Re: Multi-Gb dumps using tar + software compression (gzip)?

2004-11-05 Thread Toralf Lund
Toralf Lund wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: Toralf Lund wrote: Other possible error sources that I think I have eliminated: 1. tar version issues - since gzip complains even if I just uncopress and send the data to /dev/null, or use the -t option. 2. Network transfer issues. I get errors even

Re: parse of reply message failed

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:11:18AM -0500, foo wrote: I was wrong, it turns out to be ip_conntrack_amanda from netfilter that's the culprit. I haven't tested yet, but others have confirmed it. I thought that was fixed in kernel 2.6.6 or did it break again? See:

Re: debugging chg-scsi

2004-11-05 Thread Eric Schnoebelen
Erik Anderson writes: - On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:36:05 -0600, Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Also, while sg is the proper device to use to control the changer, - it doesn't understand tape commands like rewind, so make sure your - tape device is referencing an st device (of course, your

Re: Amanda's dumper going amok

2004-11-05 Thread Flynn
- Original Message - From: Eric Siegerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:57:52AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: Flynn wrote: Amdump sometimes goes crazy apparently eating up all the machine resources and I can't get any access to anything when this happens, because I

Re: debugging chg-scsi

2004-11-05 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi again, i would bet it is a permision-problem, but i have no experience with autogenerated device-nodes like yours. Erik Anderson schrieb: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:51:54 -0600, Erik Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay - here's the deal. My /dev/sg* entries are symlins. They're pointing as

Re: debugging chg-scsi

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
Erik Anderson wrote: Yes it does. Well maybe. /dev/sg1 (my changer) and /dev/sg2 (my tape drive) are symlinks. The symlinks themselves don't have the correct permissions, but the targets of the symlinks do have the correct permissions. I have nada experience with a changer, but I believe that

Re: DLT1 Tape drive performance...

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
Dan Brown wrote: This may be a problem then as the IDE holding disk is NFS mounted from a third machine. The server with the backup is a SCSI only system and doesn't support IDE. That's bad indeed, unless you have gigabit ethernet (and even then maybe not). drive (+$700CDN / 80GB?!) nor

Re: Amanda's dumper going amok

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
Flynn wrote: Here is what I got from last night's run - it didn't fail, but there is somehow a clue right there : 09:16:04 up 23:18, 1 user, load average: 4.34, 4.45, 4.29 59 processes: 57 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.9% user 29.8% system 0.0% nice

amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape

2004-11-05 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, After compiling by hand and patching amcheck.c to include our signature, all tests ran fine, backup work to tape etc, but a strange problem with amcheck: quote Appserv Tape Server Host Check - - Holding

Re: parse of reply message failed

2004-11-05 Thread foo
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 10:12:25AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:11:18AM -0500, foo wrote: I was wrong, it turns out to be ip_conntrack_amanda from netfilter that's the culprit. I haven't tested yet, but others have confirmed it. I

Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape

2004-11-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
It is really best to post to only ONE of the -users or -hackers lists. Decide if it is about the code of amanda, then submit to -hackers. For the overwhelming majority of posts, they concern usage of amanda and should go to -users. On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:05:48PM +, Gavin Henry wrote:

Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape

2004-11-05 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
Would people please stop cross-posting between -users and -hackers. If your message is about using amanda, send it to -users. If it's about the source, send it to -hackers. Don't mean to single out Gavin here. This has happened several times recently, each then multiplied by all the followups.

Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape

2004-11-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:24:40PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: It is really best to post to only ONE of the -users or -hackers lists. Decide if it is about the code of amanda, then submit to -hackers. For the overwhelming majority of posts, they concern usage of amanda and should go to

Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape

2004-11-05 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 Nov 2004 20:24, Jon LaBadie wrote: It is really best to post to only ONE of the -users or -hackers lists. Decide if it is about the code of amanda, then submit to -hackers. For the overwhelming majority of posts, they concern usage

Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape

2004-11-05 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 Nov 2004 20:42, you wrote: Would people please stop cross-posting between -users and -hackers. If your message is about using amanda, send it to -users. If it's about the source, send it to -hackers. Again, sorry. I thought it was

Moving disklist to an OpenLDAP lookup?

2004-11-05 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Just a thought, Would there be any benefit of implementing host lookups etc via LDAP for enteprise class backups? - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E

Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape

2004-11-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Jon, on Freitag, 05. November 2004 at 22:09 you wrote to amanda-users: JL On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:24:40PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: It is really best to post to only ONE of the -users or -hackers lists. Decide if it is about the code of amanda, then submit to -hackers. For the

Problems with DLE for large filesystem

2004-11-05 Thread James Marcinek
Hello Everyone, I'm finally starting my backup on the server with the large file system. I'm receiving errors and the DLE did not run as the excludes never took affect. Here's excerpts from the amdump log: /etc/amanda/normal/disklist, line 21: dump type parameter expected

Is there a proper way of killing a dumper?

2004-11-05 Thread Kevin Dalley
I have one computer which is busy now, and is dumping *very* slowly. I want to kill the dumper for this computer. Killing all the dumpers is even OK. I could do a killall dumper, but it seems a bit crude. Is there a more polite way of killing a dumper, or just telling it to give up on a DLE? --

Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape

2004-11-05 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You think there is an order to the tapes, 2 follows 1 etc. Amanda could care less what new tape it writes to next. If you put in tape3 next, amanda's order will have 3 following 1 in the future. If you labelstr allows it (tape.*) amanda will

Re: Problems with DLE for large filesystem

2004-11-05 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:53:53PM -, James Marcinek enlightened us: I'm finally starting my backup on the server with the large file system. I'm receiving errors and the DLE did not run as the excludes never took affect. Here's excerpts from the amdump log: /etc/amanda/normal/disklist,

Re: Is there a proper way of killing a dumper?

2004-11-05 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Kevin Dalley wrote: I have one computer which is busy now, and is dumping *very* slowly. I want to kill the dumper for this computer. Killing all the dumpers is even OK. I could do a killall dumper, but it seems a bit crude. Is there a more polite way of killing a

AMANDA:docs -- now with manpages integrated

2004-11-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
As a member of the AMANDA Core Team I am pleased to announce another update of the AMANDA-docs. There have been many small fixes but the main improvement is the integration of the Manual Pages into the main document of the so-called AMANDA-HOWTO-Collection. This enables us to get even more

Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape

2004-11-05 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I suspect you have only done one backup, thus only previously used one tape. You think there is an order to the tapes, 2 follows 1 etc. Amanda could care less what new tape it writes to next. If you put in tape3 next, amanda's order will have

Can autoflush calculate size?

2004-11-05 Thread Kevin Dalley
When I run with: autoflush on the size of the flushed data is not taken from the total size of the tape. Is there a way, when using autoflush, to have the amdump use the tape size minus the size of the previous data? -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]