OT - solaris disaster recovery
Sorry for the non-amanda topic posting. Disaster recover, i.e. bare metal restore, is not one of amanda's strong points. For those using Solaris, I came across an interesting article on sun.com/bigadmin about using 'flash archives' for disaster recovery. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/flash_archive.html -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
AMANDA-docs Update
Hello, amanda-users and amanda-hackers, I am happy to inform you that I have just published the current AMANDA-docs on www.amanda.org. (pdf and html updated, the ps-output seems currently broken :-( ). Main changes: - Split of the amanda.8-manpage: New manpage amanda.conf.5 Updates and corrections. Please let me know you opinion on this step, we decided to do so because amanda.8 had grown way to big over the years. We also consider splitting amanda.conf (in the example-subdir) into several single files to have separate files for dumptypes, tapetypes and such. There are pros and cons as always, I'd like to hear the voice of you, the AMANDA-community, on this. - New FAQ-items (Bumping, Windows. Gnutar: Thanks, Paul. iptables : Thanks, Matt ...) - New Wrapper-HOWTO (Thanks, Bert ...) - Update and Cleanup of the Installation-Chapter, addition of daemontools-instructions (Thanks, Filip ...) - Many other fixes and improvements ... --- As always suggestions and patches welcome. APAW. ;-) Best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger, for the AMANDA Core Team. mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: impossible nitubencio's contract
On Thursday 26 May 2005 22:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >in the last few days, my nitubencio has begun freaking away. >i cannot control the log files. when I try to cat or less them, they > will rename to another cryptic filename thus making impossible to > abatoiliba them at all. > >can you help me, nitubencio? I hate to say it, but it sounds as if your machine might have a rootkit of some kind in it. -- 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) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: Sending a backup to disk and Tape
On Friday 27 May 2005 17:37, Frank Smith wrote: >--On Friday, May 27, 2005 13:35:09 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:16:20PM -0400, Mangala Gunadasa wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I am new to the amanda users group. I am using amanda to backup >>> 61 file systems across the network to a single DLT.I'd like to >>> also keep a backup on site on a local disk. How can this be >>> done?. I appreciate any response. >> >> It has been suggested that using amanda's RAIT in a mirror config >> it might be possible for one side to be a disk and the other side >> a tape. >> >> But to my knowledge, no one has tried (or at least, no one >> reported success) > >I've thought about it in the past, but couldn't wrap my head around >how two different changer scripts would work together, especially >under error conditions, and how you could restore if only one of the >two media were present. It is an intriguing idea to try if I ever > had ample free time to test it. > >One solution suggested was to have one config backup to disk, and > then have a separate config backup those to tape. > >Frank Humm, my subscription seems to have been revived. Thanks, whoever did that! Or, one could do something similar to what I'm doing in useing a humogous drive as a FILE: device, and have your wrapper script, once the backup to the hard drive is done and a verify run, then that same script could do a tar from the disks current directory to the tape. But I just rememebered that would only work if somebody changed the tape religiously since my simple scripts do not actively check the tape label to make sure its the right one. This however, is something that could be done with a few more line in a bash script. I am reporting it, as checked, just not actively using the result for anything but my own edification. >> -- >> Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> JG Computing >> 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 >> Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- 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) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: holding disk with vtapes?
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Paul, on Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2005 at 21:47 you wrote to amanda-users: PB> I noticed that the example amanda.conf file has specified "use 290 m" PB> for the holdingdisk section. PB> Many people seem to forget to adapt that arbitrary number there. Suggestions for a proper default-value, anyone? use -100 m Use all but a small amount. -- 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: holding disk with vtapes?
Hi, Paul, on Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2005 at 21:47 you wrote to amanda-users: PB> I noticed that the example amanda.conf file has specified "use 290 m" PB> for the holdingdisk section. PB> Many people seem to forget to adapt that arbitrary number there. Suggestions for a proper default-value, anyone? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: Samba 3.0.14 problems with Amanda 2.4.4p3?
Hello, Filip,
on 19.05.2005, 19:05 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org:
FR> At 05/18/05 19:35, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
FR> (...)
FR> Same here, with Amanda 2.4.5 / Samba 3.0.13, running slackware-current with
FR> 2.4.30 kernel.
In client-src/sendbackup-gnutar.c there are regular expressions
defined which help to hide several Samba-messages from the
AMANDA-reports.
