Re: 3.5 amcheck issue

2017-10-05 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hi Jean-Louis, after applying the patch there are much more hosts failing with */    selfcheck request failed: EOF on read from /*Regards, Dennis Am 05.10.2017 um 14:56 schrieb Dennis Benndorf: Hi Jean-Louis, the server has Ubuntu 14.04 installed. root@SERVER:~/*amanda-3.3.9*# grep

Re: 3.5 amcheck issue

2017-10-05 Thread Dennis Benndorf
GETSERVBYPORT config/config.h Can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis On 05/10/17 05:30 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hi, we are really excited using amanda-3.5 because of the multithread patch. Testing it there seems to be an issue: If I run     for i in `amadmin mirror hosts`; do echo $i

3.5 amcheck issue

2017-10-05 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hi, we are really excited using amanda-3.5 because of the multithread patch. Testing it there seems to be an issue: If I run     for i in `amadmin mirror hosts`; do echo $i ;amcheck -c mirror $i;done in amanda-3.3.9 * Two Clients have/'Connection timed out' (bla2,esx-237) / * /One Clie

Re: amanda-3.5 amanda-security.conf

2017-10-05 Thread Dennis Benndorf
ennis Am 02.10.2017 um 16:02 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: Dennis, Can you try the attached patch, it should print a better error message. Jean-Louis On 02/10/17 08:49 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hi Jean-Louis, yes I did: amanda@SERVER:~$ amcheck -c mirror CLIENT '/usr/local/etc/

Re: amanda-3.5 amanda-security.conf

2017-10-02 Thread Dennis Benndorf
amanda-security.conf file on that host (your server)? Jean-Louis On 02/10/17 05:10 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hi, might there be an issue with amanda-3.5 and the new option tcp_port_range in amanda-security.conf? Amanda always tells this message: ERROR: CLIENT: selfcheck reques

amanda-3.5 amanda-security.conf

2017-10-02 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hi, might there be an issue with amanda-3.5 and the new option tcp_port_range in amanda-security.conf? Amanda always tells this message: ERROR: CLIENT: selfcheck request failed: No defined tcp_port_range in '/usr/local/etc/amanda-security.conf' We were running 3.3.9 before which worked

Re: amfetchdump option bug

2015-11-05 Thread Dennis Benndorf
uot;) if ($opt_pipe and $opt_no_reassembly); fixes it, because -p and $opt_pipe goes together Could you please commit the patch? Regards, Dennis Am 05.11.2015 um 13:53 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: On 05/11/15 02:01 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello, I am facing a bug when running amfet

amfetchdump option bug

2015-11-04 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello, I am facing a bug when running amfetchdump like this: /usr/local/sbin/amfetchdump --exact-match -lan -O /dir config client dle timestamp/ Error message is: /ERROR: -p is not compatible with -n/ But -p is not set and in the source of amfetchdump there is written: /usage("-p

Re: How to priorize DLEs?

2014-12-16 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hi Stefan, did you consider using dumporder "T..." in order start with those DLEs which take the longest time? Regards, Dennis 2014-12-16 11:29 GMT+01:00 Stefan G. Weichinger : > > > Is it possible to define a behavior like: > > "always start with dumping this DLE" ? > > "tapera

Re: amanda regex

2014-11-25 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello Markus, yes it is from shell. The first one only works with "--exact-match". I thought that the option of amfetchdump would work this way, too. If I put the second one in quotes nothing changes. Regards Dennis amadmin --exact-match mirror find SERVER //esx-87/C$ => works amfetchdump --exa

amanda regex

2014-11-25 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hi guys, I am writing a script to export monthly backups out of amanda to an archive software, but now I think I am facing a bug. I was expecting regex to work in all amanda programs in the same way, but this is what I get (using amsamba in disklist): amadmin --exact-match mirror find SERVER //es

Re: amdumps failing, and some amchecks as well

2014-03-26 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello Stefan, did this worked for you? I applied the patch and got multiple messages like this: [too many dumper retry: [request failed: error sending REQ: write error to: Broken pipe]] FAILED [data read: recv error: Resource temporarily unavailable] [cannot read header: got 0 bytes instead

Re: Chg-Rait: Writing to one half of a mirror

2014-03-26 Thread Dennis Benndorf
7;t require the changer to have the inventory functionality. Only the 'traditional' taperscan doesn't require inventory. If I remember, the 'ERROR' device works only when reading tape, not for writing. Jean-Louis On 03/17/2014 07:48 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello,

Chg-Rait: Writing to one half of a mirror

2014-03-17 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello, at the weekend I was facing the problem, that one of our robot had a problem with its grappler (arm). Because of this amanda refused writing to the mirror. I saw something with tapedev definition where you can set one half to ERROR, also I did try to use "null:" in changer definition bu

