Re: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY

2007-06-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
that are not already posted there. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Amanda 2.5.1p3 gnutar permissions trouble

2007-06-07 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Denied errors from amcheck and amdump. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? The OS is Ubuntu Linux 7.04. Thanks all! Hmm - at a guess, are you using an automounter? Could you paste the errors themselves, and any relevant debug files? Dustin P.S. Please consult, and feel free to update

Re: old server 2.4.2p2 fails to backup newer client 2.5.1p1

2007-06-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
: 1299 conf_init_string(conf_data[CNF_AUTH], bsd); Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: chg-zd-mtx can't find mtx command.

2007-06-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
on a machine without mtx installed, so it recorded the path to mtx as just 'mtx'. Then chg-zd-mtx, assuming it is given a fully qualified path, checks that the file exists. Because 'mtx' is an unqualified filename, the check fails. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software

Re: amtapetype - silly thing I tried

2007-06-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
, amtapetype runs until the OS returns ENOSPC (No space available) and then terminates, probably with a pretty accurate description of the amount of space available on the partition. Sound about right? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http

Re: autoflush doesn't?

2007-06-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:31:27PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: if (strcmp(dl-name, workdir-d_name) == 0) { I note this patch didn't make it into the Amanda 2.5.2-20070531 snapshot. The general practice has been to post fixes and wait

Re: autoflush doesn't?

2007-05-31 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
-lR /path/to/holding/. Thanks! Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: autoflush doesn't?

2007-05-31 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
a datestamp. But that was fixed on 5/15 (r329), and you're not using usetimestamps=no, so I'm somewhat stumped. Please also send the output of 'amadmin Daily holding list -l'. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: autoflush doesn't?

2007-05-31 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
you apply the attached patch and see if it helps? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/ Index: server-src/holding.c === --- server-src/holding.c

Re: Configure error

2007-05-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
=USER to your invocation of ./configure ;) Amanda needs to know the user and group it will run as -- probably ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=amanda ... But you should *definitely* look at ./configure --help to see what other options you'll be interested in! Dustin -- Dustin J

Re: amdump - backup error

2007-05-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
. I've forgotten what flavor of system you're on, but if you can figure out how 'backup' *should* be called on your system, then we either need to figure out how you can configure Amanda to call it that way, or add a patch to Amanda to detect and correctly handle the differences. Dustin P.S. Thanks

Re: amdump - backup error

2007-05-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Amanda needs (and my GNU tar install doesn't include anything named 'backup'..) Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amdump - backup error

2007-05-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
... See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda.conf#DUMPTYPE_SECTION You want to use 'program GNUTAR' in your dumptypes. Amanda has detected 'backup' as the local DUMP implementation (other, completely different programs are called 'backup' on other systems) Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell

Re: FW: amrecover problem

2007-05-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
(stderr, path_on_disk_slash: %s\n, path_on_disk_slash); nb_found = 0; -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amdump - backup error

2007-05-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
(http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Test_environment_with_virtual_tapes), otherwise, the rest were already present in there... Which dumptypes are you using in your disklist? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: feature request : infos about holdingdisk-content

2007-05-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
1 knuth /tmp/amanda/prefix/etc 20070529 'amadmin holding delete' can then be used to delete files from the holding disk and update indexes appropriately, if you'd like. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: feature request : infos about holdingdisk-content

2007-05-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:54:51AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Is that documented somewhere? Only in the manpages at the moment. It's on my wiki todo list. When was it added? 2.5.2. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http

Re: Amanda - unable to create temporary directory

2007-05-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
, and / - ufsdump not running as the correct user - selinux or other kernel-based security mechanisms As Jon said, the problem is on the Amanda client, not on the server. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amflush problem with 2.5.2-20070508

2007-05-24 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
? for i in `find /holddisk/conf4/stk_80 -type f`; do echo $i; head -n1 $i; done Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
be appreciated -- anyone want to produce a configure.in patch and/or edit up the wiki? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: changerfile

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
of thing a lot of people need to do (speak up!), I can add --with-mt and --with-mtx options. Dustin [1] Meaning something like, Everyone knows mtx is always in /foo/bar/frob/bin on Mynix 4.3.2! -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: chunker error

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php And see if that works better? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Fwd: Amanda newbie with permissions error on labeling and connecting to client

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
/DailySet1/slots' if that doesn't help. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: planner: estimate of level 1 failed.

