Re: amanda-users list problem
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > That got brought to my attention today, but unfortunately, my > > tape cycle is only eight days, so the last good backup of the > > file was erased quite some time ago. > > > > I've seen others near me have this sort of problem, and I've only > > narrowly avoided it myself. This need to notice/restore before the > > tape cycle runs out is a recurring theme in amanda usage. > > [...] > > Is surly.omniscient.com backed up by Amanda? yes, but in a cycle of eight DLT4k tapes. -Todd
Setting up an Exabyte CY810e changer
I posted this at the time this list appeared broken and hence wonder whether anyone actually received it. I am relatively new to Amanda, though I have has it running quite satisfactorilly with a single DAT drive backing up 4 servers for nearly 5 months. I have recently acquired a Sparc20, standalone Exa8505 and an Exa CY810e jukebox with internal 8505 with which I intend building a backup server. I am using RH6.2 on the Sparc, which has Amanda 2.4.1p1-7, I have read the documentation that is installed with Amanda and the more I read the more confussed I have become :-( Has anyone installed one of these jukeboxes that would be able to give me some help. Specifically, configuring the tape changer side of the system. The CY810e is a 10-slot 8mm jukebox with a single Ex8505 in the base, just in case you know it by another name. Thanks in Advance -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Glen and Rosanne Eustace, GodZone Internet Services, a division of AGRE Enterprises Ltd., P.O. Box 8020, Palmerston North, New Zealand 5301 Ph/Fax: +64 6 357 8168, Mob: +64 21 424 015
Secure amanda
Has anyone looked at wrapping amanda with ssh, the scp option doesn't really scale?
Tapeless Operation
Hi Does anyone know how to get AMANDA to backup to a holding disk and not have the tapes/tape drive in the equation atall ? Thanks in advance Madasu
Re: 'secure' amanda?
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Harald Koch wrote: > Has anyone figured out how to run Amanda securely over the Internet? I > have a single server at a webhosting site that I'd like to backup as > part of the rest of my network backup. For various reasons, I can't do > the obvious and setup a VPN. > > Suggestions welcome... can you reach the machine directly? if so, why not run amanda via stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org). i don't see a reason it wouldn't work. ---/ f. johan beisser /--+ http://caustic.org/~jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan
Re: amanda-users list problem
Greg Troxel wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > That got brought to my attention today, but unfortunately, my tape cycle > is only eight days, so the last good backup of the file was erased > quite some time ago. > > I've seen others near me have this sort of problem, and I've only > narrowly avoided it myself. This need to notice/restore before the > tape cycle runs out is a recurring theme in amanda usage. [...] Is surly.omniscient.com backed up by Amanda?
Strange 'dumper died' errors
Hello all, I recently ran into trouble after installing bastille, but thought I had it resolved after successfully getting a level 0 of all the filesystems I need dumped (local, remote and smb). Apparently not: dumper: stream_client: our side is 0.0.0.0.3626 driver: result time 4294.126 from dumper3: driver: dumping svr-new:/export/a directly to tape driver: no idle dumpers for svr-new:/export/a. driver: state time 4294.293 free kps: 8000 space: 3741552 taper: idle idle-dumpe rs: 4 qlen tapeq: 0 runq: 0 roomq: 0 wakeup: 86400 driver-idle: no-dumpers driver: interface-state time 4294.293 if : free 2500 if ETH0: free 3000 if LOCAL : free 2500 driver: hdisk-state time 4294.293 hdisk 0: free 3741552 dumpers 0 driver: QUITTING time 4294.293 telling children to quit driver: send-cmd time 4294.293 ignored to down dumper dumper0: QUIT driver: send-cmd time 4294.293 ignored to down dumper dumper1: QUIT driver: send-cmd time 4294.293 ignored to down dumper dumper2: QUIT driver: send-cmd time 4294.293 ignored to down dumper dumper3: QUIT driver: send-cmd time 4294.293 to taper: QUIT taper: DONE [idle wait: 4222.655 secs] taper: writing end marker. [TAPE0007 OK kb 53984 fm 3] gzip: stdout: Broken pipe driver: FINISHED time 4307.955 amdump: end at Wed Nov 21 01:56:49 EST 2001 this results in the following output: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: phoenix-ne /var/qmail lev 0 FAILED [Request to phoenix-new timed out.] phoenix-ne /var lev 0 FAILED [Request to phoenix-new timed out.] phoenix-ne /export/software lev 0 FAILED [Request to phoenix-new timed out.] phoenix-ne /export/public lev 0 FAILED [Request to phoenix-new timed out.] phoenix-ne /home lev 0 FAILED [Request to phoenix-new timed out.] phoenix-ne / lev 0 FAILED [Request to phoenix-new