Re: [Up and running] RE: SAS/Fibre Channel interface for LTO4
Last thing to fix is: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: server7: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK WARNING: server1: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for REP Client check: 6 hosts checked in 90.064 seconds, 2 problems foun Debian ;-) Always a problem..
[Up and running] RE: SAS/Fibre Channel interface for LTO4
quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Our fibre channel devices show up as scsi devices on both Tru64 UNIX and HP-UX. I would expect most UNIX systems to behave the same. The underlying drivers are the same, as I understand it (FC being a serialized version of SCSI). Best wishes with the implementation. OK, now price is the next thing to decide on, which will dictate the interface ;-) Thanks all. Just a quick one to say our client is now running: Dell TL2000 LTO4 and a Dell SAS5e/i card and Amanda 2.5.2p1 on Centos 5.1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mtx -f /dev/sg4 inquiry Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'IBM ' Product ID: '3573-TL ' Revision: '4.50' Attached Changer: No [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mtx -f /dev/sg3 inquiry Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'IBM ' Product ID: 'ULT3580-TD4 ' Revision: '74H6' Attached Changer: No They are backing up 6 servers, with the first run tonight and a 3 tape span initial trial (we haven't bother to work out a total backup capacity requirement yet ;-) ). 2.4TB should be enough to test for one run as there is no way that much to backup. Last thing to fix is: There are 7 clients, including the amanda server itself, ranging from Centos 4.1, 5.1, Suse Ent 9, 1 Windows Box and Ubuntu 6.01 LTS. We did have a bit of a panic because the card wasn't seeing the library, but turned out to be a duff cable. Lastly, we are using the chg-zd-mtx changer but had a problem in that it wouldn't find mt or mtx! Had to edit and provide full paths to them like so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /usr/lib/amanda/chg-lib.sh # You may want to customize these values # These are the defaults discovered by configure when Amanda was installed. # They can be overridden here, or by by 'mt_binary' and 'mtx_binary', # respectively, in the changerfile (currently only for chg-zd-mtx.sh and # chg-manual.sh). MT=/bin/mt MTX=/usr/sbin/mtx Thanks all, and I hope this reassures someone else that the latest and greatest LTO hardware works perfectly (as expected) with Amanda. Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
RE: SAS/Fibre Channel interface for LTO4
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Our fibre channel devices show up as scsi devices on both Tru64 UNIX and HP-UX. I would expect most UNIX systems to behave the same. The underlying drivers are the same, as I understand it (FC being a serialized version of SCSI). Best wishes with the implementation. OK, now price is the next thing to decide on, which will dictate the interface ;-) Thanks all.
SAS/Fibre Channel interface for LTO4
Hi, We're looking at an LTO4 device and have an option for SAS or fibre channel interface for hooking up to the server and Amanda. Never dealt with this kind of interface before. How would it appear to a *nix server and Amanda? We're used to LTO2 and a SCSI interface with chg-*-mtx scripts. Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry.
Congrats on Amanda 2.5.1p1
Hi All, I must say 2.5.1p1 is much better than 2.5.0. amcheck now doesn't complain about having 6.4TB free! Holding disk /storage/amanda: 6443 GB disk space available, using 500 GB as requested It used to through a fit about this. Everything is now upgraded, after a few headaches because of not reading the new docs for xinetd.d/amanda and .amandahosts, but that's my fault ;-) Also, we now longer have high CPU usage when using amrecover and hugh backups! Many thanks all, and keep up the good work! Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
amfetchdump and permission errors as root user and amanda user
Just testing recovery like a good support company and getting permission errors: nas1:/storage # /usr/local/sbin/amfetchdump Test nas1 /storage/samba 20060811 -o /storage/ Scanning /storage/amanda... 1 tape(s) needed for restoration changer: got exit: 0 str: 6 7 1 1 The following tapes are needed: Test-006 Press enter when ready Looking for tape Test-006... changer: got exit: 0 str: 6 7 1 1 changer_query: changer return was 7 1 1 changer_query: searchable = 1 changer_find: looking for Test-006 changer is searchable = 1 changer_search: Test-006 changer: got exit: 0 str: 6 /dev/nst0 amfetchdump: slot 6: date 20060811 label Test-006 (exact label match) Scanning Test-006 (slot 6) amfetchdump: 1: restoring split dumpfile: date 20060811 host nas1 disk /storage/samba part 20221/UNKNOWN lev 0 comp N program /bin/tar amfetchdump: Chunk out of order, will save to disk and append to output. amfetchdump: could not create output file .tmp: Permission denied amfetchdump: could not create output file .tmp: Permission denied amfetchdump: pid 11700 finish time Thu Aug 17 11:22:46 2006 Why the permission denied? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: amfetchdump and permission errors as root user and amanda user
quote who=Gavin Henry Just testing recovery like a good support company and getting permission errors: nas1:/storage # /usr/local/sbin/amfetchdump Test nas1 /storage/samba 20060811 -o /storage/ Scanning /storage/amanda... 1 tape(s) needed for restoration changer: got exit: 0 str: 6 7 1 1 The following tapes are needed: Test-006 Press enter when ready Looking for tape Test-006... changer: got exit: 0 str: 6 7 1 1 changer_query: changer return was 7 1 1 changer_query: searchable = 1 changer_find: looking for Test-006 changer is searchable = 1 changer_search: Test-006 changer: got exit: 0 str: 6 /dev/nst0 amfetchdump: slot 6: date 20060811 label Test-006 (exact label match) Scanning Test-006 (slot 6) amfetchdump: 1: restoring split dumpfile: date 20060811 host nas1 disk /storage/samba part 20221/UNKNOWN lev 0 comp N program /bin/tar amfetchdump: Chunk out of order, will save to disk and append to output. amfetchdump: could not create output file .tmp: Permission denied amfetchdump: could not create output file .tmp: Permission denied amfetchdump: pid 11700 finish time Thu Aug 17 11:22:46 2006 Why the permission denied? Been running amrestore and have found the reason: amrestore: could not create output file .tmp: Too many open files This is 64-Bit SUSE 9.3, so maybe need to change no of files that can be opened ;-) Gavin. Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Very high mem usage with amindexd and amrecover
Just trying to run amrecover: 17862 amanda18 0 5926m 3.8g 1360 D 13.5 97.8 0:22.94 amindexd Our server total dies, which has 4GB RAM and 2Gb swap. Any ideas? The setdisk we are setting to is our 6.9T disk, which has 276GB currently saved. Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
RE: tape_splitsize 20 Gb and 200GB LTO2 Tapes
quote who=Gardiner Leverett
I've got a question for you (since I'm about to implement
the exact same thing): does the dump have to be tar'd?
I'm copying this to list for others, hope you don't mind?
We are using tar, but not gzip'd. We are using the hardare compression.
Make sure you use split_diskbuffer, or you'll get a lot of:
taper: no split_diskbuffer specified: using fallback split size of 10240kb to
buffer localhost:/root.0 in-memory
I am trying to dump about 80G of data from across the
country (with T1's at both ends), and the throughput is
coming at 161kb/s, which is trying to say it'd be 4 days
to dump all this data (when it used to work in one weekend
over 40 hours).
Whoa ;-)
I want to implement the same thing with
splitting across lto2 tapes (but I don't have a holding disk,
and I'm about to add a usb one). I think the tar is what's
killing this, so I just want to do a full dump, into 2gb chunks
and save those to tape.
Plain tar or with compression?
-Original Message-
quote who=Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-11 17:27, Gavin Henry wrote:
Dear All,
We are trying to dump over 300GB to go across 2 tapes, as per:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes
But keep getting:
nas1:/storage/samba 0 planner: [dump larger than available
tape space,
280606560 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]
Our dumptype is:
define dumptype user-tar-span {
root-tar
tape_splitsize 20 Gb
comment tape-spanning user partitions dumped with tar
priority medium
}
Any tips?
You probably still have runtapes 1. Increase it.
Or set maxdumpsize to an appropriate value.
/me hides head in shame. I thought I did, must have been thinking of
runspercycle. Doh!
Thanks!
--
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+32 16 397.511
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+32 16 397.512
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port NNNN is not secure - Only mentioned in Planner, not amcheck
Dear all, I am just wondering, since we compiled --with-ssh-security, none of our amdumps are working due to planner reporting: planner: ERROR dell2 NAK: host xxx: port 32916 not secure planner: ERROR nas1 NAK: host xxx: port 32916 not secure planner: ERROR dell1 NAK: host xxx: port 32916 not secure amcheck doesn't show this error, like mentioned at: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcheck:_port__is_not_secure Is this because we aren't using ssh keys? Lastly: driver: WARNING: /storage/amanda: 104857600 KB requested, but only -2147483648 KB available. Above seems to be from ou holding disk being 6.9T big. Where can I submit a bug for amcheck/driver? Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
tape_splitsize 20 Gb and 200GB LTO2 Tapes
Dear All,
We are trying to dump over 300GB to go across 2 tapes, as per:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes
But keep getting:
nas1:/storage/samba 0 planner: [dump larger than available tape space,
280606560 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]
Our dumptype is:
define dumptype user-tar-span {
root-tar
tape_splitsize 20 Gb
comment tape-spanning user partitions dumped with tar
priority medium
}
Any tips?
Thanks.
--
Kind Regards,
Gavin Henry.
Managing Director.
T +44 (0) 1224 279484
M +44 (0) 7930 323266
F +44 (0) 1224 824887
E [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open Source. Open Solutions(tm).
http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: tape_splitsize 20 Gb and 200GB LTO2 Tapes
quote who=Paul Bijnens
On 2006-08-11 17:27, Gavin Henry wrote:
Dear All,
We are trying to dump over 300GB to go across 2 tapes, as per:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes
But keep getting:
nas1:/storage/samba 0 planner: [dump larger than available tape space,
280606560 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk]
Our dumptype is:
define dumptype user-tar-span {
root-tar
tape_splitsize 20 Gb
comment tape-spanning user partitions dumped with tar
priority medium
}
Any tips?
You probably still have runtapes 1. Increase it.
Or set maxdumpsize to an appropriate value.
/me hides head in shame. I thought I did, must have been thinking of
runspercycle. Doh!
Thanks!
