Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
I set up Amanda on Friday to do an almost real backup job. I thought this would be the final test before putting it into operation. When I arrived at work this morning, I was somewhat surprised to see that the Amanda run doesn't seem to have finished. amstatus daily gives me some information, b

RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Cyrille Bollu
Looking with my newbie's eyes it seems that Amanda is running well. Just very slowly. And Amanda's log seems to indicate that the problem is on the tape drive side. The only thing strange that I see is the following line which say that your drive is busy only 0,41% of the time: >    taper busy

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Good point - and that is why I need help unravelling what it all means. My question now would be: 0.41% of what? What would 100% of that something represent? Constant streaming of data to tape from holding disk? I've just left it alone to see if I get different results when subsequently runni

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Cyrille Bollu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 17/07/2006 11:36:21 : > > Good point - and that is why I need help unravelling what it all means.  My > question now would be:  0.41% of what?  What would 100% of that something > represent?  Constant streaming of data to tape from holding disk? AFAIK, 100% would

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-07-17 11:36, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: Good point - and that is why I need help unravelling what it all means. My question now would be: 0.41% of what? What would 100% of that something represent? Constant streaming of data to tape from holding disk? of the total elapse

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Well, one thing I've noticed is that the DLEs in question are the ones with largest overall size: +/- 8GB +/- 9GB +/- 32GB All the other DLEs (except for the two I mentioned, which are in fact hidden files) have successfully been written to tape and are less than approximately 2GB in size...

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
When I execute the top command (Red Hat Enterprise 3) for user Amanda, I get: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 2136 amanda15 0 948 948 836 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 amdump 2145 amanda15 0 1072 1072 844 S 0.0 0.1 0:02 1 driver

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2006-07-17 13:32, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: and ps -fu amanda outputs: UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD amanda2136 2135 0 Jul14 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/amdump daily amanda2145 2136 0 Jul14 ?00:00:02 /usr/lib/amanda/driver daily a

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
I thought I'll run amflush and see what happens. It outputs this: Scanning /mnt/hdb1... 20060714: found Amanda directory. Today is: 20060717 Flushing dumps in 20060714 to tape drive "/dev/nst0". Expecting tape daily-1 or a new tape. (The last dumps were to tape daily-3) Are yo

Difference between the amrestore and amrecover

2006-07-17 Thread silpa kala
HI, I need some clarification. I worked on amrestore , which we can retrieve the backup image from holding disk or tape. amrestore /dev/nst0 amrestore holdingdiskname But I didn't understand the amrecover. I feel amrecover is also developed for the same purpose. Why we need two commands for the

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
ext I thought I'll run amflush and see what happens. It outputs this: > > Scanning /mnt/hdb1... > 20060714: found Amanda directory. > > Today is: 20060717 > Flushing dumps in 20060714 to tape drive "/dev/nst0". > Expecting tape daily-1 or a new tape. (The la

Re: Difference between the amrestore and amrecover

2006-07-17 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 05:57:45AM -0700, silpa kala enlightened us: > I need some clarification. I worked on amrestore , > which we can retrieve the backup image from holding > disk or tape. > amrestore /dev/nst0 > amrestore holdingdiskname > > But I didn't understand the amrecover. I feel > amre

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Alexander Jolk
Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: minerva/usr/local/clients lev 0 FAILED [input: Can't read data: : Input/output error] And the holding disk still contains a folder with Friday's date and a 30GB file for the DLE mentioned above. Can you try cat'ting

Re: RE Unravel amstatus output

2006-07-17 Thread Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com)
Sorry, I've already went and deleted that file... Alexander Jolk wrote: > > Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: >> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: >> minerva/usr/local/clients lev 0 FAILED [input: Can't read data: : >> Input/output error] >> >> And the holding disk still contains a

Re: Port NNNN not secure (revisited)

