Ok, getting smarter...
following your suggestion
# truss amtape ninfo newtonl
Tail of the output (I can script if if you want more)
amtapewrite(2, a m t a p e, 6) = 6
: scanning all write(2, : s c a n n i n g a.., 15) = 15
9write(2, 9, 1)
that can exit without adding a
message in the log file.
Brian
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to send to the socket when sendbackup is closing the socket.
My guess is that the path was closed after it had been dup'd and so an
extra close wouldn't break things but a shutdown would. I'm going to try
to figure out if that is the case.
Brian
, though...
I hope that's okay.
Are you going to publish your own porting steps or would you like modify
my own?
I'll see what I can write up. (once everything actually works, of course)
Brian White wrote:
Well, after several weeks of on-again, off-again work on this, I've got
Amanda
|/usr/bin/tar -f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
| Total bytes written: 20480 (20kB, ?B/s)
\
Any ideas on why the transfer is ending with a RST instead of a FIN?
Brian
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%) ( 0.00%)
taped : 3 1528032k 1528092k (100.00%) ( 2.03%)
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thanks,
Brian
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Seth,
I'm not getting that spam via the list. maybe my address got
out that way but its not the vector for the incoming.
Brian
If the spam was directly to you and not through the list, then the reason
is that the spammers search through webpages for email addresses, and since
most mailing
maillist that received occasional spam is able to cause
reprecussions for me.
That and I'm pretty handy with the delete key, anything that
is in HTML or meantions my size in the first two lines goes.
Brian Cuttler wrote:
Seth,
I'm not getting that spam via the list. maybe my address got
.
thanks,
Brian
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wed March 12 2003 09:16, Eric Sproul wrote:
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 14:39, Gene Heskett wrote:
Two other points come up here, Eric.
1. When a tape is inserted in most modern drives
John,
Brian wrote:
...so I deleted the entire section ie the .PHONY: tag down to the
next white line.
John replied:
I'm pretty certain the real culprit is chg-null line after the
.PHONY line. Either delete that or comment it out and the
compile succeeds on my Solaris 9 system.
I
broke along the way, make run from
the root ran to completion though.
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John
From discussions on the list last week I'd understood* that
the tape length and I assume** by extension the filemark size
are used only to estimate tape capacity and determine what needs
to be bumped or if a level zero could be advanced.
What is the speed value used for ?
* Note, phrase
on the drive
heads.
Brian
Um, no, I hadn't spotted my second typo!
That explains why correcting the first typo didn't change the behaviour at
all, it STILL couldn't find the device.
(whoops)
Now, amlabel works :)
So, I'm now labelling the 9 tapes
I may have been missing something in my config - something
like an environmental variable, but I found that I wasn't
able to run chg-zd-mtx successfully unless I was in the
directory with the data information.
That is, I configured amanda such that the chg-zd-mtx.* files
where in the amanda
Jay
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:54:11PM -, Nigel Barker wrote:
I'm using Solaris 8, with an OverlandXB 10 slot changer and a DLT drive.
Amanda 2.4.3
mtx 1.2.17
amanda.conf contains :-
tpchanger chg-zd-mtx
tapedev /dev/rmt/1n
changerfile
'
thanks,
Brian
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I'm sorry, I was obviously being stupid. Thinking about it
I've realized that B is obviously beta and I want to find
myself a P production release.
,
Brian
Hi!
Since this left /amanda/work as unavailable I'd have expected amanda
to have run in degraded mode writing directly to the tape drive,
however amanda reported that there was no more room in the work area
and exited without performing any dumps at all.
Isn't
just done builds of Amanda under CygWin (client only), I
did notice a message from ./configure about some lib calls missing and thus
the server would not work.
Brian
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at the result. Did amanda perform as expected or should
it have used degraded mode ?
Solaris 8, Amanda 2.4.2p2.
thanks,
Brian
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Brad,
Stupid problems I've run into.
Assuming you have both DNS and NIS/NIS+ services enabled.
/etc/nsswitch.conf (Solaris, don't know if redhat had this) wasn't
using files just NIS. Check the equiv in your OS and see, also
make sure that the server information for both services are providing
I'd second Frank (Smith)'s idea.
With our 2nd jukebox and LTO drives I'd much prefer to use
a single amanda config rather than the current config, designed
to utilize both drives at the same time (no matter how well it
is working) of 2 amanda configs, one for local and one for remote
disks,
for remote clients.
Any ideas why both amanda's failed to find the next tape ?
And if so, how do I avoid problems in the future ?
thanks,
Brian
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From
WAB,
This has been discussed before I'm sure my ideas are not unique.
