Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Michael Mueskens wrote: Well ok, we don't have to talk about backing up running databases, the best way in my opinion to do a db-backup is to dump the databases (e.g. mysqldump) and then backup these dumps via amanda. Or, if

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > Does that mean that the planner understands this and will arrange for fulls > and incrementals in the same fashion as for ordinary partition backups with > ufsdump or gnutar? Yep! > Now, what about MySQL? I know that starts to conflict wi

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Michael Mueskens wrote: >> Jean-Louis' suggestion is a good one for this case. > > So far I haven't had the time to take a look into 3.1, but it sounds very > interesting. > >> >> I had forgotten that ampgsql makes this easily configurable already, >> using the STR

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Michael Mueskens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Michael Mueskens wrote: > Or, if you're using postgres, use ampgsql. > http://code.v.igoro.us/archives/50-Whats-New-in-Amanda-Postgres-Backups.html I'm sorry, but we're using that only

Re: Recovering files while amdump running

2010-03-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Valeriu Mutu wrote: > I have Amanda setup and working successfully (thanks to the development > team). Nevertheless, I can't restore files when 'amdump' is running. I'm > using the 'chg-zd-mtx' tape changer. > > This is what I get from 'amrecover' when I try to

Recovering files while amdump running

2010-03-26 Thread Valeriu Mutu
Hi, I have Amanda setup and working successfully (thanks to the development team). Nevertheless, I can't restore files when 'amdump' is running. I'm using the 'chg-zd-mtx' tape changer. This is what I get from 'amrecover' when I try to do a recovery in such a scenario: /var/lib/amanda/Daily1/

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Michael Mueskens wrote: > Well ok, we don't have to talk about backing up running databases, the best > way > in my opinion to do a db-backup is to dump the databases (e.g. mysqldump) and > then backup these dumps via amanda. Or, if you're using postgres, use amp

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Michael Mueskens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: > Amdump's exit statuses are here, by the way: > http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amdump.8.html > > We've kept the strange messages as a distinct error because they *can* > represent data loss. For example, if your accounts_re

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
With the amgtar application (in 3.1.0), an exit status of 1 from runtar is not an error. "file changed as we read it" will still result in STRANGE result, but you can add a regex to turn it into a SUCCESS. Jean-Louis Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I upgraded Amanda from 2.5.1p3 to 2.6.1p2 on my Fr

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 March 2010, Michael Mueskens wrote: >Gene Heskett schrieb: >> On Friday 26 March 2010, Michael Mueskens wrote: >>> how exactly did you do that? Did you change something in the >>> amanda-source? Is this error output not from the client, so you have to >>> patch something in the amanda-

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > In bash, you can assign that error and process accordingly.  Here is a > snippet of that part of my wrapper script, with the language sanitized > for the list: > >       ${AM_SBIN_DIR}/amdump $CONFIGNAME $HOST $DLE >> $LOG >        SCS=$? >  

Re: amanda-3.1.0-rc16-20100325 snapshot recover fails

2010-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 March 2010, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I just installed the amanda-3.1.0rc16-20100325 snapshot and amrecover >> still fails: > >Gene, this is the bug you caught a few days ago. I only committed the >fix to it about 5 minutes ag

Re: Multi Drive changer

2010-03-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Alan Bunch wrote: > I am looking at Amanda as a new backup server.  I have a two drive, 40 slot > changer. > > Is the recommended setup to use two Amanda configurations, one for each tape > drive,  or have  I missed something in the documentation ? > > Is this supp

Re: addendum to prev msg

2010-03-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > the 3.2alpha for 0325 also fails, but the 0319 version Just Works(TM) And apologies for the short response previously. The bug has now been reported a half-dozen times by our internal QA team, and 3 times by you. :) It does show that we're

Re: amanda-3.1.0-rc16-20100325 snapshot recover fails

2010-03-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > I just installed the amanda-3.1.0rc16-20100325 snapshot and amrecover still > fails: Gene, this is the bug you caught a few days ago. I only committed the fix to it about 5 minutes ago, so I'm not surprised it's still failing! I was just g

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Michael Mueskens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett schrieb: > On Friday 26 March 2010, Michael Mueskens wrote: >> how exactly did you do that? Did you change something in the >> amanda-source? Is this error output not from the client, so you have to >> patch something in the amanda-client-

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 March 2010, Michael Mueskens wrote: >Gene Heskett schrieb: >> On Friday 26 March 2010, Toomas Aas wrote: >> It has been a while since I visited my wrapper scripts, but ISTR I had >> to train my scripts that an error return of 1 was perfectly ok. > >hello Gene, > >how exactly did you do

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Michael Mueskens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett schrieb: > On Friday 26 March 2010, Toomas Aas wrote: > It has been a while since I visited my wrapper scripts, but ISTR I had to > train my scripts that an error return of 1 was perfectly ok. hello Gene, how exactly did you do that? Di

Multi Drive changer

2010-03-26 Thread Alan Bunch
I am looking at Amanda as a new backup server. I have a two drive, 40 slot changer. Is the recommended setup to use two Amanda configurations, one for each tape drive, or have I missed something in the documentation ? Is this supported in a single configuration ? Thanks in advance. Alan

addendum to prev msg

2010-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; the 3.2alpha for 0325 also fails, but the 0319 version Just Works(TM) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) He whom opens thee Windows invites the bugs in.

amanda-3.1.0-rc16-20100325 snapshot recover fails

2010-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings folks; I just installed the amanda-3.1.0rc16-20100325 snapshot and amrecover still fails: [r...@coyote amanda]# amrecover AMRECOVER Version 3.1.0rc16. Contacting server on coyote.coyote.den ... 220 coyote AMANDA index server (3.1.0rc16) ready. Setting restore

Re: runtar exited with status 1

2010-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 March 2010, Toomas Aas wrote: >On 25.03.2010 08:03, Toomas Aas wrote: >> So it seems that the FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY is incorrect about >> listing this DLE as failed. > >As a workaround, I switched this DLE to "estimate calcsize". Tonight's run >went fine. > >-- >Toomas > It has been a w

Re: New webpage is live

2010-03-26 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On 26/03/2010 13:40, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: I think this is a DNS problem AND apache, further when typing the IP address 216.34.181.97 it yiilds the same webpage (f5.txt). At the moment, though, it looks li