Re: problem upgrading from 2.4.4p1 to 2.5.0p1

2006-05-10 Thread Jeff Moskow
Paul, FYI - I got a patch from Jean-Louis Martineau that fixed the problem. Thanks very much for your help and suggestions! Best Regards, Jeff On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:41:20PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-05-10 12:21, Jeff Moskow wrote: > > >> > >>http

Re: amrestore: error reading file header: Device or resource busy

2006-05-10 Thread Cameron Matheson
Just a quick follow-up: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:17:16PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Device or resource busy? I haven't seen it do this before. I'm > assuming it means my tape-drive? I'm not sure why it would be busy, but > does anyone know what I could to do fix this? I tried running '

RE: Disabling LTO-2 hardware compression

2006-05-10 Thread Gordon J. Mills III
Sven, if you don't mind my asking...how did you setup stinit? I installed it but it seems a bit confusing as to what I need to do to have it disable compression on reboots, etc. Thanks, Gordon > -Original Message- > From: Sven Rudolph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 03,

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:40, Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: > > > And there is the likely culprit, exclude "file" vs. exclude "list". > > > > > > I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern > > > "amanda.exclude". > > >

amrestore: error reading file header: Device or resource busy

2006-05-10 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, I'm having problems recovering files on one of my servers. Everything goes smoothly when I run amrecover until the time comes to extract. I load the tape it asks for, but it comes back w/ this error: Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst1 on host godzilla.tonservices.com. Load tape Dai

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us: > > And there is the likely culprit, exclude "file" vs. exclude "list". > > > > I.e. you are excluding any file matching the single pattern > > "amanda.exclude". > > > > What you want is to exclude any file matching any pattern >

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:09, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:33:16PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 19:01, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, wi

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:33:16PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 19:01, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success. > > > Each day I'm seeing a report like thi

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 19:01, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success. > > Each day I'm seeing a report like this: > > ... > > > I am trying to back up /home, using an exclusion fil

Re: enough free holdingdisk, but chunker0: RQ-MORE-DISK fails

2006-05-10 Thread Sven Rudolph
ORT If you have questions or ideas, tell me. I can run more tests, but this takes some time. Sven The complete amdump.1 file: amdump: start at Wed May 10 09:31:51 CEST 2006 amdump: datestamp 20060510 driver: pid 16377 executable /usr/lib/amanda/driver version 2.4.5 planner: pid 16376

Re: Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:49:30PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success. Each > day I'm seeing a report like this: > ... > > I am trying to back up /home, using an exclusion file. First question, then > - > should the exclusion file

Can't get a Level 0 backup

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Wilson
I've been trying for some time to troubleshoot this, without success. Each day I'm seeing a report like this: planner: borg /home 20060510 0 [dump larger than available tape space, 25292190 KB, full dump delayed] planner: Full dump of borg:/home/anne/Photos promoted from 6

Re: Amanda Errors & Levels

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:39:42AM -0700, HUGHES Marilyn F wrote: > A previous employee left and I have taken over the daily maintenance of > Amanda. Can someone help with some "newbie" questions? > > * Is there a place that lists the descriptions of the different > "levels?" For instance, we

Amanda Errors & Levels

2006-05-10 Thread HUGHES Marilyn F
A previous employee left and I have taken over the daily maintenance of Amanda. Can someone help with some "newbie" questions? * Is there a place that lists the descriptions of the different "levels?" For instance, we believe that Level 0 is a full backup, but what are levels 1 through 4? *

Re: putting error warnings into seperate mail

2006-05-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-10 14:48, listrcv wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: These events can go unnoticed too easily when glancing at the daily mail from amreport, so I would like to somehow setup for getting another mail besides the report, to different addresses, in such cases. In my reports those errors spr

Re: putting error warnings into seperate mail

2006-05-10 Thread listrcv
Jon LaBadie wrote: I'm giving a talk to a local users group this evening. I just might add that as a "pre-talk" message on the screen. OK :) If anyone has use for it, here's the script I came up with: #! /bin/sh # # specify your holding disks DISKS="/ahodi /home/AHODI" # specify user who

