Re: amanda mailing list
I'm new to this mailing list (as of yesterday) but I already agree with what Ryan wrote. There is NO inconvience is having an [AMU] appended to the front/end of a message subject; and frankly being on a couple dozen different mailing lists and recieving on the order of 200 emails a day, things like what was suggested only helps in the long run. Mitch - Can you explain in 100 words or less specifically how to filter the email to do something like this on a RH system? or how one can do this if they don't have root access? Specific program filters and howto's would be nice. ~~joe On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Ryan Williams wrote: > > > Just a little pet peeve I would like to ask about. > > And this request happens to be a pet peeve of mine. > > > > Would it be possable to put an [amanda-users] in the subject of everything > > sent to the mailing list? I know that mailman is capable of this but I am > > not shure of the capabilitys of majordomo. > > The list identification is already in the Sender: header. If you > need to filter your mail, please use a mail filter. There are > plenty of them out there, procmail is one popular choice. > > Cluttering the subject header with redundent information already > present in another header only forces useful subject header data > over leaving less of where it can be seen in everyone's inbox > lists. Please use the right tool for the right job rather than > inconveniencing the rest of us for your convenience. > > -Mitch > >
Can someone please help?
I should preface what I'm about to say with: I searched through a decent
amount of the archive before giving up. I ran amcheck with the following
results:
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
/opt/tmp: 34743152 KB disk space available, that's plenty.
ERROR: /dev/sg4: Permission denied
(expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test.
Index dir "/opt/amanda/DailySet1/index" doesn't exist or is not writable.
Server check took 0.002 seconds.
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.061 seconds, 0 problems found.
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.1p1)
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The amanda.conf file that *I BELIEVE* is being used has the following
attributes set:
---
runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of
amdump
#tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx" # the tape-changer glue script
tapedev "/dev/sg4" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
#rawtapedev "/dev/sg5 # the raw device to be used (ftape only)
#changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer"
#changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer-status"
#changerfile "/etc/amanda/changer.conf"
changerdev "/dev/sg3"
tapetype DLT# what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below)
labelstr "^DailySet1[0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all
tapes must match
holdingdisk hd1 {
comment "main holding disk"
directory "/opt/tmp"# where the holding disk is
use 12000 Mb# how much space can we use on it
# a negative value mean:
#use all space except that value
chunksize -1# size of chunk if you want big dump to be
# dumped on multiple files on holding disks
# N Kb/Mb/Gb split disks in chunks of size N
# 0 split disks in INT_MAX/1024 Kb
chunks
# -1 same as -INT_MAX/1024 (see below)
# -N Kb/Mb/Gb dont split, dump larger
# filesystems directly to tape
# (example: -2 Gb)
# chunksize 2 Gb
}
infofile "/opt/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo"# database filename
logdir "/opt/amanda/DailySet1"# log directory
indexdir "/opt/amanda/DailySet1/index" # index directory
I guess I'm having trouble understanding the following:
I'm using an ATL 7100 series tape backup system with a robotic
arm and two tape drives on scsi id 1, where the robotic arm I can
control via mtx (mtx -f /dev/sg3 etc etc etc)
and the tape drives are /dev/sg4 and sg5...
I initially tried to use the tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx" but would get the
following results from amcheck DailySet1
(obviously the line tpchanger, see above, would be uncommented when I
tried this)
[operator@lycan:/etc/amanda/DailySet1]# amcheck DailySet1
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
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/opt/tmp: 34743152 KB disk space available, that's plenty.
amcheck-server: could not get changer
info: /usr/adm/amanda/changer-status-clean: No such file or directory
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.036 seconds, 0 problems found.
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.1p1)
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No where in my amanda.conf file do I have a reference to /usr/adm/amanda,
nor do I have any directory in /usr named adm (which means no sub-dir
amanda). I also can't locate any files named changer.conf ANYWHERE on
the system. Amanda was pre-installed by VALinux, and I've already
(again, *I THINK*) changed all the necessary .conf files that I can
find... or am aware of. I'm also not sure if I've changed the correct
amanda.conf file, as I've located three amanda.conf files, one in
/etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf, one in /etc/amanda/amanda.conf, and one
in /usr/doc/amanda-2.4.1p1/examples/amanda.conf
I'm assuming the third is ONLY an example, and I've made both the first
two amanda.conf files appear exactly the same. Still no luck...
