01us0105 /software/amanda/share/ nocomp-test 0 frostis.cf.jcyl.es /export/home/setup/freeware/amanda-2.4.2p2/ comp-user-tar 0 And i want to usr GNUTAR. What's in sendsize*debug, amandad*debug, and/or sendbackup*debug on the failing clients? Do they have GNUtar installed? Was it there when you ./configured amanda? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: disk offline ?
Rainer Fuegenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After adding a new old server named fav to amanda, I keep getting the following message: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: fav/home2 lev 0 FAILED [disk /home2 offline on fav?] It doesn't matter if the disk is specified by device file or mount directory: favc1t4d0s6tar-srv-low# /home2 fav/home2 tar-srv-low# /home2 Looks familiar... Try to supply the absolute path for the obstinate drive. If that helps, we're two... hauke -- Hauke Fath /~\The ASCII tangro software components GmbH \ / Ribbon Campaign D-69115 Heidelberg X Against Ruf +49-6221-13336-0, Fax -21 / \ HTML Email!
Re: Disk Offline
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: bigeasy.in vg00_lvol5 lev 0 FAILED [disk vg00_lvol5 offline on bigeasy.in?] What's in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug on bigeasy.in? patrick John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk Offline
John R. Jackson wrote: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: bigeasy.in vg00_lvol5 lev 0 FAILED [disk vg00_lvol5 offline on bigeasy.in?] What's in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug on bigeasy.in? patrick ho /etc/amdumpdates not there is it the prob ? ok here it is : sendsize: debug 1 pid 13246 ruid 15 euid 15 start time Thu Sep 13 22:05:52 2001 /usr/local/depot/amanda-2.4.2p2/libexec/sendsize: version 2.4.2p2 calculating for amname 'vg00_lvol5', dirname '/export/u06' sendsize: getting size via dump for vg00_lvol5 level 0 sendsize: running /usr/sbin/vxdump 0sf 1048576 - /dev/vg00/rlvol5 running /usr/local/depot/amanda-2.4.2p2/libexec/killpgrp vxdump: WARNING: no file `/etc/dumpdates', making an empty one vxdump: cannot create /etc/dumpdates: Permission denied vxdump: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. . (no size line match in above dump output) . asking killpgrp to terminate sendsize: pid 13246 finish time Thu Sep 13 22:05:53 2001 ...skipping... sendsize: debug 1 pid 29450 ruid 15 euid 15 start time Fri Sep 14 22:05:52 2001 /usr/local/depot/amanda-2.4.2p2/libexec/sendsize: version 2.4.2p2 calculating for amname 'vg00_lvol5', dirname '/export/u06' sendsize: getting size via dump for vg00_lvol5 level 0 sendsize: running /usr/sbin/vxdump 0sf 1048576 - /dev/vg00/rlvol5 running /usr/local/depot/amanda-2.4.2p2/libexec/killpgrp vxdump: WARNING: no file `/etc/dumpdates', making an empty one vxdump: cannot create /etc/dumpdates: Permission denied vxdump: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. . (no size line match in above dump output) . asking killpgrp to terminate sendsize: pid 29450 finish time Fri Sep 14 22:05:53 2001 -- __( / | | / \ | This message is transmitted by | \ \ | 100 % recycled electrons |___\ / |__( /__)
Re: Disk Offline
vxdump: WARNING: no file `/etc/dumpdates', making an empty one vxdump: cannot create /etc/dumpdates: Permission denied ... ho /etc/amdumpdates not there is it the prob ? Yes, that's the problem. Create it (as root, since it's in /etc) and make sure your Amanda user (uid 15) has read/write access to it (e.g. set the group to a group your Amanda user is a member of and chgrp g+rw /etc/dumpdates). John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk Offline
What does /tmp/amanda/* say? Patrick LIN wrote: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: bigeasy.in vg00_lvol5 lev 0 FAILED [disk vg00_lvol5 offline on bigeasy.in?] what that mean please amcheck without errors but the report giveme that. the client is a HP the serveur is a sun Solaris and the version of amanda is 2.4.2p2
Re: Disk Offline
Ok thanks i will let you know tomorrow after the nigthly backup thanks Best Regards Patrick John R. Jackson wrote: vxdump: WARNING: no file `/etc/dumpdates', making an empty one vxdump: cannot create /etc/dumpdates: Permission denied ... ho /etc/amdumpdates not there is it the prob ? Yes, that's the problem. Create it (as root, since it's in /etc) and make sure your Amanda user (uid 15) has read/write access to it (e.g. set the group to a group your Amanda user is a member of and chgrp g+rw /etc/dumpdates). John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __( / | | / \ | This message is transmitted by | \ \ | 100 % recycled electrons |___\ / |__( /__)
Re: disk offline
Also as suggestion that somebody kindly gave me I did as root this: [root@miro sandra]# /bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null --directory /Local --one-file-system --listed-incremental /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/miro.tomandandy.com_Local_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals /bin/gtar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive You forgot the trailing .. Look closely at the sendsize*debug line and you'll see it after the --totals. Sandra John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk offline
