RE: data timeout - no replies...anyone???
Thanks for getting back to me The filesystem version we are using is ext3. Can I run a tar using Amanda, so it doesnt interfere with the filesystem versions? How would I go about doign that? Would a separate config and disklist need to be created? By the way, we dont have a firewall issue because these machines (servers clients) are completely independant of any connection via the firewall. Thanks - Ranveer -Original Message- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 August 2004 18:04 To: Ranveer Attalia Cc: Christoph Scheeder; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone??? On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:08, Ranveer Attalia wrote: Yes tsslin1 is a linux machine and no there was no finishing line on sendbackup, but I have another linux machine that is working fine with the same version of amanda client on it. What do you mean by ext2/3 ? The question is what filesystem version you are using? We're assuming that its ext2, with the journalling laid on top which is then called ext3. Dump would care, tar would not. - Ranveer DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISKL ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -- - pedlinux1/ 1 64770 64770 -- 11:37 93.0 0:106639.1 pedlinux1/boot 1 10 10 --0:02 4.1 0:00 34.9 -Original Message- From: Christoph Scheeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 August 2004 16:57 To: Ranveer Attalia Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone??? Hi, That is all what your sendbackup.debug file contains? no line telling dump reached 100% ? and no finishing line from sendbackup? Then your dump-process is dying whitout message after 43.03% of the Backup. am i correct that this is a linux-box? then i would recomend switching to tar for the backup's, as dump for ext2/3 is known to be problematic with active (mounted) filesystems. Christoph Something Chhristoph wrote triggerd another fading memory. If there is a firewall involved, and the ports were opened ok, but the firewall see's no activity to 'keep-alive' within a certain time, it closed the ports. This happened to another user at least a year ago IIRC. I believe the cure was to extend the autoclosure timeing in the firewall rules. And I concur with Christoph regarding dump. Tar worked better for me, and it usually gives sensible error messages when it doesn't. But tar versions vary too, and historicly we have been recommending only version 1.13-19 or 1.13-25. There is an even newer version extant, but I can't recall if anyone here on this list has said it works correctly or not. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. MLabs systems monitored and maintained by Tertio Internal Support. ___ Tertio Telecoms (www.telco-tertio.com) Head Office: One Angel Square Torrens Street London EC1V 1PL Tel: +44 (0)20 7843 4000 - Fax: +44 (0)20 7843 4001 Bath Office: Riverside Buildings 108 Walcot Street Bath BA1 5BG Tel: +44 (0)1225 478000 - Fax: +44 (0)1225 478001 Munich Office: Freisinger Strasse 10, 85737 Ismaning/Munich, Germany, Tel: +49 (0)89 665506 41 - Fax: +49 (0)89 665506 99 Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Tertio Ltd. This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.
Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone???
Hi, yes you can, go to your amanda.conf: have a look at the defined dumptypes at the bottom of it, an check if one meets your requirements. in the example-amanda.conf there are some dumptypes defined using tar. if none meets your requirements create a new one including the line programm GNUTAR which tells amanda to use tar as backup-program. then edit your disklist setting the disks in question to use this dumptype. now run amcheck to make shure the needed files and directorys for tar exist. If it complains about something fix it and you should be fine for the next run. Christoph Ranveer Attalia schrieb: Thanks for getting back to me The filesystem version we are using is ext3. Can I run a tar using Amanda, so it doesnt interfere with the filesystem versions? How would I go about doign that? Would a separate config and disklist need to be created? By the way, we dont have a firewall issue because these machines (servers clients) are completely independant of any connection via the firewall. Thanks - Ranveer -Original Message- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 August 2004 18:04 To: Ranveer Attalia Cc: Christoph Scheeder; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone??? On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:08, Ranveer Attalia wrote: Yes tsslin1 is a linux machine and no there was no finishing line on sendbackup, but I have another linux machine that is working fine