parameter, and gnutar has
both --unquote and --no-unquote, but --unquote is the default.
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in a few days. Send
another email if you don't hear anything about it soon?
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to do this, I just need to get it written :)
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directives. It seems there must be a better way.
Surely you could get 90% of the space-saving effects with only 10 extensions..
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changed.. or did I
miss your point?
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and give it a run?
Thanks!
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P.S. For those looking for other ways to help, all of the Amanda
projects I mentioned a while ago are still open.
There's always docs to write, too -- for example,
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_to_Amazon_S3 needs to
be updated to use
, which is what Amanda is showing. Perhaps you can point more
directly to what seems to be in error?
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, the difference between these two numbers suggests something
is being added twice. Can you send the trace log from which this was
generated so that I can take a closer look?
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but not
split_diskbuffer, and thus fall back to the default in-memory
splitsize of 10M, which is fantastically small.
We're working on a fix for this in 3.2 - and probably also moving the
splitting configuration to the tapetype.
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as zombies
until the main amandad process terminates.
2.6.1 isn't really new anymore. Does this still occur in 3.1.0?
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for
a typical dump, so that they can use extra tapes on particularly heavy
days.
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in the pod for Config.pm btw.
Patches and/or specific pointers would be welcome!
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Fork_Amanda_on_Github
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probably already discovered.
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote:
Hi Dustin, Thanks for this pointer. I assume amcheckdump takes just as
long as the backup takes in the first place?
Within an order of magnitude, yes.
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Marc Muehlfeld
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This second patch fixes the problem. Thanks.
Great - thanks!
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
If I compile with --with-bsdtcp-security and bsd, can my 2.6.1p2 server use
bsd security for some clients and bsdtcp for other clients and would I set
this in the define dumptype?
Absolutely.
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
I am not quite sure how amanda uses the --with-tcpportrange=low/high. Does
this parameter have to be defined in both the client and server software or
does the server pass the ranges to the client?
It needs to be
/index.html
That sounds like an un-fun change of plans for your day, but I'm glad
you made lemonade out of those lemons.
This would be a great story to add to the wiki - maybe we should have
a Success Stories section?
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The patch is in review - there's some lingering discussion of the
proper permissions for amrecover and oldamrecover.
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On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it intentional now that amcheck, amplanner and a couple others are now
owned by root:root?
No, they should be owned by root:disk (or root:backup, depending on
your system), and setuid.
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packaging. So I'm
trying to strip down the permissions to the bare essentials.
Obviously I got it wrong.
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marc2.patch
Description: Binary data
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
Ah, this is completely different error, but you've given me enough
info to replicate and fix it. I've attached a source-level patch that
you can apply, but the better fix is at the C level (and will be in
3.1.1
needed.
I don't know about that - Amanda's been successfully packaged in RPMs
for a while now. If you'd like to start up another thread on that
topic, that'd be fine. Or put the distro maintainers in touch with
Dan Locks.
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scalar so
that's true.
Attached is a patch - can you try it out? If you need a fresh copy of
Planner.pm, you can get it here:
http://github.com/zmanda/amanda/raw/tags/3_1_0/perl/Amanda/Recovery/Planner.pm
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Description
and unnecessary data in holding
disk, right?
You can use amadmin holding delete, as you suggested.
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Marc Muehlfeld
marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de wrote:
Am 09.06.2010 16:43, schrieb Dustin J. Mitchell:
The messages will have gone into amidxtaped.*.debug..
But just the following files were created, until the
amrecover - can't talk to tape server
I *think* this is the same issue being addressed here:
http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?t=2800
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of 0.
git-svn-id:
https://amanda.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/amanda/amanda/tr...@2358
a8d146d6-cc15-0410-8900-af154a0219e0
I don't remember the motivation for the change, though - maybe JLM
does. But the upshot is that it looks like the manpage was not
properly updated.
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::Debug::debug(.Dumper([ %dumps ]);
420 my @dumps = values %dumps;
and try again?
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*many* times, the BSD auth is from
the stone age. Use something at least slightly newer, like BSDTCP!
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P.S. Despite a lot of voiced interest, nobody is working on the ssl
auth at the moment. Anyone want to pick that project up?
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if there
were an error :)
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usually not particularly helpful, but can be used locally with
a debugger to explore the state of the process just before it died.
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, Amanda has some (presumably ages-old) functionality to do that
in common-src/file.c. I've always just ignored that code, but I doubt
it's doing anyone any good and I'd be happy to remove it if you think
it's problematic.
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:25 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
Which seem to resolve the problem.
