Separate backup to the server and sending to tapes
We use Amanda to back everything up - excellent software. But we're finding a problem with out Internet connection after the backups start sending it up to Amazon S3. Is it possible to do the backups to the server (we want it to happen during the day since that's when the machines are on and people are here), then send it up to S3 at night? Thanks, -- Matt Burkhardt, MS Technology Management Impari Systems, Inc. m...@imparisystems.com http://www.imparisystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt http://www.twitter.com/matthewboh 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 work (301) 682-7901 cell (301) 802-3235
Re: Separate backup to the server and sending to tapes
Perfect! Thank you, Dennis. On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 16:45 +0200, Dennis Benndorf wrote: Hello Matt, the simplest way to do so, is to run amdump --no-taper daily when you want to do the backup, and run another cronjob at night with amflush daily. Regards, Dennis Original-Nachricht Datum: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:09:40 -0400 Von: Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com An: amanda-users@amanda.org Betreff: Separate backup to the server and sending to tapes We use Amanda to back everything up - excellent software. But we're finding a problem with out Internet connection after the backups start sending it up to Amazon S3. Is it possible to do the backups to the server (we want it to happen during the day since that's when the machines are on and people are here), then send it up to S3 at night? Thanks, -- Matt Burkhardt, MS Technology Management Impari Systems, Inc. m...@imparisystems.com http://www.imparisystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt http://www.twitter.com/matthewboh 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 work (301) 682-7901 cell (301) 802-3235 -- Matt Burkhardt, MS Technology Management Impari Systems, Inc. m...@imparisystems.com http://www.imparisystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt http://www.twitter.com/matthewboh 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 work (301) 682-7901 cell (301) 802-3235
Re: Fare Thee Well
I've got to wish Dustin all the best. I was having some problems with Amanda and Dustin met me at a Panini and fixed me up. Thanks Dustin and are you on LinkedIn? On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 22:26 -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote: On 10/14/2010 10:03 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: Dustin, I've been a member of the Amanda community sufficiently long to have seen the departure of a handful of star contributors. I count you among them, your impact on the project has been enormous. As you leave for Mozilla, I wish you well and am confident you will flourish in any future endevour. We will be diminished by your absence. My best wishes go out to you my friend, Jon I have to second this emotion. Matt Burkhardt Impari Systems, Inc. m...@imparisystems.com http://www.imparisystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt http://www.twitter.com/matthewboh 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 work (301) 682-7901 cell (301) 802-3235
Re: Gotcha's
Will do - think it's going to take another few days to get everything off the system just in case On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 16:02 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com wrote: Right now, I'm copying over files to a Toshiba 1TB drive - it's taking forever! But any directions greatly appreciated! Well, if your backups are encrypted, then clearly you're going to need your key. You'll also need your S3 credentials. Having all of the Amanda configuration, catalog and index information available will make the recovery much easier - I assume that's what you're working on now? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com Matt Burkhardt Impari Systems, Inc. m...@imparisystems.com http://www.imparisystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt http://www.twitter.com/matthewboh 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 work (301) 682-7901 cell (301) 802-3235
Re: Gotcha's
Right now, I'm copying over files to a Toshiba 1TB drive - it's taking forever! But any directions greatly appreciated! It's Ubuntu 10.04 On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 12:43 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com wrote: I'm thinking it might be best to just go ahead and do a clean install, but I'm unsure of what I'll lose. If I copied over my Amanda directories and files to the secondary drive, will that help with restoration? My files are encrypted and I'm also backing up several different PC's to this server. Sorry, this somehow sorted several days back in my INBOX, so I never saw it. Did you figure out what to do here? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com Matt Burkhardt Impari Systems, Inc. m...@imparisystems.com http://www.imparisystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt http://www.twitter.com/matthewboh 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 work (301) 682-7901 cell (301) 802-3235
Gotcha's
Okay, I upgraded my server to Ubuntu 10.04 and tried to add eBox network module capabilities. It completely broke my server. I'm now looking at my options. I have two drives, one contains my music collection, the other all my important documents, several different applications with databases that I need for my business. I have backup this server every night using Amanda to Amazon S3. I'm thinking it might be best to just go ahead and do a clean install, but I'm unsure of what I'll lose. If I copied over my Amanda directories and files to the secondary drive, will that help with restoration? My files are encrypted and I'm also backing up several different PC's to this server. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matt Burkhardt Impari Systems, Inc. m...@imparisystems.com http://www.imparisystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt http://www.twitter.com/matthewboh 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 work (301) 682-7901 cell (301) 802-3235
Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 14:22 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: I'm sorry we don't have any good solid answers for you.. Well, I can give a little more detail. I encrypted a backup with amcryptsimple, then changed the passphrase and tried to decrypt it. I got: gpg: decryption failed: Bad session key Incidentally: Tue Mar 16 14:12:47 2010: amfetchdump: xferfilterproc...@0x13a7030: process exited with status 0 which makes it hard for amfetchdump (or amidxtaped, behind the scenes for amrecover) to know anything has gone wrong. I suppose we should special-case a zero-length output as failed.. Some scribbling on the dumpfile on my vtape got gpg to say: gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=39) gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=5d) gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2a) which also doesn't match the error you saw. dus...@euclid ~/code/amanda/t/amanda [master] $ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.11 libgcrypt 1.4.4 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Dustin I tried using the -l option on amfetchdump, but it still wants to be able to decrypt the file before it dumps it amfetchdump: slot 16: time 20100302090001 label laptops-0016 (exact label match) Scanning volume laptops-0016 (slot 16) amfetchdump: 1: restoring FILE: date 20100302090001 host mlb-laptop.imparisystems.local disk /home/mlb/ImpariSystems lev 1 comp .gz program /bin/tar crypt enc client_encrypt /usr/sbin/amcryptsimple client_decrypt_option -d gpg: decryption failed: bad key I'm working back through the files just to see if one of these hits - I can't imagine using a separate passphrase on this set than on any other groups. Thanks for all the help Matt Burkhardt Impari Systems, Inc. m...@imparisystems.com http://www.imparisystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 work (301) 682-7901 cell (301) 802-3235
Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 14:10 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com wrote: The bad key error doesn't mean the passphrase is wrong (that would be invalid passphrase). It often means that the file you are decrypting is corrupt. Was the file you are decrypting encrypted with a passphrase only or with a public key? What was the answer to this question? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com Dustin - thanks for checking up on me! I've been trying to get an older version by getting the history and selecting a full backup - so I do history 200- Dump history for config laptops host mlb-laptop.imparisystems.local disk /home/mlb/ImpariSystems 201- 2010-03-10-09-15-33 1 laptops-0004:5 201- 2010-03-09-10-40-06 1 laptops-0003:1 201- 2010-03-08-17-27-03 0 laptops-0002:2 201- 2010-03-06-12-03-37 0 laptops-0001:3 201- 2010-03-05-11-46-08 1 laptops-0020:2 201- 2010-03-05-09-57-36 0 laptops-0019:3 201- 2010-03-04-10-23-20 0 laptops-0018:4 201- 2010-03-03-09-00-02 1 laptops-0017:4 201- 2010-03-02-09-00-01 1 laptops-0016:1 201- 2010-02-28-12-13-07 1 laptops-0015:2 201- 2010-02-28-09-00-01 0 laptops-0014:4 201- 2010-02-25-09-00-01 1 laptops-0013:2 201- 2010-02-24-13-25-46 1 laptops-0012:2 201- 2010-02-24-09-00-02 0 laptops-0011:3 201- 2010-02-23-09-00-02 1 laptops-0007:2 201- 2010-02-11-09-00-02 0 laptops-0005:4 201- 2010-02-08-12-02-50 1 laptops-0006:4 201- 2010-02-07-09-00-02 1 laptops-0008:4 201- 2010-02-05-15-02-31 1 laptops-0010:4 In this example, I set the date to 2010-03-06 because I'm assuming that 0 means a full backup - and then I try to extract it and I get: amrecover setdate 2010-03-06 200 Working date set to 2010-03-06. amrecover ls 2010-03-06-12-03-37 YorkInvoice.txt.2008022237.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 YorkInvoice.txt.2008022236.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 YorkInvoice 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Q3IncomeStatement.20090222151410.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Q3IncomeStatement.20090222151409.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Q3IncomeStatement.20090222150138.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Q3IncomeStatement.20090220101929.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Q3IncomeStatement.20090220101928.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Q3IncomeStatement 2010-03-06-12-03-37 OC_Beta_V4.0.pdf 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100228163356.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100228163355.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100228163244.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100223123458.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100223123457.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100223122643.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100223122642.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100223121705.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100223121705.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100223121146.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100223121145.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100223120132.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100223120132.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100223115324.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100208164001.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100208120210.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100208120209.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100208115934.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100207143430.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100207143429.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100207142854.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100207142853.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100207142327.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100202141328.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100202141328.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100202140825.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100202140824.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100202135209.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100202135208.xac 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems.20100202134629.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 ImpariSystems 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Financials.20070602144258.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Financials.20070524123205.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Financials.20070524123203.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Financials 2010-03-06-12-03-37 EasyCom.pdf 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Demo Site/ 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Backup.20090222151812.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Backup.20090222151811.log 2010-03-06-12-03-37 Backup 2010-03-06-12-03-37 2007msrsmfinal1.pdf 2010-03-06-12-03-37 . amrecover add ImpariSystems Added file /ImpariSystems amrecover extract Extracting files using tape drive changer on host ubuntu.imparisystems.local. The following tapes are needed: laptops-0001 Restoring files into directory /home/mlb Continue [?/Y/n]? y Extracting files using tape drive changer on host ubuntu.imparisystems.local. Load tape laptops-0001 now Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? y tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: ./ImpariSystems: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Extractor child exited with status 2 amrecover So I tried to retrieve an older version using amfetchdump - so amfetchdump laptops
Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 08:21 +0100, muessi wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: I'm not terribly familiar with crypto, but presumably you need the secret key to decrypt. Hopefully that was stored somewhere other than on the old computer? BTW, once you get amfetchdump working, amrecover will work fine. Amrecover just doesn't show error messages very well. For example, the message regarding am_passphrase was buried in the amidxtaped logfile. Well, I'm not quite sure we're talking bout the same thing, but when I use encryption, I get something like this in the dumpfiles: To restore, position tape at start of file and run: dd if=tape bs=32k skip=1 | /usr/sbin/amcrypt-ossl-asym -d | /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/tar -xpGf - ... So far, having to restore something encrypted, I did use the above commands and it worked just fine. /Michael I'm using amcryptsimple instead of the encryption methodology that you're using - but thanks for the feedback. I'm also working with the gnupg folks and they've given me this feedback - just also wanted to check and make sure that I'm reading the code correctly. I'll keep everyone in the loop Long story short, I use amanda for my backups and I've been using encryptsimple for my backups. My PC died completely, and I'm trying to get the backups onto another machine. I've stepped through the programs and have found that it's calling gpg with gpg --batch --quiet --no-mdc-warning --decrypt --passphrase-fd 3 3/var/lib/amanda/.am_passphrase I was under the impression that the passphrase (.am_passphrase) was just a clear text secret phrase. However, the gpg call errors out with: gpg: decryption failed: bad key The bad key error doesn't mean the passphrase is wrong (that would be invalid passphrase). It often means that the file you are decrypting is corrupt. Was the file you are decrypting encrypted with a passphrase only or with a public key? Here's the code that calls gpg for the encryption: gpg --batch --no-secmem-warning --disable-mdc --symmetric --cipher-algo AES256 --passphrase-fd 3 3/var/lib/amanda/.am_passphrase According to the man pages, it says not to use the --cipher-algo but doesn't mention if that's needed in order to decrypt the files. Would that have to happen? Thanks! Matt Burkhardt Impari Systems, Inc. Customer Relationship Management Systems We help you find and keep your best customers m...@imparisystems.com http://www.imparisystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 work (301) 682-7901 cell (301) 802-3235
Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: ./Q3IncomeStatement.20090222151410.log: Not found in archive tar: ./YorkInvoice: Not found in archive tar: ./YorkInvoice.txt.2008022236.log: Not found in archive tar: ./YorkInvoice.txt.2008022237.log: Not found in archive tar: ./Demo Site: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Extractor child exited with status 2 Any ideas? Thanks, Matt Burkhardt Impari Systems, Inc. Customer Relationship Management Systems We help you find and keep your best customers m...@imparisystems.com http://www.imparisystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 work (301) 682-7901 cell (301) 802-3235
Re: Amrecover problem - tar: This does not look like a tar archive
Thanks for being so quick Dustin... I did amfetchdump and on the first run through it was complaining about /var/lib/amanda/.am_passphrase missing, so I created it and put in the correct passphrase, now I'm getting this: amfetchdump: slot 10: time 20100205150231 label laptops-0010 (exact label match) Scanning volume laptops-0010 (slot 10) amfetchdump: 1: restoring FILE: date 20100205150231 host mlb-laptop.imparisystems.local disk /home/mlb/Documents lev 1 comp .gz program /bin/tar crypt enc client_encrypt /usr/sbin/amcryptsimple client_decrypt_option -d gpg: decryption failed: bad key So I'm hunting around for the next steps - can I create a new key file without the old computer? On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 13:22 -0600, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: Amrecover tends to hide the actual error messages, since they occur on the server. Try doing a recovery using amfetchdump, instead. I suspect that there's a missing encryption key or something preventing the recovery. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com Matt Burkhardt Impari Systems, Inc. Customer Relationship Management Systems We help you find and keep your best customers m...@imparisystems.com http://www.imparisystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 work (301) 682-7901 cell (301) 802-3235
Re: New look for amanda.org
A million times better! The only thing that I would change is the sponsored by message that's at the bottom of the page - maybe have a second one over the right hand top menu where it says Download | FAQ | Wiki On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 14:34 -0800, Tatjana wrote: Hello All, I am a web developer working at Zmanda. We wanted to give a facelift to amanda.org to make it more user-friendly as well as visually appealing. Our objective was to do so without losing the site's simplicity. Here is a draft of new version of amanda.org: http://www.amanda.org/new_site_preview/ Currently I have only two pages coded in order to get feedback - the main page and downloads page. Rest of the links point to the main page itself. Please let me know if you have any feedback on this new design. Regards, Tatjana Schlothauer Matt Burkhardt Impari Systems, Inc. Customer Relationship Management Systems We help you find and keep your best customers m...@imparisystems.com http://www.imparisystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 work (301) 682-7901 cell (301) 802-3235
Re: Problems with changing from IP address to named host
D'oh! I was pinging just the machine name and not the fully qualified
name and it turns out it was a problem with the name service
configuration file.
A line in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file needed to be changed from
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
to
hosts: files dns mdns4
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction - I'm slowly getting
better!
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 20:26 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Matt Burkhardtm...@imparisystems.com wrote:
amandad: check_name_give_sockaddr:
resolve_hostname('ubuntu.imparisystems.local'): Name or service not known
What else do I need to change?
I think this is the place to start -- why is that domain name not
resolving on the client?
