Trying to figure out a rational setup
Greetings: I am setting up Amanda and am trying to get the configuration mostly right the first time. I like to understand what I'm doing, and not ask really obvious questions. To that end, I've read the chapter in the backup book, read most of the man pages, most of the files in doc/*, a bunch of entries in the Faq-O-Matic, and a couple hundred posts in the archive for this mailing list. Hopefully that gets me started, but please accept my apologies if this still seems obvious. I a couple servers and about a dozen PCs to backup. Based upon my current backup, it seems that only a few GB changes every day. I have a 20 tape DLT 80 autochanger, which should back everything up for a long time. My tape machine also has "plenty" of holding disk space (something like 3 tapes worth/120 GB). The servers have quite a bit of disk space on them, but the vast majority of it never changes (1 server has maybe 100 GB total space that needs to be backed up, but 80 GB of it is basically static). My configuration is therefore one which will waste a lot of tape if I let Amanda write a tape every night (and more importantly, it will run out of tapes and pester me in 3 weeks instead of 6 months...) According to the FAQ-O-Matic: - This can be wasteful, specially if you have a small amount of data to back up, but expensive large-capacity tapes. One possible approach is to run amdump with tapes only, say once a week, to perform full backups, and run it without tape on the other days, so that it performs incremental backups and stores them in the holding disk. Once or twice a week, you flush all backups in the holding disk to a single tape. - Inspired by what I think that is telling me, I would like to do is something like this: - Run compressed backups to the holding disk - while the holding disk has > 1 tape worth of data (40 GB), write a tape. It isn't clear to me how to set it up to get this behavior. It seems like I might be able to get it by having two configurations, but then it isn't clear of the tape tracking database features will work like I would like (i.e. if one configuration writes to the disk only, and another sometimes pushes the disk to a tape, will the database know which tape the files from the disk only configuration are on?) It almost seems like I should mess with tape changer scripts so that requests for tapes are automatically failed if there is less than 1 tapes worth of information on the holding disk. Once there is, it could give Amanda 1 tape, and things might proceed the way I want. Have I missed something obvious, or am I on the right track? I appreciate any opinions, pointers to documentation, etc. that anyone might provide... Thanks, Bret
Re: location of amandahosts
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 16:01, Eric Siegerman wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:40:16PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: > > First install of amanda... Freebsd 5.2.1, Amanda 2.4.4p2. > > I used bin and operator when compiling. > > I much prefer to create a new userid just for Amanda. If it runs > as bin, then it can write to a large part of the system (no For compatibility with pre-compiled RPMs for Linux, I like to use amanda UID 33 and disk GID 6 that just keeps everything consistent across all of the platforms that I back up. GID 6 has read but not write access to the disk devices for "dump" style backups (xfsdump, ufsdump, dump etc.) and no users are members of that group. -- Jonathan Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Max File Size
The limitation could be that the login shell is not compiled with LARGEFILE enabled--that was a bug that plagued tcsh in various distros for awhile, though I haven't seen that bug lately. In the past, I ended up getting the Mandrake SRPM for tcsh and porting it into Red Hat to fix the problem, or just using bash. I think there's a way to use "strace" or "strings" to see if LARGEFILE was enabled when the shell was compiled, but it's been so long I don't remember--maybe someone else can chime in with the answer, or you could dredge it up from the list archives. On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 17:53, Josh Welch wrote: > I am thinking that things are dying as a result of this friggin huge file, I > am able to restore just fine from a smaller backup on a different machine. I -- Jonathan Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: location of amandahosts
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:40:16PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote:
> First install of amanda... Freebsd 5.2.1, Amanda 2.4.4p2.
> I used bin and operator when compiling.
I much prefer to create a new userid just for Amanda. If it runs
as bin, then it can write to a large part of the system (no
special privileges kernel-wise, but typically a *lot* of stuff is
owned by bin). The principle of "least privilege" says that's an
unsafe idea -- if an attacker gets in, it gives them a(nother)
possible way to escalate privilege, plant trojans, etc. But if
you're determined to let Amanda run as bin...
> 1. Where does .amandahosts go for the bin user? /bin?
