Amanda-Users

Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines

2009-08-18 10:44:04
Subject: Re: Backup issues with OpenBSD 4.5 machines
From: stan <stanb AT panix DOT com>
To: Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:32:42 -0400
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:32:21AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> From the write man page:
> 
>     [EAGAIN]       The file was marked for non-blocking I/O, and no data 
>     could
>                    be written immediately.
> 
> 
> But sendbackup or gzip write the index to a blocking pipe.
> Maybe it's the firewall that returns that error.
> 
> You can try to switch to the 'bsdtcp' auth, it is a lot more firewall 
> friendly.
> 
Same result:

1250605398.423331: sendbackup:  91:  normal(|):   DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Tue
 Aug 18 10:23:18 2009
1250605398.435367: sendbackup: critical (fatal): index tee cannot write 
[Resourc e temporarily unavailable]
1250605398.437948: sendbackup: 116: strange(?): sendbackup: index tee cannot 
write [Resource temporarily unavailable]
1250605398.439291: sendbackup:  91:  normal(|):   DUMP: Broken pipe
1250605398.440143: sendbackup:  91:  normal(|):   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is 
aborted.
1250605398.440752: sendbackup: critical (fatal): error [dump (7497) /sbin/dump r
 eturned 3]

 I know I have asked this before, but I can't recall getting a definative
 answer. Is port usage different between 2.5.x and 2.6 clients, when
 talkimng to a 2.6 server?


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