Re: change tapelist order
--On Monday, May 16, 2005 13:45:47 +1000 Keenan, Greg John (Greg)** CTR ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Are there any problems associated with changing the order of the tapes in tapelist? Only if it causes a tape you need to save to be overwritten ;-) I have just taken over this backup environment and one of the backup configs have several tapes out of order i.e. they are not sequential which some backup operators are finding confusing. If you just feed it the tapes amcheck asks for, which are also mentioned in the previous daily report (the second line: The next [x] tape[s] Amanda expects to used [is|areare]: [xxxnn, ...]) and don't worry about the numbers, then everything is fine. However, out of order tapescan cause problems if they are loaded in magazines or need to be rotated offsite, since people have a tendency to keep 'helping' by putting them back in order. All tapes in the set have a status of reuse. All tapes will have a status of reuse, even the one that was just written to, unless you have told amanda specifically not to reuse one with amadmin config no-reuse tapelabel. The tapes out of order are several months old and are scheduled to be reused in the next few weeks. If they were last written more than tapecycle tapes ago (which implies you have more than tapecycle tapes labeled) then you should be able to rearrange them without causing problems. One way, which doesn't require any editing of the tapelist, is to just amadmin no-reuse the out of order tapes, and then amadmin reuse each one on the day you want it to be reused again. Be aware that you must have at least tapecycle tapes marked reuse in your tapelist or amanda will ask for a new tape. So if your current order is 1 2 4 3 5, no-reuse 4 until after three is written to, and then reuse it. Since it will then be the oldest tape it will be used next. If you have several tapes out of order, you need to reverse the order of tapes that will be used on the same run, or just don't think you'll remember to mark them as reuse on the correct day, AND you're sure that the order you're rearranging them to won't cause them to be overwritten before the data on them has 'expired', just edit the tapelist. The tape most recently written is at the top, and the one to be used next is at the bottom. I'm not sure if just the position is used, the date, or both, so when I've edited it adjust the dates as well as the position (you can have duplicate dates). If I can change tapelist I assume I need to change tapelist.yesterday also? I don't think you need to, it's just a backup copy of the tapelist made before it updates it. Perhaps it is copied back in case something fails. Frank Thanks for your help. Regards, Greg. -- Frank Smith[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
amrecover Error 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed
Hi I have checked my FQDN entries in /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts I have the correct entries in my /etc/hosts file. I have the three services in my /etc/xinet.d file amanda , amandaidx and amidxtape and I am running amrevoce as root Any ideas as I am not running it as amanda. server:/local/sw/amanda/bckup # /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amrecover -C DailySet1 -t server -s server AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p4. Contacting server on server ... 220 server AMANDA index server (2.4.4p4) ready. 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830
Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle
Frank Smith wrote: A third, and probably larger issue is recovery. If your disklist becomes dynamic, how do you recover something from a DLE that is no longer in your disklist? I know it's possible with some manual editing, but is it practical to try and remember what a DLE was or search through your old reports to find out? Actually, this slight inconvenience has been nagging me for a while, too, and it is in fact independent from your disklist being dynamic. Whenever you delete some DLE from your disklist, you can't easily `amrecover' from it. Heck, you can't even ask `amadmin conf find' for it so that you can restore the files yourself. As I'm sure everybody here does, I just `cvs update' my disklist to an earlier date in that case, amrecover, and then update back to the latest version, but this is a bit more work. Anybody have an idea of how one could possibly circumvent this problem? Fortunately, we know exactly at what time an old DLE can completely be forgotten about (when its last index has been killed). Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I don't want to sound lazy, but isn't this solved pretty easily by some kind of shell-script that you run regularly? If this script finds some new directory inside that given dle-root-directory it appends a new DLE to your disklist. I have a perl script that does something like this. It is quite simple because I read all my disks over NFS, and I already run a local `du -xks' on all my servers once a week. If anybody is interested in this script, mail me in private. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
Re: amrecover Error 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed
On Mon, 16 May 2005 at 10:38am, Chuck Amadi wrote server:/local/sw/amanda/bckup # /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amrecover -C DailySet1 -t server -s server AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p4. Contacting server on server ... 220 server AMANDA index server (2.4.4p4) ready. 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed You need the line: server.domain.co.uk root in ~amanda/.amandahosts. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: newbie questions about setting up amanda
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I don't know right now if there are differences between includes and excludes when it comes to permissions, if there are, we should think about how to handle them and if we should remove them. It would seem to me that includes are processed by amanda before running GNUTAR, dependent on what files she sees in your DLE; excludes on the other hand are simply passed on to GNUTAR. Which means indeed, that for includes to work, amanda needs read access to the directory, whereas for excludes, runtar's being SUID root is sufficient. Since amanda is not supposed to be SUID root, I think that for the time being, a note in the docs is all that we can do. (The relevant code seems to be in client-src/client_util.c, functions build_include() and add_include().) Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
Re: Amanda exclusion: is amanda (gnutar) able to differentiate between direcoty and file names ?
