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Re: fixed day backup
Hi David, Jay, and Wayne, Thanks for replying. I had tried the options "strategy noinc" and "strategy nofull" as Jay has mentioned. In fact, we can get away with only one config with two dumptypes and have to call the correct one on the correct day with cron. We just override the dumpcycle options in the dumptypes. It works so far, but there was the Mail drive from another machine, which I use smb to mount to the backup server, that almost always has a full backup, no matter if it is called with the incremental dumptype or the full dumptype. Its contents changes constantly, but I don't think that's the reason why it should be fully backed up. I also tried two separate configs, in combination with the two options mentioned above. I also used amadmin to force a level 0 backup right before the full is performed. I will try with "record no" as soon as I get back to the office. Maybe because I was using all of your suggested methods at the same time that caused the problem :) -Original Message- From: David Olbersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: bao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; amanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:53 PM Subject: RE: fixed day backup >Bao, > >I don't know why the FAQ says that -- it's simply not true! > >We currently have a setup similar to this: incremental every day and full backups every other weekend. > >The trick is to make 2 amanda configurations (say, 'Daily' and 'Archive'). > >Once you've got that you can just call amanda with the correct configuration on the right days, i.e. > >amdump Daily >amdump Archive > >-- >David Olbersen >iGuard Engineer >11415 West Bernardo Court >San Diego, CA 92127 >1-858-676-2277 x2152 > > >> -Original Message- >> From: bao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 12:25 PM >> To: amanda >> Subject: fixed day backup >> >> >> Hello, >> >> In the Amanda FAQ, there is one question "How can I configure >> Amanda to >> perform full backups on the weekend and incrementals on >> weekdays?". The >> answer is "You can't." >> >> It's unfortunate that the plan above is what I need. I need >> to run full >> backup once a week, and incrementals on the other days. All of the >> backups will stay on disk (tapeless backup), plus the full >> will be put >> on tape. Disk only keeps one week (full + incrementals), and >> tapes keep >> 8 weeks of full-only. >> >> If Amanda manages the full and incremental using its own way. >> How can I >> know which one has the full, and when the full is performed, >> to automate >> the process of transferring to tape?? >> >> Has anyone done this sucessfully and How can I do it?? >> >> Best regards, >> >> >
amrecover permission problem -- followup
I don't know if this was the cause or not but: The machine thames has two IP addresses. One on eth0, the other on eth0:1. Once I added both addresses to the host file on _both_ machines, amrecover happily restored the file. I'll admit I have no idea why this should make a difference, tho. All traffic I could see went thru the the primary eth0 address.
Re: pleasant observation
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:59:39PM -0500, Chris Dahn wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > Good job Core Team of developers in maintaining > > backward compatibility!! > > Am I mistaken, or did they change the indexing method? Is both backing > up and restoring backwards compatible? Did not recall that. amrecover (current one) shows files dumped last evening and from dumps made 2 and 3 wks ago. Did not try to recover, just browse. Scanning the ChangeLog didn't turn up anything since ?1998?, back in 2.4.0. A change to index directory structure. But I may have missed it scanning quickly. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: pleasant observation
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Good job Core Team of developers in maintaining > backward compatibility!! Am I mistaken, or did they change the indexing method? Is both backing up and restoring backwards compatible?