2007-05-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
files. Does anyone have a suggestion why estimates may be failing or where I should look next? What version of tar are you using? See: http://forums.zmanda.com/archive/index.php/t-299.html Dustin

Re: amverify lockup

2007-05-21 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
no mouse, which seems to imply X. X behaves very badly when it's heavily paged, so if 'mt' or some other application is burning through CPU and RAM, you might see the behavior you've described. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http

Re: gtar version

2007-05-18 Thread dustin
) tape is not online yet. I'm not sure what you mean? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: gtar version

2007-05-18 Thread dustin
perhaps one those will do the trick for you? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: gtar version

2007-05-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
'gtar' (not GNUTAR), from any directory in $PATH to the GNU tar binary, e.g., # ln -s /usr/bin/gtar /usr/local/bin/tar (assuming that the sunfreeware package installed the binary at /usr/local/bin/tar). Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc

Re: gtar version

2007-05-18 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:46:21PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: I'm not entirely clear on your situation, but I *think* that you should be able to add a link, named 'gtar' (not GNUTAR), from any directory in $PATH to the GNU tar binary, e.g., # ln -s /usr/bin/gtar /usr/local/bin/tar

Re: amanda-2.5.1p3-20070516 amfetchdump broken

2007-05-17 Thread dustin
that it solves the problem? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/ Index: server-src/find.c === --- server-src/find.c (revision 345) +++ server-src/find.c

Re: amanda upgrade questions

2007-05-10 Thread dustin
still exist and do the same thing. I *think* that the on-disk formats and the on-the-wire network protocols are also compatible; hopefully someone will reply loudly to this email if I'm wrong about that. Probably your best bet is to just try it out in as safe a manner as you can muster. Dustin [1] I

Re: Hardware suggestion

2007-05-10 Thread dustin
hardware. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amanda-client version

2007-05-10 Thread dustin
'amgetconf'; otherwise you can look in your sendbackup or sendsize debug logs. -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Ooops

2007-05-10 Thread dustin
this process, but I would prefer to hear others' suggestions and proposals before I bias the conversation with my thoughts. Dustin P.S. As for hardware -- well, virtualization is a wonderful thing ;) -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http

Re: first attempt with tape spanning...nogo.

2007-05-10 Thread dustin
on the wiki; Jean-Francois, please feel free to update with your findings. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Memory_allocation_failed Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

db-based infofiles

2007-05-09 Thread dustin
. I'd like to remove this support completely in the next release. So: are you or anyone you know using non-text infofiles? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: 2.5.2 compilation failure on irix-6.5.x

2007-05-07 Thread dustin
This is the same error as in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-hackers/message/5401 the same patch is attached here -- could you let us know if it fixes the compile? Dustin On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:05:44PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: First go at amanda-2.5.2 on a system running

Re: amrecover issue

2007-05-03 Thread dustin
/dumps/tape01 refers to the amanda tape server? Newbie here guys. Yes -- that's correct. If you're on the tape server itself, you should use e.g., localhost:file:/backup/amanda/dumps/tape01 Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http

Re: Troubleshooting tapeing action?

2007-04-20 Thread dustin
changes in amanda. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Troubleshooting tapeing action?

2007-04-20 Thread dustin
megs, downright puny. That may help. A bigger buffer allows the elevator algorithm more elbow room to schedule things with minimal seeking. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-09 Thread dustin
incremental of a non-private directory, rather than munging the file. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-07 Thread dustin
the list file format is a fairly straightforward packed-record format. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Doing all the work, not writing it to tape

2007-04-07 Thread dustin
something's wrong with your compression configuration? You could find out more by checking the dumper logs on the client or server, depending on where the compression is happening, or by turning off compression altogether for a run, to see if that gets things working. Dustin -- Dustin J

Re: amrecover using invalid ssh options on Solaris?

2007-04-06 Thread dustin
with information we can use to identify your SSH version. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: amrecover using invalid ssh options on Solaris?

2007-04-06 Thread dustin
files, because it is the end of the day Friday and I didn't want to be shuffling tapes. So I'll have to do a more thorough test on Monday. Oops, sorry for the premature reply to the earlier message. Consider the above duly noted. Thanks! Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage

Re: Compression

2007-04-05 Thread dustin
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:36:03PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: - edit the curinfo files and add a set of fake historical comp-rates If editing makes you nervous you can also use 'amadmin export' / 'amadmin import'. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda

Re: Does amrecover automatically use unflushed files on the holding disk ?

2007-03-30 Thread dustin
? Quick answer: yep! Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: backup when logging on to the network

2007-03-29 Thread dustin
up). If the folder in question is or includes the user's roaming profile directory, you'll need to use a utility that's capable of copying open files, because NTUSER.DAT will already be loaded into HKCU. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc

Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-20 Thread dustin
make a note to look into this when I can get the relevant equipment lined up. Dustin P.S. Gene -- I haven't been ignoring your messages, but you were using bleeding-edge kernels, and seemed to believe that the kernels, and not tar, were to blame for your lack of incrementals. -- Dustin J

Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-20 Thread dustin
search, or at least discover some extra datapoints for you. I'd help out, but I don't have any boxes on which I can experiment with kernel versions. Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: Amanda on Gentoo Linux?

2007-03-18 Thread dustin
? Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: missing function in amanda?

2007-03-18 Thread dustin
hacks that would be harder than if [ $(ssh mybox uname -r) == 2.6.foo.bar ] then echo Please reboot mybox | page_gene fi Dustin -- Dustin J. Mitchell Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc. http://www.zmanda.com/

Re: bare metal restore, basically

2007-02-27 Thread dustin
to set up a CD with one of the LiveCD distros that's easily modified, add Amanda to it, and keep that around. Dustin

amandad stand alone????

2001-03-15 Thread Duncan, Dustin
(hopefully my objectives make sense) -Dustin

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