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[EMAIL PROTECTED] /sisges]# amrecover Mensal1 -s server1 -t server1 Added /linux.apps/test1.sh amrecover extract Extracting files using tape drive /dev/null on host server1. The following tapes are needed: MENSAL01-0503 Restoring files into directory /sisges Continue? [Y/n]: Load tape MENSAL01-0503 now Continue? [Y/n]: EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file. amrecover: short block 0 bytes UNKNOWN file amrecover: Can't read file header extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 - On /tmp/amanda/amidxtaped. argv[3] = /dev/null argv[4] = server1 argv[5] = ^hdb1$ argv[6] = 20030602 amrestore: missing file header block amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset amrestore: 0: reached end of tape: date trash amidxtaped: amrestore terminarted normally with status: 1 Rewinding tape: done amidxtaped: pid 836 finish time Mon Jun 2 10:22:01 2003
amflush problem
I've been a happy amanda user for quite some time now but now I've a little problem. I backup to disk and backups occassionally stay in holding because of a shortage of disk space (I'm using 2.4.3 - want to upgrade soon to 2.4.4 to be able to use autoflush). This hasn't been a problem as I just ran amflush but now I've some dumps that I can't flush. This has happened for a while now and I get mails like this: DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KBOUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s --- -- --- arda /NO FILE TO FLUSH arda /bootNO FILE TO FLUSH bree /NO FILE TO FLUSH bree /bootNO FILE TO FLUSH dale /NO FILE TO FLUSH dale /bootNO FILE TO FLUSH I get this NO FILE TO FLUSH message for every disk in my disklist, and there are dumps for those disks in the holding disk. In the last couple of days amdump doesn't seem to complete properly. Although ps shows me no relevant processes, I have to run amcleanup - then I get the above mail. I get the message about the unprocessed logfile and when I look at the logfile I see: DISK amflush arda / DISK amflush arda /boot DISK amflush bree / DISK amflush bree /boot DISK amflush dale / DISK amflush dale /boot START amflush date 20030601 START driver date 20030601 STATS driver startup time 0.015 START taper datestamp 20030601 label TIZdaily45 tape 0 INFO taper tape TIZdaily45 kb 0 fm 0 [OK] FINISH driver date 20030601 time 1.116 This is the entire logfile, except that I have removed a number of the DISK amflush lines to shorten this mail. Can anyone suggest what's going on here, and how I might flush these outstanding dumps ? Niall
RE: DONE - Configuring RH7.2 Amanda out of the box - error accessing Amanda hosts file.
And I am assuming from the errors that I got it will not work because the config expects .amandahosts to be in /var/lib/amanda. I've also sorted my authority problem on sda*'s - in the xinetd service config some documentation I had stated that the group = amanda. Changing this to disk made it work - are there any experts who would like to let me know if this is correct - it works anyway - my amcheck is now clean. Thanks to everyone who helped me on this. It was quite a learning curve - I've eventually got the red hat 7.2 rpms out of the box to work - using my old configuration files which I restored from backups - made by amanda of course. Regards Kevin Passey -Original Message- From: Martin, Jeremy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2003 13:43 To: Kevin Passey Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: UPDATE - Configuring RH7.2 Amanda out of the box - error accessing Amanda hosts file. Well - I bit the bullet and removed amanda and did a re-install using the RPM from my RH7.2 disks. Doing that I was able to determine that the RH7.2 configuration expects the .amandahosts file to be in /var/lib/amanda - I presume that's why it wasn't working - can anybody clarify this for me. Hi, I noticed this too with a RedHat 9 install. When installing RedHat if you tell it to install amanda, it creates the amanda account and ets /var/lib/amanda/ as its home directory, it looks like. If you don't install amanda during the RedHat install and install it manually later you'll need to set up a new amanda account which by default uses /home/amanda/ for ~
Re: Qualstar TLS-4480 barcode reader
Hi there, I just got a new Overland Data Neo2000 LTO-2 30-tape library. I found your post on creating barcode labels for tapes. Does is matter what data the barcode contains. For example, can I create a barcode that reads DailySet1-01 through DailySet1-30 Do you know if the Avery L7656 labels will work with LTO2 tapes? Sincerely, Jason Edgecombe Ron Snyder wrote: Thanks! That's one that I wasn't even aware of. -ron -Original Message- From: jens persson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 11:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Qualstar TLS-4480 barcode reader On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:42:53PM -0800, someone wrote: We use a TLS-4480, with the chg-zd-mtx that I found someware :-) and it working well (as long as our home printed labels are readable). What are you using to print your labels? About a year ago I looked for anything that would create labels for me, but never could find any software that would work with my TLS. Since this might be useful to others, I'm answering to the list (after removing the name of the questioner, that asked of list). I'm using gnu-barcode (http://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/barcode.h tml) printing to Avery L7656 labels with the commandline: barcode -ucm -pa4 -iinfile.txt -ooutfile.ps -e code39 -t 4x21+0.6+1.5 \ -m.5x.1 where infile.txt contains the text of the labels I want and output.ps is a postscript file. Home this helps. /jp -- jens persson #One disk to rule them all, One disk to find [EMAIL PROTECTED]#them. One disk to bring them all and in the Mäster Olofsväg 24 #darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond S-224 66 LUND;SWEDEN # where the shadows lie. # Henrique Holschuh The Silicon Valley Tarot
Re: your mail
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:29:15AM -0300, Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /sisges]# amrecover Mensal1 -s server1 -t server1 Added /linux.apps/test1.sh amrecover extract Extracting files using tape drive /dev/null on host server1. Configuration problem. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
UPDATE: connection timeout
Title: UPDATE: connection timeout After pressing the hardware issue with some people with more say-so, we started evaluating the hardware on the network getting the client timeout. We never got to the client itselfwe never got past the firewall. Not because of bad rules or bad routing.but because of: 5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec 5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec 896810035 packets input, 4090731415 bytes Received 13577 broadcasts, 339279460 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles 339279460 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored Yeah, that's right 330 million errorsand it's not the ethernet cable or the switch portit's on the 4 port NIC in the firewall. That particular subnet is feeding off of a bad NIC in the 4 port. I can't say for sure that this is what caused my amanda failures yet, but I have a sneaking suspicion that after I rectify the NIC problem, my amanda problems will go away, too. Rebecca A. Crum Systems Administrator Unterberg Associates, P.C. (219) 736-5579 ext. 184
Re: DONE - Configuring RH7.2 Amanda out of the box - error access ing Amanda hosts file.