amrecover permission problem
I am having a permission problem with amrecover that makes no sense to me. Please cc me on any replies. I am a memebr of the list but I haven't seen any mail in a while $ sudo amrecover -C daily1 -s chena AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3b2. Contacting server on chena ... 220 chena AMANDA index server (2.4.3b2) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2003-03-14) 200 Working date set to 2003-03-14. 200 Config set to daily1. 200 Dump host set to thames. Trying disk /export ... Trying disk md0 ... Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD '/export/recover' amrecover> setdisk /export/private Scanning /scratch/amanda... 200 Disk set to /export/private. amrecover> cd haxume/Accounting /export/private/haxume/Accounting amrecover> setdate 2003-03-05 200 Working date set to 2003-03-05. amrecover> add "Acct Rec 03.xls" Added /haxume/Accounting/Acct Rec 03.xls amrecover> extract Extracting files using tape drive /dev/ait2 on host thames. The following tapes are needed: C83256 Restoring files into directory /export/recover Continue? [Y/n]: y Load tape C83256 now Continue? [Y/n/t]: y amrecover: error reading tape: Connection reset by peer extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 The amidxtaped file shows: $ cat amidxtaped.20030314110107.debug amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 25567 ruid 250 euid 250 start time Fri Mar 14 11:01:07 2003 amidxtaped: version 2.4.3b2 > SECURITY USER root bsd security: remote host thames user root local user amanda check failed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed amidxtaped: security check failed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed security check failed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed amidxtaped: pid 25567 finish time Fri Mar 14 11:01:07 2003 On Chena I have in .amandahosts: thames root thames amanda On Thames: chena amanda chena root The tape is loaded in the drive and I have checked it with dd to be sure it is readable. Both thames and chena are in /etc/hosts. Netstat shows an established connection between thames and chena:amadaidx. I've restored using amrecover before so why doesn't amanda allow me to connect now? -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services) 310-342-3602 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pleasant observation
Just a nice observation. I have been running version 2.4.2 for a long time. Yesterday I decided to upgrade. As you know there have been a lot of changes in the interim. I was slightly concerned how they would affect my system. I downloaded the 3/08 snapshot, configured with my old script, compiled, installed, and edited only chg-mtx to set the slot numbers. amtape worked, amcheck said ok, and last night amdump did its thing. Good job Core Team of developers in maintaining backward compatibility!! Now to explore the new/changed features. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: The Million Dollar amcheck Question (host down)
--On Friday, March 14, 2003 15:02:22 + ljrsnn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks!
I know this question is asked a lot, and I've looked
through various
solutions, and the FAQ but can't seem to solve my
problem. (I'm trying to run this on Linux)
When I run amcheck, I get the following error:
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /usr/local/etc/amanda/Test/dumps: 692120
KB disk space
available, that's plenty
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Tape Test02 label ok
Server check took 3.230 seconds
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
WARNING: snitch: selfcheck request timed out. Host
down?
Client check: 1 host checked in 30.024 seconds, 1
problem found
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4)
-This creates an amcheck.*.debug file with the
appropriate timestamp,
and this file is as follows:
amcheck: debug 1 pid 3264 ruid 0 euid 0: start at Thu
Mar 13 16:33:09
2003
amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.981
amcheck: pid 3264 finish time Thu Mar 13 16:33:39 2003
As Gene pointed out, you really shouldn't be using localhost.
-However, NO amandad.*.debug file is created. (using ls -
lu /usr/local/libexec/amandad, the file is not being accessed when
amcheck is run)
Please note that I am using xinetd instead of inetd.
In /etc/xindetd.d , I have the amanda,amidxtape and
amindexd files as
respectively:
# default: off
# description: Part of Amanda server package
service amanda {
disable = no
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= root
group = disk
server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
}
Are you really using 'root' for the Amanda user? If so you should change it
to another user, some Amanda utilities won't run if started by root (although
I don't know if that is still true if it was configured with --with-user=root).
Frank
amidxtape:
# Converted by Linux-Mandrake_inetdconvert
service amidxtape
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= yes
user= root
server =
/usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
server_args = amidxtaped
disable = no
}
amindexd:
# Converted by Linux-Mandrake_inetdconvert
service amindexd
{
socket_type= stream
protocol = tcp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
server_args= amindexd
disable = no
}
This being said, I've also checked my firewalling, and the
tcpwrappers, and these seem to have no effect.
I've also tried restarting xinetd, and I made sure that amanda shows
up in ntsysv.
