Can't compile Client under Solaris 7
Hi all I try to compile the amanda-client under Solaris 7 but it doesn't work. I run configure as following: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --without-server --with-debugging --with-tape-server=myserver --with-index-server=myserver when I run make I get following error message: killpgrp.c: In function `main': killpgrp.c:90: error: too many arguments to function `getpgrp' gmake[1]: *** [killpgrp.o] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/amanda-2.4.3/client-src' gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Any suggestions ? Heiko -- Dipl. Inf. Heiko Schellhorn University of BremenRoom: NWI-W3140 Inst. of Environmental Physics Phone: +49(0)421 218 4080 P.O. Box 33 04 40 Fax:+49(0)421 218 4555 D-28334 Bremen Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany www: http://www.iup.physik.uni-bremen.de http://www.sciamachy.de http://www.geoscia.de
Re: Can't compile Client under Solaris 7
Heiko Schellhorn wrote: Hi all I try to compile the amanda-client under Solaris 7 but it doesn't work. I run configure as following: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --without-server --with-debugging --with-tape-server=myserver --with-index-server=myserver when I run make I get following error message: killpgrp.c: In function `main': killpgrp.c:90: error: too many arguments to function `getpgrp' gmake[1]: *** [killpgrp.o] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/amanda-2.4.3/client-src' gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Any suggestions ? Compiled the tree on another system already, and forgot to clean up the configuration settings? $ make distclean $ ./configure ... Just an idea, of course. It can compile it here without problems. (amanda 2.4.4p1 is out 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: Can't compile Client under Solaris 7
Hi Paul > Compiled the tree on another system already, and forgot to > clean up the configuration settings? No. Untarred the ball and tried to compile. > (amanda 2.4.4p1 is out too!) I know. But all of my machines are using 2.4.3 and I don't trust complete compatibility. No experiments at this time, because at the moment I don't have the time to search for compatibility-problems too. Heiko -- Dipl. Inf. Heiko Schellhorn University of BremenRoom: NWI-W3140 Inst. of Environmental Physics Phone: +49(0)421 218 4080 P.O. Box 33 04 40 Fax:+49(0)421 218 4555 D-28334 Bremen Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany www: http://www.iup.physik.uni-bremen.de http://www.sciamachy.de http://www.geoscia.de
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I've been working with the cygwin/amanda installation and have gradually increased the etimeout/dtimeout settings all the way up to: etimeout 14400 dtimeout 14400 thinking that the 'index tee cannot write' error was coming from the server not seeing anything for awhile. However, even at this level it quits after 2.5 hours and I only have the following errors to work from. The sendbackup log at the client doesn't show anything more revealing. Is anybody successfully backing up Windows 2000 PCs with this combination? I'm not sure why the server seems to abort the connection after a period of time. I've been following recommendations from others at http://randomnotes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Amanda-Cygwin-HOWTO.html and on the mailing list. Thanks, -Matt --- FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- bw096 /c lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [bw096:/c level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/tar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/tar -f... - sendbackup: info end ? sendbackup: index tee cannot write [Connection reset by peer] ? sed: Couldn't flush stdout: Connection reset by peer ? index returned 1 ??error [/usr/bin/tar got signal 13]? dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup] ? dumper: strange [missing end line from sendbackup] \
cygwin + amanda install
Sorry for dropping the subject line earlier, this is just a re-send with a more helpful subject. I've been working with the cygwin/amanda installation and have gradually increased the etimeout/dtimeout settings all the way up to: etimeout 14400 dtimeout 14400 thinking that the 'index tee cannot write' error was coming from the server not seeing anything for awhile. However, even at this level it quits after 2.5 hours and I only have the following errors to work from. The sendbackup log at the client doesn't show anything more revealing. Is anybody successfully backing up Windows 2000 PCs with this combination? I'm not sure why the server seems to abort the connection after a period of time. I've been following recommendations from others at http://randomnotes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Amanda-Cygwin-HOWTO.html and on the mailing list. Thanks, -Matt --- FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- bw096 /c lev 0 STRANGE sendbackup: start [bw096:/c level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/tar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/tar -f... - sendbackup: info end ? sendbackup: index tee cannot write [Connection reset by peer] ? sed: Couldn't flush stdout: Connection reset by peer ? index returned 1 ??error [/usr/bin/tar got signal 13]? dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup] ? dumper: strange [missing end line from sendbackup] \
amrecover
