Re: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090730, 1st run

2009-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 31 July 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Built/installed with no config changes, 1st run with a 1GB smaller spec for the vtape. At 7:45 in the morning it is still going, and it is usually finished by around 2 am. Asking for an 'amstatus Daily' stops after printing the date, and

Re: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090730, 1st run

2009-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 31 July 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Should that be something that an amcheck /config/ could have caught? No, not necessarily -- note the skipping tape-writeable test (which had the side-effect of erasing

amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090730, 1st run

2009-07-31 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Built/installed with no config changes, 1st run with a 1GB smaller spec for the vtape. At 7:45 in the morning it is still going, and it is usually finished by around 2 am. Asking for an 'amstatus Daily' stops after printing the date, and is now using 99% of the cpu. Killable with

Re: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090730, 1st run

2009-07-31 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Your turn. :) Can you send me the whole taper log with all of the repeats in it? or at least the first few MB of it? I suspect there are a few bugs conspiring here.. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer

Re: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090730, 1st run

2009-07-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 31 July 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Your turn. :) Can you send me the whole taper log with all of the repeats in it? or at least the first few MB of it? I suspect there are a few bugs conspiring here..

Re: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090730, 1st run

2009-07-31 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: No, 100% PEBKAC.  Somehow the slot9 directory got owned by root, so even if the link 'data' was owned by amanda, amanda had no perms for the target of the link.  I just put the 730 snapshot back in after the flush was

Re: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090730, 1st run

2009-07-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 31 July 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: No, 100% PEBKAC. Somehow the slot9 directory got owned by root, so even if the link 'data' was owned by amanda, amanda had no perms for the target of the link. I just

Re: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090730, 1st run

2009-07-31 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
Ah, I see what happened -- the tape doesn't get overwritten, so the taperscan assumes that it is still useable and feeds it back to the taper. Rinse, wash, repeat. I'll get this fixed up, then. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090730, 1st run

2009-07-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 31 July 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: Ah, I see what happened -- the tape doesn't get overwritten, so the taperscan assumes that it is still useable and feeds it back to the taper. Rinse, wash, repeat. I'll get this fixed up, then. Dustin Sounds good to me. ;) -- Cheers, Gene

Re: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090730, 1st run

2009-07-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 31 July 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: Ah, I see what happened -- the tape doesn't get overwritten, so the taperscan assumes that it is still useable and feeds it back to the taper. Rinse, wash, repeat. I'll get this fixed up, then. Dustin Should that be something that an amcheck

Re: amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090730, 1st run

2009-07-31 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Should that be something that an amcheck /config/ could have caught? No, not necessarily -- note the skipping tape-writeable test (which had the side-effect of erasing the tape) Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer