were doing this, then it would not be
sporadic.
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So this is operating with DLE /export_raid12/bicadmin1/amanda-rsync.
Which of those is the directory that should be automounted, and which
one had the 'r' inserted?
Can you duplicate the error by triggering an automount via e.g., ls?
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are the errors?
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/socket.26307: socket ignored
| gtar: ./opt/IBMHttpServer/conf/socket.26386: socket ignored
| gtar: ./opt/IBMHttpServer/conf/socket.27585: socket ignored
| gtar: ./opt/save-IBMHTTPServer/logs/siddport: socket ignored
These are harmless, but you can exclude them, too, if you'd like.
Dustin
is actually required. We're working on fixing that --
it's a primary feature of the Application API -- but the fix isn't
here yet. Is the dumpfile really large?
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On Nov 23, 2007 11:03 AM, Cyrille Bollu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do amanda developers think? Wouldn't the following patch to
amanda-2.5.2b1 do the trick?
I'm OK with this. In my testing, archives are the same size
regardless of the --numeric-owner flag.
Anyone else?
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The poster I'll be presenting at LISA is online at
http://www.zmanda.com/pdf/the-new-amanda.pdf
If you're at LISA, please do stop by and take a look at the real thing :)
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Gentoo bugs for anything that you
found to be incorrect in the ebuild. Please add me
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Very shortly, perl scripts will have easy access to the Amanda config
API, as well as the trace logs (containing a record of which tapes
were used), etc. So this script could turn into a full-fledged
member of the Amanda family of tools.
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? Anyone else?
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to do with shared-object linking and absolute paths. On
install, the actual binary will be installed -- not the shell script.
Note, however, that some Amanda applications *are* shell scripts (e.g., amdump).
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interfaces that we're building (we'll
be posting working code soon).
I'd love to meet any of you, if you'll be in Dallas. Please stop by
or drop me a line!
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-E (precompiler) output
C - real but fairly harmless bug
D - need more info (version.c)
E - need more info (config.log)
Thanks for the help! We're building the latest source on Solaris 8
and 10 without any trouble, so I'm sure we can work through any
lingering problems with 2.5.2p1.
Dustin
. If not,
try running common-src/genversion manually (no arguments) to see what
happens.
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and degraded
settings for each DLE, and leaves it to the driver to decide which to
use.
Hope that helps!
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perhaps re-trying with a newly untarred
directory will fix it.
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On 10/25/07, Lindsay Haisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well fstab is the only data structure on the box that relates /dev/sda1
to /boot, which is what gets backed up willy-nilly. It has to be
referenced _somewhere_ in the process!
You're right -- Amanda does use fstab for that. Sorry!
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easier.
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for the
duration of the backup, then unmounts it..
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Does this mean my holding disk is too small?
Close -- it means that your tape is too small, or that you're not
using tape spanning. Basically, Amanda has to do a full backup, but
can't fit that on the available tape.
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Thanks! That's actually been reported and fixed already. It was an
inadvertant bash-ism.
./configure.lineno: 13536: Syntax error: Bad substitution
ufoon:
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On 10/17/07, John E Hein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
configure --localstatedir=/some/where
or, better yet, ./configure --with-gnutar-listdir=/some/where
but John's right -- you do have to recompile for this.
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absolutely right -- thanks!
I must have typo'd my 'grep' while looking for that..
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, it is the same file under different
names.
This sounds weird to me, too, and may be a bug in GNU Tar. Here's a
test case (on my Mac desktop with tar 1.13.25):
erdos:~/tmp dustin$ mkdir files
erdos:~/tmp dustin$ echo file1 files/file1
erdos:~/tmp dustin$ ln files/file1 files/file2
erdos:~/tmp
symbols in my development code -- perhaps you could try that?
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in the central
location for definitions of these variables. The harder fix is to
recompile on a system with mt/mtx installed, and with /usr/local/sbin
in the PATH, so that configure can find them.
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-zd-mtx: pid 29607 finish time Tue Oct 16 15:17:56 2007
Ah -- so it's a permissions error. You'll need to make sure that
'amanda', or the group amanda is in, has r/w permissions on the
changer device. Usually that's accomplished by putting amanda in the
'disk' group or some such.
Dustin
can find out for sure by su'ing to amanda and trying to run 'mtx'.
If it works, we need to rethink. If not, it's all about the
permissions.
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worked accidentally -- qlist
happened to be set to a valid value already in most common
configurations.
If you'd like to stick with 2.5.1p3, you can extract the diff from
subversion and apply it, but I'd recommend upgrading at this point.
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On 10/15/07, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Now that I can manually run sendsize, I do get the core dump.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x2808f46c in debug_stralloc () from /usr/local/lib/libamanda-2.5.1p3.so
How to recompile amanda with debuging
Thanks for reporting that!
