Re: New error from amcheck

2010-03-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: I also grabbed the 3.2alpha, anything I need to change to use it? Right now 3.2alpha and 3.1 are basically the same. At this point your testing would be more helpful

[Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-08 Thread rory_f
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2010, Jon LaBadie wrote: Because the scsi buss is a transmission line, and demands a decent VSWR, there are 2 things to remember when dealing with scsi. 1.A list of pre-requisites that must be met if it is to work: 1.a: termination

Re: [Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 08 March 2010, rory_f wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [huge snip] Well, thanks for the long explanation. I doubt i will be able to test the setup as much as you have described but it's useful information. I've tried a couple of different cables, unplugged and plugged back in, all that

Re: [Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 08 March 2010, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:16:09 -0500 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Refresher course 101 on scsi here folks, bear with me. Very nice write-up, Gene. Thanks. This is a good candidate for the Wiki. Be my guest if you have write

[Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-08 Thread rory_f
[quote=Gene Heskett]On Monday 08 March 2010, rory_f wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: In your case, two things. Is it the last drive on the cable?, and is it terminated properly? And I would certainly check the 5 volt line of the host computer to see if its sagging in its old age. 4.85 volts

Re: [Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Be my guest if you have write privileges. It's a wiki - everyone has write privileges (including, to my dismay, spammers .. but I try to keep up with them). Please do add this to the wiki! Dustin -- Open Source

compile issue on solaris X/x86_64

2010-03-08 Thread Matthew Boeckman
Hello list! I'm struggling to compile 2.6.1 (or 2.6.1p2 - same error) on Solaris 10 x86_64 with gcc packages from sunfreeware. I've gone through a few iterations, and have also followed the instructions for PKG_CONFIG at OS specific notes here in the FAQ. When I run configure without

Re: compile issue on solaris X/x86_64

2010-03-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Matthew Boeckman mboeck...@servicemagic.com wrote: Any pointers are greatly appreciated. Thanks! Ah, Solaris. The problem is that pkg-config gives the compiler flags with which glib (and in particular gthread) was compiled, and with which you'll need to compile

Re: device_property setting in amanda.conf

2010-03-08 Thread Brian Cuttler
Dustin, Updated amanda.conf with device_property BLOCK_SIZE 2 mbytes Tried to relabel a labeled but never used tape, priviously Curie46, labeled with the default device_property (default as in I hadn't specified anything). I have to overwrite the tape header, there is a level below the amanda

Re: device_property setting in amanda.conf

2010-03-08 Thread Brian Cuttler
Dustin, Ivan at my site nailed it. Mar 8 12:59:37 curie scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /p...@3,0/pci1022,7...@9/pci1000,1...@1/f...@0,0/t...@w500110a0008b3fda,0 (st0): Mar 8 12:59:37 curie Cannot alloc contig buf for I/O for 2097152 blk size setting the block_size to 1 meg took.

built 2.6.1p2 on Solaris 10 x86

2010-03-08 Thread Brian Cuttler
Amanda users, We do a couple of weird things here, restricting ports as a matter of course because sometimes we install on firewalls and I don't want to rebuild special for them. Besides, its not a bad idea in general to be mildly security minded. In this case we have clients where the

Re: built 2.6.1p2 on Solaris 10 x86

2010-03-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote: I offer the following as 'works for me' take from it what you will. Sounds like something that's worth putting on the wiki. Perhaps you can make a sub-page, linked from the Solaris installation page (which is already quite

Re: [Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 08 March 2010, rory_f wrote: [quote=Gene Heskett]On Monday 08 March 2010, rory_f wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: In your case, two things. Is it the last drive on the cable?, and is it terminated properly? And I would certainly check the 5 volt line of the host computer to see if its

Re: [Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 08 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Be my guest if you have write privileges. It's a wiki - everyone has write privileges (including, to my dismay, spammers .. but I try to keep up with them). Please do

[Amanda-users] Amtapetype not returning right tape length?

2010-03-08 Thread rory_f
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net wrote: Be my guest if you have write privileges. It's a wiki - everyone has write privileges (including, to my dismay,

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-03-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Steve Wray steve.w...@cwa.co.nz wrote: Right, so the LATEST most up-to-date version of Debian uses a 3 year old version of amanda. Fantastic, thanks Debian for keeping things so 'stable'. To be fair, that's exactly the intent, and maintaining a Linux distribution

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-03-08 Thread Gene Heskett
. The tarball, OTOH, lends itself to the enterprising bash script writer, who can then install and test check the latest version of amanda in about 3, maybe 4 minutes on a fast machine using ccache. In fact I just installed the 20100308 snapshot of amanda-3.2alpha. And I used the same pair of scripts