Re: incremental backup overwriting last full backup

2020-04-30 Thread Jukka Salmi
ng funny things also when you type uppercase, you'll be run out of options already. ;) Cheers, Jukka [1] https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/GSWA/Build_a_Basic_Configuration [2] https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Getting_Started_with_Amanda > > On Apr 25, 2020, at 5:55 AM, Jukka Salmi

incremental backup overwriting last full backup

2020-04-25 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello I just installed Amanda 3.5.1 on a Debian 10.3 (buster) system and am following the [1]"GSWA/Build a Basic Configuration" example. $ amgetconf MyConfig tapecycle 4 $ amgetconf MyConfig dumpcycle 3 Running amdump a few times seemed to be successful, but the I noticed that while the

Re: amcheckdump(8) failure and other issues

2013-05-14 Thread Jukka Salmi
Jukka Salmi -- amanda-users (2013-05-13 22:37:12 +0200): Hello I'm currently updating Amanda on some NetBSD/amd64 5.2_STABLE systems from 2.5.2p1 to 3.3.1; Amanda has been built from pkgsrc. So far the Amanda server and one Amanda client have been updated. The first thing I tried after

Re: amcheckdump(8) failure and other issues

2013-05-14 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello Jukka Salmi -- amanda-users (2013-05-14 08:22:16 +0200): Jukka Salmi -- amanda-users (2013-05-13 22:37:12 +0200): Hello I'm currently updating Amanda on some NetBSD/amd64 5.2_STABLE systems from 2.5.2p1 to 3.3.1; Amanda has been built from pkgsrc. So far the Amanda server

Re: amcheckdump(8) failure and other issues

2013-05-14 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello Sorry, I only noticed your email after I sent my previous one... Jean-Louis Martineau -- amanda-users (2013-05-14 10:39:15 -0400): On 05/14/2013 02:22 AM, Jukka Salmi wrote: critical (fatal): Can't locate object method new via package Amanda::Xfer::Dest::Taper::Splitter (perhaps you

Re: amcheckdump(8) failure and other issues

2013-05-14 Thread Jukka Salmi
Jean-Louis Martineau -- amanda-users (2013-05-14 12:21:28 -0400): On 05/14/2013 12:01 PM, Jukka Salmi wrote: $ grep AMANDA_COMPONENTS /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.0/Amanda/Constants.pm $AMANDA_COMPONENTS = ndmp; That's the problem, it should be like: $AMANDA_COMPONENTS = server

Re: amcheckdump(8) failure and other issues

2013-05-14 Thread Jukka Salmi
Jean-Louis Martineau -- amanda-users (2013-05-14 12:21:28 -0400): On 05/14/2013 12:01 PM, Jukka Salmi wrote: $ grep AMANDA_COMPONENTS /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.0/Amanda/Constants.pm $AMANDA_COMPONENTS = ndmp; That's the problem, it should be like: $AMANDA_COMPONENTS = server

amcheckdump(8) failure and other issues

2013-05-13 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello I'm currently updating Amanda on some NetBSD/amd64 5.2_STABLE systems from 2.5.2p1 to 3.3.1; Amanda has been built from pkgsrc. So far the Amanda server and one Amanda client have been updated. The first thing I tried after the update was to check the latest backup (created by the old

Re: 501 Could not read config file /etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf!

2009-04-03 Thread Jukka Salmi
amidxtaped Regards, Jukka Jean-Louis Jukka Salmi wrote: Hello, I'm having a problem with amrecover(8) on Linux systems. The backup server runs Amanda 2.5.2p1 on Debian lenny, the backup client runs Amanda 2.4.4p3 on Debian sarge. Running amrecover(8) on the server works fine

Re: 501 Could not read config file /etc/amanda/amindexd/amanda.conf!

2009-04-03 Thread Jukka Salmi
, works fine now, thanks a lot! Hmm, I wonder why the Debian package adds those arguments to the amandaidx and amidxtape services... Seems to be a bug, doesn't it? Regards, Jukka Jean-Louis Jukka Salmi wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau -- amanda-users (2009-04-03 11:49:53 -0400): amrecover from

sendbackup: broken pipe

2008-11-24 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello, every now and then I see this error on an otherwise perfectly working Amanda system (server 2.4.4p3, client 2.5.1p1): FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: host.staso / lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] The client's sendbackup log for such a failed run: sendbackup: debug 1 pid 14726 ruid 34

`include list' question

2008-10-13 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello, while reading amanda.conf(5) I noticed the following comment about the `include' dumptype option: All include expressions are expanded by Amanda, concatenated in one file and passed to GNU-tar as a --files-from argument. They must start with ./ and contain no other /. I've been

