Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: missing file header
>It's looking like that tape is bad. Does this happen on all your tapes >or just this one? If it's all the tapes, I'd start worrying about the drive or controller. Can the error appear through a bad termination of the scsi bus??? >Here's another sequence to try: > $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind > $ mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 > $ dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 > /tmp/block.0 > $ ls -l /tmp/block.0 > $ head -4 < /tmp/block.0 The result of this command is: AMANDA: TAPEEND DATE X it is a 32k file > $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind > $ mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 > $ dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k of=/dev/null The result of this command is only: 1 + 0 records in 1 + 0 records out >If this problem is happening on all your tapes, I'd mount a scratch tape, >create a file of a few MBytes that is a multiple of 32 KBytes then do >several dd's with bs=32k to the tape without repositioning in between, >i.e. so the tape ends up with several files on it. Then rewind the tape >and read the files back in to see if you get back what you wrote. The problem happens on all tapes i use. >John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] best regards roshan
Re: software compression disabled?
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:59:51AM +0100, Olaf Seidel wrote: > Hi, > > now I run my first tests, Amanda backing up all the servers. I've > used the two dumptypes "nocomp-user" and "nocomp-root" (I > changed nothing in these dumptypes) with no compression. When > I watch the processes on the Amanda-Server, there are processes > "/bin/gzip --best" owned by the Amanda-User. Where do they > come from? Aren't the dumptypes without software compression? > This is normal, if you turned on indexing. Amanda runs somethinglike tar -tf | gzip --best > ///.gz or restore -t | gzip --best > ///.gz in parallel to putting the stream on tape. tar tf is run on the client and the gzip on the backup server. If you have dumptypes with compression, you will find gzip processes on the client. (except you use compress server, see amanda(8)) Ciao Dietmar -- Alles Gute / best wishesphone: +49-521-96751-19 Dietmar GoldbeckE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength.
Re: amanda cron job doesn't start?
Just a thought, you modified the contab using the command 'crontab -e' right? Otherwise it won't actually install the change. On 6 Dec 2000, Rainer Hofmann wrote: > Hi, > > any explanations why that cron job for user amanda doesn't even start: > > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/amanda/bin:/usr/local/sbin > > 0 18 * * 1-5 amcheck merten && amdump merten > > > I want to run backups at 6.00 pm on Mo-Fr as user amanda. > > settings in etc/passwd are as follows: > > amanda:x:501:6:Amanda Backup User:/home/amanda:/bin/bash > > I'm using joe as editor instead of vi. > > crond is up and running, since other cronjobs of root are executed. > I'm using Linux RedHat 6.2. Is there any general setting who is > allowed to run cron jobs at all? > > Thanks > Rainer > -- > Chemisches Labor Dr. Merten GmbH > Röderstr. 8-10 > 79104 Freiburg > Tel: 0761 29648-0 > >
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Re: selfcheck fails (incorrectly) on 2.4.1p1
>... Why can't the selfcheck/amcheck >run as setuid root as well? Can I switch it to setuid root? No, don't do that. It will completely defeat the tests. I'll see if I can get a patch together for you to try. >Edwin John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
selfcheck fails (incorrectly) on 2.4.1p1
Hi, amcheck fails incorrectly when using amanda 2.4.1p1 and GNUTAR. Scenario: Have a directory: drwxr-xr-- oracle dba 4096 Jul 20 04:49 u03 Amanada is not part of the "dba" group. And amcheck says this: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: oracle: [can not access /u03/orabackup (/u03/orabackup): Permission denied] But, runtar runs fine... probably because it's setuid-root. Why can't the selfcheck/amcheck run as setuid root as well? Can I switch it to setuid root? Regards, Edwin
Re: EXB-8900 tapetype, please
>Where can one acquire the "tapetype" program? I don't find it in the AMANDA di >stribution after compilation. It needs to be explicitly compiled: $ cd tape-src $ make tapetype > tony John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EXB-8900 tapetype, please
Thanks Patrick;
Where can one acquire the "tapetype" program? I don't find it in the AMANDA
distribution after compilation.
Is AME_225_SmartClean == EXB-8900 ? The filemark is definitely different from the
normal 48 kbytes, while the length of 52006 mbytes seems substantially greater than
what we have previously been able to fit on a 125m MAMMOTH-LT tape.
