Re: {Spam?} backup still messed up...
Kristian Rink wrote: Hello all; after getting last weeks issues fixed, downgrading amanda (now 2.5.0-20060424) as well as tar (now 1.14-2.2), Thursday and Friday incremental dumps worked out. However, weekend dump once again didn't to as it is supposed to. I had an eye on the amanda processes all the weekend and it _seemed_ fine, but in the end it ain't. Some excerpts and log dumps: - according to amstatus, nothing has been written to tape: backer:/tmp# /opt/sbin/amstatus --config Full Using /var/log/amanda/Full/amdump.1 from Sa Aug 19 03:00:02 CEST 2006 [...] backer:backervar getting estimate backer:jka getting estimate backer:planc10304732110k partial estimate done backer:planc30118291530k estimate done backer:refastgetting estimate SUMMARY part real estimated size size partition : 7 estimated : 2423023640k flush : 0 0k failed : 00k ( 0.00%) wait for dumping: 00k ( 0.00%) dumping to tape : 00k ( 0.00%) dumping : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) dumped : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) wait for writing: 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) wait to flush : 0 0k 0k (100.00%) ( 0.00%) writing to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) failed to tape : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) taped : 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) ( 0.00%) tape 1: 0 0k 0k ( 0.00%) Back00 5 dumpers idle : not-idle taper idle network free kps: 600 holding space : 0k ( 0.00%) 0 dumpers busy : 0:00:00 ( 0.00%) - Likewise, amverify (could this input/output error be caused by a defective drive / tape or is this just the result of the tape being empty?): Tapes: Back00 Errors found: Back00 (): amrestore: missing file header block amrestore: missing file header block amrestore: error reading file header: Input/output error ** No header 0+0 in 0+0 out [...] - amandad debug log: Is the timeout caused by tar taking too long to actually calculate the size of the DLE in question? [...] amandad: time 1.161: sending PREP pkt: OPTIONS features=feff9ffe07; planc3 0 SIZE 118291530 planc3 1 SIZE 2544890 planc1 0 SIZE 304732110 amandad: time 21600.749: /opt//libexec/sendsize timed out waiting for REP data amandad: time 21600.761: sending NAK pkt: ERROR timeout on reply pipe amandad: time 21600.761: pid 23250 finish time Sat Aug 19 09:00:03 2006 - sendsize, again, is filled with error messages like those below, even though the files definitely are around and usually an arbitrary application also is capable of opening / reading them without a problem. sendsize[23820]: time 9689.225: getting size via gnutar for planc1 level 0 sendsize[23268]: time 9689.226: waiting for any estimate child: 1 running sendsize[23820]: time 9689.324: spawning /opt//libexec/runtar in pipeline sendsize[23820]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /backup/PV/ --one-file-system --l isted-incremental /opt//var/amanda/gnutar-lists/backer.planconnect.netplanc1_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals . sendsize[23820]: time 16883.005: /bin/tar: ./docs/work/d2845/d736/qw78xmm4/file.doc: Warning: Cannot seek to 0: Bad file descriptor sendsize[23820]: time 16883.016: /bin/tar: ./docs/work/d2845/d754/vsbed359/class.all: Warning: Cannot seek to 0: Bad file descriptor sendsize[23820]: time 16883.016: /bin/tar: ./docs/work/d2845/d754/vsbed359/file.doc: Warning: Cannot seek to 0: Bad file descriptor Again, same questions - hardware error? Tape error? Misconfiguration? Right now, I tried to manually dump some data to the drive, ending like this: backup:/tmp# tar czvf /dev/nst0 /backup/PV/ [...] /backup/PV/docs/work/d0301/d880/t37adzo8/ /backup/PV/docs/work/d0301/d880/t37adzo8/class.all /backup/PV/docs/work/d0301/d880/t37adzo8/file.hpgl tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot open: Input/output error Ideas, enlightenments, hints, ... really much appreciated... :/ Thanks and bye, Kristian Yeah - looks like the estimate timeout I had problems with on tar. have a look at the client logs to see how long the estimate phase took and adjust the etimeout parameter in amanda.conf accordingly (I had to make mine for an Apple Mac - SATA drives and dual PPCs, tar is really slow;-(. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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
Re: amrecover Tape is not a dump tape but amrestore works?
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:03:38AM -0400, Julian C. Dunn wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: So whatever was fed by amrecover to the restore program did not appear to be created by the corresponding dump program. Do you use dump/restore in your amanda dumptypes or gnutar? I use dump/restore. I was trying to restore files from babelfish (a FreeBSD 6.1 box) on the tape server aphrodite (a FreeBSD 4.9 box). One would think the dump/restore utilities would be the same between versions though? What filesystems have you got on babelfish. FreeBSD 5.0 and later will use UFS2 as the default filesystem type, before this it was plain old UFS. hance the dump/restore programs will different, which is prob why it's not working. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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: Graphical User Interface for Amanda
silpa kala wrote: Hi, I am planning to develop the GUI for Amanda using Java swings. I have two options . Please suggest me which one is best. 1.Develop the new application for java and invoke the planner and driver executable.Amanda code need not be touched. 2.Convert the entire server code to Java and adding the java swings for the Graphical User Interface. Please help me out in this. Thanks Regards, Silpakala __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Hi I'd say go for option 1. Then people can add it should they wish. Also means there's not fork in the code, ie you don't to re-implement every patch etc which you would have to do with option 2. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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. **
Dump too big for tape
Hi all Amanda 2.4.2p2 Did a forced level 0 dump (dumpcycle 0, runspercycle 1) as normal over the weekend. However many of the hosts failed due to Dump too big for tape which is a complete lie..they've run for over 3 years with no errors on this config. Tape size is 38500 mbytes and all the dumps are way less that this.. Any ideas where I should be looking for issues.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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: Using 10 tapes for fortnightly DailySet backup scheme and for a Monthly Config 12 tapes.
Chuck on closer thought dumpcycle will need to be zero as the config assumes one run per day - ie the dumopcycle is really per invocation of this config, and doesn't count actual days -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi again If I run a Monthly config #'sudo -u amanda crontab -e # Backup check running amcheck at 4.30pm on the 2nd day of each and every month. 30 16 2 1-12 * /usr/sbin/amcheck MonthlySet1 Thus use 12 DSS-4 DAT Tapes and set the Monthly amanda.conf as below dumpcycle 4 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 1 # One run per month tapecycle 12 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation 12 per Year. Would these be better On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 17:50 +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi Again Thus continue and labelling DailySet101 - 110 as So far, to Dailyset 122 Thus end of each month pull that tape and carry on as usual. Thus as I started the backup with tape DailySet102 for tuesday as I want DailySet101 for first week monday. Have I got to edit the tapelist accordingly. Do I just On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:24 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:03:19PM +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi Great Yes I am going to use 10 tapes in total and reuse the first tape after 10 week days worth of backups. Thus is it fine to pull the last Friday tape at the end of the Month for archiving and then re-label the tape I pulled. On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 08:21 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:45:07PM +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi I have 10 dat tapes that I will run per my cycle 5 per 5 day week. Thus every fortnight. I am correctly concluding I need only a tapecycle of 10 tapes I hope to pull out the last Friday tape in that Month to archive and thus label another tape to replace it. Here's my config file. dumpcycle 0 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays) tapecycle 10 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 Think of tapecycle as how many different tapes amanda must use before it will reuse the first one. In your setup, it looks like full backups every run, tapecycle is as critical as a setup doing mixed full and incrementals. Set it to whatever you want, or are comfortable, having amanda not overwrite before being allowed to reuse. If you want the last 10 full dumps to be sure to be around, then set it to 10. If the last 5 is comfortable, you can set it to 5, but still use 10 tapes. Amanda will only check that at least 5 are still the most recent. I just want to make certain I'm not confusing your intent because of terminology. You want to pull the monthly tape and relabel the tape you pulled. That second part (relabelling) is a different tape, right? If so, it is not relabelling but just an initial label for that tape. Now, if you mean to use the same label as the one pulled, think twice. Amanda keeps indexes of what is on a tape. If you use the same label as the pulled tape, then you will soon lose the index for the pulled tape (when the new tape is used). Instead, when you pull a tape, mark it a no-reuse. The index will be retained. But the new tape will need to have a different label. In fact, you could label up 22 tapes, 10 for cycling, 12 in anticipation of pulling monthly for a year. Your tapecycle could be set to 10, and you could cycle through your first 10, or all 22. Amanda will still ensure that the most recently used 10 are not overwritten. Monthly, just pull whichever of the 22 was used. You will have a hole in your tape cycle, but amanda won't care. But maybe the human (you) will :)) If so, set your label scheme up to be something like DS-xx.y where xx is your ordering sequence and y is which replac- ment. Maybe you label up DS-01.0 to DS-10.0. At the end of the month, say you have to pull DS-05.0 Mark it as no-reuse and label up a new DS-05.1. This preserves your ordering and tells you it is a tape not in the initial cycle. Might be important for some tapes (eg. DAT) which have a fairly short life. Just some ideas. jl -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Email chuck.smtl.co.uk Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual
Re: Using 10 tapes for fortnightly DailySet backup scheme and for a Monthly Config 12 tapes.
chuck yup assuming labelstr ^MonthlySet1[0-1][0-9]*$ -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi Martin Please check over So create in /etc/amanda/MonthlySet1/amanda.conf dumpcycle 0 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 1 # One run per month tapecycle 12 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation 12 per Year. In my crontab for amanda user # sudo -u amanda crontab -e # Backup check running amcheck at 4.30pm on the 2nd day of each and every month. 30 16 2 1-12 * /usr/sbin/amcheckMonthlySet1 # Backup dump running amdump at 18.30pm on the 2nd day of each and every month. 30 18 2 1-12 * /usr/sbin/amdump MonthlySet1 Thus label 12 Monthly tapes MonthlySet101 to MonthlySet112. Tobe pulled and archived accordingly. On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 14:55 +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: dumpcycle 4 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 1 # One run per month tapecycle 12 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation 12 per Year. ** 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: WARNING: server.domian.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
Chuck so nothing in /tmp/amanda -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi wrote: I have nuked the source version of amanda and installed amanada version rpm's 2.4.4 using Yast2 on SuSE Linux Enterprise server. I have used chkconfig --list' to see if amanda service is up or not and it is there and also when I use Yast2 xinetd services if not and then I run # /etc/xinetd.d restart I stopped SuSE internal firewall. I've ensured and checked that the appropriate lines are in /etc/services: amanda 10080/tcp # Amanda amanda 10080/udp # Amanda amandaidx 10082/tcp amidxtape 10083/tcp I've made sure that the amanda user does have permissions to run amandad by running /usr/sbin as amanda user this generated the /tmp/amanda directory as I was getting Permissions Denied So rm -rf and restarted amcheck as amanda to re produce the /tmp/amanda dir , and write to /tmp/amanda. Details below: drwx--S--- 2 amanda users 576 May 17 13:28 amanda -rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 52631 Jul 1 2004 amandad The FQDN is listed in /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts and in the disklist, and in /etc/hosts as follows server.domain.smtl.co.uk. I suppose I should mention that the server and client are the same machine, server.domain.co.uk. Does anyone have any ideas? When I run the following server:/usr/lib/amanda # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck -c DailySet1 Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 30.003 seconds, 1 problem found As I am back to this - going backwards. I have read and digested the doc's but this is now getting frustrating . My /var/log/messages info as below server su: pam_unix2: session started for user amanda, service su May 17 13:51:46 server su: pam_unix2: session finished for user amanda, service su Cheers Chuck ** 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: WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
Chuck the .amandahosts should be something like server.domain.co.uk root server.domain.co.uk amanda odd output from netstat -a, this shouldn't respond until you 'ping' the appropriate port.. also check the logs (usually /tmp/amanda for any clues, as well as making sure the amanda in /etc/xinet.d is properly configured to allow the local host access to itself. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi wrote: Hi I added the files amanda and amandaix to /etc/xinetd.d enable running chkconfig -s xinetd 345 and rebooted. server:~ # netstat -a | grep -i amanda tcp0 0 *:amandaidx *:* LISTEN udp0 0 *:amanda*:* server:~ # lsof | grep amanda xinetd5774 root5u IPv4 8186UDP *:amanda xinetd5774 root8u IPv4 8188TCP *:amandaidx (LISTEN) server:~ # Also in /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts I have my client #localhost amanda server.domain.co.uk /etc comp-root-tar But I still get WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Any Ideas relating to my Client being down. ** 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: SATA hardware raid/multiple disk controllers/pci bus performance (was Re: slow client)
hdparm is good for getting raw info, but you'll need something like
bonnie++ to get actual file stats.
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Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
My current amanda server lives on one big 1.4TB partition on an SATA
hardware raid controller. Copying from the holding disk to file-tapes on
the same device has so far been limited to about 15MB/s. This seems
quite slow to me. Does amanda add any overhead above a simple copy on
the same device? An hdparm -t on this system when it's idle gives around
58MB/s.
Just for comparison...
I don't use a holding disk, but my vtapes are on the same (single) SATA disk as
the other data on my backup machine.
While hdparm -t claims ca. 55 MB/s for the raw disk, level 0 dumps (actually
tars) from my digital picture collection (ca 1.3 MB/file) to the vtapes are
performed at 10-13 MB/s.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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Re: Example of amanda implement the infinite grandfather-father-son strategy dumpcycle.
Chuck Amanda does it's own cycling of full and incremental backups, tying to get an even backup size/time over the tape sets. If you want to do 'permanent archive' sets (we do) then you need a separate config that only does level 0 backups and has the tapes marked as don't reuse. Have a read of the documentation and esp how the planner handles incrementals/full backups. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi wrote: Has anyone example of amanda implement the infinite grandfather-father-son strategy. Cheers Chuck ** 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: Example of amanda implement the infinite grandfather-father-son strategy dumpcycle.
Chuck err ... no amanda's planner will decide when to do the full dumps, based on how big/how long the dumps take. if you want a definite archive set you need a separate config that just has a zero dumpcyle.. maxdumps 1 dumpcycle 0 runspercycle 1 tapecycle 2000 tapes## I run this once per month so it give me lots of tapes... -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi wrote: Hi Yes I have but before I run my first test I would like confirmation that my amanda.conf handle incremental monday to thursday and a full backup on a friday and I will pull out the last friday of that month. dumpcycle 1 week # Incremental weekday mon-thurs dump only runpercycle 5 # Friday Full dump and thus I will pull out for archives(12 tapes). tapecycle 25 # Number of tapes in circulation to be overwritten. # NB 3 tapes for error/ampflush and one tape for cleaning purposes. Am I on the right track. Cheers Chuck On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 11:40 +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: Chuck Amanda does it's own cycling of full and incremental backups, tying to get an even backup size/time over the tape sets. If you want to do 'permanent archive' sets (we do) then you need a separate config that only does level 0 backups and has the tapes marked as don't reuse. Have a read of the documentation and esp how the planner handles incrementals/full backups. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Chuck Amadi wrote: Has anyone example of amanda implement the infinite grandfather-father-son strategy. Cheers Chuck ** 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. ** ** 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: How to reconfigure email notifications?
