Oops, I meant... execute shell commands from within amRESTORE?
Oops- I meant amrestore... last subject was wrong. -Original Message- From: Wayne Byarlay [mailto:wab@;purdue.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:17 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: execute shell commands from within amrecover? Is it possible to execute shell commands from within amrecover, via an escape character, or anything like that? ~wab~
execute shell commands from within amrecover?
Is it possible to execute shell commands from within amrecover, via an escape character, or anything like that? ~wab~
Server down for 2 days
Greetings, quick easy question: My amanda machine was down for 2 consecutive backup days. What can I expect when I bring it back online? Will Amanda automatically compensate? or do I need to manually do the last 2 tapes? ~wab~
RE: two schedules simultaneously?
We're doing it for off-site backup purposes. I've gotten a lot of input on this, thanks all who responded. My questions have been answered. Wayne p.s. not to say I won't ask more sometime in the future! :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bort, Paul Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: two schedules simultaneously? 1) Yes, you can run two schedules, just don't send requests from both at the same time. AMANDA clients assume that they are only talking to one server at a time. `cp -r /amanda/Config1/* /amanda/Config2/` or so. 2) FAQ-O-Matic, flaky but informative: http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/28.html 3) You might not want to do this, depending on WHY you think you should do it: - If you're building a second set of tapes to go off site, then a second configuration is probably the right way to go. - If you are doing this because AMANDA is only doing full backups every three weeks, you could just reduce dumpcycle to 5 and get full backups every week. - If you don't like AMANDA spreading full backups over all the tapes to reduce your loss in case of a media failure, then there are a variety of commercial backup packages that haven't figured this out yet. Or a force command noted in the above FOM. > -----Original Message- > From: Wayne Byarlay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: two schedules simultaneously? > > > Greetings. > > I currently run Amanda with a 15-day dump cycle, Mon-Fri, called > "DailySet1". > > I want to know if it's possible to do the following: > > 1. Make DailySet1 only run Mon-Thur; > 2. Create a "WeeklySet1", with a 5-tape rotation, scheduled > for Fridays, > doing a level 0 on all filesystems. > > I was reading the book and it says you can do full archival dumps by > "creating a new AMANDA configuration with its own set of > tapes". This sounds > similar to what I want to do but not exactly. Does this mean > create a whole > 'nother instance of AMANDA in some other directory(my guess), > or just create > the "WeeklySet1" file? The way it sounds, one instance of a > total AMANDA > configuration can only use one schedule set. > > any other thoughts on this, too, are indeed welcome. > > Thanks, > > Wayne Byarlay > Purdue University Libraries >
two schedules simultaneously?
Greetings. I currently run Amanda with a 15-day dump cycle, Mon-Fri, called "DailySet1". I want to know if it's possible to do the following: 1. Make DailySet1 only run Mon-Thur; 2. Create a "WeeklySet1", with a 5-tape rotation, scheduled for Fridays, doing a level 0 on all filesystems. I was reading the book and it says you can do full archival dumps by "creating a new AMANDA configuration with its own set of tapes". This sounds similar to what I want to do but not exactly. Does this mean create a whole 'nother instance of AMANDA in some other directory(my guess), or just create the "WeeklySet1" file? The way it sounds, one instance of a total AMANDA configuration can only use one schedule set. any other thoughts on this, too, are indeed welcome. Thanks, Wayne Byarlay Purdue University Libraries
file system sizes
Can anybody recommend the best way to estimate whether all my filesystems will fit onto one tape? Right now I'm running a 15-day incremental cycle, but I want to remove friday from that cycle, and do a full backup. The problem is, it'll take me a LONG time to login to each server, df -k, etc. to estimate the sizes. I'm guessing that maybe Amanda might have this info stored away in some secret file somewhere, or I can use some deft command-line switches to "audit" all my file systems. Any ideas? wab.
Restoration of single file via amrestore?
Is it possible to restore one particular file from tape, using amrestore (vs. amrecover from the client)? In "the book"(O'Reilly) it says, "The amrestore command restores whole images from tape." I'm assuming "images" means entire filesystems. Can you also get individual files...? wab
DLT tapes
I thought if you pressed the "eject" button, then waited for the tape to rewind, then it beeps and the light for "remove" comes on, that you had to physically take out the tape and put it back in. Not so. Last night amanda actually ran, and dumped the holding disks to tape, AFTER I'd hit the eject button. oops. Just an FYI! wab
Strange Error with Amanda
Greetings.
I have encountered a weird problem. Everything's been running fine for
months; running a 15-tape rotation cycle and backing up maybe about 36
filesystems on about 8 servers or so.
But this morning, I get the e-mail which Amanda dutifully sends every
morning... it says:
--
DailySet1 AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR BogusMonth 0, 0
*** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
These dumps were to tapes .
Tonight's dumps should go onto 1 tape: Daily03.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
chaffee/ RESULTS MISSING
etc. (Every filesystem & server RESULTS MISSING)
STATISTICS:
Total Full Daily
Dump Time (hrs:min)0:00 0:00 0:00 (0:00 start)
Output Size (meg) 0.00.00.0
Original Size (meg) 0.00.00.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
Tape Used (%) 0.00.00.0
Filesystems Dumped0 0 0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- --
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- --
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER
STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS
KB/s
-- -- --
chaffee/
MISSING
(etc every filesystem & server, MISSING)
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.1p1)
Interesting, eh? Does anybody have a guess what could cause this?
Re: Shit
I knew this would erupt into a flame war :) He deserved it. wab - Original Message - From: "Christopher Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Rebecca Pakish'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Roy Andrè Tollefsen'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Amanda Users (E-mail)'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 11:23 AM Subject: RE: Shit > Well the bright side to all of this is that he is unsubscribing. *grin* > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rebecca Pakish > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:29 AM > To: 'Roy Andrè Tollefsen' > Cc: Amanda Users (E-mail) > Subject: RE: Shit > > If you know how to read...and I'm assuming you do since you can > type...go to > www.amanda.org and read the instructions. If that is too difficult I've > pasted them below. > > (And in the future keep your profanity to yourself, it's unprofessional > and > uncalled for) > > > > Please note: To subscribe or unsubscribe to a mailing list, DO NOT, > EVER, > send mail to that list. Send mail to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the following line in the body of the message: > subscribe > and when you want to unsubscribe, use the following line in the body: > unsubscribe > where is one of the following: > amanda-announce > The amanda-announce mailing list is for important announcements related > to > the Amanda Network Backup Manager package, including new versions, > contributions, and fixes. > NOTE: the amanda-users list is itself on the amanda-announce > distribution, > so you only need to subscribe to one of the two lists, not both. > > To subscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > amanda-users > The amanda-users mailing list is for questions and general discussion > about > the Amanda Network Backup Manager. This package and related files are > available via anonymous FTP from ftp.amanda.org in the pub/amanda > directory. > > NOTE: the amanda-users list is itself on the amanda-announce > distribution, > so you only need to subscribe to one of the two lists, not both. > > To subscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > amanda-hackers > The amanda-hackers mailing list is for discussion of the technical > details > of the Amanda package, including extensions, ports, bugs, fixes, and > alpha > testing of new versions. > To subscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -Original Message- > From: Roy Andrè Tollefsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Shit > > > Hello amanda-users, > > