Amanda-Users

Re: Help with amanda client on SCO 5.0.5...Please

2002-08-08 14:39:36
Subject: Re: Help with amanda client on SCO 5.0.5...Please
From: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
To: Chris Johnson <chris AT sebis DOT com>, amanda-users <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:25:05 -0400
On Thursday 08 August 2002 13:59, Chris Johnson wrote:
>Gene,
>    I'm not sure which version of tar I'm using.
>'tar --version' outputs:
>
>--snip--
>
>tar (GNU tar) 1.13
>
>Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software
> Foundation, Inc.
>This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. 
> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
> A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
>Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
>
>--snip--
>
>The date stamp on the source tarball, on the SCO machine is "july
> 25" and the newest one on ftp.gnu.org/pub/tar is "july 8 1999". I
> had to compile it because SCO's tar is not gnu. It compiled fine
> and appears to work ("tar -czvf [file] . " makes a nice
> compressed tarball)
>
>chris

Oh boy, here we go again.  The gnu.org site is hiding the latest tar 
again.  Can someone point this gentleman to the right version of 
tar, please?
>
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>On Thursday 08 August 2002 12:47, Chris Johnson wrote:
>>>Hi group,
>>>   I'm having trouble getting amanda client to work on SCO
>>> 5.0.5. The 'amcheck' program says everything is ok but, when I
>>> run 'amdump' it always times out and I get the following errors
>>> emailed back to me.
>>>
>>>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>>> *hostname* /u5 lev 0 FAILED [Request to *hostname* timed out.]
>>> *hostname* /u3 lev 0 FAILED [Request to *hostname* timed out.]
>>> *hostname* /u lev 0 FAILED [Request to *hostname* timed out.]
>>>
>>>STATISTICS:
>>>                         Total       Full      Daily
>>>                       --------   --------   --------
>>>Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:01
>>>Run Time (hrs:min)         0:12
>>>Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
>>>Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0
>>>Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0
>>>Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --
>>>Filesystems Dumped            0          0          0
>>>Avg Dump Rate (k/s)         --         --         --
>>>
>>>Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
>>>Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
>>>Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
>>>Filesystems Taped             0          0          0
>>>Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         --
>>>
>>>
>>>NOTES:
>>> planner: Adding new disk *hostname*:/u.
>>> planner: Adding new disk *hostname*:/u3.
>>> planner: Adding new disk *hostname*:/u5.
>>> driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner
>>> taper: tape *tapelabel* kb 0 fm 0 [OK]
>>>
>>>
>>>Amanda seems to compile ok I'm using gnutar-1.13 and
>>
>>What sub-revision?  It really should be 1.13-25 for best results.
>>
>>>amanda-2.4.2p2. Can anyone help explain these error messages and
>>>point me in the direction to fix the problem?
>>>
>>>thanks,
>>>chris

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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