Dustin
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Problems with changing from IP address to named host
I finally got DNS running on my main server and now I'm getting errors
from my backups that run across the network. Here's part of the output
in my planner.datestring.debug file
1244557453.125414: planner: make_socket opening socket with family 2
1244557453.125473: planner: connect_port: Try port 516: available - Success
1244557453.131565: planner: connected to 192.168.1.105.10080
1244557453.131624: planner: our side is 0.0.0.0.516
1244557453.131646: planner: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536
1244557453.131659: planner: try_socksize: receive buffer size is 65536
1244557458.155442: planner: security_stream_seterr(0x80719b0, recv error:
Connection reset by peer)
1244557458.155511: planner: security_seterror(handle=0x80713d0,
driver=0xb7e6be80 (BSDTCP) error=recv error: Connection reset by peer)
1244557458.155632: planner: security_close(handle=0x80713d0, driver=0xb7e6be80
(BSDTCP))
1244557458.155644: planner: security_stream_close(0x80719b0)
1244557458.155874: planner: pid 8332 finish time Tue Jun 9 10:24:18 2009
So, I go over to the client and check /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts file and
change the IP addresses to the new domain name
ubuntu.imparisystems.local amandabackup amdump
and check /etc/xinetd.d/amandaclient on the client machine to make sure I don't
have an only from designation
service amanda
{
disable = no
flags = IPv4
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= amandabackup
group = disk
groups = yes
server = /usr/libexec/amanda/amandad
server_args = -auth=bsdtcp amdump
}
and everytime I run amcheck - I get
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
WARNING: mlb-laptop.imparisystems.local: selfcheck request failed: recv error:
Connection reset by peer
Client check: 1 host checked in 5.133 seconds. 1 problem found.
(brought to you by Amanda 2.6.1p1)
The amandad debug file from the client says
amandad: check_name_give_sockaddr:
resolve_hostname('ubuntu.imparisystems.local'): Name or service not known
What else do I need to change?
Thanks - as always!
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m...@imparisystems.com
(301) 682-7901
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Frederick, MD 21701
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Re: [Amanda-users] Cloud Backup...but to my own Data Center
In the meantime, can't he just backup across his WAN using a server at his central office? On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 16:58 -0700, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Hopifan amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Now the question- I am looking for solution, something like Zmanda, but instead of backing up to Amazon S3 I want to backup data from these 30 offices to my Data Center. I would appreciate any help. I was looking at Data Domain solution but it was too expensive. Ideally Cloud Backup but to my own location would be the best. If you're interested in putting some development work into this, we are working on a project called libzcloud (http://github.com/zmanda/libzcloud/tree/) which Amanda will use to talk to arbitrary clouds. If you write an interface from libzcloud to your cloud system, then Amanda will be able to use it. Dustin -- Matt Burkhardt, M.Sci. Technology Management m...@imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 http://www.imparisystems.com
xinetd and netstats
Okay - I'm getting an amanda server up and running for the local Boys
and Girls Club on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server - If I run amcheck daily, I
get
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /media/raid5/amandabackup/daily/dumps: 266228440 KB disk
space available, using 255988440 KB
slot 10: Found a non-amanda tape, will label it `daily-001'.
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Found a brand new tape, will label it daily-001.
NOTE: conf info dir /etc/amanda/daily/curinfo does not exist
NOTE: it will be created on the next run.
NOTE: index dir /etc/amanda/daily/index does not exist
NOTE: it will be created on the next run.
Server check took 0.063 seconds
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
WARNING: Usage of fully qualified hostname recommended for Client
localhost.
WARNING: localhost: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK
Client check: 1 host checked in 29.994 seconds, 1 problem found
(brought to you by Amanda 2.5.2p1)
So I run netstat -a | grep amanda to see what services I have running
and I get
tcp0 0 *:amandaidx *:*
LISTEN
So I figure I must have something wrong with my /etc/xinetd.d/amanda
file - but I can't find the issue. I have restarted xinetd so often I
think I'm going crazy!
Contents of /etc/xinetd.d/amanda
# default: on
# description: The amanda service
service amanda
{
only_from = 192.168.10.100
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= backup
group = backup
groups = yes
server = /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
server_args = -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped
disable = no
}
# default: on
# description: The amanda index service
service amandaidx
{
only_from = 192.168.10.100
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= backup
group = backup
groups = yes
server = /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd
server_args = -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped
disable = no
}
#default: on
# description: The amanda tape service
service amidxtape
{
only_from = 192.168.10.0/24
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= backup
group = backup
groups = yes
server = /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped
server_args = -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped
disable = no
}
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(301) 682-7901
502 Fairview Avenue
Frederick, MD 21701
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Re: xinetd and netstats - solved!
Just got a little further -
Realized the Ubuntu apt-get package makes modifications to your
inetd.conf file, so that's why amandaidx was running. Also, the
amanda-server does not install the client portion (or amandad) so needed
to run sudo apt-get install amanda-client
Once I commented out the lines in inetd.conf, restart the machine, I can
now do netstat -a | grep am and get
tcp0 0 *:amandaidx *:* LISTEN
tcp0 0 *:amidxtape *:* LISTEN
udp0 0 *:amanda*:*
and everything checks out fine.
