Question on backing up between sites using an encrypted channel
Both ends are Linux boxes so I was thinking I could use CIPE and have the non-NAT end be the server with the NATted end the client. This works out nicely since the Amanda server would be the CIPE client and bring up the tunnel. I'm about to try this with a test machine but thought I'd also ask how other people are handling backups through firewalls across the net? Here's an ASCII-pic of what it looks like... -- -- ---- | amanda |---| sonicwall | +++ Internet +++ | Cisco || amanda | | server | | SOHO w/NAT | | w/ACLs || client | | CIPE | -- --| CIPE | | client | | server | -- -- The sonicwall runs a non-routable network but the cisco protects a routable network which the CIPE docs say should work. If someone tells me they have this type of situation running with SSH, SSL or stunnel if would make me very happy. Dana Bourgeois
tape changer problem
hello again. i have amanda server 2.4.4 installed on sparc solaris 8 with one hp dds3 tape drive. i got error yestarday after nightly backup that amanda cannot dump data to tape caused by following debug information: changer.debug MT - /usr/local/sbin/ammt -f DD - /usr/local/sbin/amdd Args - -info - rewind /dev/rmt/0bn - status /dev/rmt/0bn /dev/rmt/0bn status: ONLINE er == 0x fileno == 0 blkno == 0 - loaded /dev/rmt/0bn status: ONLINE er == 0x fileno == 0 blkno == 0 Exit - 99 1 tape rewinded notrmaly, but 'exit 99 1' looks like that last slot used by chg-manual in previosly backup, and slot not rotated to first again. amlabel.debug contain next strings: changer: got exit: 1 str: /usr/local/libexec/chg-manual: test: argument expected amlabel: could not load slot current: test: argument expected amlabel: pid 10575 finish time Thu Oct 2 12:58:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] in chg-manual script last available slot is 99. i may to increase this variable, and think this will be enough, but i not sure that right way. any ideas? vlad.
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Re: question on Tapetypes
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 at 12:11am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote Why would you want to run the tape with hardware compression ON ? It´s recommended to run Amanda without the hardware compression on, because Amanda can predict tape usage much better without hw compression. So think about it twice. In some cases, though, it makes sense. Sometimes one just can't spare the cycles on the clients, or compression makes the whole thing just take too long. But, yes, HW compression does involve one lying to amanda, and that lie just being a guess based on your estimates of how well your data compresses. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: amanda-patches?
Todd Kover wrote: I went to the amanda-patches page to download patches for 2.4.2p2 but the links are broken. Where can I get the patches? I'm running Red Hat 7.3 so I think I need to keep using 2.4.2p2. This has been repaired and the patches accessible again (assuming you haven't upgraded). Well, sort of. http://www.amanda.org/patches/ has the following links, but they're broken. (The patches/ should be removed, or the URLs should be made absolute.) a HREF=patches/2.4.2p2/advfs.diff a HREF=patches/2.4.2p2/stream_client.diff Thanks, John -Todd
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Re: problems dumping certain filesystems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 11:07, Marc Cuypers wrote: Eric Siegerman wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:06:48PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Marc Cuypers wrote: Found the problem. The firewall blocked communication between taper and dumper. That's strange, because there is no immediate communication between these two, as far as I know. Driver is connected with a pipe to each dumper and to taper-reader. I believe there is a dumper-taper connection, for direct-to-tape dumps. That's how I read docs/PORT.USAGE, anyway -- see the bits on stream_server() and stream_client(). But both of those processes run on the same host, so it's still hard to see how a firewall could get between them. Unless Amanda's running on the firewall machine itself -- which I'd consider an unsafe idea anyway! This is the case. Can you tell me why this is unsafe? (Nobody is allowed to connect from the outside) Penetrations do not all originate from 'outside'. Any services running on the firewall that are not essential to its proper operation increase the potential for compromise. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fHMx+ShVRkQlJBIRApWwAJ97kAaQJpoevwBgdU5TuZJHtKOGigCgwXOo fbKWhL1MG43QQV0dA/R+0Zk= =7Eax -END PGP SIGNATURE-
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Setup
