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
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
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
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
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 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?
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 Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net
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: 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
Amanda question
Hi everybody: could anybody tell me if amanda can backup a HFS+ hard drive? thanks Sandra
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.
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
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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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 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: 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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Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com}
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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]
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: 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
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]
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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
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 indexdir/host/filesystem/date.gz or restore -t | gzip --best indexdir/host/filesystem/date.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.
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