timed out.] svr-new/home lev 0 FAILED [dumper2 died] svr-new//office-new/backup$ lev 1 FAILED [dumper3 died] svr-new/export/a lev 1 FAILED [dump to tape failed] NOTES: planner: Full dump of svr-new:/home promoted from 3 days ahead. driver: dumper0 pid 5949 is messed up, ignoring it. driver: dumper0 died while dumping svr-new:/home lev 0. driver: dumper1 pid 5950 is messed up, ignoring it. driver: dumper1 died while dumping svr-new://office-new/backup$ lev 1. driver: dumper2 pid 5951 is messed up, ignoring it. driver: dumper3 pid 5952 is messed up, ignoring it. driver: no idle dumpers for svr-new:/export/a. taper: tape NEWC0007 kb 53984 fm 3 [OK] I could spend all day staring at this and not know what's going on... I'm hoping someone here has more of an idea. Sam
Re: WARNING: hostname; selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 at 12:41pm, Rafe Thayer wrote > I've been trying to configure an amanda client on a Sun box. When I do an > "amcheck" the server checks out fine, but I get this warning from the > client: > WARNING: al-bundy.cs.ucla.edu: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? > > I've attached the contents of the amandad.xxx.debug file from the client > (al-bundy.cs.ucla.edu). So maybe one of you can interpret what's going > wrong. It seems like the communication between client and server gets out > of sync somehow. Any ideas how to fix it? Please let me know! What type of machine is the server? Is there some sort of a firewall in the way? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
strange problems and no errors
I have a server that just all of the sudden stoped backing up the /home/ partition every night. Here is all of the information that I get from the email notification. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: webe3.inte hda6 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] It does not appear that the tape is being filled every night. It is not even coming close to being filled. I took a look arount /tmp on the server and here is what I get. amandad.debug looks like this, none of the other files seem to have anything pertinant in them: amandad: debug 1 pid 28246 ruid 501 euid 501 start time Thu Nov 1 16:01:56 2001amandad: version 2.4.2amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.2"amandad: BUILT_DATE="Wed Feb 7 01:16:06 EST 2001"amandad: BUILT_MACH="Linux webm6.im1.net 2.2.12-20ensim #1 Thu Dec 14 06:22:21 EST 2000 i686 unknown"amandad: CC="gcc"amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/local/bin" sbindir="/usr/local/sbin"amandad: libexecdir="/usr/local/libexec" mandir="/usr/local/man"amandad: AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda" AMANDA_DBGDIR="/tmp/amanda"amandad: CONFIG_DIR="/usr/local/etc/amanda" DEV_PREFIX="/dev/"amandad: RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump"amandad: RESTORE="/sbin/restore" GNUTAR="/usr/bin/gtar"amandad: COMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip"amandad: UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip" MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"amandad: listed_incr_dir="/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists"amandad: defs: DEFAULT_SERVER="webm6.im1.net" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"amandad: DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="webm6.im1.net"amandad: DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHMamandad: LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE BSD_SECURITYamandad: USE_AMANDAHOSTS CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIPamandad: COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"amandad: COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"got packet:Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 00B-00170808 SEQ 1004648411SECURITY USER amandaSERVICE selfcheckOPTIONS ;DUMP hda6 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;srvcomp-fast;index;DUMP hda1 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;srvcomp-fast;index; sending ack:Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 00B-00170808 SEQ 1004648411 bsd security: remote host web21.internal user amanda local user amandaamandahosts security check passedamandad: running service "/usr/local/libexec/selfcheck"amandad: sending REP packet:Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 00B-00170808 SEQ 1004648411OPTIONS ;OK hda6OK hda1OK /sbin/dump executableOK /sbin/restore executableOK /etc/dumpdates read/writableOK /dev/null read/writableOK /tmp/amanda has more than 64 KB available.OK /tmp/amanda has more than 64 KB available.OK /etc has more than 64 KB available. amandad: got packet:Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 00B-00170808 SEQ 1004648411 amandad: pid 28246 finish time Thu Nov 1 16:01:57 2001 If more information is needed to understand this problem just tell me where to look. Regards, Ryan Williams
Re: 'secure' amanda?