If you run /usr/local/libexec/amandad from the command line as the Amanda
user does it behave as expected (i.e., does nothing for a minute or so,
then returns, or returns instantly if you hit a key) or does it return some
error message?
Frank
Can someone PLEASE give me a hand with this?
Thanks so much!
Lauren Bridges
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compiler options
Quick check, does anyones C compiler NOT support the "-E" option to output the results of the C preprocessor to stdout? I know lots of compilers follow the AT&T lead and have the option, I'd like to hear about ones that DO NOT. Maybe they have an alternative? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Who uses amanda?
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > > > > Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial company > > (> 250 employees), a hospital or a university and if so how much it's > > used (whole institution, small department, single server etc). How many [[ snip ]] > However, as I said, I am not in the computer support group and have no > control over how backups are performed. ... > > I might look at amanda for my home machine, although I'm tempted to > leave well along with my odd unix scripts run from cron. I've never had > a major catastropy (disk failure, # rm -rf / or similar) but whenever I Leaving the current system intact, you could still investigate amanda at home. There is nothing that says you have to install a cron entry to do regular backups. You can install the system and check its functioning by simply doing "amdump ". This is the way, four or five years ago, I explored amanda before recommending it to a client who wanted to get rid of Veritas. When the client said "freeware? maybe, we'll see", I surreptitiously installed amanda using a different, smaller tape drive than was in use for Veritas. A month later they had a recovery need that the Veritas support person was having trouble with. After a bit I recovered the files to an empty directory tree and reported I had them; they could copy them over if they wanted. An hour later they did. Veritas was gone at the end of the support contract. For archiving I have a separate config that I still run manually when the muse stikes, a major change is planned, etc. Particularly when using tar for backup, it need not affect other backup schemes. (dump may affect /etc/dumpdates for other schemes) jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: The Million Dollar amcheck Question (host down)
On Fri March 14 2003 10:02, ljrsnn wrote:
>Hi folks!
>I know this question is asked a lot, and I've looked
>through various
>solutions, and the FAQ but can't seem to solve my
>problem. (I'm trying to run this on Linux)
>When I run amcheck, I get the following error:
>
>Amanda Tape Server Host Check
>-
>Holding disk /usr/local/etc/amanda/Test/dumps: 692120
>KB disk space
>available, that's plenty
>NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
>Tape Test02 label ok
>Server check took 3.230 seconds
>
>Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>
>WARNING: snitch: selfcheck request timed out. Host
>down?
>Client check: 1 host checked in 30.024 seconds, 1
>problem found
>
>(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4)
>
>-This creates an amcheck.*.debug file with the
>appropriate timestamp,
>and this file is as follows:
>
>amcheck: debug 1 pid 3264 ruid 0 euid 0: start at Thu
>Mar 13 16:33:09
>2003
>amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.981
mmm, did you specify the actual ip adddress of the server in the
configuration? Using localhost will bite you eventually, use
addresses and FQDN's throughout.
And do you have .amandahosts properly setup, see the docs.
>amcheck: pid 3264 finish time Thu Mar 13 16:33:39 2003
>
>-However, NO amandad.*.debug file is created. (using ls -
>lu /usr/local/libexec/amandad, the file is not being accessed when
>amcheck is run)
>Please note that I am using xinetd instead of inetd.
>In /etc/xindetd.d , I have the amanda,amidxtape and
>amindexd files as
>respectively:
>
># default: off
># description: Part of Amanda server package
>
>service amanda {
>disable = no
>socket_type = dgram
>protocol= udp
>wait= yes
>user= root
>group = disk
>server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
>}
>amidxtape:
># Converted by Linux-Mandrake_inetdconvert
>service amidxtape
>{
>socket_type = stream
>protocol= tcp
>wait= yes
>user= root
>server =
>/usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
>server_args = amidxtaped
>disable = no
>}
>amindexd:
># Converted by Linux-Mandrake_inetdconvert
>service amindexd
>{
> socket_type= stream
> protocol = tcp
> wait = yes
> user = root
> server = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
> server_args= amindexd
> disable = no
>}
>
>This being said, I've also checked my firewalling, and the
>tcpwrappers, and these seem to have no effect.