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:52:43PM +0100, Kevin Passey wrote: And I am assuming from the errors that I got it will not work because the config expects .amandahosts to be in /var/lib/amanda. My understanding is it must be in ~amanda, i.e. the $HOME directory of the user named amanda. In /etc/passwd (does linux still use that?) what is listed as the home directory of user amanda? Or, if you login as amanda, or 'su - amanda', what directory are you in? I've also sorted my authority problem on sda*'s - in the xinetd service config some documentation I had stated that the group = amanda. Changing this to disk made it work - are there any experts who would like to let me know if this is correct - it works anyway - my amcheck is now clean. You ask as if there is a single answer. The point is that amanda must be able to read the disk drives. The drives are owned by root and we don't want amanda to run as root except for certain jobs. We don't want the drives accessible by the world (I hope some of the numerous security implications of that are obvious) so that leaves group permission access. In my installation (not linux, just used as an example) the disks are readable by members of group sys. Amanda's primary group is backup, but amanda is also listed in the /etc/group file as a secondary member of sys. That gives her the read access she needs. So the objective is to get the disks readable by amanda without introducing big security holes. Sounds like you've done that. Perhaps there is also a way on Linux to make the amanda user a secondary member of group disk. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: UPDATE: connection timeout
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:21:13AM -0500, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote: After pressing the hardware issue with some people with more say-so, we started evaluating the hardware on the network getting the client timeout. We never got to the client itself...we never got past the firewall. Not because of bad rules or bad routingbut because of: 5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec 5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec 896810035 packets input, 4090731415 bytes Received 13577 broadcasts, 339279460 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles 339279460 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored Yeah, that's right 330 million errors...and it's not the ethernet cable or the switch port...it's on the 4 port NIC in the firewall. That particular subnet is feeding off of a bad NIC in the 4 port. I can't say for sure that this is what caused my amanda failures yet, but I have a sneaking suspicion that after I rectify the NIC problem, my amanda problems will go away, too. You know the old saw: To a hardware person it is always software, To a software person it is always hardware, To an administrator it is always both! -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Disklist question
I have a question about the disklist format. I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump / (without /home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do that? Must I specify each directory in / as a separate DLE? Sincerely, Jason Edgecombe
Re: amflush problem
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:54:46PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote: I've been a happy amanda user for quite some time now but now I've a little problem. I backup to disk and backups occassionally stay in holding because of a shortage of disk space (I'm using 2.4.3 - want to upgrade soon to 2.4.4 to be able to use autoflush). This hasn't been a problem as I just ran amflush but now I've some dumps that I can't flush. This has happened for a while now and I get mails like this: DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KBOUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s --- -- --- arda /NO FILE TO FLUSH arda /bootNO FILE TO FLUSH bree /NO FILE TO FLUSH bree /bootNO FILE TO FLUSH dale /NO FILE TO FLUSH dale /bootNO FILE TO FLUSH I get this NO FILE TO FLUSH message for every disk in my disklist, and there are dumps for those disks in the holding disk. In the last couple of days amdump doesn't seem to complete properly. Although ps shows me no relevant processes, I have to run amcleanup - then I get the above mail. I get the message about the unprocessed logfile and when I look at the logfile I see: DISK amflush arda / DISK amflush arda /boot DISK amflush bree / DISK amflush bree /boot DISK amflush dale / DISK amflush dale /boot START amflush date 20030601 START driver date 20030601 STATS driver startup time 0.015 START taper datestamp 20030601 label TIZdaily45 tape 0 INFO taper tape TIZdaily45 kb 0 fm 0 [OK] FINISH driver date 20030601 time 1.116 This is the entire logfile, except that I have removed a number of the DISK amflush lines to shorten this mail. Can anyone suggest what's going on here, and how I might flush these outstanding dumps ? Gosh those straws are hard to grasp :) Config changes? switch holding disk location? names? fqdn's? disklist? Rebuild amanda and do an incomplete installation so part are from different version? Are they really dump files or other cruft? Was a dump aborted so they are incomplete? Are they possibly so old their dumps are not in the logs any longer? (don't know if that would matter) Do you really need them? :)) On tape? If not does amcleanup get rid of them? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Disklist question
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 at 10:42am, Jason Edgecombe wrote I have a question about the disklist format. I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump / (without /home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do that? Must I specify each directory in / as a separate DLE? It depends on your partition layout. Amanda runs tar with the --one-file-system option, so backing up / will, by default, grab only what's in the same partition with /. If home is in that partition, you'll need to exclude it, and then add a DLE for it. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
RE: DONE - Configuring RH7.2 Amanda out of the box - error access ing Amanda hosts file.