Re: Strange Problem: Failures if one Windows system down

2014-01-29 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello Markus, yes I can confirm this. We have the same problem with local firewalls blocking port 10080. This breaks multiple other dumps. Dennis On 01/29/14 16:53, Markus Iturriaga Woelfel wrote: Hi Amanda Users: I'm experiencing a strange problem with our Amanda (3.3.3) setup. We've bee

Re: amreport regex problem

2013-07-05 Thread Dennis Benndorf
0 {D00372,D00372} reuse BARCODE:{D00372,D00372} BLOCKSIZE:32 -- Regards Dennis > On 07/04/2013 08:16 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > amreport seems to have a problem with my labelstring while amcheck > > does not: > > > > amanda@dl380-

amreport regex problem

2013-07-04 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hi, amreport seems to have a problem with my labelstring while amcheck does not: /amanda@dl380-54:~$ amreport mirror/ /Hostname: dl380-54/ /Org : Tagesbackup/ /Config : mirror/ /Date: July 3, 2013/ /These dumps were to tapes {D00224,D00224}, {D00231,D00231}, {D00249,D00249}./ /There ar

Re: error whith amlabel and chg-rait

2013-06-27 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hi, amanda@dl380-54:~$ amlabel -f mirror slot '{225,225}' Reading label... Found Amanda volume 'D00225'. Newly-generated label '' does not match labelstr '^D0[0-9]*$' Dont know why this happend, because labelstr is set to "^D0[0-9]*$" and autolabel to "$b" any . but if I set it by hand it works

Re: error whith amlabel and chg-rait

2013-06-27 Thread Dennis Benndorf
grep meta-autolabel /etc/amanda/mirror/amanda.conf show nothing. -- Regards Dennis Benndorf > Dennis, > > Do you have 'meta-autolabel' set in your amanda.conf? unset it. > > Jean-Louis > > On 06/27/2013 08:33 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: > > Ok I und

Re: error whith amlabel and chg-rait

2013-06-27 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Ok I understand but why does it tell me those messages: amanda@dl380-54:~$ amlabel -f mirror slot '{225,225}' Reading label... Found Amanda volume 'D00225'. amlabel: Can't call method "make_new_meta_label" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Amanda/Changer.pm line 1632. amanda@

error whith amlabel and chg-rait

2013-06-27 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello, I am trying to set up a mirror of too robots using chg-rait. Tapes in both robots have the same barcodes. Now I want to label them with the name of their barcodes, but the following happens: /amanda@dl380-54:~$ amlabel -f --meta META225 --barcode D00225 mirror/ /Reading label.../ /No v

Re: adding more dles brakes amanda

2013-02-22 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hi Jean-Louis, you are great! I have commented out this dle an now it works. ( I was one of the ten I had comment out yesterday) I think there is a firewall on this system, which causes this. Will report it later.. Big Thanks, Dennis

Re: adding more dles brakes amanda

2013-02-21 Thread Dennis Benndorf
time which can make big load on some system services (dns, ...). Is it always the same 40 hosts that fail? Can you amcheck them once at a time: amcheck -c daily HOSTNAME Jean-Louis On 02/21/2013 10:30 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello, let me explain this headline. Last night the backup

Re: amcheck does not recognize lablestr

2013-01-07 Thread Dennis Benndorf
the traditional taperscan bug. It's hard to say what's wrong with the oldest taperscan without more information: - the debug files - the changet state file - the output of: mtx -f /dev/sg?? status Jean-Louis On 01/07/2013 05:00 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello, I am using Ama

Re: labelstr problem in latest svn snapshot

2012-12-21 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Am 20.12.2012 19:22, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: On 12/20/2012 12:59 PM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello, those messages apear a lot in current backuplogs, but backup seems to work: /volume '' does not match labelstr '^D0[0-9]*$'/ Where exactly do you get that error mes

Re: multiplexed NICs on Amanda server?

2012-11-26 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello Neil, thats not a thing of amanda, instead it is a thing of the operation system. If you are using a linux distributionen you should google "bonding". In order to have the full bandwith the ports at the switch have to be configured to act as one. Regards, Dennis Am 26.11.2012 21:27,

MAX_DUMPERS Settings

2012-08-02 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello @all, let me first thank you for this great peace of software! The reason of this email is that we have a big envirement beeing backed up with amanda. So because of this we set MAX_DUMPERS to 200 instead of the maximum value in the source code of 63. After every update we have to change

Re: amvault segmentation fault

2012-05-16 Thread Dennis Benndorf
simultaneously. Jean-Louis On 05/15/2012 08:20 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Am 15.05.2012 14:14, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: On 05/15/2012 07:54 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Log file /usr/local/etc/amanda/daily/catalog/log.20120506180002.0 stamped 20120506180002, expecting 20120505180458! I never saw