>I've also tried restarting xinetd, and I made sure that amanda
> shows up in ntsysv.
>Can someone PLEASE give me a hand with this?
>Thanks so much!
>
>Lauren Bridges
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>___
>Lauren Bridges
>Development Tools Analyst, ACE
>Cedara Software Corp.
>(905) 672-2101 X 1464
>
>
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Re: The Million Dollar amcheck Question (host down)
I have had this happen when I did not have the proper FQDN in
.amandahosts. For my situation, we are changing over the Math and Computer
Science domain (mcs.drexel.edu) to a strict Computer Science domain
(cs.drexel.edu). The result is that Drexel decided to alias all of the new
cs.drexel.edu domain names to the current mcs.drexel.edu domains.
Therefore, if I specified the server as foo.cs.drexel.edu, it would fail,
because it got foo.mcs.drexel.edu or some such thing. When I added
foo.cs.drexel.edu to /etc/hosts everything worked.
The only other time I've had that happen was when the firewall was
blocking datagrams, but you said you checked that.
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, ljrsnn wrote:
> Hi folks!
> I know this question is asked a lot, and I've looked
> through various
> solutions, and the FAQ but can't seem to solve my
> problem. (I'm trying to run this on Linux)
> When I run amcheck, I get the following error:
>
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -
> Holding disk /usr/local/etc/amanda/Test/dumps: 692120
> KB disk space
> available, that's plenty
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> Tape Test02 label ok
> Server check took 3.230 seconds
>
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>
> WARNING: snitch: selfcheck request timed out. Host
> down?
> Client check: 1 host checked in 30.024 seconds, 1
> problem found
>
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4)
>
> -This creates an amcheck.*.debug file with the
> appropriate timestamp,
> and this file is as follows:
>
> amcheck: debug 1 pid 3264 ruid 0 euid 0: start at Thu
> Mar 13 16:33:09
> 2003
> amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.981
> amcheck: pid 3264 finish time Thu Mar 13 16:33:39 2003
>
> -However, NO amandad.*.debug file is created. (using ls -
> lu /usr/local/libexec/amandad, the file is not being accessed when
> amcheck is run)
> Please note that I am using xinetd instead of inetd.
> In /etc/xindetd.d , I have the amanda,amidxtape and
> amindexd files as
> respectively:
>
> # default: off
> # description: Part of Amanda server package
>
> service amanda {
> disable = no
> socket_type = dgram
> protocol= udp
> wait= yes
> user= root
> group = disk
> server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
> }
> amidxtape:
> # Converted by Linux-Mandrake_inetdconvert
> service amidxtape
> {
> socket_type = stream
> protocol= tcp
> wait= yes
> user= root
> server =
> /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
> server_args = amidxtaped
> disable = no
> }
> amindexd:
> # Converted by Linux-Mandrake_inetdconvert
> service amindexd
> {
> socket_type= stream
> protocol = tcp
> wait = yes
> user = root
> server = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
> server_args= amindexd
> disable = no
> }
>
> This being said, I've also checked my firewalling, and the
> tcpwrappers, and these seem to have no effect.
> I've also tried restarting xinetd, and I made sure that amanda shows
> up in ntsysv.
> Can someone PLEASE give me a hand with this?
> Thanks so much!
>
> Lauren Bridges
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ___
> Lauren Bridges
> Development Tools Analyst, ACE
> Cedara Software Corp.
> (905) 672-2101 X 1464
>
>
>
Re: The Million Dollar amcheck Question (host down)
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 at 3:02pm, ljrsnn wrote
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>
> WARNING: snitch: selfcheck request timed out. Host
> down?
