Re: dump vs. tar
Look at dumptypes section in your amanda.conf
By default, amanda uses dump
This one use dump :
define dumptype comp-user {
comment "Non-root partitions on reasonably fast machines"
options compress-fast
priority medium
}
And this one use tar :
define dumptype comp-user-tar {
program "GNUTAR"
comment "partitions dumped with tar"
options compress-fast, index, exclude-list "/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar"
priority medium
}
Axel Haenssen wrote:
This might sound silly,
but how do I tell Amanda to use dump or tar??
cheers
Axel
Re: Amanda with star
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 at 1:49pm, Sébastien GALLET wrote I wan't to use acl with on XFS filesystems and backup them with amanda. How can i backup files+acl with amanda?. tar doesn't backup acl, we must use star ??? Err, what's wrong with xfsdump? My file system is too large so i can't put it on a single tape ... :((
Amanda with star
Hi, I wan't to use acl with on XFS filesystems and backup them with amanda. How can i backup files+acl with amanda?. tar doesn't backup acl, we must use star ??? Thank's
Re: Problem when restoring using amanda and a DI-30
Thanks for your tips But i can't compile amanda-2.4.3 with this option !!! Which version of amanda do you use ??? - Original Message - From: "Michel Meyers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 8:15 PM Subject: Re: Problem when restoring using amanda and a DI-30 > I've had this too... I recompiled amanda with the --with-broken-fsf option > (ie instead of just ./configure do ./configure --with-broken-fsf) and that > fixed it. > > - Original Message - > From: "Sébastien GALLET sgallet-at-ibourgogne.net |osst/1.0-Allow|" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 18:05 > Subject: Problem when restoring using amanda and a DI-30 > > > > Hello, > > I've got a problem when i try to restore with amanda and a DI 30 ( > > amrecover, amrestore) > > I can retrieve only the first archive on the tape (the first disklist > entry > > in amanda configuration). > > The other ones cannot de restored > > Does anybody have seen this before ??? > > TIA > > >
Multi-Tape error
I'm trying to backup my mp3 collection (a little more than 60 Gb) on my onstream DI-30 tape (15 Gb). The 2 first tapes work fine but when backing up on the third, amdump stops and report this : shining /var/datacentre/mp3 lev 0 FAILED [too many taper retries] NOTES: taper: tape Mp3Set1 kb 14752480 fm 1 writing file: No space left on device taper: retrying shining:/var/datacentre/mp3.0 on new tape: [writing file: No space left on device] taper: tape Mp3Set2 kb 14754112 fm 1 writing file: No space left on device taper: retrying shining:/var/datacentre/mp3.0 on new tape: [writing file: No space left on device] taper: tape Mp3Set3 kb 0 fm 0 [OK] What does it mean ??? TIA
Re: chg-manual problems
Try this : In chg-manual, comment or remove the line DD if=$tape count=1 >> $logfile 2>&1 Bye - Original Message - From: "Brashers, Bart -- MFG, Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Amanda Users (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 5:16 PM Subject: chg-manual problems > > Can anyone help me? > > I'm using the chg-manual on a DLT-8000, with runtapes=2. I've un-commented > the section in the script that sends mail once an hour, asking for the next > Amanda tape. > > Right now, I started an amflush after last night's failure to find the right > tape. It rejected the first tape I put in (even though the last amreport > said amanda expected it) but took the 2nd tape I tried. amflush is now > running -- the lights on the tape drive indicate it's being written to, and > it's whirring. But I'm getting about 5 emails per _minute_ with the usual > chg-manual message "insert Amanda tape into slot 373 (/dev/nst0)". Yet > nothing's running: > > [root ~]% ps aux | grep am > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > amanda 25118 0.0 0.0 1972 840 ?S07:40 0:00 amflush Daily > amanda 25119 0.0 0.0 2592 756 ?S07:40 0:00 taper Daily > amanda 25120 0.0 0.0 2628 836 ?D07:40 0:00 taper Daily > > Those are just what you'd expect to see running when doing an amflush! Can > anyone help me figure out what to kill to stop these email messages? > > As a side note, I often have trouble figuring out which tape amanda wants. > amcheck runs each afternoon from crontab, just before I go home, to make > sure I have the right tape in. If I forget to change the tape, when amdump > fires off (also from crontab) later that evening, then two processes are > requesting "insert Amanda tape", each unloading the tape after not finding > the right one, and never letting the other process get started. > > If anyone has hacked the chg-manual script with improvements, like > specifying _which_ tape amanda wants, I'd sure like a copy... > > Thanks, > > Bart > --- > Bart Brashers MFG Inc. > Air Quality Meteorologist 19203 36th Ave W Suite 101 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lynnwood WA 98036-5707 > http://www.mfgenv.com 425.921.4000 Fax: 425.921.4040 >
Re: chg-manual has anyone used it successfully?
Yes i do. The file mentionned by changerfile in amanda.conf must NOT exist or be empty. In chg-manual, comment the line DD if=$tape count=1 >> $logfile 2>&1 This command reads the beginning of the tape (only to log it) and causes an Input/Output Error in amanda when it try to get tape label. Bye - Original Message - From: "Jon LaBadie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "amanda-users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:22 PM Subject: chg-manual has anyone used it successfully? > Investigating a recent posting I looked at the chg-manual code. > It contains the following: > > if [ -f $changerfile ]; then > . $changerfile > fi > > $changerfile is /changer.conf normally. > > It is being "sourced" in this code such that the lines should > be shell script syntax. But changer.conf is not a shell script. > Instead it contains lines like: > >number_configs 1 > > which the sourcing tries to execute like a command line and > of course there is no program called "number_configs". > > It appears that the author of chg-manual expected the syntax > of changer.conf to be parameter assignments like NUM_CONFIG=1. > > Has anyone been using chg-manual? HOW? > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) >