Where I'm stuck is that even if I comment out the chg-zd-mtx script, and
manually load each tape, I still get the results (first amcheck listed,
see above) that indicate that there is no new tape -- even though I can
physically see the tape in the tape drive.
There is also no file in /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1 called changer or
changer-status. I've read the doc files, and they reference the
changer.conf file, but I don't see one, and can't find one anywhere.
The changer.conf file, is that
Re: Can someone please help?
OK, I've gotten a little furthur thanks to the helpful suggestions of everyone but... Now I get the following amcheck error Amanda Tape Server Host Check - /opt/tmp: 34743148 KB disk space available, that's plenty. amcheck-server: could not get changer info: [: integer expression expected before -eq Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check Client check: 1 host checked in 0.036 seconds, 0 problems found. (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.1p1) I am using the following info in the amanda.conf file: runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx" # the tape-changer glue script #tapedev "/dev/sg4" # the no-rewind tape device to be used tapedev "/dev/st0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used #rawtapedev "/dev/sg5 # the raw device to be used (ftape only) changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer" #changerfile "/var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer-status" #changerfile "/etc/amanda/changer.conf" changerdev "/dev/sg3" I've also tried using tpchanger "chg-manual" and running, but I get the following: Amanda Tape Server Host Check - /opt/tmp: 34743148 KB disk space available, that's plenty. insert tape into slot 0 and press return insert tape into slot 0 and press return insert tape into slot 0 and press return insert tape into slot 0 and press return insert tape into slot 0 and press return (Even though there is a tape in slot 0, I can hit return over and over, with no results but to get another "press return" message) I did get this message once: [operator@lycan amanda]$ amcheck DailySet1 Amanda Tape Server Host Check - /opt/tmp: 34743148 KB disk space available, that's plenty. amcheck-server: slot 0: reading label: Input/output error insert tape into slot 1 and press return insert tape into slot 1 and press return Thoughts? Joe
problems with faq-o-matic
Not sure if anyone else is having this problem or what, but whenever I try and access the Amanda Faq-o-matic page (http://www.amanda.org/cgi-bin/fom?) I get the following error: print on closed filehandle FAQ::OMatic::ERRORFILE at /home/groups/amanda/fom/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/FAQ/OMatic.pm line 224. I was just trying to get some information on why I'm getting an error concerning amlabel -- No amanda disks present. And more specifically what the exact steps I should take to label the disks -- i.e.-- how do lable them, linux syntax for amlabel, etc. Does anyone out there know the correct settings for DLTtape IV (40/80 Gb)? I've got a bar code reader on our ATL 7100 tape backup system, and I'm assuming that the new chg-zd-mtx script will work with it. Joe
DLT 40/80 Gb setting
I hadn't heard back from anyone with a setting for my
DLTtape IV 40/80 Gb tapes, so I went ahead and ran
tapetype on the system and let it run over night.
The readme mentioned posting my results to the general
mailing list *I THINK* so here's what I got... I'm a
little confused about the results because it doesn't
actually show a full 40 Gb uncompressed space (As you can
see it only show's roughly 30 Gb -- can anyone explain
this?)