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 14:33 -0400, Matt Burkhardt wrote:
Okay - I'm getting an amanda server up and running for the local Boys
and Girls Club on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server - If I run amcheck daily,
I get
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /media/raid5/amandabackup/daily/dumps: 266228440 KB disk
space available, using 255988440 KB
slot 10: Found a non-amanda tape, will label it `daily-001'.
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Found a brand new tape, will label it daily-001.
NOTE: conf info dir /etc/amanda/daily/curinfo does not exist
NOTE: it will be created on the next run.
NOTE: index dir /etc/amanda/daily/index does not exist
NOTE: it will be created on the next run.
Server check took 0.063 seconds
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
WARNING: Usage of fully qualified hostname recommended for Client
localhost.
WARNING: localhost: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK
Client check: 1 host checked in 29.994 seconds, 1 problem found
(brought to you by Amanda 2.5.2p1)
So I run netstat -a | grep amanda to see what services I have running
and I get
tcp0 0 *:amandaidx *:*
LISTEN
So I figure I must have something wrong with my /etc/xinetd.d/amanda
file - but I can't find the issue. I have restarted xinetd so often I
think I'm going crazy!
Contents of /etc/xinetd.d/amanda
# default: on
# description: The amanda service
service amanda
{
only_from = 192.168.10.100
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = backup
group = backup
groups = yes
server = /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
server_args = -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped
disable = no
}
# default: on
# description: The amanda index service
service amandaidx
{
only_from = 192.168.10.100
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = backup
group = backup
groups = yes
server = /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd
server_args = -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped
disable = no
}
#default: on
# description: The amanda tape service
service amidxtape
{
only_from = 192.168.10.0/24
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = backup
group = backup
groups = yes
server = /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped
server_args = -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped
disable = no
}
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m...@imparisystems.com
(301) 682-7901
502 Fairview Avenue
Frederick, MD 21701
http://www.imparisystems.com
--
Matt Burkhardt, M.Sci. Technology Management
m...@imparisystems.com
(301) 682-7901
502 Fairview Avenue
Frederick, MD 21701
http://www.imparisystems.com
Backing up to CDR
I'm doing some pro bono work for our local Boys and Girls Club and helping them set up a server. We're using Amanda for a backup and trying to back everything up to a CDR. I thought there was a device for it or a cdrtaper utility or something. I've tried googling it, but no luck and was hoping someone might know... Thanks again! -- Matt Burkhardt, M.Sci. Technology Management m...@imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 http://www.imparisystems.com
Re: Two Questions - Clients and MySQL
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 17:18 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: The must-be-logged-in problem sounds like it might be an Ubuntu security thing?? I think I may have figured this out - basically it's all wireless and running WPA off a Linksys router - so would someone have to be longed onto the router for the server to find the laptop? Would it work with a wired network? On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Matt Burkhardt m...@imparisystems.com wrote: I know that Zmanda does MySQL backups - but does Amanda as well? Is that one of the differentiations for the products? ZRM is also open-source: http://www.zmanda.com/backup-mysql.html Dustin Thanks - both to Dustin and Paul!
Two Questions - Clients and MySQL
You know, the more that I get to know and understand Amanda, the more I'm impressed. Thanks guys! First off, I have one laptop - but it appears that someone has to be logged on in order for the backup to work properly. I thought with the additional user, the machine just had to be on. Did I do something wrong? Is it possible to just have it sign on and backup without a real user on? I know that Zmanda does MySQL backups - but does Amanda as well? Is that one of the differentiations for the products? As always - thanks for your quick answers and thoughts... Matt Burkhardt, MS Technology Management Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 m...@imparisystems.com www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
Re: S3 Backup using 2.6.1b2
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 12:52 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Graham Wooden gra...@g-rock.net wrote: Also keep in mind the TCP sliding window when going over the Internet. You can have a fat pipe (on both ends), but the increased hop count and the TCP overhead you will only get a percentage of your pipe. In my experiences, they have been about less than 1/2 of the pipe. Unless the backup is streamed over UDP (more efficient but no error checking). That's a good point. The broader point, though, is that neither Amazon nor most of the ISPs between you and Amazon are too keen to squeeze out every last ounce of upload speed for you, so anyone backing up more than a few gigs nightly to Amazon is going to be unhappy - regardless of pipe size. Note that you can use Amanda's planner to good effect, by specifying, say, a 2G tape size, and lots of small DLEs, thereby backing up much more than 2G of data over the course of your dumpcycle. I use this technique to keep my nightly backups to about 800M. Thanks guys! I'm parsing out the directories so that they're around 800M a piece and creating an exclude list. Since they're music files, I'm just running it once for the full backup, then the exclude files will just pick up the new stuff. I'll keep an eye on it to make sure that it doesn't get too big. Dustin Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 m...@imparisystems.com www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
S3 Backup using 2.6.1b2
# backups performed at the beginning of the
previous
# cycle
runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of
amdump
tpchanger chg-multi # the tape-changer glue script
tapedev S3: # the no-rewind tape device to be used
device_property S3_ACCESS_KEY My Access Key
device_property S3_SECRET_KEY My Secret Key
device_property S3_SSL false
changerfile changer.conf
tapetype HARDDISK # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below)
holdingdisk hd1 {
directory /samba/smalldrive/dumps/music
use -1000Mb
}
holdingdisk hd2 {
directory /samba/bigdrive/dumps/music
use -1000 Mb
}
label_new_tapes musicSet1-# Enable auto labeling
labelstr ^musicSet1-[0-9][0-9]*$ # label constraint regex: all
tapes mus$
dtimeout 1800 # number of idle seconds before a dump is
aborted.