hi I get the following errors while trying to do amrecover. When I do 'sethost host', It says no index records for the host. I have enabled amanda,amandaidx,amidxtape. I have also added the host name in .amandahosts. I am not sure why this error is occuring. I would appreciate if anyone could help me out here Regards Yogish
Re: amrecover
Hello Yogi It should be sethost localhost Yogish wrote: hi I get the following errors while trying to do amrecover. When I do 'sethost host', It says no index records for the host. I have enabled amanda,amandaidx,amidxtape. I have also added the host name in .amandahosts. I am not sure why this error is occuring. I would appreciate if anyone could help me out here Regards Yogish
Re: amrecover
Yogish wrote: I get the following errors while trying to do amrecover. When I do 'sethost host', It says no index records for the host. I have enabled Did you really type "sethost host"? Probably not. The exact command and error message helps a lot, instead of generalising what you believe is irrelevant. (e.g. did you give the fqdn or not? Is amanda compiled with --with-fqdn?) Then, are the indexes enabled. They are not by default. If your disklist looks like: the.host /the/disk comp-user Try this command to find out: amadmin YourConfig disklist the.host /the/disk and see if "index" is "YES" or no. If it is, then we need more info, like the contents of the debug-files in /tmp/amanda/* . -- 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 * ***
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amrecover problem
Hi The exact commands that I ran were 'amrecover -C normal -s borkerserver' 501, no index records for the host brokerserver, Invalid? amrecover> sethost localhost no index records for host :localhost Invalid? Samething for brokerserver also. I have attached my amanda.conf and disklist. Please let me know if there is any problem. I have addes both localhost and brokerserver in.amandahosts and I have enabled amanda,amandaidx and amidxtape in /etc/xinetd.d. I dont know how to enable the index of the records Regards Yogish --Yogish.G.KAmerican Healthcare Solutions Inc405, South LincolnSteamboat Springs CO-80487Ph-970-870-6232 ( EXT 106) (office)Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda.conf Description: Binary data disklist Description: Binary data
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Re: amdump hangs forever when dump should be starting
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:06:43PM -0400, Scott Mcdermott wrote: > I'm setting up Amanda on a machine with directly attached > When I run the dump though, it calculates what it needs to > do, gets to the "driver: hdisk-state time xxx" line, and > then just hangs for everdoing nothing. > [...] > $ cat normal/disklist | grep -v ^\# > > localhost /export/local tardump Well, Gene's usually the one to jump all over this, but he didn't this time, so I guess I will :-) Don't use "localhost"; use the machine's real domain name instead. Actually I doubt that the one in disklist is the problem, since the estimates were collected ok. However: > [...] > planner:CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure' '--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' > '--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' > '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' > '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' > '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' > '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' > '--enable-shared' '--with-index-server=localhost' > '--with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists' > '--with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient' '--with-amandahosts' '--with-user=amanda' > '--with-group=disk' '--with-gnutar=/bin/tar'" > planner: defs: DEFAULT_SERVER="localhost" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1" > planner:DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="localhost" One of those configure-time localhost's might be screwing things up... -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front of me was all of humanity, except me. - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot
Re: Tapetyep question
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:57:48AM -0500, Josh Welch wrote: > Backups aren't happening as quickly as I had hoped, and I am looking > at ways to improve matters. According to the amanda man page, the speed > parameter is not even used by amanda currently, I have no clue about the tapetype's speed thing, but there are plenty of reasons for Amanda to be slow. It'd help if you posted the email report from a typical run. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front of me was all of humanity, except me. - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot
More sanity Checks
Two quick sanity checks, please First: when building the files for my server machine, should I be able to just zip the files in the "main" directory, and send them over to my client? (ie, if same architechture, can I avoid building on clients? Second: debug level X:Y(associated with chg-SCSI.conf changer script I believe. There's a quick 1 line reference to this in the TAPE.CHANGERS file in the DOCS directory. However, can someone further explain what the X/Y mean? I am presuming (from the fact that I set it to 9:9), and seem to have gotten 9 separate chg-scsi.date.debug files for each run of amanda that the Y tells it how many separate debug files to create, and am guessing that the X is setting the debug level. BTW, if this is so, the 9 chg-scsi.date.debug files ARE NOT identical! Thaks again Mitch B