Thanks for the help,
tony
>Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:09:02 -0500
>From: Patrick LIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Tony Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: EXB-8900 tapetype, please
>
>Tony Ross a écrit :
>>
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Does anyone have the tapetype definiton for the Exabyte 8900 drive?
>>
>> We are using a Mammoth-LT and 125m tapes in an Exabyte EZ-17 autoloader; nothing
>was found in the online archives.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> tony
>>
>>
>> --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
>> Before you buy.
>
>tape type definition:
>
>define tapetype AME_225_SmartClean {
> comment "just produced by tapetype program"
> length 52006 mbytes
> filemark 1245 kbytes
> speed 11051 kbytes
> }
>
>
>patrick
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Re: scsi-changer-driver.c
Hi, On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:37:03AM -0500, F.M. Taylor wrote: > > I started out with: > > # START DecodeSense > GenericSenseHandler : Sense Keys > ErrorCode 00 > Valid 0 > ASC 46 > ASCQ 00 > Sense key 00 > No Sense > GenericSenseHandler : Unknow 0 ASC = 46 ASCQ = 0 > STOP SenseHandler > chg-scsi: requested drive number (0) greater than number of supported > drives (-1) > > So I called the vendor and they said it is a non-error (errcode 0) error, > and to ignore it. So I changed GenericSenseHandler() to return SENSE_NO > for "Unknow", and that problem went away. The correct way is to define a new handler for your device which handles this condition, and not to extend the GenericSenseHandler. As the name say this is an handler for unknown Devices. Now you/we know the device and can extend it. I can do this if you send me the output of the debug file to see which ident is returned, and the diffs what you have changed in the function. One nice thing would be if you can get an pointer to the SCSI reference giude of your device to check which other conditions can happen, and how to deal with them. Thomas -- --- | Thomas Hepper[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ( If the above address fail try ) | | ( [EMAIL PROTECTED])| ---
Re: scsi-changer-driver.c
a diff -c is attached. Dont remember what I changed in my config file,
oops.
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >... So I changed GenericSenseHandler() to return SENSE_NO
> >for "Unknow", and that problem went away.
>
> Could you post a unified (-u) or context (-c) diff of your change?
> And don't worry about your C coding skills :-). The idea is the more
> important part here.
>
> And what about my question of what you changed in your config file to
> make the segmentation violation go away?
>
> >Mike Taylor
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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*** amanda-2.4.2/changer-src/scsi-changer-driver.c Tue Oct 24 19:21:15 2000
--- ../amanda-2.4.2/changer-src/scsi-changer-driver.c Wed Dec 6 08:57:10 2000
***
*** 313,319
GenericSearch,
GenericSenseHandler}},
/* Sepctra Logic Devices */
! {"215",
"Spectra Logic TreeFrog[215]",
{GenericMove,
GenericElementStatus,
--- 313,319
GenericSearch,
GenericSenseHandler}},
/* Sepctra Logic Devices */
! {"1",
"Spectra Logic TreeFrog[215]",
{GenericMove,
GenericElementStatus,
***
*** 1061,1067
{
case 0:
fprintf(out,"\t\tNo Sense\n");
! break;
case 1:
fprintf(out,"\t\tRecoverd Error\n");
break;
--- 1061,1067
{
case 0:
fprintf(out,"\t\tNo Sense\n");
! return(0);
case 1:
fprintf(out,"\t\tRecoverd Error\n");
break;
***
*** 1802,1808
pRequestSense->SenseKey,
pRequestSense->AdditionalSenseCode,
pRequestSense->AdditionalSenseCodeQualifier));
! ret = SENSE_ABORT;
break;
}
} else {
--- 1802,1808
pRequestSense->SenseKey,
pRequestSense->AdditionalSenseCode,
pRequestSense->AdditionalSenseCodeQualifier));
! ret = SENSE_NO;
break;
}
} else {
***
*** 1847,1853
pRequestSense->SenseKey,
pRequestSense->AdditionalSenseCode,
pRequestSense->AdditionalSenseCodeQualifier));
! ret = SENSE_ABORT;
break;
}
}
--- 1847,1853
pRequestSense->SenseKey,
pRequestSense->AdditionalSenseCode,
pRequestSense->AdditionalSenseCodeQualifier));
! ret = SENSE_NO;
break;
}
}
RE: Oracle Backup Strategies
I'm a client of sprint, can you send it to me? ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tuthill, Ed Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 11:13 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Oracle Backup Strategies To those who have been waiting on my Oracle backup perl script, I just wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten about you. My supervisor insisted on bringing our legal department into the loop since the script was created on Sprint's dime. I'm pushing to get this declared freely distributable so that I can share it here. FWIW, it's been running for about a week now, and has been doing fairly well, although I'm still tweaking. -Ed Edward Tuthill NTAC Engineer, Sprint PCS NTAC-West W: 949.225.2920 M: 310.663.9726