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Harald Koch wrote: - Has anyone figured out how to run Amanda securely over the Internet? I - have a single server at a webhosting site that I'd like to backup as - part of the rest of my network backup. For various reasons, I can't do - the obvious and setup a VPN. - - Suggestions welcome... W How about using rsync over ssh to move the files you need to backup to a local directory on the backup server and backing up from there? I do something similar for my oracle backups except I don't need to use encryption. -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator Ace Flood USA 310-342-3602 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 'secure' amanda?
I would think the second obvious thing would be to tunnel it through SSH... I've never done this, though, and I don't even know if it would be possible. JM2C. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Harald Koch Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 'secure' amanda? Has anyone figured out how to run Amanda securely over the Internet? I have a single server at a webhosting site that I'd like to backup as part of the rest of my network backup. For various reasons, I can't do the obvious and setup a VPN. Suggestions welcome... -- Harald Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It takes a child to raze a village." -Michael T. Fry
Re: 'secure' amanda?
At 1:15 pm -0500 20/11/01, Harald Koch wrote: >Has anyone figured out how to run Amanda securely over the Internet? I >have a single server at a webhosting site that I'd like to backup as >part of the rest of my network backup. For various reasons, I can't do >the obvious and setup a VPN. > >Suggestions welcome... ssh tunnel? f
Re: [Amanda-users] amrecover & index issues (fwd)
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Re: huge (1G) planning files (amdump.n)
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 at 11:05am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Wow! Mine are no bigger than ~200K, running 2.4.2p2 and dumping about 45 > > partitions at 50G total. > > > Glad to hear that! There's hope for my situation. Now I didn't say that... ;) > > My first question would be -- what's in them? Does it all look kosher? > > Things looked normal, but I never spent much time looking at them > when they were small. Is there anything odd about the amdumps and/or their reports? Are they taking a really long time? > > Also, did anything change in your config around the time the files blew > > up? > > Yes, I added two tapes to the tapecycle. I have no idea how that would affect this, but that's not saying much. You obviously don't want to remove the tapes. Maybe this would be a good time to upgrade to 2.4.2p2... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Which Files get Backed Up?
If I have an entry in disklist like:
congo / {
user-tar
exclude list ".exclude"
}
Does this backup the entire root file system including any mounted
partitions or just the root partition?
-- Stephen Carville
UNIX and Network Administrator
Ace Flood USA
310-342-3602
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changer file definitions for HP C1557A DDS3 autoloader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am running Solaris 8 with a HP C1557A, "HP DDS-3 4mm DAT loader". The device works >so far until I start to configure the changer specs. I would like to start using the >built in autoloader to rotate tapes rather than manually using mtx. > > tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx"# the tape-changer glue script > tapedev "/dev/rmnt/0bn "# the no-rewind tape device to be used > changerfile "/etc/amanda/changer" > changerdev "/dev/rmnt/0bn" > > What values should mychanger file have? Can someone send me a working example? I'm using a Sony TSL-A500c, 4-tape AIT-II changer, on a RedHat Linux box with chg-multi. From my amanda.conf: runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump tpchanger "chg-multi" # the tape-changer glue script tapedev "/dev/ntape"# the no-rewind tape device to be used rawtapedev "/dev/null" # the raw device to be used (ftape only) changerfile "chg-multi.conf" changerdev "/dev/ntape" In the directory with amanda.conf my chg-multi.conf file is: multieject 0 gravity 0 needeject 1 ejectdelay 60 statefile changer-status firstslot 1 lastslot 4 slot 1 /dev/ntape slot 2 /dev/ntape slot 3 /dev/ntape slot 4 /dev/ntape I don't think I had to change the chg-multi file. I run an amcheck -s each afternoon after the backups and it advances to the appropriate tape. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - HMC UNIX Systems Manager My opinions are my own and probably don't represent anything anyway.