2005/5/15, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It sounds as if you believe an exclude pattern of ./foo will exclude any file and/or directory containing the string 'foo'. Not so, ./foo will only match, and only exclude one item. It may be a file called 'foo' under the mount point or it may be a directory in the same location. If 'foo' is a file, that is all that is excluded. If 'foo' is a directory, then the directory and everything under it is excluded. No other directories or files are affected. Ah ! The doc says: - Exclude any file or directory that ends in .log e.g. ppp.log, XFree86.0.log ./*.log Exclude any file or directory with the string log e.g. logfile, maillog, syslog, ppp.log, XFree86.0.log */*log* Exclude any file or directory that starts with string cron and ends in .gz e.g. cron.1.gz, cron.2.gz, log/cron.1.gz ./*cron*.gz -- You mean those examples will NOT work in a directory other than . (The DLE i'm backing up) ? There is noy way to tell amanda to skip all files ending in .mp3 for example, whatever the directory they may reside in ? Thanks
Re: amrecover Error 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed
On Mon, 16 May 2005 at 11:31am, Chuck Amadi wrote On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 06:15 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2005 at 10:38am, Chuck Amadi wrote server:/local/sw/amanda/bckup # /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amrecover -C DailySet1 -t server -s server AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p4. Contacting server on server ... 220 server AMANDA index server (2.4.4p4) ready. 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed You need the line: server.domain.co.uk root in ~amanda/.amandahosts. I know it's had to believe but I do have that in my ~amanda /.amandahosts file Makes no difference. On the amanda server? If so, look for debug files in /tmp/amanda for more info and post those... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: iptables script
thanks all! Tom : On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 05:29:10PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain enlightened us: For the first time ever i have to backup a machine over the 'internet' - This client is using iptables as its firewall. Does anyone have an iptables rule they would like to share that would allow amanda through to be able to backup this client? If you haven't compiled with any portrange options, you'll have to do something like this: -A INPUT -p udp -s $AMANDA_SERVER -d 0/0 --dport 10080 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -s $AMANDA_SERVER -d 0/0 --dport 1025:65535 -j ACCEPT Or -A INPUT -p udp -s $AMANDA_SERVER -d $AMANDA_CLIENT --dport 10080 -j ACCEPT and load the ip_conntrack_amanda kernel module. I use the following in /etc/modprobe.conf: options ip_conntrack_amanda master_timeout=2400 install ip_tables /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ip_tables \ /sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack_amanda (Lines 2 3 are all one line) This sets the UDP timeout for amanda packets to 2400 seconds, up from the default 300 (don't hold me to that, it might be 600). I was getting estimate timeouts since they were taking longer than 300/600 seconds and the firewall would close the port. Makes things a little more secure than opening up everything 1024 ;-) Matt
record no option effect in global dumptype
If I put record no in the global dumptype in amanda.conf, it means that the /etc/dumpdates and /etc/amandates is not updated when the dumps occur. Does it prevent the planner from doing its job properly ?