Re: amdump hangs forever when dump should be starting
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 13:03, Eric Siegerman wrote: >On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:06:43PM -0400, Scott Mcdermott wrote: >> I'm setting up Amanda on a machine with directly attached >> When I run the dump though, it calculates what it needs to >> do, gets to the "driver: hdisk-state time xxx" line, and >> then just hangs for everdoing nothing. >> [...] >> $ cat normal/disklist | grep -v ^\# >> >> localhost /export/local tardump > >Well, Gene's usually the one to jump all over this, but he didn't >this time, so I guess I will :-) Be my guest, I was taking a break trying to get a 2.6.0 kernel to boot, 100% failure rate so far. >Don't use "localhost"; use the machine's real domain name >instead. > >Actually I doubt that the one in disklist is the problem, since > >the estimates were collected ok. However: >> [...] >> planner:CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure' >> '--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu' >> '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' >> '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' >> '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' >> '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' >> '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' >> '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' >> '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--enable-shared' >> '--with-index-server=localhost' >> '--with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists' >> '--with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient' '--with-amandahosts' >> '--with-user=amanda' '--with-group=disk' '--with-gnutar=/bin/tar'" >> planner: defs: DEFAULT_SERVER="localhost" >> DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1" planner: >> DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="localhost" > >One of those configure-time localhost's might be screwing things >up... Virtually guaranteed. Amanda is network aware, and localhost could be any machine, the original poster should please use the FQDN and rebuild his install. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% 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.
newbie question
Just got amanda configured on a raidzone
but I don't think the changer file is correct
as it will not load tapes from the 29 storage
elements.
Do I have to label every tape before it will
move them form storage?
I am using linux REDHAT 7.1 on a raidzone.
The tape jukebox I am using is a Adaptec 29 tape
carousel with two DLT Quantum Tape drives.
Here is the output:
bash-2.04$amtape / current
amtape: scanning current slot in tape-changer rack
slot 0: date 20030729 label DailySet-02
bash-2.04$ amtape / device<--how do I show the next tape
drive nst1?
/dev/nst0
bash-2.04$ amcheck /
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /home/amanda/tmp: 1182210776 KB disk space available,
that's plenty
amcheck-server: slot 0: date 20030729 label DailySet-02 (active tape)
amcheck-server: fatal slot 1: slot 1 move failed <why
will it not move the tape?
ERROR: new tape not found in rack
(expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo: does not exist
NOTE: it will be created on the next run
NOTE: index dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/index/localhost: does not exist
Server check took 46.527 seconds
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
WARNING: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
Client check: 1 host checked in 30.006 seconds, 1 problem found
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2)
amlabel output - I only have two drives 0 and 2!!!
bash-2.04$ amlabel / DailySet-02 slot 3
amlabel: label DailySet-02 already on a tape
bash-2.04$ amlabel / DailySet-02 slot 4
amlabel: label DailySet-02 already on a tape
bash-2.04$ amlabel / DailySet-02 slot 30
amlabel: label DailySet-02 already on a tape
bash-2.04$ amlabel / DailySet-02 slot 99
amlabel: label DailySet-02 already on a tape
I am using a generic TAPE DEVICE in amanda.conf:
define tapetype Quantum-DLT {
comment "Generic values"
length 4 mbytes
filemark 8 kbytes
speed 4000 kbytes
runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single r
tpchanger "chg-scsi"# the tape-changer glue script
tapedev "0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
changerfile "/etc/amanda/chg-scsi-linux.conf"
bash-2.04$ cat chg-scsi-linux.conf
number_configs 1
eject 1 # Tapedrives need an eject command
sleep 90 # Seconds to wait until the tape gets ready
cleanmax100 # How many times could a cleaning tape get used
changerdev /dev/sg2
#
# Next comes the data for drive 0
#
config 0
drivenum0
dev /dev/nst0 #/dev/nst0
scsitapedev /dev/sg2
startuse1 # The slots associated with the drive 0
enduse 29 #
statfile/etc/amanda/DailySet1/tape0-slot # The file where the
actual
slot is stored
#cleancart 5 # the slot where the cleaningcartridge for drive 0
is
located
cleanfile /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tape0-clean # The file where the
cleanin
gs are recorded
usagecount /etc/amanda/DailySet1/totaltime
tapestatus /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapestatus # here will some status
infos
be stored
#labelfile /etc/amanda/DailySet1/labelfile # Use this if you have an
barc
ode reader
Does anyone use the 29 tape Adeptec jukebox? Perhaps find the
correct changer.conf file I'll be ok??