Matt so what happens if you email out as root to [EMAIL PROTECTED] do the emails arrive? have a look in the maillog for clues.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Matt Emmott wrote: This sounds like an easy mod, but I can't for the life of me find out where to make the change. Our backup box sends its report emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] whenever a backup job is completed. However, I just switched the box from sendmail to postfix so that I could do some internal email stuff on it unrelated to backups. The problem is, now I'm no longer receiving email notifications when backup jobs are completed. Can someone tell me where/ how the mail MTA is specified, and how to modify it? Again, I apologize if this is a basic question - I can't seem to find any info on it. Thanks, Matt Emmott ** 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: Amanda server crashed!!!
Kevin yes.. http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-24.html -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Kevin Alford wrote: My Amanda backup server crashed, and I had to rebuild it. I was running Amanda 2.4.2p2 on AIX 5.1 ML6. I desperately need to restore the data from my Amanda tapes, but I don't have the Amanda index files. Isn't there a way I can use native Unix to read and restore my tapes written by Amanda? Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated. Kevin D. Alford ** 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: OT: which tape technology/drive to use
I'd echo Glenn's comments about airflow / ambient temp. I've had 3 DLTs (HP) die on me, all when in a non temp controlled rooms. Since we moved 2/3 into temp controlled environment I've had (touches wood) no problems with those. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Glenn English wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 18:48 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Is DLT a sensible choice at this day and age? Any caveats with above drives, if any? Sorry for the dumb questions, but I have only very limited experience with tape backups. I'm not real experienced either. but I just went from DDS4 to DLT (VS160 from Quantum), and I like it a whole lot. The drive is expensive and the tapes cost a fortune, but I had the same complaint about DDS longevity you do, and from my research, I'm expecting DLT to be a significant improvement. The VS160 is also a whole lot faster. On my system, IDE disks (DMA, idebus=66) couldn't stream it -- SCSI and SATA can. One note: If you go with DLT anything like mine, be *sure* to keep a decent airflow on it or it will get awfully hot. ** 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.
Gavin that's what I do - anothe reason to document the configure options :-) -- 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: Amrecover on Redhat 7.3 failing
TJ This is all client side. how did you install, from an RPM, hand compile??? -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 TJ wrote: Hi Martin Thanks for this I am not really sure if you're saying that it has to be recompiled on the main Amanda server? Also it sounds as if I do not know my config that well - so will have to look at where the dump is set for location at the moment. TIA Tariq On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 13:52:08 +, Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tariq it's not finding dump at that location. On Linux systems dump/restore isn't always a good option as Linus thinks they are outdated and thus doesn't make sure the filesystems are working with dump. You might have to recompile with dump in the correct location, or use tar sa the backup program (see the backup styles in amanda.conf on the server). Again you have to compile with --tar= pointing to the correct spot. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 TJ wrote: Hi I have amanda set up on a Solaris 8 serevr and it is successfully backing up and restoring Solaris and windows files. However with Redhat 7.3 I am getting the following errors warning: restore program for /sbin/dump not available. amrecover couldn't exec: No such file or directory problem executing restore extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 Any assistance greatly appreciated. Regards Tariq Juneja Hosting and Operations MTV Networks Europe 00 44 207 478 6379 ** 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. ** ** 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: Amrecover on Redhat 7.3 failing
Tariq it's not finding dump at that location. On Linux systems dump/restore isn't always a good option as Linus thinks they are outdated and thus doesn't make sure the filesystems are working with dump. You might have to recompile with dump in the correct location, or use tar sa the backup program (see the backup styles in amanda.conf on the server). Again you have to compile with --tar= pointing to the correct spot. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 TJ wrote: Hi I have amanda set up on a Solaris 8 serevr and it is successfully backing up and restoring Solaris and windows files. However with Redhat 7.3 I am getting the following errors warning: restore program for /sbin/dump not available. amrecover couldn't exec: No such file or directory problem executing restore extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 Any assistance greatly appreciated. Regards Tariq Juneja Hosting and Operations MTV Networks Europe 00 44 207 478 6379 ** 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: Problems with HP SureStore VS80e (DLT1)
Andreas when my drives failed ambient temp was around 28c for a few days and one died on hottest day in 2003. From what I can remember two deaths on hot days, one where the drive refused to eject even after power cycle (over night off) even when in temp controlled environment. ltt showed nothingdrive replace anyway.. I think next drives I'll try are the LTO 3's which are now down below 4,500 euro in the UK (2,900 UK pounds). -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Andreas Haumer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Many thanks for your reports! It's interesting to see that those drives seem to die quite often. I didn't expect that! Martin Hepworth wrote: Dave Ewart wrote: [...] Hmmm - curious. My notes show that our drive keeled over in May (not 10 months ago, as I said above), although it did survive the hot summer of 2003 :-) Perhaps I should move ours into the air-conditioned room ... Dave. - -- Dave May 10 WAS the summer :-) More seriously England was thundery according to BBC, but can't find a specific diary for Oxford.. Anyway just noticed they tended to die on hot days rather than cool ones..not had any troubles since all in rooms where temp 25c and fairly constant. Just noticed that both of you guys live in England. Now I don't know what your definition of summer is... ;-) I don't think that temperature is a problem in our case. While the office where the drive is located indeed does not have air-condition, it's quite cool in general (typical Viennese late 19th century building). Anyway, in the afternoon I had a call with a HP support guy. He asked me to have the HP ltt software run against the drive to get more diagnostics. But alas it seems the drive is not responsive anymore. Replacement time, again... The HP support guy also told me, that the active SCSI bus termination on the VS80e drives is very sensitive and is one of the main reasons those drives die. Thunderstorms and electrical induction on the SCSI bus might have negative influence. I'm not sure if the symptoms I see support this theory, though. - - andreas - -- Andreas Haumer | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *x Software + Systeme | http://www.xss.co.at/ Karmarschgasse 51/2/20 | Tel: +43-1-6060114-0 A-1100 Vienna, Austria | Fax: +43-1-6060114-71 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBph84xJmyeGcXPhERAq7YAJ4xWFGNJuSvR8A4MhYYcpOfRhtCSQCfRnRW hJHnpAn46KKMo09/Oaqmbj0= =sA2q -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: Problems with HP SureStore VS80e (DLT1)
Dave Ewart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 25.11.2004 at 14:22 +0100, Andreas Haumer wrote: [...] The situation quickly became worse and at some point the tape drive refused to eject the tape cartridge. We called the HP support and they replaced the drive without problems. With the new drive, the nightly backup again started to work fine. After about 2 weeks, the same errors occured again. The nightly backup runs began to fail up to the point where the drive refused to eject the cartridge. So, HP replaced the drive again and we started to use our third drive in about 7 months of usage. [...] Interesting. Same thing happened to us with a Tandberg DLT1 vs80 drive, which I believe is fundamentally the same as the HP model. Same symptoms as the above, but we've only had one 'dead' drive. I assumed it was Just One Of Those Things. The first drive lasted for about 12 months and the second has been going fine for about 10 months so far. Dave. - -- Dave Ewart And here - seems to be heat related. Of the drives that have died (2xDLT1's and 1x VS80 all HP), have died on hot days in not temp controlled rooms. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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: Problems with HP SureStore VS80e (DLT1)
Dave Ewart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 25.11.2004 at 13:57 +, Martin Hepworth wrote: The situation quickly became worse and at some point the tape drive refused to eject the tape cartridge. We called the HP support and they replaced the drive without problems. With the new drive, the nightly backup again started to work fine. After about 2 weeks, the same errors occured again. The nightly backup runs began to fail up to the point where the drive refused to eject the cartridge. So, HP replaced the drive again and we started to use our third drive in about 7 months of usage. Interesting. Same thing happened to us with a Tandberg DLT1 vs80 drive, which I believe is fundamentally the same as the HP model. Same symptoms as the above, but we've only had one 'dead' drive. I assumed it was Just One Of Those Things. The first drive lasted for about 12 months and the second has been going fine for about 10 months so far. Dave. - -- Dave Ewart And here - seems to be heat related. Of the drives that have died (2xDLT1's and 1x VS80 all HP), have died on hot days in not temp controlled rooms. Hmmm - curious. My notes show that our drive keeled over in May (not 10 months ago, as I said above), although it did survive the hot summer of 2003 :-) Perhaps I should move ours into the air-conditioned room ... Dave. - -- Dave May 10 WAS the summer :-) More seriously England was thundery according to BBC, but can't find a specific diary for Oxford.. Anyway just noticed they tended to die on hot days rather than cool ones..not had any troubles since all in rooms where temp 25c and fairly constant. only a few months to go b4 all you kit gets a nice home anyway...temp controlled, smooth ac power ! -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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: Problem with amandad?
Hej have a look in the /tmp/amanda directory on the client and see if any of the debug files there give you any further information. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Sören Edzen wrote: Hi! amanda work for me for a few weeks when today amcheck reported this error with the amandad: [snip] Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: zampo: selfcheck reply timed out. Client check: 1 host checked in 90.220 seconds, 1 problem found (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p4) - [/snip] When I did a ps check for amandad I got the following: amanda 6163 0.0 0.3 2296 844 ? Ss 18:29 0:00 amandad amanda 6165 0.0 0.00 0 ? Z18:29 0:00 [amandad] defunct ___^___ Does defunct means that there's something wrong with amandad or could there be some other problem. ** 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: Maybe OT but a big problem with SOLARIS
Michael There's of diagnostics you can do with a SUN. It may well be bad RAM or other hardware issue. SUN should be able to talk you through all this.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Michael Schaller wrote: Hey! Maybe this Thread is a little OT, maybe it isn't. During a few days we've big problems with one of our servers. It's a SUN FIRE V480R with external StorEdge an a external changer (Overland LoaderXpress with a single LTO-1 drive from HP) attached. As I wrote a few weeks ago the system run fine with AMANDA and the changer. Only in the fist night after configuring AMANDA with the changer the automatic backup started and the complete system crashed!! Solaris didn't give any messages in /var/adm/messages ... The system was frozen, the only way to get the system back to life was a poweroff. After that the system was really fine for a few weeks. Last week the same shit happend. The complete system was frozen. We opened a call but without any messages sun was not able to solve the problem. During the last two days the system crashed two times. But now the system does a automatic reboot. Anybody ANY hints?? I get crazy ... Thanks in advance Michael ** 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: Bacula vs. amanda?
Kai sounds like an index on a table was missing to me, that sort of performance from mysql isn't normal. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Kai Zimmer wrote: Hi Jonathan, i used Bacula before i came to Amanda. Bacula is really nice - easy to setup, good documentation and so on. It saves information about files/dumpdates and so on in a mysql database which (in my case) turned out to be a bad idea. My datasets are huge, consisting of millions of xml-snippets. So mysql had lots of work to do and grew enormously to over 6 GB. Doing a single-file restore works fine, but once i had to do a complete system-recovery: The restore-interface consulted mysql and it took more than one week, before i interrupted it and did a (not much faster) direct restore from tape. After all it took me 14 days to restore the system. And that's why i switched to Amanda ;-) Kai ** 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: Restoring an ArcServe tape on Linux without ArcServe
Hi dd the entire tape to disk, so you've got the binary to play with^W^W inspect. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Iulian Topliceanu wrote: I don't want to get spefic files. I just want to have a big ugly dump (or whatever) to show them that in order to regain that information, we really have to install ArcServer (which won't happen because we switched some time ago to Amanda) Iulian Christoph Scheeder wrote: Hi, AFAIK, and i'm not an arcserve-guru...;-), arcserve uses a propietary format to store the data onto tape. So you will have to install arcserve to restore from this tpes. I'm not aware of any other tool to restore from these tapes. Christoph Iulian Topliceanu schrieb: Hi, This might be not the right place to post this question but I had no other clue. How do I restore a full ArcServe tape (some backup utility) under linux without having ArcServe installed? Or at least, how can I see if there is something on a tape or not? I tried to use amrestore (and obviously didn't work since it wasn't an Amanda tape) and restore gives an error like: restore: Tape read orror on the first record. Thank you for your support. Regards, Iulian ** 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: data timeout - no replies...anyone???
The problem isn't amanda, its with dump (and Linus' hate of the program!)
nocomp doesn't make a difference, apart from using more tape to store
the results.
your could make sure you use a 'dump-type' that specifies to use tar
with no issues..with or without compression.
--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
Ranveer Attalia wrote:
Interesting
We are currently using version 2.4.4 p1. Is the Linux ext3 file type
supported on a later version of Amanda where I can use the dumptype
nocomp?
-Original Message-
From: Christoph Scheeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 August 2004 12:56
To: Ranveer Attalia
Subject: Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone???
Hi,
If they are working, you can leave them. But i don't trust dump at all,
so i use tar for all my partitions.
So i would sugest switching them to tar, especialy as it gives you more
flexibility when it comes to restoring a crashed machine/disk.
If you used Dump to do the backups you should restore them to the same
type of filesystem they came from.
If you use tar, you even can restore them on a different OS onto a
completly different filesystem.
In short: tar gives you more flexibility.
But thats all my personal view, you'll have to decide what to do on your
own.
Christoph
Ranveer Attalia schrieb:
excellent - thanks just needed confirmation on that (new user) ok, so
I am confused, currently I have only changed over about 3 partitions
on my linux machine (tsslin1) to use root-tar dumptype. All the rest
are still using nocomp. But all other partitions appear to be working.
Does this mean that I can leave those partitions using nocomp dumptype
well alone? (ie: if its not broken dont fix it scenario)
- Ranveer
-Original Message-
From: Christoph Scheeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 August 2004 12:36
To: Ranveer Attalia
Subject: Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone???
Shurely,
amrecover does feed the needed parameters to tar for you.
Christoph
Ranveer Attalia schrieb:
Thanks for the replies.
One more question. If am using the dumptype root-tar, can I just use
an amrecover as normal to restore any files?
Thanks
- Ranveer
-Original Message-
From: Christoph Scheeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 August 2004 08:31
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone???
Hi,
i don't recall when it went in, but AFAIK it was 1 subrelease after
the point where a missing exclude-file began to get treated as an
error
;-) Perhaps its mentioned somewhere in a changelog.
Christoph
Gene Heskett schrieb:
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 04:19, Christoph Scheeder wrote:
Hi,
first sorry for the delay in answering.
The exclude-list option gives the path to a text-file containig
patterns which describe what files should be excluded from the
backup.
mine contains lines like
./core
./*.tmp
./*~
etc the ./ at the start is required, without it won't work.
you'll have to create one meeting your requirements or, as Gene
already pointed out, you can remove this line from the dumptype
definition, or you can modify it to read:
exclude list optional /path/to/your/exclude-list
which makes it an optional file, and amanda will work with or
without
it and stop complaining if it does not exist.