Re: HELP!!!!
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 at 7:20pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > intel1 /dev/hda5 lev 0 FAILED [Request to intel1 timed out.] > > Where intel1 is the name of the computer in either case. I believe I > have everything set up correctly. On each machine, I have a user > named Amanda and on both machines the password is even the same. I > have a file called .rhosts in both the root and amanda user > directories of both machines and I've restarted them. No matter what First off, amcheck is your debugging tool of choice, not amdump. If amcheck doesn't work, amdump certainly won't. Second, by default (that is, unless you specify differently at compile time) amanda uses .amandahosts for authentication, not .rhosts. Give that a shot. Also be sure to go through everything in the FAQ-O-Matic, accessible through www.amanda.org. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: 'secure' amanda?
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:15:36PM -0500, Harald Koch wrote: > Has anyone figured out how to run Amanda securely over the Internet? I > have a single server at a webhosting site that I'd like to backup as > part of the rest of my network backup. For various reasons, I can't do > the obvious and setup a VPN. > > Suggestions welcome... > > -- > Harald Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "It takes a child to raze a village." > -Michael T. Fry > 1) Port forward amanda over ssh. Requires a script to set up and tear down the port forward. Transfers a lot of data, which may or may not be an issue, depending on how your webserver's bandwidth is metered. May also have timeout issues. 2) rsync over ssh to a local mirror, then back that up. Advantages: greatly reduces volume of data transfer. Much simpler than 1) to set up. Disadvantage: requires more disk space. However, disk space has become fairly inexpensive. -- - Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-0549URL http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/ -
Re: skipping start of tape......
Damith Coomasaru wrote: > > I am new to amanda. I tried to restore but I occured following error: > > amanda:~# /usr/sbin/amrestore /dev/st0 > > amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 2002 label HISS0 > amrestore: 1: restoring amanda.ruh.ac.lk._var_backups.2002.0 ... > amrestore: 14: skipping start of tape: date 2002 label HISS0 > amrestore: 15: restoring amanda.ruh.ac.lk._var_backups.2002.0 > > It is endless. Have you any idea? You didn't tell it what it was supposed to restore. Here's the syntax I use as the amanda user on my tape server to do an interactive restore of files on /home of another machine names Odin: amrestore -p /dev/st0 Odin '/home$' | ssh odin -l root "restore -if -" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - HMC UNIX Systems Manager
RE: How to integrate two different tape drives into one backup concept?
If you can search the mailing list archives, there is more detail on how to do this, but what I remember of it goes like this: Build a separate AMANDA configuration for each tape drive, and get them working separately. Configure one to only do level 0, and the other to never do level 0. Then change them to use a common backup database. You will then be able to search that database when restoring. One caveat: If you have a large change in your file systems, it might not fit on your smaller tapes, forcing level 2 or even level 3 backups. You'll want to keep an eye on that for the first couple cycles, and during any major disk activity later. Good Luck. > -Original Message- > From: Volker Apelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 11:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to integrate two different tape drives into one backup > concept? > > > Hi, > > I'm looking for experience reports on how to use amanda with > more than on > tape drive to separate level0 and incremental backups and have them > accessible for restore as one continguous backup achiv. > > Situatuation: > I have two tape drives. One with low capacity (2GB) > and one with > lager (15GB). I'd like to store all level0 on lager tapes and all > incremental (level1 and above) on small ones. The larger > drive can hold all > of my filesystems, if they are compressed with 'fast' gzip. > > I know how to separate backups into level 0 and incremental levels > on different tapes. Configuration level0 stores to /dev/nst1 and > names its tapes "DLT3XT-[0-9][0-9][0-9]" while level1 stores to > /dev/nst0 and names them "QIC3080XLT-[0-9][0-9]". > > But, I have no idea how to search across both setup's > on restore. > > Should I name tapes equal instead? > > Will that confuse the tape cycle? > > > > Thanks, > > Volker Apelt > -- > Volker Apelt volker_apelt .@. yahoo.de (remove the dots, > please) > Dipl. Chem.+49 6172 31126 >