Thanks!
Backup to disk on another machine
I understand that to use Amanda to backup to a disk, I need to set the tapedev entry in amanda.conf to a value like tapedev "file:/some/directory/somewhere" My question is: how do I do this if the disk is on another computer? Assume for example, if I have a computer named "earth" with a 100gb data disk that holds the /home directory (that's the only directory on that filesystem), and another computer named "moon" that has 300gb of diskspace to use as backup space (both computers are running RH Linux w/ Samba installed). Does "earth" nfs mount the large disk on "moon" and simply write to it? I assume that this will run on earth as root so that it can have permissions to get to all the files, right? -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Computer Systems Manager ph: 979-845-7801 Department of Physics fax: 979-845-2590 Texas A&M University
Re: strange "disk offline" error
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:57:31AM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote: > Looking more closely in /tmp/amanda/sendsize...debug, I see > something strange: > [...] > sendsize[7578]: time 0.137: Usage: dump [-?CDVcgl -L[v] -a[v] -f[v] > -h[dnv] -o[v] -r[dnv] -s[dnv] -t[nv] -T index1[, index2]] file(s) On Solaris 7: % dump Usage: dump [-agcd:fhln:oprstvCDLT:V?] file(s) ... % which dump /usr/ccs/bin/dump % ufsdump Usage: ufsdump [0123456789fustdWwnDCcbavloS [argument]] filesystem "dump" is for displaying ELF files in human-readable format. The backup program we all know and love is called "ufsdump". SCO might be similar. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front of me was all of humanity, except me. - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot
Database Backup
Can I backup a life Postgresql Database with Amanda? -- Axel Haenssen Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-1003 phone: +1(609)258-6999 Find my Public Key here: http://www.princeton.edu/~axel
Contribution?
I have a contribution to make. I've taken most of the help files, man files, and everything I can think of , and put it into a WORD document, with an Table of Content (Am working on a index/concordance file for it too!). it's about 110 pages, and has been extremely helpful in trying to get myself up and running. Who should I send it to? It' about 136K, so I won't post it to list. What I'd ideally like is to have the document available on the web page, so that "newbies" (like myself) can get more information than is currently available from the faq-o-matic! Mitch Bruntel
Re: strange "disk offline" error
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:37:43PM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> sendsize[505]: time 0.054: error [cannot find user backup in passwd file]
This message is a bit misleading. It really means:
`getpwnam("backup") was unsuccessful'. Perhaps getpwnam()
searched /etc/passwd, but perhaps it tried to use NIS or some
SCOish mechanism. So there might be other things to look at
beyond /etc/passwd and its symlink target.
--
| | /\
|-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| | /
When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would
be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view
of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front of me was
all of humanity, except me.
- Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot
Re: Backup to disk on another machine
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:38:06PM -0500, Chris Barnes wrote: > Assume for example, if I have a computer named "earth" with a 100gb data > disk that holds the /home directory (that's the only directory on that > filesystem), and another computer named "moon" that has 300gb of > diskspace to use as backup space (both computers are running RH Linux w/ > Samba installed). > > Does "earth" nfs mount the large disk on "moon" and simply write to it? If you do that with vanilla NFS, I suspect the backup will crawl! I'd simply make "moon" the Amanda server, and "earth" a client. That way, the tapedev "file:/some/directory/somewhere" will be referring to a local file, and your question will no longer apply. > I assume that this will run on earth as root so that it can have > permissions to get to all the files, right? The Amanda *client* will, yes. But it's the server that cares about tapedev. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front of me was all of humanity, except me. - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot
backup to tape and remote disk
I'm currently using amanda to backup about 20 machines to tape. I'd like to do a remote storage at the same time, having amanda also write to a remote raid disk. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
Re: Database Backup
Axel, I'm so sorry, this is pretty much a database question and as such out of my area of expertise. There is no way to shutdown the application for the duration ? That is what I've forced my Oracle dba to do. -- Start of PGP signed section. > Hi Brian, > I have amanda running on two fileservers already. The box in question > now is RedHat Linux 9.0 running a Postgresqul database. The Tapedrive is > a DDS4 manual. > I am asking this question because I know of no way to export the > database into a flat file before backup, or mirroring or freezing the > database during backup. > I was wondering if somebody did that before. > cheers > Axel > > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 14:37, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > Axel, > > > > Amanda is a scheduler, optionally compressing data but uses > > OS native backup services, either the native form of dump > > (ufsdump, xfsdump...) or most often some brand of "tar", what > > OS are you running, what tools are available for backup and > > what do Postgresql knowledgable people say about tools for > > backing up the database ? > > > > > Can I backup a life Postgresql Database with Amanda? > > > > > -- > Axel Haenssen > Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology > Princeton University > Princeton, NJ 08544-1003 > phone: +1(609)258-6999 > Find my Public Key here: > http://www.princeton.edu/~axel -- End of PGP section, PGP failed!
Adjustment?!Was: More sanity Checks
OK. So I am totally bogus (to quote my teenager). I said: -->quick sanity check, please First: when building the files for my server machine, should I be able to just zip the files in the "main" directory, and send them over to my client? (ie, if same architechture, can I avoid building on clients? and I answer: NO Stupid! what would you execute? Perhaps if you copy the /usr/local/sbin/am* commands too, it MIGHT work, but otherwise what would run? OY!
Re: Database Backup
Axel - Look in the Postgresql source area and/or perhaps your distribution for this: files/502.pgsql It is a shell script that does a live dump of your database to files which can then be backed up. Backing up Postgresql directly will be of no use as you already know. Just fire it off a few minutes right before Amanda is set to start -- though you should figure out how long it takes to run and gauge it from there. I'm surprised the Amanda site doesn't have an FAQ on this since this seems to come up fairly often (I just checked but didn't find it). -doug On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:54 am, Brian Cuttler wrote: > Axel, > > I'm so sorry, this is pretty much a database question and as such > out of my area of expertise. > > There is no way to shutdown the application for the duration ? > That is what I've forced my Oracle dba to do. > > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > > Hi Brian, > > I have amanda running on two fileservers already. The box in question > > now is RedHat Linux 9.0 running a Postgresqul database. The Tapedrive is > > a DDS4 manual. > > I am asking this question because I know of no way to export the > > database into a flat file before backup, or mirroring or freezing the > > database during backup. > > I was wondering if somebody did that before. > > cheers > > Axel > > > > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 14:37, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > > Axel, > > > > > > Amanda is a scheduler, optionally compressing data but uses > > > OS native backup services, either the native form of dump > > > (ufsdump, xfsdump...) or most often some brand of "tar", what > > > OS are you running, what tools are available for backup and > > > what do Postgresql knowledgable people say about tools for > > > backing up the database ? > > > > > > > Can I backup a life Postgresql Database with Amanda? > > > > -- > > Axel Haenssen > > Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology > > Princeton University > > Princeton, NJ 08544-1003 > > phone: +1(609)258-6999 > > Find my Public Key here: > > http://www.princeton.edu/~axel > > -- End of PGP section, PGP failed!