Hello All: I have machines on my network which are mix of windows and unix machines. Right now, I'm managing backups (both full and incremental) through perl scripts written by me. They have been working fine for quite some time now but are due for upgrade. I was planning to rewrite those scripts to make it more effecient. Recently somebody suggested me to take a look at amanda. I looks really neat and cool to me. I have some doubts though (if it will work in my kind of setup) I will try to explain about my setup below: I have couple of linux servers and windows servers. I have indentified what shares on those servers which needs to be backed up. I will be needing one FULL backup for linux servers and another FULL for windows per week and I should also be able to run daily incremental backups for both windows and linux machines. FULL backups usually run into 15 GB and incremental close to 500 to 1 GB. Right now, I do some backups in the night and some in the mornings (data is first written to some temp space where I pick it in the mornings to write to the tape) What I have is HP Tape drive (12/24) (without autoloader facility). Is this kind of setup possible with Amanda? If yes, how do I go about setting it up? Thanks Rohit
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Re: Setup
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:07:30AM +0530, Rohit Peyyeti wrote: Hello All: I have machines on my network which are mix of windows and unix machines. Right now, I'm managing backups (both full and incremental) through perl scripts written by me. They have been working fine for quite some time now but are due for upgrade. I was planning to rewrite those scripts to make it more effecient. Recently somebody suggested me to take a look at amanda. I looks really neat and cool to me. I have some doubts though (if it will work in my kind of setup) I will try to explain about my setup below: I have couple of linux servers and windows servers. I have indentified what shares on those servers which needs to be backed up. I will be needing one FULL backup for linux servers and another FULL for windows per week and I should also be able to run daily incremental backups for both windows and linux machines. FULL backups usually run into 15 GB and incremental close to 500 to 1 GB. Right now, I do some backups in the night and some in the mornings (data is first written to some temp space where I pick it in the mornings to write to the tape) What I have is HP Tape drive (12/24) (without autoloader facility). Is this kind of setup possible with Amanda? If yes, how do I go about setting it up? General answer is yes. Couple of things however. There are several ways to backup pc shares with amanda. Perhaps the simplest, particularly if you already have it setup, is samba. However with most of the techniques the special permissions, i.e. those not on unix/linux are not retained. Also, some things can't be backed up by samba, eg. Sys Vol Info, registry, ... So we are mostly talking about user data files and possibly apps, ... Second is the scheduling algorithm of amanda. It is designed to try to level out the amount of each daily backup. You give amanda a list of host/file-systems and samba-host/pc-host/shares and you tell amanda how often you want a full backup. Note, you do not tell it when, just how often. Then during each days backup, amanda selects some entries from your list for full backups and does the others as incrementals. This lets you maintain backups of large amounts of disk data on small tapes and on no particular day do your backups run for 20 hours. You could probably handle 100-140 GB of actual disk data on your tapes with a 1 week dumpcycle. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Setup
Hi, Amanda doesn't exactly work the way you described. The most important part of amanda is the scheduler. Amanda get an estimate about how big a dump will be and figures out when to do its incremental and full backups. You do have control of many aspects of amanda but it seems to work the best if you set it up and don't touch it except for the random tweak here and there. amadmin will let you force a full backup if you need to and there are ways to trick amanda into doing a archive (everything on one pass) backup but amanda's scheduler is very efficient and will try to never waist tape space. Ex. at the moment I'm running amanda to backup 1 SCO unix, 25 linux server, and 5 windows NT/2k machines. A full backup takes 6-7 20/40 DLT tapes but daily backup use about 2/3 of a single DLT tape. this is because my daily backups do a level 0 every 2 weeks and then as many incremental the rest of the week(s). I'll regularly see levels 2-4 dumps of big file systems. It may make it a little difficult to do a full restore but can really save tape space. The other thing that sometimes confuses people is that amanda only backups file systems. if you have partitions for /, /var, /home, and /usr/local those will be the entries in you disklist file. If amanda is using tar you can exclude directories and files but you can't give amanda a directory to backup that isn't an entire file system. I have had to do a number of full restores (bare metal restores it's sometimes called) and amanda is perfect for that. I hope this helps some. chrisj Rohit Peyyeti wrote: Hello All: I have machines on my network which are mix of windows and unix