WARNING: hostname; selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
Hi Folks, I've been trying to configure an amanda client on a Sun box. When I do an "amcheck" the server checks out fine, but I get this warning from the client: WARNING: al-bundy.cs.ucla.edu: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? I've attached the contents of the amandad.xxx.debug file from the client (al-bundy.cs.ucla.edu). So maybe one of you can interpret what's going wrong. It seems like the communication between client and server gets out of sync somehow. Any ideas how to fix it? Please let me know! Thanks, Rafe amandad: debug 1 pid 26688 ruid 5657 euid 5657 start time Mon Nov 19 10:42:57 2001 amandad: version 2.4.2p2 amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.2p2" amandad:BUILT_DATE="Thu Nov 15 12:34:28 PST 2001" amandad:BUILT_MACH="SunOS al-bundy 5.7 Generic_106541-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10" amandad:CC="gcc" amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/bin" sbindir="/usr/sbin" amandad:libexecdir="/usr/libexec" mandir="/usr/man" amandad:AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda" AMANDA_DBGDIR="/tmp/amanda" amandad:CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda" DEV_PREFIX="/dev/dsk/" amandad:RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/rdsk/" DUMP="/usr/sbin/ufsdump" amandad:RESTORE="/usr/sbin/ufsrestore" amandad:SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/smbclient" amandad:COMPRESS_PATH="/usr/local/bin/gzip" amandad:UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/local/bin/gzip" amandad:MAILER="/usr/ucb/Mail" amandad:listed_incr_dir="/usr/var/amanda/gnutar-lists" amandad: defs: DEFAULT_SERVER="chenyen.cs.ucla.edu" amandad:DEFAULT_CONFIG="imash" amandad:DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="chenyen.cs.ucla.edu" amandad:DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM amandad:LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE amandad:AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY USE_AMANDAHOSTS amandad:CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP amandad:COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast" amandad:COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc" got packet: Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 000-60A10708 SEQ 1006194978 SECURITY USER amanda SERVICE selfcheck OPTIONS ; DUMP /usr/src/imash 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;index; sending ack: Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 000-60A10708 SEQ 1006194978 bsd security: remote host Chenyen.CS.UCLA.EDU user amanda local user amanda amandahosts security check passed amandad: running service "/usr/libexec/selfcheck" amandad: sending REP packet: Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 000-60A10708 SEQ 1006194978 OPTIONS ; OK /usr/src/imash OK /usr/sbin/ufsdump executable OK /usr/sbin/ufsrestore executable OK /etc/dumpdates read/writable OK /dev/null read/writable OK /tmp/amanda has more than 64 KB available. OK /tmp/amanda has more than 64 KB available. OK /etc has more than 64 KB available. amandad: got packet: Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 000-60A10708 SEQ 1006194978 SECURITY USER amanda SERVICE selfcheck OPTIONS ; DUMP /usr/src/imash 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;index; amandad: It's not an ack amandad: sending REP packet: Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 000-60A10708 SEQ 1006194978 OPTIONS ; OK /usr/src/imash OK /usr/sbin/ufsdump executable OK /usr/sbin/ufsrestore executable OK /etc/dumpdates read/writable OK /dev/null read/writable OK /tmp/amanda has more than 64 KB available. OK /tmp/amanda has more than 64 KB available. OK /etc has more than 64 KB available. amandad: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying amandad: got packet: Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 000-60A10708 SEQ 1006194978 SECURITY USER amanda SERVICE selfcheck OPTIONS ; DUMP /usr/src/imash 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;index; amandad: It's not an ack amandad: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying amandad: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying amandad: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying amandad: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, giving up! amandad: pid 26688 finish time Mon Nov 19 10:43:57 2001
RE: 'secure' amanda?