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-10 14:20, Luis Rodrigues wrote: $ ls -lut .amandahosts and the access time should have changed. The access time has not changed :( In /etc/passwd I have set the correct home directory for amanda and it has permitions to read the file and the directory. Try: su amanda -c "ca

Re: putting error warnings into seperate mail

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:19:53PM +0200, listrcv wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > >On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:48:12PM +0200, listrcv wrote: > > > >"Amanda is about the automation of backups ... " > > > > > >I like that mantra!! > > LOL > > Well, I'm not a native speaker of English, no offense m

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:15:12PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > ... > But when I run amcheck it says user has no permition do access the machine, > but I created the .amandahosts and put the correct info there and amanda user > can read the file. > > Is there any way to check if amanda (o

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-10 14:38, Jon LaBadie wrote: In a later note you said .amandahosts contained the FQDN name of the server (x.y.com bkup) while the error message gave just the alias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I don't know if it makes a difference, but I always put into .amandahosts both versions. Yes it

Re: ASC/ASCQ: Write Append Position Error

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:40:12PM +0200, Andreas_Hallmann wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:58:12AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > The SCSI Specs speficy that "ASC/ASCQ: Write append position error" is a > > > more precise version of the message "media error". > > > > > > Only from googlin

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Luis Rodrigues
> > > > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:15:12PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have a set os Debian/Redhat machines running amanda clients with no > > > > problem. > > > > > > > > I need to run an Solaris 8 client also, got the binary package from: > > > > http://www.su

Re: putting error warnings into seperate mail

2006-05-10 Thread listrcv
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:48:12PM +0200, listrcv wrote: "Amanda is about the automation of backups ... " I like that mantra!! LOL Well, I'm not a native speaker of English, no offense meant :) Amanda actually does a great job and surely cannot be blamed for hardware

Re: ASC/ASCQ: Write Append Position Error

2006-05-10 Thread Andreas_Hallmann
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:58:12AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:38:58PM +0200, Andreas_Hallmann wrote: > > > /dev/st0 is an Exabyte 8505 XL. > > Are you really using st0, not nst0, for amanda. > Or perhaps the messages are generic, not really > referencing the drive name

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:22:13PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 May 2006 08:38:30 -0400 > Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:15:12PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a set os Debian/Redhat machines running amanda cli

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:50:29PM +0200, Stefan MARTEL wrote: > > > > # tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 > > Product Type: Tape Drive > > Vendor ID: 'HP ' > > Product ID: 'C1557A ' ... > > > > # tapeinfo -f /dev/sg1 > > Product Type: Medium Changer > > Vendor ID: 'HP ' > > Product I

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Luis Rodrigues
On Wed, 10 May 2006 14:32:56 +0200 "Peter Kunst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about /etc/nsswitch.conf ? Using NIS first for hosts ? Using files first. > > try adding a 2nd line with short hostname into your .amandahosts, like > "old backup" I have both :) > > Peter > > Luis Rodrigue

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Luis Rodrigues
On Wed, 10 May 2006 08:38:30 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:15:12PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a set os Debian/Redhat machines running amanda clients with no > > problem. > > > > I need to run an Solaris 8 client also, got th

Re: putting error warnings into seperate mail

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:48:12PM +0200, listrcv wrote: "Amanda is about the automation of backups ... " I like that mantra!! -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (f

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:50:29PM +0200, Stefan MARTEL wrote: > > (Sorry for my english but i'am french ;-) There's your problem :) -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (

Re: ASC/ASCQ: Write Append Position Error

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:38:58PM +0200, Andreas_Hallmann wrote: > Hi all, > > last backup stoped with a tapeing error. > >From /var/log/messages I got a more descriptive reason. > > -- > May 9 22:11:01 kukalda /netbsd: st0(esiop1:0:4:0): DEFERRED ERROR,