Re: amrecover Error 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed
Hi I had a look at # less amrecover.20050516105131.debug amrecover: debug 1 pid 25626 ruid 0 euid 0: start at Mon May 16 10:51:31 2005 amrecover: stream_client_privileged: connected to 192.168.1.55.10082 amrecover: stream_client_privileged: our side is 0.0.0.0.829 amrecover.20050516105131.debug lines 1-3/3 (END) Also # less amindexd.20050516105131.debug amindexd: debug 1 pid 25627 ruid 1014 euid 1014: start at Mon May 16 10:51:31 2005 amindexd: version 2.4.4p4 amindexd: time 0.000: 220 server AMANDA index server (2.4.4p4) ready. amindexd: time 0.000: SECURITY USER root amindexd: time 0.001: bsd security: remote host server.domain.co.uk user root local user amanda amindexd: time 0.001: check failed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed amindexd: time 0.001: 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed amindexd: time 0.001: 200 Good bye. amindexd: time 0.001: pid 25627 finish time Mon May 16 10:51:31 2005 I am running as root My ~amanda /.amandahost file is as follows server.domain.co.uk amanda server.domain.co.uk root /etc/hosts file 192.168.X.XX server.domain.co.uk server On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 08:25 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2005 at 11:31am, Chuck Amadi wrote On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 06:15 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2005 at 10:38am, Chuck Amadi wrote server:/local/sw/amanda/bckup # /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amrecover -C DailySet1 -t server -s server AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p4. Contacting server on server ... 220 server AMANDA index server (2.4.4p4) ready. 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed You need the line: server.domain.co.uk root in ~amanda/.amandahosts. I know it's had to believe but I do have that in my ~amanda /.amandahosts file Makes no difference. On the amanda server? If so, look for debug files in /tmp/amanda for more info and post those... -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830
Re: amrecover Error 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda notallowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed
Chuck, You need both client and server machines listed in the .amandahosts file on the server. Currently you've only got the one server listed there. talk to you soon mate Matt on 16/05/2005 16:09 Chuck Amadi said the following: Hi I had a look at # less amrecover.20050516105131.debug amrecover: debug 1 pid 25626 ruid 0 euid 0: start at Mon May 16 10:51:31 2005 amrecover: stream_client_privileged: connected to 192.168.1.55.10082 amrecover: stream_client_privileged: our side is 0.0.0.0.829 amrecover.20050516105131.debug lines 1-3/3 (END) Also # less amindexd.20050516105131.debug amindexd: debug 1 pid 25627 ruid 1014 euid 1014: start at Mon May 16 10:51:31 2005 amindexd: version 2.4.4p4 amindexd: time 0.000: 220 server AMANDA index server (2.4.4p4) ready. amindexd: time 0.000: SECURITY USER root amindexd: time 0.001: bsd security: remote host server.domain.co.uk user root local user amanda amindexd: time 0.001: check failed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed amindexd: time 0.001: 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed amindexd: time 0.001: 200 Good bye. amindexd: time 0.001: pid 25627 finish time Mon May 16 10:51:31 2005 I am running as root My ~amanda /.amandahost file is as follows server.domain.co.uk amanda server.domain.co.uk root /etc/hosts file 192.168.X.XX server.domain.co.uk server On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 08:25 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2005 at 11:31am, Chuck Amadi wrote On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 06:15 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2005 at 10:38am, Chuck Amadi wrote server:/local/sw/amanda/bckup # /local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amrecover -C DailySet1 -t server -s server AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p4. Contacting server on server ... 220 server AMANDA index server (2.4.4p4) ready. 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed You need the line: server.domain.co.uk root in ~amanda/.amandahosts. I know it's had to believe but I do have that in my ~amanda /.amandahosts file Makes no difference. On the amanda server? If so, look for debug files in /tmp/amanda for more info and post those... -- *Matthew Claridge* Product Support Engineer RWA Limited Direct line: 02920 815 054 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.rwa-net.co.uk
Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle
Hi Alexander, It's time to upgrade From the NEWS file: Changes in release 2.4.4p2 * 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist. * amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file. Jean-Louis On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 12:10:52PM +0200, Alexander Jolk wrote: Frank Smith wrote: A third, and probably larger issue is recovery. If your disklist becomes dynamic, how do you recover something from a DLE that is no longer in your disklist? I know it's possible with some manual editing, but is it practical to try and remember what a DLE was or search through your old reports to find out? Actually, this slight inconvenience has been nagging me for a while, too, and it is in fact independent from your disklist being dynamic. Whenever you delete some DLE from your disklist, you can't easily `amrecover' from it. Heck, you can't even ask `amadmin conf find' for it so that you can restore the files yourself. As I'm sure everybody here does, I just `cvs update' my disklist to an earlier date in that case, amrecover, and then update back to the latest version, but this is a bit more work. Anybody have an idea of how one could possibly circumvent this problem? Fortunately, we know exactly at what time an old DLE can completely be forgotten about (when its last index has been killed). Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29 -- Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Département IRO, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLETel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 Montréal, Canada, H3C 3J7Fax: (514) 343-5834
