amcheck knocks tape device offline with SCSI Error 70000

I'm in the process of upgrading from 2.5.0p2 to 2.6.1p2 and from an SAIT drive to an LTO-4 drive on the backup server (CentOS 5.4, 64-bit). This is the second time I've seen amcheck knock my tape drive offline. Here's the scenario that led to the problem: I successfully ran an amdump overn

Re: OT: Hitting block size limitation on LTO4 drive

hanks for the suggestion which ultimately led me to discover this. :-) -Fran Fran Fabrizio wrote: This isn't strictly related to Amanda but this list has been an excellent resource for tape drive configuration in the past, so I am hoping someone here can help. I've recently obtained a

OT: Hitting block size limitation on LTO4 drive

re out of the drive. Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio, Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ | 205.934.0653

amrecover: Could not read from control socket: Success

his is a known bug which an upgrade would resolve. Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653

Re: timeout waiting for ACK for our REP

acking going on, it would probably reject a reply packet after 800+ seconds. If that doesn't prove to be the case, take a look at a tcpdump of the connection, to see whether the REP packet or its ACK is actually being lost. Dustin -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Com

Re: Backwards compatibility of 2.5.0p2

uld appear from that statement that the problems I am seeing are not basic incompatibilities, and my question becomes more about what is causing these "stranded on waitq" messages from 2.4.4pX clients with the 2.5.0p2 server that were working on with the 2.4.5p1 server. -- Fran Fab

Backwards compatibility of 2.5.0p2

er 2.5.0p2 clients all worked. I'm just curious if these are known incompatibilities or something specific to my setup I need to look into further. Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at

RESOLVED Re: Estimate timeouts after upgrade and easy way to test just one backup target

lad it's resolved, anyway. -Fran Fran Fabrizio wrote: I have been running tests all afternoon to try to pinpoint the problem. First issue I am having is with the amcheck timing out. I have ctimeout set to 150, but amcheck appears to be ignoring that... -bash-3.1$ /usr/sbin/amcheck -c

Re: Estimate timeouts after upgrade and easy way to test just one backup target

: time 59.987: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad: time 59.987: waiting for ack: timeout, giving up! amandad: time 59.987: pid 31419 finish time Wed Apr 19 16:54:30 2006 So that's the first problem. Any thoughts on this one? -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Com

Re: Estimate timeouts after upgrade and easy way to test just one backup target

selinux turned on in FC5? probably not in rh9. I have it disabled on the FC5 box. I also imagine that if this were the case, all clients would fail or none. But good idea. -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at

Re: Estimate timeouts after upgrade and easy way to test just one backup target

have minimal disruption to the normal backup cycle. Probably best, and not that hard to set up. I'll give that a shot. Ram "TK" Krishnamurthy wrote: Fran Fabrizio wrote: I recently upgraded the server side to 2.4.5 and a subset of my hosts are consistently timing out on

Estimate timeouts after upgrade and easy way to test just one backup target

config where the only change is a server upgrade from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5 which corresponded with a move from redhat 9 to fedora core 5 for the server? Thoughts about the best way to debug? Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences

Re: Each file on Samba backup target produces NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND error

. So, I think we can close this thread out as far as Amanda is concerned. :-) Thanks, Fran Fran Fabrizio wrote: I think that if you google on 'NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND' you will find that it is a samba problem, not an amanda one. I used to get lines similar in reports unre

Re: Each file on Samba backup target produces NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND error

I think that if you google on 'NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND' you will find that it is a samba problem, not an amanda one. I used to get lines similar in reports unrelated to amanda, but unfortunately I can't remember the cure. I do agree, but it appears to be with the specific manner in w

Each file on Samba backup target produces NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND error

I just had to move to a new install of Amanda due to a crash of my backup server. The new server is using the Amanda 2.4.5p1 packages under Fedora Core 5, the old server was redhat 9 and Amanda 2.4.4p2. I copied the config from the old server to the new exact, and all worked fine (minus the

Update/Resolved: chg-scsi reports buffer overflow during amcheck

Holliden. :-) So while the problem with chg-scsi is not resolved, my dependence on that issue is. :-) Fran Fabrizio wrote: I am migrating my Amanda server from RH9 to Fedora Core 5. Using the Amanda 2.4.5p1 RPMs available from the FC5 repository. Only thing I cannot get working under FC5 is

chg-scsi reports buffer overflow during amcheck

conf. Any thoughts? Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653 number_configs 1 eject 1 # Tapedrives need an eject command sleep 5 #