Can you scp the files to a local drive, then back them up? > -Original Message- > From: Harald Koch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 1:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 'secure' amanda? > > > Has anyone figured out how to run Amanda securely over the Internet? I > have a single server at a webhosting site that I'd like to backup as > part of the rest of my network backup. For various reasons, I can't do > the obvious and setup a VPN. > > Suggestions welcome... > > -- > Harald Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "It takes a child to raze a village." > -Michael T. Fry >
HELP!!!!
I am attempting to set up the latest version of AMANDA on our network here at work. I have attempted to back up two different computers and both times I get the same error: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: intel1 /dev/hda5 lev 0 FAILED [Request to intel1 timed out.] Where intel1 is the name of the computer in either case. I believe I have everything set up correctly. On each machine, I have a user named Amanda and on both machines the password is even the same. I have a file called .rhosts in both the root and amanda user directories of both machines and I've restarted them. No matter what I do, though, I get the same error. Does anyone have any clue what I'm doing wrong? I get this error in amcheck as well and the sendsize utility is not running on the client PC. help? Thanks in advance. -Joey
Re: samba "strange dump"
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 at 9:21am, Jay A. St. Pierre wrote > I have started to back up a couple of drives via samba, and > although the dumps seem to work OK, I get spurious "strange dump" > messages due to the "ssl CA certfile" messages. > *snip* > > The amanda client (kuma) is a fully patched Red Hat 7.1 i386 box > with RH's amanda-client-2.4.2p2-1 and samba-client-2.0.10-2 RPM's > installed. This is "normal", as RedHat's samba is compiled with SSL support. Your options are to a) recompile samba yourself without SSL support or b) add those lines as a DMP_NORMAL flag in client-src/sendbackup-gnutar.c, and recompile/reinstall amanda on the Red Hat box. (There's also an ifdef to IGNORE_SMBCLIENT_ERRORS in there, but I don't see a ./configure option for it -- you could also add the DMP_NORMAL flag under that ifdef and #define IGNORE_SMBCLIENT_ERRORS). Or, my choice, c) Ignore 'em. ;) -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
'secure' amanda?
Has anyone figured out how to run Amanda securely over the Internet? I have a single server at a webhosting site that I'd like to backup as part of the rest of my network backup. For various reasons, I can't do the obvious and setup a VPN. Suggestions welcome... -- Harald Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It takes a child to raze a village." -Michael T. Fry
How to integrate two different tape drives into one backup concept?
Hi, I'm looking for experience reports on how to use amanda with more than on tape drive to separate level0 and incremental backups and have them accessible for restore as one continguous backup achiv. Situatuation: I have two tape drives. One with low capacity (2GB) and one with lager (15GB). I'd like to store all level0 on lager tapes and all incremental (level1 and above) on small ones. The larger drive can hold all of my filesystems, if they are compressed with 'fast' gzip. I know how to separate backups into level 0 and incremental levels on different tapes. Configuration level0 stores to /dev/nst1 and names its tapes "DLT3XT-[0-9][0-9][0-9]" while level1 stores to /dev/nst0 and names them "QIC3080XLT-[0-9][0-9]". But, I have no idea how to search across both setup's on restore. Should I name tapes equal instead? Will that confuse the tape cycle? Thanks, Volker Apelt -- Volker Apelt volker_apelt .@. yahoo.de (remove the dots, please) Dipl. Chem.+49 6172 31126
Re: huge (1G) planning files (amdump.n)
Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 at 12:09am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > >> on gnu/linux glibc. I am dumping about 24 partitions, 12G total, >> no bigger than 2G per partition, in a 1 wk cycle on 12 2G tapes. > > Wow! Mine are no bigger than ~200K, running 2.4.2p2 and dumping about 45 > partitions at 50G total. > Glad to hear that! There's hope for my situation. >> In the last month the planning files have become huge on the >> amanda master, relative to what I am dumping. Is there anything >> I can do to reduce the size? >> > My first question would be -- what's in them? Does it all look kosher? Things looked normal, but I never spent much time looking at them when they were small. > Also, did anything change in your config around the time the files blew > up? Yes, I added two tapes to the tapecycle. Chris
Dell PowerVault 120T DLT1
I sent this in November and it may have been lost due to list problems... Jason: I tried to reply but your e-mail address kept bouncing... Marc Mondragon Ritchie Capital Investments, Ltd. 210 E. State Street Batavia, IL 60510 (630) 482-5141 -Original Message- From: Jason B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:25 PM To: Marc Mondragon Subject: Re: Dell PowerVault 120T DLT1 We are about to create a similar setup and I was wondering if you have had any luck with this setup? I did not see any response to your question on the list... Jason B. On Monday 05 November 2001 03:18 pm, you wrote: > Hello- > > I'm trying to get the mentioned Tape Library to work with RH 7.1 and Amanda > and I've been unsuccessful so far. > I've searched the mailing list archives and perused the FAQ but I haven't > found any information on whether or not > this particular model has been used successfully. I've seen other similar > models mentioned but not the DLT1. > > Has anyone been able to get this model to work? > > Thanks, > > Marc Mondragon > > Ritchie Capital Investments, Ltd. > 210 E. State Street > Batavia, IL 60510 > (630) 482-5141 > > <> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Marc Mondragon.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Marc Mondragon.vcf Description: Binary data
Re: amanda-users list problem
> That got brought to my attention today, but unfortunately, my tape cycle > is only eight days, so the last good backup of the file was erased > quite some time ago. What tapes do you use?
