Amanda-Users

Re: Errors in amstatus output

2004-09-17 08:30:22
Subject: Re: Errors in amstatus output
From: Jean-Louis Martineau <martinea AT iro.umontreal DOT ca>
To: KEVIN ZEMBOWER <KZEMBOWE AT jhuccp DOT org>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:27:41 -0400
Hi Kevin,

It's easy to try the newest amstatus.

download 
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda/amanda-2.4.4p3-20040917.tar.gz
run "./configure ..." with your options
run "make"

You can now run the amstatus in server-src/amstatus directly, you don't need
to run "make install"

Jean-Louis

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:03:32AM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
> Hi, Jean-Louis, thank you for all your work and efforts to update the Amanda 
> code and make it better.
> 
> I'm very reluctant to promise to try the snapshot, because of my 
> inexperience. I've never downloaded a snapshot from a CVS system and 
> installed it on any of my systems. I'm not sure how I would set it up so that 
> I could easily and quickly revert to the working system I have now. My Amanda 
> systems are all production systems, no prototyping or trial systems, which my 
> whole organization relies on for backups of our internet-facing servers.
> 
> If trying the snapshot is an easy and simple thing to do, with very little 
> risk to my existing system, I'd be happy to try it. If there are some web 
> pages describing how to try CVS snapshots out, please let me know a URL and 
> I'll read through them and see if I can do it.
> 
> Thank you, again, for all your work.
> 
> -Kevin
> 
> 
> >>> Jean-Louis Martineau <martinea AT iro.umontreal DOT ca> 09/16/04 07:29AM 
> >>> >>>
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> The latest amanda snapshot should have a fix for this, could you try it?
> 
> Jean-Louis
> 
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 09:56:45AM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
> > I just noticed these errors in the output of amstatus, from a run last 
> > night:
> > amanda@www:/etc/amanda/Outside$ amstatus Outside
> > Using /var/amanda/Outside/amdump.1 from Fri Sep 10 00:45:02 EDT 2004
> > 
> > www:sda1   1        0k finished (0:51:14)
> > www:sda10  2     1919k finished (0:51:51)
> > www:sda11  0  3319737k finished (4:42:52)
> > www:sda12  1      150k wait for dumping driver: (aborted)
> > Use of uninitialized value in printf at /usr/local/sbin/amstatus line 742.
> > www:sda14  0        0k failed to tape (7:20:40)
> > Use of uninitialized value in addition (+) at /usr/local/sbin/amstatus line 
> > 757.
> > Use of uninitialized value in addition (+) at /usr/local/sbin/amstatus line 
> > 767.
> > www:sda2   2   104343k finished (0:56:14)
> > www:sda5   1      120k finished (0:52:07)
> > www:sda6   1     3094k wait for dumping driver: (aborted)
> > www:sda7   0  5295676k finished (3:01:40)
> > www:sda8   2    50437k finished (1:02:50)
> > 
> > SUMMARY          part      real  estimated
> >                            size       size
> > partition       :  10
> > estimated       :  10             14068515k
> > flush           :   0         0k
> > failed          :   0                    0k           (  0.00%)
> > wait for dumping:   2                 3244k           (  0.02%)
> > dumping to tape :   0                    0k           (  0.00%)
> > dumping         :   0         0k         0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
> > dumped          :   8  13847339k  14065271k ( 98.45%) ( 98.43%)
> > wait for writing:   1         0k   5075107k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
> > wait to flush   :   0         0k         0k (100.00%) (  0.00%)
> > writing to tape :   0         0k         0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
> > failed to tape  :   1         0k   5075107k (  0.00%) (  0.00%)
> > taped           :   7   8772232k   8990164k ( 97.58%) ( 62.35%)
> >   tape 1        :   7   8772232k   8990164k ( 53.47%) Outside-04
> > 4 dumpers idle  : not-idle
> > taper idle
> > network free kps:      5800
> > holding space   :      3392k (100.00%)
> >  dumper0 busy   :  6:29:10  ( 99.93%)
> >    taper busy   :  6:27:14  ( 99.43%)
> >  0 dumpers busy :  0:00:16  (  0.07%)          start-wait:  0:00:16  
> > (100.00%)
> >  1 dumper busy  :  6:29:10  ( 99.93%)            not-idle:  6:27:14  ( 
> > 99.50%)
> >                                                start-wait:  0:00:59  (  
> > 0.25%)
> >                                              no-bandwidth:  0:00:56  (  
> > 0.24%)
> > amanda@www:/etc/amanda/Outside$ 
> > 
> > Has the bahavior of amstatus changed? I thought you couldn't get an 
> > amstatus after the run was completed.
> > 
> > Here's the section of the code:
> >      737                                         
> > elsif($taper_finished{$hostpart} < 0) {
> >      738                                                 if( defined 
> > $opt_failed  ||
> >      739                                                          (defined 
> > $opt_waittaper && ($taper_finished{$hostpart} == -1))) {
> >      740                                                         printf 
> > "%8s ", $datestamp if defined $opt_date;