Re: amvault segmentation fault

2012-05-15 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Really big thanks to you, I tested amrecover and it works now. The test of amvault will be available tommorow. I will send another email then. Kind Regards, Dennis

Re: amvault segmentation fault

2012-05-15 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Post the amvault..debug file. Can you run amvault inside gdb? $gdb perl (gdb) run /path/to/amvault [amvault arg] And get a backtrace of all threads? (gdb) info threads Then for each threads: (gdb) thread (gdb) where Jean-Louis On 05/15/2012 03:21 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello Jean-Louis,

Re: amvault segmentation fault

2012-05-15 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello Jean-Louis, got annother segmentation fault this morning now running amanda 3.3.1.svn.4721. Regards, Dennis Am 14.05.2012 16:14, schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: On 05/14/2012 08:26 AM, Dennis Benndorf wrote: after updating our backup server to Ubuntu Server 12.04 and recompiling amanda

amvault segmentation fault

2012-05-14 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello @all, after updating our backup server to Ubuntu Server 12.04 and recompiling amanda 3.3.1 amvault fails with segmentation fault everytime it is started. Might this have something to do with the removal of g_queue_free_full, which was needed to compile it? Which logfiles do you need?

Re: [Mtx-general] Error when loading a tape

2011-11-29 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello Gerhardus, I did had this message also as I tried to load a tape which had the wrong barcode. Wrong because there was no L4 (stands for LTO4) at the end of the barcodestring. Our Library is a L700 from Storagetek, so it could be the same thing for you. Our old HP-Library didnt moan about the

Re: Unset "application" in inherited dumptype

2011-10-23 Thread Dennis Benndorf
lient fast priority medium } Another way would be to set program "GNUTAR" in global an overwrite it in the dumptypes, this way around it should be possible. Regards, Dennis Am Freitag, den 21.10.2011, 17:22 +0200 schrieb Moritz Both: > (resending because it does not show on the

Re: Unset "application" in inherited dumptype

2011-10-20 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello Moritz, could you please give us your complete definition of your dumptypes and disklist? Regards, Dennis

chg-rait error messages and amvault problems

2011-09-20 Thread Dennis Benndorf
iting full tapes. It will not vault all dumps then. Any idea how to get chg-rait working without relabeling all tapes or how to get amvault to vault all dumps when using taperflush? -- Mit freundlichem Gruß Dennis Benndorf

chg-rait error messages and amvault problems

2011-09-20 Thread Dennis Benndorf
iting full tapes. It will not vault all dumps then. Any idea how to get chg-rait working without relabeling all tapes or how to get amvault to vault all dumps when using taperflush? -- Mit freundlichem Gruß Dennis Benndorf <>

chg-rait error messages and amvault problems

2011-09-19 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello @all, I get the following error messages if I run amcheck: slot {11,11}: Can't read label: Inconsistent volume labels/datestamps: Got D0/20110604180123 on tape:/dev/L700/MRU-LW-1 against D10020/20110601081910 on tape:/dev/L700/MRO-LW-1. amcheck-device: Can't call method "make_new_tap

Re: Separate backup to the server and sending to tapes

2011-08-21 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello Matt, the simplest way to do so, is to run "amdump --no-taper daily" when you want to do the backup, and run another cronjob at night with "amflush daily". Regards, Dennis Original-Nachricht > Datum: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:09:40 -0400 > Von: Matt Burkhardt > An: amanda-u

Re: Why does Amanda not use my new labled tapes?

2011-07-27 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello Marc, I can´t see this in my amanda installation here. How many tapes have you got and how is your tapecycle set? Regards, Dennis Original-Nachricht > Datum: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:03:46 +0200 > Von: Marc Muehlfeld > An: "Amanda user\'s group" > Betreff: Why does Amanda

Re: amrecover doesnt find recent dumps made with star

2011-07-26 Thread Dennis Benndorf
history ) but if I move in index it shows only the dumps of the 18th. Any Idea? Regards, Dennis Original-Nachricht > Datum: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:36:13 +0200 > Von: "Dennis Benndorf" > An: amanda-users@amanda.org > Betreff: amrecover doesnt find recen

Re: Increase MAX_DUMPERS in "inparallel" option

2011-07-19 Thread Dennis Benndorf
8 -0400 > Von: gene heskett > An: "Dennis Benndorf" , amanda-users@amanda.org > Betreff: Re: Increase MAX_DUMPERS in "inparallel" option > On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 09:43:54 AM Dennis Benndorf did opine: > > > Hello Gene, > > > > th

amrecover doesnt find recent dumps made with star

2011-07-19 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello @all, I have curious problem here. Some clients that were dumped with star are not listed in amrecover since 3 weeks. So if you run amrecover it will recover the dump of 2011-07-01 instead of 2011-07-19 because it thinks there is no more recent dumps available for this disk, but they are!