with the same version of amanda client on it. What do you mean by ext2/3 ? The question is what filesystem version you are using? We're assuming that its ext2, with the journalling laid on top which is then called ext3. Dump would care, tar would not. - Ranveer DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISKL ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -- - pedlinux1/ 1 64770 64770 -- 11:37 93.0 0:106639.1 pedlinux1/boot 1 10 10 --0:02 4.1 0:00 34.9 -Original Message- From: Christoph Scheeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 August 2004 16:57 To: Ranveer Attalia Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone??? Hi, That is all what your sendbackup.debug file contains? no line telling dump reached 100% ? and no finishing line from sendbackup? Then your dump-process is dying whitout message after 43.03% of the Backup. am i correct that this is a linux-box? then i would recomend switching to tar for the backup's, as dump for ext2/3 is known to be problematic with active (mounted) filesystems. Christoph Something Chhristoph wrote triggerd another fading memory. If there is a firewall involved, and the ports were opened ok, but the firewall see's no activity to 'keep-alive' within a certain time, it closed the ports. This happened to another user at least a year ago IIRC. I believe the cure was to extend the autoclosure timeing in the firewall rules. And I concur with Christoph regarding dump. Tar worked better for me, and it usually gives sensible error messages when it doesn't. But tar versions vary too, and historicly we have been recommending only version 1.13-19 or 1.13-25. There is an even newer version extant, but I can't recall if anyone here on this list has said it works correctly or not. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. MLabs systems monitored and maintained by Tertio Internal Support. ___ Tertio Telecoms (www.telco-tertio.com) Head Office: One Angel Square Torrens Street London EC1V 1PL Tel: +44 (0)20 7843 4000 - Fax: +44 (0)20 7843 4001 Bath Office: Riverside Buildings 108 Walcot Street Bath BA1 5BG Tel: +44 (0)1225 478000 - Fax: +44 (0)1225 478001 Munich Office: Freisinger Strasse 10, 85737 Ismaning/Munich, Germany, Tel: +49 (0)89 665506 41 - Fax: +49 (0)89 665506 99 Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Tertio Ltd. This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.
Amanda Using Tar on Large File System
Hi,
I have been trying to use Amanda to backup a large Linux file system that is
bigger than my tape capacity. I have broken the file system up into bite
size tar backups. Two examples are listed below with the error messages
that I get back from amcheck.
1. Everything but the directories that I have separate .tar configs for.
hsadm2 /home/nobig /home {
# all directories except the following
comp-root-tar
exclude ./umsv4
exclude ./cvs*
exclude ./linux.mry
exclude ./shared
} 1
WARNING: hsadm2:/home/nobig does not support multiple exclude
ERROR: hsadm2:/home/nobig (/home): selfcheck does not support device.
ERROR: hsadm2:/home/nobig (/home): sendsize does not support device.
ERROR: hsadm2:/home/nobig (/home): sendbackup does not support device.
2. One of the separate .tar configs. There is a separate entry like this
one for each of the excluded directories above.
hsadm2 /home/samba-share /home {
comp-root-tar
include ./shared
} 1
WARNING: hsadm2:/home/samba-share does not support include file
ERROR: hsadm2:/home/samba-share (/home): selfcheck does not support device.
ERROR: hsadm2:/home/samba-share (/home): sendsize does not support device.
ERROR: hsadm2:/home/samba-share (/home): sendbackup does not support device.
My Amanda server (Amanda 2.4.3) with tape drive (32 GB Sony AITi90-A) is a
Linux 9 machine. 'hsadm2' is a Linux 7.1 machine.
Can anyone point out how I need to change the amanda config file to correct
these .tar backups?
Thank you,
Don Clary
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Scheeder
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:24 AM
To: Ranveer Attalia
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone???
Hi,
yes you can, go to your amanda.conf:
have a look at the defined dumptypes at the bottom of it, an check if
one meets your requirements. in the example-amanda.conf there are some
dumptypes defined using tar. if none meets your requirements create a
new one including the line
programm GNUTAR
which tells amanda to use tar as backup-program.
then edit your disklist setting the disks in question to use this
dumptype.
now run amcheck to make shure the needed files and directorys for tar
exist. If it complains about something fix it and you should be fine for
the next run.
Christoph
Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone???