In my jukebox which has multiple slots for tapes I've established
a second tape pool which will only be used on Saturdays and I run
a separate amanda.conf that I've configured to use always-full
in the disklist. You can do
I'd thought that was what amruntar and amrundump where for, those
are already suid ??
I'm setting up amanda in a company where the everyday operations of tape
rotations etc. will be performed by little less than savy users, I got a
system going with a tape changer and amanda's email works
What operating system ? What version of the OS ?
Does anybody know how to setup the Sun L1000 tape library system? I have
found some links on the web but I can not use the robot arm to load
tapes.
I know the no rewind device is /dev/rmt/0bn but what is the device for
the loader?
is working beautifully.
Brian
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experiences/solutions have other amanda_users come across ?
thanks,
Brian
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partitions arbitrarilly across two different configs.
thanks,
Brian
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at it.
thank you,
Brian
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:07:27PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote:
Solaris 8, Amanda 2.4.2p2 (plus /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx from 2.4.3)
SUN StorEdge 9,
/usr/local/sbin/mtx -f /dev
where identical.
My best guess is that the issue is induced by the change of
drive id number.
Hi Brian,
Brian Cuttler wrote:
Solaris 8, Amanda 2.4.2p2 (plus /usr/local/libexec/chg-zd-mtx from 2.4.3)
SUN StorEdge 9,
I was running the exact same setup as this. mtx was working fine for me
script.
James, does chg-scsi work ok with a 2nd jukebox/drive ?
thanks,
Brian
Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=AF6397L1
===
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:07:27PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote:
Stdout:
Storage Changer /dev/scsi/changer/c6t4d0:1 Drives, 9 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Empty
drive, especially as there is only
the one in my configuration.
I've replaced my work-around with the corrected configuration.
thank you,
Brian
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I usually backup stuff in Amanda by using the name of the
mount point rather than the device name.
Hi all,
After searching the archives, I can't seem to find an answer to a
nagging little problem-- one of my clients is a Solaris 8 machine
running software RAID, so its devices begin with
slot -1 less than 1 ... resetting to 1
11:25:02 WARNING - current slot 1 not available, setting current slot to next slot
(2)
11:25:02 Exit (2) - none could not determine current slot
thanks,
Brian
a problem with amtape,
amlabel, amxxx anything that needs to position/check the jukebox.
I finally figured out the script was naming the output files based
on the number of the drive, ie 0cn logs to changer.debug.drive0 and
1cn has log file changer.debug.drive1.
Thanks in advance, Brian
/usr/local
switches and other considerations ?
How do I choose ports without risking collision with anything else ?
thanks,
Brian
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nor the amlabel slot command.
I used the chg-zd-mtx changer and was unsuccessful until
I replaced the script with the one from amanda 2.4.3 release.
At that point I was able to run all amanda commands and
parameters successfully.
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Do you need to reduce your tapecycle by one ?
We have 5 runs /week -
5 tapes per dumpcycle
but a full tape pool of 25, well, on the newer systems anyway.
We used to run with 5x4=20 and pulling a tape for any reason,
including temporary archiving while confirming a restore, would
cause a
to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: NNEWTON02.
Any help apreciated,
Brian
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to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: NNEWTON02.
Any help apreciated,
Brian
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, we've had no need to
test amflush and I'm certain it'll work just fine.
What OS, what versions of mtx, OS, etc...
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I'd seen something on using multiple drives
as a pretend jukebox but this is really another level of
operation.
thanks,
Brian
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Yes, we use amrecover frequently. When I was first starting
to become familiar with it I had a few problems, silly user
errors like not remembering the -p option and ended up
positioning the tape manually [well, with mt :-) ] and then
having to pipe the output of dd through gzip to
,
Brian
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?
Is there a binary around someplace that I could grab ?
thanks,
Brian
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appearance
(not that that matters much) and also in capacity.
Please tell me I'm not the first to try to use this
particular jukebox and tape type.
thanks,
Brian
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finish time Tue Oct 29 10:12:21 2002
any clues as to what is wrong?
Thanks...
...Brian
Is Jim Buttafuco still out there? He said he had rewritten the amanda
client in perl to run on windows machines and wanted to release it a few
weeks ago. I got real excited and then he dissapeared.
If that's fallen through, does anyone have suggestions on backing up
windows machines that
?
Ever wonder why there is so little Opensource Windows code?
..Brian
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If it handles exclusions, hell yes.
My users are a lot of analysis engineers and I need to be able to exclude
some HUGE interim files made during analasys processing.
Jim Buttafuoco wrote:
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I tried for days to get it to work, NO luck. I decided to rewrite the amandad
kernel: st0: Error 2707 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver
bt 0x7, host bt 0x7).
Sep 18 11:20:01 valhalla kernel: st: Unloaded.
