Hi, on an Ubuntu 7.10 box running amanda 2.5.1p3, I see the following messages in the report: ? gtar: .: Warning: Cannot stat: Cannot allocate memory ? gtar:...
Albrecht Dreß
albrecht.dress@...
Mar 1, 2008 2:49 pm
64837
... They come from gtar :) The obvious answer is "you're out of memory" -- do you have enough swap? Is that a huge directory? The slightly less obvious answer...
Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin@...
Mar 1, 2008 3:32 pm
64838
... Not NFS, but CIFS - and the providing Win 2003 server was hanging! And instead off saying that the Win server in dead, the CIFS layer apparently reports...
Albrecht Dreß
albrecht.dress@...
Mar 1, 2008 6:57 pm
64839
... Hash: SHA1 Hi, is it possible to define (in a dumptype) what holding disk to use? I have a server which backups itself and this server has two raid arrays....
Nicki Messerschmidt
amanda-u@...
Mar 4, 2008 8:05 am
64840
Hi Marc/all, U have gave me this script to export database to other directory. http://marc-muehlfeld.de/scripts/mybackup.sh If I use this script on cronjob to...
fedora
zuki@...
Mar 4, 2008 9:31 am
64841
... Well, presumably amdump is run from cron too? Why not just do: 0 3 * * * backupdb.sh && amdump DailySet1 or something similar? Dave. -- Dave Ewart ...
Dave Ewart
davee@...
Mar 4, 2008 10:16 am
64842
... Just run the script in the same cron command: 0 3 * * * mybackup.sh; amdump DailySet1 or if the result of mybackup.sh is critical: 0 3 * * * mybackup.sh &&...
Heiko Schlittermann
hs@...
Mar 4, 2008 10:23 am
64843
Sorry if my explanation was not clear. The script is on client. What I want is whenever server start triggering amdump, it will "ask" client to run the script...
zuki
zuki@...
Mar 4, 2008 11:54 am
64844
There is no option to do that. Jean-Louis...
Jean-Louis Martineau
martineau@...
Mar 4, 2008 12:17 pm
64845
... My own preference is to configure the system with separate drives for holding disk. There is no reason for them to be raid. With a separate spindle, they...
Chris Hoogendyk
hoogendyk@...
Mar 4, 2008 1:34 pm
64846
Sorry -- this floated away into my INBOX. It looks like you have all of the appropriate holding files there, so perhaps they are corrupted somehow? I would...
Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin@...
Mar 5, 2008 3:29 pm
64847
Ok, here I go again. amanda-2.5.2p1 server and client debian/etch. I have seen this in the past (last Oct iirc) and I remember that Jean-Louis provided me with...
Jean-Francois Malouin
Jean-Francois.Malouin...
Mar 5, 2008 5:35 pm
64848
This idea hit me while I was cross-country skiing through the woods this last weekend (one way of renewing and reviving one's mental capacities ;-) gliding...
Chris Hoogendyk
hoogendyk@...
Mar 6, 2008 2:58 am
64849
... I haven't been cross-country skiing in years, but I certainly don't have any issues with it ;) ... I did this for a long time between two colo'd servers at...
Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin@...
Mar 6, 2008 3:41 am
64850
I hasdn't built one since amanda-2.6.0b2-20080229 as it has been a busy week. It builds ok, but the make install bails out: =============== make...
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett@...
Mar 6, 2008 2:41 pm
64851
... You did nothing wrong -- there was an error in a commit last night that wasn't fixed before the snapshot was taken. The commit is fixed now. Still, good...
Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin@...
Mar 6, 2008 5:09 pm
64852
Anyone on this please? I know, it's not as sexy as 2.6.x :) ... -- <° ><...
Jean-Francois Malouin
Jean-Francois.Malouin...
Mar 6, 2008 5:58 pm
64853
Yes, it's the classic problem. I understand the cause, but I have a question. a little background for those who don't know about this one... ============= ...
John Hein
jhein@...
Mar 6, 2008 6:24 pm
64854
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin ... I'm confused. I was hoping someone else understood the problem and would reply. ... OK, so...
Dustin J. Mitchell
dustin@...
Mar 6, 2008 7:00 pm
64855
Bcc: Subject: Re: [bis] discrepency between amadmin, logs and tape content? Reply-To: In-Reply-To:...
Jean-Francois Malouin
Jean-Francois.Malouin...
Mar 6, 2008 7:42 pm
64856
Jean-Francois, It's a known bug in amrecover, (will be fixed in 2.6.0b3). it try to recover from dump even if not all part are available. From amdadmin, only...
Jean-Louis Martineau
martineau@...
Mar 6, 2008 8:33 pm
64857
John, By defaults, amanda will never do more than runtapes * tape_length, unless you set 'maxdumpsize', added in 2.4.4. Jean-Louis...
Jean-Louis Martineau
martineau@...
Mar 6, 2008 8:33 pm
64858
... ... or the estimated dump size winds up being less than the actual dump size. But I understand your basic point. I was wrong about us running 2.4.2p2......
John E Hein
jhein@...
Mar 6, 2008 9:02 pm
64859
... Are LVM snapshots working properly now? The last few times I tried it (several months ago) it was a total disaster and not something I'd want to risk even...
Steve Wray
steve.wray@...
Mar 6, 2008 9:38 pm
64860
... all backup data passes through the holding disk: doesn't it follow that the holding disk should be as reliable as possible? and doesn't that imply at...
Aaron J. Grier
agrier@...
Mar 7, 2008 12:10 am
64861
... And it seems to work ok, thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that...
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett@...
Mar 7, 2008 12:34 am
64862
... Chuckle.. That is what I call myself, the 'canary in the coal mine' :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap,...
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett@...
Mar 7, 2008 12:36 am
64863
... Why? It's transient data. It's backup on its way somewhere else. Get a fast, high quality, reliable drive. Or two of them configured as two separate ...
Chris Hoogendyk
hoogendyk@...
Mar 7, 2008 3:10 am
64864
... What kind of disaster on which kernel? I had problems when using LVM2 in CentOS/RHEL 4.2 or so, but in 4.5 and 5 it is stable as long as you have 256 Mbyte...
Paul Bijnens
Paul.Bijnens@...
Mar 7, 2008 8:19 am
64865
Hi, all. I try to set of "amgtar" reffering to the URL:http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-wrapper.html . First I try to configure Amanda(amanda:2.6.0b2) on the...