Re: Strange "FORMAT ERROR" with 2.6.1

Stefan, This bug is already fixed and is available in the latest snaphot. I attach the patch. Jean-Louis Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Greets, I have to debug some backup-related problems for a customer ... Running amanda 2.6.1 on gentoo linux there (my own ebuild). For some DLEs I get:

Re: Strange "FORMAT ERROR" with 2.6.1

Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: > Stefan, > > This bug is already fixed and is available in the latest snaphot. > > I attach the patch. thanks a lot ... S

Re: Can you use an FTP Server for your tape device?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Matt Burkhardt wrote: > I was just wondering if it's possible to use an FTP server as your backup > tape device - sort of like S3.  I've seen "Adding an FTP device" on the > wiki, but didn't know if it made it in. Nope, not yet. > If it's not in there - what wou

Is "partial taper" Expected?

Last night some dumps were left on my holding disk, the Failure Dump Summary says: harmony.med.utah.edu / lev 0: partial taper: tranquility.med.utah.edu / lev 0: partial taper: episun7.med.utah.edu c0t0d0s0 lev 1: partial taper: genepi.med.utah.edu c0t3d0s0 lev 1: partial taper:

Re: Can you use an FTP Server for your tape device?

Hi Matt ! Matt Burkhardt schrieb: > > I was just wondering if it's possible to use an FTP server as your > > backup tape device - sort of like S3. I've seen "Adding an FTP > > device" on the wiki, but didn't know if it made it in > You might want to mount the FTP share via FUSE filesystem

Re: Is "partial taper" Expected?

You get this message if the dump is not complete. The taper successfully wrote an incomplete image to tape. Since they are autoflushed image, check in prevbious report to know why the dump failed. Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote: Last night some dumps were left on my holding disk, the Failur

Re: Is "partial taper" Expected?

The 4 DLEs are already flushed. There is a bug in 2.6.1 that don't erase them from holding disk, this bug is already fixed in SVN. You can securely remove the files from holding disk. Jean-Louis Steven Backus wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: You get this message if the dump is not comp

Re: Is "partial taper" Expected?

Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > You get this message if the dump is not complete. The taper successfully > wrote an incomplete image to tape. > Since they are autoflushed image, check in previous report to know why > the dump failed. The night before one of the machines was down. Other machines

increasing tar failures

Hi there, over the last month or so I've been seeing increasing amounts of disk list entries showing this in the amanda report: FAILED [/bin/tar returned 1] I've gone to the hosts involved and checked their logs and really thats about as informative as it gets. I've checked the tar command

Re: increasing tar failures

The email report should give you the complete output of tar, check the DETAIL section of the report. Jean-Louis Steve Wray wrote: Hi there, over the last month or so I've been seeing increasing amounts of disk list entries showing this in the amanda report: FAILED [/bin/tar returned 1] I'