Interesting - is there any documentation out there about configuring RH7.2 from the RPM's. I deleted my amanda user - and did an rpm -e on the amanda packages. I then re-installed using the rpm -i command. The install did not create a directory /home/amanda instead it created it in /var/lib/amanda and there was a default amandahosts file there. Which I think was the cause of my original problem - amcheck couldn't open .amandahosts - I was trying to read the wrong version. I had two one in /home/amanda which had created by hand and the other one which had been created by the RPM. amcheck was actually configured to look in /var/lib/amanda - which of course was a default file - doh!! If I su amanda and then ls is see the contents of the root desktop directory and at the command line is see $bash-2.05. I have not made any changes to the /etc/passwd file. Hopefully I can resume my backups now - all this is a good learning curve though. Thanks again everyone. Kevin Passey -Original Message- From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2003 15:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DONE - Configuring RH7.2 Amanda out of the box - error access ing Amanda hosts file. On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:52:43PM +0100, Kevin Passey wrote: And I am assuming from the errors that I got it will not work because the config expects .amandahosts to be in /var/lib/amanda. My understanding is it must be in ~amanda, i.e. the $HOME directory of the user named amanda. In /etc/passwd (does linux still use that?) what is listed as the home directory of user amanda? Or, if you login as amanda, or 'su - amanda', what directory are you in? I've also sorted my authority problem on sda*'s - in the xinetd service config some documentation I had stated that the group = amanda. Changing this to disk made it work - are there any experts who would like to let me know if this is correct - it works anyway - my amcheck is now clean. You ask as if there is a single answer. The point is that amanda must be able to read the disk drives. The drives are owned by root and we don't want amanda to run as root except for certain jobs. We don't want the drives accessible by the world (I hope some of the numerous security implications of that are obvious) so that leaves group permission access. In my installation (not linux, just used as an example) the disks are readable by members of group sys. Amanda's primary group is backup, but amanda is also listed in the /etc/group file as a secondary member of sys. That gives her the read access she needs. So the objective is to get the disks readable by amanda without introducing big security holes. Sounds like you've done that. Perhaps there is also a way on Linux to make the amanda user a secondary member of group disk. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Disklist question
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:42:23AM -0400, Jason Edgecombe wrote: I have a question about the disklist format. I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump / (without /home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do that? Must I specify each directory in / as a separate DLE? Depends on your disk configuration. Gnutar, as run by amanda, will not cross from one file system to another. When it reaches a directory that is a mount point for another partition (another common term for file system) it will not enter that directory. If /home is part of the root file system you will only need the / DLE. If /home is on a different file system (disk partition) it will need a separate DLE. Note, on systems that automount home directories, it is possible that /home should not be backed up at all. Ignore the comment if your environment does not automount home dirs - Solaris is often set up this way. Note also that not every directory in / is a separate file system. for example /etc is not a separate file system. But on my desktop computer /usr is a separate file system and so is /usr/local. Each need their own DLE's. Yet my laptop, with the same OS and version is configured with only one file system, /. So /usr and /usr/local do not need separate DLE's on the laptop. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Disklist question
On Monday 02 June 2003 10:42, Jason Edgecombe wrote: I have a question about the disklist format. I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump / (without /home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do that? Must I specify each directory in / as a separate DLE? I am, but you can also specify the ./home as an exclude, then back it up in a seperate DLE. Sincerely, Jason Edgecombe -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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Few questions.
Greetings,
I just have a couple of questions that I couldn't get fully answered from the
archives.
1. If I have a 16 tape tapecycle, and a dumpcycle of 7, does this mean I
effectively have 16 days of backups? As in, I can do a restore of up to 16
days? (I'm just trying to wrap my head around this new-to-me backup method.)
2. If I disable hardware compression and use software compression, how would
that affect my tapetype definition?
define tapetype DLT8000 {
comment Quantaum (IBM) DLT-8000
length 37482 mbytes
filemark 2362 kbytes
speed 5482 kps
}
(I got that off the list.)
3. Does anyone running Debian Woody use xfsdump? I'm having trouble getting
that to work without having to recompile (not ideal) so I'm testing with tar
right now. (I get the disk not available? error when I softlink /sbin/dump
to /sbin/xfsdump.) Wouldn't native dump be the ideal method?
Thanks.
--
Brendon Colby
Systems Administrator
Midcontinent Communications
Re: Few questions.
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:13:49AM -0500, Brendon Colby wrote:
1. If I have a 16 tape tapecycle, and a dumpcycle of 7, does this mean I
effectively have 16 days of backups?
Yes.
As in, I can do a restore of up to 16
days?
Yes.
2. If I disable hardware compression and use software compression, how would
that affect my tapetype definition?
define tapetype DLT8000 {
comment Quantaum (IBM) DLT-8000
length 37482 mbytes
filemark 2362 kbytes
speed 5482 kps
}
With SW compression, length should be the native tape capacity (40GB in
the case of a DLT-8000). 37.5GB is close enough for now.