Re: Request for enhancement - Auto dle
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hi Alexander, It's time to upgrade From the NEWS file: Changes in release 2.4.4p2 * 'amadmin find' list disk removed from the disklist. * amrecover can recover a disk removed from the disklist file. Wow, that one had passed under my radar. Great! Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
Re: Errors when running amcheck - # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1
Hi I run make distclean and reconfigured and I noticed the following which running ./configure I choose the following where Amanda will live. ./configure --with-user=amanda \ --with-group=disk \ --with-owner=amanda \ --with-gnu-ld \ --prefix=/local/sw/amanda/bckup \ --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes \ --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ --with-tape-server=server \ --with-amandahosts \ --with-configdir=/local/sw/amanda \ --with-config=DailySet1 \ --with-gnutar=/bin/tar Here's the Warning which I believe is causing my issues down the line configure: WARNING: *** No terminal library, no history and command line editing in amrecover! configure: WARNING: *** vtblc headers not found - no QIC volume table support! I have readline installed So any ideas Cheers -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830
Re: Errors when running amcheck - # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:31:03PM +0100, Chuck Amadi enlightened us: I run make distclean and reconfigured and I noticed the following which running ./configure I choose the following where Amanda will live. ./configure --with-user=amanda \ --with-group=disk \ --with-owner=amanda \ --with-gnu-ld \ --prefix=/local/sw/amanda/bckup \ --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes \ --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ --with-tape-server=server \ --with-amandahosts \ --with-configdir=/local/sw/amanda \ --with-config=DailySet1 \ --with-gnutar=/bin/tar Here's the Warning which I believe is causing my issues down the line configure: WARNING: *** No terminal library, no history and command line editing in amrecover! configure: WARNING: *** vtblc headers not found - no QIC volume table support! I have readline installed So any ideas Check config.log to see why amanda doesn't think readline is installed. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 pgpcBkMwcpDxJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Errors when running amcheck - # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck possible configure issue.
Hi cheers for that I have less less /local/sw/src/amanda-2.4.4p4/config.log here is part of the /readline arguments. And as you are aware hell of alot of data mostly stating no file or directory found and last but not least READLINE_LIBS= configure:27608: checking readline.h usability configure:27620: gcc -c -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -O2 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64conftest.c 5 conftest.c:129:22: readline.h: No such file or directory configure:27626: $? = 1 I have run # locate readline server:/local/sw/src/amanda-2.4.4 # locate readline /lib/libreadline.so.4 /lib/libreadline.so.4.3 /usr/include/guile-readline /usr/include/guile-readline/readline.h /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.a /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.la /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.so /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.so.12 /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.so.12.3.0 /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/readline.so /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/xreadlines.so /usr/share/doc/packages/bash/readline.html /usr/share/guile/1.6/ice-9/readline.scm /usr/share/info/readline.info.gz /usr/share/vim/vim62/indent/readline.vim /usr/share/vim/vim62/syntax/readline.vim Thus is there an configure option to point to where my realine libs reside. Cheers Chuck On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 13:04 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:31:03PM +0100, Chuck Amadi enlightened us: I run make distclean and reconfigured and I noticed the following which running ./configure I choose the following where Amanda will live. ./configure --with-user=amanda \ --with-group=disk \ --with-owner=amanda \ --with-gnu-ld \ --prefix=/local/sw/amanda/bckup \ --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes \ --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ --with-tape-server=server \ --with-amandahosts \ --with-configdir=/local/sw/amanda \ --with-config=DailySet1 \ --with-gnutar=/bin/tar Here's the Warning which I believe is causing my issues down the line configure: WARNING: *** No terminal library, no history and command line editing in amrecover! configure: WARNING: *** vtblc headers not found - no QIC volume table support! I have readline installed So any ideas Check config.log to see why amanda doesn't think readline is installed. Matt
Re: Errors when running amcheck - # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck possible configure issue.