Christoph
At what tarball version did that 'optional' get built in? He may, if
a beginner, be trying to use an (spit) rpm. I don't know, either I
wasn't paying enough attention, or he didn't say.
Ranveer Attalia schrieb:
Hi Christoph
I've found the GNUTAR dumptype and changed the partition which was
failing to backup:
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
tsslin1/export/mansun1_telco lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]
Amanda.conf:
define dumptype root-tar {
global
program GNUTAR
comment root partitions dumped with tar
compress none
index
exclude list /usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar
priority low
}
Disklist data:
#TSSLIN1
tsslin1 / nocomp
tsslin1 /boot nocomp
tsslin1 /usr nocomp
tsslin1 /var nocomp
tsslin1 /opt nocomp
tsslin1 /databases nocomp
tsslin1 /export/home nocomp
tsslin1 /export/mansun1_tss nocomp
tsslin1 /export/mansun1_telco root-tar
When I run an amcheck Daily -C tsslin1, I get the following error.
Problem is, the exclude.gtar file doesnt actually exist on the
server.. Can this just be downloaded?
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
ERROR: tsslin1: [Can't open exclude file
'/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar': No such file or directory]
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.095 seconds, 1 problem found
-Original Message-
From: Christoph Scheeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 August 2004 11:24
To: Ranveer Attalia
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone???
Hi,
yes you can, go to your amanda.conf:
have a look at the defined dumptypes at the bottom of it, an check
if
one meets your requirements. in the example-amanda.conf there are
some dumptypes defined using tar
Re: Rebuilding my backup server
Gavin gab a copy of knoppix. This a live cd version of Linux - ie you boot from it and you have a fully working linux from cd - doesn't touch the hard drive. You can then run mount the hd drive, setup the ethernet (if not DHCP) and run amrestore/amrecover as needed (it's part of the knoppix distribution). -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, Disaster strikes!!! My Red Hat 8.0 backup server hard drive has died, and I need some advice in rebuilding it. I have all the backups tapes and I have backup up /etc /home /var and a few other things. My question is, How do I get all the configuration files back from the tapes without having Amanda installed? Any tips would be great!!! Gavin. ** Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. BEng (Hons) MIEE Engineer Invsat Ltd. Discovery Drive, Arnhall Business Park, Westhill, Aberdeen, AB32 6FG. www.invsat.com Tel: + 44 (0) 1224 428453 Fax:+ 44 (0) 1224 428401 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** The information contained in the message above may be privileged and confidential and is intended for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible and be aware that copying, disclosure, distribution or use of this information is prohibited. ** 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: Rebuilding my backup server
Gavin (got coffee now and read the bit about *backup* server died :-) I think you already got the advice about doing a manual restore of the proper files. If you've got a knoppix disk you MAY be able to get the conf files etc off the broken disk by mounting the disk and copying to a USB keydisk thing. Depends on how borken the disk is - ie will it mount and how good your debugfs skills are if it won't mount.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Gavin Henry wrote: I do use knoppix heavily, maybe it's my ignorance, but how will it know what to restore without my disklists and conf files? -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 July 2004 10:18 To: Gavin Henry Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rebuilding my backup server Gavin gab a copy of knoppix. This a live cd version of Linux - ie you boot from it and you have a fully working linux from cd - doesn't touch the hard drive. You can then run mount the hd drive, setup the ethernet (if not DHCP) and run amrestore/amrecover as needed (it's part of the knoppix distribution). -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, Disaster strikes!!! My Red Hat 8.0 backup server hard drive has died, and I need some advice in rebuilding it. I have all the backups tapes and I have backup up /etc /home /var and a few other things. My question is, How do I get all the configuration files back from the tapes without having Amanda installed? Any tips would be great!!! Gavin. ** Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. BEng (Hons) MIEE Engineer Invsat Ltd. Discovery Drive, Arnhall Business Park, Westhill, Aberdeen, AB32 6FG. www.invsat.com Tel: + 44 (0) 1224 428453 Fax:+ 44 (0) 1224 428401 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** The information contained in the message above may be privileged and confidential and is intended for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible and be aware that copying, disclosure, distribution or use of this information is prohibited. ** 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. ** ** 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: Rebuilding my backup server
Gavin sure its the HD then and not the IDE - or is the disk SCSI?? CD-ROM drives are cheap anyhow.. Now that 1GB usb keyfob things are £200 I wonder how long it will before we a knoppix for a USB dongle (for BIOS'es that can boot from these things!) -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Gavin Henry wrote: Good idea, I think it will mount, but my cdrom is also dead :-( I need to buy one. -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 July 2004 11:08 To: Gavin Henry Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rebuilding my backup server Gavin (got coffee now and read the bit about *backup* server died :-) I think you already got the advice about doing a manual restore of the proper files. If you've got a knoppix disk you MAY be able to get the conf files etc off the broken disk by mounting the disk and copying to a USB keydisk thing. Depends on how borken the disk is - ie will it mount and how good your debugfs skills are if it won't mount.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Gavin Henry wrote: I do use knoppix heavily, maybe it's my ignorance, but how will it know what to restore without my disklists and conf files? -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 July 2004 10:18 To: Gavin Henry Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rebuilding my backup server Gavin gab a copy of knoppix. This a live cd version of Linux - ie you boot from it and you have a fully working linux from cd - doesn't touch the hard drive. You can then run mount the hd drive, setup the ethernet (if not DHCP) and run amrestore/amrecover as needed (it's part of the knoppix distribution). -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Gavin Henry wrote: Dear all, Disaster strikes!!! My Red Hat 8.0 backup server hard drive has died, and I need some advice in rebuilding it. I have all the backups tapes and I have backup up /etc /home /var and a few other things. My question is, How do I get all the configuration files back from the tapes without having Amanda installed? Any tips would be great!!! Gavin. ** Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. BEng (Hons) MIEE Engineer Invsat Ltd. Discovery Drive, Arnhall Business Park, Westhill, Aberdeen, AB32 6FG. www.invsat.com Tel: + 44 (0) 1224 428453 Fax:+ 44 (0) 1224 428401 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** The information contained in the message above may be privileged and confidential and is intended for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible and be aware that copying, disclosure, distribution or use of this information is prohibited. ** 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. ** ** 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. ** ** 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: Q: prevent deleting existing files after recover a backup
Sebastian there's no way for the restore not to overwrite the files. What I do is to cd to somewhere that's *not* the start point for the backup, restore the files then mv them to where I need them to be possibily with a new name eg fred.c.restore. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Sebastian Ksters wrote: Hi, i got a question. When I recover a backup into a directory in which already files exist (others than in the Backup), Amanda deletes the existing files after the backup. I dont want Amanda to do that. Is it possible to prevent this? Regards, Sebastian ** 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: AW: Q: prevent deleting existing files after recover a backup
Sebastian same technique will work then you can manually merge the directories. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Sebastian Ksters wrote: Hi! The overwriting is not the Problem. Thats ok. When I recover in directory, where files exist that are not in the backup (new files) Amanda deletes them (not overwrite!). I want prevent that..the overwriting is ok! Thanks! -Ursprngliche Nachricht Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Martin Hepworth Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Juni 2004 10:54 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Q: prevent deleting existing files after recover a backup Sebastian there's no way for the restore not to overwrite the files. What I do is to cd to somewhere that's *not* the start point for the backup, restore the files then mv them to where I need them to be possibily with a new name eg fred.c.restore. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Sebastian Ksters wrote: Hi, i got a question. When I recover a backup into a directory in which already files exist (others than in the Backup), Amanda deletes the existing files after the backup. I dont want Amanda to do that. Is it possible to prevent this? Regards, Sebastian ** 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. ** ** 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: streaming
Glen I'd check the logic in the kernel code that checks for 80 way cables etc etc. When I last looked at 2.4.19 it was doing some weird stuff - do the checks then reset the flag where the bit table for the capabilities of the drive is set. As opposed to reset, then do the checks! I know you said you run 2.6.x but it's worth checking.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Glenn English wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 17:07, Frank Smith wrote: If it's linux, try using hdparm to verify the modes and speed of your disk. Like Jon says, a good drive can have terrible performance if it is running in the wrong mode. hdparm is a nifty addition to my system monitoring toolkit (top, gnome's cpu monitor icon, sticking my ear close to a drive to listen for seeks, eyeballing the disk activity LED, and dump's data transfer messages). hdparm uncovered some interesting information. The 2 drives on this machine are identical and identically configured, except for one thing: both are using dma, but one of them, hda, is udma2 and hdc is udma5. I did a 'hdparm -X 69 /dev/hda' to set hda to udma5. hdparm said it did, but hdparm -i still said udma2. Jon implied that hdparm may be just kidding about this. hdparm -Tt gives the following: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 2800 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1399.51 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 82 MB in 3.00 seconds = 27.33 MB/sec /dev/hdc: Timing buffer-cache reads: 2772 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1386.21 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 114 MB in 3.03 seconds = 37.62 MB/sec Since I have no feel for what pio would be like, I don't know. But the difference looks ballpark right for the different dma modes. I looked at another system: an old Dell server downstairs with a Maxtor PCI IDE card and a 2 or 3 year old Maxtor 60GB disk, also claiming to be udma5: /dev/hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.59 seconds =216.95 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.59 seconds = 40.25 MB/sec Something is wrong here. The disks up here are much newer, and a lot slower. I'm using the onboard controllers in an Intel D865GLC motherboard. Also, make sure your kernel is using the correct chipset driver for your IDE controller. On a machine at home I replaced the motherboard and my disk speeds dropped to under 2MB/sec. I finally figured out that since I had a different controller than the one I had compiled in support for, the kernel had dropeed back to generic IDE support. Rebuilding the kernel with the proper driver made an over 10X performance boost. That's where I'm going next. Kernel dox, motherboard dox, Gentoo dox, and hdparm's man page. And google, of course... Does anyone know of an equivalent to hdparm -Tt for SCSI disks? ** 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: Archiving With Amanda?
steven create a new backup set called 'archive', as opposed to the one you have now. then run it whenever... -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Steven Backus wrote: I have some files I'd like to permanently remove from my system (archiving to tape). It would be nice to have them listed in amanda's index and have amanda keep track of them for me. Does anyone know a way to do this? Thanks, Steve ** 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: BNCHMARK DLT1 tape Problem
nejat onay erkose wrote: Hello Again, Yeah actually I mistyped dev as dew just on the email. I used mt -f /dev/st0 rewind on the command shell. But still, it is not working and I am not able to figure out what the problem is. Thanks. OK so what do you have in /dev ? you might have to manually do the mknod in order to create the device path. -- -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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: BNCHMARK DLT1 tape Problem
that will be mt -f /dev/st0 rewind... note the leading / and v not w in the path name... -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 nejat onay erkose wrote: Hello I have a problem with BNCHMARK DLT1 tape . May machine doesnt seem to see the tape properly. The below message is given in the booting time : scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 Vendor: BNCHMARK Model: DLT1 Rev: 5032 st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs This as well... SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 st0: Block limits 2 - 16777214 bytes. scsi : 0 hosts left. and when I mt -f dew/st0 rewind the response is dew/st0: No such file or directory I would be glad if someone has an idea about this since so far i couldnt find any good clue on the internet to solve the problem. Thank you... ** 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: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?
Dave
Being the person you are I presume you've...
cleaned the heads,
reseated the connectors,
sounds like a drive issue to me - there are some utils on the HP web
site for diagnosis they will has you run, but you'll have to dig out a
windows box to run them
I've got a DLT1 (same drive just a little slower) I could free up for a
lunch time if you need a test unit..
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Dave Ewart wrote:
Hi,
Many months of happy activity and then suddenly, last two nights, the
AMANDA job has failed to finish properly - the error in the AMANDA
report says:
These dumps were to tape Daily-014.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Daily-015.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
halcyon/root lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
[...]
STATISTICS:
Total Full Daily
Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:45
Run Time (hrs:min) 8:09
Dump Time (hrs:min)8:15 0:25 7:50
Output Size (meg) 10606.2 1315.9 9290.3
Original Size (meg) 22351.7 2115.120236.6
Avg Compressed Size (%)47.5 62.2 45.9 (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped 54 28 26 (1:21 2:4 4:1)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 365.7 888.3 337.6
Tape Time (hrs:min)0:14 0:08 0:06
Tape Size (meg) 612.8 332.6 280.2
Tape Used (%) 1.71.00.7 (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped36 26 10 (1:10)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 745.4 745.0 745.9
[...]
taper: tape Daily-014 kb 653792 fm 37 writing file: Input/output error
driver: going into degraded mode because of tape error.
I notice it mentions out of tape above - that's definitely wrong.
There's certainly plenty of room for all the dumps.
And in the kernel logs for the AMANDA server:
[...] kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x8000, Deferred st09:00: sns
+= f1 4
[...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 1
[...] kernel: Raw sense data:0xf1 0x00 0x04 0x00 0x00 0x80 0x00 0x16 0x00 0x00
+0x4f 0xc8 0x15 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x82 0x01 0x55 0x00 0x00 0x25 0x3b 0x00 0x96
0x32 0x50 0x00
[...] kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x1, Current st09:00: sns =
+f0 3
[...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 2
[...] kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x16 0x00 0x00
+0x4f 0xc8 0x15 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x82 0x01 0x55 0x00 0x00 0x25 0x3b 0x00 0x96
0x32 0x50 0x00
[...] kernel: st0: Error on write filemark.
[...] kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x8000, Deferred st09:00: sns
+= f1 4
[...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 1
[...] kernel: Raw sense data:0xf1 0x00 0x04 0x00 0x00 0x80 0x00 0x16 0x00 0x00
+0x4f 0xc8 0x15 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x82 0x01 0x55 0x00 0x00 0x25 0x3b 0x00 0x96
0x32 0x50 0x00
[...] kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x1, Current st09:00: sns =
+f0 3
[...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 2
[...] kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x16 0x00 0x00
+0x4f 0xc8 0x15 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x82 0x01 0x55 0x00 0x00 0x25 0x3b 0x00 0x96
0x32 0x50 0x00
[...] kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x8000, Deferred st09:00: sns
+= f1 4
[...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 1
[...] kernel: Raw sense data:0xf1 0x00 0x04 0x00 0x00 0x80 0x00 0x16 0x00 0x00
+0x4f 0xc8 0x15 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x82 0x01 0x55 0x00 0x00 0x25 0x3b 0x00 0x96
0x32 0x50 0x00
[...] kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x1, Current st09:00: sns =
+f0 3
[...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 2
[...] kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x16 0x00 0x00
+0x4f 0xc8 0x15 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x82 0x01 0x55 0x00 0x00 0x25 0x3b 0x00 0x96
0x32 0x50 0x00
[...] kernel: st0: Error on write filemark.
What looks like the problem here? The drive itself? The SCSI
controller? We have a HP DLT-40 drive on an Adaptec 29160 controller.
There have been no configuration changes to the server.
Dave.
