Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-04-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Mister Olli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK 'bsdtcp' authentication works. So its definitely a firewall issue. > So how to configure amanda that I use bsd authentication over UDP? > > what ports are in use for the transmission of the gtar ouput? This page should

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-04-01 Thread Mister Olli
hi... > This would be an excellent diagnostic check, at least. If it works, > then you know you have a firewall problem. If not, you can look for > something else. OK 'bsdtcp' authentication works. So its definitely a firewall issue. So how to configure amanda that I use bsd authentication over

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-31 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Mister Olli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry not an option, cause authentication scheme needs to be the same on > all backup clients. > and changing the rest because of (maybe) one firewall issue on an ESX > server is too much work. It doesn't need to be the

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-31 Thread Mister Olli
hi... > > I just re-read the docs about ports, and I hope to understand it right. > > - If I have a firewall between the backup client and server, the > > easiest thing is to compile the client with custom --with-tcpportrange > > and --with-udpportrange settings, and then open these ports in the

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-31 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Mister Olli wrote: I just re-read the docs about ports, and I hope to understand it right. - If I have a firewall between the backup client and server, the easiest thing is to compile the client with custom --with-tcpportrange and --with-udpportrange settings, and then open these ports in the f

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-31 Thread Mister Olli
Hi... > Hmm.. this sounds like a network/firewall issue to me, with a 90 > second timeout. Have you had a look at the packet dump between the > server and the client? Are reply packets being dropped? Amanda's > STARTUP_TIMEOUT is 60s, so this is probably some other timeout. There are no filter r

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Mister Olli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a look at into the '/tmp/amanda/client/weekly/sendbackup*' files, > and they all show the same failure: > sendbackup: time 89.994: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] > > Also this failure occurs constantly around

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-30 Thread Mister Olli
hi... I had a look at into the '/tmp/amanda/client/weekly/sendbackup*' files, and they all show the same failure: sendbackup: time 89.994: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] Also this failure occurs constantly around second 89 to 90. A complete sendbackup logfile looks like this: ==

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-30 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
OK, here's what I see in the 'strace' output, repeated 15 thousand-some-odd times: write(1, "nfo\nc0121610 t __constant_c_and_"..., 10240) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- So for some reason gtar is ignoring the SIGPIPE signal. There's probably something else going

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Mister Olli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi So, to summarize, the only command that fails is one which would otherwise spew massive amounts of data to the console. I think that the best debugging method at the moment is to return to running amanda, let it get

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-26 Thread Mister Olli
hi > > gtar --create --file - --directory /boot --one-file-system > > --listed-incremental /root/gtar_test/gnutar-lists/172.31.3.9_boot_0.new > > --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from > > /root/gtar_test/sendbackup._boot.20080320110639.exclude . | cat > > /dev/null > > This d

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Mister Olli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > these 3 command work like a charme (executed for testing, and narrowing > down the failure): > > === > > gtar --create --file - --directory /boo

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-26 Thread Mister Olli
hi... Am Dienstag, den 25.03.2008, 17:52 -0400 schrieb Dustin J. Mitchell: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Mister Olli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > but this does not work, gtar proccess are eating a lot of CPU > > cycles: > > I only have three emails from this conversation, but fr

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-25 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Mister Olli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > but this does not work, gtar proccess are eating a lot of CPU cycles: I only have three emails from this conversation, but from the number of quote characters above, there seem to have been more. Oliver, can you su

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-25 Thread Mister Olli
hi... I'm sorry for the delay in the reply, I was on vacations during easter, and didn't had a chance to work on this. > > > > but this does not work, gtar proccess are eating a lot of CPU cycles: > > > > = > > > > > gtar --crea

Re: [Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-20 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Mister Olli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Do 20 Mär 2008 18:42:14 CET): > hi... > > I have big troubles with amanda on vmware ESX server 3. > > The gtar proccess hang up/ go into endless loop... > > however with the help of the vmware support, we were able to figure out > the following: > > gtar works,

[Fwd: RE: VMware Support Request SR# 1104697711]

2008-03-20 Thread Mister Olli
hi... I have big troubles with amanda on vmware ESX server 3. The gtar proccess hang up/ go into endless loop... however with the help of the vmware support, we were able to figure out the following: gtar works, if called like this: > gtar --create --file - --di