Oracle Backup Strategies
To those who have been waiting on my Oracle backup perl script, I just wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten about you. My supervisor insisted on bringing our legal department into the loop since the script was created on Sprint's dime. I'm pushing to get this declared freely distributable so that I can share it here. FWIW, it's been running for about a week now, and has been doing fairly well, although I'm still tweaking. -Ed Edward Tuthill NTAC Engineer, Sprint PCS NTAC-West W: 949.225.2920 M: 310.663.9726
Re: Antwort: Re: missing file header
It's looking like that tape is bad. Does this happen on all your tapes or just this one? If it's all the tapes, I'd start worrying about the drive or controller. Here's another sequence to try: $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind $ mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 $ dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 > /tmp/block.0 $ ls -l /tmp/block.0 $ head -4 < /tmp/block.0 $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind $ mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 $ dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k of=/dev/null The first dd will bring in the label block from the file. In theory, it should be 32 KBytes and start with some text. The second dd will tell us how long the file is and if it is all 32 KByte blocks. If this problem is happening on all your tapes, I'd mount a scratch tape, create a file of a few MBytes that is a multiple of 32 KBytes then do several dd's with bs=32k to the tape without repositioning in between, i.e. so the tape ends up with several files on it. Then rewind the tape and read the files back in to see if you get back what you wrote. John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: restore to empty harddisk
>sorry, if this is a little bit off-topic. ... As other have said, this is very much on-topic. >I'd like to know a good strategy >to restore from an amanda backup to an empty harddisk. ... The only thing I'd add to what you listed and others have expounded upon is that you need to know what tapes have the backup images you'll need and, if you do not have amrestore, what file on the tape. There are various ways to do this (and I'm sure some I haven't thought of): * rdist/rsync the Amanda configuration information (including the curinfo database) to some other machine or removable medium after each run. This is what I do and has the added advantage of being able to easily recover the Amanda state for use during the recovery and have it correct for the next run. * Use one of the lbl-templ tapetype definitions to print a hard copy output of each tape after each run. * Use amtoc after amdump/amflush run and put the output someplace safe (another machine, removable medium, hard copy). >Olaf John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hotbackup with
>We're doing a hot backup of our CMS-Server and I sometimes >get a 'file changed as we read it: No such file or directory' error. >Is there a way to do a tar hotbackup anyway without shutting down the >service accessing this file ? How about making a copy of the file(s) to a temp area (possibly with tools that guarantee they are in a known good state -- I don't know what CMS-Server is) and then backing that up rather than the live file(s)? >-- Mirko John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scsi-changer-driver.c
>... So I changed GenericSenseHandler() to return SENSE_NO >for "Unknow", and that problem went away. Could you post a unified (-u) or context (-c) diff of your change? And don't worry about your C coding skills :-). The idea is the more important part here. And what about my question of what you changed in your config file to make the segmentation violation go away? >Mike Taylor John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: software compression disabled?
amdump is using gzip to compress the index files if you had your dumptype with index on. It is not compressing the actual dump files. Josh Olaf Seidel wrote: > > Hi, > > now I run my first tests, Amanda backing up all the servers. I've > used the two dumptypes "nocomp-user" and "nocomp-root" (I > changed nothing in these dumptypes) with no compression. When > I watch the processes on the Amanda-Server, there are processes > "/bin/gzip --best" owned by the Amanda-User. Where do they > come from? Aren't the dumptypes without software compression? > > A big thanks in advance... > > Greetings > Olaf
Re: Amanda 2.4.2 and HP-UX 11.00
On Dec 6, 2000, "Terry Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Dec 6, 2000, "Terry Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >> Did `make all' create common-src/libamanda.la?
