Re: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-02-23 Thread Stefan Herrmann
this is one of my amstatus reports: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/hourly$ amstatus hourly Using /usr/local/etc/amanda/hourly/amdump.1 from Thu Feb 23 10:20:59 CET 2006 pille.hq.imos.net:/0 driver: (aborted:[request failed: timeout waiting for ACK])(too many dumper retry) pille.hq.imos.net:/opt 1

Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Peter Mueller
Hi! It happened again, that a disk grew over the lenght of a tape, and so its backup got stuck on the holding disk. And as it is all the time it happened when i was out of office for some days... I knew its my concern as the sysadmin to split it into smaller pieces ... But it would be nice

Re: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 10:45, Stefan Herrmann wrote: this is one of my amstatus reports: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/hourly$ amstatus hourly Using /usr/local/etc/amanda/hourly/amdump.1 from Thu Feb 23 10:20:59 CET 2006 pille.hq.imos.net:/0 driver: (aborted:[request failed: timeout waiting for ACK])(too

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 11:05, Peter Mueller wrote: It happened again, that a disk grew over the lenght of a tape, and so its backup got stuck on the holding disk. And as it is all the time it happened when i was out of office for some days... I knew its my concern as the sysadmin to split it into

Amdump utility still hasn't run across the firewall amcheck reports no errors.

2006-02-23 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi Paul again I received via the Amanda Report this morning that my server client Failed. I am still lost in the woods. On the ipchains firewall I added ipchains -M -S tcp tcpin udp to masqueraded and set the timeouts. My Amanda Report output below: server / lev 0 FAILED [Estimate timeout

Re: Amdump utility still hasn't run across the firewall amcheck reports no errors.

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 11:36, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi Paul again I received via the Amanda Report this morning that my server client Failed. I am still lost in the woods. On the ipchains firewall I added ipchains -M -S tcp tcpin udp to masqueraded and set the timeouts. My Amanda

Re: Amdump utility still hasn't run across the firewall amcheck reports no errors.

2006-02-23 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi Here is my sendsize log. sendsize[2481]: time 220.652: Total bytes written: 5132001280 (4.8GB, 22MB/s) sendsize[2481]: time 220.726: . sendsize[2481]: estimate time for / level 0: 220.672 sendsize[2481]: estimate size for / level 0: 5011720 KB sendsize[2481]: time 220.727: waiting for

Slow dump of small directory...

2006-02-23 Thread Toralf Lund
Any idea why I get the following? fileserv:/usr/freeware/etc/openldap 1 32k dumping0k ( 1.53%) (11:32:10) This is from amstatus on a currently running dump, and the time is now # date Thu Feb 23 12:32:35 CET 2006 I mean, why does this dump take so long? This is (as you can

Re: Slow dump of small directory...

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander Jolk
Toralf Lund wrote: Any idea why I get the following? fileserv:/usr/freeware/etc/openldap 1 32k dumping0k ( 1.53%) (11:32:10) This is from amstatus on a currently running dump, and the time is now # date Thu Feb 23 12:32:35 CET 2006 I mean, why does this dump take so long?

Re: Slow dump of small directory...

2006-02-23 Thread Toralf Lund
Any idea why I get the following? fileserv:/usr/freeware/etc/openldap 1 32k dumping0k ( 1.53%) (11:32:10) This is from amstatus on a currently running dump, and the time is now # date Thu Feb 23 12:32:35 CET 2006 I mean, why does this dump take so long? I get these

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Peter Mueller
Hi again! Did you specify taperalgo largestfit in the amanda.conf? Or any other? I will check that, probably not, because I dont remember this parameter. Is was missing, which means first - I changed this to smallest to give the 2rd and 3rd level images a chance to get thru .. I taped

Re: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-02-23 Thread Stefan Herrmann
Feb 23 14:19:44 2006 Does amcheck pass all tests? yes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ amcheck hourly Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /holding: 264416 MB disk space available, using 263392 MB read label `hourly023', date `20060223' read label `hourly024', date `X