2006-07-17 Thread Mike Allen
Kevin Till wrote: Mike Allen wrote: After some helpful email from Frank Smith off-list I have decided to try a different approach to slve my problem: Here is an excerpt from my tape-server /etc/services file. amanda 20080/udp #Dump server control amandaidx 20082/tcp #Amanda i

tape label report and tape spanning

2006-07-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
I'm using the 3-hole label template. Amanda version is 2.5.0p2 from zmanda on Fedora 4. I'm taping to vtapes and tape spanning is turned on. Though I seldom exceed one tape the dumps are still split into tape_splitsize chunks. It appears to me that the "File #" column in the report is meaningless

Re: Port NNNN not secure (revisited)

2006-07-17 Thread Kevin Till
Mike Allen wrote: try configure with "--with-tcpportrange=5,50100 --with-udpportrange=512,1023 ..." and recompile. Open the corresponding ports in the firewall setup. The reason udp port 34932 was tried because Amanda cannot find a reserved udp port that it can use. The followin

Exact time and location for Amanda Birds of a Feather session at LinuxWorld in San Francisco in August

2006-07-17 Thread Dmitri Joukovski
Hi all, If you plan attending upcoming LinuxWorld in San Francisco on August 14-17 or if you live in SF/Bay area, please stop by at Amanda Birds-of-a-Feather session on: Tuesday August 15, 2006, 6 - 7 p.m. BOF1: Open Source Backup and Recovery Software Amanda Room 301 The Amanda sessio

Re: Port NNNN not secure (revisited)

2006-07-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:32:01AM -0700, Mike Allen wrote: > > > The following occurred while compiling with the values you suggested: > > > make install-data-hook > chown operator /usr/local/man/man8/amanda.8 > chgrp operator /usr/local/man/man8/amanda.8 > chown operator /usr/local/man/man8/am

Re: Port NNNN not secure (revisited)

2006-07-17 Thread Mike Allen
Kevin Till wrote: Mike Allen wrote: try configure with "--with-tcpportrange=5,50100 --with-udpportrange=512,1023 ..." and recompile. Open the corresponding ports in the firewall setup. The reason udp port 34932 was tried because Amanda cannot find a reserved udp port that it can use

Re: Port NNNN not secure (revisited)

2006-07-17 Thread Kevin Till
Mike Allen wrote: Kevin Till wrote: Mike Allen wrote: try configure with "--with-tcpportrange=5,50100 --with-udpportrange=512,1023 ..." and recompile. Open the corresponding ports in the firewall setup. The reason udp port 34932 was tried because Amanda cannot find a reserved udp

Re: Port NNNN not secure (revisited)

2006-07-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:58:17PM -0700, Mike Allen wrote: > Kevin Till wrote: > >Mike Allen wrote: > > > >>> > >>> > >>>try configure with "--with-tcpportrange=5,50100 > >>>--with-udpportrange=512,1023 ..." and recompile. > >>> > >>>Open the corresponding ports in the firewall setup. > >>> >

Re: Port NNNN not secure (revisited)

2006-07-17 Thread Mike Allen
Kevin Till wrote: Mike Allen wrote: Kevin Till wrote: Mike Allen wrote: try configure with "--with-tcpportrange=5,50100 --with-udpportrange=512,1023 ..." and recompile. Open the corresponding ports in the firewall setup. The reason udp port 34932 was tried because Amanda cannot fi

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1b1

2006-07-17 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
RPMs and source tar ball are available for following platforms at http://www.zmanda.com/downloads.html - Red Hat Enterprise server 4, - Red Hat Enterprise server 3 - Suse Linux Enterprise 9, - Suse Linux Enterprise 10, - Open Suse 10.0, - Fedora Core 3, - Fedora Core 4, - Fedora Core 5 and - Sourc

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2006-07-17 Thread Cyrille Bollu
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A script to test GNU tar exclude patterns

2006-07-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have put together the following srcipt http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/testgtar to help testing exclude patterns in GNU tar. This is a simple Perl script, that should run on any installation; but I'd like to receive comments about the way I could improve it (this not working being first candida