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Re: Troubles with Amanda on AIX 5.2L:
in /tmp/amanda on the AIX machine there will be some debug files. what do they say? -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Dmitry Likhachev wrote: I've some trouble with amanda on aix 5.2L (it's a client machine) Maybe you can help me or introduce me, what caused this error. I try to use amanda 2.4.2p2 patched with tar-1.12.patch and regex-3.6alpha.patch Amanda have been compiled with following options: --without-server --with-user=bin --with-group=bin --with-gnutar='path to gnu-tar' In disklist i use the always-full-tar option and path targeted to directory, not to device. and there is i have follow amanda report: -- my.system /directory lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] sendbackup: start [my.system:/directory level 0] sendbackup: could not unlock /etc/amandates: Bad file number? dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup] dumper: strange [missing end line from sendbackup] What does this mean? P.S I was try to use amanda-2.4.2p2 without any patches and i again have this error. My Amanda-server (amanda-2.4.2.p2) work on Linux machine and backup other systems (linux and hp-ux) fine. ** 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: newbie questions
hi mogorva wrote: Hi All, I'm totally new to amanda so please excuse me for the long mail. I have a linux box here (debian woody) with one disk and a DAT drive. There are 3 partitions on the disk (/boot, / , swap). so far so good, but you'll need holding space in order to store the backups before they go to tape. This PC will be a remote PC (it will be really far away from here) and I will have only ftp access. needs amanda access via smb or amanda access via the cygwin implementation, so you'll need more than ftp.. My task is to create a method to archive the data from the disk. Fortunately (or not) the data is quite static (this means it changes very rarely) so it's not neccessary to do regular (daily or weekly) archives but it's a must to make a full archive in the nitht when some data has changed. Full archive means to save everything (all the files and directories of the application) not just the changed files. I can handle this 'change management' (I can decide with a script if it's neccessary to make an archive or not) but I need some help to configure amanda. amanda doesn't work like this - it's fairly static in the it does things and the planner likes to decide when to do full/incrementals. As I told we need to archive specific directories and files so my first question is: is it possible to archive files and directories or amanda can archive only whole disks and/or partitions? using gnutar as the 'dump' program you can do partial disks/partitions The second question: We have tapes of 12 GB and an archive is going to be about 250-300 MB. We'd like to use a tape as long as it's possible without removing it from the drive (because it will be really far away from here). Can we 'force' amanda to use one tape until it's full? no, one tape per backup run. There's a risk of tape corruption (eg server room fire, theft) if you leave tapes in the drive till full. Amanda forces you to change the tape every run. I know, this won't be the best archiving system in the world, but it will do. :) Can anyone help me to discuss the config files and write them? Thank you, Mogorva You might want to have a good trawl through the docs on how amanda works.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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: Solaris ACLs
Talking of snapshots, FreeBSD 5.x can do this too with the -L flag to dump. Can someone remind me of how to generate a specific backup type (in amanda.conf) that passes the -L flag to dump on the remote system. Ta -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Jon LaBadie wrote: big snip As Solaris also can do FS snapshots, the OP should be informed of that feature. Not amanda specific, but neat. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.
Re: building 2.4.4p1 under Solaris 9 with native-built gcc-3.3
Craig what's the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to? does it include the location of libgcc_s.so? -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Craig Dewick wrote: Hi everyone, Further to the problems I've been experiencing with trying to build the amanda-2.4.4p1 package, I now have gcc-3.3 building perfectly using the sunfreeware.com gcc-3.3 package as the basis to build natively from source. I've used the exact same config settings as the sunfreeware gcc-3.3 package is built with. I have rebuilt the Berkeley DB library and the GNU readline library using the natively-built gcc-3.3 to make sure the shared libs don't have any strange compiler-specific dependences. However, the problem with 'genversion' still occurs. Here is the output from 'ldd' when run on the compiled executable file: 155 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ldd genversion libgen.so.1 = /usr/lib/libgen.so.1 libdb-4.1.so = /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.1.so libm.so.1 = /usr/lib/libm.so.1 libreadline.so.4 = /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.4 libcurses.so.1 = /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1 libsocket.so.1 = /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1 libnsl.so.1 = /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1 libintl.so.1 = /usr/lib/libintl.so.1 libc.so.1 = /usr/lib/libc.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1 = (file not found) libdl.so.1 = /usr/lib/libdl.so.1 libmp.so.2 = /usr/lib/libmp.so.2 /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-60/lib/libc_psr.so.1 Notice that libgcc_s.so.1 is not being found. This is despite my default setting for the LDFLAGS environment variable which is: LDFLAGS=-L/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/local/lib -R/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/local/lib so it seems that this flag is being ignored. I don't have any other gcc compilers installed. 'libgcc_s' does exist in /usr/local/lib since it was installed as part of the natively-built gcc-3.3 package: 158 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ls -sal /usr/local/lib/libgcc* 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 13 Jul 30 05:59 /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so - libgcc_s.so.1 1536 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 776192 Jul 30 05:59 /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 What could this mean? /usr/local/lib is definitely being used to find libraries since the GNU readline library is correctly found by 'ldd' when it's run on the 'genversion' binary just built by gcc. This is what 'file' reports for the libgcc_s.so.1 library: 159 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # file /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: ELF 32-bit MSB dynamic lib SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped which is correct as far as I can tell. Craig. ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Suggestions for a dedicated Amanda-System
Stefan I run it on FreeBSD and I just remove the drivers I don't need from the kernel and tweek a couple of things. However having played a little with 5.1 (and not with amanda mind you) it's blindingly fast even compared to 4.8 so next time I build an amanda host I might try a stock 5.x version and lock down as usual (remove uneeded inetd entries, daemons etc etc). I guess alot of the optimisation is down to parrelletisation params, where you do the compression (server of client) size, how big the cpu is etc.. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Amanda-Users, I´m thinking about building a system dedicated to just run Amanda at its best. I want to strip down a linux-system to the basics needed for backup. Just the necessary hard- and software, rock-solid and fast. As the brand new kernel compiles in another window on my desktop I think about compiling a kernel that just supports the basic backup hardware and leaves stuff like sound or isdn away. What do you think? Does it make sense to spend time and thoughts on stripping the system down? I know from years of using Amanda that the bottlenecks lie elsewhere but I would like to build a very minimal system which I could offer to my clients as a kind of Amanda-Box doing just what it should. I would like to hear your thoughts on this topic, maybe some of you have already done stuff like specific kernel-compilations to satisfy Amanda´s needs. I´m looking forward to your answers. Best regards, Stefan. ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Doubt in amanda.conf
Hi dumpcycle should be 7 days as should the runspercycle., -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Rodrigo P. Telles wrote: Hi Amanda Users, This is my first post in that list. I'm using/testing amanda by 4 weeks and now I have a doubt about confs in amanda.conf. My scenario is: 1 - I need to do daily backups only 2 - If possible, I need that only first backup (from the day) is full 3 - I have 7 DDS3 tape cartridges, one per day 4 - My backup has +/- 10GB per day My confs about cycles is: dumpcycle 0 days runspercycle1 day tapecycle 7 tapes Problem: In a first cycle (first week), daily backup is ok, no problems. In a second cycle (starts on Sunday), amanda doesn't work was I think, amanda says: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [cannot overwrite active tape Sunday]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: Monday. My Question is: What's wrong in my *cycles ? Who's can I solve this problem ? Info: Amanda 2.4.4 SO: Linux Tape: Seagate Scorpion 40 Thanks. ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Amanda don't work with Exabyte VXA-2
Hi
you've not set the tape device correctly in the amanda.conf - still
/dev/null by the looks of it.
on the client what do you see the the /tmp/amanda denug logs? have you
setup inetd.conf (or xinetd.conf) correctly the HUP-ed inetd afterwards?
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Shulov Leonid wrote:
I have RadHat Linux 9 on Tape server with Amanda 2.4.3 and Debian Linux
3.0 on clients
with Amanda 2.4.2p2-4.
Tape drive I define:
define tapetype VXA-2 {
comment Exabyte VXA-2 drive on asraid01
length 16 mbytes
filemark 2300 kbytes
speed 12000 kbytes}
Amanda don't work with Exabyte VXA-2
1. amcheck don't see exabyte VXA-2 tape :
amcheck DailySet1
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /home/amanda/tmp: 163717756 KB disk space available, that's
plenty
ERROR: /dev/null: rewinding tape: Inappropriate ioctl for device
(expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Server check took 30.096 seconds
2.Tape Server don't see Client:
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
WARNING: aspc0001: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
Client check: 1 host checked in 29.994 seconds, 1 problem found
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3)
Help me please.
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Re: Lot's of I/O errors...
Hi what does the /var/log/messages (or /var/adm/messages whichever) say around this time? You could have dirty heads, bad tapes or indeed a broken drive. Or something like a bad SCSI cable. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Toralf Lund wrote: I've mentioned this earlier, but not a lot came out of it: I've been getting a lot of *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: I/O error]]. lately. This does not, however, happen all the time, and not for specific tapes, either. Also, I can't find any error messages related to the tape device in the system log etc., and I've tested the unit quite a bit, and based on that, I don't think the problem is really the *write*, but is rather related to the holding disk image read. I can't figure out how exactly, though. How do I go about finding out what exactly is wrong? Also, who wrote the above mentioned error message? I'm a bit annoyed with that person now, I must say. Why? Well, for leaving out the file name from a file related error message, of course. [ Some serious flaming omitted at this point... ] Amanda version (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.4p1) Before that I used one of the 2.4.4 snapshots, and before that again, 2.4.4. I got the same problem with the snapshot release, but not 2.4.4 itself, I believe (so perhaps I'll downgrade...) ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: lurk mode off...amanda time-frame question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q on amt of time to implement amanda?! After chatting with my manager, I have to ask the list a bunch of painfully obvious questions: 1) How long should it take someone to get amanda up and running. (5 minutes, 5 days, 5 weeks?) assuming you've done amanda config before a week should be doable. If not, double at least, there's quite a few gotcha's. 2) How much of what is required by amanda, compared to buying a commercial product? i.e., is much of the configuration work that I've done in Amanada magically done by commercial programs? 3) have any of you (I hope, please help me...) configured any competing commercial products, and is it simpler?/Faster? can be quite complicated from scratch too. I'd say they are comparable, but YMMV.. the commercial products tend to have 'plugins' for databases etc so they are simpler, but not necessarily easier, in that respect. 4) Is it just me who needs my head examined? no - always double your estimate, esp if you not done the task required before.. 5) does it sound to you (too) that I need to find another job? My boss (after thinking this has been painless *) has complained that I told her it would take a week to get the system up and running with backups. Of course the guy who was doing backups before (he gave them to me to do last week) was taking 4 hrs every friday afternoon to copy files to his pc and cut 4 CDROMS. but he had PHYSICAL media, which she likes. ** So I gave the following schedule to my boss, which she grudgingly accepted: Monday:, perform direct hardware backups to tape, restore, test copied ok both ways. Tuesday: install, compile software, get installed software correctly running on server, test backup of server Wednesday:, install client software (on another server), test backup from server. Thursday: adjust # tapes, scheduling information. Add more clients Friday :installing SAMBA on server, setting up drive share so that it's accessible to tape system for backups. samba can be 'fun' in itself...you'll also need to recompile amanda to get it to recognise the samba client! SO: (I thought I padded this schedule enough to get me done and completed with plenty of time, but NO... Another question: was this NOT a adaquate time estimate? so first thing: On monday, tests went fine, started to install a few of the following packages: package ` version gnuawk 3.10 gccCompiler 3.3 gnuplot 3.71 make 3.80 mtx 1.2.17 ncurses 5.3. perl 5.8.0 popt 1.7 readline 4.3 samba 2.2.8a tar 1.13 and of course amanda 2.4.4p1 **Mistake** I took Tuesday off, but wasn't reflected in schedule. time to shoot myself. yes Wed Morning, finish installing other packages, installed amanda. HA. (See other message about 2.4.4.P1 AND the version.info function.) Thursday, got programmer to help me compile amanda 2.4.4.p1 ok finally. started to edit all amanda config files. Friday: started amtapetype, did amcheck., fixing problems. still no formal backup yet. *Painless (HA!: remember? (LVD vs HVD scsi (6 days to resolve/discover already had hardware), and other personal faux pases? I do. ** and after getting the task, I took about 6 hrs, automated it to run daily, and SSH/SCP'd the files to a unused machine. Thereby getting DAILY backups.. BUT ... she doesnt see media, so doesnt like that are you doing tape or tapeless backups? Personnally I like 'tapes' cos you have something to take off-site so when a 767 hits your buidling you can still get to the data! -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: spanning tapes
Andre de Koning wrote: I'm current looking into Amanda and planning on using it with a Compaq 8 tape 20/40 DAt autoloader. From what I can see Amanda does not support spanning a backup onto multiple tapes. What do I do to make a backup that uses all 8 tapes? I suppose I could split it into 8 seperate backups - how would I go about this? Also: I anybody has any experience with one of these autoloaders any help would be highly appreciated. André de Koning IT Manager Softline VIP Payroll Tel: +27 12 420 7000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andre amanda won't span a single backup extent across tapes, but will span complete daily backups over tapes. ie if you backup /usr/local and it's bigger than a single tape it won't span. but if your config has multiple disk's mentioned it will span the whole archive over many tapes. you can get around this by using gnutar as the underlying backup medium and splitting the individual partitions up so they will fit onto a tape., -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Backup plan needs advice.
bao wrote: Hi Martin I forgot to state that this is a tapeless setup to back up to disk. Then the full backup will be transferred to tape, and also is kept on disk for one week. Martin Hepworth wrote: Bao Amanda will need two separate config's to do this, BUT they will have idea of each others existance so the 'daily' will to full backups as and when the amanda planner thinks it's time to do one. I am _not_ letting Amanda schedule as to when to do a full backup, as is recommended. What I want (actually, my boss) is to force it to run a full every Monday, then a level 1 every other day for the rest of the week, according to the most recent Monday. Can't be done. Amanda's planner does this for you based on estimated sizes. I hope the above helps clarify it. Sorry for the confusion. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Help compiling on OS X/Darwin
Ken Simpson wrote: Ken Simpson wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to UN*X, and have downloaded the 2.4.4 sources and read the notes on compiling on OS X and have searched the lists. However I can't get it to compile on OS X Jag. There are warnings in the configure and when I compile I get recursive errors in Amanda.h. Can anyone point me to a FAQ or a help page please? Or offer any other advice? Thanks Ken I compiled it under 10.1 with little problem (there was a problem but I can;t remember what it was..). What errors where you getting on the configure? Thank for helping Martin, these are the errors, and I have added the entire configure output as an attachment configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: *** You do not have gnuplot. Amplot will not be installed. configure: WARNING: netinet/ip.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: netinet/ip.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: netinet/ip.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: *** No readline library, no history and command line editing in amrecover! ok looking at the log file, you've told it that its a NetBSD based system. You'll have to mess with the default system types so that it matches powerpc-apple-rhapsody5.5 and use that for the type. Also I find I don;t need to put in the --with-config=backupset on clients.. there should be soemthing in on the the messages on the list archive on this as I kinda remember messing with some file to get this right. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Backup plan needs advice.