machines. Right now, I'm managing backups (both full and incremental) through perl scripts written by me. They have been working fine for quite some time now but are due for upgrade. I was planning to rewrite those scripts to make it more effecient. Recently somebody suggested me to take a look at amanda. I looks really neat and cool to me. I have some doubts though (if it will work in my kind of setup) I will try to explain about my setup below: I have couple of linux servers and windows servers. I have indentified what shares on those servers which needs to be backed up. I will be needing one FULL backup for linux servers and another FULL for windows per week and I should also be able to run daily incremental backups for both windows and linux machines. FULL backups usually run into 15 GB and incremental close to 500 to 1 GB. Right now, I do some backups in the night and some in the mornings (data is first written to some temp space where I pick it in the mornings to write to the tape) What I have is HP Tape drive (12/24) (without autoloader facility). Is this kind of setup possible with Amanda? If yes, how do I go about setting it up? Thanks Rohit
Re: Setup
I have machines on my network which are mix of windows and unix machines. Right now, I'm managing backups (both full and incremental) through perl scripts written by me. They have been working fine for quite some time now but are due for upgrade. I was planning to rewrite those scripts to make it more effecient. I know the feeling, though in my case, I inherited some seriously kludgey, 'bass-ackwards' scripts written for our tape changer many -years- before I took over as network admin... ;) Recently somebody suggested me to take a look at amanda. I looks really neat and cool to me. I have some doubts though (if it will work in my kind of setup) I will try to explain about my setup below: I have couple of linux servers and windows servers. I have indentified what shares on those servers which needs to be backed up. I will be needing one FULL backup for linux servers and another FULL for windows per week and I should also be able to run daily incremental backups for both windows and linux machines. FULL backups usually run into 15 GB and incremental close to 500 to 1 GB. Right now, I do some backups in the night and some in the mornings (data is first written to some temp space where I pick it in the mornings to write to the tape) To be honest, I would recommend you also take a look at Arkeia (http://www.arkeia.com). Arkeia Light is a free version of Arkeia (and legal for corporate use), though it is limited to a configuration of one server and two 'clients' (which can be worked around with 'creative cron jobbing,' in theory... ;) ). I find Amanda to be great for backup of our desktop shares on our autoloader (where storage/tape ratio is most important), but I prefer Arkeia for the server backups (where knowing the backup schedule and status any given day is more important than how much I can shoe-horn onto each tape). One of the main advantages of Arkeia (as compared to Amanda, for the setup you describe), is the way it handles different backup 'levels' and tape pools. For example, my current configuration: Lv. 1 is an 'every 4-weeks' backup for a set of 'monthly' tapes for rotation to off-site storage, Lv. 2 is a weekly (every Fri. except for when 'monthly' tapes run) full backup, and Lv. 3 is a daily backup of files that have been modified since the last full weekly. We have 16 daily tapes (4 tapes/week (Mon. - Thurs.) * 4 weeks), 3 weekly tapes (for Fri. of the first 3 weeks in the cycle), and 13 'monthly' tapes (for the fourth week of the cycle, roughly monthly). Basically, I find Arkeia's configuration scheme to be great for setting up more 'calendar-reliant' schedules, and the GUI they provide is a good tool for configuration (and I'm a vi fan at heart ;) ). Certainly no offense intended towards Amanda fans/users/maintainers (my Sony TSL-9000 would be wasted without Amanda), but I try to call 'em as I see 'em, 'best tool for the job' and all that rot... --- Daniel Bentley - Network Administrator, QSI Corporation (www.qsicorp.com) chown -R us *base*
Re: Setup
Just a minor adjustment of Chris' comments. On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:20:19PM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: Hi, snip The other thing that sometimes confuses people is that amanda only backups file systems. if you have partitions for /, /var, /home, and /usr/local those will be the entries in you disklist file. If amanda is using tar you can exclude directories and files but you can't give amanda a directory to backup that isn't an entire file system. It is true that using the dump program that comes with your system you must specify file systems. But if you use gnutar as your backup program you can specify individual directory trees. For example, I back up my /w file system as 5 entries. Four are directory trees under /w (ex. /w/images) and the fifth is everything under /w except the other 4 dirs. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