> Client check: 1 host checked in 30.024 seconds, 1
> problem found
I assume snitch is both client and server?
> -However, NO amandad.*.debug file is created. (using ls -
> lu /usr/local/libexec/amandad, the file is not being accessed when
> amcheck is run)
> Please note that I am using xinetd instead of inetd.
> In /etc/xindetd.d , I have the amanda,amidxtape and
> amindexd files as
> respectively:
>
> # default: off
> # description: Part of Amanda server package
>
> service amanda {
> disable = no
> socket_type = dgram
> protocol= udp
> wait= yes
> user= root
> group = disk
> server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
What does 'netstat -l | grep amanda' say?
> This being said, I've also checked my firewalling, and the
> tcpwrappers, and these seem to have no effect.
Have you tried with ipchains shut off?
> I've also tried restarting xinetd, and I made sure that amanda shows
> up in ntsysv.
ntsysv is the wrong tool -- it's a configuration tool, not a status
reporting one.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
The Million Dollar amcheck Question (host down)
> Hi folks!
> I know this question is asked a lot, and I've looked through various solutions, and
> the FAQ but can't seem to solve my problem. When I run amcheck, I get the following
> error:
>
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -
> Holding disk /usr/local/etc/amanda/Test/dumps: 692120
> KB disk space
> available, that's plenty
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> Tape Test02 label ok
> Server check took 3.230 seconds
>
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>
> WARNING: snitch: selfcheck request timed out. Host
> down?
> Client check: 1 host checked in 30.024 seconds, 1
> problem found
>
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4)
>
> -This creates an amcheck.*.debug file with the appropriate timestamp, and this file
> is as follows:
>
> amcheck: debug 1 pid 3264 ruid 0 euid 0: start at Thu
> Mar 13 16:33:09
> 2003
> amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.981
> amcheck: pid 3264 finish time Thu Mar 13 16:33:39 2003
>
> -However, NO amandad.*.debug file is created. (??? The folders have
> been changed so that they can be written by the user) Please note that I am using
> xinetd instead of inetd. In /etc/xindetd.d , I have the amanda,amidxtape and
> amindexd files as respectively:
>
> # default: off
> # description: Part of Amanda server package
>
> service amanda {
> disable = no
> socket_type = dgram
> protocol= udp
> wait= yes
> user= root
> group = disk
> server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
> }
> amidxtape:
> # Converted by Linux-Mandrake_inetdconvert
> service amidxtape
> {
> socket_type = stream
> protocol= tcp
> wait= yes
> user= root
> server =
> /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
> server_args = amidxtaped
> disable = no
> }
> amindexd:
> # Converted by Linux-Mandrake_inetdconvert
> service amindexd
> {
> socket_type= stream
> protocol = tcp
> wait = yes
> user = root
> server = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
> server_args= amindexd
> disable = no
> }
>
>
> Can someone PLEASE give me a hand with this?
> Thanks so much!
>
> Lauren Bridges
> ___
> Lauren Bridges
> Development Tools Analyst, ACE
> Cedara Software Corp.
> (905) 672-2101 X 1464
>
The Million Dollar amcheck Question (host down)
Hi folks!
I know this question is asked a lot, and I've looked
through various
solutions, and the FAQ but can't seem to solve my
problem. (I'm trying to run this on Linux)
When I run amcheck, I get the following error:
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /usr/local/etc/amanda/Test/dumps: 692120
KB disk space
available, that's plenty
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Tape Test02 label ok
Server check took 3.230 seconds
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
WARNING: snitch: selfcheck request timed out. Host
down?
Client check: 1 host checked in 30.024 seconds, 1
problem found
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4)
-This creates an amcheck.*.debug file with the
appropriate timestamp,
and this file is as follows:
amcheck: debug 1 pid 3264 ruid 0 euid 0: start at Thu
Mar 13 16:33:09
2003
amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.981
amcheck: pid 3264 finish time Thu Mar 13 16:33:39 2003
-However, NO amandad.*.debug file is created. (using ls -
lu /usr/local/libexec/amandad, the file is not being accessed when
amcheck is run)
Please note that I am using xinetd instead of inetd.