I'm not sure what the question was .. but amgtar in 2.6.1 didn't have
an ACLS property:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/2.6.1/amgtar.8.html
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This is currently not supported, but a round-robin changer would be an
interesting addition to the suite of changers we already have. It
would be similar to the current chg-rait, but of course not producing
RAIT devices.
Perhaps you'd be interesting in adding such a thing?
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On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar
gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote:
I got the fatal error see below while testing the new option autolabel, the
configuration was empty and amcheck -s was ok.
Does the tapelist file exist?
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On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
Does the tapelist file exist?
Ah! A while back, we made a missing tapelist a warning in amcheck,
but the taper was not updated to automatically create it in this case.
So you'll need to create your tapelist first
-side or server-side all
at once, rather than piecemeal. There were some protocol changes
between 2.5.0 and 2.5.1, so you may run into some problems there. See
amanda-compatibility(7) for details.
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tape drives.
The fix is here:
http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/amtapetype
and will (I hope) be in the much-delayed 3.1 release.
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, but on Sun it might be via NIS or
something.
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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Chris Hoogendyk
hoogen...@bio.umass.edu wrote:
I don't mean to question Dustin
I rather enjoy being questioned, so don't worry about that!
This was a guess, and apparently I was correct this time around.
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drive to
practice.
It's generally best to upgrade the server first, then migrate clients
one by one.
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on tape device: Tried 32768, got 0 at
/opt/sfw/sbin/amtapetype line 89.
Ah, it's a similar problem as in the previous case, then: the device
goes into an error state, and that state sticks.
Probably the better solution is to re-create the device as necessary.
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);
$stats-{$pattern}-{BYTES} += $blocks_written * $block_size;
$stats-{$pattern}-{FILES} += 1;
$stats-{$pattern}-{TIME} += $duration;
Let me know if that helps? Thanks for your patience!
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1MB.
Did this take a long time, or happen immediately? Can you add some
print's around line 186 of amtapetype to print the blocksize and
number of blocks?
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On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Gunnarsson, Gunnar
gunnar.gunnars...@svk.se wrote:
Thanks Dustin the patch is working fine, good work.
Great!
Compression enabled, does it mean that it is using compression ?
Yep.
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= (guint)got_file;
1287 return NULL;
1288 }
So this might be an odd behavior of the tape device.
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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
Hmm.. can you send me the syscall trace (truss or strace) of that?
(truss now in hand..)
Oh, silly me - the code detects that the tape drive needs the
FSF_AFTER_FILEMARK property, by virtue of getting an error from
is the
client-side compression. Since the error is EPIPE, this means either
that pbzip2 exited, or that it closed its standard input prematurely.
The next step would be to figure out why pbzip2 would do that. Does
it automatically compress its stdin and pipe it to stdout?
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used pbzip2?
Interesting! We're hoping to implement official support for this in
the next (3.2) release, so I'm curious to know more about why pigz
failed. In theory, it's a drop-in gzip replacement, right?
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote:
In the mean time I can't get pbzip2 to work at all. It just crashes out
with the following:
Please attach the whole sendbackup log.
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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Dustin C. Hatch
dha...@gosupertechs.com wrote:
I update to Kernel version 2.6.32-r7 last night. I was able to do a full
backup to tape earlier today, using tapes that I know failed before. I
guess there could have been a driver problem in 2.6.31. I'll try
going to try now using plain gzip instead of pigz, just incase this
is causing my issues.
It's quite possible..
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On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin
ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote:
Dustin, educate me please!
How do I proceed with the git patches and
how do I patch the source on my side?
First, if you click on each of those commits in github, you'll have URLs like
http://github.com
is rewriting that to
# su amanda -c /opt/amanda-3.1.0beta2/sbin/amtape rait eject 0 1
and Amanda is trying to eject drive 0, equivalent to {0,0}, so the
second half of your RAIT is complaining. Use single-quotes around the
{..} and you should be fine.
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On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote:
It's a DRAFT!
Looks good so far, though! Will you be adding this to contrib/ when it's ready?
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there all the same, since '1' is treated as '{1,1}'.
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On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote:
Amanda is now failing differently.
tar exited with signal 11.
On Solaris, over a ZFS filesystem. We just saw this error a few days
ago on the list! Check the archives - there was a workaround.
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JLM's review (so it will probably be
committed tomorrow). Here are the (3) patches:
http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commits/raitfixes
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that.
Hopefully retrieving the entire DLE will offer some clues (and get you
access to your data).