Re: `include list' question

2008-10-13 Thread Jukka Salmi
Paul Bijnens -- amanda-users (2008-10-13 14:18:51 +0200): On 2008-10-13 13:55, Jukka Salmi wrote: Hello, while reading amanda.conf(5) I noticed the following comment about the `include' dumptype option: All include expressions are expanded by Amanda, concatenated in one file and passed

Re: connection problem during `sendbackup' stage

2008-09-12 Thread Jukka Salmi
Jukka Salmi -- amanda-users (2008-09-10 14:40:29 +0200): [...] Hmm, EINTR. I'll try to reproduce this with another version of NetBSD (trying with 4.0_STABLE ATM) before debugging any further... It seems that I hit a known problem: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2008/06/14/msg007388

Re: connection problem during `sendbackup' stage

2008-09-10 Thread Jukka Salmi
Dustin J. Mitchell -- amanda-users (2008-09-09 09:58:15 -0400): On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: c:10080 - s:846 udp Amanda 2.5 REP HANDLE ... CONNECT DATA 56639 MESG 56638 INDEX 56637 ... s:846 - c:10080 udp Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE ... s:50029 - c

Re: connection problem during `sendbackup' stage

2008-09-09 Thread Jukka Salmi
Jukka Salmi -- amanda-users (2008-09-05 14:51:31 +0200): Hello, I'm trying to add a NetBSD system running Amanda 2.5.2p1 as a backup client to an existing backup server running Amanda 2.4.4p3 on Linux. Running amcheck(8) shows no problems, and both the `noop' and `sendsize' stages during

connection problem during `sendbackup' stage

2008-09-05 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello, I'm trying to add a NetBSD system running Amanda 2.5.2p1 as a backup client to an existing backup server running Amanda 2.4.4p3 on Linux. Running amcheck(8) shows no problems, and both the `noop' and `sendsize' stages during an amdump(8) run seem to be fine. But then, during the

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-29 Thread Jukka Salmi
Dustin J. Mitchell -- amanda-users (2008-06-28 13:53:43 -0400): Actually, it's not quite wrong. Gnulib is a little weird. What the rest of that macro does is to *check* for alloca.h, and if it's not found in the system, create a local copy of the file. I think that the compiler wasn't

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-29 Thread Jukka Salmi
Dustin J. Mitchell -- amanda-users (2008-06-29 14:22:16 -0400): I would remove the #ifdef HAVE_ALLOCA_H from amanda.h and just unconditionally include alloca.h. Hmm, the problem was that there is no alloca.h on my systems, so this won't work ;-) The attached patch fixes the problem for me, but

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-28 Thread Jukka Salmi
Dustin J. Mitchell -- amanda-users (2008-06-27 13:56:06 -0400): On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is on NetBSD/i386 where at least fcntl, flock and lockf are available; config.log reveals that the record locking function tests failed because

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-26 Thread Jukka Salmi
Jukka Salmi -- amanda-users (2008-06-25 12:37:15 +0200): Hello, since I upgraded an Amanda installation from 2.4.4p4 to 2.5.2p1, backup reports always contain lines like these: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: 20080625 2 [sec 45.227 kb 41655 kps

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-26 Thread Jukka Salmi
Dustin J. Mitchell -- amanda-users (2008-06-26 10:11:54 -0400): [...] Unfortunately, that file is basically the intermingled freeform stderr of just about every process spawned by amdump/amflush, so there's no single interface through which we can funnel all notifications. The long-term plan

Re: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-26 Thread Jukka Salmi
Jean-Louis Martineau -- amanda-users (2008-06-26 10:12:11 -0400): Amanda lock the file while writing to it. What is the output of: amadmin vv version | grep LOCKING Which filesystem is used, is it NFS mounted? Hmm, amadmin reveals that LOCKING=**NONE** on my system, which probably

amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: ...

2008-06-25 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello, since I upgraded an Amanda installation from 2.4.4p4 to 2.5.2p1, backup reports always contain lines like these: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: 20080625 2 [sec 45.227 kb 41655 kps 921.7] amreport: ERROR unexpected log line: 20080625 0 [sec

how to repeat last backup?

2006-06-17 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello, to backup some client systems I use an Amanda config containing dumpcycle 0 days tapecycle 4 tapes which I run manually from time to time. The config uses the file driver (in case this matters). Because on some clients lots of files were moved during the last amdump run,

Re: how to repeat last backup?