>>
>> > Yes it did.
>>
>> And how about common-src/.libs/libamanda.lai?
> Yes it did.
And then `make install' complained about its non-existence? Odd...
Maybe it's something odd about `/usr/sbin/install'?
> find: cannot stat /usr/local/lib/libamanda.la
This line looks extremely suspicious.
Try `make INSTALL=/path/to/amanda-src/config/install-sh' (install-sh
is a shell-script that comes in the Amanda source tree)
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RE: Amanda 2.4.2 and HP-UX 11.00
> On Dec 6, 2000, "Terry Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Did `make all' create common-src/libamanda.la? > > > Yes it did. > > And how about common-src/.libs/libamanda.lai? > Yes it did.
Re: estimates failing
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:24:56AM -0700, George Kelbley wrote: > Suddenly one (and only one) of my clients is failing, and only on the > file systems that use tar. Amanda reports that /bin/tar returned 2. > Since tar is working on this machine I am perplexed. Amanda never gets > the estimate. This just happened in last 2 days with no changes being > made so we're pretty confused. The server and client and both running > debain linux 2.1 and amanda-2.4.1p11. There is a known bug in all version of gnutar. Upgrade to tar-1.13.18 available at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.18.tar.gz with the patch from http://www.amanda.org/patches.html. Jean-Louis -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834
Re: permission denied on amcheck
On Dec 6, 2000, Bill Delphenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -rwsr-x---1rootdisk18520Aug 22 01:34amcheck
> Is this right?
Yep. Make sure user `operator' belongs to group `disk'.
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Re: Amanda question
On Dec 6, 2000, Sandra Panesso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> could anybody tell me if amanda can backup a HFS+ hard drive?
Can GNU tar tar it up? If it can, then Amanda can certainly use GNU
tar to back it up.
If there's some special dump program to back it up, it shouldn't be
too hard to get Amanda to use it either.
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Re: Amanda and Macs
On Dec 6, 2000, Christian Lox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am a bit confused about the usage of Amanda together with Macs.
It works with MacOS X (but people have reported it as *slooow* :-), or
if you manage to get an NFS or SMB server running on old MacOSs and
back them up remotely.
> May someone correct my posting there?
You're supposed to be able to do it yourself. That's the point of
FAQ-O-Matic :-)
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Re: restore to empty harddisk
On Dec 6, 2000, "Olaf Seidel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 4. Install Amanda
> 5. amrestore
Even though you *can* install Amanda for crash-recovery, if you wish,
you don't *need* to do it, and that's one of the beauties of Amanda.
Read docs/RESTORE for details on crash-recovery mechanisms. It only
covers DUMP-based restores, but GNUTAR-based ones are even easier (as
long as you can drive `tar', which you also need for an
amrestore-based recovery anyway :-)
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Re: Amanda 2.4.2 and HP-UX 11.00
On Dec 6, 2000, "Terry Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Did `make all' create common-src/libamanda.la?
> Yes it did.
And how about common-src/.libs/libamanda.lai?
> Permissions are wide open, the make was done as root.
This is probably unrelated, but you shouldn't build anything as root,
in general. Unless you really don't care about security at all :-)
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Re: can not connect
On Dec 6, 2000, "richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your guide. Here is result for the RPM package in RH7.0.
Which RPM packages did you install? AFAIK, it is amanda-client that
will get you `amandad' and the corresponding xinetd file.
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estimates failing
Suddenly one (and only one) of my clients is failing, and only on the file systems that use tar. Amanda reports that /bin/tar returned 2. Since tar is working on this machine I am perplexed. Amanda never gets the estimate. This just happened in last 2 days with no changes being made so we're pretty confused. The server and client and both running debain linux 2.1 and amanda-2.4.1p11. -- George Kelbley System Support Group Computer Science Department University of New Mexico 505-277-6502Fax: 505-277-6927
permission denied on amcheck
I am waging an heroic battle here trying to get amanda to run on Red Hat v7, with little success. The application was installed using the RPM's off of the CDROM. The current problem is I can't run "amcheck" as the "operator" user. I get permission denied. I can run amcheck as the root user, but then I get the dreaded "access as operator not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]" I have my .amandahosts file set up in /home/operator correctly, I think. The permissions on /usr/sbin/amcheck are: -rwsr-x---1rootdisk18520Aug 22 01:34amcheck Is this right? I haven't changed any of this. All of the other am* files in /usr/sbin are owned by "operator" and group "disk". Thanks for any assistance.