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 14:03, Peter Mueller wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: When there is only one image to choose from, Amanda will take that one, even if it will probably not fit. Changing that will make many other users of Amanda unhappy, e.g. those using hardware compression because their tape length is

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 14:18, Peter Mueller wrote: Did you specify taperalgo largestfit in the amanda.conf? Or any other? I will check that, probably not, because I dont remember this parameter. Is was missing, which means first - I changed this to smallest to give the 2rd and 3rd level images a

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:31:06PM +0100, Paul Bijnens enlightened us: Paul Bijnens wrote: When there is only one image to choose from, Amanda will take that one, even if it will probably not fit. Changing that will make many other users of Amanda unhappy, e.g. those using hardware

Re: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 14:24, Stefan Herrmann wrote: Am 23.02.2006 um 11:17 schrieb Paul Bijnens: I would take a look in the debug files on the client, usually in the dir /tmp/amanda/. There you can see files amandad.datetime.debug which contain the packet received, and the replies. If there are no

Re: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-02-23 Thread Stefan Herrmann
Am 23.02.2006 um 14:43 schrieb Paul Bijnens: On 2006-02-23 14:24, Stefan Herrmann wrote: Am 23.02.2006 um 11:17 schrieb Paul Bijnens: I would take a look in the debug files on the client, usually in the dir /tmp/amanda/. There you can see files amandad.datetime.debug which contain the

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Peter Mueller
Hi Paul! Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2006-02-23 14:18, Peter Mueller wrote: Did you specify taperalgo largestfit in the amanda.conf? Or any other? I will check that, probably not, because I dont remember this parameter. Is was missing, which means first - I changed this to smallest to

Re: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 15:54, Stefan Herrmann wrote: i think there was no useful information in the leftout part, but look for yourself: Yes indeed. No REQ packet at all. Are you sure this debug file is the result from a amdump request, and not one of those that were generated by all different

Re: Intelegence of amflush

2006-02-23 Thread Peter Mueller
Hi Paul! Paul Bijnens wrote: ... The problem here is that when you had a real tape error, and then try to flush o a new tape, then amanda refuses to put that one tape, because it got an error last time? Not good. So how you do see if you got a real error or just EOT. Explain me, because I

Still: Problems with amrestore - please HELP - stderr output

2006-02-23 Thread Radek Cisz
When I run amrestore like this amrestore -f 0 -p /dev/nst0 localhost sda2 | restore -ivb2 -f - I got message: Verify tape and initialize maps Input is from a local file/pipe amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20060223 label EPIP2 amrestore: 1: restoring localhost.sda2.20060223.0

amandad can't be started

2006-02-23 Thread Patrick Mania
Dear group, i´am trying to install the amanda client from the current version. I´ve configured it with user=amanda group=disk and client installation only The prefix is /usr/amanda. The problem is, that the amandad can´t be started. I execute $Prefix/libexec/amandad, this takes a

Re: Still: Problems with amrestore - please HELP - stderr output

2006-02-23 Thread Radek Cisz
this amrestore -f 0 -p /dev/nst0 localhost sda2 | restore -ivb2 -f - I got message: Verify tape and initialize maps Input is from a local file/pipe amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20060223 label EPIP2 amrestore: 1: restoring localhost.sda2.20060223.0 restore: Tape is not a dump

Re: Still: Problems with amrestore - please HELP - stderr output

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-02-23 16:30, Radek Cisz wrote: Its dump archive. please see my first letter below OK. Then maybe you have some difference in blocksize between the two machines. Some implemenations (HPUX in my experience) read a block, and if the tapeblocksize is greater than the readblocksize, then

Re: request failed: timeout waiting for ACK

2006-02-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:24:59PM +0100, Stefan Herrmann wrote: Does amcheck pass all tests? yes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ amcheck hourly Amanda Tape Server Host Check A config named hourly. Do you actually run amdump each hour? If so, might there be some extraneous, old, stuck, ???

