power down hard drives

Just a thought. My amanda server has seven hard drives dedicated to saving amanda data. Only 2 are typically used (holding and one vtape drive) during an amdump run. Even then, the usage is only for about 3 hours. So there is a lot of electricity and disk drive wear for inactive drives. Can

Re: manual updating tapelist and tape headers after disk crash

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 08:18:03PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > > On Nov 10, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:10:12PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > >> > >>> Am 2017-11-06 um 19:49 schrieb Jon LaBadie: > My vtapes are spread

Re: manual updating tapelist and tape headers after disk crash

> On Nov 10, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:10:12PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: >> >>> Am 2017-11-06 um 19:49 schrieb Jon LaBadie: My vtapes are spread across several disks. One of the smallest recently died in a most audible

Re: manual updating tapelist and tape headers after disk crash

On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:10:12PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > > Am 2017-11-06 um 19:49 schrieb Jon LaBadie: > >> My vtapes are spread across several disks. One of the > >> smallest recently died in a most audible way. > >> > >> I'm replacing the disk with a larger one. > >> > >> I would

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

The previous patch broke something. Try this new set2-r2.diff patch Jean-Louis On 10/11/17 10:40 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-10 08:27, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 10/11/17 07:57 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-08 08:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 07/11/17

Re: approaches to Amanda vaulting?

Am 2017-11-10 um 16:00 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > I start with a taper.debug with debug-level 3: Do I have to provide more debug-files? amanda.conf or parts of it (the storage defs were in an earlier mail today and I don't want to flood the list)? I have to leave in a few minutes and

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

On 2017-11-10 08:27, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 10/11/17 07:57 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-08 08:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 07/11/17 02:58 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:  > On 2017-11-07 10:22, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:  >> Austin,  >>  >> It's hard to say

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

On 10/11/17 10:10 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-10 10:00, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Austin, Can you try the attached patch, I think it could fix the set1 and set2 errors. Yes, but I won't be able to log in this weekend to revert it if it doesn't work, so I won't be able to

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

On 2017-11-10 10:00, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Austin, Can you try the attached patch, I think it could fix the set1 and set2 errors. Yes, but I won't be able to log in this weekend to revert it if it doesn't work, so I won't be able to test it until Monday. Am I correct in assuming that

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

Austin, Can you try the attached patch, I think it could fix the set1 and set2 errors. Jean-Louis On 07/11/17 02:58 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-07 10:22, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Austin, It's hard to say something with only the error message. Can you post the amdump.

Re: approaches to Amanda vaulting?

I start with a taper.debug with debug-level 3: taper: pid 27077 ruid 87 euid 87 version 3.5: start at Fri Nov 10 15:30:49 2017 taper: Arguments: daily --storage archive --log-filename /var/lib/amanda/daily/log.20171110153047.0 taper: reading config file /etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf taper:

Re: approaches to Amanda vaulting?

an't find the related files. You should find them in `amgetconf build.amanda_dbgdir` I don't remember, is that a configure-flag? -- # file amdump (even when I ran amflush ...): amflush: start at Fri Nov 10 15:08:20 CET 2017 amflush: datestamp 20171110 amflush: starttime 20171110150820 amflush:

Re: approaches to Amanda vaulting?

Stefan, Post all debug files and log generated while running amflush. Jean-Louis On 10/11/17 08:45 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2017-11-08 um 18:57 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: On 28/10/17 12:37 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Is it possible to amflush dumps from holdingdisk to tape

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

On 2017-11-10 08:27, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 10/11/17 07:57 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-08 08:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 07/11/17 02:58 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:  > On 2017-11-07 10:22, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:  >> Austin,  >>  >> It's hard to say

Re: approaches to Amanda vaulting?

Am 2017-11-08 um 18:57 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > On 28/10/17 12:37 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Is it possible to amflush dumps from holdingdisk to tape while keeping >> the dump files in the holdingdisk (for flushing them to a second set of >> tapes later or just restore purposes) ?

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

On 10/11/17 07:57 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-11-08 08:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 07/11/17 02:58 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2017-11-07 10:22, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >> Austin, >> >> It's hard to say something with only the error message. >> >> Can you

Re: Odd non-fatal errors in amdump reports.

On 2017-11-08 08:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 07/11/17 02:58 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2017-11-07 10:22, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >> Austin, >> >> It's hard to say something with only the error message. >> >> Can you post the amdump. and log..0 for the 2 >> backup set