--
Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511
Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512
http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure
quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=Paul Bijnens On 2006-08-08 16:17, Gavin Henry wrote: Currently trying to compile 2.5.0p2 with: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security --with-config=Suretec --with-changer-device=/dev/sg2 --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 But configure just sits there at: checking for smbclient... /usr/bin/smbclient Upgrading to Samba 3.0.23b fixed it. Not sure, but can now move on. Thanks. Same when adding --with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient If you do not need smbclient support, then you can configure with --without-smbclient and work around this problem. I have tried that, and with --with-smbclient=no. I've been going through configure.in to see what the probs are. If you do need it... then try to investigate what is blocking. It seems like configure is hanging in one of the next steps. Configure tries to find out what version of smbclient you have by running the command: smbclient '\\not.a.host.name\notashare' -U nosuchuser -N -Tx /dev/null Looks like it's this. It just hangs. Must be smbclient, as it is taking forever, even when I jsut run: smblcient with no options. Forget it, will debug smbclient. Nothing wrong with Amanda. Thanks all. strace smbclient -d 5 show it sitting at: futex(0x2bdf2dc0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL Hmm. I just setup 2 clients on Fedora Core 5 with 2.5.0p2, and they both are fine. The server is on a SUSE 9.3 x86_64 box, that has (Is a Samba PDC too): free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 3961296 3665 0 48 154 -/+ buffers/cache: 93 3868 Swap: 2070 0 2070 uname -a Linux nas1 2.6.14.2-smp #2 SMP Thu Nov 17 15:31:40 GMT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 73G 6.0G 67G 9% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb 6.9T 263G 6.6T 4% /storage lsscsi [0:0:0:0]diskATA HTS541080G9SA00 MB4O /dev/sda [4:0:1:0]tapeCERTANCE ULTRIUM 21775 /dev/st0 [4:0:1:1]mediumx QUANTUM UHDL 000E - [6:0:0:0]diskArecaARC-1160-VOL#00 R001 /dev/sdb What happens if you run that manually? Hangs The output of that step does not appear on screen however, so it could be that configure is actually hanging on the step after that. I think it's smbclient that is the problem. The next step is finding out where the gzip program lives. Is does that by looking in several directories. If one of those directories happens to be mounted on a non-responsive NFS-server, you hang here too. The list of directories is: /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bsd:/etc:/usr/etc /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin and the value of $PATH from the user that runs configure. Anything strange when trying test -e /bin/gzip? (Try that for all the above dirs) Nope, looks fine. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +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, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
amcheck and BIG holding disks
Dear all, We've put Amandas Holding disk on a NAS, which has 6.6T free on it: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 73G 6.0G 67G 9% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb 6.9T 263G 6.6T 4% /storage amcheck doesn't like it though: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - WARNING: holding disk /storage/amanda: only -2048 GB free, using nothing in our amanda.conf we've put in the holdingdisk section: use -1000Gb Anything else we can do? -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: amcheck and BIG holding disks
quote who=Jon LaBadie On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:41:29PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, We've put Amandas Holding disk on a NAS, which has 6.6T free on it: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 73G 6.0G 67G 9% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb 6.9T 263G 6.6T 4% /storage amcheck doesn't like it though: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - WARNING: holding disk /storage/amanda: only -2048 GB free, using nothing in our amanda.conf we've put in the holdingdisk section: use -1000Gb Anything else we can do? Damn wrap around/overflow on big numbers. Say again? Do you expect to be able to feed your unbelievably fast LTO-3 drive fast enough from network storage? Yeah, it's on the same server (www.dnuk.com NAS Server): Dual AMD64 2GHz 4GB Ram 80GB OS Disk 6.9T /storage SUSE 9.3 64Bit Quantum SuperLoader 3 LT0-2 Autoloader LSI Logic/Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07) Just running amtapetype now via screen, so might just pick one from: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions#LTO-2_.28Ultrium_2.29 Gavin. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: amcheck and BIG holding disks
quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=Jon LaBadie On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:41:29PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, We've put Amandas Holding disk on a NAS, which has 6.6T free on it: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 73G 6.0G 67G 9% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb 6.9T 263G 6.6T 4% /storage amcheck doesn't like it though: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - WARNING: holding disk /storage/amanda: only -2048 GB free, using nothing in our amanda.conf we've put in the holdingdisk section: use -1000Gb Anything else we can do? Damn wrap around/overflow on big numbers. Say again? Do you expect to be able to feed your unbelievably fast LTO-3 drive fast enough from network storage? Yeah, it's on the same server (www.dnuk.com NAS Server): Dual AMD64 2GHz 4GB Ram 80GB OS Disk 6.9T /storage SUSE 9.3 64Bit Quantum SuperLoader 3 LT0-2 Autoloader Any advice on a changer script for this loader? Was going to use chg-scsi? http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Changers#chg-scsi_.28new_interface.2C_try_to_drive_a_robot_with_direct_scsi_commands.29 Thanks. LSI Logic/Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07) Just running amtapetype now via screen, so might just pick one from: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions#LTO-2_.28Ultrium_2.29 Gavin. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure
Dear All, Currently trying to compile 2.5.0p2 with: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security --with-config=Suretec --with-changer-device=/dev/sg2 --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 But configure just sits there at: checking for smbclient... /usr/bin/smbclient Same when adding --with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient Any tips? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure
quote who=Paul Bijnens On 2006-08-08 16:17, Gavin Henry wrote: Currently trying to compile 2.5.0p2 with: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security --with-config=Suretec --with-changer-device=/dev/sg2 --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 But configure just sits there at: checking for smbclient... /usr/bin/smbclient Same when adding --with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient If you do not need smbclient support, then you can configure with --without-smbclient and work around this problem. I have tried that, and with --with-smbclient=no. I've been going through configure.in to see what the probs are. If you do need it... then try to investigate what is blocking. It seems like configure is hanging in one of the next steps. Configure tries to find out what version of smbclient you have by running the command: smbclient '\\not.a.host.name\notashare' -U nosuchuser -N -Tx /dev/null Looks like it's this. It just hangs. I just setup 2 clients on Fedora Core 5 with 2.5.0p2, and they both are fine. The server is on a SUSE 9.3 x86_64 box, that has (Is a Samba PDC too): free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 3961296 3665 0 48154 -/+ buffers/cache: 93 3868 Swap: 2070 0 2070 uname -a Linux nas1 2.6.14.2-smp #2 SMP Thu Nov 17 15:31:40 GMT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 73G 6.0G 67G 9% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb 6.9T 263G 6.6T 4% /storage lsscsi [0:0:0:0]diskATA HTS541080G9SA00 MB4O /dev/sda [4:0:1:0]tapeCERTANCE ULTRIUM 21775 /dev/st0 [4:0:1:1]mediumx QUANTUM UHDL 000E - [6:0:0:0]diskArecaARC-1160-VOL#00 R001 /dev/sdb What happens if you run that manually? Hangs The output of that step does not appear on screen however, so it could be that configure is actually hanging on the step after that. I think it's smbclient that is the problem. The next step is finding out where the gzip program lives. Is does that by looking in several directories. If one of those directories happens to be mounted on a non-responsive NFS-server, you hang here too. The list of directories is: /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bsd:/etc:/usr/etc /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin and the value of $PATH from the user that runs configure. Anything strange when trying test -e /bin/gzip? (Try that for all the above dirs) Nope, looks fine. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +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, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Re: amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure
quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=Paul Bijnens On 2006-08-08 16:17, Gavin Henry wrote: Currently trying to compile 2.5.0p2 with: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security --with-config=Suretec --with-changer-device=/dev/sg2 --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 But configure just sits there at: checking for smbclient... /usr/bin/smbclient Same when adding --with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient If you do not need smbclient support, then you can configure with --without-smbclient and work around this problem. I have tried that, and with --with-smbclient=no. I've been going through configure.in to see what the probs are. If you do need it... then try to investigate what is blocking. It seems like configure is hanging in one of the next steps. Configure tries to find out what version of smbclient you have by running the command: smbclient '\\not.a.host.name\notashare' -U nosuchuser -N -Tx /dev/null Looks like it's this. It just hangs. Must be smbclient, as it is taking forever, even when I jsut run: smblcient with no options. Forget it, will debug smbclient. Nothing wrong with Amanda. Thanks all. I just setup 2 clients on Fedora Core 5 with 2.5.0p2, and they both are fine. The server is on a SUSE 9.3 x86_64 box, that has (Is a Samba PDC too): free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 3961296 3665 0 48154 -/+ buffers/cache: 93 3868 Swap: 2070 0 2070 uname -a Linux nas1 2.6.14.2-smp #2 SMP Thu Nov 17 15:31:40 GMT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 73G 6.0G 67G 9% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb 6.9T 263G 6.6T 4% /storage lsscsi [0:0:0:0]diskATA HTS541080G9SA00 MB4O /dev/sda [4:0:1:0]tapeCERTANCE ULTRIUM 21775 /dev/st0 [4:0:1:1]mediumx QUANTUM UHDL 000E - [6:0:0:0]diskArecaARC-1160-VOL#00 R001 /dev/sdb What happens if you run that manually? Hangs The output of that step does not appear on screen however, so it could be that configure is actually hanging on the step after that. I think it's smbclient that is the problem. The next step is finding out where the gzip program lives. Is does that by looking in several directories. If one of those directories happens to be mounted on a non-responsive NFS-server, you hang here too. The list of directories is: /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bsd:/etc:/usr/etc /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin and the value of $PATH from the user that runs configure. Anything strange when trying test -e /bin/gzip? (Try that for all the above dirs) Nope, looks fine. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +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, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Re: amanda-2.5.0p2 hanging on smbclient with configure
quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=Gavin Henry quote who=Paul Bijnens On 2006-08-08 16:17, Gavin Henry wrote: Currently trying to compile 2.5.0p2 with: ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security --with-config=Suretec --with-changer-device=/dev/sg2 --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 But configure just sits there at: checking for smbclient... /usr/bin/smbclient Same when adding --with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient If you do not need smbclient support, then you can configure with --without-smbclient and work around this problem. I have tried that, and with --with-smbclient=no. I've been going through configure.in to see what the probs are. If you do need it... then try to investigate what is blocking. It seems like configure is hanging in one of the next steps. Configure tries to find out what version of smbclient you have by running the command: smbclient '\\not.a.host.name\notashare' -U nosuchuser -N -Tx /dev/null Looks like it's this. It just hangs. Must be smbclient, as it is taking forever, even when I jsut run: smblcient with no options. Forget it, will debug smbclient. Nothing wrong with Amanda. Thanks all. strace smbclient -d 5 show it sitting at: futex(0x2bdf2dc0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL Hmm. I just setup 2 clients on Fedora Core 5 with 2.5.0p2, and they both are fine. The server is on a SUSE 9.3 x86_64 box, that has (Is a Samba PDC too): free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 3961296 3665 0 48 154 -/+ buffers/cache: 93 3868 Swap: 2070 0 2070 uname -a Linux nas1 2.6.14.2-smp #2 SMP Thu Nov 17 15:31:40 GMT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 73G 6.0G 67G 9% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb 6.9T 263G 6.6T 4% /storage lsscsi [0:0:0:0]diskATA HTS541080G9SA00 MB4O /dev/sda [4:0:1:0]tapeCERTANCE ULTRIUM 21775 /dev/st0 [4:0:1:1]mediumx QUANTUM UHDL 000E - [6:0:0:0]diskArecaARC-1160-VOL#00 R001 /dev/sdb What happens if you run that manually? Hangs The output of that step does not appear on screen however, so it could be that configure is actually hanging on the step after that. I think it's smbclient that is the problem. The next step is finding out where the gzip program lives. Is does that by looking in several directories. If one of those directories happens to be mounted on a non-responsive NFS-server, you hang here too. The list of directories is: /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bsd:/etc:/usr/etc /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin and the value of $PATH from the user that runs configure. Anything strange when trying test -e /bin/gzip? (Try that for all the above dirs) Nope, looks fine. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +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, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Re: Introducing the Amanda Wiki
Stefan G. Weichinger said the following on 22/11/05 10:04: Greetings to you, the amanda-users and amanda-hackers, A better organization of user and developer documentation of Amanda has been on our wish list for a long time. That is why I am pleased to announce the release of the new AMANDA-Wiki at http://wiki.zmanda.com The conversion of the docs into Docbook/XML was a first step, the Wiki is a second step that we are taking towards better organization of documentation as well as creating an environment for better collaboration among users. Ease of remote editing by multiple users, an on-going archival of changes and Search capability are key features of the Wiki. We are using the same scalable and proven technology as www.wikipedia.org The existing AMANDA-documentation at http://www.amanda.org/docs will stay in place for now and build the foundation for upcoming additions. This is a resource built by the AMANDA community and belongs to the AMANDA community. We invite everyone to contribute. I am sure that this new and democratic approach will help us to get more useful information into a searchable form, explanations and howtos from the mailing-lists can now be easily added to the Wiki by yourself. The Wiki is right now in a very early stage and is ready to get formed and filled with content provided by you, the AMANDA-community. We are looking forward to your contributions and are sure that this platform will help to improve the overall quality of AMANDA support. Best regards to you, Stefan G. Weichinger, AMANDA Core Team Member, Managing Editor of the AMANDA Wiki http://wiki.zmanda.com/ A big thanks from us!! -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions.(tm) http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: poor documentation
