Re: IO probs

2005-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Glenn English wrote: I've rebooted (the server and the client) and reinstalled (the client) and remounted and examined permissions, none of which made any difference at all. Any thoughts? What permissions does the AMANDA-user have on the problematic DLE? Maybe the AMANDA-user is not

Tapetype Entries

2005-11-03 Thread matilda matilda
Hi all, just wanted to add tapetype entries to the faq-o-matic as little feedback to the community from a happy user of amanda, but creating an faq-o-matic account seems not to work. Does anyone know how to add an entry? Thank you in advance. Andreas Mock

Re: Tapetype Entries

2005-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
matilda matilda wrote: Hi all, just wanted to add tapetype entries to the faq-o-matic as little feedback to the community from a happy user of amanda, but creating an faq-o-matic account seems not to work. Does anyone know how to add an entry? Thank you in advance. Please let that FOM

Re: Re: Tapetype Entries

2005-11-03 Thread matilda matilda
Hi Stefan, shall I wait until the Wiki is available? Or is in anyway nobody interested in my tapetype entries? Best regards Andreas Mock

Re: Tapetype Entries

2005-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
matilda matilda wrote: Hi Stefan, shall I wait until the Wiki is available? Or is in anyway nobody interested in my tapetype entries? You may post them here for a start ... The Wiki will be available soon. Stefan

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Jolk
Sebastian Kösters wrote: It does not work. Which means? Do you get an error message? Please cite it. What do the relevant log files say? You showed us yesterday that the estimate phase took almost an hour on this machine, have you waited for that time? On the client amanda starts the

amflush onto tape

2005-11-03 Thread Stefan Herrmann
Am 02.11.2005 um 21:02 schrieb Matt Hyclak: Your best bet is to ensure you have a holding disk large enough to hold one night's worth of backups and just leave them on there. Then when you get a chance, you can flush them to tape with amflush. I actually do this for a week at a time since my

Re: amflush onto tape

2005-11-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
how do you manage to flush more than one saved backups on the holding disk to one tape (if this is large enough) ? It's automatic amflush will give you a list and ask you what you want to flush olivier

Re: amflush onto tape

2005-11-03 Thread Stefan Herrmann
Am 03.11.2005 um 10:05 schrieb Olivier Nicole: how do you manage to flush more than one saved backups on the holding disk to one tape (if this is large enough) ? It's automatic amflush will give you a list and ask you what you want to flush i.e. its impossible to say to amanda to flush some

Re: Estimate Timeout Issue - Dump runs fine

2005-11-03 Thread Tom Brown
OK thanks - I have increased the etimeout to 2400 seconds and also changed the udp timeout within checkpoint to also be 2400 seconds so i'll see how the run goes tonight everything was fine today - no estimate timeout thanks for the pointer

Re: Tapetype Entries

2005-11-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: matilda matilda wrote: Hi Stefan, shall I wait until the Wiki is available? Or is in anyway nobody interested in my tapetype entries? You may post them here for a start ... The Wiki will be available soon. Very soon ... what are we waiting for? I have

AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

2005-11-03 Thread Sebastian Kösters
When run it by hand i get this error (translated from german to english) /bin/tar: No empty Archive created. Everything is like on the other Mashines. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Alexander Jolk Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3.

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Jolk
Sebastian Kösters wrote: On the client amanda starts the following command: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /pst --one-file-system --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/pst_pst_0.new When run it by hand i get this error (translated from german to english) /bin/tar:

amanda flush does not write data from holding disk to the tape

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Vogt
Hi I use Amanda 2.4.5 with FreeBSD 4.10, a tapetype DAT72 and a holding disk. It works smoothly since several years. But since yesterday I've got some problem with the holding disk and amanda flush. We forget to flush the disk for several days. I tried several amanda flush (ALL, A, B) but

AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

2005-11-03 Thread Sebastian Kösters
You are right. When i try it by hand nothing happens. It runs and runs and runs and the file stays at 0kb. I found no error messages. I also changed the persmissions of the amanda files / directorys to 777. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