On Friday 13 August 2004 05:51, Ranveer Attalia wrote: Thanks for getting back to me The filesystem version we are using is ext3. Can I run a tar using Amanda, so it doesnt interfere with the filesystem versions? How would I go about doign that? Would a separate config and disklist need to be created? By the way, we dont have a firewall issue because these machines (servers clients) are completely independant of any connection via the firewall. Thanks - Ranveer Tar can be used, but since its location is hard-coded at compile time, it must be installed and findable. I haven't posted it in a while, so here is the script I use to configure and build it from a tarball. --- #!/bin/sh # since I'm always forgetting to su amanda... if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then echo echo Warning echo Amanda needs to be configured and built by the user amanda, echo but must be installed by user root. echo exit 1 fi make clean rm -f config.status config.cache ./configure --with-user=amanda \ --with-group=disk \ --with-owner=amanda \ --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 \ --with-changer-device=/dev/sg1 \ --with-gnu-ld --prefix=/usr/local \ --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ --with-tape-server=coyote.coyote.den \ --with-amandahosts \ --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda make -- I wasn't sure if I'd specified where tar was or not, apparently its in my $PATH. The configure step does find it. Remove any lines that don't apply, and edit any lines that do so they match your system, like the servers FQDN and devices used. The above script must be run as the user amanda, and you must become root to do the make install. [...] -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: Amanda Using Tar on Large File System
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 at 6:12am, Don Clary wrote
I have been trying to use Amanda to backup a large Linux file system that is
bigger than my tape capacity. I have broken the file system up into bite
size tar backups. Two examples are listed below with the error messages
that I get back from amcheck.
1. Everything but the directories that I have separate .tar configs for.
hsadm2 /home/nobig /home {
# all directories except the following
comp-root-tar
exclude ./umsv4
exclude ./cvs*
exclude ./linux.mry
exclude ./shared
} 1
From the amanda(8) man page:
With the append keyword, the string are appended to the current
value of the list, without it, the string overwrite the list.
In other words, you must do 'exclude append' after the first exclude.
WARNING: hsadm2:/home/nobig does not support multiple exclude
ERROR: hsadm2:/home/nobig (/home): selfcheck does not support device.
ERROR: hsadm2:/home/nobig (/home): sendsize does not support device.
ERROR: hsadm2:/home/nobig (/home): sendbackup does not support device.
You also have to make sure there's a relatively recent version of amanda
on hsadm2. I don't know when this support showed up -- why not upgrade to
2.4.4p3 (the most recent)?
WARNING: hsadm2:/home/samba-share does not support include file
ERROR: hsadm2:/home/samba-share (/home): selfcheck does not support device.
ERROR: hsadm2:/home/samba-share (/home): sendsize does not support device.
ERROR: hsadm2:/home/samba-share (/home): sendbackup does not support device.
Include support is relatively recent too.
Fix your multiple excludes and upgrade to 2.4.4p3, and all should be well.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
Re: chg-zd-mtx issue ?
Hadi, Yes - sorry, I picked the one jukebox config at my site that didn't give driveslot, I had three others I could have sent. [nnewton] /usr/local/etc/amanda/newtonr 6 cat chg-zd-mtx.conf firstslot=1 lastslot=9 #cleanslot=3 AUTOCLEAN=0 autocleancount=99 havereader=1 offlinestatus=0 OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=0 driveslot=0 On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:52:01PM -0700, nyohadi wrote: Dear Brian Amanda user , can you give me example your amanda.conf and changer file and how to to give driveslot on glue config. thanks and regards hadi Brian Cuttler wrote: Hadi, I believe there is a debug switch in the glue-script, you may want to set than and read though the log which should be in /tmp/amanda You may also want to set driveslot in your glue config file. I believe the script reads the slot number based on the robot address and it isn't always the case that the tape drive addressing matches that way. ie: I have two robots, separate systems, each with a single tape drive, one amanda conf assumed that if the robot was at location 1 then the tape drive was a 1 also, in my case both drives where at location 0. Make sure you've set all necessary parameters that are listed in the glue script. Make sure you have the current glue script, I have to look back at your email, but the script greatly changed at one point and the new one was more robust than the old. On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:07:03AM -0700, nyohadi wrote: Dear Brian amanda user, 1) I had issues with the glue script when I first installed it, I changed the script itself run run under k-shell. am install default configuration from amanda, any some problem with my shell ? or glue script. 