quote who=Clive Galway Is there any documentation other than the official manual ? The one I have (dated june 26 2005, so I presume it is recent) is woefully poor and has in some cases made the install harder, not easier. You can always offer to help? Here is something I put together: http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/amanda/ Paid support available: http://www.amanda.org/support/commercial.php -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
vtapes documentation
Hi Guys, Been a while, but that's due to Amanda being so rock solid!!! I am about to try a new setup using vtapes, as a new client won't be getting a tape drive for about 5 weeks, but would like Amanda setup now. Then when it arrives, we will be moving on to tapes. However, I can't seem to find anything in the main docs about vtapes? If there is and I have missed it, then sorry, if there isn't, then I could work on whatever we have and then speak to Stefan to work with him to get them added to the core docs? Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: vtapes documentation
Doh!!! Been one of those days already, and it's only 11:30am here ;-) -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ quote who=Stefan G. Weichinger Gavin Henry wrote: Hi Guys, Been a while, but that's due to Amanda being so rock solid!!! I am about to try a new setup using vtapes, as a new client won't be getting a tape drive for about 5 weeks, but would like Amanda setup now. Then when it arrives, we will be moving on to tapes. However, I can't seem to find anything in the main docs about vtapes? If there is and I have missed it, then sorry, if there isn't, then I could work on whatever we have and then speak to Stefan to work with him to get them added to the core docs? What about http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-filedriver.html ? This is where the term vtape originates ... -- Stefan G. Weichinger AMANDA core team member mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- oops! linux consulting implementation http://www.oops.co.at --
Re: Search file in amanda database
quote who=Montagni, Giovanni Hi to all! I've read the docs, searched through the web, but i cannot find the answer to this question: Well, you didn't look very hard, did you ;-) http://www.amanda.org/docs/using.html#config_use_amrecover is possible to search a file in amanda database? for example i have a file called pippo.sh backed up somewhere in a tape i don't rebember. i only know filename. Can i do a search to find the tape and the path of pippo.sh? thanks for your help, -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: planner segfault, FreeBSD 4.11
On Tuesday 07 Jun 2005 22:16, you wrote: Hi all, After uppgrading from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5 on a FreeBSD 4.11-REL system I get the following from planner. Amanda is built with gcc 2.95.4. Any hints appriciated thanks. Can you try a different version of gcc? Also, could you join the devel list and post this again? Thanks. snip Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x2818c54a in vfprintf () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (gdb) where #0 0x2818c54a in vfprintf () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #1 0x2818b275 in fprintf () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4 #2 0x8049b90 in free () #3 0x80498fe in free () -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Bacula comparison
Dear all, How does http://www.bacula.org/ stack up against Amanda? -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Bacula comparison
quote who=Joshua Baker-LePain On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 at 8:40am, Gavin Henry wrote How does http://www.bacula.org/ stack up against Amanda? I was actually looking at bacula recently, with an eye to moving to it. I asked about it on the local LUG mailing list -- the thread starts here https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/dulug/2005-March/016129.html. My issue is that I currently have 5.5TB of (90+% full) space, with a new 6TB server showing up on Monday. My current library (a 2 drive, 19 slot AIT3 model) is struggling to keep up. I have to juggle DLEs a fair bit as usage patterns change. Bacula natively supports tape spanning, as well as backing up ACLs. It seemed like it was worth looking into to... However, I pretty quickly decided against moving to it. The main reason is that the scheduler seems, well, primitive. Amanda's scheduler is so very nice, and (in general) does such a good job that I'm spoiled. With bacula, the scheduling seems very much up to the admin, and achieving the sort of balance amanda does so effortlessly looks to be a nightmare. I was also leery of losing the ability to recover data with nothing other than mt, dd, and tar. I probably need to get over that issue even sticking with amanda and investigate the spanning patch (given tools like Knoppix with room to spare for new utilities), but it's just such a comforting feeling. Anyway, that's my $0.02. I looked, but didn't even come close to leaping. I am glad someone else has looked at it, I was scared it was better. How is the Spanning Patch coming along? -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: amanda CVS checkout?
On Friday 25 Mar 2005 01:25, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: Hi, I'm using the following command to check out 2.5 alpha sources. # cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda co amanda cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to cvs.amanda.sourceforge.net(66.35.250.209):2401 failed: Connection timed out It fails. The machine is accessible using ping command. How do I checkout the sources? cvs.sf.net Thanks, Paddy -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: backup Oracle DB at AMANDA server
quote who=Jack$on Hello amanda-users, I have configured AMANDA Server, my daily weekly backups from my servers working successful... but I wonna backup My Oracle Database by The AMANDA. previously, i must do export of DB, or stop Oracle Database... only after this i may backup my Database files, or export files... but how i can synchronize my export procedure amanda backup? Via crontab. Write a script that stops Oracle, backs up and then run amdump. That's what we do. PS I'm sorry for my bad English... -- Best regards, Jack$on mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
RE: Linux Storage Options
quote who=Mike Karp Hi Gavin. Thanks for the note. Actually, I had never heard much about either of these before your note. Since then, I've refreshed my knowledge re Amanda, albeit briefly. From what I can see, based on a quick reading of the doc you pointed me to, it doesn't appear to be an industrial strength application for the enterprise - although I could certainly be wrong about that. Re: http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/stor/2005/0221stor2.html?fsrc=rss-linux, I'd like to see the replies if you posted that to the Amanda mailing list ;-) Actually, Amanda is very enterprise ready. It backups today some of the largest networks, which many of the sys admins on the Amanda list can verify. Gavin. Thanks for writing, and of course, for reading my newsletter. Cheers. Mike _ Michael Karp Senior Analyst Enterprise Management Associates 8 Olde Stonebridge Path Westboro, MA 01581 508-366-0328 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To access the archive of my twice-weekly NetworkWorld FUSION newsletter Storage in the Enterprise, go to http://emausa.com/storage_page.html and click on STORAGE IN THE ENTERPRISE. -Original Message- From: Gavin Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 5:24 PM To: Mike Karp Subject: Linux Storage Options What about Amanda: http://www.amanda.org And Bru? http://www.tolisgroup.com/ -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
RE: Linux Storage Options
quote who=Mike Karp Gavin: Can you put me in contact with these guys? If they really have something, I probably should help them make it public. @ the very least, it sounds as if I should learn more about them. Would anyone like to step forward and speak to Mike? Thanks for your interest. Cheers. Mike _ Michael Karp Senior Analyst Enterprise Management Associates 8 Olde Stonebridge Path Westboro, MA 01581 508-366-0328 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To access the archive of my twice-weekly NetworkWorld FUSION newsletter Storage in the Enterprise, go to http://emausa.com/storage_page.html and click on STORAGE IN THE ENTERPRISE. -Original Message- From: Gavin Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:17 AM To: Mike Karp Subject: RE: Linux Storage Options quote who=Mike Karp Hi Gavin. Thanks for the note. Actually, I had never heard much about either of these before your note. Since then, I've refreshed my knowledge re Amanda, albeit briefly. From what I can see, based on a quick reading of the doc you pointed me to, it doesn't appear to be an industrial strength application for the enterprise - although I could certainly be wrong about that. Re: http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/stor/2005/0221stor2.html?fsrc=rss-li nux, I'd like to see the replies if you posted that to the Amanda mailing list ;-) Actually, Amanda is very enterprise ready. It backups today some of the largest networks, which many of the sys admins on the Amanda list can verify. Gavin. Thanks for writing, and of course, for reading my newsletter. Cheers. Mike _ Michael Karp Senior Analyst Enterprise Management Associates 8 Olde Stonebridge Path Westboro, MA 01581 508-366-0328 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To access the archive of my twice-weekly NetworkWorld FUSION newsletter Storage in the Enterprise, go to http://emausa.com/storage_page.html and click on STORAGE IN THE ENTERPRISE. -Original Message- From: Gavin Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 5:24 PM To: Mike Karp Subject: Linux Storage Options What about Amanda: http://www.amanda.org And Bru? http://www.tolisgroup.com/ -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Linux Storage Options
quote who=Fran Fabrizio I actually have no idea how this ended up in my INBOX (I presume through the Amanda mailing list but it doesn't look like other Amanda posts, and as you can see Reply All doesn't include the list) but I can comment Thanks Fran, I CC'd it to the list, as I was annoyed that Amanda was overlooked, when I know it is much better than Arkeia, as we tried it and hated it, and then found Amanda. We currently use Amanda for our clients to back up a lot of big oracle servers. If that's not Enterprise, then I don't know what it. Guys, can we have your stories too and then maybe Mike can add an update to his article. Gavin. I back up around 60GB of data nightly (as in, the amount of data moving nightly is 60GB - the amount of data being backed up is far greater, but most of each nightly backup is incrementals) from 14 different servers using Amanda. Everyone's definition of enterprise is different, but if that comes within your definition, then Amanda is certainly capable. And I am by no means the largest Amanda install going. Also, there's Bacula - another alternative. I did a talk last summer on Amanda at the Open Source Conference... I proposed an expanded version this year that will include Bacula. I haven't heard of Bru, I'll have to check that out. -Fran Gavin Henry wrote: quote who=Mike Karp Hi Gavin. Thanks for the note. Actually, I had never heard much about either of these before your note. Since then, I've refreshed my knowledge re Amanda, albeit briefly. From what I can see, based on a quick reading of the doc you pointed me to, it doesn't appear to be an industrial strength application for the enterprise - although I could certainly be wrong about that. Re: http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/stor/2005/0221stor2.html?fsrc=rss-linux, I'd like to see the replies if you posted that to the Amanda mailing list ;-) Actually, Amanda is very enterprise ready. It backups today some of the largest networks, which many of the sys admins on the Amanda list can verify. Gavin. Thanks for writing, and of course, for reading my newsletter. Cheers. Mike _ Michael Karp Senior Analyst Enterprise Management Associates 8 Olde Stonebridge Path Westboro, MA 01581 508-366-0328 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To access the archive of my twice-weekly NetworkWorld FUSION newsletter Storage in the Enterprise, go to http://emausa.com/storage_page.html and click on STORAGE IN THE ENTERPRISE. -Original Message- From: Gavin Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 5:24 PM To: Mike Karp Subject: Linux Storage Options What about Amanda: http://www.amanda.org And Bru? http://www.tolisgroup.com/ -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653
Re: Linux Storage Options
On Monday 28 Feb 2005 20:58, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Gavin, on Montag, 28. Februar 2005 at 16:03 you wrote to amanda-users: GH quote who=Mike Karp Gavin: Can you put me in contact with these guys? If they really have something, I probably should help them make it public. @ the very least, it sounds as if I should learn more about them. GH Would anyone like to step forward and speak to Mike? Who is meant by these guys? The amanda-users or the team? What does he want to know? Hi Stefan, He Amanda Team. He wants to know where Amanda is used, so that he can compare it to the likes of Arkeia etc. Thanks. Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: I hope this text from the online manual is obsolete
On Monday 28 Feb 2005 21:32, you wrote: Normally, AMANDA uses one tape per run. With a tape changer (even the chg-manual one), the number of tapes per run may be set higher for extra capacity. This is an upper limit on the number of tapes. AMANDA uses only as much tape as it needs. AMANDA does not yet do overflow from one tape to another. If it hits end of tape (or any other error) while writing an image, that tape is unmounted, the next one is loaded, and the image starts over from the beginning. This sequence continues if the image cannot fit on a tape. This is correct. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
CVS info on FAQ
Could some update the details on howto checkout things from CVS? Need to be: cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda co modulename Not: cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda co modulename Just DNS changes. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Backup
On Monday 21 Feb 2005 06:05, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi All How can I have monthly,quarterly and half yearly backup using Amanda Hi, Simply make some more amanda.conf and run them monthly, quarterly and half yearly. Thanks in Advance -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Amanda's report
quote who=Gil Naveh After running Amanda's backup, I receive an email with a report about the last backup. The first section of that report is: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: and under this section I get the following message: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: servername/folder/to/backup lev 0 STRANGE What does STRANGE means? I checked the data that was backed up on the tape and was able to restore it - should I ignore that message or what does Amanda tries to tell me? If you scroll down that e-mail, she probably say's that it was ignoring some sockets or open e-mails etc. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Can tapes be grouped for different types of back-up?