ctimeout 30 # maximum number of seconds that amcheck waits
# for each client host
etimeout 300# number of seconds per filesystem for
estimates.
define dumptype global {
comment Global definitions
auth bsdtcp
}
define dumptype gui-base {
global
program GNUTAR
comment gui base dumptype dumped with tar
compress none
index yes
}
define tapetype HARDDISK {
comment Virtual Tapes
length 10 mbytes
}
includefile advanced.conf
includefile /var/lib/amanda/template.d/dumptypes
includefile tapetypes
Matt Burkhardt, MSTM
President
Impari Systems, Inc.
502 Fairview Avenue
Frederick, MD 21701
m...@imparisystems.com
www.imparisystems.com
(301) 682-7901
Re: Time outs for S3 Backups
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 21:40 -0500, Nikolas Coukouma wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:25 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I've got my holding disk set up, I've been running into issues with timeouts from S3. ... These errors are only reported to you after 14 retrires, which means Amazon has been given ample opportunity to resolve any network issues. ... Actually, the 2.6.0p2 release (and earlier) uses significantly different values. The maximum number of retries is only 5 and the resulting time is fairly short (the backoff increases exponentially). I believe that 2.6.0p2 only waits a a couple seconds If the bucket you're trying to backup to isn't created yet, that's probably the problem. If the problem persists, I'd recommend either trying the beta or compiling a copy from source, tweaking the values in device-src/s3.c . I'm running 2.6.1b1 right now - I'm using the Ubuntu Hardy package for i386. Specifically, you'd want to change the values #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_START_USEC 1 #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAX_RETRIES 5 to #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_START_USEC G_USEC_PER_SEC/100 #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAX_RETRIES 14 I'll give it a try, but it's a bear to uninstall with the package and install from source - wish me luck! Regards, Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
Re: Time outs for S3 Backups
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 21:40 -0500, Nikolas Coukouma wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:25 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I've got my holding disk set up, I've been running into issues with timeouts from S3. ... These errors are only reported to you after 14 retrires, which means Amazon has been given ample opportunity to resolve any network issues. ... Actually, the 2.6.0p2 release (and earlier) uses significantly different values. The maximum number of retries is only 5 and the resulting time is fairly short (the backoff increases exponentially). I believe that 2.6.0p2 only waits a a couple seconds If the bucket you're trying to backup to isn't created yet, that's probably the problem. If the problem persists, I'd recommend either trying the beta or compiling a copy from source, tweaking the values in device-src/s3.c . Specifically, you'd want to change the values #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_START_USEC 1 #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAX_RETRIES 5 to #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_START_USEC G_USEC_PER_SEC/100 #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAX_RETRIES 14 Regards, I'm sure you probably already know, but I'm running the Ubuntu Hardy 2.6.1b1 package. I just downloaded the source for 2.6.1b1 and those definitions are already set in the s3.c file - would it be worth it to try and uninstall the package and reinstall from source? Thanks! Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
Re: Time outs for S3 Backups
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 12:30 -0500, Nikolas Coukouma wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 07:02 -0500, Matt Burkhardt wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 21:40 -0500, Nikolas Coukouma wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:25 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I've got my holding disk set up, I've been running into issues with timeouts from S3. ... These errors are only reported to you after 14 retrires, which means Amazon has been given ample opportunity to resolve any network issues. ... ... If the bucket you're trying to backup to isn't created yet, that's probably the problem. If the problem persists, I'd recommend either trying the beta or compiling a copy from source, tweaking the values in device-src/s3.c I'm sure you probably already know, but I'm running the Ubuntu Hardy 2.6.1b1 package. I just downloaded the source for 2.6.1b1 and those definitions are already set in the s3.c file - would it be worth it to try and uninstall the package and reinstall from source? Nope. Since you're running 2.6.1b1, you can try setting the property S3_SSL to false temporarily and using a packet capture tool like Wireshark to take a closer look. This disables the encryption that's usually used to transfer your data to Amazon, so it's not a good idea to leave it off during normal operation. If you want to try that and send the packet capture file (from having SSL disabled) to me off-list, I'd be happy to take a look. If you're not planning to look yourself, you might save yourself some installation by using tcpdump to create the capture: tcpdump -i interface -s 1500 -w some-file Okay - dumb question time I don't have a GUI installed on the server, so I can't use Wireshark - so I'm using the tcpdump command. I just ran it on the command line in another terminal session after I started the amflush command. How do I know when and how do I stop it? Best of luck, Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
Re: Time outs for S3 Backups
It's about a 720 Mb file before it died - still want it off list On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 12:30 -0500, Nikolas Coukouma wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 07:02 -0500, Matt Burkhardt wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 21:40 -0500, Nikolas Coukouma wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:25 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I've got my holding disk set up, I've been running into issues with timeouts from S3. ... These errors are only reported to you after 14 retrires, which means Amazon has been given ample opportunity to resolve any network issues. ... ... If the bucket you're trying to backup to isn't created yet, that's probably the problem. If the problem persists, I'd recommend either trying the beta or compiling a copy from source, tweaking the values in device-src/s3.c I'm sure you probably already know, but I'm running the Ubuntu Hardy 2.6.1b1 package. I just downloaded the source for 2.6.1b1 and those definitions are already set in the s3.c file - would it be worth it to try and uninstall the package and reinstall from source? Nope. Since you're running 2.6.1b1, you can try setting the property S3_SSL to false temporarily and using a packet capture tool like Wireshark to take a closer look. This disables the encryption that's usually used to transfer your data to Amazon, so it's not a good idea to leave it off during normal operation. If you want to try that and send the packet capture file (from having SSL disabled) to me off-list, I'd be happy to take a look. If you're not planning to look yourself, you might save yourself some installation by using tcpdump to create the capture: tcpdump -i interface -s 1500 -w some-file Best of luck, Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