This small one-line-patch removes the Samba-Domain-messages:
--- standard/sendbackup-gnutar.c 2004-10-12 22:47:52.0 +0200
+++ patched/sendbackup-gnutar.c 2005-05-11 18:20:58.314182688 +0200
@@ -120,2 +120,3 @@
AM_ERROR_RE("ERRDOS - ERRbadpath (Directory invalid.)"),
+ AM_NORMAL_RE("^Domain="),
#endif
Works fine here so far.
Best regards,
Stefan G. Weichinger.
mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: Amanda install docs - daemontools hints
Hello, Filip, on 20.05.2005, 21:23 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: >> FR> I realize it may sound a bit messy, but actually it is "the Way":) >> FR> If it's not clear - never mind - I'll publish a howto somewhere, with >> full >> FR> explanation, to straighten things up:) >> >> Please share your somewhere-howto with us. FR> OK, just a starter: FR> http://www.futuremedia.pl/pub/projekty/amanda/Amanda-daemontools-HOWTO.html FR> sorry for not calling it somewhere-howto ;-) I can live with it ;-) Is the part in http://www.amanda.org/docs/install.html OK with you? As noted in the other reply, I'll add some "nc/netcat" note as well. Best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger. mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: Debugging lufs vtape and amanda flushing-throtle for amanda
Hello, Vlad, on 23.05.2005, 12:05 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: VP> 1)So IS there a parameter to slow down the data stream to a constant VP> level (in amanda.conf) while flushing or not ? There is the parameter "speed" but it is not currently used by AMANDA. VP> 2) I have the 8 shares(ftp-directories) mounted on several mount VP> points (because of the virtual tape slots) during all the time. If VP> it is not necessary to have all "slots" mounted all over the time (is it VP> ?) I'd try to have only the appropriate vtape (one share a time ) VP> mounted. After use I' d "eject (aka unmount the share) . I hope, I VP> could get more performance on the lufs filesystem by this way . I don't know if the number of parallel lufs-mounts relates to performance ... AFAIK it would not be necessary to have them all mounted, only the vtape that is currently requested. VP> Since I have only the ftp protocol as access to the backup server I have VP> to use lufs or ftpfs( which is outdated and followed by lufs) VP> Any (other) ideas to get my dumps on vtape and maximise performance ? Vlad, create an archive containing : - your config-files (usually /usr/local/etc/amanda/) - the corresponding log-files (/usr/adm/amanda/) and - the debugfiles (/tmp/amanda) and send it to me off-list. Have you already tried to use the lufs-mount-option "--channels=X" ? Best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger. mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: Amanda install docs - daemontools hints
Hello, Geert, on 20.05.2005, 21:30 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: GU> On Fri, 20 May 2005, [ISO-8859-2] Filip Rembia³kowski wrote: >> At 05/18/05 23:20, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> > FR> Standard daemontools setup does not assume setting up UDP services. So >> > it lacks >> > FR> an udp super-server. But many people I asked mentioned netcat: FR> >> > http://netcat.sourceforge.net/. Also the ucspi-tcp page mentions it. >> > FR> And, LBNL, netcat is packaged for most major Linux distros. >> > FR> So I use it for amanda server when I don't want to fire up (x)inetd. >> > >> > Ok again, I just substituted "nc" with "netcat". >> >> "netcat" is the package name, "nc" is the binary GU> It depends. On Debian both `nc' and `netcat' work. GU> On Red Hat 9, `nc' is part of NEdit. Of course I put the real `nc' first in my GU> $PATH ;-) Phew ... Suse also uses /usr/bin/netcat, and "nc" does not work. I'll add a note for that. Best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger. mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AMANDA-docs Update
Hello, amanda-users and amanda-hackers, I resend this one using my old address, as I have noticed that over the last few days my messages to these lists don't appear anymore. Maybe this has to do with using my [EMAIL PROTECTED] adress, so let's see if this one works out again. ::: I am happy to inform you that I have just published the current AMANDA-docs on www.amanda.org. (pdf and html updated, the ps-output seems currently broken :-( ). Main changes: - Split of the amanda.8-manpage: New manpage amanda.conf.5 Updates and corrections. Please let me know you opinion on this step, we decided to do so because amanda.8 had grown way to big over the years. We also consider splitting amanda.conf (in the example-subdir) into several single files to have separate files for dumptypes, tapetypes and such. There are pros and cons as always, I'd like to hear the voice of you, the AMANDA-community, on this. - New FAQ-items (Bumping, Windows. Gnutar: Thanks, Paul. iptables : Thanks, Matt ...) - New Wrapper-HOWTO (Thanks, Bert ...) - Update and Cleanup of the Installation-Chapter, addition of daemontools-instructions (Thanks, Filip ...) - Many other fixes and improvements ... --- As always suggestions and patches welcome. APAW. ;-) Best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger, for the AMANDA Core Team. mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amcheck issue
Hello, Chuck, on 23.05.2005, 14:22 you wrote to amanda-users@amanda.org: CASA> Hi Again CASA> I have managed to get readlines libraries seen by my ./configure. CASA> Thus can someone post the chown details for planner,dumper and amcheck. http://www.amanda.org/docs/install.html Best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger. mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Test message
Hello, amanda-users, as some of you may have noticed, no messages posted by me get through to this list since May, 18th ... Maybe this one. Best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger. mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Test message
Hello, amanda-users, as some of you may have noticed, no messages posted by me get through to this list since May, 18th ... Maybe this one. Best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger. mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: making progress...