2006-06-17 Thread Jukka Salmi
Joshua Baker-LePain -- amanda-users (2006-06-17 06:53:42 -0400): On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 at 10:33am, Jukka Salmi wrote to backup some client systems I use an Amanda config containing dumpcycle 0 days tapecycle 4 tapes which I run manually from time to time. The config uses

amverify looping

2005-06-03 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hi, on a Amanda 2.4.4p4 system which ran fine for some months I noticed today amverify was still running after about 5 hours; normally it only takes some minutes to complete. I killed the process, and then received the so far missing verify report (which was about 3MB...). For some reasons a

Re: amverify looping

2005-06-03 Thread Jukka Salmi
Jukka Salmi -- amanda-users (2005-06-03 13:14:09 +0200): Hi, on a Amanda 2.4.4p4 system which ran fine for some months I noticed today amverify was still running after about 5 hours; normally it only takes some minutes to complete. I killed the process, and then received the so far missing

Re: amverify looping

2005-06-03 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hi, Jean-Louis Martineau -- amanda-users (2005-06-03 10:10:19 -0400): Could you try the attached patch. thanks. After applying it amverify doesn't loop endlessly anymore: [ ... successful checks ... ] Checked host1._opt.20050603.1 ** Error detected (host1._opt.20050603.1) amrestore: WARNING:

Re: Tar archive size limitations was Preventing yum or up2date to upd ate gnu tar

2005-06-03 Thread Jukka Salmi
Lengyel, Florian -- owner-amanda-users (2005-06-03 11:18:05 -0400): This business about tar reminds me of a not-terribly well documented problem with tar: under some operatinjg systems, tar has a 2 gigabyte limit on the size of the tar archive! The tar that came with red hat 7.3 had this

Re: dumpcycle / runspercycle / tapecycle best practices?

2004-11-04 Thread Jukka Salmi
Eric Siegerman -- amanda-users (2004-11-04 14:02:13 -0500): On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:53:59PM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote: Hmm, when setting dumpcycle to zero, to what value should runspercycle be set if amdump runs once a day? Zero (same as dumpcycle) or one? Both settings are equivalent

Re: dumpcycle / runspercycle / tapecycle best practices?

2004-11-03 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hi, Erik Anderson -- amanda-users (2004-11-03 14:44:55 -0600): [...] full backup every night. [...] dumpcycle 1 day According to the amanda man page you should set dumpcycle to zero to get full dumps each run. Hmm, when setting dumpcycle to zero, to what value should runspercycle be set if

Re: how to automate tape changing

2004-10-18 Thread Jukka Salmi
Toralf Lund -- amanda-users (2004-10-18 16:07:48 +0200): Jukka Salmi wrote: Hi, I'm using the chg-disk tape changer. When restoring files using amrecover, after adding some files and issuing the extract command, amrecover tells me what tapes are needed, and asks me to Load tape label now

Re: how to automate tape changing

2004-10-18 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello, Paul Bijnens -- amanda-users (2004-10-18 22:14:10 +0200): Before the chg-disk tape changer was written, I used the chg-multi changer with the file-driver. It's a little more complicated to configure, but the advantage is that it finds and load automatically the vtapes. To what extent

how to automate tape changing

2004-10-16 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hi, I'm using the chg-disk tape changer. When restoring files using amrecover, after adding some files and issuing the extract command, amrecover tells me what tapes are needed, and asks me to Load tape label now. I load the needed tape using amtape, and tell amrecover to continue. After a while

tapecycle = runspercycle

2004-06-23 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello, using Amanda 2.4.4p2, I'd like to do daily full backups, no matter what happens. I.e.: There are about 20 tapes, and humans (as opposed to Amanda) are responsible for the correct tape beeing loaded before each amdump run. If one forgets to change tapes the next run should overwrite the

Re: tapecycle = runspercycle

2004-06-23 Thread Jukka Salmi
Paul Bijnens -- amanda-users (2004-06-23 13:14:45 +0200): Jukka Salmi wrote: To achieve this I set dumpcycle and runspercycle to 0, and tapecycle and runtapes to 1. This seems to work so far, except for the planner being discontent: NOTES: planner: tapecycle (1) = runspercycle (1

Re: tapecycle = runspercycle

2004-06-23 Thread Jukka Salmi
Paul Bijnens -- amanda-users (2004-06-23 14:53:04 +0200): In that case, yes, just ignore the note. OK, I'll try that... But hmm, why does one get warned if tapecycle = runspercycle? How could that be a problem? Oops. I was wrong. The note is there indeed. (why didn't I see that this