On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 21:43, you wrote: Until recently I had a DDS3 tape streamer. Then it broke down a few weeks ago and I bought a DDS4 tape streamer. I therefore have a lot of DDS3 tapes which I like to use for incremental back-ups because the new tape streamer can also handle DDS3 tapes. I will then ear mark the DDS4 tapes for full back-ups. Is that possible and how can that be accomplished? Hi. Create two different amanda.conf and then you have two groups of tapes labelled for the different sets. But please read: http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2519312 -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
#amanda freenode irc channel
Hi all, Who hangs aroung here, and what are your nicks? I'm G2 -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
FAQ access on www.amanda.org not working
Dear all, Could someone check the login process on the FOM at the main site. I have signed up twice now to make some changes, but I haven´t ever received a e-mail. Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Getting Amanda to production
On Friday 04 Feb 2005 19:43, you wrote: hello, I have a few question in mind so I'll be able to better configure it. 1) So far I tested Amanda and backed up data on a hard drive and am quit happy with the results. Recently we got a new tape drive and I need to start backing up our data into taps. I am going to use the same Amanda server and clients. Should and if so how do I initialize Amanda so it won't care about previous backups? Just modify your disklist entries etc. If you don't care, Amanda won't care. As long as you use amlabel the new tapes. Additionally I'll probably have to do some more testing in order to see how much time/bandwidth Amanda uses when it backup to our tape drive. But after doing those tests - can I delete those files from the tape? Just over write them or remove them with amadmin 2) I understand that Amanda has its algorithm that decides when do to a full backup, or an incremental one. But I am a little confused with labeling tapes. (amlabel) When I used the hard-disk I define each hard-drive 'partition' as 4GB and then amlabel each disk e.g. #/usr/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 HISS01 slot 1 #/usr/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 HISS02 slot 2 ... However, I have tapes that each can store 400 compress data, and we have to store about 30GB - am I domed to use each tape for one backup - or can I 'partition' those tapes? Yes, one tape for one backup and you can't partition the tapes, but one backup can be many clients. Do I have to put each tape in the tape drive and run amlabel? Of course, how would Amanda know what tapes to use? 3) We have a local and remote sites that we have to backup any thoughts, comments on what should I keep in mine before doing so. Additionally any recommendation for what to use to secure our data when backing up remotely? I would use rsync to get the remote files if they are across the internet and then backup the machine they go to. I read that I can use TCP wrappers but how do I implement it with Amanda? This is in the docs. 4) Finally, we have one tape drive and about 20 servers that we need to backup from. Some of those servers run on Solaris, some on Windows. Can I back all servers on the same tape, or do I need to set separate tapes for Win machines? All one tape, just get teh right clients installed. Many thanks, gil -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Running multiple instances of amanda
-- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ morimoto:/usr/local/src/amanda-2.4.4p4/sbin# ./amrecover -C Progeny01 AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p4. Contacting server on morimoto.progeny.com ... 220 morimoto AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2) ready. 500 Access not allowed: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed See the FAQs Top Ten: http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2518896 Particularly: .amandahosts -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Trouble with amrestore
quote who=Steve H Hi Everyone. I am having some touble doing a restore from a client. I backed up /root on a remote debian box as a test, and it was a success. When I login to the remote debian box, and try to do a amrecover, the client says: AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3. Contacting server on client ... amrecover: cannot connect to client: Connection refused See the FAQs Top Ten: http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2518896 Particularly: .amandahosts What I am confused about, is the client thinking itself is the server. Where is this changed, and how should I have configured the client correctly in the first place? No, the client is trying to connect to the backup server. Again, see above. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: webmin
On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 21:44, Jason Davis wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 14:37, Nina Pham wrote: can amanda be configured using webmin? its called google , give it a try. Also , I was hoping you could help me.. have you ever used Foo to do bar or possibly X to do y? Yes, a simple search on google would reveal: http://webmin-amanda.sourceforge.net/ -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: DLT 8000 and tape type.
quote who=Neil Marjoram
I have just completed a tapetype on my Storedge L9 with DLT 8000 again,
and I'm a little confused.
The DLT 8000 drive can take 80GB compressed, the results return 40GB.
Amstatus shows that the amount of data stored on each tape is always
less than 40G, the latest output from the status is :
tape 1: 66 27906885k 25125884k ( 68.13%) AG3600
tape 2: 1 9085868k 9327611k ( 22.18%) AG3602
tape 3: 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) AG3598
My question is two part,
Hi Neil,
First things first, we really need to see the dumptype definitions you are
using.
a. how do I get amanda to backup 80GB to the
DLT,
This is done two ways, having compression enabled in your dumptype
definition or having hardware compression enabled on your actual drive,
with compressin then being disabled in your dumptype definition.
and secondly why is it that the second tape in a three part backup
never holds as much data as the first tape?
Because that will probably be your incremental backup goes.
The backup shown above is
still running and currently saving to tape 3. Or am I barking up
completly the wrong tree?
define tapetype DLT-L9 {
comment DLT 8000 - Storedge L9
length 4 mbytes
filemark 22 kbytes
speed 1770 kbytes
I am using the chg-zd-mtx script to handle the autoloader, Fedora Core 2
as my OS and Amanda version 2.4.4p2-3.
Many thanks,
Neil.
Thanks,
Gavin.
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LTO 3 Devices
Dear all, Am I correct in thinking, that as long as I can get a amtapetype and use mtx tools, then a LTO 3 tape/tapedrive is compatible with Amanda? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ pgpthDjjodCn7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LTO 3 Devices
On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 14:41, you wrote: Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, Am I correct in thinking, that as long as I can get a amtapetype and use mtx tools, then a LTO 3 tape/tapedrive is compatible with Amanda? yup. At least, I don't see why not. But I can't speak from experience. I wish I could however :-) Fine, we have had a request for information about a single and autoloader: http://www.certance.com/products/lto-ultrium/lto3/ (CLL6400 and CL800). -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Recommended autochangers
Dear all, Is there am up to date FAQ for this, or could someone just kindly recommended a brand/model? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: amanda.8 manpage
quote who=Nicolas Ecarnot Could you tell me the % of files formated in xml ? /quote All of them. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: amanda.8 manpage
quote who=Nicolas Ecarnot Gavin Henry a écrit : quote who=Nicolas Ecarnot Could you tell me the % of files formated in xml ? /quote All of them. So if the cml files contain up-to-date text, the work of translation can begin. Do I have to have a special access on a cvs server ? I'll translate into french. Hi, Use: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda co xml-docs and submit patches using: diff -urN oldfilename newfilename All files are in: xml-docs/manpages and xml-docs/howto/ Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
http://www.amanda.org/cgi-bin/fom?
Faq-O-Matic link is broken on the front page ;-) -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Amanda backups suddenly slowed down
Peter Johnston said: Hi I've been using amanda for some time now, generally with great success. However, a couple of weeks ago the backups started taking much, much longer to run. To give you an idea, a typical run time was between 3 and 4 hours. It's now taking anywhere between 15 and 25 hours! Obviously the question 'What happened two weeks ago that changed this?' appears. I can't find an answer to that. I added an extra machine to the backup set about then, but that machine seems to be backing up in a perfectly reasonable time as far as I can see. The switches that all the machines involved are attached to are monitored by MRTG and it looks from the graphs that barely any bandwidth is being used - the amanda server is plugged into a gigabit switch and during the backup only about 1-6Mb are being used. The amanda server is running on Fedora Core 2, with clients on Solaris 7 and 8, AIX and RedHat Linux 6 (yes ancient I know!). The server is generally updated using yum from Fedora's repository, so any update from there is probably applied. I'm running amanda 2.4.4p4 on the server. If anyone can help me figure out what has gone wrong then that would be great! Hi Peter, Could you post your amcheck e-mails before and after 2 weeks ago and your amreport e-mails for the same period, if possible? Or even a amcheck -a AmandaConfName now? Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Configuration Doubts
Fabricio Luiz Machado said: Hi, I´m doing some tests with a new strategy, but I´m a little confuse. STRATEGY: Sundays: full backup (level 0) Monday-Saturday: incremental backup AMANDA.CONF: dumpcycle 1 weeks runspercycle 7 tapecycle 7 tapes labelstr ^TEST[0-9][0-9]*$ Hi, This means that after 1 week there will be a full backup, Amanda will try to spread these over the 7 days, depending on how many filesystems you are backing up. Please read: http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2550713 Therefore, if you really wish to have a level 0 backup on Sunday, you will need another amanda.conf with: dumpcycle 0 and create a crontab to run on Sundays. The problem is that after tape labeled TEST07, amanda expects TAPE01 I want to get the tape writed on last sunday in month for a monthly backup and put it in a safe. How can modify amanda.conf to do that ? Thanks and sorry about my poor english. Fabricio. __ Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/ -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Configuration Doubts
Fabricio Luiz Machado said: Hi, I´m doing some tests with a new strategy, but I´m a little confuse. STRATEGY: Sundays: full backup (level 0) Monday-Saturday: incremental backup AMANDA.CONF: dumpcycle 1 weeks runspercycle 7 tapecycle 7 tapes labelstr ^TEST[0-9][0-9]*$ Hi, This means that after 1 week there will be a full backup, Amanda will try to spread these over the 7 days, depending on how many filesystems you are backing up. Please read: http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2550713 Therefore, if you really wish to have a level 0 backup on Sunday, you will need another amanda.conf with: dumpcycle 0 and create a crontab to run on Sundays. The problem is that after tape labeled TEST07, amanda expects TAPE01 I want to get the tape writed on last sunday in month for a monthly backup and put it in a safe. How can modify amanda.conf to do that ? Thanks and sorry about my poor english. Fabricio. __ Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/
Upgrading via source from 2.4.4p3 to 2.4.4p4.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Just wondering if upgrading is just a simple case of compiling the new sources with the same configure options, which should just replace the existing binaries? Any other preparation needed? Thanks. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBryCieWseh9tzvqgRAvpRAJ9flk5KN1sYQEGrUSz9qZdnjpPCswCfQ3Qt YgHr55d54jmrobliEhk5/lg= =+nuJ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Upgrading via source from 2.4.4p3 to 2.4.4p4.