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Stefan MARTEL
Quoting Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:04:30AM +0200, Stefan MARTEL wrote: Quoting Ian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: >>> My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 >> >>I don't think so. >>st0 and

Re: putting error warnings into seperate mail

2006-05-10 Thread listrcv
Paul Bijnens wrote: These events can go unnoticed too easily when glancing at the daily mail from amreport, so I would like to somehow setup for getting another mail besides the report, to different addresses, in such cases. In my reports those errors spring into sight very easily: the first

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Jon LaBadie schrieb: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:04:30AM +0200, Stefan MARTEL wrote: Quoting Ian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 I don't think so. st0 and nst0 are the "same" device han

ASC/ASCQ: Write Append Position Error

2006-05-10 Thread Andreas_Hallmann
Hi all, last backup stoped with a tapeing error. >From /var/log/messages I got a more descriptive reason. -- May 9 22:11:01 kukalda /netbsd: st0(esiop1:0:4:0): DEFERRED ERROR, key = 0x3 May 9 22:11:01 kukalda /netbsd: st0(esiop1:0:4:0): Check Condition

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:15:12PM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > I have a set os Debian/Redhat machines running amanda clients with no problem. > > I need to run an Solaris 8 client also, got the binary package from: > http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlist.html Oh my gosh!!! Version 2

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Luis Rodrigues
On Wed, 10 May 2006 13:38:44 +0200 Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-05-10 13:15, Luis Rodrigues wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a set os Debian/Redhat machines running amanda clients with no > > problem. > > > > I need to run an Solaris 8 client also, got the binary package from

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:04:30AM +0200, Stefan MARTEL wrote: > Quoting Ian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >>> My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 > >> > >>I don't think so. > >>st0 and nst0 are the "same" device hand

Re: Should I run amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 to define my Monthly DDS-5 tapes as I was using DDS-4 tapes

2006-05-10 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi Francis Cheers I now got a better understanding from the replies. Thx On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:53 +0200, Francis Galiegue wrote: > Le Mercredi 10 Mai 2006 11:13, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator a écrit : > > Hi List > > > > I have been running a Daily and Monthly config on two SuSE SLES 9 >

Re: Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-10 13:15, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Hi, I have a set os Debian/Redhat machines running amanda clients with no problem. I need to run an Solaris 8 client also, got the binary package from: http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlist.html and istalled it. Create the user,services,configuration

Amanda Solaris 8

2006-05-10 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Hi, I have a set os Debian/Redhat machines running amanda clients with no problem. I need to run an Solaris 8 client also, got the binary package from: http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlist.html and istalled it. Create the user,services,configuration of inet all working fine. But when I run am

Re: problem upgrading from 2.4.4p1 to 2.5.0p1

2006-05-10 Thread Jeff Moskow
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:41:20PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-05-10 12:21, Jeff Moskow wrote: > > >None of these seem very likely to me, I must be missing something. > > I still believe you are running in a firewall timeout. > Did you try the netcat test that I described there? Yes, it

Re: problem upgrading from 2.4.4p1 to 2.5.0p1

2006-05-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-10 12:21, Jeff Moskow wrote: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amdump:_results_missing None of these seem very likely to me, I must be missing something. I still believe you are running in a firewall timeout. Did you try the netcat test that I described there? Are you 100% sure t

Re: Incremental backup

2006-05-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-10 11:24, Olivier Nicole wrote: Neither, I have no strategy, nor skip anything. [...] It seems that there is an estimate full run every day, even if the dump ends up being incremental. Yes, indeed, in the normal case an estimate for a level 0 dump is always done. Otherwise Aman

Re: putting error warnings into seperate mail

2006-05-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-10 12:03, listrcv wrote: our tape changer seems to become a little unreliable in that it failed two times yet to change tapes as it should. (I'll have to see how this will turn out, still.) Amanda reports tape errors in the daily reports and suggests running amflush then. These e