Can I be sure that those IRQ timeouts are due to a faulty device? Can there
be another explanation?
Regards,
Brian Jonnes
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in the array and letting the raid rebuild
I'm not really keen on this idea. Although relative to the price of a DDS
drive it is affordable (for just one or two harddrives). My main problem is
that the drives will be handled by average users. Hrm.
..Brian
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) 3864.1 3830.0 34.1
Tape Used (%) 101.7 100.80.9 (level:#disks ...)
So for a tapetype run it should take 4h30... Give it 5 hours.
I gave up on it and went to the FAQO.
..Brian
On Thu 12 Sep 02 17:15, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 12 September 2002 10:48
to bzip2 would
that work?
And what is the opinion of the Right Way to do this?
Regards,
Brian
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On Tue 10 Sep 02 18:53, Gene Heskett wrote:
Don't feel like the lone stranger Brian. Somebody really *should*
write a book on howto use cron. No denigration of Paul Vixie
intended, but the docs (what there is) suck. But I guess thats
man 5 crontab isn't _too_ bad.
what we get when
I'm assuming it is from the head of the tape; this was an amdump.
..Brian
On Mon 09 Sep 02 20:43, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 09 September 2002 12:14, Brian Jonnes wrote:
On Mon 09 Sep 02 14:26, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 09 September 2002 02:39, Brian Jonnes wrote:
Just a brief note
at 14h00 Monday to Friday, and
amdump 02h00 Monday to Friday. Not sure if this is what you want; I'd imagine
you want:
0 2 * * 2-7 /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1
That is, 02h00 Tuesday to Sunday.
Rgds,
Brian
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comes, and in order for all the perms to be set
right, root must install, same as your's.
The package scripts sort out the file permissions before package construction
(make install isn't used directly).
..Brian
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Just a brief note:
I did some tests on the w/end and I had 3 out of 4 successful dumps (on the
same tape). Will see if HP's test-tools give me any more info.
..Brian
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On Mon 09 Sep 02 14:26, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 09 September 2002 02:39, Brian Jonnes wrote:
Just a brief note:
I did some tests on the w/end and I had 3 out of 4 successful
dumps (on the same tape). Will see if HP's test-tools give me any
more info.
..Brian
And what happened
, I should probably upgrade.
Like I mentioned to someone else -- I'm being a distro weenie. I _like_
everything Debianized -- will see if the debian package scripts drop in over
the new version.
By the way, the latest beta is considered stable?
..Brian
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is configured and built as the user amanda, but
must be installed by root.
This is where debian is a little different. Build it as whoever. Package it
with fakeroot, install it as root.
..Brian
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On Fri 06 Sep 02 16:59, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:01:45AM +0200, Brian Jonnes wrote:
Pulled the tape out, plugged it back in, and now its dumping fine. Can
anyone make sense of this?
I don't use your systems but ISTR people mentioning using mt to set the
block size
limits 512 - 43129 bytes.
What do those numbers mean??
Regards,
Brian
On Fri 06 Sep 02 16:59, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:01:45AM +0200, Brian Jonnes wrote:
Hi all,
I'm getting this in my kern.log's:
---
Sep 6 00:45:01 valhalla kernel: st: Version 20020205
of the question, 'cause the tapes are so
expensive (and apparently they are now obsolete?).
So; what are the opinions of this list? (BEGIN FLAME...?)
..Brian
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have to manually run amdump.
Regards,
Brian Jonnes
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.
thanks,
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 04:57:11 -0400 (EDT)
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
,
Brian
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 at 8:56am, Brian Cuttler wrote
We are very confused this morning.
This report says short write, usually I take that to
mean that we filled up the tape and we probably need to
perfrom a flush.
However we have numbers
}
thanks,
Brian
Well, your taper line in the report says it wrote 19.9G to tape, and your
failed dump was trying to write 6.8G. How big are your tapes, and what is
your tapetype set to?
Frank
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/ide-scsi/ide?
Regards,
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if the shipping is gonna kill it for me, being in SA ;)
Regards,
Brian Jonnes
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On Sat 31 Aug 02 16:11, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 31 August 2002 07:45, Brian Jonnes wrote:
Hi,
I think I have a faulty tape or two. What is the best recommended
way of testing this? Generate a file from /dev/urandom, write it
to the tape and md5sum it?
Most drives do the equ
Hi,
I think I have a faulty tape or two. What is the best recommended way of
testing this? Generate a file from /dev/urandom, write it to the tape and
md5sum it?
Also, what is the expected lifetime for Travan 4 tapes (each used once a
week)? When should I retire them?
..Brian
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the config?
Arrrgggh!
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as user amanda and it will creat the /tmp/amanda/debug.amanda directory
and debug file before timing out.