[operator@lycan tape-src]$ ./tapetype -f /dev/nst0 -t DLT
wrote 939471 32Kb blocks in 2873 files in 14350 seconds (short write)
wrote 939532 32Kb blocks in 5764 files in 24767 seconds (short write)
define tapetype DLT {
comment "just produced by tapetype program"
length 29359 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 1654 kps
}
Any comments would be helpful -- I'm not really keen on the
idea of spending (what I saw another person on this mailing
list say he did) days searching through archives to find the
needle in the haystack. (I respect that persons patience, but
I guess I'm just a product of the X generation -- I would like
the information ASAP)
Joe
Re: DLT 40/80 Gb setting
I'll try that -- felt a little foolish though, because the reply from Alexandre Oliva about the alternate way to get to the "faq-o-matic" site answered a lot of questions I'm having. Thank you though for your suggestion Joe On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > * Joseph Del Corso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:01:46AM >-0500) > > I hadn't heard back from anyone with a setting for my > > DLTtape IV 40/80 Gb tapes, so I went ahead and ran > > tapetype on the system and let it run over night. > > The readme mentioned posting my results to the general > > mailing list *I THINK* so here's what I got... I'm a > > little confused about the results because it doesn't > > actually show a full 40 Gb uncompressed space (As you can > > see it only show's roughly 30 Gb -- can anyone explain > > this?) > > As a guess, > you have compression turned on on your tapedrive , > and since tapetype dumps random data to the tape, the data written takes up > more space than the real data. > > Try again with compressionn turned *OFF*. > > (Though I have no clue on how to turn compression on or off on a DLT, nor > do I know how to check for it). > > Kind regards, > -- > Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 > Technical Support Jason Geosystems BV Fax +31-10.280.1511 > (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] POBox 1573 > visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam > JASON...#1 in Reservoir CharacterizationThe Netherlands > > This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named > addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. >If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not > disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. > If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us >immediately by telephone and destroy the original message. >
Listing tape content
I was just curious if there was a way, and if so what the command line syntax (linux) was to do it, to see a list of the files/directories, space used, etc, by a dump. Specifically is there a way to see how much space was used by a dump cycle, and to see what files went into the dump. Can I just do a mount on the tape devices (after putting the device in /etc/fstab) ? or is there some kind of mt, or other, command that will show me the contents of a tape? Any help would be greatly appreciated Joe
amlabel + rack of tapes question
Is it possible to amlabel an entire rack of tapes without doing it manually for each tape? Specifically I have roughly 35 tapes that I'd like to label in some kind of automated fashion all at once. Besides writing my own script (which would take time and more than likely a HECK of a lot of debugging) is there an easier way to do this? Is there any benefit to doing this? Joe
Scripting question -- readstatus
First I'd like to thank everyone for their help with scripts, I recieved quite a few that were all excellent resources for creating my own. I have a tape rack that holds 35 tapes, and an robotic arm tape changer that picks up the tapes and sticks them in the tape drive(s). I modified chg-zd-mtx, specifically the readstatus line, to read like: usedslot=`$MTX -f /dev/sg3 status | sed -n 's/Data Transfer Element 0:Empty/-1/p;s/Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element \(.\) Loaded):VolumeTag = DNR\(.\)\(.\)\(.\)/\1/p'` This worked great!! For the first 9 tapes... and I realized why. In the previous line the number after Storage Element is read into ?variable? \(.\) <- This represents one number. In order to go higher than 9 though I had to add a second \(.\) and a \2 so that it looks like: usedslot=`$MTX -f /dev/sg3 status | sed -n 's/Data Transfer Element 0:Empty/-1/p;s/Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element \(.\)\(.\) Loaded):VolumeTag = DNR\(.\)\(.\)\(.\)/\1\2/p'` My question is, is there a more elegant way (without scraping the whole script and trying a completely new one -- leading to more headaches and troubleshooting) to do what I'm trying to do? (i.e.-- read higher than one digit numbers, and possibly two digit -- though honestly I'm not at that point yet) As soon as I try and use this script to do any amcheck or dumping to the first 9 tapes, I'll have to revert everything back. Hope I explained this clearly enough, and that someone out there with more intelligence than I in scripting can help out. Joe
Sorry, another question -- eject
I'm also curious if there is a way to get around a problem I seem to have every now and then. Specifically, I can issue the mtx -f /dev/sg4 eject (sg4 being the first tape drive) and I will randomly get an error like this: [operator@lycan:/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1]# mtx -f /dev/sg4 eject mtx:eject failed Now I can simply submit the eject command again and it will work, but I'm worried about trying to automate anything now because I'm not sure if I'll have problems with the eject command. Any thoughts? Joe
Front ends for visual simplicity?
