Re: Getting Amanda (3.5.1) to run properly under MacOSX 10.15

2023-06-10 Thread Orion Poplawski
on Glacier). As myself and others have said, Time Machine can backup to network volumes, either Apple (netatalk) or CIFS (samba). -- Orion Poplawski he/him/his - surely the least important thing about me IT Systems Manager 720-772-5637 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FA

Re: Getting Amanda (3.5.1) to run properly under MacOSX 10.15

2023-06-09 Thread Orion Poplawski
- I've had better luck with that than CIFS, but maybe support for that has improved since last I checked. -- Orion Poplawski he/him/his - surely the least important thing about me IT Systems Manager 720-772-5637 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 338

Re: Getting Amanda (3.5.1) to run properly under MacOSX 10.15

2023-06-08 Thread Orion Poplawski
here on my LAN (eg the > subversion tree on my main desktop) or out on the Internet (eg the O/S and > XCode at Apple.com or via Mac Ports). Why not Time Machine? -- Orion Poplawski IT Systems Manager 720-772-5637 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415

Re: amanda backup hanging consistently

2022-06-22 Thread Orion Poplawski
recursion. Removing that appears to have fixed the dump. Still seems like there is an issue with amanda not cleaning up properly from the timeout condition though. On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 09:50:11AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 6/15/22 09:38, Orion Poplawski wrote: Recently the backup

Re: amanda backup hanging consistently

2022-06-15 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 6/15/22 09:38, Orion Poplawski wrote: > Recently the backup of a particular DLE has started hanging consistently. I > don't see any recent changes on the server except possibly a change from > kernel 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7 to 3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7 on Jun 2nd, but the > problem didn't

amanda backup hanging consistently

2022-06-15 Thread Orion Poplawski
7 dumpers 1 driver: result time 22627.694 from chunker1: FAILED 01-00025 "Got empty header" driver: send-cmd time 22627.694 to chunker1: QUIT driver: state time 22627.694 free kps: 54377 space: 889377437 taper: down idle-dumpers: 5 qlen runq: 24 directq: 0 roomq: 0 wakeup: 0 driver

Re: amanda client packaging and ambind (amrecover error on client)

2022-01-10 Thread Orion Poplawski
RHEL7 rpm - amanda-backup_client.x86_64    3.5.1-1.rhel7) David File a bug against RHEL8 and point them to bug #1710147. This was fixed long ago in Fedora. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1710147 -- Orion Poplawski he/him/his - surely the least important thing about me M

Re: Amanda Sourceforge -> Amanda Github changeover

2019-04-02 Thread Orion Poplawski
ur Github forks. That's welcome news. I've updated my pull requests there. -- Orion Poplawski Manager of NWRA Technical Systems 720-772-5637 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane or...@nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 https

Re: Serious regressions in planner.c 3.5 -> 3.5.1

2019-03-21 Thread Orion Poplawski
n denied >> Mon Mar 18 10:43:02.520019407 2019: pid 2453: thd-0x1682050: planner: >> stream_client: Could not bind to port in range 512-1023. > > > By doing nothing else but calling the planner from 3.5 instead of 3.5.1 > (which needs a handful of 3.5 libs as we

Re: Samba 3

2003-09-30 Thread Orion Poplawski
://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446 as I don't think smbclient should have changed its output format. CC amanda-users to give people a heads up. -- Orion Poplawski System Administrator 303-415-9701 x222 Colorado Research Associates/NWRA FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane, Boulder

Re: AMANDA and Irix

2003-08-15 Thread Orion Poplawski
Shashi Kanbur wrote: I have two questions which I hope some can help me with: My AMANDA server is running on a Debian linux machine and this can backup my Debian linux AMANDA clients fine. I have a couple of Irix 6.5 clients. The AMANDA client compiles ok. If I put in the disklist file the

Re: taper algo change

2003-08-14 Thread Orion Poplawski
Not to toot my own horn too much, but I'm very happy with last night's amanda run with the taperwait patch. I ended up with two full tapes and no wasted space. Note: - if autoflush is true, the taper will write a dump on startup. - If you get into a mode where you only have one dumper

Best use of two identical tape drives

2003-08-14 Thread Orion Poplawski
I've got two identical tapes drives that I'd like to make the best use of. My first thought was a level-0 rait setup, but that seems like more and more of bad idea (much higher failure rate) even if the rait driver supported it. My next thought is a kind of tape changer setup, but I'm not

Re: taper algo change

2003-08-14 Thread Orion Poplawski
to complete, as one of these might fit. -- Orion Poplawski System Administrator 303-415-9701 x222 Colorado Research Associates/NWRA FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane, Boulder CO 80301 http://www.co-ra.com

Re: Can't backup AIX4.3 client : missing results

2003-08-14 Thread Orion Poplawski
Just FYI - I spent a LOT of time trying to debug amanda on AIX and eventually gave up and use version 2.4.2p2, which was the latest version I was able to get to work. Not a big deal for me since I just had one AIX client machine. Issue for me *appeared* to be the handling of char * pointer