Re: Still: Problems with amrestore - please HELP - stderr output

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Till
Radek Cisz wrote: When I run amrestore like this amrestore -f 0 -p /dev/nst0 localhost sda2 | restore -ivb2 -f - I got message: Verify tape and initialize maps Input is from a local file/pipe amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20060223 label EPIP2 amrestore: 1: restoring

Re: encryption with 2.5.0b2

2006-02-23 Thread Josef Wolf
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:34:44PM -0800, Kevin Till wrote: - What is the point to uuencode and encrypt (with gpg) random data to generate the key? Since the passphrase is stored on the same host, protecting the key with the passprase is not of much use (IMHO). It illustrates the method

Re: amandad can't be started

2006-02-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:34:19PM +0100, Patrick Mania wrote: Dear group, The problem is, that the amandad canŽt be started. I execute $Prefix/libexec/amandad, this takes a while (30 secs) and breaks. amandad is not intended to run continually nor to be run from the command line.

Re: amandad can't be started

2006-02-23 Thread Patrick Mania
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:34:19PM +0100, Patrick Mania wrote: Dear group, The problem is, that the amandad canŽt be started. I execute $Prefix/libexec/amandad, this takes a while (30 secs) and breaks. amandad is not intended to run continually nor to be run

Host down message on localhost client

2006-02-23 Thread Wayne Thorpe
nner Adding new disk localhost:/itrn1.START taper datestamp 20060223 label [fake-label] tape 0WARNING taper tapedev is null:, dumps will be thrown awayERROR planner Request to localhost timed out.FINISH planner date 20060223WARNING driver WARNING: got empty schedule from plannerSTATS driver startup t

Re: Host down message on localhost client

2006-02-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
.20060223.0 START driver date 20060223 DISK planner localhost /itrn1 START planner date 20060223 INFO planner Adding new disk localhost:/itrn1. START taper datestamp 20060223 label [fake-label] tape 0 WARNING taper tapedev is null:, dumps will be thrown away ERROR planner Request to localhost

Re: encryption with 2.5.0b2

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Till
Josef Wolf wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:34:44PM -0800, Kevin Till wrote: - What is the point to uuencode and encrypt (with gpg) random data to generate the key? Since the passphrase is stored on the same host, protecting the key with the passprase is not of much use (IMHO). It

Re: encryption with 2.5.0b2

2006-02-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:50:11PM -0800, Kevin Till wrote: Josef Wolf wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:34:44PM -0800, Kevin Till wrote: Amanda users have used aespipe in the past, so it's there. Hmmm, AFAIK is aespipe part of loop-aes and loop-aes is deprecated because the kernel

Re: encryption with 2.5.0b2

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Till
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:50:11PM -0800, Kevin Till wrote: Josef Wolf wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:34:44PM -0800, Kevin Till wrote: Amanda users have used aespipe in the past, so it's there. Hmmm, AFAIK is aespipe part of loop-aes and loop-aes is deprecated

Problems building 2.5 B2

2006-02-23 Thread stan
I'm trying to compile 2.5 beta 2 on Solaris 10 X86. The build is failing in the man subdirectory. It's complaining about this line in the generated Makefile: $(man_MANS): %: $(MANPAGEDIR)/%.proc.xml xslt/man.xsl $(XSLTPROC) --path xslt/ --output $@ man.xsl $ Now, it's been a while since

Re: Host down message on localhost client

2006-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
in the /etc/hosts file, or an alias that is also listed in that file. __ My log file reads: [host] /usr/adm/amanda/ProtoLocal more log.20060223.0 START driver date 20060223 DISK planner localhost /itrn1 START planner date 20060223 INFO planner

Re: Problems building 2.5 B2

2006-02-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:24:34PM -0500, stan wrote: I'm trying to compile 2.5 beta 2 on Solaris 10 X86. The build is failing in the man subdirectory. It's complaining about this line in the generated Makefile: The actual complaint is often a big help to those answering. $(man_MANS): %:

Re: Problems building 2.5 B2

2006-02-23 Thread Ian Turner
On Thursday 23 February 2006 22:38, Jon LaBadie wrote: The actual complaint is often a big help to those answering. $(man_MANS): %: $(MANPAGEDIR)/%.proc.xml xslt/man.xsl $(XSLTPROC) --path xslt/ --output $@ man.xsl $ Now, it's been a while since I wrote Makefiles, but I must