On Tue April 29 2003 11:37, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
>Just wanted to thank all the folks who generously gave me their
> time in trying to straighten out my Amanda problem.
>
>The system was so messed up, with bits and pieces of rpm- and
> source-installed versions mixed together, that I just stripped
> out everything I could find and installed from the latest
> tarball, then restored my disklist and config files. Everything
> seems to be running okay now, with a few minor problems that I'll
> ask about next.
>
>Thank you all, again.
Humm, your quoting mechanism in your email agent is broken, making
it look as it my comments are yours below. Can you fix that
please?
>-Kevin Zembower
>
>>>> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> 04/22/03 06:07PM >>>
>
>On Tue April 22 2003 14:03, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
>>I think I have amanda 2.4.4 running:
>>amanda@www:~$ amadmin Outside version
>>build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.4"
>> BUILT_DATE="Fri Apr 18 13:07:14 EDT 2003"
>> BUILT_MACH="Linux www 2.4.18-686-smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 14
>> 12:07:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown" CC="gcc"
>> CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure' '--with-user=amanda'
>> '--with-group=disk' '--with-owner=amanda'
>> '--with-tape-device=/dev/nst0' '--prefix=/usr/local'
>> '--with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/'
>> '--with-configdir=/etc/amanda'" paths: bindir="/usr/local/bin"
>> sbindir="/usr/local/sbin"
>> libexecdir="/usr/local/libexec" mandir="/usr/local/man"
>> AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda"
>> AMANDA_DBGDIR="/tmp/amanda-dbg/" CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda"
>> DEV_PREFIX="/dev/" RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump"
>> RESTORE="/sbin/restore" GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
>> COMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip" UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip"
>> MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"
>> listed_incr_dir="/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists"
>>defs: DEFAULT_SERVER="www" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
>> DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="www" DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/nst0"
>> HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID
>> DEBUG_CODE AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY
>> USE_AMANDAHOSTS CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
>> COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
>> COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
>>amanda@www:~$
>>
>>And yet, when I receive an amanda email report, it says:
>>These dumps were to tape Outside-01.
>>The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Outside-02.
>>
>>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>> www /var/www/main/htdocs lev 0 FAILED [dumps too big,
>> but cannot incremental dump new disk] <snip>
>>DUMP SUMMARY:
>> DUMPER STATS
>> TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP%
>> MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s --------------------------
>> --------------------------------- ------------ www
>> -ain/htdocs 0 FAILED --------------------------------------- www
>> sda8 0 143409708995200 62.7 114:381307.7
>> 114:391307.7
>>
>>(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2)
>>
>>Is this a typo, or do I have more than one amanda still on this
>> system?
>>
>>Thanks for your thoughts.
>>
>>-Kevin Zembower
>
>I see two problems here Kevin.
>
>1. It appears you have some leftover rpms installed, and its
> finding those first. Do a "rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep amanda`"
> (those are backticks!) and then reinstall _your_ build.
>
>2. If the filesystem is indeed too big, then you will have to
>convert from dump (the general consensus here seems to be that its
>less than desireable) to tar, which because its file oriented,
> will allow you to break the filesystems down into subdir entries,
> each of which will then fit on a tape. I prefer to try and keep
> each disklist entry at less than half a tape, and have 39 entries
> in the disklist for this home machine with its 105gigs of drives,
> and a 3.8 gig tape.
--
Cheers, Gene
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