.amandahosts goes in the bin user's home directory, as specified
in /etc/passwd.
> I get an error "ERROR: r4p17: [access as bin not allowed
> from [EMAIL PROTECTED] open of //.amandahosts failed.
Looks like that's /.amandahosts on your box (the extra "/" has no
significance; it probably comes from the code's doing the C
equivalent of:
homedir="/" # Actually, looking it up in /etc/passwd
file="${homedir}/.amandahosts"
).
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location of amandahosts
First install of amanda... Freebsd 5.2.1, Amanda 2.4.4p2. I used bin and operator when compiling. I only will back up the server that amanda is running on. I have configured the client per the instructions. I restarted inetd. 1. Where does .amandahosts go for the bin user? /bin? 2. Is bin ok to leave nologin? using... su -m bin -c "./amcheck -m DailySet1" I get an error "ERROR: r4p17: [access as bin not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] open of //.amandahosts failed. Any tips?
Re: Connection refused
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 08:22, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> --On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 17:22:28 +0100 Tony van der Hoff
>
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have successfully installed and configured Amanda, and amcheck
>> > runs successfully, as does amdump.
>> >
>> > However, amrecover (running as root) fails, with the message
>> > "cannot connect to tony-lx.magpieway.net: connection refused"
>> >
>> > .amandahosts contains tony-lx.magpieway.net, which is the
>> > localhost, as well as the tape server, which user amanda can
>> > happily access to do the backups.
>> >
>> > Evidently this is a permissions problem with root, but can
>> > anyone point me in the right direction to fix it? Runnig
>> > Mandrake 9.1.
>>
>> Do you have amindexd and amidxtaped configured in (x)inetd on the
>> tape server? They aren't needed for backups, but are for restores.
>> 'connection refused' usually indicates a service isn't running, or
>> possibly firewall problems, .amandahosts problems generally give
>> you an 'access as foo not allowed..' message.
>
>Thanks, Frank, for the suggestion. I didn't have them configured, so
> I have done so. Have you any reference to these services in the
> documentation? I have assumed they are datagram services.
>
>Unfortunately, it has not had the desired effect :-(
>
>Cheers,
Compare your /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file with this one and see where
things differ:
---
# default = off
#
# description: Part of the Amanda server package
# This is the list of daemons & such it needs
service amanda
{
disable = no
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= amanda
group = disk
groups = yes
server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
}
service amandaidx
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= amanda
group = disk
groups = yes
server = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
}
service amidxtape
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= amanda
group = disk
groups = yes
server = /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
}
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Max File Size
I've got a redhat 8.0 box running amanda 2.4.4, backing up a redhat 7.3 box also running 2.4.4. Both boxes are using ext3 as the filesystem, and both have tar 1.13-25. I am using the file drive to perform backups to disk. The backup for the 7.3 box has become very large, approx 30GB. Now, after some time not testing that backup, I need a restore. I tried using amrecover, and things go along all right until I descend into the file system to where I wanted to restore from and then things just stop, eventually I quit out of it, I pasted the tail end of the amindexd below. I am thinking that things are dying as a result of this friggin huge file, I am able to restore just fine from a smaller backup on a different machine. I am currently trying to just get at things using tar, not having great results. Part of the probably may be the hardware I'm running on, the amanda box is an old PII 400 with IDE drives, gzip beats it up pretty hard. Anyway, to make a long story longer, is it realistic for me to be able to get a recovery from a backup file +30GB? Please CC me on any replies as I seem to have gotten unsubscribed and I'm having issues getting resubscribed. Thanks, Josh Welch Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. Systems Administrator 1600 Utica Ave S Buffalo Wild WingsMinneapolis, MN 55416 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P)952.593.9943 952.278.9557 (F)952.593.9787 amindexd: time 281.208: f /usr/adm/amanda/index/mplslx1.buffalowildwings.com/_/20040513_0 amindexd: time 281.829: < 200 "/var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening" is a valid directory amindexd: time 281.829: > OLSD /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening amindexd: time 283.164: < 200- Opaque list of /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening amindexd: time 283.164: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/ amindexd: time 283.164: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/CONSOLIDATION/ amindexd: time 283.164: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/Donation Press Release.doc amindexd: time 283.164: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/Flyer- Color- Grand