Martin Hepworth said: Gavin that's what I do - anothe reason to document the configure options :-) I did ;-) -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Gavin Henry wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Just wondering if upgrading is just a simple case of compiling the new sources with the same configure options, which should just replace the existing binaries? Any other preparation needed? Thanks. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBryCieWseh9tzvqgRAvpRAJ9flk5KN1sYQEGrUSz9qZdnjpPCswCfQ3Qt YgHr55d54jmrobliEhk5/lg= =+nuJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ** 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. **
Re: Upgrading via source from 2.4.4p3 to 2.4.4p4.
Paul Bijnens said: Gavin Henry wrote: Just wondering if upgrading is just a simple case of compiling the new sources with the same configure options, which should just replace the existing binaries? That's what I did. To be honest, I do it a little bit different, but in this case, the effect is the same. I compile with : ./configure \ --prefix=/pkgs/amanda-2.4.4p4 \ --localstatedir=/var/opt/amanda \ --with-configdir=/var/opt/amanda/etc \ --with-user=... etc etc This builds a program tree in a decidated directory, different for each version, and the config and state files in a more stable directory. Then I use graft to place symlinks in /usr/local (a perl script, see http://www.gormand.com.au/peters/tools/graft/graft.html, but site was down just this minute): graft -d amanda-2.4.4p3 # remove old links graft -i amanda-2.4.4p4 # install new links Now /usr/local/sbin/amadmin points to /pkgs/amanda-2.4.4p4/sbin/amadmin and so for all files in the tree /pkgs/amanda-2.4.4p4. My path still remains manageable, and contains /usr/local/bin etc, but not /pkgs/amanda*. The production version has the links in /usr/local; the old or experimental versions keep their own separate tree in /pkgs/amanda-VERSION. Instead of replacing the existing binaries this replaces the links to the binaries. The additional advantage is that, if the new version has LESS files, none of the obsolete files stay lingering around. The advantage is that I can install and test a new version, without disrupting the old version (the config and state files are the same; only if the config requires incompatible settings, I need to be a little more careful). Should the new version suddenly show some problems, I can revert to the old version in a few seconds. I can even execute old or new versions by giving the full path /pkgs/amanda-2.4.4p1/sbin/amadmin if needed. After a few months, I can uninstall the old version by simply doing a rm -rf /pkgs/amanda-2.4.4p3. Nice. I'll check out that perl script. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Upgrading via source from 2.4.4p3 to 2.4.4p4.
Paul Bijnens said: Gavin Henry wrote: Just wondering if upgrading is just a simple case of compiling the new sources with the same configure options, which should just replace the existing binaries? That's what I did. To be honest, I do it a little bit different, but in this case, the effect is the same. I compile with : ./configure \ --prefix=/pkgs/amanda-2.4.4p4 \ --localstatedir=/var/opt/amanda \ --with-configdir=/var/opt/amanda/etc \ --with-user=... etc etc This builds a program tree in a decidated directory, different for each version, and the config and state files in a more stable directory. Then I use graft to place symlinks in /usr/local (a perl script, see http://www.gormand.com.au/peters/tools/graft/graft.html, but site was down just this minute): graft -d amanda-2.4.4p3 # remove old links graft -i amanda-2.4.4p4 # install new links Now /usr/local/sbin/amadmin points to /pkgs/amanda-2.4.4p4/sbin/amadmin and so for all files in the tree /pkgs/amanda-2.4.4p4. My path still remains manageable, and contains /usr/local/bin etc, but not /pkgs/amanda*. The production version has the links in /usr/local; the old or experimental versions keep their own separate tree in /pkgs/amanda-VERSION. Instead of replacing the existing binaries this replaces the links to the binaries. The additional advantage is that, if the new version has LESS files, none of the obsolete files stay lingering around. The advantage is that I can install and test a new version, without disrupting the old version (the config and state files are the same; only if the config requires incompatible settings, I need to be a little more careful). Should the new version suddenly show some problems, I can revert to the old version in a few seconds. I can even execute old or new versions by giving the full path /pkgs/amanda-2.4.4p1/sbin/amadmin if needed. After a few months, I can uninstall the old version by simply doing a rm -rf /pkgs/amanda-2.4.4p3. Nice. I'll check out that perl script. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Best way to bring in new tapes and when to do it?
Hi all, Is the best way to bring in new tapes to label them with the same labels using amlabel -f Config-name? When should I replace brand new DSS-4 tapes that are used once a night every day? I also have a cleaning tape. P.S. My personal backups, not a client ;-) -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: Best way to bring in new tapes and when to do it?
Joshua Baker-LePain said: On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 at 10:43am, Gavin Henry wrote Is the best way to bring in new tapes to label them with the same labels using amlabel -f Config-name? Actually I think the thing to do is to 'amadmin $CONFIG no-reuse $TAPELABEL' the tapes you want to retire, and then amlabel the new tapes with new labels. That way the backups on the retired tapes will still be known to amanda for recovery, if need be. Yeah sure, then I can carry on the numbering etc. Thanks, -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: backup run stalled- how to restart?
Eric Sproul said: Hi all, This morning by backup run was interrupted by severe network problems with a core router. I had done about 80-85 partitions out of 165 total, and after the problems cleared, I had one stalled partition (client dumper died) but I got about 10-15 more done. Now it appears that everyone else is waiting for dumping but no others have started. Is there a way to kickstart the rest of the waiting dumpers? I have not done anything yet. An amadmin summary reports 165 total partitions, 99 done, 1 dumping (but it's actually stalled), and 65 waiting to dump. I don't think so. I think you will have to kill it and then run amcleanup: http://www.amanda.org/docs/manpages/amcleanup.8.html I may be wrong. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: backup run stalled- how to restart?
Eric Sproul said: On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 10:10, Gavin Henry wrote: Eric Sproul said: Is there a way to kickstart the rest of the waiting dumpers? I have not done anything yet. An amadmin summary reports 165 total partitions, 99 done, 1 dumping (but it's actually stalled), and 65 waiting to dump. I don't think so. I think you will have to kill it and then run amcleanup: http://www.amanda.org/docs/manpages/amcleanup.8.html I may be wrong. I figured that, but as it turns out, the dumps seemed to have picked up again on their own. I'm not sure what the delay was all about but I'm not going to question it. :) Good job you were wise and left it a while :-) -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: backup run stalled- how to restart?
Alexander Jolk said: Eric Sproul wrote: the dumps seemed to have picked up again on their own. Data timeout from the hung machine, which aborted the dumper and freed it up for other tasks? dtimeout is half an hour at my place... Of course. Eric, if this happens again, experiment with this value. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
[OT] cron.d entries for Amanda
Dear guys,
THis simple error is doing my head in, so I'm going to ask and risk
looking like a fool, but anyway...
We normally install our Amanda crons in /etc/cron.d/suretec on client
servers (we are using amanda and custom scripts to backup
http://www.eems.co.uk - a very high profile 2 x SUSE Ent 8 servers).
I keep getting e-mails from crond with errors, e.g.
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/find /u01/app/oracle/archdest2/* -mtime +7 -exec
rm{}\;:
No such file or directory
AND
/bin/sh: line 1: /opt/suretec/sbin/amcheck -m learnit-dbserv-db-warm: No
such file
or directory
My cron.d entries look like:
0 3 * * 1-5 amanda /opt/suretec/sbin/amcheck -m blah.blah
I'm pretty so amcheck is in her path and anyway, I have defined the
absolute path, also cron.d entries can take arguments.
What stupid typo have I made.
P.S I know this makes me look quite unprofessional, but I'm sure we've
all hit some kind of stupid brick wall. Can't see for looking, as the
saying goes here in Scotland.
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Re: [OT] cron.d entries for Amanda
Stefan G. Weichinger said:
Hi, Gavin,
on Dienstag, 16. November 2004 at 13:13 you wrote to amanda-users:
GH I keep getting e-mails from crond with errors, e.g.
GH /bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/find /u01/app/oracle/archdest2/* -mtime +7
-exec
GH rm{}\;:
GH No such file or directory
GH AND
GH /bin/sh: line 1: /opt/suretec/sbin/amcheck -m learnit-dbserv-db-warm:
No
GH such file
GH or directory
Look for the EOL. Maybe you have a DOS-type file. This has bitten me a
few times already.
Just a quick guess
Will do. Back on site tonight.
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Stefan
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Re: [OT] cron.d entries for Amanda
Dave Ewart said:
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On Tuesday, 16.11.2004 at 12:13 +, Gavin Henry wrote:
Dear guys,
THis simple error is doing my head in, so I'm going to ask and risk
looking like a fool, but anyway...
We normally install our Amanda crons in /etc/cron.d/suretec on client
servers (we are using amanda and custom scripts to backup
http://www.eems.co.uk - a very high profile 2 x SUSE Ent 8 servers).
I keep getting e-mails from crond with errors, e.g.
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/find /u01/app/oracle/archdest2/* -mtime +7
-exec
rm{}\;:
No such file or directory
AND
/bin/sh: line 1: /opt/suretec/sbin/amcheck -m learnit-dbserv-db-warm: No
such file
or directory
My cron.d entries look like:
0 3 * * 1-5 amanda /opt/suretec/sbin/amcheck -m blah.blah
I'm pretty so amcheck is in her path and anyway, I have defined the
absolute path, also cron.d entries can take arguments.
What stupid typo have I made.
P.S I know this makes me look quite unprofessional, but I'm sure we've
all hit some kind of stupid brick wall. Can't see for looking, as the
saying goes here in Scotland.
Do you actually have 'find' where you say it is? (/usr/bin/find)
I'm sure I checked that. Back on site tonight, so will check again.
Gavin.
Dave.