Re: Adjustment?!Was: More sanity Checks
What I do in cases similar to yours is do the configure; make; make install on my "master" machine then tar up the source directory, sftp it over to the "new" machine and just do the make install part. Much quicker, and you don't have to have the compiler on every machine. Bruntel, Mitchell L, SOLCM wrote: > OK. So I am totally bogus (to quote my teenager). > > > I said: -->quick sanity check, please > > First: when building the files for my server machine, should I be > able to just zip the files in the "main" directory, and send them > over to my client? (ie, if same architechture, can I avoid building > on clients? > > and I answer: NO Stupid! what would you execute? Perhaps if you copy > the /usr/local/sbin/am* commands too, it MIGHT work, but otherwise > what would run? > > OY! > -- Mike Taylor. GSEC/GCFW 'Non Impediti Ratione Cogitationis' Coordinator of Systems Administration and Network Security Indiana State University. Rankin Hall Rm 052 210 N 7th St. Terre Haute, IN. Voice: 812-237-8843
Re: Backup to disk on another machine
[E-mailed and Cc'ed] On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:38:06PM -0500, Chris Barnes wrote: > My question is: how do I do this if the disk is on another computer? > > Does "earth" nfs mount the large disk on "moon" and simply write to it? Yes. Obviously, if you are already saturating earth's network with backup traffic, the additional taper traffic won't be welcome. > I assume that this will run on earth as root so that it can have > permissions to get to all the files, right? No. It should be the same user that runs amdump/amandad/etc. and owns your holdingdisk subdirectories. By default, "amanda". No root export necessary. -- Jay Lessert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Accelerant Networks Inc. (voice)1.503.439.3461 Beaverton OR, USA(fax)1.503.466.9472
Re: Database Backup
Hi, for dumping postgres-databases to flat files postgres has two utilities: pg_dump for a single database and pg_dumpall for all databases on a single server. these commands produce a flat text file containing sql-querrys to recreate the complete database(s). Doing the dump of the life DBMS isn't a good idea. You don't catch all the changes and informations that postgres keeps in it's internal buffer's at runtime. Christoph Brian Cuttler wrote: Axel, I'm so sorry, this is pretty much a database question and as such out of my area of expertise. There is no way to shutdown the application for the duration ? That is what I've forced my Oracle dba to do. -- Start of PGP signed section. Hi Brian, I have amanda running on two fileservers already. The box in question now is RedHat Linux 9.0 running a Postgresqul database. The Tapedrive is a DDS4 manual. I am asking this question because I know of no way to export the database into a flat file before backup, or mirroring or freezing the database during backup. I was wondering if somebody did that before. cheers Axel On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 14:37, Brian Cuttler wrote: Axel, Amanda is a scheduler, optionally compressing data but uses OS native backup services, either the native form of dump (ufsdump, xfsdump...) or most often some brand of "tar", what OS are you running, what tools are available for backup and what do Postgresql knowledgable people say about tools for backing up the database ? Can I backup a life Postgresql Database with Amanda? -- Axel Haenssen Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-1003 phone: +1(609)258-6999 Find my Public Key here: http://www.princeton.edu/~axel -- End of PGP section, PGP failed!
Re: Database Backup
Axel, I needed to do the same thing a while ago with a postgresql db. I simply used a script which called pg_dumpall I'm doing a rotation so even if amanda dumps the file before it finnishes I'll at least have the one from the day before. The script is then called from cron at about the time my estimates are finnished. if you'd like to see the script let me know good luck, chrisj Axel Haenssen wrote: Can I backup a life Postgresql Database with Amanda?
Re: Setting up chg-scsi
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:57:24PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> The *real* tapedev(ice) is specified in chg-scsi.conf, here in
> amanda.conf, the proper useage is a number from 0 to whatever, that
> represents the index number of the configurations present in
> chg-scsi.conf. It can contain more than one set of specs, and you
> must specify here, which it is to use from the (possible) choices in
> chg-scsi.conf.
> As I only have one config spelled out in chg-scsi.conf, it is tapedev
> "0" in my amanda.conf.
Thank you very much for the assistance. I went ahead and modified my
amanda.conf as per your suggestions.
> chg-scsi.conf should start out resembling this:
Thanks again, I also modified my scsi-conf file to more closely model
yours. I no longer experience amanda commands / scsi-conf bombing out
on errors, on the contrary, it will now hang when I run typical amanda
commands. For example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/etc/amanda/daily$ amcheck daily
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /ambackup/daily: 109239520 KB disk space available, that's
plenty
Then wait, wait, wait, nada. Process is still running, although idle.
The debug logfile yields:
amcheck: debug 1 pid 83814 ruid 10080 euid 0 start time Tue Jul 29
16:40:52 2003
amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.874
changer: got exit: 0 str: 5 15 1 0
changer_query: changer return was 15 1 0
changer_query: searchable = 0
changer_find: looking for NULL changer is searchable = 0
Attached are the updated config files. Thanks again in advance, my
excitement at switching from an old manually changed DLT7000 to this new
SDLT changer is starting to fade to frustration...