huge (1G) planning files (amdump.n)
Hello. I've checked the archives, but haven't seen this issue. My planning files, (amdump.1 (1G), amdump.2, amdump.3 (0.7G)...) have become huge over time. I am running amanda version 2.4.1p1 on gnu/linux glibc. I am dumping about 24 partitions, 12G total, no bigger than 2G per partition, in a 1 wk cycle on 12 2G tapes. In the last month the planning files have become huge on the amanda master, relative to what I am dumping. Is there anything I can do to reduce the size? Thanks. Chris
Re: huge (1G) planning files (amdump.n)
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 at 12:09am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Hello. I've checked the archives, but haven't seen this issue. > My planning files, (amdump.1 (1G), amdump.2, amdump.3 (0.7G)...) > have become huge over time. I am running amanda version 2.4.1p1 > on gnu/linux glibc. I am dumping about 24 partitions, 12G total, > no bigger than 2G per partition, in a 1 wk cycle on 12 2G tapes. Wow! Mine are no bigger than ~200K, running 2.4.2p2 and dumping about 45 partitions at 50G total. > In the last month the planning files have become huge on the > amanda master, relative to what I am dumping. Is there anything > I can do to reduce the size? > My first question would be -- what's in them? Does it all look kosher? Also, did anything change in your config around the time the files blew up? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: amanda-users list problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: That got brought to my attention today, but unfortunately, my tape cycle is only eight days, so the last good backup of the file was erased quite some time ago. I've seen others near me have this sort of problem, and I've only narrowly avoided it myself. This need to notice/restore before the tape cycle runs out is a recurring theme in amanda usage. Partly to avoid this problem, I write an extra set of tapes periodically. Amanda's automatic balancing wins big in normal operation, but is a bit problematic for the straightforward notion of grabbing a week's tapes for archives. (If runspercycle is 5, you can't assume a set of 5 tapes has a full dump of every fs.) I avoid this behavior for the 'archive' runs by setting dumpcycle to a few weeks. Then if I did a set of archive tapes (onto fresh tapes) once a month, all dumps will be late and the tapes get filled up. Basically, I keep going until there are no more deferred dumps. This works pretty well, but it feels too manual. Another strategy would be to have three tapecycle's worth of tapes, and swap them out every month or so. One feature that might be nice would be to have the compression rate estimates be separate from the log of dumps, so that two configurations could share them. Right now I manually move them over with export/import. Another feature would be to flush to the tape at the beginning of a dump run, and then do more dumps to fill the tape. That way when the compression estimate is off and the last dump doesn't fit, you can move forward without either redoing the dump or only using part of a tape. Using a strategy of biggest dump first would help, too; I think that would lead to the greatest likelihood of using more tape. (Speed doesn't bother me too much on these, usually.) Any other ideas for how to address this issue with Amanda in the current form, or other suggestions? Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [Amanda-users] amrecover & index issues (fwd)
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