There were actually two more changers with this bug -- I've attached
an updated patch, and will commit it shortly.
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chg-prefix.patch
Description: Binary data
On 10/9/07, Krahn, Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I tell Amanda to use a specific network interface if 2 exist on the
system.
You'll need to adjust the routing configuration of your machine --
Amanda just uses the usual IP-level sockets interface.
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in_port_t, we'll just have to define it
ourselves. No big deal. This solution should work -- add this to
amanda.h:
typedef unsigned short int in_port_t;
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(use your
gmail address please), that may also help.
Ideally, I'd like to make Amanda work out-of-the-box on the Raq, so
let's try to get to the bottom of this, instead of just applying a
band-aid.
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are not ending with tar
and tar can not open it.
The files *contain* tar-formatted data, but also have headers. To see
the header:
dd if=dumpfile bs=1k count=32 | less
which will give instructions for a bare-metal recovery.
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. But I think you'll find that Amanda's
features -- among them, scheduling of backup levels, fault tolerance,
and file-by-file restores -- will make it worth your while to do some
reading.
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-hackers to move Amanda's core algorithms to a scripting
language. See
http://marc.info/?t=11916262923r=1w=2
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strings have to start from the directory as '.', e.g.,
'./client1/archive'.
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terminates.
This, however, is not the case -- Amanda supports spanning. See:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Split_Dumps_Across_Tapes
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or on the
network it's attached to) is lacking, things can get ugly.
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. That said, you can be confident
that, given a swiss army knife, some duct tape, and a basic UNIX
system, you *can* get at your data.
Dustin
P.S. I think it will make more sense to move the inventory mode to
amrestore, making that the generic restore-without-config-or-indices
tool. It doesn't really fit
(particularly while getting 'dumps
way too big' for some DLEs) and threw the balance out of whack.
Gene had similar problems -- it really throws Amanda off its stride.
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if that particular
solution was suggested before -- perhaps Gene remembers, or perhaps
the tar-bugs archive can tell you?
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this would happen.
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On 9/25/07, Simpson, Kenneth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi - is it possible to run amanda such that it backups up
to disk instead of a tape?
Sure -- we call it 'vtapes'. See
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Set_Up_Virtual_Tapes
and the wiki in general for more information.
Dustin
then.
Seriously, either use bash to run configure ( you'll still get
the message about/from lint), or look in the bug tracker for a
patch I submitted to cure both problems
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I'll get your patch committed -- I hadn't seen it until now.
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and upgrade at the
same time. Rather, either upgrade your existing amanda, make sure
it's working, and the migrate it, or the reverse.
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was trying to be brief :)
That arrangement is ok, with the proviso that you can't use tape
spanning on the server, or you won't be able to recover using older
clients. There may be more limitations -- someone else please chime
in?
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:
amrestore -p alva._home.4 | tar xvf -
But that's obviously only part of the backup.
That should extract the whole backup -- are you sure it hasn't?
Look at the first block of that first file. It should contain
CONT_FILENAME=...
Is that filename correctly pointing to the next file?
Dustin
On 9/6/07, Maya Bercovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6 Sep 2007, at 00:04, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
Do you mind posting the debug logs from the client? It might be
root# cat amadmin.20070906110557.debug
Hmm -- did you run 'amadmin' on the client? It's a server program, so
that wouldn't
Do you mind posting the debug logs from the client? It might be
easiest to blow away everything in /tmp/amanda (or whatever
AMANDA_DBGDIR is), run a dump, and then post the files that appear
there.
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of traffic between the server and client and see if the client
ever responds.
Dustin
firewall exception for port
10080 (assuming you're using BSDTCP).
If it works, would you mind updating the wiki page?
Dustin
this problem? Paul, I'm not a Debian user -- is
there a quick way to see what patches the distro has applied?
Dustin
, and moved to subversion, so I
can't necessarily suggest a patch.
It sounds like the actual timeout problem was solved otherwise
(etimeout is per *estimate*, not per *DLE*), and this is just a
cosmetic bug?
Dustin
is pretty narrow -- perhaps data
would move more quickly if it were compressed on the client? Were the
tarballs you were shipping compressed?
Dustin
is compatible, but on 10.4 and above, you should just use GNU tar.
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DailyDump slot 1
Try running '/opt/amanda/libexec/chg-multi' manually?
Any suggestions as to where start looking for this? I've already confirmed
that I have the GNU version of mt installed.
chg-multi doesn't use 'mtx' -- you probably want chg-zd-mtx.
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disktype for this client.
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you build Amanda.
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these
errors before.