I had a similar issue and I found out a couple of things that needed to be done with my particular changer , Dell PowerVault. I had to terminate the changer on all ports and I also had to edit the rc.local file (or you can recompile the kernel (which I did after verifying that the rc.local file editing worked correctly) to scan for multiple LUNS) to scan multiple LUNs and it fixed the issue about the I/O error. Of course the rc.local file editing is dependant on your particular setup for choosing the x x x x" > /proc/scsi/scsi I put the following in the /etc/rc.local file; echo "scsi-add-single-device 1 0 3 1" > /proc/scsi/scsi (which detects LUN 1 at target ID 3 at bus 0 at adapter 1) Hope this helps you. Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Smith Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 3:03 PM To: Matheson Cameron; amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: making progress... --On Friday, May 27, 2005 10:49:09 -0700 Matheson Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, my amanda set up is coming along... amanda will > now back up my computer (i've only configured this one > client for testing purposes), but there are still some > things that i don't understand. here's the output > from amcheck.log: > > Amanda Tape Server Host Check > - > Holding disk /var/tmp: 13625172 KB disk space > available, using 12576596 KB > amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20050526 label > DailySet1000 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20050526 label > DailySet1000 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 4: chg-multi: slot is empty > amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20050526 label > DailySet1000 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 6: date 20050526 label > DailySet1000 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 7: date 20050526 label > DailySet1000 (active tape) > ,,, > amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20050526 label > DailySet1000 (active tape) > ERROR: new tape not found in rack >(expecting a new tape) > > Out of the 30 slots i have in my tape-changer, i only > have 17 loaded... but amanda sees DailySet1000 in all > 30 slots... why is that? I didn't see anyone else respond, so I'll jump in with a guess. Are you sure your changer script works properly? Can you watch the changer while running amcheck and see if it actually loads every tape? My guess is that you are just re-reading the label off the same tape 30 times. > also, this isn't totally related to amanda, but i'm > still trying to learn this whole tape-drive thing... > my tape-changer has two tape drives in it, nts0 and > nts1. i can do everything w/ nts0, but if i try to do > anything w/ nts1 (mt -f /dev/nts1 tell, for example), > i get an i/o error. any clues? Perhaps your OS doesn't see all the devices. Linux kernels, for example, need the option set to scan for multiple LUNS (CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y) or it will only detect the first device. You should be able to manually control your drives and changer before trying to debug Amanda, since if the mt (or mtx or whatever) commands fail, Amanda won't be able to work. Frank > > thanks guys, > Cameron Matheson > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: Sending a backup to disk and Tape
--On Friday, May 27, 2005 13:35:09 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:16:20PM -0400, Mangala Gunadasa wrote: >> Hi, >> I am new to the amanda users group. I am using amanda to backup 61 file >> systems across the network to a single DLT.I'd like to also keep a >> backup on site on a local disk. How can this be done?. I appreciate any >> response. > > It has been suggested that using amanda's RAIT in a mirror config > it might be possible for one side to be a disk and the other side a tape. > > But to my knowledge, no one has tried (or at least, no one reported success) I've thought about it in the past, but couldn't wrap my head around how two different changer scripts would work together, especially under error conditions, and how you could restore if only one of the two media were present. It is an intriguing idea to try if I ever had ample free time to test it. One solution suggested was to have one config backup to disk, and then have a separate config backup those to tape. Frank > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: making progress...