2005-11-03 Thread Sebastian Kösters
I found this in /tmp/amanda on the client sendsize: debug 1 pid 25485 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Thu Nov 3 14:00:25 2005 sendsize: version 2.4.3 sendsize[25487]: time 0.002: calculating for amname '/pst', dirname '/pst', spindle -1 sendsize[25487]: time 0.002: getting size via gnutar for /pst

Re: amanda flush does not write data from holding disk to the tape

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Bijnens
Thomas Vogt wrote: I use Amanda 2.4.5 with FreeBSD 4.10, a tapetype DAT72 and a holding disk. It works smoothly since several years. But since yesterday I've got some problem with the holding disk and amanda flush. We forget to flush the disk for several days. I tried several amanda flush

Re: amflush onto tape

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:20:10PM +0700, Olivier Nicole enlightened us: Stefan, i.e. its impossible to say to amanda to flush some backups on the holding disk to the _current_ tape ? I am not sure what you call the current tape, amanda is a sort of batch processing, you order a job, it

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:38:04PM +0100, Sebastian Kösters enlightened us: I found this in /tmp/amanda on the client sendsize: debug 1 pid 25485 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Thu Nov 3 14:00:25 2005 sendsize: version 2.4.3 sendsize[25487]: time 0.002: calculating for amname '/pst', dirname

AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

2005-11-03 Thread Sebastian Kösters
I tried it by hand with /opt and it worked. -rw-r--r--1 root root 256 3. Nov 14:52 pst_opt_0.new tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 i dont know why it has a Problem with /pst?! Ok its big (80GB) but not to big i think. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Jolk
Sebastian Kösters wrote: I tried it by hand with /opt and it worked. -rw-r--r--1 root root 256 3. Nov 14:52 pst_opt_0.new tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 i dont know why it has a Problem with /pst?! Ok its big (80GB) but not to big i think. You have failed to understand that we

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Jolk
Sebastian Kösters wrote: I found this in /tmp/amanda on the client [...] sendsize[25487]: time 1519.255: . Did you cut something here? That would have been what was interesting. sendsize[25487]: estimate time for /pst level 0: 1519.252 Alex -- Alexander Jolk * BUF Compagnie *

Re: IO probs

2005-11-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:56:02PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: ... Both these started a couple weeks ago when (IIRC) I killed processes trying to stop a backup. After the killings of a dump in progress, have you run amcleanup? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG

Re: 2.4.5: dumping directly to tape failure: no retry?

2005-11-03 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
. But this time it retried and dumped it successfully. amdump log excerpts (sorry for the long lines!) driver: dumping yorick:/data/mril/mril2 directly to tape [...] driver: send-cmd time 4867.717 to taper: PORT-WRITE 00-00031 yorick feff9ffe7f /data/mril/mril2 0 20051103 driver: send-cmd

RAIT with Tape und Virtual Tape

2005-11-03 Thread Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, has anyone a setup where the rait driver of amanda is used to place Backups onto tapes and virtual tapes (using the chg-multi) at the same time? Are there drawbacks and what problems could arise? I already use both of them separate (on different

Re: IO probs

2005-11-03 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 09:08 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: What permissions does the AMANDA-user have on the problematic DLE? Maybe the AMANDA-user is not allowed to traverse that DLE, make sure that amanda belongs to a group allowed to do that. Also check the permissions of the directory

Re: IO probs

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:30:40PM -0700, Glenn English enlightened us: What permissions does the AMANDA-user have on the problematic DLE? Maybe the AMANDA-user is not allowed to traverse that DLE, make sure that amanda belongs to a group allowed to do that. Also check the permissions of

Re: IO probs [half solved]

2005-11-03 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:56 -0500, Matt Hyclak wrote: amdump with tar uses runtar (which should be suid root) to access files. amcheck does not, so sometimes you will get errors with amcheck that amdump handles just fine. *Thank you* That explains a lot. I assumed they were using the same

AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Estimate timeout from server

2005-11-03 Thread Sebastian Kösters
Hi! Thats all in sendsize: sendsize: debug 1 pid 5132 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Fri Nov 4 02:30:02 2005 sendsize: version 2.4.3 sendsize[5132]: time 0.007: waiting for any estimate child sendsize[5134]: time 0.007: calculating for amname '/pst', dirname '/pst', spindle -1 sendsize[5134]: time