Re: Holding disk size misread by amcheck

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
LaValley, Brian E wrote: I have a Fedora Core 3 amanda server. I have specified an nfs mounted directory for one of the holding disks. Does anyone know why amcheck finds much less space available on this drive than a command like 'df' does? You need to explain a little more. "amcheck" checks

Re: Holding disk size misread by amcheck

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens wrote: LaValley, Brian E wrote: I have a Fedora Core 3 amanda server. I have specified an nfs mounted directory for one of the holding disks. Does anyone know why amcheck finds much less space available on this drive than a command like 'df' does? You need to explain a little

Re: Problem with backup of windows shares

2005-08-24 Thread tanguy yoann
--- Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > tanguy yoann wrote: > > >>Perhaps on the one system something other than > >>amanda/samba > >>prevents (or causes) this archive bit to flip. > That > > You need administrator privilege on the PC to be > able > to reset the archive bit. (At leas

Re: Problem with backup of windows shares

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
tanguy yoann wrote: Indeed, in one of my share, the archive bit is cleared after a full backup, and in the other, it isn't cleared. I don't understand why. There is the same files in the two shares. It's very strange. The same user access with smclient at the two shares. "smclient": command no

RE: Holding disk size misread by amcheck

2005-08-24 Thread LaValley, Brian E
Good point, my tape drive maximum sustained data transfer rate is 60 MBytes per second on a Gigabit ethernet network. Is that too slow? Amcheck produces: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - WARNING: holding disk /backup/amanda/dumps/dump2: only 88344348 KB free (104857600 K

Re: Holding disk size misread by amcheck

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
LaValley, Brian E wrote: Good point, my tape drive maximum sustained data transfer rate is 60 MBytes per second on a Gigabit ethernet network. Is that too slow? Maybe. Maybe not. Those modern drives sometimes (usually) slow down their motors when the bytes do not flow in fast enough, so that t

amanda timeouts and weirdness solved!

2005-08-24 Thread Graeme Humphries
So, you guys may recall I was having problems with amcheck and amdump taking ridiculously long. Well, it turns out that because on that client box, there was a dead Samba mount. As you guys know, when there's a Samba mount that's timed out, or the remote machine is unavailable, any operation ch

Re: amanda timeouts and weirdness solved!

2005-08-24 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:11:04 -0600 Graeme Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, you guys may recall I was having problems with amcheck and amdump taking > ridiculously long. Well, it turns out that because on that client box, there > was a dead Samba mount. As you guys know, wh

Re: amanda timeouts and weirdness solved!

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
Graeme Humphries wrote: So, you guys may recall I was having problems with amcheck and amdump taking ridiculously long. Well, it turns out that because on that client box, there was a dead Samba mount. As you guys know, when there's a Samba mount that's timed out, or the remote machine is unava

Re: amanda timeouts and weirdness solved!

2005-08-24 Thread Graeme Humphries
Frank Smith wrote: I don't think Amanda checks all your mounts. However, many filesystem operations 'stat' their way up the directory structure to /, and if you mount things directly in / (such as /remotedir) instead of down a level (/mnt/remotedir) many of those ops will hang if that mount is

Re: amanda timeouts and weirdness solved!

2005-08-24 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:02:47 -0600 Graeme Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Smith wrote: > >> I don't think Amanda checks all your mounts. However, many filesystem >> operations 'stat' their way up the directory structure to /, and if >> you mount things directly in / (su

Re: amanda timeouts and weirdness solved!

2005-08-24 Thread Graeme Humphries
Frank Smith wrote: I think Paul's point is valid about tar's one-filesystem flag, I haven't tried it, but perhaps if you exclude ./tmp it won't stat /tmp/somedir. The real solution, of course, is to not have hung mounts ;-). I agree. :) If you call df with a filename or directory argument

tar returned 2 error???

2005-08-24 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi, In the last few days I've been getting this error: [/usr/freeware/bin/tar returned 2] in the sendbackup report on a client running 2.4.4p3-20040805 and the whole backup run fails. This is the system disk "/" on the client. Anyone has run into this before? The client is an O200 SGI runni

Re: tar returned 2 error???

2005-08-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:59:03PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > Hi, > > In the last few days I've been getting this error: > > [/usr/freeware/bin/tar returned 2] Return code (exit status) 2 seems, I think, to be reserved by tar for non-fatal situations from which it can continue doi

RE: tar returned 2 error???

2005-08-24 Thread donald.ritchey
For UNIX systems, return code 2 is "No such file or directory" or "File not found", depending on the OS. This information is found in the /usr/include/errno.h on most UNIX systems (or wherever your version of UNIX stores the programming include files). Most programs will exit with a failure

Re: amlabel Issue

2005-08-24 Thread James Jacocks
Indeed, amtape produces the same response. Does this help us to determine the cause? Thanks! On Aug 23, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:04:13PM -0400, James Jacocks wrote: We are currently experiencing the below issue using amlabel. I have tried wi

Re: amlabel Issue

2005-08-24 Thread James Jacocks
Thanks for the help, everyone. This was a permissions issue. Thanks! On Aug 24, 2005, at 5:02 PM, James Jacocks wrote: Indeed, amtape produces the same response. Does this help us to determine the cause? Thanks! On Aug 23, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 0

Re: tar returned 2 error???

2005-08-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 05:46:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For UNIX systems, return code 2 is "No such file or directory" or "File not > found", > > This information is found in the /usr/include/errno.h on most UNIX systems > Unix standards specify a zero ("0") exit status for succe