scsi-changer-driver.c
I started out with: # START DecodeSense GenericSenseHandler : Sense Keys ErrorCode 00 Valid 0 ASC 46 ASCQ 00 Sense key 00 No Sense GenericSenseHandler : Unknow 0 ASC = 46 ASCQ = 0 STOP SenseHandler chg-scsi: requested drive number (0) greater than number of supported drives (-1) So I called the vendor and they said it is a non-error (errcode 0) error, and to ignore it. So I changed GenericSenseHandler() to return SENSE_NO for "Unknow", and that problem went away. Now when I run chg-scsi -info, it returns 4 numbers. I know I still am going to have some more "tuning" to do. But, it seems to be working. It is pulling out each tape, looking for a label, and putting it back, guess I should label them next, and see what happens ;) After my C skills mature a little (I just learned it last night) I will finish customizing scsi-changer-driver.c for the SpectraLogic and send the diff to whoever wants it. --- Mike Taylor Coordinator of Systems Administration and Network Security Indiana State University. Rankin Hall Rm 039 210 N 7th St. Terre Haute, IN. Voice: 812-237-8843 47809 --- "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." --Scott McNealy, Sun MicroSystems.
Amanda question
Hi everybody: could anybody tell me if amanda can backup a HFS+ hard drive? thanks Sandra
Re: EXB-8900 tapetype, please
Tony Ross a écrit :
>
> Greetings;
>
> Does anyone have the tapetype definiton for the Exabyte 8900 drive?
>
> We are using a Mammoth-LT and 125m tapes in an Exabyte EZ-17 autoloader; nothing was
>found in the online archives.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tony
>
>
> --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
> Before you buy.
tape type definition:
define tapetype AME_225_SmartClean {
comment "just produced by tapetype program"
length 52006 mbytes
filemark 1245 kbytes
speed 11051 kbytes
}
patrick
Re: Amanda and Macs
Christian Lox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everyone! > > I am a bit confused about the usage of Amanda together with Macs. > The archive say, it should work, but backupcentral.com/amanda says, > there is no support for Macs. > What is right and how to get it work? Christian, I'll assume that you'r talking about MacOS. The hardware should be supported with amanda for BSD or Linux. Amanda has no direct support of Mac's protocols of file sharing. I'd import your data to a Linux box via netatalk, and use the Linux amanda client for backups. A different aproach might be mimiking SMB shares directly on the Mac. There is software out there (Dave?). Johannes Nieß
Re: restore to empty harddisk
Olaf Seidel wrote: > > Hi, > > sorry, if this is a little bit off-topic. I'd like to know a good strategy > to restore from an amanda backup to an empty harddisk. I don't think you are off-topic. It _has_ to do with AMANDA. And, as the saying goes, nobody cares if you can backup, only if you can restore ;-) > Will the > following strategy work? > > 1. Boot from rescue disk How about a rescue CD? You boot a 16 Meg RAM disk from CD in your memory. The RAM image contains AMANDA already installed. You could boot from floppy first, then tell linuxrc to load the image on the CD in the memory and boot it. Then you continue to step 2... > 2. Make partitions with fdisk (Do the partitions have to have the > same size like they had before (on the crashed disk) or is it only > important, that the data from the backup tape fit onto the new disk?) It is only important, that the data fits on your partitions. > 3. mkfs OK > 4. Install Amanda You can save yourself this trouble with the above CD. I am saying "trouble" because you will have to install the OS first, then install AMANDA on top of it, and this (usually) under the stress of having a crashed system around you that should be up and running ASAP. I haven't tested it to the end, but I think with the CD method (assuming lots of main memory), bare metal recovery can be fun. If you are interested in the details, I have a script with a lot of comments, which could serve as a starting basis for you (it is not finished yet). > 5. amrestore > Generally speaking, yes, it should work. But you will have to try it to be sure you did not forget any detail. -- Regards Chris Karakas Don´t waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net
Re: amanda cron job doesn't start?