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Re: [OT] cron.d entries for Amanda
Alexey I. Froloff said:
* Gavin Henry ghenry@ [041116 15:35]:
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/find /u01/app/oracle/archdest2/* -mtime +7
-exec
rm{}\;:
No such file or directory
Er... I'm not sure this will ever work. find() accepts one real
(not shell pattrn) argument for PATH. Furthermore, you may want
to use something like this:
find /u01/app/oracle/archdest2 -mindepth 2 -mtime +7 -delete
mindepth is needed when you really want to search subdirecrories
inside /u01/app/oracle/archdest2 only.
OK, I will check this out, thanks.
/bin/sh: line 1: /opt/suretec/sbin/amcheck -m learnit-dbserv-db-warm: No
such file
or directory
This error message is very similar to prevoius. Are you sure
you're not quoted this line in crontab?
I think I might have tried marks, I don't think they are needed though.
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Re: [OT] cron.d entries for Amanda
Paul Bijnens said:
Gavin Henry wrote:
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/find /u01/app/oracle/archdest2/* -mtime +7
-exec
rm{}\;:
No such file or directory
This seems like there are quotes around the whole command, or something
with a similar effect. Maybe $IFS got screwed up when cron runs?
(run a little shell script which prints out the cron environment).
Verify you do have spaces 0x20 and not no-breakspace 0xA0 instead.
Good point.
Also there should be spaces around the braces: ... rm {} \;, but that
should give the above error.
OK.
P.S I know this makes me look quite unprofessional, but I'm sure we've
all hit some kind of stupid brick wall. Can't see for looking, as the
saying goes here in Scotland.
Yes, had it way too often :-)
As workaround, you can create little shell scripts that are invoked by
the cron, and don't need spaces.
That was my next move.
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[FIXED] Re: [OT] cron.d entries for Amanda [FIXED]
Dear all,
You won't believe why I wasn't getting any e-mails, even though the crons
were working!!!
I had the -m option for amcheck to e-mail, but because everything was OK,
I wasn't getting any mails.
Changed to -a so everything gets sent regardless, so that way the client
gets feedback everyday.
How annoying simple
Also there should be spaces around the braces: ... rm {} \;, but that
should give the above error.
This fixed it, cheers.
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Re: Skip two tapes
Nicolas Ecarnot said: Alexander Jolk a écrit : Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: For some reason, I have to skip two tapes : the last backup was made on tape05 and the next one has to be made on tape08 Tell amanda exactly that: amadmin config no-reuse tape06 tape07 And when someday you want to use them again, just `reuse' them. Alex I tried that, but when I run amcheck tape with the tape08 loaded, Amanda tells me that it can't use this tape as there already are datas on it (can't overwrite blahblah, expecting new tape) Sorry, come into to the thread a bit late. Can you paste your tapelist file and let us see what is marked reuse etc.? So ? -- Nicolas Ecarnot
Re: Skip two tapes
Nicolas Ecarnot said: Gavin Henry a écrit : Sorry, come into to the thread a bit late. Can you paste your tapelist file and let us see what is marked reuse etc.? [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ cat tapelist 20041001 system001 reuse 20040924 system000 reuse 20040917 system009 reuse 20040910 system008 reuse 20040903 system007 reuse 20040827 system006 reuse 20040820 system005 reuse 20040813 system004 no-reuse 20040806 system003 no-reuse 20040730 system002 no-reuse [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ Well, according to this they are in the right order and used every 7 days. Mine is: 20041115 DailySet110 reuse 20041114 DailySet109 reuse 20041113 DailySet107 reuse 20041112 DailySet108 reuse 2004 DailySet106 reuse 20041110 DailySet105 reuse 20041109 DailySet104 reuse 20041108 DailySet103 reuse 20041107 DailySet102 reuse 20041106 DailySet101 reuse 20041104 DailySet112 reuse 20041103 DailySet111 reuse And you can see that mine jumps from 106 to 108 and then back again. THIs is because of the order of the tapes when I put them in for the first set of backups. What tape did you say amcheck was asking for again? -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
RE: multi-boot systems
If you give them all a different ips, then write a perl/python etc. script that pings the machines before amcheck kicks in and then the script can delete or insert a # as appropriate in the disklist: Or maybe not ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jon LaBadie Sent: Mon 11/15/2004 2:59 PM To: Jon LaBadie Cc: Subject:multi-boot systems I've not even tried to address this situation. So right now I'm just asking if others have come up with ways of handling it. I have two systems that multi-boot, i.e. let me pick which OS to boot into. For example, my laptop has W2K, Solaris 9, and Fedora. And 'lucifer', my newest one is a try anything platform, and currently has 5 different OS's. Currently, I select one OS from each multi-boot computer and do enter that into the disklist. But only if that is the one booted does it succeed. I guess I could enter all the possibilities and let things fail or succeed as they might. But any other brainstorming ideas? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) __ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email in error please delete it immediately and notify the sender. Please also note that in accordance with Invsat's Information Technology policy, emails sent or received may be monitored. __winmail.dat
Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quickie, What does ths mean again from amreport: appserv /opt/suretec lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjirIeWseh9tzvqgRAormAJkBRgyht/XBfbMhs3D6dbo6mZHkKACfcv2c URzWfEZnlc4dzltXEkJebgM= =e5C6 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quickie, What does ths mean again from amreport: appserv /opt/suretec lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjfYPeWseh9tzvqgRAuTQAJ0cxsh5IBa3+ALdTG1drmXghJJzUACeMzcD G/A9X8jzZyYMAcVjJIIA/GU= =Z+2f -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 Nov 2004 14:13, you wrote: You do backup to Holding disk, but lev 0 will do only to tape. Say again? Gavin Henry wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quickie, What does ths mean again from amreport: appserv/opt/suretec lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjmfPeWseh9tzvqgRAuWyAJ9pCYBbpjvNiELjj3qZNYQGwVKzwACeOO2l L3/Kztx35rgHZdEY0o+cSeI= =5Euf -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 Nov 2004 15:46, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 10:16:47AM +, Gavin Henry wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quickie, What does ths mean again from amreport: appserv /opt/suretec lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] Why level 0 failed I have no idea. can't switch to incremental probably means you do not have a level 0 yet for that DLE and amanda must do a level 0 before any incremental is valid (it is incremental from a numerically lower level dump) Yeah, got it. Thanks Jon. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjmfyeWseh9tzvqgRAud0AJ90y5LS/0nmCYuXQcZgnt3hgR6gLgCgmJ9n EWxBM1iLtE/+yay0gUJTIQ8= =oiaU -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 Nov 2004 18:30, you wrote: Leonid Shulov wrote: You do backup to Holding disk, but lev 0 will do only to tape. Unless you set the reserve parameter to something lower then then default of 100% (reserved for incrementals in degraded mode on holdingdisk). I will check out the man page about the reserve parameter, thanks. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjnbbeWseh9tzvqgRAsC1AKCqxZtkEJW5QR1Ab2BFIETH7de0pQCfWC4H gufIVM/EIqOViwkVcscZJqs= =aE/D -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 Nov 2004 18:37, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 07 November 2004 09:13, Leonid Shulov wrote: You do backup to Holding disk, but lev 0 will do only to tape. Leonid; That depends on the 'reserve' statement in the holding disk defined in amanda.conf, here I have it set to reserved -500M meaning it can use up to the last 500 megs even for level 0's. since I have about 20GB to spare on that partition, and my vtapes are about 6.8GB, its not a problem here, ever. Gavin may not have that statement uncommented or configured correctly for his situation. I will check it out, as I think I have not noticed it before. Gavin Henry wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quickie, What does ths mean again from amreport: appserv/opt/suretec lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjncWeWseh9tzvqgRAvlpAKCSXk6X4yW21vfXsFLPceQ4ohN3wACfZpHM Zl5t4iXV+CkwOJfuQ/0cQbU= =wobT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Incremental dump using gnutar as program in DLE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 Nov 2004 18:33, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 07 November 2004 09:01, Gavin Henry wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quickie, What does ths mean again from amreport: appserv /opt/suretec lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump] Probably, but we're guessing here, it means that the dump is too big, but since there has never been a level 0 (full) dump done it cannot switch to an incremental since there is not a baseline date to compare it to on a since date comparison. Got ya. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjirIeWseh9tzvqgRAormAJkBRgyht/XBfbMhs3D6dbo6mZHkKACfcv2c URzWfEZnlc4dzltXEkJebgM= =e5C6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjncqeWseh9tzvqgRAhYUAJ97qZ5e7tHXdAgTFjrvlHFKNHvCuwCfVK1N poSYcCQyc8htwyigsUZrRmA= =cZad -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 Nov 2004 17:35, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 05:14:57AM +, Gavin Henry wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I suspect you have only done one backup, thus only previously used one tape. You think there is an order to the tapes, 2 follows 1 etc. Amanda could care less what new tape it writes to next. If you put in tape3 next, amanda's order will have 3 following 1 in the future. If you labelstr allows it (tape.*) amanda will happily use tape-gavin next and tape-henry after that. There seems to be no problem (from what I see anyway). Only one backup has been done, but why would amadmin config tape give me the right next tape, but the e-mail/amcheck doesn't? The snarky answer is that they use different logic. OK. Hmm, now the question becomes how and why they use different logic. I do not recall your saying what tape amadmin config says is due. I'm guessing it says tape2 and again, if I recall correctly, amcheck says new tape. Yes, that's right. I'll first challenge your determination that amadmin is right. You have not used the number of tapes in your tapecycle yet. Agreed. So the correct answer, whether you like it or not, is a new tape labelled, but unused previously. So, amcheck saying new tape is correct, because you have not yet written to your entire tape cycle. It will expect, and use, a new tape with any label in the drive the next time an amdump is run. As long as it matches the labelstr. If you had tape2 in the drive, it would have reported it was a appropriate tape. Yes. amadmin, without looking at the source, appears to be looking at the tapelist file and not checking whether a new tape is required. Yes, OK. Thus it is just saying this is the next tape listed in the tapelist file. But it is incorrect because you could stick in tape 12 at this time and amcheck and amdump would be happy. Because it matches labelstr, but should they mind? If you number them. But saying that, does the regex require a number in it? If so, it should ask for the next tape in that number sequence. After the tapes have been used, and their order set, then amcheck and amdump will be more particular about which tape is valid. Ok. I will explain this to the client, but I still don't understand this as different server installs report what tape is next with amcheck after running one backup, but this one does not. What about a backup not to tape, i.e in the holding disk? I think i did backup one was done like this. Whould this effect amcheck? I think the real question is whether it is worth the effort to get amadmin to do the have tapecycle number of tapes been used check rather than just report the next tape in the tapelist. Yes. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjTe8eWseh9tzvqgRAo3bAJ44bNaeuQ9M1dMNQFYAbcwYiSkyvQCfSO6f AJpsjxNasN4UA4C30mWH98Q= =Xaat -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 Nov 2004 22:26, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:44:39PM +, Gavin Henry wrote: On Saturday 06 Nov 2004 17:35, Jon LaBadie wrote: So the correct answer, whether you like it or not, is a new tape labelled, but unused previously. So, amcheck saying new tape is correct, because you have not yet written to your entire tape cycle. It will expect, and use, a new tape with any label in the drive the next time an amdump is run. As long as it matches the labelstr. I looked over my answer and thought ... should I add that. But you are correct. Thanks. If you had tape2 in the drive, it would have reported it was a appropriate tape. Yes. And I probably should have said I think it would say a new tape was needed, and that tape2 was ok. But I wasn't certain, so I did not.. OK. Thus it is just saying this is the next tape listed in the tapelist file. But it is incorrect because you could stick in tape 12 at this time and amcheck and amdump would be happy. Because it matches labelstr, but should they mind? If you number them. But saying that, does the regex require a number in it? If so, it should ask for the next tape in that number sequence. No, nothing about the labeling has any concept of sequence with the exception of the date ordering of usage of tapes in the tapelist. Ah, date order. With a suitable labelstr you could leave off the word tape and name them 1, 2, ... 13 or with other suitable labelstr you could use one, two, ... thirteen, or presidents names or your children or famous ducks like Huey, Dewey, and Louis. Yes, I could even change the regex to anything I want. Ok. I will explain this to the client, but I still don't understand this as different server installs report what tape is next with amcheck after running one backup, but this one does not. I don't recall this coming up before so I don't have an answer. Fair enough. What about a backup not to tape, i.e in the holding disk? I think i did backup one was done like this. Whould this effect amcheck? Not certain what you are asking here. Well, the server that amcheck reports what tape is next, with a fresh compile, just like the one in question, had it's first and only backup ran with no tape in the drive, only saved in the holding disk. This is what I meant. So, would this have updated the date use date, even though tape1 wasn't used, amcheck still asks for tape2. Gavin. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjVLzeWseh9tzvqgRAtMcAJ469kYo747fQVNX/f6DTk0tC3FNJQCdHyJk Zi8TV+t0MDoB8rJMXcN5zcE= =4VZy -END PGP SIGNATURE-
amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape
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Hash: SHA1
Dear all,
After compiling by hand and patching amcheck.c to include our signature, all
tests ran fine, backup work to tape etc, but a strange problem with amcheck:
quote
Appserv Tape Server Host Check
- -
Holding disk /var/cache/amanda: 7515340 KB disk space available, that's plenty
ERROR: /dev/nst0: rewinding tape: No medium found
(expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
NOTE: info
dir /opt/suretec/var/amanda/learnit-appserv-cfg/curinfo/appserv/_opt_suretec:
does not exist
NOTE: index
dir /opt/suretec/var/amanda/learnit-appserv-cfg/index/appserv/_opt_suretec:
does not exist
Server check took 30.105 seconds
Appserv Backup Client Hosts Check
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Client check: 1 host checked in 0.019 seconds, 0 problems found
- -
Backup solution by Suretec Systems Ltd.
