Re: HD backup strategy ?
FM wrote: > Hello everybody, > > My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I > thing it's time to switch for HD backups. > > Does some of you using HD backup ? if so what is you stategy ? > How you take backup off-site ? > > What kind of hardware are you using ? SCSI or SATA RAID ? > > Thanks ! > > Have a look at backuppc: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ The archiving can't be compared to amanda, but still it's quite powerfull ... I'm using amanda for off-site backups and backuppc (SATA Raid) to give users permanent access to their data . Regards, Bernhard
Re: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 17:00:00
Jason Davis wrote: Hello, I am new to Amanda and tape drives for that matter. I have set up a Amanda server and for now have it just backing up itself. All works well for the backup part. However when I try to restore I get this message.. tar: ./2005-01-07_17-00-57/ibdata01.ibz: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 17:00:00 The file still recovers ok. Why is this happening? Here is the output of stat of the original file that was backed up [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-01-07_17-00-57--> stat ibdata01.ibz File: `ibdata01.ibz' Size: 1130278748 Blocks: 2209744IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 20431486Links: 1 Access: (0640/-rw-r-) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2005-01-10 13:02:04.0 -0700 Modify: 2005-01-07 17:07:31.0 -0700 Change: 2005-01-07 17:07:31.0 -0700 thanks, Jason Davis I had the same error with tar (GNU tar) 1.13.93 amanda version 2.4.4p3 kernel 2.4.24 Rest of restore was fine, files were ok, so I didn't investigate too much ;-) Regards, Bernhard Ott
Re: which files need to be suid root?
Matthias Andree wrote: Bernhard Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello everybody, I recently upgraded my Debian(sarge)-packages of amanda to version 2.4.4p2-2, which caused a total mess of permissions/ownerships in /usr/sbin: On my SuSE 8.2 box with SuSE's Amanda RPM, I see these files setuid: -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk30017 Apr 16 2003 /usr/lib/amanda/calcsize -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 122300 Apr 16 2003 /usr/lib/amanda/dumper -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk27320 Apr 16 2003 /usr/lib/amanda/killpgrp -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 176228 Apr 16 2003 /usr/lib/amanda/planner -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk25485 Apr 16 2003 /usr/lib/amanda/rundump -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk26065 Apr 16 2003 /usr/lib/amanda/runtar -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 199765 Apr 16 2003 /usr/sbin/amcheck No other files are setuid. No files at all are setgid. HTH, Thanks for the quick response, did help a lot! Schönen Sonntag, Bernhard
which files need to be suid root?
Hello everybody, I recently upgraded my Debian(sarge)-packages of amanda to version 2.4.4p2-2, which caused a total mess of permissions/ownerships in /usr/sbin: -rwxr-xr-x1 root root31156 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amadmin -rwsr-x---1 root backup 36148 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amcheck -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1790 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amcheckdb -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 3915 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amcleanup -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 6988 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amdd -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 3723 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amdump -rwxr-xr-x1 root root14632 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amflush -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 9028 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amgetconf -rwxr-xr-x1 root root10592 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amlabel -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 7280 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/ammt -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4474 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amoverview -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4567 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amplot -rwxr-xr-x1 root root60760 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amrecover -rwxr-xr-x1 root root38648 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amreport -rwxr-xr-x1 root root15044 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amrestore -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 6814 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amrmtape -rwxr-xr-x1 root root32862 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amstatus -rwxr-xr-x1 root root16084 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amtape -rwxr-xr-x1 root root10292 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amtapetype -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 6888 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amtoc -rwxr-xr-x1 root root11742 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amverify -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1107 2004-03-15 08:16 /usr/sbin/amverifyrun The amanda-user on Debian is "backup", group "backup". I don't want to build amanda from scratch (since everything used to be working fine), and I couldn't find a *complete* list of which files have to be run suid root - suggestions welcome ;-) So everything I have to do should be $:# chown root:backup filestochange $:# chmod 4750 filestochange ?? Sorry again for the FAQ, but after 2 hours research I gave up ;-> Thanks in advance, Bernhard -- Bernhard Ott