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What is the error? I suspect this:
1273071472.718696: dumper: security_seterror(handle=8074f08,
driver=fef09394 (BSD) error=timeout waiting for REP)
which likely means that you're exceeding the dtimeout for that DLE for
whatever reason. Try increasing that?
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without *any* data, so I suspect that this is some kind of
ugly interaction between ZFS busily doing copy-on-write to implement
its snapshot while trying to feed data to the syscall-hungry gnutar.
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of the way the output is printed -
it's a general error not corresponding to any particular slot.
Wed May 5 14:12:02 2010: amtape: warning: Use of uninitialized value in
bitwise or (|) at
/opt/amanda-3.1.0beta2/perl/Amanda/Changer/rait.pm line 572.
Harmless, but I'll fix it.
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be fixed already, so the circumstances
are likely more narrow. Have you checked the Solaris bug tracker? Do
your system logs give any indication of what's going on?
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On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin
ma...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote:
One question: should the changerfile parameter for chg-robot point to
the same file for both child-changers:
Yes, it should - that will allow the changers to avoid stepping on each other.
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote:
Please download and test it out - with luck, this will be the last
beta before the final release!
We haven't heard of any showstopper bugs, although we have discovered
and fixed a number of nuisances since the beta2
, try running it under 'truss' to see what is wrong
with the execve call.
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option) remove the debugging prints I
had you add to amidxtaped.pl.
I'm glad we chased this down! Jean-Louis has already committed the
corresponding patch (r2978).
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, it's
deprecated in 3.1 and will probably get the axe in 3.2.
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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:31 PM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote:
If I manually run the following gtar command I get a segmentation fault
/usr/sfw/bin/gtar --create
Uh-oh .. time to open a Sun^WOracle support case? It looks like a bug
either in ZFS or GNU Tar..
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return $self-quit();
and re-run, pasting the new amidxtaped debug log. Also, please send
the output of
amadmin test find gustav /raid/hrrt/SCS_SCANS
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not sure where vtape-1
is involved. Perhaps in a previous recovery?
It's amidxtaped which is manipulating the tapes, so you'll want to
look in its debug log to see what's really going on.
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dumbed down
implementations of #5 and #6 that would be much easier to write while
still providing significant benefit to Amanda's users.
I'd love to see comments on this list, and I'd especially like to hear
from anyone who wants to add a project *and* work that project through
to completion!
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote:
I assume this will require space the size of the DLE? (in my case 2T)
Yes, it will.
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$config')
o experimental XML output
* configuration override for dumptype works with inheritance.
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additional detail for you. It's usually more complicated than just
installing the corresponding packages, because there's a system-global
XML catalog that needs to be customized.
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with which part (chunks
are different) was on which tape.
What is the task you're tring to accomplish here?
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the resulting tarfile.
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Chris Hoogendyk
hoogen...@bio.umass.edu wrote:
I don't get it. Why is Amanda refusing to use the new tapes (or tape 3)?
See the note in this manpage:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-taperscan.7.html
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that was
suitable.
It's not just a bit weird, it's very weird. That's why I wrote up the
manpage :)
Hopefully we'll be adding some new, less insane taperscan algorithms in 3.2.
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Mark Adams m...@campbell-lange.net wrote:
2010-04-09 16:55:11 localhost /upbackup 0 UPSNAPSHOT-02 1 10/-1 OK
This is part 10 of the dump, at filemark 1 on UPSNAPSHOT-02. is that
what you were looking for?
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are available here:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/2.6.1/amanda.8.html
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, but they are built on
whatever system generated the tarball, using its version of docbook.
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote:
500 No dumps available on or before date 2010-04-08
Actually, this means there are no catalog entries for that date. I
think I had asked last time, what amadmin Conf find will show for that
particular DLE?
Dustin
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tape header
FILEMARK
first data file
FILEMARK
second data file
...
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should say ..nst1 :)
I'll fix it up. Thanks!
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to create stuff like that, and my impression is that's the pattern
followed by most applications.
I'm open to being persuaded :)
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analysis.
Perhaps add LD=/usr/sfw/... to the configure invocation?
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote:
Unfortunately what we really wanted was to backup the
list of directories in the backup template defined
on the server.
What's a backup template?
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Craig Constantine cr...@blkbx.com wrote:
AMRECOVER Version 2.6.1p2. Contacting server on localhost ...
I'd recommend just using auth local if you're communicating within
the localhost. BSDTCP is just too annoying to get right.
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it should be.
They should be in the directory pointed to by the 'logdir' parameter
on the server.
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote:
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
Ping!
Why are you running amgtar directly?
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