[keeping the thread on the list to enable other's input] --On Friday, May 27, 2005 13:12:25 -0700 Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > --- Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I didn't see anyone else respond, so I'll jump in >> with a guess. Are you sure your changer script >> works properly? Can you watch the changer while >> running amcheck and see if it actually loads every >> tape? My guess is that you are just re-reading >> the label off the same tape 30 times. > > Hmm, that is possible... i don't have access to the > actual changer device, so i am unable to watch it. > I'm just using chx-mtx, i'll attach my config file to > this message. I would try to amlabel one tape in one slot (with a differant label), then try to use amtape commands to load another slot as wel as the slot you labeled, then use mt rewind and dd to read the labels back. That should show if your changer script is working (not as easy as just looking at the changer, but if it's remote its all you can do). Frank >> > also, this isn't totally related to amanda, but >> > i'm still trying to learn this whole tape-drive >> > thing... my tape-changer has two tape drives in it, >> > nts0 and nts1. i can do everything w/ nts0, but >> > if i try to doanything w/ nts1 (mt -f /dev/nts1 >> > tell, for example), i get an i/o error. any clues? > > Perhaps your OS doesn't see all the devices. Linux > kernels, for example, need the option set to scan > for > multiple LUNS (CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y) or it will > only detect the first device. > > CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y #it's good to go > Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 > Vendor: SPECTRA Model: GATORRev: 0128 > Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI > revision: 02 > /proc/scsi/scsi:Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00 > Vendor: SONY Model: SDX-700C Rev: 0102 > Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI > revision: 02 > Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 09 Lun: 00 > Vendor: SONY Model: SDX-700C Rev: 0102 > Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI > revision: 02 > > Looks like everything is detected. > > thanks a lot, > Cameron Matheson -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: making progress...
--On Friday, May 27, 2005 10:49:09 -0700 Matheson Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, my amanda set up is coming along... amanda will > now back up my computer (i've only configured this one > client for testing purposes), but there are still some > things that i don't understand. here's the output > from amcheck.log: > > Amanda Tape Server Host Check > - > Holding disk /var/tmp: 13625172 KB disk space > available, using 12576596 KB > amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20050526 label > DailySet1000 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20050526 label > DailySet1000 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 4: chg-multi: slot is empty > amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20050526 label > DailySet1000 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 6: date 20050526 label > DailySet1000 (active tape) > amcheck-server: slot 7: date 20050526 label > DailySet1000 (active tape) > ,,, > amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20050526 label > DailySet1000 (active tape) > ERROR: new tape not found in rack >(expecting a new tape) > > Out of the 30 slots i have in my tape-changer, i only > have 17 loaded... but amanda sees DailySet1000 in all > 30 slots... why is that? I didn't see anyone else respond, so I'll jump in with a guess. Are you sure your changer script works properly? Can you watch the changer while running amcheck and see if it actually loads every tape? My guess is that you are just re-reading the label off the same tape 30 times. > also, this isn't totally related to amanda, but i'm > still trying to learn this whole tape-drive thing... > my tape-changer has two tape drives in it, nts0 and > nts1. i can do everything w/ nts0, but if i try to do > anything w/ nts1 (mt -f /dev/nts1 tell, for example), > i get an i/o error. any clues? Perhaps your OS doesn't see all the devices. Linux kernels, for example, need the option set to scan for multiple LUNS (CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y) or it will only detect the first device. You should be able to manually control your drives and changer before trying to debug Amanda, since if the mt (or mtx or whatever) commands fail, Amanda won't be able to work. Frank > > thanks guys, > Cameron Matheson > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: can not run amanda check
* Nina Pham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050527 15:34]: > I can't run amcheck, the error message is : amcheck:running as user > "root instead of "general". Then run it as user=general: su general -c "/usr/sbin/amcheck @conf@" and replace @conf@ with your specific conf name. > I configure amanda to run --with-user=general, and the attribute for > amcheck >-rwsr-x--- 1 root disk usr/sbin/amcheck > > Please help. > > Nina > > -- <° ><
can not run amanda check
I can't run amcheck, the error message is : amcheck:running as user "root instead of "general". I configure amanda to run --with-user=general, and the attribute for amcheck -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk usr/sbin/amcheck Please help. Nina
making progress...