2) What version of mtx software did you install ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ./mtx --version mtx version 1.3.8 You say the mtx software works properly by itself ? . yes , i do load ,unload and eject normal like move drive on untility veritas netbackup My binary is /usr/local/sbin/mtx, I believe that is the default installation location. YES , THE SAME LOCATION What are the results of running mtx with its various options ? Results of inventory, inquiry and other basic commands ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ./mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/c3t0d0 inventory (LOADER SCANING SLOT BY SLOT ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ./mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/c3t0d0 inquiry Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'ADIC' Product ID: 'FastStor 2 ' Revision: 'G12r' Attached Changer API: No [EMAIL PROTECTED] # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ./mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/c3t0d0 status Storage Changer /dev/scsi/changer/c3t0d0:1 Drives, 8 Slots ( 0 Import/Export ) Data Transfer Element 0:Empty Storage Element 1:Full Storage Element 2:Empty Storage Element 3:Empty Storage Element 4:Empty Storage Element 5:Full Storage Element 6:Empty Storage Element 7:Empty Storage Element 8:Full [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ./mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/c3t0d0 load 1 Loading media from Storage Element 1 into drive 0...done [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ./mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/c3t0d0 unload Unloading drive 0 into Storage Element 1...done regards hadi Brian Cuttler wrote: Hadi, Thank you for choosing me to write too, it would probably help though in include the amanda-users list as many have greater expertise than I. 1) I had issues with the glue script when I first installed it, I changed the script itself run run under k-shell. 2) What version of mtx software did you install ? You say the mtx software works properly by itself ? My binary is /usr/local/sbin/mtx, I believe that is the default installation location. What are the results of running mtx with its various options ? Results of inventory, inquiry and other basic commands ? On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:16:25AM -0700, nyohadi wrote: Dear Brian , thanks for reply my email , i change as your recomend , now when i am issue command get error bash-2.05$ /usr/local/sbin/amlabel -f daily DailySet1-001 slot 1 amlabel: could not load slot 1: no slots available shall i am issue another command ? regards hadi Brian Cuttler wrote: [Original note from user follows .sig] Hadi, Glad to help. I note two things right off, in my config changerfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/ninfo/chg-zd-mtx where you have changerfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/daily/changer.conf I believe I tried it your way originally, resulting in amanda being unable to find /usr/local/etc/amanda/ninfo/chg-zd-mtx.conf.conf since it seems to add the extension by itself. Second thing I note is that I have a number of parameters in my config file that you seem to be missing. My file (for a 9 slot L9 changer,
hp ultrium 100GB lto-1 tape
hello amanda-users, i am a newbie to backups and amanda in particular. i am trying to get the parameters for the HP-Ultrium LTO-1 100/200G tape so that i can paste in amanda.conf. amdtape command has now gone for 30 hours!! is this normal? can someone please send me their configuration in case they are using a similar tape? regards, ernest.
Re: hp ultrium 100GB lto-1 tape
* Ernest Byaruhanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040813 10:31]:
hello amanda-users,
i am a newbie to backups and amanda in particular. i am trying to get the
parameters for the HP-Ultrium LTO-1 100/200G tape so that i can paste in
amanda.conf.
I don't have HP but Seagate and IBM, shouldn't make any diff though:
define tapetype Ultrium-SGT-LTO {
comment just produced by tapetype program
length 101376 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 15084 kps
}
amdtape command has now gone for 30 hours!! is this normal? can someone
please send me their configuration in case they are using a similar tape?
make sure you use a no rewind no compression tape device.
hth,
jf
regards,
ernest.
--
Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Re: hp ultrium 100GB lto-1 tape
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
* Ernest Byaruhanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040813 10:31]:
hello amanda-users,
i am a newbie to backups and amanda in particular. i am trying to get the
parameters for the HP-Ultrium LTO-1 100/200G tape so that i can paste in
amanda.conf.
I don't have HP but Seagate and IBM, shouldn't make any diff though:
define tapetype Ultrium-SGT-LTO {
comment just produced by tapetype program
length 101376 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 15084 kps
}
thanks - i am going to try this immediately.
amdtape command has now gone for 30 hours!! is this normal? can someone
please send me their configuration in case they are using a similar tape?
make sure you use a no rewind no compression tape device.
i am still fuguring amanda out - where do i specify this?
regards,
ernest.
Re: hp ultrium 100GB lto-1 tape
* Ernest Byaruhanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040813 10:57]:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
* Ernest Byaruhanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040813 10:31]:
hello amanda-users,
i am a newbie to backups and amanda in particular. i am trying to get the
parameters for the HP-Ultrium LTO-1 100/200G tape so that i can paste in
amanda.conf.