(no size line match in above gnutar output) That line says GNU tar terminated but did not give Amanda an answer. What happens if you run this **as root** on that client: /bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null --directory /Local \ --one-file-system --listed-incremental /dev/null \ --sparse --ignore-failed -read --totals . I'm guessing you'll see some kind of error message. I would further guess that /Local is NFS mounted and root no longer has access from that client (or something like that). I can't send the sendbackup.debug file because I have only report for my other partion /usr/local not for /Local partition and I don't understand why I can't have this report, I though that with this amanda version I could have debug information for every partition that I try to back up. You do have debug information for every file system it tried to back up. It didn't try to back up /Local because the estimate failed. Sandra John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk offline
On May 20, 2001, Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This appears to be a bug that triggers in a very particular
condition: when the environment is empty. It doesn't trigger with
1.12 because it just doesn't depend on librt.so.
Nope. It didn't trigger on 1.12 because it wasn't linked with GNU ld.
The problem is that GNU ld sets the dynamic linker as
/usr/lib/libc.so.1, whereas Sun ld sets it to /usr/lib/ld.so.1. Even
though Sun officially supports both, according to a friend of mine at
Sun, the one chosen by GNU ld fails because it assumes the environment
contains at least one non-NULL entry. My friend is working on a fix
for Solaris/x86 libc; I'm not sure we (GNU developers) are going to
fix GCC or GNU ld, or both, or neither, since the work-around is
simple: just link the program using
`-Wl,--dynamic-linker,/usr/lib/ld.so.1', or use Sun ld, or make sure
the environment is never empty, or wait for a patch from Sun.
--
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Re: disk offline
#! /bin/sh
X=; export X
exec $0.exe ${1+$@}
What is ${1+$@} good for? Never seen that construction before...
Re: disk offline
On May 20, 2001, Bernhard R. Erdmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#! /bin/sh
X=; export X
exec $0.exe ${1+$@}
What is ${1+$@} good for? Never seen that construction before...
Some shells expand $@ to when $# = 0.
--
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Re: disk offline
It's printed in sendsize.debug, IIRC. And in runtar.debug. It will reference a gnutar-list-dir .new file. It's created initially empty for level 0 estimates, and a copy of the lower level for incremental estimates. FWIW, I've had similar results with GNU tar 1.13.19 on Solaris 7/x86. I've started investigating, but didn't get very far, and ended up downgrading back to 1.12+patches. Hi, I solved the problem, it was an access right permission issue that was clearly indicated in /tmp/amanda/sendsize.*.debug I would suggest that this debug file is mentionned in the FAQ, about the disk offline question. It seems that it was mentionned several times on the mailing list. Here are few other ideas I had during the weekend. - My problem was due to the fact I did a ./configure --with-user=14 going with userID instead of user name. Maybe it could be clearly mentionned it should be the name and not the ID. - It appears that the estimation of the size is done with euid=ruid=amanda while the effective back-up (runtar) is done with ruid=amanda and euid=root. It would give a more accurate estimate if it was run with euid=root I think. - Apparently amcheck do not perform as deep verification as some cases can arise when amcheck will report OK while the dump will fail. The above case was one of it. - Runing amanda 2.4.2p2, with gnutar, there is no more problem with disk access permission: I configured/install amanda, as user/group amanda, did not modify anything on the disk, did not set up amanda in the goup orperator, wheel or whatever, and it runs smoothly. It is a great tool, thanks, Olivier
Re: disk offline
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: kascha sdb2 lev 0 FAILED [disk sdb2 offline on kascha?] kascha sdb1 lev 0 FAILED [disk sdb1 offline on kascha?] kascha sda1 lev 0 FAILED [disk sda1 offline on kascha?] Since these are my boot disk and /usr disk they arnt off line. That's a generic statement for some kind of access problem. Running amcheck is always the first thing to do in cases like this. It reports much more specific information. If that doesn't help, look at /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug on kascha. John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