Re: Should I run amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 to define my Monthly DDS-5 tapes as I was using DDS-4 tapes

2006-05-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-10 11:13, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Thus should I still run amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 command to get the precise definitions and add the new one I have just created, or just amend/hack the MonthlySet config file. Running at least once yourself ensures that you have inde

putting error warnings into seperate mail

2006-05-10 Thread listrcv
Hi, our tape changer seems to become a little unreliable in that it failed two times yet to change tapes as it should. (I'll have to see how this will turn out, still.) Amanda reports tape errors in the daily reports and suggests running amflush then. These events can go unnoticed too easil

Re: Should I run amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 to define my Monthly DDS-5 tapes as I was using DDS-4 tapes

2006-05-10 Thread Francis Galiegue
Le Mercredi 10 Mai 2006 11:13, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator a écrit : > Hi List > > I have been running a Daily and Monthly config on two SuSE SLES 9 > servers using DDS-4 TAPES. > > I have a problem with the Monthly archives doing full backups (uptp 98% > full) I am looking at a complete back

Re: Tapecat: a cool tape utility

2006-05-10 Thread rom
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, 10 May 2006, Inaki Sanchez wrote: Great tool!. Has someone succeeded in compiling it in RHEL 4? I got the following error: $ make gcc -Wall -ansi -c -o cmdline.o cmdline.c cmdline.c:26:31: asm-generic/errno.h: No such file or directory That should be , ac

Re: Incremental backup

2006-05-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > Correct me if I am wrong. It seems that when a DLE is set to > > incremental backup, Amanda will try to get the size using various > > How did you specify "incremental backup"? > There are several methods which have an influence: > >skip-full yes # when planner scheduled a lvl 0

Should I run amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 to define my Monthly DDS-5 tapes as I was using DDS-4 tapes

2006-05-10 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi List I have been running a Daily and Monthly config on two SuSE SLES 9 servers using DDS-4 TAPES. I have a problem with the Monthly archives doing full backups (uptp 98% full) I am looking at a complete back strategy using a dedicated rack backup server LTO or DLT drives. But for now I am go

Re: Incremental backup

2006-05-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-05-10 06:42, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Correct me if I am wrong. It seems that when a DLE is set to incremental backup, Amanda will try to get the size using various How did you specify "incremental backup"? There are several methods which have an influence: skip-full yes # whe

RE: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Stefan MARTEL
Quoting Paul Haldane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: From: Ian Turner Sent: 09 May 2006 16:54 On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 > > I don't think so. > st0 and nst0 are the "same" device handled differenly on close. The cha

Re: Tapecat: a cool tape utility

2006-05-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Inaki Sanchez wrote: > Great tool!. Has someone succeeded in compiling it in RHEL 4? > > I got the following error: > > $ make > gcc -Wall -ansi -c -o cmdline.o cmdline.c > cmdline.c:26:31: asm-generic/errno.h: No such file or directory That should be , according to my co

Re: Tapecat: a cool tape utility

2006-05-10 Thread Inaki Sanchez
Great tool!. Has someone succeeded in compiling it in RHEL 4? I got the following error: $ make gcc -Wall -ansi -c -o cmdline.o cmdline.c cmdline.c:26:31: asm-generic/errno.h: No such file or directory make: *** [cmdline.o] Error 1 After instaling the kernel-smp-devel package, which provides

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Stefan MARTEL
Quoting Ian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: > My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 I don't think so. st0 and nst0 are the "same" device handled differenly on close. The changer is probably on /dev/sg0 or /dev/sg1. -- Wiki

Re: Problem with changer

2006-05-10 Thread Stefan MARTEL
Quoting Ian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tuesday 09 May 2006 11:06, Jon LaBadie wrote: > My autoloader is on /dev/st0 and tape are defined on /dev/nst0 I don't think so. st0 and nst0 are the "same" device handled differenly on close. The changer is probably on /dev/sg0 or /dev/sg1. -- Wiki