/bin/tar got signal 13: backup for one disk fails

2004-10-18 Thread Iulian Topliceanu
Hi, Since we've migrated the filesystem from xfs to ext3 and increased the partition size, AMANDA keeps getting the same error for only one entry in the disklist. The others are doing fine. baal /var/spool/mail lev 2 FAILED [sec 753.519 kb 1283634 kps 1703.5 orig-kb 1873010] And the

Re: Failed dump:vxdump returned 3

2004-10-18 Thread Mangala Gunadasa
All, I have been backing up 41 file systems on 6 Unix servers using amanda. Recently, I have been getting the following error messages on some file systems. I'd appreciate any yhoughts on resolving this problem. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: eprod /eg lev 0 FAILED [/usr/sbin/vxdump

Re: Failed dump:vxdump returned 3

2004-10-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:06:03AM -0400, Mangala Gunadasa wrote: All, I have been backing up 41 file systems on 6 Unix servers using amanda. Recently, I have been getting the following error messages on some file systems. I'd appreciate any yhoughts on resolving this problem. FAILURE AND

Re: /bin/tar got signal 13: backup for one disk fails

2004-10-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
Just a general comment on tar got signal 13. On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:47:05AM +0200, Iulian Topliceanu wrote: Hi, ... Why do I get that '/bin/tar got signal 13'? Signal 13 is a broken pipe and generates the error called EPIPE, an error in a pipeline. It is the system telling a process

Re: how to automate tape changing

2004-10-18 Thread Toralf Lund
Jukka Salmi wrote: Hi, I'm using the chg-disk tape changer. When restoring files using amrecover, after adding some files and issuing the extract command, amrecover tells me what tapes are needed, and asks me to Load tape label now. I load the needed tape using amtape, and tell amrecover to

Re: how to automate tape changing

2004-10-18 Thread Jukka Salmi
Toralf Lund -- amanda-users (2004-10-18 16:07:48 +0200): Jukka Salmi wrote: Hi, I'm using the chg-disk tape changer. When restoring files using amrecover, after adding some files and issuing the extract command, amrecover tells me what tapes are needed, and asks me to Load tape label

Re: no index records

2004-10-18 Thread Joe Konecny
Mike Delaney wrote: On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:25:17PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: snip I think I may have found the problem. Somehow I screwed up permissions on /tmp to drwxr-xr-x. Changed to drwxrwxrwx and things look much better. I'll know more after I switch the tape in the morning.

Re: no index records

2004-10-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:39:50AM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: /tmp is normally mode 1777, not 0777 (that last 'x' should be a 't'). Thank you! Now I think I know what happened... When amrestore finishes it asks if it should set the mode. I assumed it was the file mode that I had restored

amrecover failing

2004-10-18 Thread pll+amanda
Debian/stable (2.4.22 kernel) Amanda-2.4.4p2 tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 Hi all, I'm trying to use amrecover to restore a users homedir, and keep getting the following error when I answer 'Y' to the 'Load tape now' question: EOF, check amidxtaped.timestamp.debug file on

Re: amrecover failing

2004-10-18 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:26:24PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use amrecover to restore a users homedir, and keep getting the following error when I answer 'Y' to the 'Load tape now' question: EOF, check amidxtaped.timestamp.debug file on space-monster.permabit.com.

Re: amrecover failing

2004-10-18 Thread Frank Smith
--On Monday, October 18, 2004 13:26:24 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian/stable (2.4.22 kernel) Amanda-2.4.4p2 tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 Hi all, I'm trying to use amrecover to restore a users homedir, and keep getting the following error when I answer 'Y' to the 'Load tape now'

Re: amrecover failing

2004-10-18 Thread pll+amanda
Thanks for the replies. Everyone who did so suggested that the tape was not rewound. Unfortunately, that's not case. I've made sure to eject the tape, reload the tape, and run mt -f /dev/st0 rewind, and then mt -f /dev/st0 status which shows: $ mt -f /dev/st0 status drive type =

Doh! [was Re: amrecover failing ]

2004-10-18 Thread pll+amanda
grin=sheepish, emarrassment_level=extremely high I forgot to 'settape'. For some reason I thought this was automatically detected from the amanda conf file, but evidently not. /grin I could have sworn I set amanda up to automatically use my changer for this, and upon inspection of the

Re: how to automate tape changing

2004-10-18 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jukka Salmi wrote: I'm using the chg-disk tape changer. When restoring files using amrecover, after adding some files and issuing the extract command, amrecover tells me what tapes are needed, and asks me to Load tape label now. I load the needed tape using amtape, and tell amrecover to continue.

Re: how to automate tape changing

2004-10-18 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello, Paul Bijnens -- amanda-users (2004-10-18 22:14:10 +0200): Before the chg-disk tape changer was written, I used the chg-multi changer with the file-driver. It's a little more complicated to configure, but the advantage is that it finds and load automatically the vtapes. To what extent

Re: how to automate tape changing

2004-10-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 October 2004 16:14, Paul Bijnens wrote: Jukka Salmi wrote: I'm using the chg-disk tape changer. When restoring files using amrecover, after adding some files and issuing the extract command, amrecover tells me what tapes are needed, and asks me to Load tape label now. I load the