Ok, my amanda set up is coming along... amanda will now back up my computer (i've only configured this one client for testing purposes), but there are still some things that i don't understand. here's the output from amcheck.log: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /var/tmp: 13625172 KB disk space available, using 12576596 KB amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20050526 label DailySet1000 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 3: date 20050526 label DailySet1000 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 4: chg-multi: slot is empty amcheck-server: slot 5: date 20050526 label DailySet1000 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 6: date 20050526 label DailySet1000 (active tape) amcheck-server: slot 7: date 20050526 label DailySet1000 (active tape) ,,, amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20050526 label DailySet1000 (active tape) ERROR: new tape not found in rack (expecting a new tape) Out of the 30 slots i have in my tape-changer, i only have 17 loaded... but amanda sees DailySet1000 in all 30 slots... why is that? also, this isn't totally related to amanda, but i'm still trying to learn this whole tape-drive thing... my tape-changer has two tape drives in it, nts0 and nts1. i can do everything w/ nts0, but if i try to do anything w/ nts1 (mt -f /dev/nts1 tell, for example), i get an i/o error. any clues? thanks guys, Cameron Matheson __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
amandad still running/ RESULTS MISSING
I am having a problem with amanda whereby some of the dumps (DLE's on the amanda server itself) are showing as RESULTS MISSING in the logs. There is an amandad process which is still running after quite a long time (24 hours) and which has a defunct child process: backup3318 0.0 0.1 3044 1076 ?SMay26 0:00 amandad backup3320 0.0 0.0 00 ?ZMay26 0:00 [amandad ] I googled the RESULTS MISSING error and checked that the appropriate files have SUID set and that the entries in inetd are right (they have not been changed). The only change that I have made in the last couple days is to add a DLE on a remote system (which already had other DLE's being backed up). Anyone have a clue for me? TIA, Vicki
Re: Sending a backup to disk and Tape
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:16:20PM -0400, Mangala Gunadasa wrote: > Hi, > I am new to the amanda users group. I am using amanda to backup 61 file > systems across the network to a single DLT.I'd like to also keep a > backup on site on a local disk. How can this be done?. I appreciate any > response. It has been suggested that using amanda's RAIT in a mirror config it might be possible for one side to be a disk and the other side a tape. But to my knowledge, no one has tried (or at least, no one reported success) -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: amcheck question
Brian Cuttler wrote: Is there a simple way to amcheck to see if the clients are responding properly without checking the tape ? amcheck -c TheConfig ie: jukebox is at a satellite office and has no new tapes (all tapes are ACTIVE and can not be overwritten) and running amcheck to see if the client where I just hup'd inetd, is working, is slooow. I don't know that amanda version or even OS matters, there isn't a standard switch for this non-standard issue. Is there a way to ping the client port ? echo "AnyOneHome?" | nc -w 1 -u theserver 10080 -- 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 * ***
impossible nitubencio's contract
in the last few days, my nitubencio has begun freaking away. i cannot control the log files. when I try to cat or less them, they will rename to another cryptic filename thus making impossible to abatoiliba them at all. can you help me, nitubencio?
Re: Sending a backup to disk and Tape
Hi, I am new to the amanda users group. I am using amanda to backup 61 file systems across the network to a single DLT.I'd like to also keep a backup on site on a local disk. How can this be done?. I appreciate any response. Thanks You, Mangala Gunadasa EHIT/Montefiore Medical Center
Re: amcheck question
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:50:05PM -0400, Brian Cuttler enlightened us: > Is there a simple way to amcheck to see if the clients are responding > properly without checking the tape ? > > ie: jukebox is at a satellite office and has no new tapes (all tapes > are ACTIVE and can not be overwritten) and running amcheck to see if > the client where I just hup'd inetd, is working, is slooow. > > I don't know that amanda version or even OS matters, there isn't > a standard switch for this non-standard issue. > > Is there a way to ping the client port ? > amcheck -c? -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 pgpIl6nkflePM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: tar versions (was Re: "implausibly old time stamp")
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 03:47:29PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Alexander Jolk wrote: > >Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > >>Did you compile from source or use the debian package from sid? > > > > > >I compiled from source and installed tar into a different location. Now > >if only one could specify which tar to use for amrecover, that would be > >most perfect. :-) > > Making that one configurable at run time would be easy, but it > would also mean that the suid-root program that invokes tar can be > tricked into executing anything you like, giving root privileges to > anyone. Without checking, depending on others :(, I presume amrecover uses runtar too. But needs be run as root anyway, no? Might a special case be possible for amrecover? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
amcheck question
Is there a simple way to amcheck to see if the clients are responding properly without checking the tape ? ie: jukebox is at a satellite office and has no new tapes (all tapes are ACTIVE and can not be overwritten) and running amcheck to see if the client where I just hup'd inetd, is working, is slooow. I don't know that amanda version or even OS matters, there isn't a standard switch for this non-standard issue. Is there a way to ping the client port ? --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773
Re: tar versions (was Re: "implausibly old time stamp")
Alexander Jolk wrote: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: Did you compile from source or use the debian package from sid? I compiled from source and installed tar into a different location. Now if only one could specify which tar to use for amrecover, that would be most perfect. :-) Making that one configurable at run time would be easy, but it would also mean that the suid-root program that invokes tar can be tricked into executing anything you like, giving root privileges to anyone. -- 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: Debugging lufs vtape and amanda flushing-throtle for amanda
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki schrieb:
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:08:02PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:23:34PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote:
Hi Jon ,
Jon LaBadie schrieb:
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:53:57PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote:
Hello Jon !