Time outs for S3 Backups
Now that I've got my holding disk set up, I've been running into issues with timeouts from S3. I've increased the dtimeout from 1800 seconds to 3600 seconds - the files that I'm trying to backup are rather large - about 56GB. Anyone have experience with this? Thanks again! Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
Re: Time outs for S3 Backups
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 14:26 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
localhost /samba/bigdrive/Music lev 0: partial taper: While writing data
block to S3: Too many retries; last message was 'Your socket connection to
the server was not read from or written to within the timeout period. Idle
connections will be closed.' (RequestTimeout) (HTTP 400) (after 14 retries)
Hmm, I recall having this kind of trouble way back when S3 was still
in beta, but haven't seen it since. I assumed it was due to a bug on
the Amazon side.
The S3 device does not begin sending data until it has a full block
available, and then sends that block as quickly as the network will
permit, so this sort of timeout cannot be caused by slowness on the
client or anything like that.
Have you modified your blocksize from the default 10M?
No, I've left it based on the examples from Amanda - here's what's in my
amanda.conf
define tapetype HARDDISK {
comment Virtual Tapes
length 10 mbytes
}
Is there some
reason that a TCP connection to Amazon would stall out for more than
60 seconds?
I've got Verizon DSL - seems to be working fine - so not likely
Can you upload multi-megabyte files to S3 using other
utilities (e.g., JetS3t)?
I've been able to back up my document portion of my server on a regular
basis - it's uploading and storing about a little over 1GB on S3 and it
seems to work fine. For the music backup, it's gotten up to file 1c4 -
about 4.7 GB
Dustin
Matt Burkhardt, MSTM
President
Impari Systems, Inc.
502 Fairview Avenue
Frederick, MD 21701
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.imparisystems.com
(301) 682-7901
Holding Disk Size
I'm running out of holding disk space during the backup and I was wondering what I can do. Here's my scenario I've got a directory called Music that has 54GB on it. My disk has 36GB free. I have a second disk with 34GB free on it. Can I have multiple holding disks? If I give the disk list as each subdirectory under Music, will it need less holding space? Should I break up the backup jobs into several ones? Should I just buy a bigger disk? Thanks! Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
Re: Error - tcpm_recv_token: invalid size: amandad:
Thanks Dustin! Turns out that there was a permissions problem with /var/lib/amanda - I had at first installed with the repos for Ubuntu, then uninstalled and used the packages from Zmanda - so just changed the permissions to amandabackup:disk and amcheck runs fine. On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 21:18 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WARNING: 192.168.1.102: selfcheck request failed: tcpm_recv_token: invalid size: amandad: What do you see if you telnet to that IP on port 10080? Dustin Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
I accidentally ran chown and need help
I'm trying to set up a backup for a client machine running 8.10 Ubuntu using an Ubuntu 8.04 server running 2.6.1b1 - but the version on the client machine is an earlier one. Anyway, I fat fingered something and changed the ownerships on all the files in /usr/libexec/amanda and I'm now getting an error message that says Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: 192.168.1.102: [/usr/libexec/amanda/runtar is not SUID root] Client check: 1 host checked in 0.091 seconds. 1 problem found. Right now, I have that set to root:disk - I basically copied the same permissions from the /usr/libexec on the server. Here's the directory with the owners/groups ls -lh /usr/libexec/amanda total 988K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29K 2008-07-30 19:29 amandad -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 957 2008-07-30 19:28 amanda-sh-lib.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135 2008-07-30 19:29 amcat.awk -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6.6K 2008-07-30 19:29 amcleanupdisk -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19K 2008-07-30 19:29 amidxtaped -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43K 2008-07-30 19:29 amindexd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7.2K 2008-07-30 19:29 amlogroll -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18K 2008-07-30 19:29 amplot.awk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.3K 2008-07-30 19:29 amplot.g -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.3K 2008-07-30 19:29 amplot.gp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11K 2008-07-30 19:29 amtrmidx -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9.9K 2008-07-30 19:29 amtrmlog drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2008-08-02 10:18 application -rwxr-xr-- 1 root disk 15K 2008-07-30 19:29 calcsize -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-chio -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9.7K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-chs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7.9K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-disk -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7.3K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-iomega -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.1K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-juke -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.4K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-lib.