best method to debug problems with amdump runs?

2007-09-27 Thread Craig Dewick
I'm wondering if there are any additional debugging features that could be used to delve more into why the nightly amdump runs cannot do their thing and instead report network errors. amcheck has just run from cron a short while ago and reported no errors. Could there be something in the

The question about the 'force-bump' and the 'force-no-bump'

2007-09-27 Thread Takashi Kurakata
Hi all I think about the backup schedules as follow: 1st full backup(LV0) 2nd partial backup(LV1) 3rd partial backup(LV1) 4th partial backup(LV1) 'force', 'forcd-bump', and 'forcd-no-bump' each option of the amadmin command had been executed specifying it before the amdump command was executed.

Re: amcrypt vs. autoflush

2007-09-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
What failed? You show us the taper wrote it's TAPEEND block, it's good. What's the error? Jean-Louis Christopher McCrory wrote: Hello... RHEL5 x86_64 , amanda 2.5.2p1 I am using 'server_encrypt /usr/sbin/amcrypt-ossl-asym ' I can do backups. I can flush to tape. If I add 'autoflush

Re: best method to debug problems with amdump runs?

2007-09-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Craig, Can you fix the reply-to field of your email message. You can set 'debug_auth 1' in amand.conf, debug files will show more details. The problem is not with the planner, but with the dumper-chunker socket. Post dumper and chunker debug files. What's the resolution for localhost? What's

Re: amfetchdump inventory mode

2007-09-27 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hi Jon, * Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070926 17:49]: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:26:50PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: One of the most important feature of amanda was (it still is but read on) the possibility of doing a bare-metal restore with just a few utilities. I say was

Re: amfetchdump inventory mode

2007-09-27 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Chris, * Chris Hoogendyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070926 17:20]: Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: * Ian Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070926 15:37]: On Wednesday 26 September 2007 14:57:58 Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: I'm trying to understand how 'amfetchdump -i' works (amanda-2.5.2p1):

Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files

2007-09-27 Thread John E Hein
Jon LaBadie wrote at 22:23 -0400 on Sep 26, 2007: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:57:11PM -0600, John Hein wrote: stat -x foo File: foo Size: 296422 FileType: Regular File Mode: (0444/-r--r--r--) Uid: ( 631/ nrg) Gid: ( 2005/ web) Device: 0,86 Inode:

Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files

2007-09-27 Thread John E Hein
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 21:14 -0500 on Sep 26, 2007: Just a guess -- is this a Linux machine that recently had hardware added/removed? linux, no - freebsd. devno changes? I don't think so. There was a raid disk replacement. But that's a hidden device behind an LSI Megaraid controller

Re: amfetchdump inventory mode

2007-09-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/27/07, Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you're right that it is manually feasable. However conceptually simple the task is, I feel that potential mistakes are bound to happen, particularly when doing a restore under pressure! Remember, you have the mob^H^H^Husers on

Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files

2007-09-27 Thread John E Hein
John E Hein wrote at 09:43 -0600 on Sep 27, 2007: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 21:14 -0500 on Sep 26, 2007: Just a guess -- is this a Linux machine that recently had hardware added/removed? linux, no - freebsd. devno changes? I don't think so. There was a raid disk replacement.

Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files

2007-09-27 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2007-09-27 18:07, John E Hein wrote: John E Hein wrote at 09:43 -0600 on Sep 27, 2007: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 21:14 -0500 on Sep 26, 2007: Just a guess -- is this a Linux machine that recently had hardware added/removed? linux, no - freebsd. devno changes? I don't think

Re: amfetchdump inventory mode

2007-09-27 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070927 11:59]: On 9/27/07, Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you're right that it is manually feasable. However conceptually simple the task is, I feel that potential mistakes are bound to happen, particularly when doing a restore

Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files

2007-09-27 Thread John E Hein
Paul Bijnens wrote at 19:41 +0200 on Sep 27, 2007: On 2007-09-27 18:07, John E Hein wrote: I can't think of any way to see if they changed - I don't have a record of what they were before. Is there a way to look in the gnutar-list files and see? I suppose I will extract the tar files

Re: amfetchdump inventory mode

2007-09-27 Thread Ian Turner
On Thursday 27 September 2007 11:57:53 Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: To summarize the levels of functionality for restore: OS, Amanda, Config, Logs, Indices: use amrecover OS, Amanda, Config, Logs: use amfetchdump OS, Amanda: use amrestore[1], or use inventory to recover the logs and then use

Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files

2007-09-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/27/07, John E Hein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed. I was looking for the format documented in the .info pages for gnutar, but couldn't find it. Not to toot my own horn, but there's a tool to display/edit these numbers in the tar scripts/ directory. It's available via CVS at

Re: best method to debug problems with amdump runs?

2007-09-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Craig Dewick wrote: What's the resolution for localhost? What's the resolution for 127.0.0.1? Do you have a route for 127.0.0.1 and localhost? I'm not sure what you're asking with these. 8-) ping localhost ping 127.0.0.1 grep localhost /etc/hosts

Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files

2007-09-27 Thread John E Hein
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 16:15 -0500 on Sep 27, 2007: On 9/27/07, John E Hein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed. I was looking for the format documented in the .info pages for gnutar, but couldn't find it. [by the way, somewhere between gtar 1.15.1 and 1.18.1, the info page added this

Re: best method to debug problems with amdump runs?

2007-09-27 Thread Craig Dewick
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Craig Dewick wrote: What's the resolution for localhost? What's the resolution for 127.0.0.1? Do you have a route for 127.0.0.1 and localhost? I'm not sure what you're asking with these. 8-) ping localhost 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ping

Re: incremental with gnutar bogusly dumping old files

2007-09-27 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On 9/27/07, John E Hein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And maybe adding a devno changed check in amcheck would be nice - the client has the gnutar-list files, so it would require some work in the client side of amcheck. This might be an interesting addition to the GNU Tar application,

running amdump manually at the moment with extra debugging enabled

2007-09-27 Thread Craig Dewick
I've subscribed to the list from my alternate email address now. 8-) I have amdump running manually at the moment with the extra debugging enabled. Looking through the debug output that's being recorded in the 'amdump' logfile in /var/adm/amanda/ORBnet on the tape host machine (which is also a