http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/ AMANDA: Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:54:54 GMT Brian Cuttler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68056 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68056 ah ha! We are backing up the amanda server, a FW, the old database system behind the FW and this new system. The DBA has been installing/configuring additional Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:04:47 GMT stan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68055 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68055 WE just recently rebuilt 2.6.1 on FreeBSD 7.2 STABLE, and this mornign I went to do a restore, to find out that the "header" in the file contains an incorect Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:46:46 GMT Brian Cuttler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68054 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68054 Amanda users, I check using amstatus this morning, we where pushing 70% and then the dump failed... We seem very consistent on the failure point. Tried the Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:42:10 GMT Gunnarsson, Gunnar http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68053 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68053 Yes Chris you are right it's an OS issue and I've opened a case with SUN support. We want to use the sgen - Generic SCSI device driver to access the library in Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:27:44 GMT Nathan Stratton Treadway http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68052 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68052 ... Well, I suppose it's possible that for some version or other of GNU tar this could just be because of a misleading error message, but my hunch would be Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:07:53 GMT Brian Cuttler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68051 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68051 Nathan, Yes, I saw what you saw in the gtar report - I can only surmize that the error is written in a confusing mannor. /proc is definitely a directory that Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:05:27 GMT Nathan Stratton Treadway http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68050 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68050 On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 16:27:44 -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... For what it's worth, tar's message here indicates that the Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:32:28 GMT Brian Cuttler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68049 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68049 Frank, Dustin suggested the same, just checked and to my suprise the switch was present, up'd it from 1800 to 2400 (seconds). It was the only DLE in the test Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:26:08 GMT Frank Smith http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68048 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68048 ... You're probably on the edge of either the estimate or data timeout values (etimeout or dtimeout). You could try increasing those values. I'm not familiar Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:24:45 GMT Dustin J. Mitchell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68047 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68047 ... It looks like a timeout of some sort. Have you increased the various timeout parameters for this DLE? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:21:58 GMT Brian Cuttler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68046 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68046 Hi Dustin, ... I think the same but I haven't adjusted anything yet. Other than etimeout, what knobs do I have it 2.4.4 ? I thought timeouts where only an Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:19:01 GMT Dustin J. Mitchell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68045 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68045 ... I would think dtimeout would be the knob to tweak. I have no idea if that was present in 2.4.4 though. ... The talk went well -- Nick did a great job and Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:02:56 GMT Brian Cuttler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68044 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68044 Amanda users, The backup of this particular DLE is pretty much hit or miss, it'll run great for a week and then fail for a week, I haven't been able to disern Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:30:00 GMT Toomas Aas http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68043 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68043 ... I've lost the beginning of this thread, but considering that flushing to daily-010 worked it should be fine. Maybe the labels do not look as nice as you'd Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:38:37 GMT Paul Bijnens http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68042 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/68042 ... http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=sggbbshc5fs4&scene=21014403&lvl=2&sty=b Right in the center you see the bike park, for about 15 bicycles even, with a