Re: disk was stranded on waitq

2006-07-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
jeffrey d anderson schreef: On Thursday 06 July 2006 14:41, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:49:22PM +0200, Peter Kunst wrote: Hi list, ever seen something like this in amstatus output ? matrix:/var/lib/backuppc 0 planner: [hmm, disk was stranded on waitq] This is a new debian

Re: broken pipe (WAS: Re: timeout while waiting for REP)

2006-07-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
Cameron Matheson schreef: Well, Changing the etimeout/estimate-method in amanda.conf definitely helped, but now I'm getting a broken-pipe error. Here's the excerpt from this morning's e-mail: aspapp2.tonservices.com /opt/webapp/images lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] aspapp2.tonservices.c

Re: disk was stranded on waitq

2006-07-06 Thread jeffrey d anderson
On Thursday 06 July 2006 14:41, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:49:22PM +0200, Peter Kunst wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > ever seen something like this in amstatus output ? > > > > matrix:/var/lib/backuppc 0 planner: [hmm, disk was stranded on waitq] > > > > This is a new debian box,

Re: disk was stranded on waitq

2006-07-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:49:22PM +0200, Peter Kunst wrote: > Hi list, > > ever seen something like this in amstatus output ? > > matrix:/var/lib/backuppc 0 planner: [hmm, disk was stranded on waitq] > > This is a new debian box, which (guess it :) runs BackupPC, and was > taken into amanda's

Re: disk was stranded on waitq

2006-07-06 Thread Pavel Pragin
Hello, You should try increasing the "etimeout" parameter in amanda.conf and run the backup again. This seems to be a timeout issue. Thanks Pavel Peter Kunst wrote: Hi list, ever seen something like this in amstatus output ? matrix:/var/lib/backuppc 0 planner: [hmm, disk was stranded on wa

disk was stranded on waitq

2006-07-06 Thread Peter Kunst
Hi list, ever seen something like this in amstatus output ? matrix:/var/lib/backuppc 0 planner: [hmm, disk was stranded on waitq] This is a new debian box, which (guess it :) runs BackupPC, and was taken into amanda's disklist today. This DLE should have around ~60GB. On this client, there

broken pipe (WAS: Re: timeout while waiting for REP)

2006-07-06 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, I'm back: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:56:43PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 12:36:43AM +0200, Peter Kunst wrote: > > try using a larger number (in seconds) for "etimeout" in your amanda.conf > > > > try "estimate server" within the dumptype used for that DLE (which i

REF: amanda cygwin question(s) GOT IT WORKING THANKS

2006-07-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
Amanda-users, I want to think all who responded to this email. I finally got amcheck working with my cygwin. The problem was my /tmp/amanda file. If you do not have a /tmp/amanda file it will get created but the owner of the /tmp/amanda file is the person who installed cygwin. Like so. total

amrecover "Tape is not a dump tape" but amrestore works?

2006-07-06 Thread Julian C. Dunn
Hi, I'm trying to restore some dumps off a set of tapes, and I'm getting the following error with amrecover: 8< Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nrsa0 on host aphrodite.acf.aquezada.com.Load tape dltbw14 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? Y Tape is not a dump tape extract_list - child r

Re: tape throughput - lto1

2006-07-06 Thread Brian Cuttler
Joshua, On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:12:39AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 at 10:24am, Brian Cuttler wrote > > >I've added more work area to amanda, have been trying to find > >what other problems we may be seeing with the job, since it > >still seems to take longer than i

Re: amanda cygwin question(s)

2006-07-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-07-06 14:20, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I am running Amanda 2.4.5P1 server on a Solaris 10 host. I want to back up a WindowXP client using cygwin software. The files on my cygwin system look like --/etc/inetd.conf-- amanda dgram udp wait SYSTEM /local/Amanda/amanda/l

Re: tape throughput - lto1

2006-07-06 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 at 10:24am, Brian Cuttler wrote I've added more work area to amanda, have been trying to find what other problems we may be seeing with the job, since it still seems to take longer than it should. Upon looking more closely at the amanda report from amdump I see that the tape

tape throughput - lto1

2006-07-06 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hello All, I've added more work area to amanda, have been trying to find what other problems we may be seeing with the job, since it still seems to take longer than it should. Upon looking more closely at the amanda report from amdump I see that the tape I/O rate is around 1800 KP/s where as 2 mo

RE: amanda cygwin question(s)

2006-07-06 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi Again whats does it say on the client's Linux of causer /tmp/amanda amandad.date.debug amcheck.date.debug I assume you have created the similar directories for your windoze box. Also can you run tcpdump to dump traffic on a network. # tcpdump host > /tmp/log_of_your_dump_packets I use

Re: amanda cygwin question(s)

2006-07-06 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi Robert Is your win box between a firewall or is it within the same LAN as I assume your linux/nix boxes. As I had timeout issues relating to my zope/plone server siting behind my firewall and not in my LAN. I had to increase my ipchains timeouts Thus note I am currently preparing,install/conf

amanda cygwin question(s)

2006-07-06 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
I am running Amanda 2.4.5P1 server on a Solaris 10 host. I want to back up a WindowXP client using cygwin software. The files on my cygwin system look like --/etc/inetd.conf-- amanda dgram udp wait SYSTEM /local/Amanda/amanda/libexec/amandadamandad --/etc/servi

Re: RE Compression usage

2006-07-06 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Sorry to be bothersome about this, but will the below work? Joe Donner wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > > do you mean that I will see the behaviour you're describing only if I'm > reusing tapes with hardware-compressed data? I only have 3 tapes so far, > so don't mind erasing them. > > I

Re: /-- server / lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Connection reset by peer"]

2006-07-06 Thread chuck.amadi
Hi The next tape worked OK. Thus wasnt forced to run amflush and then insert the next tape. I will check the log on the server as I had only checked the client amanda.log Cheers On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 09:30 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-07-04 16:11, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wro