On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:54:06PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
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>
> stan wrote:
> >I recently tried to upgrade several of my OpenBSD machines to 4.5 (X86). I
> >also upgraded the Amanda clients on them to 2.6.1, which I have working on
> >FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris 5, Solaris 8, and HP-UX.
> >
> >Despite my best efforts, I have yet to get the OpenBSD 4.5 clients to back
> >up correctly. All the configurations are set up to match what has been done
> >on FreeBSD. Amcheck works fine, and when I start a backup, the size
> >estimates step works. But 80% of the time the actual dumps fail. They
> >start, but fail in mid dump. They are returning a EAGAIN error on the
> >network pipes back to the Amanda master machine. I have connected one of
> >the
> >OpenBSD machines directly to the Amanda master with a crossover cable to
> >eliminate any possible firewall/router et all issues.
> >
> >I notice that the port of Amanda is quite an old version, and the
> >developers of this project are (unfortunately) breaking compatibility with
> >older clients. I don't like this, but, at this point in time, it is beyond
> >my resources to address this breakage.
> >
> >Has anyone gotten an newer version of Amanda to work on OpenBSD 4.5? Can
> >anyone suggest what I should do to try to diagnose this problem further?
>
> Sounds like you've had a fair bit of experience on various platforms
> implementing Amanda.
>
> Since you upgraded the OpenBSD, perhaps for sanity and just checking and
> troubleshooting, you should grab an older Amanda that you already have
> implemented, and get that working on the upgraded OpenBSD. That might
> just work, or it might clue you in to what's going on.
Thanks, I was just thinking of doing that. Unfortunately the OpenBSD
machines were not all alike (ah, such is life) and were of various OS and
Amanda versions.
We have also decided to not go beyond 2.5.2 on some of our machines that
are traped in "history land". As that version supports all of the
functionality we need (bsdtcp auth, and restore compatibility with our 2.6.1
server). I am presently trying to get that working on one of the OpenBSD 2.5
machines, but that isn't going all that well either. None of our OpenBSD
machines that we are replacing had a version of Amanda that new, so just
copying binaries over from one of the not yet updated machines doesn't make
too much sense. What a frustrating week this has been!!
Thanks for the suggestions.
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