It's worth noting that amverify is basically a shell script that uses
these tools itself. The 0+0 in lines are from 'dd', and indicate that
it couldn't read anything from the tape at that particular point.
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, but with enough time to correct any
errors before heading home for dinner.
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for killing
such processes.
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/^\\.//'
the output of which is also sent to the server (on the indexfd).
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The next release or two will have better support for this, but at the
moment, the easiest way to do this is to add a wrapper around 'amdump'
that uses 'logger' (a BSD utility that's also present on most Linuxes)
to send a log line to syslog.
Dustin
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:43:45PM +0900
-client.conf should do the trick.
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda-client.conf
You can change the default with a one-line patch to
common-src/conffile.c, if you'd rather.
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drives)
This actually just came up:
http://marc.info/?t=11857373941r=1w=2
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is sent to the server in a stream
parallel to the data stream, where the dumper writes it to the gnu-tar
index files directory, possibly compressing it first.
I hope that helps!
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and will not be here too
soon.
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a similarly configured
Amanda to recover your data. In particular, if one of your tape drives
dies, you won't be able to[1] reassemble any of the dumps on striped
tapes.
All in all, none of these are showstoppers, but they're worth
considering.
Dustin
[1] not easily, anyway.
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, unless this is a months-long
conference :)
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Unless a SCO user speaks up here (come out, come out, lurkers!), I think
your best bet is to look for general advice on compiling from source,
particularly relating to gnulib.
Sorry I can't be more help..
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changed
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and place it somewhere I can download it, and give me the
url in private email, I'll see if I can figure out what's going on.
Thanks for the bug report -- ideally Amanda should build on just about
anything that smells vaugely like UNIX.
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on the compilation problems with 2.5.2p1? What
OS/architecture? What error(s) did you see?
Thanks!
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:18:52PM -0400, Vytas Janusauskas wrote:
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
Could you post the debug logs?
Hi Dustin,
Attached are the log files. If there is anything else required please let me
know.
Just FYI, those are the Amanda log files, not the debug logs. Anyway
, for all machines?
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)
Amanda Report
hal2/mnt/hdb1/Can_Fin_photos lev 1 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0
instead of 32768]
Could you post the debug logs?
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upgrading?
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will do her level best -- but it should not be a surprise that level
best is not always good enough, especially when unexpected things
happen.
I think the bottom line is: this is your Wednesday email telling you to
buy more tapes ;)
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the details of your tape device, but keep in mind that
amtapetype does things that are not usual for a tape device, and that
for enormous tapes, it can, indeed, take a while.
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specify a single tapetype).
These are all limits we'd like to remove, but they're all also very
difficult to remove.
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:
http://www.amanda.org/docs/rait.html
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Set_Up_RAIT_(Redundant_Array_of_Independent_Tapes)
I should have mentioned RAIT, but note that with two tape drives RAIT
will only do mirroring, not striping.
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Just a reminder that this is the last day for voting in the Community
Choice Award.
If you haven't already, please cast your vote at
http://sourceforge.net/awards/cca/vote.php
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did some work on this a while back. Everything
that I understand is summarized on that page.
To answer your specific question, you can run an Amanda server on a Mac,
with the caveat that Mac OS X itself doesn't support any tape drives.
Clients work great.
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a lot easier.
My apologies for my own hand-waviness at throwing that information out
there in my original email with no supporting evidence!
As for BSDs in general -- Apple has basically *removed* support that's
available in the base BSD systems, so no worries.
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to Amanda, rather than leaving her to
use tapedev.
Ok, maybe we just need to document that when someone overrides tapedev
they should also override tpchanger if they have one.
See the attached patch.
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-multi) supply their own tapedev.
The best solution, in this case, is to completely disable the changer,
too:
amdump -o tapedev=/no/such/dev -o tpchanger=
I hope that helps. I'll work on the documentation.
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encryption, potentially using GPG. Please see
http://wiki.zmanda.com for information on how to install and configure
it.
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the more unlikely that Amanda itself is somehow modifying that
library.
This is probably something you should take up with the FreeBSD folks.
You can feel free to direct them to this list, or me personally, if they
have any questions.
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a [ hostname [ diskname ..] ] argument,
if you only want to dump certain DLEs.
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for* newly-added
filesystems, and send an email (rather than adding them directly).
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should see debug files for amrestore on the machine where you ran it
-- the client. The server will produce several other debug files as it
provides data to the client.
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the door to more complex migrations down the road.
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://wiki.zmanda.com (see Useful Amanda Tools), either as a
link or as text included in a new article, with any necessary
accompanying documentation. Be sure to give yourself credit!
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to generate some
additional developer documentation.
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will simply stop writing debug messages as you've
described.
If someone would like to do some additional investigation and suggest a
fix or even submit a patch, that would be great!
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