For support, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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/quote
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You can see that a new DLE was added, hence the curinfo and index. There was
no tape in the drive, but it should off asked for tape2, as I dumped a backup
to tape 1.
If I run amadmin config tape, it gives the right tape, which is also indicate
in tapelist, tapelist.yesterday etc.
Could I have messed something up in amcheck.c ???
Patch:
- --- pristine/amanda-2.4.4p3/server-src/reporter.c Wed Nov 26 16:10:23 2003
+++ amanda-2.4.4p3/server-src/reporter.c Sun Oct 3 01:47:16 2004
@@ -606,9 +606,11 @@
fprintf(mailf,\n\014\nDUMP SUMMARY:\n);
output_summary();
}
- -fprintf(mailf,\n(brought to you by Amanda version %s)\n,
- - version());
- -
+fprintf(mailf,\n--\n,
+ Brought to you by Suretec Systems Ltd.\n\n,
+ For support issues, please visit:\n,
+ http://support.suretecsystems.com\n\n;,
+ Open Source. Open Solutions.\n);
if (postscript) {
do_postscript_output();
}
- --- pristine/amanda-2.4.4p3/server-src/amcheck.c Tue Mar 16 19:03:39 2004
+++ amanda-2.4.4p3/server-src/amcheck.c Sun Oct 3 01:46:58 2004
@@ -345,8 +345,12 @@
}
version_string = vstralloc(\n,
- - (brought to you by Amanda , version(), )\n,
- - NULL);
+ --\n,
+ Brought to you by Suretec Systems Ltd.\n\n,
+ For support issues, please visit:\n,
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I can still see expecting in amcheck.c
Just had a thought. Maybe tapelist is owned by root, and amcheck can't read
it?
Thanks.
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Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 Nov 2004 20:24, Jon LaBadie wrote: It is really best to post to only ONE of the -users or -hackers lists. Decide if it is about the code of amanda, then submit to -hackers. For the overwhelming majority of posts, they concern usage of amanda and should go to -users. OK, sorry, sorry. I am bad. On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:05:48PM +, Gavin Henry wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, After compiling by hand and patching amcheck.c to include our signature, all tests ran fine, backup work to tape etc, but a strange problem with amcheck: quote Appserv Tape Server Host Check - - Holding disk /var/cache/amanda: 7515340 KB disk space available, that's plenty ERROR: /dev/nst0: rewinding tape: No medium found (expecting a new tape) ... You can see that a new DLE was added, hence the curinfo and index. There was no tape in the drive, but it should off asked for tape2, as I dumped a backup to tape 1. If I run amadmin config tape, it gives the right tape, which is also indicate in tapelist, tapelist.yesterday etc. I suspect you have only done one backup, thus only previously used one tape. Is this because it's not been overwritten before? You think there is an order to the tapes, 2 follows 1 etc. Amanda could care less what new tape it writes to next. If you put in tape3 next, amanda's order will have 3 following 1 in the future. If you labelstr allows it (tape.*) amanda will happily use tape-gavin next and tape-henry after that. There seems to be no problem (from what I see anyway). Could I have messed something up in amcheck.c ??? That is a separate question with an unknown answer. But it is any mess-up is probably unrelated to this situation. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBi+1GeWseh9tzvqgRAuCQAJ92SPDjqIy3G1qhPU8LERPpLJ/0qwCeOBoW xTZKEux4q5FJ7YTiqoPxKAQ= =Osat -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 Nov 2004 20:42, you wrote: Would people please stop cross-posting between -users and -hackers. If your message is about using amanda, send it to -users. If it's about the source, send it to -hackers. Again, sorry. I thought it was relevant to both. Don't mean to single out Gavin here. This has happened several times recently, each then multiplied by all the followups. Yeah, it is hard to follow. Thank you. -Mitch - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBi+11eWseh9tzvqgRArbeAJ4xhZQ0InDi0hJ/IArAMYhjxw0G5wCeOBsP v8ADLRScIe86U4+r49kLDyQ= =xkQh -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Moving disklist to an OpenLDAP lookup?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Just a thought, Would there be any benefit of implementing host lookups etc via LDAP for enteprise class backups? - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBi+4GeWseh9tzvqgRAq9fAJoCN5HSnG5DoFJL5a3woxciVoq9lACfYsT/ WZNEChXpHH7qwEm15ShG/So= =xnPN -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You think there is an order to the tapes, 2 follows 1 etc. Amanda could care less what new tape it writes to next. If you put in tape3 next, amanda's order will have 3 following 1 in the future. If you labelstr allows it (tape.*) amanda will happily use tape-gavin next and tape-henry after that. There seems to be no problem (from what I see anyway). I agree after re-reading above. It orders the tapes according to what order you put them in the first place, as long as they either match the regex labelstr or are blank. Cheers. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBi/emeWseh9tzvqgRAiPuAKCSQEWtWteCU6c4X8/a3a9wstDMWACfTtx7 rO8lvf35mvg0WQHE8t3WE9M= =qWGw -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: amcheck not saying expecting tapeno. or a new tape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I suspect you have only done one backup, thus only previously used one tape. You think there is an order to the tapes, 2 follows 1 etc. Amanda could care less what new tape it writes to next. If you put in tape3 next, amanda's order will have 3 following 1 in the future. If you labelstr allows it (tape.*) amanda will happily use tape-gavin next and tape-henry after that. There seems to be no problem (from what I see anyway). Only one backup has been done, but why would amadmin config tape give me the right next tape, but the e-mail/amcheck doesn't? - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjF3SeWseh9tzvqgRAsH2AKCFdmdZ/eI229aAlbjwGnEi0eMtXgCfWKKs c/rPzt1Mzzi5rg1X+hgId4c= =+3eE -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: Question about backing up (multiple tapes per session on one device)
Hi, Call amcheck with -m to mail the outputs from the checks. man amcheck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Marcinek Sent: 04 November 2004 00:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about backing up (multiple tapes per session on one device) On to the next hurdle hopefully one of the last. I have one tape device. I will be working with multiple systems so I know that some backups will require multiple tapes. Since the backups will be eventually done on cron, how does one know that a tape change is needed? Will amanda send out an email or something. I'm planning on using amcheck to make sure the correct tape is in prior to kicking the backup off... I just couldn't find anything on this matter. Thanks everyone, James __ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email in error please delete it immediately and notify the sender. Please also note that in accordance with Invsat's Information Technology policy, emails sent or received may be monitored. __
Re: Difference between amcheck and amdump(planner)
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On Monday 01 Nov 2004 20:43, you wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to figure out why amcheck returns OK every time for a
specific client but the actual dump fails in the planner stage:
planner: [Request to client FQDN timed out.]
Hi Per,
Lifted from:
http://www.amanda.org/docs/manpages/amanda.8.html
ctimeout int
Default: 30 seconds. Maximum amount of time that amcheck will wait for
each client host.
dtimeout int
Default: 1800 seconds. Amount of idle time per disk on a given client that
a dumper running from within amdump will wait before it fails with a data
timeout error.
etimeout int
Default: 300 seconds. Amount of time per disk on a given client that the
planner step of amdump will wait to get the dump size estimates. For
instance, with the default of 300 seconds and four disks on client A, planner
will wait up to 20 minutes for that machine. A negative value will be
interpreted as a total amount of time to wait per client instead of per
disk.
I know these won't have changed, but what are yours?
This started when the client was upgraded from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.3RC1,
but strangest of all is that SOME dumps work and I cannot for my life
undertand why. No changes where made to the amanda server or general
configuration.
Is there a way I could simulate an actual dump instead of using amcheck?
Yes, define a dumptype, also on the abive link.
define dumptype testing {
comment Test backup, no compression, do indexing, no recording
normal
index no
record no
}
Then change in your disklist to something like:
suretec /var testing
There are no traces on the client in /tmp from the actual run but the
amcheck logs are all OK.
The sysctl net.inet.udp.maxdgram=63535 parameter is set.
Suggestions?