--
Joshua D. Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems Administrator
Nextrials, Inc. +1-925-415-8957
#$Id: amanda.conf,v 1.10 2003/07/25 17:49:53 josh Exp $
org "nextrials" # your organization name for reports
mailto "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" # space separated list of operators at your site
dumpuser "ambackup" # the user to run dumps under
inparallel 4# maximum dumpers that will run in parallel (max 63)
# this maximum can be increased at compile-time,
# modifying MAX_DUMPERS in server-src/driverio.h
dumporder "sssS"# specify the priority order of each dumper
# s -> smallest size
# S -> biggest size
# t -> smallest time
# T -> biggest time
# b -> smallest bandwitdh
# B -> biggest bandwitdh
# try "BTBTBTBTBTBT" if you are not holding
# disk constrained
netusage 60 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec
dumpcycle 7 days# the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 7 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
# (6 weeks * 7 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays)
tapecycle 45 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
# 6 weeks (dumpcycle) times 7 tapes per week
# plus a few to handle errors that
# need amflush and so we do not overwrite the full
# backups performed at the beginning of the previous
# cycle
bumpsize 500 Mb # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 -> 2
bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level
bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * bumpmult^(level-1)
etimeout 300# number of seconds per filesystem for estimates.
#etimeout -600 # total number of seconds for estimates.
dtimeout 1800 # number of idle seconds before a dump is aborted.
ctimeout 30 # maximum number of seconds that amcheck waits
# for each client host
tapebufs 20
runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump
tpchanger "chg-scsi"# the tape-changer glue script
tapedev "0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
#rawtapedev "/dev/nrsa0"# the raw device to be used (ftape only)
changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/daily/chg-scsi.conf"
#changerdev "/dev/ch0"
tapetype SDLT320 # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below)
labelstr "^DAILY[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all tapes must match
holdingdisk hd1 {
comment "main holding disk"
directory "/ambackup/daily" # where the holding disk is
use 100Gb # how much space can we use on it
# a non-positive value means:
#use all space but that value
chunksize 5Gb # size of chunk if you want big dump to be
# dumped on multiple files on holding disks
# N Kb/Mb/Gb split images in chunks of size N
# The maximum value s
Re: cygwin + amanda install
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:04:02AM -0400, Matthew Moffitt wrote: > > Is anybody successfully backing up Windows 2000 PCs with this combination? > I'm not now, but I certainly was for about a year. I had to reinstall W2K from scratch and I haven't put cygwin back yet. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: newbie question
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:35:50PM -0400, Dalton, John L MONMOUTH ITS Multimax wrote: > > Just got amanda configured on a raidzone > but I don't think the changer file is correct > as it will not load tapes from the 29 storage > elements. > > Do I have to label every tape before it will > move them form storage? yes -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: amrecover problem
hi, when you type amrercover -s borkerserver... it means that borkerserver is where the index information are. I saw in your amanda.conf that your index file are stored in infofile "/var/lib/amanda/normal/curinfo" # database filename logdir "/var/lib/amanda/normal" # log directory indexdir "/var/lib/amanda/normal/index" # index directory so in borkerserver:/var/lib/amanda/normal/index you should find the index information base... is that the case? if not!.. the server is usually where you run amanda. then type amrecover -s hope it will help briner > Hi > The exact commands that I ran were > 'amrecover -C normal -s borkerserver' > 501, no index records for the host brokerserver, Invalid? > amrecover> sethost localhost > no index records for host :localhost Invalid? > Samething for brokerserver also. > I have attached my amanda.conf and disklist. Please let me know if there is any > problem. > I have addes both localhost and brokerserver in.amandahosts and I have enabled > amanda,amandaidx and amidxtape in /etc/xinetd.d. I dont know how to enable the index > of the records > Regards > Yogish > -- > Yogish.G.K > American Healthcare Solutions Inc > 405, South Lincoln > Steamboat Springs CO-80487 > Ph-970-870-6232 ( EXT 106) (office) > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