Corrupt chg-scsi database

S-025, Barcode -> A025, Loadcount 88 Slot -> 0, from -> 0, valid -> 1, Tag -> CIS-026, Barcode -> A026, Loadcount 92 Slot -> 19, from -> 0, valid -> 1, Tag -> CIS-027, Barcode -> A027, Loadcount 89 Slot -> 20, from -> 0, valid ->

Backing up from LVM targets

cal device which is the partition that holds the backup target. Everything seems in order there. What else could be causing the permission problem? Wondering if this might be related to LVM. Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Scie

Re: Removing / replacing tape in cycle

ow for the future! -Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653

Re: Removing / replacing tape in cycle

Murphy's law - as soon as I post, I find the thread. The key was searching on 'replacing', not 'removing', 'deleting' or 'adding'. :-) The thread I found was from Feb 04 and recommended: amrmtape $CONFIG $LABEL amlabel $CONFIG $LABEL amflush $CONFI

Removing / replacing tape in cycle

but is there a different procedure for when you just want to retire a tape? Something like: # amadmin CIS no-reuse CIS-008 (Will Amanda then prompt for a new tape to get back to desired number of tapes? Or do I just load a fresh tape and...) # amlabel CIS CIS-XXX Thanks, and sorry again fo

Proper steps to replacing/adding a tape

f tapes (such as for long-term archiving). But right now, mostly concerned about replacing the bad tape with a fresh one. :-) Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653

Proper steps to replacing/adding a tape

es available. Related to this would be docs for adding and removing tapes from a set. Also useful might be some documentation on managing a separate set of tapes (such as for long-term archiving). But right now, mostly concerned about replacing the bad tape with a fresh one. :-) Thanks

Re: Permission denied on runtar - only when called via amcheck

be simple isn't looked at that way - because the next guy is going to search the archives with that message string and solve his problem. :-) I find that to be even more natural than a FAQ. Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences U

Re: Permission denied on runtar - only when called via amcheck

it up this way, but apparently on that other server, I set the amanda group to disk. Changing it to amanda did the trick. I had forgotten that you set the group in the xinetd entry. Thanks!! -Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University

Re: Permission denied on runtar - only when called via amcheck

wo amanda users or two amanda groups colliding somehow -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653

Re: Permission denied on runtar - only when called via amcheck

Is the amanda user's primary group amanda? If you are using xinetd, you might have to set "groups = yes" to make sure secondary groups are used. Matt Yep, user 'amanda' has a primary (and only) group of 'amanda'. I did both the build and install as root - another user suggested that might be

Permission denied on runtar - only when called via amcheck

I'm having an odd problem with runtar on one of my linux clients. Here is the ls -l entry for it. I'm -positive- that the 'amanda' user is in the 'amanda' group. -rwsr-x---1 root amanda 13035 Nov 28 08:14 runtar When I run amcheck, I get [can not execute /usr/local/libexec/runtar:

Examples of large and small Amanda installs

even if I can't work your idea into the presentation I can try to clarify it in the supporting docs. It might be best to take the responses off-list. :-) Thanks! -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653

Amanda talk at Open Source Conference

. So if you would like to provide input, I'd certainly appreciate it. Hope to see some of you in Portland! Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653

Re: amanda config question

r problem, but my amanda.conf's tapedev looks like this: tapedev "0" # the says to look at chg-scsi.conf config 0 Your setting above might be causing amanda to not look in chg-scsi for settings. Just a quick guess. -Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Departm

Re: amanda config question

da to not look in chg-scsi for settings. Just a quick guess. -Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cis.uab.edu 205.934.0653

Re: amrecover not seeing/displaying all files?

tar that Amanda was configured with. I suspect that you may have two different versions of tar on the box and Amanda is using a broken one. Bingo - you and Jon L. both pinned this one down. Knowing there were multiple versions of tar on this machine I tried to be smart by specifying the --with

Re: amrecover not seeing/displaying all files?