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:31:34PM +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator enlightened us: cheers for that I have less less /local/sw/src/amanda-2.4.4p4/config.log here is part of the /readline arguments. And as you are aware hell of alot of data mostly stating no file or directory found and last but not least READLINE_LIBS= configure:27608: checking readline.h usability configure:27620: gcc -c -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -O2 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64conftest.c 5 conftest.c:129:22: readline.h: No such file or directory configure:27626: $? = 1 I have run # locate readline server:/local/sw/src/amanda-2.4.4 # locate readline /lib/libreadline.so.4 /lib/libreadline.so.4.3 /usr/include/guile-readline /usr/include/guile-readline/readline.h /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.a /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.la /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.so /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.so.12 /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.so.12.3.0 /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/readline.so /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/xreadlines.so /usr/share/doc/packages/bash/readline.html /usr/share/guile/1.6/ice-9/readline.scm /usr/share/info/readline.info.gz /usr/share/vim/vim62/indent/readline.vim /usr/share/vim/vim62/syntax/readline.vim Thus is there an configure option to point to where my realine libs reside. Guile-readline and readline aren't the same thing. Is this a linux system? My guess is that you're missing readline-devel or readline-dev (whatever your system uses). You should probably have /usr/include/readline/readline.h in there somewhere. On my redhat system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/include/readline/readline.h readline-devel-4.3-13 Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 pgpjBaNs1CFHf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Errors when running amcheck - # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1
Hi When I run ./configure I got these errors checking readline.h usability... no checking readline.h presence... no checking for readline.h... no checking readline/history.h usability... no checking readline/history.h presence... no checking for readline/history.h... no checking readline/readline.h usability... no checking readline/readline.h presence... no checking for readline/readline.h... no Is there a way using the ./configure options to point th where my readlin lib's are. Cheers On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 13:04 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:31:03PM +0100, Chuck Amadi enlightened us: I run make distclean and reconfigured and I noticed the following which running ./configure I choose the following where Amanda will live. ./configure --with-user=amanda \ --with-group=disk \ --with-owner=amanda \ --with-gnu-ld \ --prefix=/local/sw/amanda/bckup \ --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes \ --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ --with-tape-server=server \ --with-amandahosts \ --with-configdir=/local/sw/amanda \ --with-config=DailySet1 \ --with-gnutar=/bin/tar Here's the Warning which I believe is causing my issues down the line configure: WARNING: *** No terminal library, no history and command line editing in amrecover! configure: WARNING: *** vtblc headers not found - no QIC volume table support! I have readline installed So any ideas Check config.log to see why amanda doesn't think readline is installed. Matt
Re: Errors when running amcheck - # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1
--On Monday, May 16, 2005 17:31:03 +0100 Chuck Amadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I run make distclean and reconfigured and I noticed the following which running ./configure I choose the following where Amanda will live. ./configure --with-user=amanda \ --with-group=disk \ --with-owner=amanda \ --with-gnu-ld \ --prefix=/local/sw/amanda/bckup \ --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes \ --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ --with-tape-server=server \ --with-amandahosts \ --with-configdir=/local/sw/amanda \ --with-config=DailySet1 \ --with-gnutar=/bin/tar Here's the Warning which I believe is causing my issues down the line I don't see how either of these could contribute to your 'selfcheck timeout' problem, but you probably would want to get readline support working since it comes in handy on restores (but is not necessary). configure: WARNING: *** No terminal library, no history and command line editing in amrecover! If it's a Linux box, I'm guessing you may have the readline libraries, but don't have the readline development package (which contains the readline.h that configure looks for) installed. configure: WARNING: *** vtblc headers not found - no QIC volume table support! I wouldn't worry about that unless you need floppy tape support. Does anybody still use this? Frank I have readline installed So any ideas Cheers -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830 -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: Errors when running amcheck - # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck possible configure issue.