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Re: amflush problem
On Monday 02 June 2003 15:45, Jon LaBadie wrote: Can anyone suggest what's going on here, and how I might flush these outstanding dumps ? Gosh those straws are hard to grasp :) Config changes? switch holding disk location? names? fqdn's? disklist? Fair question Jon, and I know many people often don't give sufficient information. But I gave all the information I had available. I have changed nothing. Rebuild amanda and do an incomplete installation so part are from different version? I take it that's a question rather than a suggestion :-) And no, I didn't do that. This my backup box, which has been happily running 2.4.3 for some time now. Are they really dump files or other cruft? They're really dump files. Was a dump aborted so they are incomplete? No - just ran out of disk (tape) space, so the dumps stayed in holding. Are they possibly so old their dumps are not in the logs any longer? No - all quite recent. Do you really need them? :)) On tape? If not does amcleanup get rid of them? Well, I would like to have them - they're recent backups. What happens if I delete them ? Are they currently in the indices, or do they only go there when they get flushed from holding ? And anyway, this seems to be a problem now such that future held dumps will be unflushable too - I'd like to avoid that if I can. Niall
Re: Few questions.
On Monday 02 June 2003 11:13, Brendon Colby wrote:
Greetings,
I just have a couple of questions that I couldn't get fully answered
from the archives.
1. If I have a 16 tape tapecycle, and a dumpcycle of 7, does this
mean I effectively have 16 days of backups? As in, I can do a
restore of up to 16 days? (I'm just trying to wrap my head around
this new-to-me backup method.)
Not normally. Setting the dumpcycle to 7 is how you give amanda
notice as to how many days amanda has to do one full on everything in
the disklist. runspercycle is how you tell amanda how many actual
runs amanda will get in the realtime dumpcycle to do it all.
If you then had to recover, you would need only the last 'dumpcycle'
tapes. Note that I didn't say 7 though, because you might be running
a 5 day a week runspercycle, so that would be only the last 5 tapes.
However, having 16 tapes just means that in the event the most recent
is defective, then you have one more, even older backup to draw upon.
2. If I disable hardware compression and use software compression,
how would that affect my tapetype definition?
One would use the capacity the makers says it has when the compression
is turned off. Software is the prefered method, for 2 reasons.
1. gzip can normally outcompress the hardware compressors in most
drives. Night before last, the disklist and dumpcycle positioning
was such that I put something over 10 gigs on a 4 gig DDS2 tape. Of
course I don't do that every nite :)
2. amanda counts bytes sent to the tape. If the hardware compression
is on, then amanda has no clear view of the tapes capacity and will
happily write till it hits EOT if you are feeding it already
compressed files, like a whole dir full of rpm's or tar.bz2's, which
will probably grow some in the compressor. So you have to set the
tapetype to something less than the makers propaganda claims then
(optionally, I've not been able to prove its effective) sacrifice a
chicken. If its turned off, then amanda has a pretty good view of
what the tape can hold and will fill it reliably to 95+% without ever
hitting the tapes EOT.
There is an amtapetype utility in the distribution that can test that
for you. But start it early in the day, it takes a while to run.
define tapetype DLT8000 {
comment Quantaum (IBM) DLT-8000
length 37482 mbytes
filemark 2362 kbytes
speed 5482 kps
}
(I got that off the list.)
3. Does anyone running Debian Woody use xfsdump? I'm having trouble
getting that to work without having to recompile (not ideal) so I'm
testing with tar right now. (I get the disk not available? error
when I softlink /sbin/dump to /sbin/xfsdump.) Wouldn't native dump
be the ideal method?
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Gene
AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M
99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message
by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: Few questions.
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:13:49AM -0500, Brendon Colby wrote: 1. If I have a 16 tape tapecycle, and a dumpcycle of 7, does this mean I effectively have 16 days of backups? As in, I can do a restore of up to 16 days? (I'm just trying to wrap my head around this new-to-me backup method.) It means you have backups for as many days as it takes you to get through 16 tapes. If you have tapecycle 16, dumpcycle 7 days and runspercycle 5 (a common config for all the sites that only run backups M-F), then you'll have backups going back two weeks and a day to three weeks and a day. (The oldest dumpcycle will be incomplete since some of it will be incrementals from full dumps which have already been overwritten.)
Re: Few questions.
Brendon Colby wrote:
1. If I have a 16 tape tapecycle, and a dumpcycle of 7, does this mean I
effectively have 16 days of backups? As in, I can do a restore of up to 16
days? (I'm just trying to wrap my head around this new-to-me backup method.)
No, probably only 16 - 7 days = 9 days (if you have runspersycle = 7)
or 16 - 5 = 11 days (if you have runspercycle = 5).
The tapes (number=runspercyle, missing from your mail) from the last
dumpcycle days (7 in your case) contain at least one level 0 backup of
each filesystem. You can only go back to the last level 0.
Some filesystems can go back 16 days, most of them do not.
If you're very lucky, you find your file in an incremental backup before
the last level 0, but don't count on it.
2. If I disable hardware compression and use software compression, how would
that affect my tapetype definition?
define tapetype DLT8000 {
comment Quantaum (IBM) DLT-8000
length 37482 mbytes
filemark 2362 kbytes
speed 5482 kps
}
Yes. If you rely on hardware compression and do NOT use software
compression that 37 Gbyte is probably way too low; it's probably closer
to 40 GByte. If you use HW compression you have to take a wild guess
of your tapelength, depending on on much your data compresses; setting
it here to less than the native tapecapacity is meaningless (or you
shouldn't be using hardware compression at all).