Bao Amanda will need two separate config's to do this, BUT they will have idea of each others existance so the 'daily' will to full backups as and when the amanda planner thinks it's time to do one. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 bao wrote: Hello, After a very long and hard time struggling with Amanda, I figured out that it's the Athlon bug, and have switched to an Intel. Now it works. However, I am still confused of some things regarding the backup plan, and hope someone will help me answer them. I would like to back up everyday, in incremental, and a weekly full backup once a week, on a specified day. Let the full be on Monday, and the incrementals be on the rest of the week. I now have to configs: 1. Weekly: has dumpcycle=0, runspercycle=1, tapecycle=1, strategy=noinc, index=yes, and record=no 2. Daily: has dumpcycle=7, runspercycle=6, tapecycle=6, strategy=nofull, , index=yes, record=yes The Weekly full will call amadmin to set to run level 0 before it runs. Q1: If I want the incrementals of a week to follow from that week's full, how do I set the record?? (Mon : level 0, Tues-Sun : level 1 - backing up any changes from the most recent Monday) Q2. The Weekly full backup will be transferred to tape with a cycle of 8 tapes, then rotate. What do I need to copy to tape beside the backup image?? index ?? log ?? debug files ?? Thank you all, ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Solaris 8 compile problem with amanda 2.4.4
Jim where's libgcc_s.so.1 ??? in /usr/local/lib ? if it is then you'll have to include that in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This a a runtime path (like $PATH, $MANPATH etc) that is used by Solaris to search for libs during execution. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Jim Mozley wrote: ld.so.1: /usr/local/sbin/amcheck: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Q: Backing up Netware3 via ncpfs?
Dave Ewart wrote: Dear all, Recently added a couple of netware servers to our Amanda backup regime - I used ncpmount to give the servers mount points and added the mount points to the disklist. The files backed up successfully on their first night, as a 'level 0' full backup; however, I notice today that the next night's 'level 1' backup actually appears to have backed up all files again, despite the fact that very few files will have changed. The servers are Netware 3 servers, and have been mounted read-only using: ncpmount -S server -U username -f 444 -d 555 /mount/point/blah I can't find anything helpful in the archives about backing up Netware servers in this way. Anyone got any hints? Dave. Dave how are you backing up the mount point? gnutar I guess, in which case are you using the latest version... -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: client was working, now suddenly is getting self check hostdown? errors
Dave Ewart wrote: On Friday, 30.05.2003 at 15:04 -0400, Ron Bauman wrote: Any ideas of why a client would work for a while then randomly not be able to do a selfchecK? The other amanda client is still working great... I have a random problem like this as well running RH Linux. The client occasionally fails amcheck in the afternoon. (Backups run at nite.) When I look at portland, the client, I find the selfcheck task stuck and I am unable to kill it, even with kill -9. See if you have the same problem. On the client, try ps -ef | grep amand or grep with whatever your amanda user account is. If you see selfcheck running, you'll be unable to get amcheck on the server to finish until it's gone. Just something to check. Interesting to see this problem reported - I've had this happen sporadically too. The 'host down' error relates to the localhost and it leaves 'selfcheck' and 'amandad' running in the background. The server is RH Linux 7.3, running AMANDA 2.4.2p2. However, killing those processes does not make everything better. The problem seems unrelated to the AMANDA configuration. The last time it happened here, we were fortunate enough to have a 'maintenance window' and rebooted the server and after that amcheck ran without complaint. However, given that this is a production server, rebooting is not a good solution. Dave. Dave do you use 'localhost' or 'hostname' in the disk list. I perfer to use 'hostname' for the reason that if you move the amanda server to 'someotherhostname' all the tapes etc still reflect the correct hosts! what do the debug logs in /tmp/amanda say when this happens, also anything else in /var/log/messages indication anything odd at this time? -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Problems to run 'amrecover' - Again
Roberto for the first bit try using the hostname for -s rather than localhost. for the last bit have you put in the correct tape. This is the error 'I' get when I put in the wrong tape for the recovery. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) wrote: Hi, After use the suggestion, it worked but, there are still some problems: I used the line: amrecover Daily1 -s localhost But, some erros occured: 501 No index record for host: server1.mydomain. Invalid? Trying Server1.mydomain ... 501 No index record for host: Server1.mydomain. Invalid? After that, the prompt appeared, I did 'ls' and the 'amrecover' returned me 'Must select a disk before listing file'. After sethost (sethost client1) and setdisk (setdisk hdb1 /usr), I could see the directory tree from the backup. I add a file and tried to extract it but, some errors appeared: Load tape XYZ01 now Continue? [Y/n] EOF, check amdxtaped.debug file on localhost. amrecover: short block 0 bytes UNKNOWN file amrecover: Can't read file header extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 Continue?[Y/n] I Can't recovery the file :///. What's hapenned ? Thanks, Roberto Samarone Araujo I've done a backup perfectly but, when I tried to run 'amrecover' from the server or from the clients, I received the messages: Contacting server on localhost ... 200 server1 AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2) ready. 500 Access not allowed: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed. I put on the /root/.amandahosts - localhost root - on the server. And - server1.mydomain backup - on the clients. I started amrecover on the server using: amrecover Daily1. On the clients I started using: amrecover Daily1 -t server1.mydomain, but the same error occured. What's the problem ? You need 'localhost root' in the .amandahosts in ~backup. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: List of files on tape
Dalton don't need to try each tape. just use amrecover and it will tell which tape to get..for me this is the best bit of amanda. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Dalton Hubert wrote: Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 at 1:53pm, Dalton Hubert wrote when i make a backup in the night, and then i want to know which files are on the tape, what i have to do? I just want to have _full_ list of directories and files in it. It is possible to log this in a log file? Thx for your help, Dalton PS: For example i have files, but i do not know the exact name, so i look for it in the list, and then i only recover these files. Or another example: I want to know if the files are on my tape, before i make a recovery. If you have 'index yes' in your dumptype, this is being done. Use 'amrecover' to browse through the file lists. See the man pages for more info. 'index yes' is set, but i do not want to browse the file list on the tape, i want to have log-files on my machine, which include the whole file list. Current problem: A file disappeared, but we do not know when and I don't want to insert 10 tapes and search on every tape the file. So i want go through the log-files, for searching the file, to find out on which tape i can find it. Is this possible? Regards dalton ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Flushing interrupted backups
Alex Page wrote: Last night, my amdump was interrupted, and there is data left in my holding disk. I'd like to use amflush to dump them onto the tape I was using for last night's backup, but it insists that I use a new tape for the flush. Is there any way to convince Amanda to use last night's tape? Alex Hi Alex not really, if you force the flush to tape it will overwrite the stuff already there. Prob best to not put in a tape tonight. This will force the backups to the holding area, then flush everything to tape tomorrow when you get in. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Installation Problem
Hi
well like the error says you need to specify the --with-user flag. You
also need to specify the --with-group as well!
Have a look in the docs esp the oneline chapter from Backup and Recovery
mentioned on the amanda home page.
--
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
+44 (0)1865 842300
T. Bhaskar Reddy wrote:
Hi,
I am facing a problem , when trying to install amanda2.4.4. The first
step of installation procedure(i,e running ./configure )itself is giving
problem. When i run the ./configure i am getting the following output.
Further it is not creating any Makefile.
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
configure: error: *** --with-user=USER is missing
If any one have idea about please help me in solving this problem
System configuration details:
OS RedHat 7.2
Kernel 2.4.7-10
hardwaretype i686
Regards,
Bhaskar
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Re: help requested designing once a week dump cycle
Mark Stosberg wrote: Hello! I'm interested in some advice on the best way to configure my dump cycle. This cycle will run once a week and performs full backups. Every forth week we take one tape out the cycle for archiving and replace it with a new tape. So is this would this be the optimal amanda.conf settings for that? dumpcycle28 runspercycle 4 tapecycle 4 tapes And then I should mark the 4th tape no-reuse ? I'm also not clear of the best use of that feature as well. Thanks! Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/ Mark I do a separate run for the 'archive' tape. That way I can specify to just do level 0 dumps (ie full backups) always for all disks. If you just 'take out' a tape it will more than likely just have incrementals on it and an only level 0 if you by chance coincide with the amamda planner's view of when to do a level0. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Help With Restore
Kenneth Sullivan wrote: I'm trying to restore a directory on one of our servers. First, I want the directory to reside in a temporary location before I move it to its original location. I ran the following command in the temp location: amrestore /dev/nst0 hostname /.1/shares Now I have a file in my temp directory named hostname._.1_shares.20030206.0. I've tried to tar it to expand the contents but the server just sits there, even when running tar overnight. I used: tar xvpS hostname._.1_shares.20030206.0 What am I doing wrong? I need to be able to pull a certain directory out and trash the rest. Any help will be appreciated. Hi well I tend to use amrecover myself amrecover [ [ -C ] config ] [ -s index-server ] [ -t tape-server ] [ -d tape-device ] (index and tape server tend to be same) then inside amrecover you can set the dir/filesystem you want to recover, where you want it to go and from what date. anyway back to your tar problem. you haven't used the 'f' option to tell tar to use a non default file ie.. tar xvpfS hostname._.1_shares.20030206.0 -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: no-rewind pass0 on FreeBSD
my kernel config just mentions the sa driver. (no zero or one etc) that way it should detect the sa devices on boot. Once you've got that far you may need to make the /dev/*sa0 devices by cd /dev Makedev sa0 -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Scott Lambert wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:23:10AM +0100, Konrad Dienst wrote: Does your kernel include device sa? Your tape should be recognized as /dev/.*sa[0-9] For instance : Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 sa0: HP C1533A 9503 Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8) sa1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 10 lun 0 sa1: SEAGATE AIT 03j0 Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa1: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit) Sa0 is included in the Kernel, but the only thing I get is: pass0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 pass0: HP C7200 140D Removable Changer SCSI-3 device pass0: 3.300MB/s transfers The system recognizes only a passthrough device. You probably want to start talking to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list to figure out why you aren't getting a tape device, (sa, sequential access). ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Tape Cycle calculations
Alex Page wrote: I'm setting up an amanda system, and I'm a little confused by the jargon. What I'm trying to do is one full backup a week (on Fridays) and partial backups every other weeknight. I want to operate four weeks of tapes in rotation, so at any time we have four weeks of backup down to the granularity of one day. Am I right in thinking that this is a dump cycle of 7 days, with 5 runs per cycle and 4 tapes per run? Sorry if this is alarmingly obvious, I'm pretty new to all this :) Alex Alex err no. Let amanda decide when to do full dumps - it will flatten out the load and figure out when to do full's itself. ya want want dumpcycle 4 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle runspercycle 20 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days # (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- justweekdays) tapecycle 20 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation If ya want to do 'archive' runs then setup a separate backup set that only does full's (via the disklist and backuptype specifier) -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Error after installing/configuring amanda
Hi /usr/local/sbin probably isn't in your path. so /usr/local/sbin/amcheck (options) should work.. Madhvi Gokool wrote: Hello I have encountered the following error when trying to run the following command or any other amanda program on the tape server host [amanda@backup sbin]$ amcheck -l bash: amcheck: command not found The permissions of the am* commands in /usr/local/sbin area s follows :- 34807 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 442325 Feb 4 16:30 amadmin 34808 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 542304 Feb 4 16:30 amcheck 34814 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 1811 Feb 4 16:30 amcheckdb 34846 -rwsr-x---1 root root 542304 Feb 11 15:22 amcheck_old 34815 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 3936 Feb 4 16:30 amcleanup 34806 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 218270 Feb 4 16:30 amdd 34816 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 3744 Feb 4 16:30 amdump 34809 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 381176 Feb 4 16:30 amflush 34810 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 197506 Feb 4 16:30 amgetconf 34811 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 413403 Feb 4 16:30 amlabel 34805 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 218366 Feb 4 16:30 ammt 34817 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 4427 Feb 4 16:30 amoverview 34824 -rwxr-x---1 amanda operator 379886 Feb 4 16:30 amrecover 34813 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 402562 Feb 4 16:30 amreport 34823 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 312351 Feb 4 16:30 amrestore 34818 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 6607 Feb 4 16:30 amrmtape 34822 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator29050 Feb 4 16:30 amstatus 34812 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 422231 Feb 4 16:30 amtape 34819 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 6888 Feb 4 16:30 amtoc 34820 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator12053 Feb 4 16:30 amverify 34821 -rwxr-xr-x1 amanda operator 1123 Feb 4 16:30 amverifyrun Where have I gone wrong ??? Thanx in asdvance Madhvi -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: question (if tape server crash)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the tape server is crashed, and I reinstall Amanda, can the NEW tape server recognize previous backup tapes and retrive the files? It looks unlikely. How solve this problem? Thanks advanced! David David Hopefully you're backing up the tape server and specifically the area where all the indexes etc are kept. Then all you need to do is restore the amanda indexes, conf files etc to the new server. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Tape running out of space, NOT possible
Rebecca
What does the tapetype say in amanda.conf?
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Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote:
Hi all -
I have amanda 2.4.2p2 running on a RH 7.3 box with a Quantum SuperDLT 110GB tape drive. I am currently sending 11-13GB to this drive depending on the day...
amanda is telling me my dump is too big and degrading my level 0's to level 1! How is this possible? I run amdump from a script called by cron and have for some time. The first line in my script rewinds the tape, just in case. I have tried multiple tapes, so I don't believe it is a media issue. Here is my amdump report:
These dumps were to tape uamonthly200301.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: uamonthly200301.
STATISTICS:
Total Full Daily
Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:03
Run Time (hrs:min) 1:01
Dump Time (hrs:min)0:55 0:54 0:00
Output Size (meg) 11552.611507.8 44.8
Original Size (meg) 11552.611507.8 44.8
Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --(level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped 15 10 5 (1:5)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 3608.1 3614.8 2444.7
Tape Time (hrs:min)0:19 0:19 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 11553.111508.2 44.9
Tape Used (%) 99.8 99.40.4 (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped15 10 5 (1:5)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 10417.310525.0 2878.3
NOTES:
planner: Last full dump of slaw:/usr on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of slaw:/home on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/export/home on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/usr on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/u05/oracle/admin/ua on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/u05/oracle/admin/testua on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/var on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/usr on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/opt on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/export/home on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/etc on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/var on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of weber.unterlaw.com:/usr on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of weber.unterlaw.com:/opt on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Last full dump of weber.unterlaw.com:/var on tape overwritten in 1 run.
planner: Incremental of weber.unterlaw.com:/var bumped to level 2.
planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of slaw:/home delayed.
planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/var delayed.
planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/var delayed.
planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of smores.unterlaw.com:/opt delayed.
planner: Dump too big for tape: full dump of spork.unterlaw.com:/usr delayed.
taper: tape uamonthly200301 kb 11830368 fm 15 [OK]
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISKL ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-- -
slaw /home 11184 1184 --0:003792.9 0:011187.5
slaw /usr0 692672 692672 --3:453083.4 0:5612399.8
smores.unter /etc02400 2400 --0:011713.4 0:03 847.8
smores.unter -xport/home 0 14187521418752 --8:472693.6 1:4113983.4
smores.unter /opt1 34976 34976 --0:113233.3 0:103381.3
smores.unter /usr0 464576 464576 --3:96.3 0:2916027.7
smores.unter /var16464 6464 --0:041564.9 0:015722.3
spork.unterl -xport/home 0 15429761542976 --6:273982.5 1:2617908.4
spork.unterl -min/testua 0 18540481854048 --6:005156.1 3:069981.8
spork.unterl -e/admin/ua 0 43280324328032 -- 13:565175.1 6:5510435.5
spork.unterl /usr11216 1216 --0:02 529.6 0:02 711.7
spork.unterl /var12016 2016 --0:011675.4 0:021188.5
weber.unterl /opt0 17056 17056 --0:053723.8 0:0210528.9
weber.unterl /usr0 198272 198272 --1:092873.6 0:563546.9
weber.unterl /var0 12652481265248 -- 10:481952.6 3:066791.8
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2)
Any ideas?
