Re: [Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

2012-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Dale Amon wrote: > I have seen overheated drives appear to be throwing errors all over the > place, but after cooled down show no errors at all. Dale, It's quite hot here today and the external drive enclosure has no fan. It felt quite hot yesterday, but not as hot today.

Re: [Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

2012-08-17 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:39:31PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > salmo-home/. Unmounted the drive and ran fsck; it's clean and OK. > >Have no idea where the input/output error originated. I'll see what's on > the backup drive tomorrow morning after the

Re: [Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

2012-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > "Brand New", or possibly a factory refurb? Keith, Whatever Western Digital sends as a warranty replacement for a failed drive. > We're off in low probability land, but the power supply, disk controller, > or cabling could be itnermittent. Here in

Re: [Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

2012-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > I just turned off the drive and will try again later. It's now later. Turned on the drive, mounted it, and initialized salmo-home/. Unmounted the drive and ran fsck; it's clean and OK. Have no idea where the input/output error originated. I'll s

Re: [Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

2012-08-17 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:39:09AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: >All right. I commented those out and re-initiated the vaults that showed > errors (after removing the existing images). This all worked fine (without a > completion message being mailed to me by dirvish) until I tried to > re-initia

Re: [Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

2012-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Paul Slootman wrote: > THREE lines All right. I commented those out and re-initiated the vaults that showed errors (after removing the existing images). This all worked fine (without a completion message being mailed to me by dirvish) until I tried to re-initialize salmo-h

Re: [Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 17 Aug 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Paul Slootman wrote: > > >> post-server: /etc/dirvish/dirvish_mail > >> pre-client: echo "PRE_CLIENT_RET_OK - No pre-client installed" > >> post-client: echo "POST_CLIENT_RET_OK - No post-client installed" > > > Really?! It seems to

Re: [Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

2012-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Paul Slootman wrote: >> post-server: /etc/dirvish/dirvish_mail >> pre-client: echo "PRE_CLIENT_RET_OK - No pre-client installed" >> post-client: echo "POST_CLIENT_RET_OK - No post-client installed" > Really?! It seems to be defined to me :-) Paul, Technically, yes. But

Re: [Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 17 Aug 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > >Since neither a pre-client/server nor a post-client/server are defined I > don't know where to find the source of this error or how to fix it. On Fri 17 Aug 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > post-server: /etc/dirvish/dirvish_mail > pre-client: echo "PRE_

Re: [Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

2012-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Paul Slootman wrote: > I wouldn't supply a trailing slash... don't know whether it really > matters. Paul, Oh. OK. I get the same results either way. > Not even in the master.conf? Nope. > Perhaps you need to show your config files. /etc/dirvish/master.conf (sam

Re: [Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 17 Aug 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > > # dirvish --init --vault salmo-home/ I wouldn't supply a trailing slash... don't know whether it really matters. > root@192.168.55.1's password: > Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated > Warning: No xauth data; u

[Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

2012-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
hows this (with list of files redacted): From: r...@appl-ecosys.com Subject: ### ERR ### - Backup-192.168.55.1:/home (backupserver): Rsync: success Pre: OK, Post: UNKNOWN = ERROR: salmo:/media/hd0/salmo-home/201

Re: [Dirvish] Explanation Needed of Error Message [RESOLVED]

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 17 Aug 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > >Got it figured out: from /media/hd0/ I invoke 'dirvish --init --vault > and that does the job. It doesn't matter where you run it from, dirvish looks in /etc/dirvish/master.conf for the bank locations and searches those for the specified vault. (Can

Re: [Dirvish] Explanation Needed of Error Message [RESOLVED]

2012-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > 1.) Do I run the init from the backup drive (/media/hd0 in my case) or > from the host being backed up (192.168.55.1)? Got it figured out: from /media/hd0/ I invoke 'dirvish --init --vault and that does the job. > 2.) The HOWTO example shows the

Re: [Dirvish] Explanation Needed of Error Message -- Update

2012-08-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Paul Slootman wrote: > So how big is the system you're backing up? If that 136G is too much, > then something's not configured right. If it's not yet enough, then you > didn't let it run long enough. Paul, True. The two questions for which I did not find answers in the H

Re: [Dirvish] Explanation Needed of Error Message -- Update

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 16 Aug 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > Then initialize it with dirvish --init --vault whatever > > Paul, > >When I cd to /media/hd0/salmo-root/dirvish/ and enter the command, > dirvish --init --vault salmo-root, it ran for a couple of hours