Has anyone explored trying to create some kind of frontend for amanda? Something simple yet visual for either moving tapes around or visually watching what's going on with the tape backup? I'm not sure I'm asking this correctly. I'm trying to find the linux version (free) that does something like what's seen here: http://www.atlp.com/products/p3000/p3000webad.html I have the WebAdmin disk, unfortunately it's useless to me because it's sparc specific, only came with the binaries, and no source code. (in short it doesn't work on my linux box) Anyone know of something like this on the linux side? Joe
Re: First tapechanger
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that nst0 is your TAPE device, not the changer device. I have a tapechanger that's hooked up via scsi cable, which is controlled by mtx through the device driver /dev/sg3 (the device driver may vary depending on how you have the tapechanger linked to your system) I'd personally change the amanda.conf file line that reads: > changerdev "/dev/nst0" to something like: changerdev "/dev/sg3" First though try something like: mtx -f /dev/sg3 inquiry or mtx -f /dev/sg3 status and see if that moves the changer arm around... (I'm assuming your talking about a changer arm -- I'm not familiar with HP products so I'm not sure if you're talking about a magazine loaded changer, or what) When I do an inquiry on my tape changer vs tape drive I see something like: [operator@lycan ~]$ mtx -f /dev/sg3 inquiry Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'ATL ' Product ID: 'ATL7100 6240040' Revision: '2.41' Attached Changer: No [operator@lycan ~]$ mtx -f /dev/sg4 inquiry Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'QUANTUM ' Product ID: 'DLT7000 ' Revision: '2565' Attached Changer: No I'm not sure if this helped, Good luck! Joe ps -- just trying to give back to the community that helped me get my backup system working. (Not very useful, but at least I tried!) On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I have been a happy Amanda user for several years now. But I have never had > a tapechanger before. > > Now I have aquired an HP C1559 6 x DDS-3 changer and am truing to get it to > work on a Linux (Debian) machine. I have confirmed that the mtx program can > properle control it, and copmpleted a run to get a tapetype. > > Ubfortuantely Heres what I am getting for an error: > > > Script started on Thu Feb 22 05:03:23 2001 > amanda@debian:/tmp$ /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amcheck DailyDump > Amanda Tape Server Host Check > - > Holding disk /tmp: 34178632 KB disk space available, that's plenty > amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from changer: "mtx: >cannot open SCSI device '/dev/nst0' - No such device" > > amanda@debian:/tmp$ ls -l /dev/nst0 > crw-rw1 root tape 9, 128 Nov 30 10:22 40;33;01m/dev/nst0 > [mamanda@debian:/tmp$ > Script done on Thu Feb 22 05:03:58 2001 > > As you can see, that devicer _does_ exist. I have added amanda to the > following grousp: disk,backup,tape. > > Here is my amanda.conf file: > > # > # amanda.conf - sample Amanda configuration file. This started off life as > # the actual config file in use at CS.UMD.EDU. > # > # If your configuration is called, say, "csd", then this file normally goes > # in /opt/amanda/etc/amanda/csd/amanda.conf. > # > > org "DailyDump" # your organization name for reports > mailto "amanda" # space separated list of operators at your site > dumpuser "amanda" # the user to run dumps under > > inparallel 20 # maximum dumpers that will run in parallel > netusage 1000 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec > > dumpcycle 1 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle > runspercycle 5 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days > # (1 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays) > tapecycle 25 tapes# the number of tapes in rotation > # 4 weeks (dumpcycle) times 5 tapes per week (just > # the weekdays) plus a few to handle errors that > # need amflush and so we do not overwrite the full > # backups performed at the beginning of the previous > # cycle > ### ### ### > # WARNING: don't use `inf' for tapecycle, it's broken! > ### ### ### > > bumpsize 80 Mb# minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 -> 2 > bumpdays 1# minimum days at each level > bumpmult 4# threshold = bumpsize * bumpmult^(level-1) > > etimeout 300 # number of seconds per filesystem for estimates. > #etimeout -600# total number of seconds for estimates. > # a positive number will be multiplied by the number of filesystems on > # each host; a negative number will be taken as an absolute total time-out. > # The default is 5 minutes per filesystem. > > > # Specify tape device and/or tape changer. If you don't have a tape > # changer, and you don't want to use more than one tape per run of > # amdump, just comment out the definition of tpchanger. > > # Some tape changers require tapedev to be defined; others will use > # their own tape device selection mechanism. Some use a separate tape > # changer device (changerdev), others will simply ignore this > # parameter. Some rely on a configuration file (changerfile) to > # obtain more information about tape devices, number of slots, etc; > # others just need to store some data in files, whose names will start > #
