Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, September 11, 2010 10:31:37 am Gene Heskett did opine: On Friday, September 10, 2010 08:57:23 pm Dustin J. Mitchell did opine: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Florian Lengyel florian.leng...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't amcheck -m DailySet3 send email if there is a changer

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: And find out it doesn't work.  Without the quotes around the mailto string, it upchucks all over itself fails to run.  They have been added and last nights backup s/b running now.  The manpage doesn't say that mailto

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Florian Lengyel florian.leng...@gmail.com wrote: 3. They didn't know--or bother to read--that to recover the files, you list the first couple of lines (they configured a custom compression with bzip2): AMANDA: SPLIT_FILE 20100222 guass.engr.ccny.cuny.edu 

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, September 11, 2010 01:19:44 pm Dustin J. Mitchell did opine: On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: And find out it doesn't work. Without the quotes around the mailto string, it upchucks all over itself fails to run. They have been

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Florian Lengyel
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.comwrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Florian Lengyel florian.leng...@gmail.com wrote: They have had to recover by hand -- see below (there was a disk crash of some kind, but I have been unable to elicit precise details).

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Florian Lengyel florian.leng...@gmail.com wrote: Not an amanda tape: Can't open tape device @DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE@: No such Hopefully the error here is pretty obvious. I'm not sure how they managed to get that into their configuration, but it's obviously wrong.

amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
Hi, The following is the output of amcheck (version info listed below)--it reports a malformed response from the vtape changer and calls this a changer problem. On the other hand it ends by reporting no problems found and does not send the email address configured to receive notifications that

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Florian Lengyel florian.leng...@gmail.com wrote: The following is the output of amcheck (version info listed below)--it reports a malformed response from the vtape changer and calls this a changer problem. On the other hand it ends by reporting no problems

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Florian Lengyel florian.leng...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't amcheck -m DailySet3 send email if there is a changer problem? I'm told that amcheck does not send the email. Yes, and normally it does, so that's either mistakenly reported or there's a bug of some

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.comwrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Florian Lengyel florian.leng...@gmail.com wrote: The following is the output of amcheck (version info listed below)--it reports a malformed response from the vtape changer and calls

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
I'm not familiar with vtapes, but in any case their amanda.conf file has dumpcycle 1 day # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle -1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays) tapecycle 25 tapes # the number of

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
dump? Since I have selfcheck log for july 29th -- *From:* Florian Lengyel florian.leng...@gmail.com *To:* ** *Sent:* Friday, September 10, 2010 12:22:09 *Subject:* Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem You should have received an email

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:43:32 -0400 Florian Lengyel florian.leng...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not familiar with vtapes, but in any case their amanda.conf file has dumpcycle 1 day # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle -1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days #

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Florian Lengyel
OK thanks for this. I must apologize to the list for the subject line. I suspect that whoever configured their system commented out the amcheck line in their crontab--but I don't have a way of verifying this. I will summarize to the list: 1. An email address that a human would read when a

Re: amcheck ignores vtape changer problem

2010-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, September 10, 2010 08:57:23 pm Dustin J. Mitchell did opine: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Florian Lengyel florian.leng...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't amcheck -m DailySet3 send email if there is a changer problem? I'm told that amcheck does not send the email. Yes, and