In /etc/xindetd.d , I have the amanda,amidxtape and
amindexd files as
respectively:
# default: off
# description: Part of Amanda server package
service amanda {
disable = no
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= root
group = disk
server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
}
amidxtape:
# Converted by Linux-Mandrake_inetdconvert
service amidxtape
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= yes
user= root
server =
/usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
server_args = amidxtaped
disable = no
}
amindexd:
# Converted by Linux-Mandrake_inetdconvert
service amindexd
{
socket_type= stream
protocol = tcp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
server_args= amindexd
disable = no
}
This being said, I've also checked my firewalling, and the
tcpwrappers, and these seem to have no effect.
I've also tried restarting xinetd, and I made sure that amanda shows
up in ntsysv.
Can someone PLEASE give me a hand with this?
Thanks so much!
Lauren Bridges
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
___
Lauren Bridges
Development Tools Analyst, ACE
Cedara Software Corp.
(905) 672-2101 X 1464
Re: Resim
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 10:55 PM, Adam Smith wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:21:20AM +, Aysel said: ozel_porno_video.mpeg.exe Firstly, loser. Secondly, why is this list open to spammers? Don't you have to subscribe before you can post? I imagine that this is for the same reason that FreeBSD does it -- so that you can request help even if you're not subscribed... Thirdly, what kind of spammer would subscribe to a list, post a link to a .EXE file and expect a bunch of Unix gurus to go there? LOL Probably they don't even realize that there is such a thing as unix -- or if they do, they don't know that .exes don't work on unix... And besides, it's probably either a) an address that they bought as a part of a huge list or b) it's a virus which is grabbing an address from a mail client's address book... Ricky
Re: results missing
Laas Toom wrote: Now amanda backs up only the freebsd workstations, but for all samba shares amanda says: RESULTS MISSING. We need more information (like the /tmp/amanda/* debug files), but one thing that comes to mind is, have you restored the /etc/amandapass file on your samba client host (the one that backs up the windows share). Another strange thing happened when i moved one of my freebsd servers filesystems from a ccd too small to a bigger ccd device (everything is the same, exept the /etc/fstab row that mounts the filesystem). Now amanda says the disk is offline. Again we need more information. What do you specify in your disklist? A device or a mount point? The exact cause is probably found in an error message in the /tmp/amanda/* debug files. BTW what is a "ccd"? I'm not a freebsd user. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Re: Who uses amanda?
"Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > > Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial company > (> 250 employees), a hospital or a university and if so how much it's > used (whole institution, small department, single server etc). How many > Gb do you back up (don't answer that if you feel its confidential, or > you don't know). Thank you to everyone who sent information about their large backups using amanda. Some of the backups are well in excess of what is expected here (~200-400 Gb) and the fact they are large institutions gives me a good case to suggest that we take this route too. Clearly suggesting package X developed by Mr. Y who has a few home users using it, would not be a good case to implement it for backups. But this is clearly not the case with amanda - there are plenty of big institutions using the package for large backups. We don't have any database to back up and we don't (as far as I know) back up a file system greater than the size of the tape drive. I know one of the support people suggested to me for my home system that I did not let file systems span tapes, so I doubt they will do so here. However, as I said, I am not in the computer support group and have no control over how backups are performed. I looked on the Sun web site and see that transferring a licence of Veritas might not be free either, depending on the hardware the machine is moved too. That too is a convincing argument to stick with a free package. I might look at amanda for my home machine, although I'm tempted to leave well along with my odd unix scripts run from cron. I've never had a major catastropy (disk failure, # rm -rf / or similar) but whenever I have needed to get back information, it