Rebecca A. Crum
Systems Administrator
Unterberg Associates, P.C.
(219) 736-5579 ext. 184
Re: sol 2.6 HP-C1557A (12000e) changer device
Sounds like you need to get the chg-insert_option working first. have a look at the docs in the tape-changer directory. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 10 February 2003 06:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I did lots of reading manuals and mailing lists but still not succeeded in having amanda talk to the changer. Config: amanda 2.4.3 solaris 2.6 HP surestore C1557A (12000e) Previous installation of Soltice jukebox uses '/dev/lus'. But amanda cannot use it. *** /dev/lus - ../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4/lus@0,0:0 [pbrazor1]/export/home/amanda$ amtape Daily show amtape: could not get changer info: open: /dev/lus: Bad file number *** There is only 1 device in rmt '/dev/rmt/0...' . Installation test-routine of the changer software says: [pbrazor1]/etc/LGTOuscsi$ ./inquire [EMAIL PROTECTED]:FUJITSU MAB3091S SUN9.0G1806|Disk, /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:HP C1557A U709|Tape, /dev/rmt/0mbn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:HP C1557A U709|Autochanger (Jukebox) /dev/rmt/0mbn - ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@2,1/st@4,0:mbn But there is no 'st@4,1' either. So which software do I need to install or what configuration is needed? Thanks for any help urs I don't believe this is an amanda problem, but a solaris kernel problem. Unforch, I'll leave the definitive solaris answers to Jon. If its anything like linux, then you should find the correct device in the /var/log/dmesg (or whatever solaris calls it) file. If its not there, the next question is, is solaris doing a 'scan all luns' on boot, I believe it must in order to find the changer robot since many of them are located at the same bus address as the drive itself, but at a higher Logical Unit Number, aka 'lun'. For a linux kernel, this must be turned on in the kernel config and the kernel rebuilt as it doesn't default to on. ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Backup problem
Angie normally amanda will balance the backups so that it will only do full backup every now and again with incrementals in between. How are you attempting to restore the file? If you use use amrestore from the client in question it will tell you which tape it needs for a specific tape. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Angie Yee wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I have a problem with the amanda backup. All the files are not seems fully backup to the backup tape every time. For example, file A and file B are stored in the same folder C. However, there was only file A has been found in backup tape which under folder C. I have no idea why since I am a newbie and all the configurations was pre-set by someone. Please find an attachment of amanda.conf file. Would you please advise where is it gone wrong? I am using amanda version 2.4.2p2. Thanks very much for your help. BR, Angie ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: cannot fit anything on tape, bailing out ....
Heiko Schellhorn wrote: Am Freitag, 31. Januar 2003 13:12 schrieben Sie: Sorry I forgot to attach some files more. The configs are attached too. Heiko so what happens if you don't specify the tapedev (ie comment it out). On the above comments from this line it does say that some changers need tapedev and others don't. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Windows backups
Bill have you tried amcleanup? Sounds like the first run didn't exit clean. also make sure that the disktype doesn't mention an exclude list for the gtar varient. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Bill Hults wrote: Taking the $ out didn't help. The first time I ran amcheck I got a message that said something about (I thought I'd see it again) smbclient doesn't support exclude lists and that ampandapass was world writeable. When I fixed amandapass ran amcheck again I got the old message back - ERROR: NAK BS1: amandad busy. Thanks for the help -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:12 AM To: Bill Hults Subject: Re: Windows backups Bill try taking the $ out of the sharename. It's probably trying to interpret the $ character oddly. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Bill Hults wrote: Hi I'm running Amanda 2.4.3 under RH8 backing up a few Linux boxes. This runs well. I now would like to add some of my W2K machines to the backup. As per the instructions - I recompiled Amanda with --with-smbclient --user-amanda --group-disk I created a amanda user with appropriate rights on the W2K box. I created a hidden share (sharename$) on the W2K box. I added the same amanda user to smbpasswd. I created amandapass owned by amanda:disk I added the line //W2KServer/sharename$ amanda%passwd WORKGROUP to the amandapass I added an entry to the disklist for the backup - BS1 //W2KServer/sharename$ comp-user-tar When I run amcheck I get - ERROR: NAK BS1: amandad busy Client check: 8 hosts checked in 0.836 seconds, 1 problem found What did I miss? TIA Bill Hults ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Windows backups
Bill what do the debug files in /tmp/amanda say - anything interesting? Bill Hults wrote: amcleanup said there was nothing to do. The disklist is as the documentation suggests. No exclude list. -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:47 AM To: Bill Hults Cc: Amanda List Subject: Re: Windows backups Bill have you tried amcleanup? Sounds like the first run didn't exit clean. also make sure that the disktype doesn't mention an exclude list for the gtar varient. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Bill Hults wrote: Taking the $ out didn't help. The first time I ran amcheck I got a message that said something about (I thought I'd see it again) smbclient doesn't support exclude lists and that ampandapass was world writeable. When I fixed amandapass ran amcheck again I got the old message back - ERROR: NAK BS1: amandad busy. Thanks for the help -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:12 AM To: Bill Hults Subject: Re: Windows backups Bill try taking the $ out of the sharename. It's probably trying to interpret the $ character oddly. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 Bill Hults wrote: Hi I'm running Amanda 2.4.3 under RH8 backing up a few Linux boxes. This runs well. I now would like to add some of my W2K machines to the backup. As per the instructions - I recompiled Amanda with --with-smbclient --user-amanda --group-disk I created a amanda user with appropriate rights on the W2K box. I created a hidden share (sharename$) on the W2K box. I added the same amanda user to smbpasswd. I created amandapass owned by amanda:disk I added the line //W2KServer/sharename$ amanda%passwd WORKGROUP to the amandapass I added an entry to the disklist for the backup - BS1 //W2KServer/sharename$ comp-user-tar When I run amcheck I get - ERROR: NAK BS1: amandad busy Client check: 8 hosts checked in 0.836 seconds, 1 problem found What did I miss? TIA Bill Hults ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ** -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Amanda correct hostname resolution
Santiago wrote: Hello. I am new to amanda, so please forgive any newbie questions. I have done my best to RTFM for all of the docs I can find googling amanda. My question relates to the hostname lookup performed by amanda - I have put the correct machine name/IP in /etc/hosts. There is no DNS resolution for this machine (or many other machines that I will be backing up). How do I correct this error and get amanda to resolve hostnames correctly (from my /etc/hosts file)? TIA, Santiago Yes, the machine resolves to /etc/hosts first. [root@backup root]# ping scratchy PING scratchy (xxx.xxx.195.18) from 10.0.0.10 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from scratchy (xxx.xxx.195.18): icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=0.652 ms 64 bytes from scratchy (xxx.xxx.195.18): icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=0.286 ms [root@backup root]# su amanda -c amcheck Daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 218906388 KB disk space available, that's plenty ERROR: /dev/nst0: No such file or directory (expecting a new tape) NOTE: skipping tape-writable test NOTE: info dir /usr/local/var/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo: does not exist NOTE: it will be created on the next run Server check took 0.018 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: scratchy: [addr xxx.xxx.195.20: hostname lookup failed] Client check: 1 host checked in 0.061 seconds, 1 problem found (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3) What does the debug stuff in /tmp/amanda look like? There may be a clue in there as to why. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: amandad without xinetd
Kang, James wrote: They don't want to run xinetd. Is amandad capable of running stand-alone mode? Please understand I am not trying to argue against your default xinetd mode solution with the latest xinetd. James There are alot of security policies out there that state - no (x)inetd on servers. Would be nice if we could at least run amanda on the clients without running an inetd varient. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Odd tape block size problems
Hi I've been running amanda for a couple of years in our UK office, even running MacOS X clients (using gtar so the filetype/ownership can get lost but that's easy to fix) so I've got 1/2 a clue about all this. BUT I'm trying to make amanda work on a Netmax Linux system which is proving fun on the tape side of things. If I use 2.4.3 I have to specify the blocksize to get tapetype to work (20). If I just it run I get short write errors and also problems about multiple block write errors in /var/log/messages. Same for trying to label a tape. However I can't figure out how to force the block size on the rest of the programs. The default seems sto be 32 and the thing only works with 20. I've messed with a few of the obvious '32' numbers in the tape-src but it makes no difference. If I use 2.4.2p2 I get no joy at all with the same issues, even tapetype as theres no blocksize parameter. Am I missing something in the amanda.conf file?? -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Permissions with Amanda-client
Hi what's the permissions for /usr/local/libexec/runtar on the client? usually this is setuid root. Oleksandr Darchuk wrote: Hello. I'm newbie in amanda. I have worked server and now try to backup another host using amanda client. I've installed both server and client with same user(e. g. archiver). But when I run amcheck I have this error: ERROR: meclient.mydomain: [can not execute /usr/local/libexec/runtar: Permission denied] On server and on client user archiver can run runtar. What's wrong? Thax for any advises. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Permissions with Amanda-client
Oleksandr Darchuk wrote: On Thursday 19 December 2002 17:13, you wrote: Hi what's the permissions for /usr/local/libexec/runtar on the client? usually this is setuid root. This is from my client: -rwsr-x---1 root archiver 114708 Dec 13 16:15 runtar You are right about setuid, but as I understand, group archiver can execute this file. What probles? hmm ok looks good, and the amanda user is group archiver I presume.. What do the debug files in /tmp/amanda on the client say? -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: Permissions with Amanda-client
Oleksandr Darchuk wrote: On Thursday 19 December 2002 17:49, you wrote: Oleksandr Darchuk wrote: On Thursday 19 December 2002 17:13, you wrote: Hi what's the permissions for /usr/local/libexec/runtar on the client? usually this is setuid root. This is from my client: -rwsr-x---1 root archiver 114708 Dec 13 16:15 runtar You are right about setuid, but as I understand, group archiver can execute this file. What probles? hmm ok looks good, and the amanda user is group archiver I presume.. Yes. I have builded amanda with option --with-user archiver -with-group archiver What do the debug files in /tmp/amanda on the client say? ERROR [can not execute /usr/local/libexec/runtar: Permission denied] OK /bin/gtar executable ERROR [can not read/write /etc/amandates: Permission denied] ERROR [can not read/write /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/.: No such file or directory] OK /bin/gzip executable OK /dev/null read/writable Nothing new as I see :( May be I've done something wrong, but what? /etc/amdates and /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/ must exist and be writable by the archiver user (in your case). This is one thing that always gripes me about installing amanda, it's a bit of a expletive to actually configure, you've got to run through all the debug files etc to find out what's wrong. Also you'll need the /usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude-gtar file as well -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: holding disk via nfs?
Matthew Boeckman wrote:
Running amanda 2.4.2, and have configured for tapeless operation to
spool backups to the holding disk. The holding disk is actually an NFS
mounted volume on a SNAP server. Problem I'm having is how to define
that 'partition'
the mount is 192.168.0.15:/amt_dump
Normally I would say something like:
holdingdisk amt_dump {
comment blah
directory /bkup/amanda
use 25 Gb
chunksize 15Gb
Which seems fine to me. What's happening is that lvl 0's on my biggest
partition are failing:
amt/dev/sda9 lev 0 FAILED [dump larger than tape, but cannot
incremental dump new disk]
Here's the disk usage for that partition:
/dev/sda9 122G 4.7G 111G 5%
There are 188G free on that holding disk! Why is amanda whining about this?
Will this magically go away if I upgrade to 2.4.3 and use the file: driver?
Matthew
This is prob to with the 'reserve' parameter in the holding disk. This
is a precentage of the disk to keep for degraded mode backups.
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odd block size config problems
Hi I've been running amanda for a couple of years in our UK office, even running MacOS X clients (using gtar so the filetype/ownership can get lost but that's easy to fix) so I've got 1/2 a clue about all this. BUT I'm trying to make amanda work on a Netmax Linux system which is proving fun on the tape side of things. If I use 2.4.3 I have to specify the blocksize to get the thing to work (20). If I just it run I get short write errors and also problems about multiple block write errors in /var/log/messages. Same for trying to label a tape. If I use 2.4.2p2 I get no joy at all with the same issues. How can I force the block size in the amanda.conf (or elsewhere) to use 20 rather than the 32 is looks like it uses by having a very quick look at the code. (yes I have messed with maxtapeblocks in the config line for 2.4.3)?? -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)1865 842300 ** 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 also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: RedHat, amanda, and permission denied
Peter Seebach wrote: In message 1027611162.2658.46.camel@stimpy, Mark Cooke writes: On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 16:24, Peter Seebach wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Hepworth writes: Peter Did you configure amanda with the --with-user=operator config option? I think so; if nothing else, that's in amanda.conf. Are you using an Officially released version of Amanda from RedHat? If so it automatically uses --with-user=amanda. No... I looked around, and there wasn't one, so I assumed I'd be fine just downloading and compiling. I guess I need to find the RPM. -s Peter Ok so when you compiled did to specify the user and group or not give theses params to configure ?? If you didn't you'll need to rerun configure with them in (I recommend and makle clean before hand). -- Martin
Re: amanda sending mail
Hi in you amanda.conf make sure you have the mailto line set correctly and it should send an email out after each run. Mine is mailto root and I alias root to real people in my /etc/aliases file. Also I presume that the amanda server can use email anyhow? -- martin Eduardo Ceva wrote: Hi Amanda users, How do I make AMANDA send e-mail to user operador, or user p81? since I instales AMANDA I never receve mail from it! Thanks CEVA
Re: Amcheck: acess denied
Trevor Fraser wrote: Hello all. I've been through this problem before, I just can't remember hoe I fixed it. I've reinstalled RH 7.3 and copied the conf files onto the new installation. When I run amcheck, I get the error: ERROR: merlin: [access as amanda not allowed from root@merlin] amandahostsauth failed I've followed the installation guide and the docs say the .amandahosts file isn't configured properly or the inetd configuration file must have the wrong user name, I don't find such a file.. I've tried changing permissions (full permissions) on the .amandahosts file, but no luck. The file reads: merlin.systematic.lan root merlin.systematic.lanamanda What am I not doing? Reguards, Trevor. Trevor run amcheck as the amanda user. -- martin
Re: Amcheck: acess denied
Trevor Fraser wrote: I tried that, didn't work. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Trevor. - Original Message - From: Christoph Scheeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Trevor Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:36 PM Subject: Re: Amcheck: acess denied Trevor Fraser wrote: Hello all. I've been through this problem before, I just can't remember hoe I fixed it. I've reinstalled RH 7.3 and copied the conf files onto the new installation. When I run amcheck, I get the error: ERROR: merlin: [access as amanda not allowed from root@merlin] amandahostsauth failed I've followed the installation guide and the docs say the .amandahosts file isn't configured properly or the inetd configuration file must have the wrong user name, I don't find such a file.. I've tried changing permissions (full permissions) on the .amandahosts file, but no luck. The file reads: merlin.systematic.lan root merlin.systematic.lanamanda What am I not doing? two things: 1.) run amcheck as user amanda, but that's not your real problem, it's the folowing: 2.) the hostname in .amandahosts has to be exactly the name amcheck complains about in the errormessage, in your case only merlin, Christoph Reguards, Trevor. Trevor What do the debug files say in /tmp/amanda on both the client and server? -- Martin
Re: autochanging tapes after tape is full...