On Mon, 16 May 2005 at 6:31pm, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote And as you are aware hell of alot of data mostly stating no file or directory found and last but not least READLINE_LIBS= configure:27608: checking readline.h usability configure:27620: gcc -c -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -O2 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64conftest.c 5 conftest.c:129:22: readline.h: No such file or directory configure:27626: $? = 1 I have run # locate readline server:/local/sw/src/amanda-2.4.4 # locate readline /lib/libreadline.so.4 /lib/libreadline.so.4.3 /usr/include/guile-readline /usr/include/guile-readline/readline.h /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.a /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.la /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.so /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.so.12 /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-12.so.12.3.0 /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/readline.so /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/xreadlines.so /usr/share/doc/packages/bash/readline.html /usr/share/guile/1.6/ice-9/readline.scm /usr/share/info/readline.info.gz /usr/share/vim/vim62/indent/readline.vim /usr/share/vim/vim62/syntax/readline.vim It seems to me that you're missing what on Red Hat, e.g., would be the 'readline-devel' RPM, which supplies /usr/include/readline and its contents (including readline.h). You never mentioned OS as far as I recall, but make sure all the appropriate devel packages are installed. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: Simple rendezvous mechanism before starting backup ?
Guy Dallaire wrote: I'm planning to run a wrapper for amdump instead of amdump. This wrapper would essentially wait for all the clients clients to tell they're ready, and then either time out or start the real amdup. You are aware that amdump won't start the real backup on all the clients at once? Depending on the volume of your data, you might end up stopping your amanda clients' services for far longer than necessary. The suggestions for wrapper scripts that have been proposed several times on the list, wait for the real data sending phase before stopping services. Does anyone have a good suggestion ? Is there a SIMPLE tool that is usable over the network to permit simple message based communication protocol between a server and clients ? Why don't you leverage amanda's existing communications infrastructure for that purpose? That seems simpler to me than whipping up a second channel, even if it should be rather easy to do with netcat or perl. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
Re: Errors when running amcheck - # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1
Hi, Matt, on Montag, 16. Mai 2005 at 19:04 you wrote to amanda-users: configure: WARNING: *** No terminal library, no history and command line editing in amrecover! configure: WARNING: *** vtblc headers not found - no QIC volume table support! You only need that with QIC-tapes. I have readline installed So any ideas MH Check config.log to see why amanda doesn't think readline is installed. Make sure the readline-devel-package is installed, not only readline ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Typo error in the amanda docs (I think)
On this page: http://www.amanda.org/docs/install.html#id2501401 section D #/etc/xinetd.d/amidxtaped should read #/etc/xinetd.d/amidxtape Because the service on section C is called amidxtape
Re: Amanda exclusion: is amanda (gnutar) able to differentiate between direcoty and file names ?
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 08:14:14AM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: 2005/5/15, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It sounds as if you believe an exclude pattern of ./foo will exclude any file and/or directory containing the string 'foo'. Not so, ./foo will only match, and only exclude one item. It may be a file called 'foo' under the mount point or it may be a directory in the same location. If 'foo' is a file, that is all that is excluded. If 'foo' is a directory, then the directory and everything under it is excluded. No other directories or files are affected. Ah ! The doc says: - Exclude any file or directory that ends in .log e.g. ppp.log, XFree86.0.log ./*.log Exclude any file or directory with the string log e.g. logfile, maillog, syslog, ppp.log, XFree86.0.log */*log* Exclude any file or directory that starts with string cron and ends in .gz e.g. cron.1.gz, cron.2.gz, log/cron.1.gz ./*cron*.gz -- You mean those examples will NOT work in a directory other than . (The DLE i'm backing up) ? There is noy way to tell amanda to skip all files ending in .mp3 for example, whatever the directory they may reside in ? You diagram looked like oradata was at the top level. None of my examples included the * wild card. ./oradata ./*oradata ./*/oradata are patterns with different meanings. The first and third will not exclude anything except items exactly named oradata but at different levels. The second works on items whose name ends in oradata. This of course includes oradata exactly. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