has never presented me the slightest problem. I occsionally boot from CD and back up the root file system on the machine with clearly no open files at all. I print my own labels in a way that suits me, move some tapes off-site etc. I will however look at the documentation, but are tending to think "Don't fix what is not broke". However, I have a few other machines on my network now, so perhaps its the time to sort out something better. I don't tend to back them up at all, since the data on them is of no use to me - I only use them to check software compiles on different hardware and operating systems. Sorry I have not replied to anyone who sent me individual emails, but the response as been huge, so I would spend all day replying to each e-mail. I want to get some work done! Dr. David Kirkby PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Medical Physics, University College London, 11-20 Capper St, London, WC1E 6JA. Tel: 020 7679 6408 Fax: 020 7679 6269 Internal telephone: ext 46408 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web page: http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~davek
results missing
Hello, I use amanda to back up my whole site: freebsd workstations as well as windows samba shares. recently my backup server chrashed and i had to reinstall the operatingsystem (in the way upgrading it from freebsd 4.6 to 4.7). After what i copied amanda config files to the locations they were before crash (the index files survived). Now amanda backs up only the freebsd workstations, but for all samba shares amanda says: RESULTS MISSING. What is the problem? How can i eliminate it? The Amanda Faq-o-matic did not help, because i know the system worked before, so i do not need to make any alters to my filesystems or catalog tree. Another strange thing happened when i moved one of my freebsd servers filesystems from a ccd too small to a bigger ccd device (everything is the same, exept the /etc/fstab row that mounts the filesystem). Now amanda says the disk is offline. Thanks in advance, Laas Toom
Re: compiling 2.4.4 on Mac OS X
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > Why the configure script didn't found the `initgroups' declaration? > Look at configure.log file. > > Jean-Louis > here's the bit from config.log for 2.4.4, let me know if you want the whole files. There is no corresponding error in configuring 2.4.3. configure:20154: checking for initgroups configure:20197: gcc -o conftest conftest.c -lm -ltermcap >&5 configure:20200: $? = 0 configure:20203: test -s conftest configure:20206: $? = 0 configure:20216: result: yes configure:20154: checking for isascii configure:20197: gcc -o conftest conftest.c -lm -ltermcap >&5 configure:20200: $? = 0 configure:20203: test -s conftest configure:20206: $? = 0 configure:20216: result: yes configure:20232: checking for initgroups configure:20294: result: yes configure:20305: checking for initgroups declaration in grp.h sys/types.h unistd.h libc.h /usr/include/grp.h:72: undefined type, found `gid_t' /usr/include/grp.h:81: syntax error, found `struct' /usr/include/grp.h:81: illegal function definition, found `)' /usr/include/grp.h:82: syntax error, found `size_t' /usr/include/grp.h:82: illegal function definition, found `)' cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in basic mode /usr/include/grp.h:72: undefined type, found `gid_t' /usr/include/grp.h:81: syntax error, found `struct' /usr/include/grp.h:81: illegal function definition, found `)' /usr/include/grp.h:82: syntax error, found `size_t' /usr/include/grp.h:82: illegal function definition, found `)' cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in basic mode configure:20351: result: no configure:20368: checking for ioctl configure:20411: gcc -o conftest conftest.c -lm -ltermcap >&5 configure:20414: $? = 0 >
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Re: amlabel returning "Read-only file system" error
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 at 2:09pm, Ron Bauman wrote amlabel: writing label: Read-only file system It's indeed very weird. Two possibilities: 1. Are you sure you are specifying the correct tapedevice in the amanda configuration? There is no "file system" on a tape, maybe you specified "file:..." or something. Investigate with: amgetconf YourConfig tpchanger amgetconf YourConfig tapedev 2. Do you have the drive allowed for variable blocksize? (of fixed at 32k is fine too). I've had some problems with reading/writing tapes with incompatible blocksizes (but never seen "read-only"). Try it out with "dd obs=...". If that one works with blocksize, it's something else. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