The above tapetype was probably produced with hardware compression on,
and is giving wrong values -- amtapetype from amanda 2.4.4 detects this.
(I got that off the list.)
3. Does anyone running Debian Woody use xfsdump? I'm having trouble getting
that to work without having to recompile (not ideal) so I'm testing with tar
right now. (I get the disk not available? error when I softlink /sbin/dump
to /sbin/xfsdump.) Wouldn't native dump be the ideal method?
I've no experience with xfsdump. Are the permissions of /sbin/xfsdump
correct? Is /../libexec/rundump suid root and owned by root?
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strategy
Hi Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some unkonwn reason amanda ignored the strategy and complained about not being able to complete incremental backups. Today I tried to put noinc in double quotes ( ) and I ran amcheck after saving the configuration. Amanda printed the following error: /etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf, line 259: STANDARD or NOFULL expected amcheck: errors processing config file /etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf Except for the fact that amanda didn't like the quotes, why does it complain that only STANDARD and NOFULL are expected? What about the other strategy options? Paolo
Backup a RAID file system
Hi, I'm trying to backup a RAID file system but, when I try to execute amcheck Dialy1, a receive the messages: ERROR: server1.mydomain: [can not access /dev/md0 (md0): Permission denied] Does anyone could help me please ? Roberto Samarone Araujo
Re: Backup a RAID file system
Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) wrote: ERROR: server1.mydomain: [can not access /dev/md0 (md0): Permission denied] What are the permissions of /dev/md0? ls -l /dev/md0 What are the groups amanda is in? su amanda -c id (to be executed on the client with the problems, of course.) -- 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: strategy
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:43:21PM +0300, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some unkonwn reason amanda ignored the strategy and complained about not being able to complete incremental backups. Today I Doesn't that suggest it was not ignoring the strategy? Sounds like it wanted to do incrementals but complained it was not allowed to because of the strategy. Guessing here. tried to put noinc in double quotes ( ) and I ran amcheck after saving the configuration. Amanda printed the following error: /etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf, line 259: STANDARD or NOFULL expected amcheck: errors processing config file /etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf Except for the fact that amanda didn't like the quotes, why does it complain that only STANDARD and NOFULL are expected? What about the other strategy options? Left over, unchanged message from when only the two strategies were available? However, more reading would uncover in amanda.conf: # strategy- set the dump strategy. Valid strategies are currently: # ... # noinc- do level 0 dumps every time. # Unfortunately, this is not currently implemented. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Few questions.
On Monday 02 June 2003 10:40, Gene Heskett wrote: If you then had to recover, you would need only the last 'dumpcycle' tapes. Note that I didn't say 7 though, because you might be running a 5 day a week runspercycle, so that would be only the last 5 tapes. Ok. Thanks - this just clicked for me. One would use the capacity the makers says it has when the compression is turned off. Software is the prefered method, for 2 reasons. My tapes say 40* - 80* GB (* = compressed). This is a DLT 8000 drive. This means that I have a 20GB capacity uncompressed? (Just to clarify.) The 40 - 80 GB means I can get between 2 to 4 times the storage with compression on? 1. gzip can normally outcompress the hardware compressors in most drives. Night before last, the disklist and dumpcycle positioning was such that I put something over 10 gigs on a 4 gig DDS2 tape. Of course I don't do that every nite :) 2. amanda counts bytes sent to the tape. If the hardware compression is on, then amanda has no clear view of the tapes capacity and will happily write till it hits EOT if you are feeding it already compressed files, like a whole dir full of rpm's or tar.bz2's, which will probably grow some in the compressor. So you have to set the tapetype to something less than the makers propaganda claims then (optionally, I've not been able to prove its effective) sacrifice a chicken. If its turned off, then amanda has a pretty good view of what the tape can hold and will fill it reliably to 95+% without ever hitting the tapes EOT. There is an amtapetype utility in the distribution that can test that for you. But start it early in the day, it takes a while to run. I have already decided to use software compression (esp. for reason #2 above). I will have to compile the distro from the Amanda site as the Debian packages must not contain the amtapetype utility. Thanks for everyone's help. -- Brendon Colby Systems Administrator Midcontinent Communications
Re: Few questions.
For some reason I keep thinking they are 20GB tapes. Thanks for the clarification. On Monday 02 June 2003 14:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DLT 8000 drives are 40 GB native, 80 GB Compressed. We use them here. Donald L. (Don) Ritchey E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Brendon Colby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Few questions. On Monday 02 June 2003 10:40, Gene Heskett wrote: If you then had to recover, you would need only the last 'dumpcycle' tapes. Note that I didn't say 7 though, because you might be running a 5 day a week runspercycle, so that would be only the last 5 tapes. Ok. Thanks - this just clicked for me. One would use the capacity the makers says it has when the compression is turned off. Software is the prefered method, for 2 reasons. My tapes say 40* - 80* GB (* = compressed). This is a DLT 8000 drive. This means that I have a 20GB capacity uncompressed? (Just to clarify.) The 40 - 80 GB means I can get between 2 to 4 times the storage with compression on? 1. gzip can normally outcompress the hardware compressors in most drives. Night before last, the disklist and dumpcycle positioning was such that I put something over 10 gigs on a 4 gig DDS2 tape. Of course I don't do that every nite :) 2. amanda counts bytes sent to the tape. If the hardware compression is on, then amanda has no clear view of the tapes capacity and will happily write till it hits EOT if you are feeding it already compressed files, like a whole dir full of rpm's or tar.bz2's, which will probably grow some in the compressor. So you have to set the tapetype to something less than the makers propaganda claims then (optionally, I've not been able to prove its effective) sacrifice a chicken. If its turned off, then amanda has a pretty good view of what the tape can hold and will fill it reliably to 95+% without ever hitting the tapes EOT. There is an amtapetype utility in the distribution that can test that for you. But start it early in the day, it takes a while to run. I have already decided to use software compression (esp. for reason #2 above). I will have to compile the distro from the Amanda site as the Debian packages must not contain the amtapetype utility. Thanks for everyone's help. -- Brendon Colby Systems Administrator Midcontinent Communications
Re: Few questions.