> >      741                                                         printf 
> > "%-${maxnamelength}s%2d", "$host:$partition", $level{$hostpa
> >      741 rt};
> >      742                                                         printf 
> > "%9dk", $size{$hostpart};
> >      743                                                         
> > if($in_flush == 0) {
> >      744                                                                 
> > print " failed to tape";
> >      745                                                         }
> >      746                                                         else {
> >      747                                                                 
> > print " failed to flush";
> >      748                                                         }
> >      749                                                         print " 
> > (will retry)" unless $taper_finished{$hostpart} < -1;
> >      750                                                         if( 
> > defined $starttime ) {
> >      751                                                                 
> > print " (", &showtime($taper_time{$hostpart}), ")";
> >      752                                                         }
> >      753                                                         print "\n";
> >      754                                                 }
> >      755 
> >      756                                                 $tfpartition++;
> >      757                                                 $tfsize += 
> > $size{$hostpart};
> >      758                                                 if(defined 
> > $esize{$hostpart}) {
> >      759                                                         $tfesize 
> > += $esize{$hostpart};
> >      760                                                 }
> >      761                                                 else {
> >      762                                                         $tfesize 
> > += $size{$hostpart};
> >      763                                                 }
> >      764 
> >      765                                                 if($in_flush == 0) 
> > {
> >      766                                                         
> > $twpartition++;
> >      767                                                         $twsize += 
> > $size{$hostpart};
> >      768                                                         if(defined 
> > $esize{$hostpart}) {
> >      769                                                                 
> > $twesize += $esize{$hostpart};
> >      770                                                         }
> >      771                                                         else {
> >      772                                                                 
> > $twesize += $size{$hostpart};
> >      773                                                         }
> >      774                                                 }
> > 
> > I'm not much of a coder, but these don't seem significant; just complaining 
> > about output strings which can't be printed.
> > 
> > Here's the version info:
> > amanda@www:/etc/amanda/Outside$ amadmin Outside version
> > build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.4p3"
> >        BUILT_DATE="Wed Aug 18 16:27:23 EDT 2004"
> >        BUILT_MACH="Linux www.jhuccp.org 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 
> > CEST 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-portrange=10080,10083' 
> > '--with-tcpportrange=10080,10083' '--with-udpportrange=850,854' 
> > '--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" VDUMP=UNDEF VRESTORE=UNDEF
> >        XFSDUMP=UNDEF XFSRESTORE=UNDEF VXDUMP=UNDEF VXRESTORE=UNDEF
> >        SAMBA_CLIENT=UNDEF GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
> >        COMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip" UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip"
> >        LPRCMD=UNDEF MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"
> >        listed_incr_dir="/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists"
> > defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="www.jhuccp.org" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
> >        DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="www.jhuccp.org"
> >        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:/etc/amanda/Outside$ 
> > 
> > Thanks for your thoughts on this. Let me know if there's anything else I 
> > can to to help solve this problem.
> > 
> > -Kevin
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Louis Martineau             email: martineau AT iro.umontreal DOT ca 
> Département IRO, Université de Montréal
> C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE    Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529
> Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7        Fax: (514) 343-5834
> 

-- 
Jean-Louis Martineau             email: martineau AT iro.umontreal DOT ca 
Département IRO, Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE    Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529
Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7        Fax: (514) 343-5834

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