.4.4p2, if that's a helpful clue. Color me baffled. -Fran Frank Smith wrote: --On Friday, February 13, 2004 16:13:10 -0600 Fran Fabrizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to restore a file from my web document root. This is an area that's been very static (except for t

Re: amrecover not seeing/displaying all files?

olor me baffled. -Fran Frank Smith wrote: --On Friday, February 13, 2004 16:13:10 -0600 Fran Fabrizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to restore a file from my web document root. This is an area that's been very static (except for today when I blew on top of something I shouldn&

Re: amrecover not seeing/displaying all files?

recover works? Shouldn't I be seeing all the files in that area? I want to restore /www/htdocs/staticarea/news/page.html, how do I go about this? Am I having a stupid Friday afternoon moment, or is this messed up? Did my index get hosed or something? -Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Sys

amrecover not seeing/displaying all files?

t I be seeing all the files in that area? I want to restore /www/htdocs/staticarea/news/page.html, how do I go about this? Am I having a stupid Friday afternoon moment, or is this messed up? Did my index get hosed or something? -Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Com

"Unable to create temporary directory" message

ectories listed below: ? /tmp/ ? /var/tmp/ ? / ? Please correct this problem and rerun the program. Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653

Re: Amanda reports STRANGE but log seems fine

Programs that do backups output many messages. Lots are "normal". Amanda tries to keep a catalog of those that should be considered "normal". If a version of the backup program adds new "normal" messages, or you hit one that is not cataloged, or changes existing ones (sometimes even an extra spac

Amanda reports STRANGE but log seems fine

On all of my Samba-based backups, I am getting STRANGE reports like this: /-- keep.cis.u //snapper/dfs/home/faculty lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [keep.cis.uab.edu://snapper/dfs/home/faculty level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/smbclient sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/usr/bin/

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

Samba 3.0.1. On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 15:51, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 17 January 2004 13:53, Fran Fabrizio wrote: > >Just to provide some closure, I sent the relevant details about this > > bug to samba-technical list, and it turned out to indeed be a Samba > > bug.

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

Just to provide some closure, I sent the relevant details about this bug to samba-technical list, and it turned out to indeed be a Samba bug. A developer sent me a patch last night that seems to have solved the problem. Thanks for everyone's help here! -Fran

After failed level 0, how to repeat level 0?

?) Can I alter the gnutar-lists on the target or do I have to do something on the server? Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

s to Samba lists on this issue over the past three days will trigger someone's memory. Thanks for your help, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653

Re: Specifying certain subdirectories for smb mounted backups

ectory call "stuff", is there a way to specify that I only want > Amanda to backup that directory instead of all of the c$? > > Thank you!! > Bryan Walton -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

ommunicating with a Windows 2003 server." > > Yeah, but the chapter is called "I CanÂt Join a Windows 2003 PDC". > You didnÅt answer my question for the possibility to use a stand-alone > Samba. > > > However, it doesn't matter if it's set to yes or no, i

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

g with Windows 2003 domain > controllers in particular. > > Default: client use spnego = yes > > ## > > Ok? Give it a try ... -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

Another fast-google: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2003-October/032249.html I know that signing is working between the server and client at least initially, since I can successfully retrieve 750MB or so of data, and on shares that are smaller than that, I can get the entire sha

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

Do you get any error messages? What does AMANDA tell you? What´s in the logfiles for AMANDA and/or Samba? Amanda reports STRANGE, and the logs show SMB signing errors (which I've googled extensively for with no luck, and posted to the Samba list but no luck there either). The process will be ch

Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

da settings, perhaps if I make mine match yours, I can solve this problem from that angle instead. Thank you, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653

Re: Help deciphering errors from Samba backup

22Server+packet+had+invalid+SMB+signature%21%22&btnG=Google+Search > > This didn't seem to return many results for me. You may want to do > some further digging in Samba mailing list archives, post to Samba > lists, etc. > > Fran Fabrizio said: > > > > I'm

Help deciphering errors from Samba backup

434) | Total bytes written: 763533824 sendbackup: size 745639 sendbackup: end \ Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653

Ramifications of dump cycle and number of tapes choices

newer ones exist on a regular basis, but I would like to know the boundaries for when we do need to do this. Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653

Backing up a Windows 2k3 share via Samba using Kerberos

e cause could be and a possible fix? Is there a way to specify the flags that should be passed to smbclient? Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653

Estimates taking two hours - is this normal?