Rainer Hofmann wrote: > > Hi, > > any explanations why that cron job for user amanda doesn't even start: > > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/amanda/bin:/usr/local/sbin > > 0 18 * * 1-5 amcheck merten && amdump merten > My first guess is that "amcheck merten" gives an error (the command after && will be executed only if the previous one gave no error). I suggest you run it by hand first and see what happens. Did cron send mail with the errors? Further: Is this the general crontab, or the crontab of the amanda user? Who is allowed to run amdump? I mean, the way you have set things up, is amdump ran as root? If so, you should change it, doing 'su amanda -c "amdump merten"' (if you use the general crontab, or root's). For more details on cron: man cron, man crontab. > I'm using joe as editor instead of vi. > This is totally irrelevant - are you superstitious? :-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Don´t waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net
Amanda and Macs
Hello everyone!
I am a bit confused about the usage of Amanda together with Macs.
The archive say, it should work, but backupcentral.com/amanda says,
there is no support for Macs.
What is right and how to get it work?
Thanks in advance,
Christian
P.S. I posted the output of tapetype to the Faq-o-matic (I hate this
thing!), which seems to be a mistake!
I post it again here. May someone correct my posting there?
>--
I just run tapetype on a HP COLORADO 2.5/5GB. Somewhat old and
boring piece of hardware but maybe it helps someone. Hope I did
it ok, cause I am really new to amanda!
devel2:/test/home/lox/amanda-2.4.2/tape-src # ./tapetype -t 'HP
COLORADO 2.5/5' -f /dev/nst0
wrote 78807 32Kb blocks in 241 files in 4902 seconds
(short write) wrote 70253 32Kb blocks in 431 files in 4674 seconds
(short write) define tapetype HP COLORADO 2.5/5 {
comment "just produced by tapetype program"
length 2801 mbytes
filemark 1440 kbytes
speed 497 kps
}
devel2:/test/home/lox/amanda-2.4.2/tape-src #
Re: amanda cron job doesn't start?
Hi, i think you must give the full path of the programs like: 0 18 * * 1-5 /usr/local/sbin/amcheck merten and make two entries one with amdump and another for amcheck. look for a mail from crontab, there must be the error Also viel spass noch/Good luck Roshan
Amanda with Terabit Tape Robots?
Does anyone have any experience using Amanda with Terabyte tape robots? Any pointers would be appreciated. ___ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group,Phone number:972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.Fax number: 972-2-6585439 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hotbackup with
Hi there! We're doing a hot backup of our CMS-Server and I sometimes get a 'file changed as we read it: No such file or directory' error. Is there a way to do a tar hotbackup anyway without shutting down the service accessing this file ? Thanks... -- Mirko
amanda cron job doesn't start?
Hi, any explanations why that cron job for user amanda doesn't even start: PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/amanda/bin:/usr/local/sbin 0 18 * * 1-5 amcheck merten && amdump merten I want to run backups at 6.00 pm on Mo-Fr as user amanda. settings in etc/passwd are as follows: amanda:x:501:6:Amanda Backup User:/home/amanda:/bin/bash I'm using joe as editor instead of vi. crond is up and running, since other cronjobs of root are executed. I'm using Linux RedHat 6.2. Is there any general setting who is allowed to run cron jobs at all? Thanks Rainer -- Chemisches Labor Dr. Merten GmbH Röderstr. 8-10 79104 Freiburg Tel: 0761 29648-0
restore to empty harddisk
Hi, sorry, if this is a little bit off-topic. I'd like to know a good strategy to restore from an amanda backup to an empty harddisk. Will the following strategy work? 1. Boot from rescue disk 2. Make partitions with fdisk (Do the partitions have to have the same size like they had before (on the crashed disk) or is it only important, that the data from the backup tape fit onto the new disk?) 3. mkfs 4. Install Amanda 5. amrestore Thank you... :-) Greetings Olaf
Re: software compression disabled?
Hi, this gzip processes are compressing the indizes, not the data. Christoph Olaf Seidel schrieb: > > Hi, > > now I run my first tests, Amanda backing up all the servers. I've > used the two dumptypes "nocomp-user" and "nocomp-root" (I > changed nothing in these dumptypes) with no compression. When > I watch the processes on the Amanda-Server, there are processes > "/bin/gzip --best" owned by the Amanda-User. Where do they > come from? Aren't the dumptypes without software compression? > > A big thanks in advance... > > Greetings > Olaf