Opening.doc amindexd: time 283.164: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/Fulfillment Set Up Form.doc amindexd: time 283.165: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/G O Kit/ amindexd: time 283.165: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/Grand Opening Guide 2003/ amindexd: time 283.165: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/Memo to New Franchise Stores.doc amindexd: time 283.165: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/Memo to New Stores.doc amindexd: time 283.165: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/NEW RESTAURANT SUMMARY 2004.xls amindexd: time 283.165: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/NRO Press Release.doc amindexd: time 283.165: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/NRO Process/ amindexd: time 283.165: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/NSQ/ amindexd: time 283.165: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/New Store Snapshot.xls amindexd: time 283.165: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/Store File Labels.doc amindexd: time 283.165: < 201- 2004-05-13 0 Tape01 7 /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening/VIP/ amindexd: time 283.166: < 200 Opaque list of /var/samba/marketing/USER NAME/New Store Opening amindexd: time 471.700: > QUIT amindexd: time 471.700: removing index file: /usr/adm/amanda/index/mplslx1.buffalowildwings.com/_/20040513_0 amindexd: time 471.717: ! error 104 (Connection reset by peer) in fflush
Re: amrecover / amindexd problem
Hello,
I am using the same version as you do but my amandaidx file is
different than yours. Maybe it is the reason
service amandaidx
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait = no
user = amanda
group = disk
server = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
disable = no
}
This is my file named amindex
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
i have successfully made a backup with amanda 2.4.4p2
(self-compiled). Great! But now i run into problems
recovering the data. Any hints would be greatly
appreciated... This is my file named amindex
kirk:/var/log/amanda # amrecover -C full
AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p2. Contacting server on kirk ...
amrecover: Unexpected end of file, check amindexd*debug
on server kirk
The amindex debug file:
kirk:/var/log/amanda # cat amindexd.20040506172642.debug
amindexd: debug 1 pid 17865 ruid 37 euid 37: start at
Thu May 6 17:26:42 2004
amindexd: version 2.4.4p2
and the amrecover debug file:
kirk:/var/log/amanda # cat
amrecover.20040506172642.debug
amrecover: debug 1 pid 17864 ruid 0 euid 0: start at
Thu May 6 17:26:42 2004
amrecover: stream_client_privileged: connected to
192.168.1.74.10082
amrecover: stream_client_privileged: our side is
0.0.0.0.762
service amandaidx
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= amanda
group = disk
server = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
disable = no
}
That's all. To me it seems like the amindex daemon is
making trouble, although the .amandahosts file is ok.
This is my xinetd entry for amindex:
kirk:/var/log/amanda # cat /etc/xinetd.d/amandaidx
service amandaidxservice amandaidx
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= amanda
group = disk
server = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
disable = no
}
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= amanda
server = /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd
groups = yes
server_args = amindexd
}
And here the amandahosts file:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/kai> cat ~/.amandahosts
kirk.bbaw.de amanda
kirk.bbaw.de root
kirk.bbaw.de
Any ideas?
thanks,
Kai
Re: Connection refused
Tony van der Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 17:22:28 +0100 Tony van der Hoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have successfully installed and configured Amanda, and amcheck runs > > > successfully, as does amdump. > > > > > > However, amrecover (running as root) fails, with the message "cannot > > > connect to tony-lx.magpieway.net: connection refused" > > > > > > .amandahosts contains tony-lx.magpieway.net, which is the localhost, > > > as well as the tape server, which user amanda can happily access to do > > > the backups. > > > > > > Evidently this is a permissions problem with root, but can anyone > > > point me in the right direction to fix it? Runnig Mandrake 9.1. > > > > Do you have amindexd and amidxtaped configured in (x)inetd on the tape > > server? They aren't needed for backups, but are for restores. > >'connection refused' usually indicates a service isn't running, or > > possibly firewall problems, .amandahosts problems generally give you an > > 'access as foo not allowed..' message. > > > > Thanks, Frank, for the suggestion. I didn't have them configured, so I > have done so. Have you any reference to these services in the > documentation? I have assumed they are datagram services. > > Unfortunately, it has not had the desired effect :-( > > Cheers, > An update to that, FWIW. You were correct in your diagnosis of the problem; I hadn't got them configured correctly. I found the instructions in the Using Amanda book from Storge Moutain, and this time set it up correctly :-) Thanks, once again, for your help. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire England
Getting empty schedule from planner.