Patrick in a word 'no' It's up to you to make sure that the individual dumps can fit on a single tape. For my money this is the amanda's greatest downfall. BUT you can get around it by using gnutar and splitting the filesystems up by user or group (or whatever) to make sure that it will fit onto a tape. Once you've got each individual 'dumps' below the limit you can use the mtx etc to move the tapes around (or is this the actual problem you describe?) -- martin Patrick Schumacher wrote: hello list. after 4 days of work at least i made it und amanda and my tapechanger works. hmm, the mtx and amtape commands works. so i think everything is ok for the changer. so i go on an try to make a back up of one of my servers. i what to back up round about 50GB from the server. today i found a mail in my postbox, reporting me this: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: peppone/mnt/homes lev 0 FAILED [out of tape] [snip] hmm, i think the tape ist full, so amanda cannot write more data on the tape. is this right? and is there a away to auto-change the tape if the first is full? greets patrick Patrick Schumacher | technical department # easynet is part of the easynet group plc | www.easynetgroup.net
Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem
Dirk OK I'll give it a go - got a copy hfspax I can download without having to muck around with sea.hqx files etc ie a tar.gz file so I can to this remotely with an ssh connection. -- martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone trying tomake this work with hfspax ? Dw
Re: MacOSX and gnutar problem
arrghhg the one at freeforums doesn't work and the the itunes site insists you're on a Mac. I'll do it later:-( -- martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Martin Hepworth wrote: OK I'll give it a go - got a copy hfspax I can download without having to muck around with sea.hqx files etc ie a tar.gz file so I can to this remotely with an ssh connection. Trick for dealing with .hqx / .sit files; use the command Open (captial O) from the cmd line and in the directory where the .sit file is. This generally creates a folder locally - and you can then continue from thereon. Same trick with .dmgl see man hdutils.
Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 02:35:09PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote:
Try ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/
Jon
Ok got it, compiled it with the change you recommended and put it in a
different location from the MacOSX one.
Recoompiled amanda client to point and the new tar and will test
overnight...
Martin,
Just came up with a different approach. Helps to look at the amanda source :(
In directory client-src, the two files sendbackup.c and sendbackup-gnutar.c
each have a conditionally compiled in section as follows:
=== sendbackup.c (approx line 1000) ===
#ifdef IGNORE_TAR_ERRORS
if(pid == tarpid) {
/*
* tar bitches about active filesystems, but we do not care.
*/
if(ret == 2) {
rc = 0;
}
}
#endif
=== sendbackup-gnutar.c (approx line 520) ===
/* GNUTAR produces a few error messages when files are modified or
removed while it is running. They may cause data to be lost, but
then they may not. We shouldn't consider them NORMAL until
further investigation. */
#ifdef IGNORE_TAR_ERRORS
{ DMP_NORMAL, : File .* shrunk by [0-9][0-9]* bytes, padding with zeros, 1
},
{ DMP_NORMAL, : Cannot add file .*: No such file or directory$, 1},
{ DMP_NORMAL, : Error exit delayed from previous errors, 1},
#endif
I think, if add a #define IGNORE_TAR_ERRORS in sendbackup.h, amanda.h, or each of
the two .c files, this should stop the problem you are seeing without modifying
tar.
Jon
Ok I'll see how things went when I'm back at on Monday.
I'll also try this one anyway then I can use the stock MacOSX gnutar
program.
Now, would it be possible to have this option definable at run time,
possibly from the amanda.conf, perhaps as part of the backup type
definition?
In fact having alot of the compile time stuff (which dump, tar, smb
program etc) available in at client side amanda.conf would be a really,
really useful feature for me. What do you guys think?
--
Martin
Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone trying tomake this work with hfspax ? Dw Hi OK I checked the report from last night's run and it worked fine. Hurray. I'll try Jon's patch for amanda next week. BTW in case you've missed the earlier bits of this thread the f/s is (as far as I can tell) HFS+, it being the default f/s and I haven't reinstalled it from the base 10.1.4 that Apple installed. More Later, but I finally have a good backup for this machine. Chears everyone. -- martin
Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem
Jon Well it's not happy - amanda is constantly trying to do a level 0. So it's seeing this as a fail. -- Martin Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 03:47:41PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: Hi all well I've been fiddle with my new shiney iMac G4 trying to get amanda to back the thing up. Currently I'm getting this from the backup report.. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: stuartdmg4 / lev 0 FAILED [/usr/bin/gnutar returned 2] [ snipped part and rearranged next line ] sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory / --one-file-system --listed-incremental /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/stuartdmg4__0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals . [ snipped part ] sendbackup: index created successfully error [/usr/bin/gnutar returned 2] sendbackup: pid 588 finish time Wed Jun 26 01:11:36 2002 Note: amanda uses the --ignore-failed-read option to tar. To not use this would cause tar to abort if it ever failed to read a file successfully. Even something as benign as file removed before tar got to it. But generally permissions problems. When using this flag, and encountering one or more failed reads, tar exits with a status of 2 rather than 0. This is what amanda is telling you. The interpretation is that tar had to skip one or more files. I don't know of any way to determine which files. The rest of the dump should be fine.
Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:30:17AM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote:
Jon
Well it's not happy - amanda is constantly trying to do a level 0. So
it's seeing this as a fail.
I find it is generally easier to follow a thread
if new comments are added at the bottom.
--
Martin
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 03:47:41PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote:
Hi all
well I've been fiddle with my new shiney iMac G4 trying to get amanda to
back the thing up. Currently I'm getting this from the backup report..
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
stuartdmg4 / lev 0 FAILED [/usr/bin/gnutar returned 2]
[ snipped part and rearranged next line ]
sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory /
--one-file-system
--listed-incremental /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/stuartdmg4__0.new
--sparse
--ignore-failed-read --totals .
[ snipped part ]
sendbackup: index created successfully
error [/usr/bin/gnutar returned 2]
sendbackup: pid 588 finish time Wed Jun 26 01:11:36 2002
Note: amanda uses the --ignore-failed-read option to tar. To not use
this
would cause tar to abort if it ever failed to read a file successfully.
Even something as benign as file removed before tar got to it. But
generally permissions problems.
When using this flag, and encountering one or more failed reads,
tar exits with a status of 2 rather than 0. This is what amanda is
telling you. The interpretation is that tar had to skip one or more
files. I don't know of any way to determine which files. The rest
of the dump should be fine.
End of included message
Well, I hate to suggest this, but ...
On my unix system I use gnutar 1.13.25.
I use the same gnutar version on an amanda client I run on a Win2K box under CYGWIN.
The unix amanda is version 2.4.2, on the w2k box it is 2.4.3b2.
The unix box never exhibits the problem you are seeing, the w2k box always did.
I don't know if my unix box, version 2.4.2, never sees any failed reads, or whether
there is code in amanda 2.4.2 that accepts the exit status of 2 without considering
it a failure. But the 2.4.3b2 under w2k/cygwin is sensitive to an exit status of 2.
So I had to remove the sensitivity or change gnutar so it did not exit 2.
I chose to modify gnutar. I always have amanda use its own copy of tar
so if I want to customize it, or shell wrapper it, I can without affecting
the system version of tar.
If you are compiling or can compile your own gnutar, it is a simple change.
At the end of main(), at the very end of the file tar.c is an if statement.
Nominally it says if the exit status is 2 (aka TAREXIT_FAILURE) print an
error message. I simply added an exit(0) in the if statement. Actually,
the curley braces, a comment, and the exit(0);.
Here is the resulting code with the changes (at the end of tar.c).
if (exit_status == TAREXIT_FAILURE)
{
error (0, 0, _(Error exit delayed from previous errors));
/* added for amanda */
exit(0);
}
exit (exit_status);
}
I scanned the gnutar code and as far as I could see, the only place the
exit_status variable is set to TAREXIT_FAILURE (defined as 2) is when a
failed read occured and was ignored. So I don't think any other failure mode
would be affected. But I've been wrong before :(
Jon
re reply areas: yeah I know - lack of caffene :-)
Re the other stuff.
The client/server are both using amanda 2.4.2.p2
Maybe I;m being totally stupid but I couldn't find anything above 1.13
(ie I couldn't find the beta's anywhere, just mentions of it.). I'll
have another dig tomorrow (knocking off time now). However if you have a
URL to hand :-)
I'll have another dig tomorrow.
--
Martin
MacOSX and gnutat problem
Hi all well I've been fiddle with my new shiney iMac G4 trying to get amanda to back the thing up. Currently I'm getting this from the backup report.. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: stuartdmg4 / lev 0 FAILED [/usr/bin/gnutar returned 2] and in the senbackup log I get... sendbackup: debug 1 pid 588 ruid 0 euid 0 start time Tue Jun 25 23:31:07 2002 /usr/local/amanda/libexec/sendbackup: version 2.4.2p2 sendbackup: got input request: GNUTAR / 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;srvc omp-fast;index;exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar; parsed request as: program `GNUTAR' disk `/' lev 0 since 1970:1:1:0:0:0 opt `|;bsd-auth;srvcomp-fast;index;exclude-list=/usr/local/ lib/amanda/exclude.gtar;' sendbackup: exclude list file /usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar does not exis t, ignoring sendbackup: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536 sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.887 sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.888 sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.889 waiting for connect on 887, then 888, then 889 sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 10.1.1.5.1682 sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 10.1.1.5.1683 sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 10.1.1.5.1684 got all connections sendbackup-gnutar: doing level 0 dump as listed-incremental to /var/amanda/gnuta r-lists/stuartdmg4__0.new sendbackup-gnutar: doing level 0 dump from date: 1970-01-01 0:00:00 GMT sendbackup: spawning /usr/local/amanda/libexec/runtar in pipeline sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory / --one-file-syste m --listed-incremental /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/stuartdmg4__0.new --sparse --ign ore-failed-read --totals . sendbackup-gnutar: /usr/local/amanda/libexec/runtar: pid 591 sendbackup: started index creator: /usr/bin/gnutar -tf - 2/dev/null | sed -e ' s/^\.//' sendbackup: index created successfully error [/usr/bin/gnutar returned 2] sendbackup: pid 588 finish time Wed Jun 26 01:11:36 2002 Any ideas??? -- Martin
Re: GNU Tar for SunOS 4.1.3 Amanda client
Jonathan I've got amanda running here to Sunos 4.1.3/4 clients using dump as the file grabber. If you wish I can have have a go at getting the latest version compiled on my systems. My current version of gnutar is 1.12, I can't remember if this works with amanda or not?? -- martin Jonathan R. Johnson wrote: Dear Amanda users, We have a legacy Sun Sparc II server (SunOS 4.1.3) that was, until recently, our only file server with a tape drive (an Exabyte 8200, 2.3 Gb capacity). We're in the process of centralizing files onto a RedHat 7.2 server running Amanda 2.4.2p2 (from the RPM -- no problems) with a Sony AIT-1 (SDX-300C) tape drive. Unfortunately, getting files off the Sun is proving to be tricky, due in large part to its outdated networking software. I briefly tried to use NFS to mount a server file system on the Sun and copy over the files, but the NFS mount didn't work right...not my strong suit, anyway. I've also tried various combinations of tar and rsh, to no avail so far. For now, I had hoped to just configure Amanda on it, even though this server will be taken off line as soon as its files have been securely set up on the new file server. My first hurdle, though, is that the GNU tar 1.13.25 from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar is not compiling properly (we compiled and installed gcc 2.3.3 a long time ago), encountering parsing errors in intl/loadmsgcat.c. Maybe this isn't the simplest way to take our files off this server... I'd love some suggestions here. Ideally someone just knows where I can get tar 1.13.19 or newer precompiled for SunOS 4.1.3. Otherwise, I'd probably have to recompile gcc with updated sources, etc. In the short term, I suppose I could try using the existing dump software. We need to back this thing up before it dies!! :-) Regards, Jonathan
Re: netusage, high or low?
Brandon
d'oh just read the whole email..
If your SUN is connected to a cisco switch make sure is actually running
at 100m fdx as alot of the older SUNs and Cisco have some wierd problem
with autonegotiate. I've also seen problems with Cisco's under high load
with SNMP turned on giving throughput problems.
If you do have problems 1) force the cisco and the SUN to 100 full
duplex (see www.unixadmin.net/howto/100FullHowto.html for the SUN). 2)
turn off snmp on the cisco.
--
martin
Brandon Moro wrote:
Hello all!
I am having some troubles with my AMANDA backups running too long. They
often take 20+ hours,
sometimes even breaking the 24-hour mark. The average amount of data I get
is only about 35GB.
I am running my amanda-server on Solaris8, on a Sun Ultra5 400MHz with 256MB
RAM, on a 100mbps
connection. I have 2 DLT 7000 tape drives set up (though it very rarely
roles over).
Recently, I put a larger holding disk on the server and found that my run
time was cut more than in half!
However, I notice that I am still only getting a total of about 3GB an hour.
The data runs from the holding
disk to tape at more like 6MB/s.
We have a couple of other backup systems running on almost identical
hardware that puts more than
twice as much data to tape in slightly less time. So I guess what I am
really asking is, am I missing
something in the configuration of AMANDA sthat will allow better usage of
the network connection?
I found this in the amanda.conf file:
netusage 4000 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec
(blah blah)
network interfaces
. Attributes are:
use - bandwidth above which amanda won't
start
backups using this interface.
Note that if
a single backup will take more
than that,
amanda won't try to make it run
slower!
define interface local {
comment a local disk
use 1000 kbps
}
define interface le0 {
comment 100 Mbps ethernet
use 4000 kbps
So, does this mean that if my dumpers are using 4000kbps, amanda won't allow
any more
dumpers to start (even if the maximum number of allowed dumpers has not been
reached)?