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:02:36PM -0500, Brendon Colby wrote: I will have to compile the distro from the Amanda site as the Debian packages must not contain the amtapetype utility. Debian doesn't appear to include a binary named amtapetype, but there is this: $ man tapetype NAME tapetype - test a tape in a tape drive and generate an Amanda tapetype entry ... Looks like that might do the job.
Re: Few questions.
On Monday 02 June 2003 14:38, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Debian doesn't appear to include a binary named amtapetype, but there
is this:
$ man tapetype
NAME
tapetype - test a tape in a tape drive and generate an
Amanda tapetype entry
...
Looks like that might do the job.
Someone ran amtapetype and got this:
define tapetype DLT8000 {
comment Quantaum (IBM) DLT-8000
length 37482 mbytes
filemark 2362 kbytes
speed 5482 kps
}
I found it in the archives. I think I will save time and just use that unless
someone sees a problem with this definition.
--
Brendon Colby
Systems Administrator
Midcontinent Communications
RE: strategy
Hi I'm starting to look like a freaking RTFM kind of guy :( Don't know how I keep missing the obvious (1st the manpage now this grin more (idiotic) questions: Do the global dumpcycle and the one inside the backup type mean the same thing? If so do they have to have the same entry? and then what should I put in the global dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle? TIA Paolo -Original Message- From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9:42 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: strategy On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:43:21PM +0300, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some unkonwn reason amanda ignored the strategy and complained about not being able to complete incremental backups. Today I Doesn't that suggest it was not ignoring the strategy? Sounds like it wanted to do incrementals but complained it was not allowed to because of the strategy. Guessing here. tried to put noinc in double quotes ( ) and I ran amcheck after saving the configuration. Amanda printed the following error: /etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf, line 259: STANDARD or NOFULL expected amcheck: errors processing config file /etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf Except for the fact that amanda didn't like the quotes, why does it complain that only STANDARD and NOFULL are expected? What about the other strategy options? Left over, unchanged message from when only the two strategies were available? However, more reading would uncover in amanda.conf: # strategy- set the dump strategy. Valid strategies are currently: # ... # noinc- do level 0 dumps every time. # Unfortunately, this is not currently implemented. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Any way to turn off promotions?
Hi, I recently ran a monthly backup, and there was a tape error and some disks didn't get to tape. I resubmitted the dump request, and quite a few disks got promoted, and the disks I wanted to be put to tape ended up not making it again. I ended up commenting out the disks that were already to tape, but I would was wondering if there was some more automatic way to control the promotions in this case. Is there any way to turn off promotions in Amanda? Thanks in advance!! David _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
Re: Few questions.
On Monday 02 June 2003 15:38, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:02:36PM -0500, Brendon Colby wrote: I will have to compile the distro from the Amanda site as the Debian packages must not contain the amtapetype utility. Debian doesn't appear to include a binary named amtapetype, but there is this: $ man tapetype NAME tapetype - test a tape in a tape drive and generate an Amanda tapetype entry ... Looks like that might do the job. It will, but there's a new method used in amtapetype, and this is in the later snapshots. The new method speeds it up a wee bit IIRC. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: strategy
On Monday 02 June 2003 17:41, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi I'm starting to look like a freaking RTFM kind of guy :( Don't know how I keep missing the obvious (1st the manpage now this grin more (idiotic) questions: Do the global dumpcycle and the one inside the backup type mean the same thing? If so do they have to have the same entry? and then what should I put in the global dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle? global??? AFAIK, you set this stuff once, in amanda.conf, and yes its global. Thats the ONLY place its to be recorded and used that I'm aware of. -Original Message- From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9:42 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: strategy On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:43:21PM +0300, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some unkonwn reason amanda ignored the strategy and complained about not being able to complete incremental backups. Today I Doesn't that suggest it was not ignoring the strategy? Sounds like it wanted to do incrementals but complained it was not allowed to because of the strategy. Guessing here. tried to put noinc in double quotes ( ) and I ran amcheck after saving the configuration. Amanda printed the following error: /etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf, line 259: STANDARD or NOFULL expected amcheck: errors processing config file /etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf Except for the fact that amanda didn't like the quotes, why does it complain that only STANDARD and NOFULL are expected? What about the other strategy options? Left over, unchanged message from when only the two strategies were available? However, more reading would uncover in amanda.conf: # strategy- set the dump strategy. Valid strategies are currently: # ... # noinc- do level 0 dumps every time. # Unfortunately, this is not currently implemented. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
having problems connecting to clients
Hi All seems my amanda server has problems trying to connect to my amanda clients. Client and server are 2.4.4 and have the rightfull entries in the /etc/inetd.conf. I have tried to telnet to each client upon port 10080 with connection refused. All I can think of is something on the client side is not set correctly. I have done a ldd upon the amandad file to make sure it can talk to all libs. Also the amanda user is amanda while the group is backup. Hope to hear from someone soon. regards Joseph
Re: having problems connecting to clients
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:55:03AM +1000, Joseph Sirucka wrote: Hi All seems my amanda server has problems trying to connect to my amanda clients. Client and server are 2.4.4 and have the rightfull entries in the /etc/inetd.conf. I have tried to telnet to each client upon port 10080 with connection refused. A futile effort at best. Telnet is a tcp application. Check your entries in the services file. amanda on port 10080 is udp. You have no tcp applications on that port so of course a telnet is refused. Why you are having problems I have no idea. However, some actual results rather than anecdotal it doesn't work is always a good idea. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: restore from holding disk