amandad emails me this: NOTES: planner: Adding new disk cc501:/export/h4. driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner taper: tape cc501-002 kb 0 fm 0 [OK] amandad successfully dumps my W2K boxes. I'm having problems configuring it to dump my Unix boxes now. /tmp/amanda/amandad.somenum on the client gives me this: amandad: time 1020.909: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad: time 1020.909: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying amandad: time 1030.909: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad: time 1030.909: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying amandad: time 1040.909: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad: time 1040.909: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying amandad: time 1050.909: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad: time 1050.909: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying amandad: time 1060.909: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds amandad: time 1060.909: waiting for ack: timeout, giving up! amandad: time 1060.909: pid 20342 finish time Thu May 13 09:21:12 2004 /etc/services on the client: #Amanda amanda 10080/udp # amanda backup services amandaidx 10082/tcp amidxtape 10083/tcp /etc/inetd.conf on the client: #Amanda amanda dgram udp wait amanda /sontools/local/amanda/libexec/amandad amandad amandaidx stream tcp nowait amanda /usr/libexec/amindexd amindexd amidxtape stream tcp nowait amanda /usr/libexec/amidxtaped amidxtaped amandahosts (same result on both client and server): ypcat passwd | grep amanda amanda::87:87:amanda backup user:/var/spool/amanda:/bin/false # cat /var/spool/amanda/.amandahosts royal.inse.lucent.com amanda The server is running amanda 2.4.4 on Gentoo Linux. The hardware is a Sun Ultra 2. The client is also running amanda 2.4.4 on Solaris 6 with the hardware being a Sun Ultra 2. amcheck -c cc501 reports no problems. Thanks for any hints as to my misconfiguration.
[Fwd: BNCHMARK DLT1 tape Problem]
--- Begin Message --- Hello I have a problem with BNCHMARK DLT1 tape . May machine doesnt seem to see the tape properly. The below message is given in the booting time : "scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 Vendor: BNCHMARK Model: DLT1 Rev: 5032 st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs " This as well... "SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 st0: Block limits 2 - 16777214 bytes. scsi : 0 hosts left." and when I " mt -f dew/st0 rewind " the response is "dew/st0: No such file or directory" I would be glad if someone has an idea about this since so far i couldnt find any good clue on the internet to solve the problem. Thank you... --- End Message ---
RE: Solaris 2.8 Bianry?
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 7:26 AM > To: stan > Cc: amanda users list > Subject: Re: Solaris 2.8 Bianry? > > > stan wrote: > > > We just had a vendr upgrade several systems, and now I hve > Saprc boxes with > > Solaris 2.8 on them. A quick check of the SunFreeware site > doesn't seem to > > show an Amanda package for these machines. > > Packages from Solaris 2.6 run without problem on Solaris 7,8,9. > (But I noticed the amanda version on sunfreeware is quiet old, > 2.4.1p1. The current version is 2.4.4p2; a lot of nice features have > been added since...) I've committed to providing a community provided version of a Solaris amanda package with sunfreeware. I currently have 2.4.4p1 packages (client/server and client only). I'm close to ready to roll a 2.4.4p2 package, but we keep making so many changes in our local configs that I can't test them anyway. My package start and finish scripts (the same for both versions) also need more testing before they can be released. If a few people would like the 2.4.4p1 version(s) in the meantime and are willing to let me know whether the pre- and post-install scripts work acceptably on their systems, I would greatly appreciate it and it would help me in getting them ready for release to Sunfreeware as well. Just send me an email with the version you would like. (Currently, I only have packages compiled on Solaris 8, I plan to do native Solaris 9 and possibly 7 for Sunfreeware once I have acceptable pre- and post-install scripts.) Julie Julie L Baumler, CISSP Sr Systems Administrator Multnomah County IT 503-988-3749 x26909
Re: Connection refused
Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 17:22:28 +0100 Tony van der Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have successfully installed and configured Amanda, and amcheck runs > > successfully, as does amdump. > > > > However, amrecover (running as root) fails, with the message "cannot > > connect to tony-lx.magpieway.net: connection refused" > > > > .amandahosts contains tony-lx.magpieway.net, which is the localhost, as > > well as the tape server, which user amanda can happily access to do the > > backups. > > > > Evidently this is a permissions problem with root, but can anyone point > > me in the right direction to fix it? Runnig Mandrake 9.1. > > Do you have amindexd and amidxtaped configured in (x)inetd on the tape > server? They aren't needed for backups, but are for restores. >'connection refused' usually indicates a service isn't running, or > possibly firewall problems, .amandahosts problems generally give you an > 'access as foo not allowed..' message. > Thanks, Frank, for the suggestion. I didn't have them configured, so I have done so. Have you any reference to these services in the documentation? I have assumed they are datagram services. Unfortunately, it has not had the desired effect :-( Cheers, -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire England
Re: Tape shouldn't be active anymore, but is.