I don't have HP but Seagate and IBM, shouldn't make any diff though:
define tapetype Ultrium-SGT-LTO {
comment just produced by tapetype program
length 101376 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 15084 kps
}
thanks - i am going to try this immediately.
amdtape command has now gone for 30 hours!! is this normal? can someone
please send me their configuration in case they are using a similar tape?
make sure you use a no rewind no compression tape device.
i am still fuguring amanda out - where do i specify this?
If you mean in amanda.conf then its called 'tapedev'.
But maybe you should go throuh the docs first and read
carefully. That will save you a lot of grief.
How did you configure Amanda?
On which OS?
jf
regards,
ernest.
--
Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Re: hp ultrium 100GB lto-1 tape
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: make sure you use a no rewind no compression tape device. i am still fuguring amanda out - where do i specify this? If you mean in amanda.conf then its called 'tapedev'. But maybe you should go throuh the docs first and read carefully. That will save you a lot of grief. thanks jf, i am actually still looking for good amanda documentation, i have not found anything yet. i only have git faq's and the amanda faq'omatic questions. do you have a website with a good documentation for amanda, especially some kind of newbie step-by-step howto? How did you configure Amanda? On which OS? i am using Redhat Enterprise Linus AS 3.0, kernel 2.4.21, and a Dell PowerVault 122T-LTO 8-tape autoloader. thanks again, ernest.
Re: hp ultrium 100GB lto-1 tape
* Ernest Byaruhanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040813 11:31]: On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: make sure you use a no rewind no compression tape device. i am still fuguring amanda out - where do i specify this? If you mean in amanda.conf then its called 'tapedev'. But maybe you should go throuh the docs first and read carefully. That will save you a lot of grief. thanks jf, i am actually still looking for good amanda documentation, i have not found anything yet. i only have git faq's and the amanda faq'omatic questions. do you have a website with a good documentation for amanda, especially some kind of newbie step-by-step howto? Look at http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html and also in the docs directory of the amanda source. Apart from that, you'll have to tinker with things and learn on how to read the debug files that amanda will create (usually in /tmp/amanda). How did you configure Amanda? On which OS? i am using Redhat Enterprise Linus AS 3.0, kernel 2.4.21, and a Dell PowerVault 122T-LTO 8-tape autoloader. How did you configured Amanda *exactly* ? You have a changer so you'll be in for some fun! I might suggest to use chg-zd-mtx as the tape-changer glue script but that's just me. I had it to work flawlessly on RH-7.x and 8.0 using an Ecrix tape library. I also use mtx with a STK-L80 with 8 (!) LTO-1 tape drives and it works like a charm. BTW, when you write to this list you should always specify which version of Amanda you're using: that will help the very knowledgeable (not me!) people on this list to know it you just hit an outstanding bug... hth, jf thanks again, ernest. -- Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Re: [RESULTS MISSING]
Daniel García wrote: Amanda has send this report today, and i don't know if the backup of the disk is done ok. svrbackup //svrficheros/usr RESULTS MISSING svrbackup //svrcitrixs/YagoMir RESULTS MISSING svrbackup //svrcitrixs/carto RESULTS MISSING It means there were no results, not even a backup, for these entries. I bet in the same report there are also other messages about these same entries that can shed some light why there were no results. (amanda configured for samba? username/password in /etc/amandapass? etc.) -- 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: The use of Amanda without tapes ?
Oh, another guy who wrote a good tutorial is Andreas Ntaflos. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Moser Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The use of Amanda without tapes ? Hello everyone, I've got one Question. Is it possible to use amanda without tapes? I don't use a tape for Backup! I've got only one big Harddrive, where i could store the huge backup files. How can I configure amanda without the use of tapes, so that I could backup my files on a harddrive. Amanda shall backup all my files in one directory. thx for your response Andreas
What does it mean: ERROR: hostname: [host hostname:Port XXXX not secure]
I'm working on installing AMANDA on a new RH9 server. All my clients still have an older version of the client installed; and they work fine with the old backup server. However, with this new RH9 one, when I run amcheck, AMANDA appears to try and contact them, but I get an error message that says: ERROR: hostname: [host hostname:Port not secure] Weird thing is, the (Port number?) keeps incrementing by 1 every time I run amcheck! Do I need to install the newest (same) version of the client? I have attempted to install the client to the actual RH9 server which is running amanda; but this also yields the same error! So I assumed that not having the proper client version is not the (only) problem. Thanks very much if anybody can help, Wayne.