Can I improve performance by raising the netusage variable and use
attribute to something
more in line with the actual capacity of the amanda-server's network
connection?
Also, the network interface on the amanda-server is actually hme0. Are
the above simply
examples? Should I create a new interface definition?
Thanks for your help!
Brandon Moro
Systems Administration, Unify Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness all
his conduct flows.--Oppression, A poem by an American (Boston, 1765).
Re: full backups all the time not working
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 at 9:32am, Martin Hepworth wrote
However when I try and do an 'archive' backup set that should use the
'always-full' and 'always-fulltar' dump styles I get failures like the
following for all disks on the disklist even the local machine.
sol/usr lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump]
What exactly does your dumptype look like? What do you have for
dumpcycle/runspercycle/tapecycle?
This is what I use for our archival setup:
dumpcycle 0 days # Can also be specified in dumptype
runspercycle 1# Doesn't matter
tapecycle 1000 tapes# Always a new one..
define dumptype always-full {
global
comment Full dump of this filesystem always
program GNUTAR
priority high
compress none
record no
}
Where global contains only 'index yes'. You want to set 'record no'
otherwise the archive setup will interfere with incrementals on the daily
setup.
nope still no luck.
here's my amanda.conf...
org Archive # your organization name for reports
mailto root # space separated list of operators at your site
dumpuser amanda # the user to run dumps under
inparallel 3# maximum dumpers that will run in parallel
maxdumps 2 # maximum number of dumpers per client
netusage 6000 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec
dumpcycle 0 # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
# (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just
weekdays)
tapecycle 2000 tapes
bumpsize 20 Mb
bumpdays 1
bumpmult 4
etimeout 300
runtapes 1
tapedev /dev/nsa0 # the no-rewind tape device to be used
rawtapedev /dev/nrsa0 # the raw device to be used (ftape only)
changerdev /dev/null
define tapetype HPDLT {
comment DLT1
length 40960 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 1407 kps
}
define dumptype global {
comment Global definitions
index yes
# record no
}
define dumptype always-full {
global
comment Full dump of this filesystem always
#compress none
compress server fast
priority high
dumpcycle 0
record no
}
define dumptype always-fulltar {
global
comment Full dump of this filesystem always
program GNUTAR
#compress none
compress server fast
priority high
dumpcycle 0
record no
}
Mac OSX 10.1.5 and dump ...
HI guys Trying to get amanda working on Mac OSX 10.1.5 using dump as the backup service. However when I try and run dump I get the following.. sendsize: debug 1 pid 354 ruid 0 euid 0 start time Mon Jun 17 21:30:01 2002 /usr/local/amanda/libexec/sendsize: version 2.4.2p2 calculating for amname '/', dirname '/' sendsize: getting size via dump for / level 0 sendsize: running /sbin/dump 0sf 1048576 - / running /usr/local/amanda/libexec/killpgrp DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jun 17 21:30:01 2002 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping / to standard output DUMP: bad sblock magic number DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. . (no size line match in above dump output) . asking killpgrp to terminate sendsize: pid 354 finish time Mon Jun 17 21:30:02 2002 Any ideas?? I'll try with gtar and see what happens, but I'd prefer to use dump. -- martin
not enough coffee to figure out samba restore
Hi Guys.. well can't seem to figure out how to restore a file on a samba from the amanda server.. I did it when I was testing then thing, but didn't get around to documenting it for myself ;-( I did the amrestore -C Daily -s myserver -t myserver -d /dev/sa0 but I can't seem to find the samba related tar files anywhere. I use tar to backup the smb shares, but now I can't get my head around restoring a single file. Will some one show my thick head how to do it - step by step. TIA -- Martin (off for more coffee :-)
Re: Amanda users does not get full access to files
David make sure that the 'bin' user has access to the /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 (or whatever). It will probably need to be a member of sys on a solaris box, check the file group membership of the actual device. -- Martin David Flood wrote: I've just upgraded from 2.4.2p2 to 2.4.3b3, at the same time I've changed my amanda user from root to bin. I notice when I get the report at the end of a level 0 backup. It has backed up nowhere near all the data that exists. For example: /export/home/staff has 11.8GB but is only backing up 235MB. Now when I do a du -sk /export/home/staff as user bin it reports (Guess what) 235MB. This happened before when I upgraded to 2.4.2p2 I could not get a solution so I swapped to user root which solved the problem. Some time after someone on the list said the solution was to configure and make as the same user your going to be using then do make install as root(obviously). So because it's not recommended to have the amanda user as root I thought since I was upgrading 2.4.3b3 I would kill two birds with one stone and put it back to bin. So again I find myself in this position. To give more detail, I'm using dump as my backup method and my tapeserver is Solaris 7. At the moment I'm only backing up the tapeserver i.e. localhost. It is not a tape space problem as I'm using DLT's and the report said the total original size was only 18GB. Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix it? If not what are the security issues with the amanda user being root? Thanks in advance David Flood Systems Administrator
Re: netusage, high or low?
Brandon
From what I've read on this list the netusage parameter is merely
advisory to help with the planner.
--
Martin
Brandon Moro wrote:
Also, as to my original question, I am still wondering whether I should bump
these numbers up or down in order to increase the amount of traffice (or
numbers of running dumpers) that amanda will allow.
netusage 4000 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec
define interface le0 {
comment 100 Mbps ethernet
use 4000 kbps
I'm pretty sure I RAISE the netusage variable, but what do I do to the
interface 'use' attribute?
B
-Original Message-
From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Brandon Moro
Subject: Re: netusage, high or low?
Brandon
err you mention the le0 interface in the config.
Is this correct 'cos the the le0 interface is a 10base system, not
100base!..
--
Martin
Brandon Moro wrote:
Hello all!
I am having some troubles with my AMANDA backups running too long. They
often take 20+ hours,
sometimes even breaking the 24-hour mark. The average amount of data I
get
is only about 35GB.
I am running my amanda-server on Solaris8, on a Sun Ultra5 400MHz with
256MB
RAM, on a 100mbps
connection. I have 2 DLT 7000 tape drives set up (though it very rarely
roles over).
Recently, I put a larger holding disk on the server and found that my run
time was cut more than in half!
However, I notice that I am still only getting a total of about 3GB an
hour.
The data runs from the holding
disk to tape at more like 6MB/s.
We have a couple of other backup systems running on almost identical
hardware that puts more than
twice as much data to tape in slightly less time. So I guess what I am
really asking is, am I missing
something in the configuration of AMANDA sthat will allow better usage of
the network connection?
I found this in the amanda.conf file:
netusage 4000 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec
(blah blah)
network interfaces
. Attributes are:
use - bandwidth above which amanda won't
start
backups using this interface.
Note that if
a single backup will take more
than that,
amanda won't try to make it run
slower!
define interface local {
comment a local disk
use 1000 kbps
}
define interface le0 {
comment 100 Mbps ethernet
use 4000 kbps
So, does this mean that if my dumpers are using 4000kbps, amanda won't
allow
any more
dumpers to start (even if the maximum number of allowed dumpers has not
been
reached)?
Can I improve performance by raising the netusage variable and use
attribute to something
more in line with the actual capacity of the amanda-server's network
connection?
Also, the network interface on the amanda-server is actually hme0. Are
the above simply
examples? Should I create a new interface definition?
Thanks for your help!
Brandon Moro
Systems Administration, Unify Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness all
his conduct flows.--Oppression, A poem by an American (Boston, 1765).
Re: netusage, high or low?
Brandon
err you mention the le0 interface in the config.
Is this correct 'cos the the le0 interface is a 10base system, not
100base!..
--
Martin
Brandon Moro wrote:
Hello all!
I am having some troubles with my AMANDA backups running too long. They
often take 20+ hours,
sometimes even breaking the 24-hour mark. The average amount of data I get
is only about 35GB.
I am running my amanda-server on Solaris8, on a Sun Ultra5 400MHz with 256MB
RAM, on a 100mbps
connection. I have 2 DLT 7000 tape drives set up (though it very rarely
roles over).
Recently, I put a larger holding disk on the server and found that my run
time was cut more than in half!
However, I notice that I am still only getting a total of about 3GB an hour.
The data runs from the holding
disk to tape at more like 6MB/s.
We have a couple of other backup systems running on almost identical
hardware that puts more than
twice as much data to tape in slightly less time. So I guess what I am
really asking is, am I missing
something in the configuration of AMANDA sthat will allow better usage of
the network connection?
I found this in the amanda.conf file:
netusage 4000 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec
(blah blah)
network interfaces
. Attributes are:
use - bandwidth above which amanda won't
start
backups using this interface.
Note that if
a single backup will take more
than that,
amanda won't try to make it run
slower!
define interface local {
comment a local disk
use 1000 kbps
}
define interface le0 {
comment 100 Mbps ethernet
use 4000 kbps
So, does this mean that if my dumpers are using 4000kbps, amanda won't allow
any more
dumpers to start (even if the maximum number of allowed dumpers has not been
reached)?
Can I improve performance by raising the netusage variable and use
attribute to something
more in line with the actual capacity of the amanda-server's network
connection?
Also, the network interface on the amanda-server is actually hme0. Are
the above simply
examples? Should I create a new interface definition?
Thanks for your help!
Brandon Moro
Systems Administration, Unify Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness all
his conduct flows.--Oppression, A poem by an American (Boston, 1765).
Re: netusage, high or low?
Brandon
d'oh just read the whole email..
If your SUN is connected to a cisco switch make sure is actually running
at 100m fdx as alot of the older SUNs and Cisco have some wierd problem
with autonegotiate. I've also seen problems with Cisco's under high load
with SNMP turned on giving throughput problems.
If you do have problems 1) force the cisco and the SUN to 100 full
duplex (see www.unixadmin.net/howto/100FullHowto.html for the SUN). 2)
turn off snmp on the cisco.
--
martin
Brandon Moro wrote:
Hello all!
I am having some troubles with my AMANDA backups running too long. They
often take 20+ hours,
sometimes even breaking the 24-hour mark. The average amount of data I get
is only about 35GB.
I am running my amanda-server on Solaris8, on a Sun Ultra5 400MHz with 256MB
RAM, on a 100mbps
connection. I have 2 DLT 7000 tape drives set up (though it very rarely
roles over).
Recently, I put a larger holding disk on the server and found that my run
time was cut more than in half!
However, I notice that I am still only getting a total of about 3GB an hour.
The data runs from the holding
disk to tape at more like 6MB/s.
We have a couple of other backup systems running on almost identical
hardware that puts more than
twice as much data to tape in slightly less time. So I guess what I am
really asking is, am I missing
something in the configuration of AMANDA sthat will allow better usage of
the network connection?
I found this in the amanda.conf file:
netusage 4000 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec
(blah blah)
network interfaces
. Attributes are:
use - bandwidth above which amanda won't
start
backups using this interface.
Note that if
a single backup will take more
than that,
amanda won't try to make it run
slower!
define interface local {
comment a local disk
use 1000 kbps
}
define interface le0 {
comment 100 Mbps ethernet
use 4000 kbps
So, does this mean that if my dumpers are using 4000kbps, amanda won't allow
any more
dumpers to start (even if the maximum number of allowed dumpers has not been
reached)?
Can I improve performance by raising the netusage variable and use
attribute to something
more in line with the actual capacity of the amanda-server's network
connection?
Also, the network interface on the amanda-server is actually hme0. Are
the above simply
examples? Should I create a new interface definition?
Thanks for your help!
Brandon Moro
Systems Administration, Unify Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness all
his conduct flows.--Oppression, A poem by an American (Boston, 1765).
Re: backup Mac files on Windoze
Brian we do this without any problems. BUT the servers in Question are Unix (running netatalk or Pacers now defunct appletalk stuff) or running off a SNAP server which we use smblient to backup. What happens if you try and open the file with w2k - do you still get the error? -- Martin Brian Whitehead wrote: I ran a backup of a Win2K Server using Amanda with smbclient tonight. It worked perfectly with the exception of Macintosh created files. Is there any special configuration that can be done to make it handle these files. It gives an error NT_STATUS_FILE_NOT_FOUND, or something similar. The files do exist and can be seen just fine, but they have special characters in the name that MacOS creates. If anyone has worked around this type of problem let me know. I did copy these files across using the mget command in a smbclient session without a problem. Brian W.
Re: full backups all the time not working
yay it worked adding the reserve 0 field in solved the problem.. TVM -- Martin Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 at 9:29am, Martin Hepworth wrote nope still no luck. Somewhat random question -- there *is* a tape in the drive when you run amdump, right? IOW, these aren't degraded mode dumps, right? here's my amanda.conf... That all looks good. *sigh* How about sending an email from one of your runs, as well as the amdump.n and the log.*.
Re: full backups all the time not working
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 at 9:32am, Martin Hepworth wrote
However when I try and do an 'archive' backup set that should use the
'always-full' and 'always-fulltar' dump styles I get failures like the
following for all disks on the disklist even the local machine.
sol/usr lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump]
What exactly does your dumptype look like? What do you have for
dumpcycle/runspercycle/tapecycle?
This is what I use for our archival setup:
dumpcycle 0 days # Can also be specified in dumptype
runspercycle 1# Doesn't matter
tapecycle 1000 tapes# Always a new one..
define dumptype always-full {
global
comment Full dump of this filesystem always
program GNUTAR
priority high
compress none
record no
}
Where global contains only 'index yes'. You want to set 'record no'
otherwise the archive setup will interfere with incrementals on the daily
setup.
nope still no luck.
here's my amanda.conf...
org Archive # your organization name for reports
mailto root # space separated list of operators at your site
dumpuser amanda # the user to run dumps under
inparallel 3# maximum dumpers that will run in parallel
maxdumps 2 # maximum number of dumpers per client
netusage 6000 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec
dumpcycle 0 # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
# (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just
weekdays)
tapecycle 2000 tapes
bumpsize 20 Mb
bumpdays 1
bumpmult 4
etimeout 300
runtapes 1
tapedev /dev/nsa0 # the no-rewind tape device to be used
rawtapedev /dev/nrsa0 # the raw device to be used (ftape only)
changerdev /dev/null
define tapetype HPDLT {
comment DLT1
length 40960 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 1407 kps
}
define dumptype global {
comment Global definitions
index yes
# record no
}
define dumptype always-full {
global
comment Full dump of this filesystem always
#compress none
compress server fast
priority high
dumpcycle 0
record no
}
define dumptype always-fulltar {
global
comment Full dump of this filesystem always
program GNUTAR
#compress none
compress server fast
priority high
dumpcycle 0
record no
}
Re: full backups all the time not working
Tried all that and same error Joshua has commented that there may be issues if there's no tape in the drive, which is our case, as we'd like to do normally nightly backups and use this as the archive to be moved to somewhere else and kept for ever... If this doesn't work I'll be back(tm) with some log dumps. -- Martin