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:05:40PM -0400, Galen Johnson wrote: Is it possible to pull a restore from the holding disk without pushing to tape first? If so, how? $ man amrestore ... DESCRIPTION Amrestore extracts backup images from the tape mounted on tapedevice or from the holding disk file holdingfile that -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: restore from holding disk
On Monday 02 June 2003 23:05, Galen Johnson wrote: Is it possible to pull a restore from the holding disk without pushing to tape first? If so, how? Treat it just as if its a file you had just extracted from the tape with dd. If its been gziped, ungzip it. Just make sure you have room someplace else that can hold the extracted filesystem. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: having problems connecting to clients
Jon yes maybe I was a bit hasty on my email, and should have thought about it more. you are correct regarding amandad running on udp rather than tcp. Here is a output of my email from the amanda user after a amdump is run. this may give a better idea of what is going on. regards Joseph These dumps were to tape daily1-001. The next 4 tapes Amanda expects to used are: daily1-002, daily1-003, daily1-004, daily1-005. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: olbs2.in.t /usr lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr offline on olbs2.in?] olbs2.in.t /home lev 0 FAILED [disk /home offline on olbs2.in?] olbs1.in.t /usr lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr offline on olbs1.in?] olbs1.in.t /export2 lev 0 FAILED [disk /export2 offline on olbs1.in?] olbs1.in.t /home lev 0 FAILED [disk /home offline on olbs1.in?] STATISTICS: Total Full Daily Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00 Run Time (hrs:min) 0:00 Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 Output Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 Original Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- Filesystems Dumped 0 0 0 Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- -- Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0 Filesystems Taped 0 0 0 Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- -- USAGE BY TAPE: Label Time Size % Nb daily1-001 0:00 0.0 0.0 0 NOTES: planner: Adding new disk olbs1.in.:/home. planner: Adding new disk olbs1.in:/export2. planner: Adding new disk olbs1.in:/usr. planner: Adding new disk olbs2.in:/home. planner: Adding new disk olbs2.in:/usr. driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner taper: tape daily1-001 kb 0 fm 0 [OK] DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -- - olbs1.in.tel /export2 0 FAILED --- olbs1.in.tel /home 0 FAILED --- olbs1.in.tel /usr 0 FAILED --- olbs2.in.tel /home 0 FAILED --- olbs2.in.tel /usr 0 FAILED --- (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4) - Original Message - From: Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:04 PM Subject: Re: having problems connecting to clients On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:55:03AM +1000, Joseph Sirucka wrote: Hi All seems my amanda server has problems trying to connect to my amanda clients. Client and server are 2.4.4 and have the rightfull entries in the /etc/inetd.conf. I have tried to telnet to each client upon port 10080 with connection refused. A futile effort at best. Telnet is a tcp application. Check your entries in the services file. amanda on port 10080 is udp. You have no tcp applications on that port so of course a telnet is refused. Why you are having problems I have no idea. However, some actual results rather than anecdotal it doesn't work is always a good idea. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: strategy
Paolo Supino wrote: more (idiotic) questions: Do the global dumpcycle and the one inside the backup type mean the same thing? If so do they have to have the same entry? and then what should I put in the global dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle? The global dumpcycle can be overruled for some specific dumptypes. So that you can have e.g. a global dumpcycle of 7 days, but a few important DLE's can specify a dumpcycle 0 (= full backups allways). Runspercycle and tapecycle can only be global. -- 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: Any way to turn off promotions?
David Trusty wrote: was wondering if there was some more automatic way to control the promotions in this case. See: amadmin ConFig force some.host /some/disk And the priority for each DLE has an influence too. -- 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: Qualstar TLS-4480 barcode reader
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:02:30AM -0400, Jason Edgecombe wrote: Hi there, I just got a new Overland Data Neo2000 LTO-2 30-tape library. I found your post on creating barcode labels for tapes. Does is matter what data the barcode contains. For example, can I create a barcode that reads DailySet1-01 through DailySet1-30 I'm not shure about the Overland drive but on our TLS-4480 it can be just about anything (up to some max length that I don't know). Just try printeing som labels put them on some tapes and try reading them using 'mtx status'. One thing that bit my (up to dumping SCSI packets and decoding them by hand) was the need for checksums in the code39 labels but it should be documented with your drive. Do you know if the Avery L7656 labels will work with LTO2 tapes? I have no clue, just use a ruler to measure the space on a tape and then look in some label catalog for something fitting. /jp -- jens persson #Good coding practice would accomplish this [EMAIL PROTECTED]# goal, but good programming practice can Mäster Olofsväg 24 # sometimes be in short supply, and mandatory S-224 66 LUND;SWEDEN # discipline makes a fair substitute. # - Todd Lewis
Re: strategy
Hi, let's clarify this a bit: the dumptype called global is a dumptype like any other in amanda.conf. if you want the entrys in this dumptype in another dumptype, you'll have to include it in this dumptype explicitly with a line containing his name in your self made dumptype. This line should be the first one in your new dumptype. If you want to override a single option of your global section the override definition has to be behind the include-line. The last occurence of an option in a dumptype gives the used value. Christoph Paul Bijnens schrieb: Paolo Supino wrote: more (idiotic) questions: Do the global dumpcycle and the one inside the backup type mean the same thing? If so do they have to have the same entry? and then what should I put in the global dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle? The global dumpcycle can be overruled for some specific dumptypes. So that you can have e.g. a global dumpcycle of 7 days, but a few important DLE's can specify a dumpcycle 0 (= full backups allways). Runspercycle and tapecycle can only be global.