Hans van Zijst wrote: > > I don't seem to understand how to tell Amanda when to overwrite tapes. What > I try to do is make regular backups from monday till thursday (I make a > full dump every friday) and recycle those tapes after 2 weeks. So, I use 4 > tapes every week and one cycle takes 2 weeks, which means I use 8 tapes per > cycle. I configured 2 spare tapes just in case. This is the relevant part > in my amanda.conf: > > dumpcycle 2 weeks > runspercycle8 days > tapecycle 10 tapes > > But if I feed Amanda the first tape again, after two weeks, it complains > that it cannot overwrite an active tape. What do I do wrong? I think (without actually verifying things) that a tape is considered active as long as at least tapes haven't been used. Which means that you cannot give the first tape to amanda again before the last two, even if two weeks have gone by. Just put in a tapecycle of 8, and she'll be fine; you can still use those two surplus tapes whenever you feel like it, amanda will gladly accept them any time. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
Re: BNCHMARK DLT1 tape Problem
nejat onay erkose wrote: > and when I " mt -f dew/st0 rewind " > the response is "dew/st0: No such file or directory" If that was copy/paste, that is your problem. mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind is the command to try. (You seem to be on Linux, couldn't hurt to specify when/if you send your next message to the list.) Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
Tape shouldn't be active anymore, but is.
I don't seem to understand how to tell Amanda when to overwrite tapes. What I try to do is make regular backups from monday till thursday (I make a full dump every friday) and recycle those tapes after 2 weeks. So, I use 4 tapes every week and one cycle takes 2 weeks, which means I use 8 tapes per cycle. I configured 2 spare tapes just in case. This is the relevant part in my amanda.conf: dumpcycle 2 weeks runspercycle8 days tapecycle 10 tapes But if I feed Amanda the first tape again, after two weeks, it complains that it cannot overwrite an active tape. What do I do wrong? Hans __ This message has been checked for all known viruses __ De informatie verzonden met dit e-mailbericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Openbaarmaking, vermenigvuldiging, verspreiding en/of verstrekking van deze informatie aan derden is niet toegestaan. Wij aanvaarden geen aansprakelijkheid voor de juiste en volledige overbrenging van de inhoud van een verzonden e-mail bericht, noch voor tijdige ontvangst ervan. __ HTTP://WWW.Syncera.NL __
Re: BNCHMARK DLT1 tape Problem
that will be mt -f /dev/st0 rewind... note the leading / and v not w in the path name... -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 nejat onay erkose wrote: Hello I have a problem with BNCHMARK DLT1 tape . May machine doesnt seem to see the tape properly. The below message is given in the booting time : "scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 Vendor: BNCHMARK Model: DLT1 Rev: 5032 st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs " This as well... "SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 st0: Block limits 2 - 16777214 bytes. scsi : 0 hosts left." and when I " mt -f dew/st0 rewind " the response is "dew/st0: No such file or directory" I would be glad if someone has an idea about this since so far i couldnt find any good clue on the internet to solve the problem. Thank you... ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses and is believed to be clean. **
BNCHMARK DLT1 tape Problem
Hello I have a problem with BNCHMARK DLT1 tape . May machine doesnt seem to see the tape properly. The below message is given in the booting time : "scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 Vendor: BNCHMARK Model: DLT1 Rev: 5032 st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs " This as well... "SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 st0: Block limits 2 - 16777214 bytes. scsi : 0 hosts left." and when I " mt -f dew/st0 rewind " the response is "dew/st0: No such file or directory" I would be glad if someone has an idea about this since so far i couldnt find any good clue on the internet to solve the problem. Thank you...
Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?
On Tuesday, 11.05.2004 at 13:24 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Dave, when was the last time a cleaning tape was cycled thru that > drive? Happens pretty regularly ... and the drive is being prepared for a warranty repair. Now have a replacement drive in use. Thanks everyone for comments/suggstions, Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Epidemiology Unit, Oxford Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370
Re: snapshots newer than 20040423 fubar here
Gene Heskett wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda-2.4.5b1-20040510]$ amcheck DailySet1 > amcheck: error while loading shared libraries: > libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040510.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory > > Unforch, ls -l sees the library just fine:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > amanda-2.4.5b1-20040510]$ ls > -l /usr/local/lib/libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040510.so > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 392999 May 11 > 22:17 /usr/local/lib/libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040510.so Just in case, have you run `ldconfig' as root after the installation? (Assuming that you are on Linux which I seem to recall you were, and furthermore assuming that this isn't done automatically during install, which I don't know.) Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
Re: Cant estimate and other planner problems
Hi again. More than likely. You should be using amcheck to debug, not amdump. amcheck would catch this. What user and group did you compile amanda with on the client, and what does 'ls -l /dev/hda2' say? I get no errors with amcheck. The client responds correctly. I compile with user= amanda with group=backup ls -l /dev/hda2: brw-rw1 root disk 3, 2 Nov 30 2000 /dev/hda2 Pablo _ Apúntate al fenómeno de MSN Messenger. Obtén gratis la última versión aquí. http://www.msn.es/msnmessenger/
Re: shell issue?
> Amanda compiles in the location of the tar that it finds first at > configure time, so it must be finding that one. You can override that > with a command line option (to configure, I mean). ah OK - In that case then i will recompile amanda thanks
Re: shell issue?
On Mon, 17 May 2004 at 3:00pm, Tom Brown wrote > > ERROR: xx: [can not execute /opt/CPshrd-R55/util/gtar: Permission > denied] > ERROR: xx: [can not execute /opt/CPshrd-R55/util/gzip: Permission > denied] > Client check: 21 hosts checked in 0.699 seconds, 2 problems found > > Now the odd thing is that in my setups amanda runs as the operator user and > on the xx client if i su - to the operator user and then see what gtar > and gzip they use i get Amanda compiles in the location of the tar that it finds first at configure time, so it must be finding that one. You can override that with a command line option (to configure, I mean). -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Tape shouldn't be active anymore, but is.
I don't seem to understand how to tell Amanda when to overwrite tapes. What I try to do is make regular backups from monday till thursday (I make a full dump every friday) and recycle those tapes after 2 weeks. So, I use 4 tapes every week and one cycle takes 2 weeks, which means I use 8 tapes per cycle. I configured 2 spare tapes just in case. This is the relevant part in my amanda.conf: dumpcycle 2 weeks runspercycle8 days tapecycle 10 tapes But if I feed Amanda the first tape again, after two weeks, it complains that it cannot overwrite an active tape. What do I do wrong? Hans __ This message has been checked for all known viruses __ De informatie verzonden met dit e-mailbericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Openbaarmaking, vermenigvuldiging, verspreiding en/of verstrekking van deze informatie aan derden is niet toegestaan. Wij aanvaarden geen aansprakelijkheid voor de juiste en volledige overbrenging van de inhoud van een verzonden e-mail bericht, noch voor tijdige ontvangst ervan. __ HTTP://WWW.Syncera.NL __
shell issue?
