[OpenAFS] backup: Volume name is illegal ; Failed to evaluate volume set

[Giovanni Bracco]

Does this mean that generally speaking openafs backup does not work 
anymore with version 1.6.13 on servers?

Giovanni


On 04/08/15 13:02, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> On 04 Aug 2015, at 11:29, Gunnar Krull <gklists@cs.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday I upgraded the OpenAFS packages on our servers running Debian Wheezy from 1.6.9-1~bpo70+1 to 1.6.13-1 (compiled and build from sid source).
>>
>> Since then the backup command stopped working with an error, e.g.:
>>
>> # /usr/sbin/backup dump -volumeset coursebackup -dump /aug
>> Starting dump of volume set 'coursebackup' (dump level '/aug')
>> backup: Volume name is illegal ; Failed to evaluate volume set
>>
>> The backup volume set looks like this:
>>
>> backup> listv
>> Volume set coursebackup:
>>     Entry   1: server .*, partition .*, volumes: course\..*\.backup
>>
>> Everything else seemed to be okay, no problems with fileservers and volume servers.
>> Now, I've gone back to the old version, installing the 1.6.9 packages. With this version the backup is working again.
>>
>> Any idea what could cause the error in the latest version?
>
> it's a known regression introduced with commit 63087b338e3d0fbbb26ee183a039052bf07aaaec  in 1.6.13. An alternative solution is being worked on in http://gerrit.openafs.org/1196{7,8,9} and should be released soon.
>
> The changes will need some tweaking when applied to 1.6.
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> - Stephan
>
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