Jon LaBadie schrieb:
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:05:21PM +0200, Vlad Popa wrote:
I'll ask Paul's question slightly differently.
How can you WANT to run any slower (see below).
DUMP SUMMARY:
HOSTNAME DISKL ORIG-kB OUT-kB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS
KB/s
-- -
h50234 /etc02440 2440 --0:03 930.1 9:26
4.3
This was your biggest, and speediest successful taping.
It only ran at 4300 bytes/sec
Something is seriously wrong with your network connection to your vtape.
I strongly urge you to fix your network connection rather than continue
to try to get amanda (or any application) to work with a broken network.
You are absolutely right Jon, but I cannot tweak more the lufs.
I was thinking more of the hardware end of the setup. There have been
frequent mentions of poor network performance when a switch and host
are not configured correctly. Sometimes depending on the auto-config
feature of the switch or host does not give the best connection.
I have tested native ftp transfers to this host (beside lufs) which were
at about 4.3 mb per sec ("ftp hostname" and then "put file ..") for
several files differring significantly in their size. The rate did not
fall below 4 megs per sec.
Just an interesting observation, amanda sees 4.3 kb/sec, you got 4.3 mb/sec
for ftp transfers.
No other way to access that remote disk than still beta lufs and ftp?
Nope, no other way than ftp access. Using lufs or not using it is up to
me. I will never see this server . We have rented a root server which
is probably located in Berlin or elsewhere. The rent is including
access to a ftp share on their server for backups) . We have only
some kind of console and ssh access.
If you have ssh access you should be able to use rsync, no?
ssh is only available to connect to the
to-be-backuped-itself-"no-tape-therefore-vtape"-server. The backups have
to be stored off-site on their backupserver which is only accessible by
ftp and just from the supposed -to-run-amanda-server. I have used
rsync, if it would be of some effect for my purpose. I have seen an new
project named wput ( the opposite of wget , a new project by a young
german). There is a file limit to 2 Gb per file. In worst case I was
considering making on-site backups being transfered of-site by a script
based ftp-client I could start from cron a hour or two later. But it is
some waste of disk space compared to lufs scenario (if it had worked..).
Vlad Popa
Or perhaps try scp just to see if the slowness is specific to lufs/ftp.
Re: tar versions (was Re: "implausibly old time stamp")
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: Did you compile from source or use the debian package from sid? I compiled from source and installed tar into a different location. Now if only one could specify which tar to use for amrecover, that would be most perfect. :-) Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
sending backup to the tape as well as disk
Hi, I am new to the amanda users group. I am using amanda to backup 61 file systems across the network to a single DLT.I'd like to also keep a backup on site on a local disk. How can this be done?. I appreciate any response. Thanks You, Mangala Gunadasa EHIT/Montefiore Medical Center
(expecting a new tape?)
Hey, Ok, so setting up amanda has been a wild trip... but i think i have it mainly under control now. my backup server is connected to a Spectra S12000(gator) tape machine... right now, the only client i have configured for backup is my desktop computer (for testing purposes). anyway, amanda will tar up my desktop and back it up to the holding disk... just not to the tape. Here's the info from amcheck: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /var/tmp: 13640404 KB disk space available, using 12591828 KB ERROR: /dev/nst0: reading label: Input/output error (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/xiaohei.tonservices.com: does not exist Server check took 18.282 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check Client check: 1 host checked in 0.711 seconds, 0 problems found (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4) I don't know how to fix this: ERROR: /dev/nst0: reading label: Input/output error (expecting a new tape) I've run amlabel on the tape... i thought that would be enough. How do i force amanda to use the tape in the drive? thanks, Cameron Matheson __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