24.241: done with amname '/export/home', dirname '/export/home', spindle -1 sendsize[13149]: time 7024.247: child 13151 terminated normally sendsize: time 7024.247: pid 13149 finish time Tue Jan 6 03:52:56 2004 -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653

proper way to re-run dump

rs in disklist - re-run amdump - restore disklist to former state Any fallout from following that procedure? Thanks, Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama - Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (205) 934-0653

Re: problems with amrecover

foo now" and misinterpret it as a status update as opposed to it telling you to go do something. :-) Maybe it's just me, but "You should rewind and load tape foo now and then hit Y to continue" would be a bit more wordy, but much clearer. -Fran -- Fran Fabrizio Senior

Re: problems with amrecover

> Extracting files using tape drive file:/backup/t2 on host hccweb. > Load tape DailySet100 now > Continue [?/Y/n/t]? y > EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on hccweb. > amrecover: short block 0 bytes > UNKNOWN file > amrecover: Can't read file header > extract_list - child returned non-zero status:

tapetype for SAIT tapes

This might save someone 10 hours or so...it was produced on a Sony SDZ-100 SAIT drive inside of a Qualstar TLS-5433 changer. define tapetype SONY-SAIT { comment "Sony SAIT (hardware compression off)" length 487680 mbytes filemark 0 kbytes speed 29186 kps } -- Fra

Re: Full backup worked, incrementals fail

I'm guessing that was mentioned somewhere because it sounds vaguely familiar, I just can't place it. I just read the seciton on 'dump' in Unix Backup and Recovery and they didn't seem to mention that, but the error message and your comments had me leaning that way and the manpage removed all d

Re: Full backup worked, incrementals fail

Ok I think I solved my mysterytime to go do some reading (I forgot to look at the logs over in /tmp/amanda/)... sendsize[10129]: time 1.057: getting size via dump for /usr/local level 1 sendsize[10129]: time 1.058: calculating for device '/usr/local' with '' sendsize[10129]: time 1.058: r

Re: Full backup worked, incrementals fail

Here is my amdump log for the last runsee note in there where I think it's failing # more amdump.1 amdump: start at Mon Dec 22 18:06:54 CST 2003 amdump: datestamp 20031222 planner: pid 9956 executable /usr/local/libexec/planner version 2.4.4p1 planner: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.4p1" plan

Full backup worked, incrementals fail

UMMARY: > DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS > HOSTNAME DISKL ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s > -- ----- > keep.cis.uab /usr/local 1 FAILED

Re: SOLVED - Giving amanda user permission to access changer device

2.17rel/loaderinfo -f /dev/sg1 > > cannot open SCSI device '/dev/sg1' - Permission denied > > Are you sure you are a member of group `disk'? `id' at the shell prompt > gives you that info, as does `groups'. If you aren't, have you logged > in anew

Giving amanda user permission to access changer device

' Revision: '221a' etc... So even though 'amanda' is a member of the 'disk' group, the device has 'disk' as it's group, and the device has permissions 660, 'amanda' can't access the device unless I make it world-read/writabl

Configuring Amanda for Qualstar TLS-5433 SAIT changer

I am attempting to configure Amanda to run on our Qualstar SAIT changer, and I have a few questions... 1. lt-amtapetype. I couldn't find any tapetype info for SAIT tapes in the config file, mailing list archives or via googling so I resorted to running the amtapetype script. I turned off hard

RE: Barcode readers: how important?

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 10:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How many tapes do you manage? If the number is under 50 to 100 (depending Right now, it's not likely to exceed 20-25. It's a system we hope to "grow into". :-) > But, if you do the sensible thing, sending some subset of your tapes offsite

Barcode readers: how important?

I'm newly entering the area of large-scale backup operations, and I have an option to add a barcode reader to our tape library system that we will be ordering (Qualstar TLS-5433 SAIT). I'm wondering how important it is to have a barcode reader on the tape library? The way I understand it (shaky,

Will Amanda work with Qualstar TLS-5433 SAIT library

Our group is thinking of purchasing a Qualstar TLS-5433 SAIT library.  From the documentation I’ve read, Amanda supports some, but not all, changers/robots.  Will this be a supported model?   Also, the following excerpt from the Amanda chapter of the Unix Backup And Recovery book has me a