Hi, 2.4.4 server 2.4.4p2 client Both on RedHat 7.3 I'm trying to get a new checkpoint firewall of mine backed up in the manner i have many times before. I have installed Amanda server and client at least 50 times now with minimal fuss. However i'm getting the following error and am wondering if anyone has seen it before. I'm usung tar to backup just a single directory disklist on the server for this host looks like # Firewall rulesset and onfiguration xx /opt/CPbackupscomp-ora-tar and running an amcheck gives me Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: xx: [can not execute /opt/CPshrd-R55/util/gtar: Permission denied] ERROR: xx: [can not execute /opt/CPshrd-R55/util/gzip: Permission denied] Client check: 21 hosts checked in 0.699 seconds, 2 problems found Now the odd thing is that in my setups amanda runs as the operator user and on the xx client if i su - to the operator user and then see what gtar and gzip they use i get $ which gtar /bin/gtar which is what i expect - so why am i getting the amanda client trying to use the tar version that is installed when checkpoint gets installed? the corresponding line in /etc/passwd has /bin/bash as their default shell thanks Tom
Re: snapshots newer than 20040423 fubar here
On Monday 17 May 2004 08:35, Alexander Jolk wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda-2.4.5b1-20040510]$ amcheck DailySet1 >> amcheck: error while loading shared libraries: >> libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040510.so: cannot open shared object file: >> No such file or directory >> >> Unforch, ls -l sees the library just fine:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> amanda-2.4.5b1-20040510]$ ls >> -l /usr/local/lib/libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040510.so >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 392999 May 11 >> 22:17 /usr/local/lib/libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040510.so > >Just in case, have you run `ldconfig' as root after the > installation? (Assuming that you are on Linux which I seem to > recall you were, and furthermore assuming that this isn't done > automatically during install, which I don't know.) > >Alex Thats a good thought Alex, and something I might try. Bear in mind its also something I've not had to do prior to this. BRB. Humm, that seems to have been the magic twanger 2.4.5b1-20040510's version of amcheck appears to be working. Unforch, I didn't rewind the tape thats loaded prior to the launch, so I'll have to run it twice to restore the correct tape for the next run. Does anyone know the diff between 2.4.5b1-20040510 and 2.4.4p2-20040510? I have the latter, but haven't unpacked it. In the back of my mind, I'm wondering if that might fix my no rewind problem as it did work successfully for several years. I *think* but cannot confirm, that the rewind problem started with my use of 2.6 kernels starting last fall. I suppose its worth a try since the build and install is so simple with my script. Back in <5 minutes... Sigh, didn't fix it. 2.4.4p2-20040510's amcheck also failed to read the first tape label, the one already in the drive and sitting at block 1 because the label has already been read once. But at least that test run will restore the right tape in the drive :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: Connection refused
"Rodrigo Pipoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, > > Specify the user that will be requesting a recover in your .amandahosts > file. In your example: > > tony-lx.magpieway.net root > > Separate the host and the user with a blank space. It works for me. :) > > Regards, > Pipoli > [snip] Thanks, Pipoli, for the suggestion. I've done that, but it doesn't fix the problem. Cheers, -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire England
snapshots newer than 20040423 fubar here
Greetings, I saw that a new snapshot was available tonight, so I built it and installed it, but I'm getting the same error I've gotten from any snapshot newer than the 2.4.5b1-20040423, which I'll revert to a few seconds. In one try at running 'amcheck DailySet1' this is returned instantly: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda-2.4.5b1-20040510]$ amcheck DailySet1 amcheck: error while loading shared libraries: libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040510.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Unforch, ls -l sees the library just fine:[EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda-2.4.5b1-20040510]$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040510.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 392999 May 11 22:17 /usr/local/lib/libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040510.so Now I'll reinstall the 0423 snapshot and rerun 'amcheck DailySet1' Bah, I forgot to use mt to rewind the tape loaded, so I'll have to run it twice to restore the right tape for tonights run. Anyway: Darn I can't get dd to quit, unkillable. Seems like a poor excuse to reboot, but... Suffice to say, tape 25 decided to become unreadable, so I replaced it and re-wrote the label with dd after editing the tape number. But I issued another dd to confirm the label and its that process that locked itself up, holding a lock on /dev/st0. That won't do at all... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