Re: Multiple parallel smbclients backups

2003-08-14 Thread Orion Poplawski
Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: I imagine this comes from the fact that in disklist, every samba-related line begins with the same hostname (that is the hostname of the backup server). Aren't there a way to paralellized those samba backups ? I think this is what you want (from man amanda):

Re: taper algo change

2003-08-14 Thread Orion Poplawski
. This would result in a longer dump process, but I wouldn't mind because tape time is small compared to dump time for my setup. -- Orion Poplawski System Administrator 303-415-9701 x222 Colorado Research Associates/NWRA FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane, Boulder CO 80301

Re: taper algo change

2003-08-12 Thread Orion Poplawski
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:26:17AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: Yeah, I would love it if amanda waited until the largest dump that would fit on the tape completed before writing anything to the tape. This would result in a longer dump process, but I wouldn't mind because

taper algo change

2003-08-11 Thread Orion Poplawski
to be. -- Orion Poplawski System Administrator 303-415-9701 x222 Colorado Research Associates/NWRA FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane, Boulder CO 80301 http://www.co-ra.com

Followup on AIX issues - large file support

2003-04-01 Thread Orion Poplawski
Recent versions of amanda do not determine large file support flags properly when using GCC on AIX. configure.in specifies the following getconf option to determine the required flags: *-ibm-aix*) GETCONF_LFS=XBS5_ILP32_OFFBIG However, the values returned by getconf are

Precompiled binaries for AIX 4.3

2003-03-28 Thread Orion Poplawski
I'm looking for precompiled binaries for AIX 4.3 (having no luck compiling 2.4.4 myself on AIX). I've found two by google: www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~ank/amanda/binaries/ http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/amanda.html but the 1st appears to have linking issues on my system (4.3 rather than

Trying to compile/run amanda on AIX4.3.3

2003-03-11 Thread Orion Poplawski
. I don't see any other compile warnings. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Anyone know of any pre-built binaries for AIX? - Orion Poplawski

Bug? - gzip running on client AND server

2003-01-15 Thread Orion Poplawski
Just notice that on at least on of my amanda disk dumps, it is being run through gzip on client and on the server. The details: disklist: lewis /export/lewis3 comp-best-user-tar amanda.conf: define dumptype root-tar { global program GNUTAR comment root partitions

Re: Bug? - gzip running on client AND server

2003-01-15 Thread Orion Poplawski
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 at 12:31pm, Orion Poplawski wrote Just notice that on at least on of my amanda disk dumps, it is being run through gzip on client and on the server. The details: I'm pretty sure that the gzip on the server is compressing the index file

Want more aggressive tape use

2002-11-14 Thread Orion Poplawski
First off: when using server side software compression, does amanda remember what compression rates it achieved for a filesystem in the past and use it for estamates in the future? If not, does this seem like a reasonable thing to try to do? Just started testing with using software

Re: Misc issues

2002-11-14 Thread Orion Poplawski
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:20:38PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote: Can't it check to see if any dumps actually have been left in the holding disk? Hard to do. Could you elaborate why? Related: If you run amflush and there is an empty date directory

Misc issues

2002-11-13 Thread Orion Poplawski
Despite Jon LaBadie's recent chastizing to do it yourself, I thought I'd point out these wishes. I may try to work on them at some point, perhaps they are already being fixed. Anyways... When amdump hits the end of tape (or other tape error), it reports: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing

Re: 2.4.3 RPMs available?

2002-11-11 Thread Orion Poplawski
On Saturday 09 November 2002 11:35 am, Gustave Eiffel wrote: I have 2.4.2 installed with RPM's from RedHat 8.0 I understand that 2.4.3 is available. Does anyone know where I could get 2.4.3 RPM's? Thanks all. Mark I've put a set available for anonymous ftp from ftp.colorado-research.com.

How to run a single dump by hand?

2002-11-05 Thread Orion Poplawski
Last night's run gave the following: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet1-02. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: amundsen

Re: How to run a single dump by hand?

2002-11-05 Thread Orion Poplawski
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 09:27 am, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:56:21AM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote: Before running amflush to write the orca dump to tape, I'd like to dump the amundsen directory so they both can be written to tape. How hard is this? easy

Re: Linux backup of IRIX failing

2002-11-01 Thread Orion Poplawski
On Friday 01 November 2002 08:37 am, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 at 4:37pm, Orion Poplawski wrote runtar: error [must be invoked by root] Looks like amanda was compiled with --with-user=root? I'll try running as root on the client... Not necessarily. You can find

Performance tuning for Linux

2002-11-01 Thread Orion Poplawski
it use? Thanks! - Orion Poplawski

Linux backup of IRIX failing

2002-10-31 Thread Orion Poplawski
I'm trying to run amanda on a Linux server and have it backup a mix of clients. I'm trying to test out an IRIX client, and the backup is failing with: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: orca /export/acmap1 lev 0 FAILED [disk /export/acmap1 offline on orca?] orca /export/local

Re: Linux backup of IRIX failing

2002-10-31 Thread Orion Poplawski
On Thursday 31 October 2002 04:07 pm, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 at 3:30pm, Orion Poplawski wrote I'm trying to run amanda on a Linux server and have it backup a mix of clients. I'm trying to test out an IRIX client, and the backup is failing with: FAILURE