rait output driver
Hi,
I am trying to test the rait output driver in amanda-2.4.4. I am trying
to get this to work, which, if I understand the rait driver, should work:
tapedev rait:{file:/backup,file:/mirror}
But I get:
$ amlabel Tapeless Tape00
rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape
rewinding, writing label Tape00, checking label
amlabel: no label found, are you sure rait:{file:/backup,file:/mirror} is
non-rewinding?
With: tapedev file:/backup I get:
$ amlabel Tapeless Tape00
rewinding, reading label Tape00
rewinding, writing label Tape00, checking label, done.
With: tapedev file:/mirror I get:
$ amlabel Tapeless Tape00
rewinding, reading label Tape00
rewinding, writing label Tape00, checking label, done.
So I am confident I have the directories set up properly. I can in fact
amdump to either one separately, but not using rait.
I have also tried:
tapedev rait:file:/backup
and
tapedev rait:file:/mirror
These work as well. It is only when used together that it fails. i.e.:
tapedev rait:{file:/backup,file:/mirror}
It is also worth mentioning that:
tapedev rait:{file:/backup}
fails with the same error:
$ amlabel Tapeless Tape00
rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape
rewinding, writing label Tape00, checking label
amlabel: no label found, are you sure rait:{file:/backup} is non-rewinding?
I must be doing something simple wrong. Can anyone make any
suggestions?
Thanks,
Dick
Problems while generating indexes
Hello everybody, after a successful backup I got the generated indexes of size 0 instead of the actual index while doing backup of native Cygwin amanda clients compiled by myself with the last cygwin package available. At the moment the regular generation of indexes works only on a Windows 2000 Professional host with, obviously, the same version of amanda, libraries, compiler options, cygwin and so on of other clients. I can't figure out why on that host the generation of indexes works and on the others not. I'll continue to make tests on other PCs to see if the operating system is the cause. In fact I've tried only with Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server after seeing it behaving ok on Windows 2000 Professional. From *nix clients the generation of indexes appears to be ok so I tend to exclude server side configuration problems. Any ideas? For who want to suggest to make a double check on the compilation and so on... to see if it is the same among all clients I'll say that I've prepared a unattended installation script that makes perfect identical installations with no human intervention so it is difficult to make mistakes launching an automated script. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Stefano Coletta http://www.mindcreations.com
tape rotation
hello everyone. i have a strange trouble with amanda. amanda config looks like this: dumpcycle 1 weeks runspercycle 2 tapecycle 11 tapes so, i run amdump every thersday and saturday (two in weeks) and now has a tapelist like this: 20030531 servers09 reuse 20030528 servers08 reuse 20030524 servers07 reuse 20030521 servers06 reuse 20030517 servers05 reuse 20030514 servers04 reuse 20030510 servers03 reuse 20030508 servers99 no-reuse 20030507 servers02 reuse 20030503 servers01 reuse 20030430 servers00 reuse total 11 tapes. but amcheck do not want to overwrite old tape and need new. but (FAQ) 11 11-1 tapes...and amanda must allow to overwrite? vlad.
Re: tape rotation
vlad f halilow wrote: tapecycle 11 tapes ... tapelist like this: 20030531 servers09 reuse 20030528 servers08 reuse 20030524 servers07 reuse 20030521 servers06 reuse 20030517 servers05 reuse 20030514 servers04 reuse 20030510 servers03 reuse 20030508 servers99 no-reuse 20030507 servers02 reuse 20030503 servers01 reuse 20030430 servers00 reuse total 11 tapes. but amcheck do not want to overwrite old tape and need new. Because there is one tape that amanda cannot reuse. You need 11 reusable tapes. -- 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: Any way to turn off promotions?
Hi David, When I have a failure, I usually do a amadmin config force system dir Wayne Hi, I recently ran a monthly backup, and there was a tape error and some disks didn't get to tape. I resubmitted the dump request, and quite a few disks got promoted, and the disks I wanted to be put to tape ended up not making it again. I ended up commenting out the disks that were already to tape, but I would was wondering if there was some more automatic way to control the promotions in this case. Is there any way to turn off promotions in Amanda? Thanks in advance!! David _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
Re: having problems connecting to clients
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 at 4:00pm, Joseph Sirucka wrote yes maybe I was a bit hasty on my email, and should have thought about it more. you are correct regarding amandad running on udp rather than tcp. Here is a output of my email from the amanda user after a amdump is run. You still haven't told us your server and client OS(es), and whether or not this setup passes amcheck. If it don't amcheck, it won't amdump. Also, look in /tmp/amanda on the client for *debug files, which are the most useful tool here. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
