Re: MAC Amanda client backup

2011-07-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
Ravikiran, I'm sorry, the /tmp/amanda/server/* files will of course be on your linux amanda server, rather than your MAC amanda client. If you can find the logs for the server side of the connection, please see if they tell you anything useful. On the client side, double check the .amandahosts

tar estimate dying

2011-07-07 Thread Tim Johnson
Hello all, Sorry to post this question, as I have run out of ideas. I am running a 2.6.1p2-3 server with the same as clients. Recently a couple of clients are not able to backup their / file system. All of the other file systems on them backup fine (/home /boot). After about 30 minutes

Re: tar estimate dying

2011-07-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
Tim, That is weird. I've got a couple of Solaris 10/x86 system that are all ZFS except for the boot partitions which are UFS. My systems have also recently begun failing on the boot partitions, even though I'm using server estimates. The ZFS based DLEs are all backing up just fine. That is 1 -

Tape order

2011-07-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I am trying to determine what tape order amanda uses when requesting a reuse tape. My amanda.conf is configured to use slots 31-36 for my archive tapes. These slots contain the following tapes. Storage Element 31:Full :VolumeTag=A00224L2 Storage Element

Re: tar estimate dying

2011-07-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Can you post the exact error message you get from amanda? You said 'broken pipe', where do you get it. Telling 'tar estimate dying' or 'broken pipe' is useless if you don't show how/where you get them. The sendsize debug file looks good, please post the debug file that show the error you

Re: tar estimate dying

2011-07-07 Thread Tim Johnson
As for me, I get no errors at all. The only message I do get is from the amreport which says that the dump of the file system has failed. As of right now, I am trying several configs of different dump type setups to see if it makes a difference. Although they are the same that have been

Re: Tape order

2011-07-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Always post which amanda release you are using! Try chg-robot for your changer. Jean-Louis On 07/07/2011 02:21 PM, McGraw, Robert P wrote: I am trying to determine what tape order amanda uses when requesting a reuse tape. My amanda.conf is configured to use slots 31-36 for my archive tapes.

Re: tar estimate dying

2011-07-07 Thread Debra Baddorf
In case this jars any clever thoughts:way back when, I remember when my size estimates got just big enough that the initial connection started by the server had timed out. The client had to create a new connection to send the result . and it didn't have the right permission to initiate

Re: tar estimate dying

2011-07-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
If you got only 'failed' for the error message, then something is really broken, I would like to see it, can you post the complete line from the 'FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY' section of the report. On 07/07/2011 03:22 PM, Tim Johnson wrote: As for me, I get no errors at all. The only message I do

Re: tar estimate dying

2011-07-07 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jean-Louis, On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:35:58PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: If you got only 'failed' for the error message, then something is really broken, I would like to see it, can you post the complete line from the 'FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY' section of the report. I mispoke, this is

RE: Tape order

2011-07-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
I usually do that just sliped my mind. My setup is I am running Amanda-3.2.3 on a Solaris 10 X86 host and I have changer defined as define changer c4 { tpchanger chg-robot:/dev/changer/0 changerfile chg-zd-mtx-state property tape-device 0=tape:/dev/rmt/0cbn property

Re: Tape order

2011-07-07 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
% amadmin archive tape The next Amanda run should go onto 6 new tapes. The next 6 new tapes already labelled are: A00221, A00222, A00224, A00225, A00226, A00223 Ha, they are new tapes, there is no order for new tape, amanda use the first one. Put them in the changer in the oreder you want

Re: MAC Amanda client backup

2011-07-07 Thread Pieter Bowman
... I did installed 2.5.0p2 client with same options that mentioned above wiki page. Then I started the launch daeomns for bsdudp, For some reason I am seeinng follwing error in logs on com.apple.launchd[1] org.amanda.amandad.basdudp getpwnam(amandabackup) failed

Re: Tape order

2011-07-07 Thread McGraw, Robert P
Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) From: Jean-Louis Martineau Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 9:21:48 PM To: McGraw, Robert P Cc: 'amanda-users@amanda.org' Subject: Re: Tape order % amadmin archive tape The next Amanda run should go