Increase MAX_DUMPERS in "inparallel" option

2011-07-12 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello @all, I want to increase the maximum of inparallel dumps, but dont know really how. I looked in the source of server-src/driverio.h but there is no value to set higher. inparallel 63 # maximum dumpers that will run in parallel (max 63) # this ma

Re: amanda 3.3beta: amrecover fails because of decompression?

2011-04-19 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello Jean-Louis, thanks for the patch, seems to work now! Regards, Dennis Original-Nachricht > Datum: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:39:08 -0400 > Von: Jean-Louis Martineau > An: Dennis Benndorf > CC: amanda-users@amanda.org > Betreff: Re: amanda 3.3beta: amrecover f

amanda 3.3beta: amrecover fails because of decompression?

2011-04-19 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello, after updating yesterday to 3.3beta amrecover shows: on linuxhost dumped with tar Extracting files using tape drive changer on host dl380-54.gbv.de. Load tape D00070 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Y tar: Archive is compressed. Use -z option tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Extractor c

Re: amlabel --barcode fails

2011-04-18 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Oh yes, thank you! Nice feature.. Original-Nachricht > Datum: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:21:25 -0400 > Von: Jean-Louis Martineau > An: Dennis Benndorf > CC: amanda-users@amanda.org > Betreff: Re: amlabel --barcode fails > Dennis Benndorf wrote: > > Hi Je

Re: amlabel --barcode fails

2011-04-18 Thread Dennis Benndorf
au > An: Dennis Benndorf > CC: amanda-users@amanda.org > Betreff: Re: amlabel --barcode fails > Dennis Benndorf wrote: > > Hello, > > > > testing 3.3beta1, fails for me when using the new feature "amlabel > --barcode": > > > > amlabel -f --ba

amlabel --barcode fails

2011-04-18 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello, testing 3.3beta1, fails for me when using the new feature "amlabel --barcode": amlabel -f --barcode D10080 -olabelstr='^D1[0-9]*$' -otpchanger=l700-robot-MRO daily Reading label... barcode: D10080 sl_barcode: D10080 slot: 269 Found an empty tape. Writing label ''... ** ERROR:device.c:114

Taperflush bug in 3.2.2?

2011-04-04 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello @all, after updating to 3.2.2 amanda uses more tapes (LTO4) as expected: USAGE BY TAPE: Label Time Size % DLEs Parts D3 2:32 797382M 100.4 137 279 D1 0:30 190514M 24.0 038 Here is my config: flus

amstar exclude

2010-11-09 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hi @all, I am using amstar on a set of clients but I am not able to get exclude working. How is the syntax for star to leave out files? e.g. a partiton dumped with Gnutar: /partition so the file to exclude is /partition/file and the entry in the dumptype would be ./file. How is it for star? T

RE: amstar regex does not work

2010-07-13 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello agian, Jean-Louis do you have an idea maybe? Thanks, Dennis -- GMX DSL: Internet-, Telefon- und Handy-Flat ab 19,99 EUR/mtl. Bis zu 150 EUR Startguthaben inklusive! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

amstar regex does not work

2010-07-05 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello @all, I had a conversation with Dustin about amstar and the regex. Here is what we discussed: I am using amstar due to a problem of gtar with zfs. So here is one entry of my daily email report: ? a etc/rcS.d/K34ncalogd link to etc/rc0.d/K34ncalogd There are houndreds of them. But in ams

amcheck does not check runtapes parameter

2010-06-17 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello @all, I stumbled about that amcheck does not seem to recognize how much tapes per run is set in amanda.conf. So if I need 5 tapes, it would say that everything is ok if only one tape is available. Might this something to fix in further releases? Regards, therm -- GMX DSL: Internet-, Tele

Re: Amcheck and Amreport does not moan about non existing client script

2010-06-14 Thread Dennis Benndorf
file or directory] ? Script 'mysqlbackup.sh' command 'POST-DLE-BACKUP' exited with status 1: see /var/log/amanda/client/daily/sendbackup.20100614102506.debug Regards, Dennis ---- Original-Nachricht > Datum: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:21:41 +0200 > Von: &qu

Amcheck and Amreport does not moan about non existing client script

2010-06-14 Thread Dennis Benndorf
Hello @all, As discussed with dustin here is my problem: I got a mysqldumpscript working for months, then I updated an amanda client but the applications directory changed from /usr/local.. to /usr/lib/ so the script was not there. I am afraid that there was no warning, instead there was only a