Any ideas on how to debug why inetd won't start amandad?
Thanks
Brian Davidson
DynCorp Treasury Integration Group
11710 Plaza America Dr.
Reston, VA 20190
703-261-4694
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R. Jackson; Davidson, Brian
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: configure and smbclient
Hi,
checking for smbclient... (cached) /usr/local/samba/bin
Two thoughts. First, that (cached) says ./configure is finding the
information from a previous run. Remove config.cache and try again
at the source-code, or should I do that to satisfy my curiosity?
Rgds,
Brian
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{
2559 dbprintf((GenericMove : from %d is empty\n, from));
2560}
2561
(gdb) quit
Are there any patches I might be missing or is this fixed in a BETA version
of Amanda?
Thank you in advance for your help with this matter.
Warm Regards,
Brian
-p /dev/nrst0 sunshine hda2 |
/sbin/restore -ivf -
amrestore: could not stat /dev/nrst0
Verify tape and initialize maps
Input is from file/pipe
/sbin/restore: Tape read error on first record
Any ideas here?
Brian Davidson
11710 Plaza America Drive
Reston, Virginia 20190
703.261.4694
and create the folder you want the dumps saved. Oh, and
the shell script is setup to delete any dumps older than 60 days.
Hope this helps. It's simple and reliable.
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On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 11:36, John Rosendahl wrote:
Does anyone know of a tryly slick way to back up mysql databases
:22:52 pts004 0:00 grep selfcheck
#
I'm assuming it has something to do with this oddly named file of 0 bytes:
selfcheck._eec_var_inf__archive.20020321121250.exclude
Brian Davidson
11710 Plaza America Drive
Reston, Virginia 20190
703.261.4694
703.261.5086 Fax
Going thru the FAQ (which I did before I posted)
#1. /var/adm/messages
Mar 14 21:59:45 db-dev inetd[158]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning]
/usr/local/libexec/amandad: Hangup
Mar 14 22:00:25 db-dev inetd[158]: [ID 667328 daemon.error] amanda/udp
server failing (looping), service
selfcheck:
ERROR: edaf6.irs.sat NAK: amandad busy
Brian Davidson
11710 Plaza America Drive
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proficient
at it.
Brian Davidson
11710 Plaza America Drive
Reston, Virginia 20190
703.261.4694
703.261.5086 Fax
After further digging into debug files and the amanda FAQ I figured out my
etimeout value was too small.
-Original Message-
From: Davidson, Brian
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 2:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Failed and Strange Dump Details
I consistantly get the following
to the failure
message I'm getting above. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian Davidson
11710 Plaza America Drive
Reston, Virginia 20190
703.261.4694
703.261.5086 Fax
I have a sun box with all the necessary tools to build amanda (been there,
done that and it works great!). The second sun box does not have the tools
needed. If I edit config.status to change the host name can I build amanda
for the second box?
Brian Davidson
11710 Plaza America Drive
Reston
Can anyone tell me the difference between the following no-rewind tape
devices on Linux? I can't seem to find any info anywhere.
/dev/nst0
/dev/nst0a
/dev/nst0l
/dev/nst0m
Thanks,
Brian Davidson
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703.261.4694
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in ?? ()
#3 0x8049777 in ?? ()
(gdb)
Any ideas what I need to fix to correct the problem?
Thanks,
Brian Davidson
11710 Plaza America Drive
Reston, Virginia 20190
703.261.4694
703.261.5086
with BSDI not GNU make
Thanks,
Brian Davidson
11710 Plaza America Drive
Reston, Virginia 20190
703.261.4694
703.261.5086 Fax
Figured it out myself that it's a bad make, installed gnu make and amanda
compiled fine.
-Original Message-
From: Davidson, Brian
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 8:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Amanda make error
I've already compiled amanda 2.4.2p on two BSDI 4.1 computers
two Amanda/BSDI boxes.
Any ideas as to what I've fouled up here?
Thanks,
Brian Davidson
11710 Plaza America Drive
Reston, Virginia 20190
703.261.4694
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Works like a charm now that I compiled the correct version!! Many, many
thanks!!!
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Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 2:28 PM
To: Davidson, Brian
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: amanda.conf
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002
I'm getting the following error on amcheck:
ERROR: crypto-gw.irs.dev: [access as amanda not allowed from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]] amandahostsauth failed
my .amandahosts file:
crypto-gw% cat /usr/home/amanda/.amandahosts
crypto-gw.irs.dev amanda
relay.irs.dev amanda
crypto-gw% ls -al
ok: here is part of the output from amcheck:
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
ERROR: crypto-gw.irs.dev: [access as amanda not allowed from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]] amandahostsauth failed
ERROR: relay.irs.dev: [GNUTAR program not available]
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