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6.8K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-manual -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-mcutil -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.8K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-mtx -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-multi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.7K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-null -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-rait -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6.8K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-rth -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 196K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-scsi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40K 2008-07-30 19:29 chg-zd-mtx -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22K 2008-07-30 19:29 chunker -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71K 2008-07-30 19:29 driver -rwxr-xr-x 1 root disk 39K 2008-07-30 19:29 dumper -rwxr-xr-- 1 root disk 6.8K 2008-07-30 19:29 killpgrp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.8K 2008-07-30 19:29 noop -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.1K 2008-07-30 19:28 patch-system -rwxr-xr-x 1 root disk 60K 2008-07-30 19:29 planner -rwxr-xr-- 1 root disk 4.9K 2008-07-30 19:29 rundump -rwxr-xr-- 1 root disk 7.8K 2008-07-30 19:29 runtar -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27K 2008-07-30 19:29 selfcheck -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 48K 2008-07-30 19:29 sendbackup -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51K 2008-07-30 19:29 sendsize -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 49K 2008-07-30 19:29 taper -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.1K 2008-07-30 19:29 versionsuffix Thanks! Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
Re: Release of Amanda-2.6.1b1
Are the packages on http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php going to be updated soon? On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:21 -0500, Nikolas Coukouma wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 08:53 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Hello, The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Amanda 2.6.1, the 2.6.1b1 release. Source tarballs are available from * http://www.amanda.org * https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120 Binaries for many systems are available from * http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php If you use Amazon S3 you may encounter a segmentation fault. A fix has already been committed and is available in the more recent (20081202 or later) source tarballs. http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/community-builds/amanda-2.6.1b1-20081202.tar.gz Regards, Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
Re: Installing 2.6.0p2 on Ubuntu
Sorry it takes me awhile to get back. Anyway - here's what's happened to me - Originally installed http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/Amanda/2.6.0p2/Ubuntu-Hardy/amanda-backup-server_2.6.0p2-1_i386.deb but kept getting an error about missing a p1 library whenever I tried to run amrecover (so I think there's a problem with that Amanda package). So I did an apt-get remove. Then - downloaded Amanda 2.6.0.p2 from scratch and installed, but was running into problems with the configuration - problem was that it wasn't finding the configuration files that I had set up originally - I was getting ready to rerun ./configure with the parameters that would match my system, but then amanda 2.6.1b1 was announced, so I ran make uninstall on the 2.6.0p2 version, then downloaded http://www.zmanda.com/downloads/community/Amanda/2.6.1b1/Ubuntu-Hardy/amanda-backup-server_2.6.1b1-1_i386.deb and everything seems to be as it should! I'm currently running an amflush, I was getting an error about it when I tried to run amrecover. It's backing up to Amazon S3, and I'll let you know how that works. Thanks! On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 18:14 -0600, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AMRECOVER Version 2.6.0p2. Contacting server on ubuntu ... [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK] Is there another configure directive to find the original files? This can be because amrecover is using the wrong auth mechanism to find the server (look for auth in /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf), or because something is wrong with your xinetd configuration -- is the executable that's pointing to still at that location? Dustin Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
Installing 2.6.0p2 on Ubuntu
I used the Ubuntu Hardy Haron package to install Amanda server on my server. It ran the backups correctly, but now I need to recover a file. If I ran recover, it was asking for one of the 2.6.0p1 files - so I uninstalled Amanda through apt-get and pulled down the 2.6.0p2 package and compiled it on the machine. I changed the user and groups when running ./configure to match up with the users and groups defined with the Ubuntu package - and now I'm trying to run amrecover by typing sudo amrecover /etc/amanda/DailySet1 but I get - AMRECOVER Version 2.6.0p2. Contacting server on ubuntu ... [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK] Is there another configure directive to find the original files? Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
Re: amrecover with 2.6.0p2
Could it be that I don't have the amanda client on my server? On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 21:47 -0500, Dan Locks wrote: Matt Burkhardt wrote: This is an upgrade from p1 to p2 I used the i386 server version for Hardy That package checks out, so I suspect this is a problem with the behavior of our package during upgrade. The easiest solution is probably to remove the p2 package, then loosely make sure everything is gone (search for /usr/sbin/am* /usr/lib/amanda/ /usr/libexec/amanda/). Then install the package again. This is just a workaround. It's going to take me awhile to figure out what's wrong with our debian upgrade process. Dan Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 401 Rosemont Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 644-3911
Re: amrecover with 2.6.0p2
On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 19:34 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Matt Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to run amrecover to get back some files, and I'm getting amrecover: error while loading shared libraries: libamclient-2.6.0p1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and the only files I have on my box are the p2.so files - so do I need to recompile, reuse, something? Sounds like a recompile -- at least of amrecover. Dustin I used the Ubuntu deb package at http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php Not knowing a lot about packages, do I have to remove it with the package manager, then download source and compile? Thanks, Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 401 Rosemont Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 644-3911
amrecover with 2.6.0p2
I'm trying to run amrecover to get back some files, and I'm getting amrecover: error while loading shared libraries: libamclient-2.6.0p1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and the only files I have on my box are the p2.so files - so do I need to recompile, reuse, something? Thanks, Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 401 Rosemont Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 644-3911