Re: First tapechanger
I don't speak ?? German ?? No clue what this says. Joe On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sehr geehrte Kunden, > > Ihre Anfrage ist bei uns eingegangen und wird umgehend bearbeitet. > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > > Ihr PcW-Team > > PcW Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik > Timmasper Weg 33 a fon +49 4392 9145 45 > D-24589 Nortorf fax +49 4392 9145 20 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pcw-ag.de >
tapelists
I recently labeled all the disks in our rack (35), and was curious if there was a way that amanda keeps track of all the tapes that have been labeled and where (what slot) they're located in. Specifically amanda only *APPEARS* to see the tape thats in the drive; I guess I'm asking is there a way to set amanda up, so that the program see's where all the tapes are, and which ones have been used before. Hope I asked this correctly, Joe
HELP
Is anyone else receiving the following emails as a result of this list?? >Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:23:57 +0100 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Joseph Del Corso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: tapelists > >Sehr geehrte Kunden, > >Ihre Anfrage ist bei uns eingegangen und wird umgehend bearbeitet. > >Mit freundlichen Gren > >Ihr PcW-Team > >PcW Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik >Timmasper Weg 33 a fon +49 4392 9145 45 >D-24589 Nortorf fax +49 4392 9145 20 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pcw-ag.de
restore questions...
I have to admit first off that I haven't scoured the logs to find the answer to this -- so if it's already been answered in the recent past please point me to the date of the email. Basically I'm trying to get a feel for how amrestore works... i.e.-- I've backed up my /home directory which includes a couple dozen peoples home directories. Is it possible to restore only a part (like just the /home/joeschmoe dir) instead of the entire /home directory tree? What happens if someone was working on a single file, and they goof up... luckily I've backed up the entire directory tree and have it on tape -- Is it possible to extract just the specific file from the tape? Another scenario... what if user A wants the file recovered from tape, but user B doesn't want his directory overwritten with old files since user B has made a series of changes to his codes since the last full backup of the /home directory... Hope this makes sense, and that someone can help! Thank you all in advance, I also would like to commend everyone on this list who have been so patient with those of us who are new to AMANDA. Thank you, Joe
Re: NT Backup's - Web Interface?
I hate promoting a backup that I've never used; but since you asked... ATL has backup software called WebAdmin that it sounds like your NT admins would prefer over the AMANDA command line interface solution. WebAdmin does NOT work with AMANDA (from my limited knowledge of WebAdmin)... Hope this helps, Joe On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Yura Pismerov wrote: > Froody Dude wrote: > > > > Hi Everybody, > > > > Please don't flame me for asking this but the NT admins onsite here > > would like something simpler than the UNIX command line. Is there a Web > > front available for Amanda or for amrecover in particular. > > > I'm afraid you have to disappoint them. > Other than that if you have majority of NT boxes for the backup you > better look for other backup solution since Amanda is not the best > choice for that. > Otherwise it comes to "single point of recovery" - "the backup man", > and you have to live with that :) > > > > > > Best regards > > > > RLE > >
Backup Stats Programs?
Hello All, I'm currently using the perl program written by Gerhard den Hollander for creating a the tables
Addon...
Please excuse that last email... Basically I was trying to ask if anyone has any other programs for creating html output which shows past backups other than backupstats.pl. Backupstats.pl is a great program, but I'm a little tight on time and can't edit the code myself to edit out the blank columns (for those of you that know what I'm talking about) Sorry for the double email, thanks for your time! Joe
Listing tape content -- confusion
Hello, Can someone clarify for me how to list tape content? Specifically I know I can issue the following command: amrestore $TAPE whatever And according to archived emails, this should list tape content... but according to the man page, this also extracts the contents of the tape. I don't want to extract anything (yet), I simply want to list the directory/file contents of what's on the tape to see if everything was backed up correctly. Is the line (above) the exact syntax for doing this? or am I forgetting some flag that doesn't automatically restore files? Joe