RE: The use of Amanda without tapes ?
Andreas, I myself have been working to this end off on for a while now. It just so happens that this week, I am attempting to finalize my backups to Disk. I suppose you could do the holding-disk trick the other guy mentioned. But if you want to use a large disk to mimic several tapes, thus allowing you to do the amrestore thingy from the clients, some other people have created some tutorials/examples of how they've done it. I recommend looking all these over. First do a search for a message from a guy Clinton Hogge in the amanda-users archive. He has a good e-mail RE this. Second, a guy Alex Muc also wrote a tutorial, do a search in the amanda-users archive in Yahoo for that one too. I tried finding these files myself in my archives, but all I can locate is the printed version. If I come across them again later, I'll e-mail them to you. Hopefully the authors wouldn't care. WAB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Moser Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The use of Amanda without tapes ? Hello everyone, I've got one Question. Is it possible to use amanda without tapes? I don't use a tape for Backup! I've got only one big Harddrive, where i could store the huge backup files. How can I configure amanda without the use of tapes, so that I could backup my files on a harddrive. Amanda shall backup all my files in one directory. thx for your response Andreas
RE: Some directories not being backed up
--On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:47:21 +1000 Pham, Tu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Im currently using Amanda to backup one server only (it Linux) One directory however, does not appear to be backed up. I do not receive any error messages to say that a directory was not backed up. I have attached the report that I get sent after backup is performed, a copy of my exclude list and disklist. The directory that doesn't get backed up /online. When I do a amrecover and go to /onine, nothing is there. All other directories seem to be backed up. Thanks, Tu Your disklist contains / and /online/backup/storage, is /online physically in / or is it a mount point? Tar is called with options to not cross filesystems, so if /online is on a different disk or partition only the mount point itself will be in the backups, not any of data mounted on it. Frank Actualli I'm not sure. If I do a df -h on the server, this is what I get FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 8.3G 6.2G 1.8G 79% / /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 97M 15M 77M 17% /boot /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 65G 13G 50G 20% /online none 1009M 0 1009M 0% /dev/shm Thanks, 2
Re: Archiving With Amanda?
Hi, Steven, on Freitag, 28. Mai 2004 at 16:51 you wrote to amanda-users: SB I have some files I'd like to permanently remove from my system SB (archiving to tape). It would be nice to have them listed in SB amanda's index and have amanda keep track of them for me. Does SB anyone know a way to do this? Simple solution: Do a full backup of those files to a tape in your tapecycle. Mark it as no-reuse with amadmin conf no-reuse TAPE-LABEL You can browse it via amrecover, but AMANDA will not ask for that tape again for a dump. This is a common solution for doing things like monthly-archive-tapes or similar things. Better solution: Setup a config for archiving, with dumpcycle 0, record no, and put your files onto the tapes of this config. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
add more config into amanda
I have amanda running for Daily config and Weekly config. Now I want to add 1 more config just to do the test (say tempConfig). Do I need to rebuild amanda? or what do I need to do?
Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda
Quoting Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Andreas, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 09:29 you wrote to amanda-users: AS Well, now I have created a user named amanda which has default group membership AS disk and is also a member of users. Then I recompiled with user=amanda, AS group=disk and installed. AS I had som trouble to get it working but I eventually found out that when run AS with xinetd this statement is needed groups = yes. AS All went well and the backup finished successful. Fine ;-) AS Then I switched to my AS identically compiled 2.6.6-rc2 kernel and it fails with the same error as earlier: AS These dumps were to tape dflt10. AS The next tape Amanda expects to use is: dflt11. AS The next new tape already labelled is: dflt12. AS FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: AS zappa.zapp /imagelib lev 1 FAILED [bad CONNECT response] AS zappa.zapp /boot lev 0 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] AS zappa.zapp /home/sunkan lev 1 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] AS zappa.zapp /var lev 1 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] AS zappa.zapp / lev 0 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] AS zappa.zapp /home/emelie lev 0 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] AS zappa.zapp /apps lev 0 FAILED [bad CONNECT response] AS So I tarred up the /tmp/amanda dir and put it at AS ftp://zappa.cx/pub/amanda-zappa.cx.tar.gz if anyone wants to take a look at it. AS This is the complete failed session and nothing else. AS Thanks for the help and pointers so far everyone. I think you just run out of tcp-ports. I don't know exactly if that is kernel-related but you could try to reconfigure amanda with the options: --with-tcpportrange=5,50040 --with-udpportrange=890,899 (Substitute with your preferred port-numbers) This would specify the range to use and rule out any differences that might occur in handling this between kernel-releases. I have these options in my amanda-configure-script for quite a time now and never hit these problems with any 2.6-kernel. You could also read the docs/PORT-USAGE document for more infos on port-handling. Give it a try and let us know. Compiling now.. will send info later. Thanks for your time. /Andreas
Re: 2.6.6-rc2 and newer cause trouble with amanda
Quoting Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Andreas, on Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 at 09:29 you wrote to amanda-users: AS Well, now I have created a user named amanda which has default group membership AS disk and is also a member of users. Then I recompiled with user=amanda, AS group=disk and installed. AS I had som trouble to get it working but I eventually found out that when run AS with xinetd this statement is needed groups = yes. AS All went well and the backup finished successful. Fine ;-) AS Then I switched to my AS identically compiled 2.6.6-rc2 kernel and it fails with the same error as earlier: AS These dumps were to tape dflt10. AS The next tape Amanda expects to use is: dflt11. AS The next new tape already labelled is: dflt12. AS FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: AS zappa.zapp /imagelib lev 1 FAILED [bad CONNECT response] AS zappa.zapp /boot lev 0 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] AS zappa.zapp /home/sunkan lev 1 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] AS zappa.zapp /var lev 1 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] AS zappa.zapp / lev 0 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] AS zappa.zapp /home/emelie lev 0 FAILED 20040615[could not connect to zappa.zappa.cx] AS zappa.zapp /apps lev 0 FAILED [bad CONNECT response] AS So I tarred up the /tmp/amanda dir and put it at AS ftp://zappa.cx/pub/amanda-zappa.cx.tar.gz if anyone wants to take a look at it. AS This is the complete failed session and nothing else. AS Thanks for the help and pointers so far everyone. I think you just run out of tcp-ports. I don't know exactly if that is kernel-related but you could try to reconfigure amanda with the options: --with-tcpportrange=5,50040 --with-udpportrange=890,899 (Substitute with your preferred port-numbers) This would specify the range to use and rule out any differences that might occur in handling this between kernel-releases. I have these options in my amanda-configure-script for quite a time now and never hit these problems with any 2.6-kernel. You could also read the docs/PORT-USAGE document for more infos on port-handling. Give it a try and let us know. Compiling now.. will send info later. Thanks for your time. /Andreas
Error in backup
Title: Message Hi, I received the following error in backup today: NOTES: planner: online.intranet.vicscouts.asn.au / 20040518 0 [dumps too big, 2897508 KB, full dump delayed] taper: tape Online-DailySet1-Tuesday kb 9021344 fm 3 [OK] Is there anything that I need to do. Will it cause any errors when I do backup today? Also, I just wanted to ask what gets excluded in the backup given the exclude file attached. Ifmy disklists are / and /online/backup/storage what gets excluded. I read in documentation somewhere that a ./diretory in the exclude list means that its the directory relative to the disk that gets backed up. Thanks, Tu ./tmp ./lib/mysql/mysql.sock ./log/messages ./log/maillog ./spool/* ./mysql/ib_logfile1 ./mysql/ibdata1 ./backup/amanda ./backup/spool
Re: add more config into amanda
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 16:08, nina wrote: I have amanda running for Daily config and Weekly config. Now I want to add 1 more config just to do the test (say tempConfig). Do I need to rebuild amanda? or what do I need to do? When I've wanted to do that, I cloned one of my existing config directories and changed the names, regexes, numbers, and dates and deleted the tapelitsts. Then amlabel'ed some new tapes. amdump took care of the rest, IIRC. Rebuilding amanda is not at all necessary -- just a new config. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hp ultrium 100GB lto-1 tape
This one time, at band camp, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote:
amdtape command has now gone for 30 hours!! is this normal? can someone
please send me their configuration in case they are using a similar tape?
I've got an HP Ultrium 1, and use this tapetype:
define tapetype HP-Ultrium {
comment HP Ultrium 1-SCSI
length 10 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 8 mps
}
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