Above :-)
Per olof
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Re: Fedora upgrade Amanda slowed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This appears to have been the problem. The 3c59x driver in FC1 on my Dell was the problem. The solution was odd. I found it in a bug report. The ethernet connection was working, but had a ton of collisions and receive errors. Following the suggestion in the bug report, I turned kudzu off and reboot the machine. No collisions, and no errors. Backup times are back to where they were. Thank you for your suggestion. Great, you're back up. Thanks Jonathan Swaby -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions. (tm) http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBhFjbeWseh9tzvqgRAne0AJwJsFSV1+wSEz4lJCHGhOf1ZqLrFQCdHOZA ekgRk/FXTauj/EVbnsm31DA= =7hoH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Fedora upgrade Amanda slowed
Jonathan Swaby said: I recently upgraded a RH9 box to Fedora Core1. The upgrade went fine, but my Amanda backups have slowed down a great deal. I am using this machine to backup a Win2k server, a Win2k3 server, and a couple of Linux boxes. The backups for the Linux boxes are running at the same pace as always, but my win boxes are extremely slow. My Win2k box was taking an hour and it now take 3.5 hours. My Win2k3 box was taking 16 minutes and now takes 1.25 hours. Several of the packages Amanda uses were upgraded in the process. I am, however, still using Amanda 2.4.4. gtar 1.13.25 gzip 1.3.3 smbclient 3.0.7-2.FC1 Before the upgrade, I had gtar 1.13.25-11 gzip 1.3.3-9 smbclient 3.0.5 I have not yet tried down grading to smbclient 3.0.5. This might fix the problem. I have googled for possible answers, but I have found nothing. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve the problem? Hi, I'm http://FedoraNEWS.ORG/ghenry, so I like to think I know a bit about Fedora :-) IIRC, from RH9 to FC1 the file protocol changed from smbfs to cifs, and all sorts of problems started to happen with samba. I would upgrade to FC2 if at all possible. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
Re: (was: Re: newb: getting started) : AMANDA-docs
No probs. Have you seen the app called tidy? That can convert html into relatively formatted DocbookXML. Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/ Stefan G. Weichinger said: Hi, Gavin, on Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2004 at 12:28 you wrote to amanda-users: GH Again, if you need any help with the xml stuff, feel free to hand some over :-) Thanks a lot, unfortunately this chapter is still in html. As you may have already noticed, the rest of the docs is already available in the AMANDA-CVS. Check out the current xml-docs-tree : cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda co xml-docs There have been some updates through the last week ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: newb: getting started
Again, if you need any help with the xml stuff, feel free to hand some over :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Stefan G. Weichinger Sent: Wed 10/13/2004 12:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:Re: newb: getting started Hi, Frank, on Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2004 at 01:20 you wrote to amanda-users: FS The best place to start is the chapter on Amanda from W.Curtis Preston's FS book 'UNIX Backup Recovery'. You can read that chapter online, the FS link is on the amanda.org home page. In my opinion the book is also FS worth buying and reading in its entirety. You are right. Let me add that this chapter will soon be added to the official AMANDA-docs (as soon as I find the time to convert, edit and update it ...) FS Two things you really don't want to do (or at least ask before trying): FS Label your tapes with a day of the week, month, or similar. FS Use 'localhost' as a hostname to back up. Thank you ;-) To Erik: maybe have a look at http://www.amanda.org/docs/AMANDA-docs.html (http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html ??) I will commit more formatted files soon. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email in error please delete it immediately and notify the sender. Please also note that in accordance with Invsat's Information Technology policy, emails sent or received may be monitored. __winmail.dat
Re: amanda mini-howto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leandro said: i´m newbie in amanda. i compile ok in solaris 7. Can anybody tell me if there is a mini-howto or newbie-friendly-pdf about usage of amanda ? I did one for my column on Fedoranews.org http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/amanda HTH. Thanks. Leandro. Argentina. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions. http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBUs/zeWseh9tzvqgRAiKoAKCAwnuiGdMwfxKahI3q9EB4x9r35gCgkqSG wwk42wsI/tD5gBBXur4PnlI= =BT1E -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: AMANDA-docs ::: Updated version online
Stefan G. Weichinger said: Hello, amanda-users, I just put up a current version of my AMANDA-docs-branch. The pdf-version now prints fine here, please report any problems to me (off-list). http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html. Should we incorporate the man pages in the main xml file, that way we can generate one big pdf? -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Anyone please reply! System Disk recovery - UNKNOWN file. amrecover: Cant read file header
Try amrestore on the actual tape to check the actual tape. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Ranveer AttaliaSent: 24 August 2004 14:02To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Anyone please reply! System Disk recovery - UNKNOWN file. amrecover: Cant read file headerImportance: High Hi I am trying to test restore before I run a system disk recover from amanda server to my client machine. The restorefile is any onefrom /opt onto the client telhp6 onto a /scratch/restored directory but its giving me file header errors... I cannot understand why though because it looks as if it backed up fine and its displaying the tape labels with no problem on the amanda server: Please can someone help Thanks - Ranveer $ amtape Weekly showamtape: scanning all 7 slots in tape-changer rack:slot 1: date 20040822 label Fri3.1slot 2: date 20040820 label Fri3.2amtape: could not load slot source: Element Address 8 is Empty$ $ amadmin Weekly find telhp6 /optWarning: no log files found for tape Fri4.1 written 2004-04-23Warning: no log files found for tape Mar0.1 written 2004-03-28Warning: no log files found for tape Weekly5 written 2004-02-28Warning: no log files found for tape Weekly4 written 2004-02-14Warning: no log files found for tape Weekly3 written 2004-02-07Warning: no log files found for tape Weekly2 written 2004-01-30Warning: no log files found for tape Weekly1 written 2004-01-23Scanning /amanda...Scanning /amanda1... date host disk lv tape or file file status2004-06-07 telhp6 /opt 0 Peg0.1 1 OK2004-06-25 telhp6 /opt 0 Jun0.1 145 OK2004-07-23 telhp6 /opt 0 Fri4.2 136 OK2004-08-03 telhp6 /opt 0 Jul0.2 3 OK2004-08-06 telhp6 /opt 0 Fri1.2 4 OK2004-08-13 telhp6 /opt 0 Fri2.2 6 OK2004-08-20 telhp6 /opt 0 Fri3.2 4 OK amrecover add amanda.tarAdded /amanda.taramrecover extract Extracting files using tape drive /dev/rmt/1ubn on host tsssun1.The following tapes are needed: Fri3.1 Restoring files into directory /scratch/restoredContinue [?/Y/n]? Y Extracting files using tape drive /dev/rmt/1ubn on host tsssun1.Load tape Fri3.1 nowContinue [?/Y/n/s/t]? YEOF, check amidxtaped.timestamp.debug file on tsssun1.amrecover: short block 0 bytesUNKNOWN fileamrecover: Can't read file headerextract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1Continue [?/Y/n/r]? Yamrecover and it doesnt actually extract anything.Tertio Telecoms (www.telco-tertio.com)Head Office: One Angel Square Torrens Street London EC1V 1PLTel: +44 (0)20 7843 4000 - Fax: +44 (0)20 7843 4001Bath Office: Riverside Buildings 108 Walcot Street Bath BA1 5BGTel: +44 (0)1225 478000 - Fax: +44 (0)1225 478001 Munich Office: Freisinger Strasse 10, 85737 Ismaning/Munich, Germany,Tel: +49 (0)89 665506 41 - Fax: +49 (0)89 665506 99Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender,except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Tertio Ltd.This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.
RE: Disklist file
Two amanda configs needed and two cronjobs? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kaushal Shriyan Sent: 23 August 2004 05:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Disklist file Hi ! i have two sets of client one who owns laptop and others who own desktop now i wanted to take backup of Laptop at 13:00 hrs and desktop at 21:00 hrs is there any way out to have seperate disklist file i mean one for laptop and other for desktop -- Regards, Kaushal Shriyan Technical Engineer Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. Tel : +91-22-22881326/27 Fax : +91-22-22881318 Cell : +91-9820367783
Re: Amanda on SUSE Enterprise 8
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 Aug 2004 17:01, you wrote: Folks, Is there an RPM build for SUSE Enterprise 8 ? We compile from source. Very easy and more control. Bill Morris Bill Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Network Client Services North Carolina State University Operations and Systems Analyst Campus Box 7231 14 Peele Hall 10 Watauga Club Dr. Raleigh, NC 27695-7231 - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions. http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBIPwaeWseh9tzvqgRAmw5AJwLbcV5gQJnIx52ewa3b+9SMlqsjACcCRdt /lAyVKU0tc9+Zy47FkEEC/I= =Uk/3 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: A few thoughts on different configurations - Help required.
Title: RE: A few thoughts on different configurations - Help required. This is exactly what we are doing. rman, a perl script and a few othe script things. Would you be interested in our scripts for 10g app and db servers? By the way, it's Gavin from Suretec here, this company is my day job until we go full time first quarter next year. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of John Bossert Sent: Thu 8/12/2004 6:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: A few thoughts on different configurations - Help required. I'm successfully using Amanda in conjunction with Oracle 9i. Here's a brief description - if there's interest I can publish more details. First, I'm using Amanda to backup all disk objects. In an Oracle context, this includes controlfiles, datafiles and (we're running in ARCHIVELOG mode) archived redo logs. Amanda also picks up the appropriate init.ora and spfiles. This is done with a single configuration (DailySet1) - dumpcycle=2 weeks, runspercycle=10 (weekdays only), tapecycle=25 that picks up all relevant Oracle disks/partitions. (I also do a weekly full backup of everything, using a separate WeeklySet1 config, as a component of offsite disaster-recovery. I've written a simple script that uses Oracle's RMAN utility to perform nightly full Oracle backups (we're using Standard Edition, else I'd perform nightly incremental backups - only available with Enterprise Edition.) This script is configured such that all backups and archived redo logfiles are backed up by Amanda before being purged by RMAN. So, in the event of the need to do a Point-in-Time recovery, I can (with a little bit of effort) restore any particular redo logfile. I do have a slight bit of exposure - even though my Oracle disks are mirrored, I could lose archived redo logfiles (in the potentially 23:59 hours:minutes) before Amanda writes them to tape. I really should copy (ship) them to a second machine until Amanda has safely backed them up (and the backup verified.) My plan (as of yet unfunded) is to employ this second machine as a backup/standby database server. -john Gavin Henry wrote: Hi all, We are currently setting up 2 amanda backup servers which require 3 different configs on each server. I think these are possible, but I would like the list to clarify them: Server 1: Config 1 - Ad-hoc backup which would be called by hand maybe once a month or longer and needs to be a full backup with one tape that gets overwritten each time. I was thinking: dumpcycle 1 day runspercycle 1 day tapecycle 1 tape Config 2 - Same as above, but different partitions etc. These two will probably be combined into the same amanda config. These are both for by hand full cold backups of oracle databases etc. Config 3 - Weekly backup. Every 5 days there is a full backup, with possibly only one tape that gets overwritten each time. I would prefer to do a 1 month dump cycle with 4 - 6 tapes (ie one a week)being used for a full weekly backup (it will be full, as the partitions will have completely changed over the week). Server 2: Config 1 2 - Same as Config 1 2 of Server 1. Config 3 - A full daily backup with however many tapes we decide for tape history. With both server's, oracle backups are being done, the 3 configs being different parts of the oracle install. The backup folders will change each day, so even if we use incremental backups etc. (letting amanda handle it all) they will be like a full backup due to the complete change of files. Does any of this make sense? Thanks, Gavin. -- John BOSSERT Affidian Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] La thiorie, c'est quand on sait tout et que rien ne fonctionne. La pratique, c'est quand tout fonctionne et que personne ne sait pourquoi. Ici, nous avons riuni thiorie et pratique : Rien ne fonctionne... et personne ne sait pourquoi! [Einstein]
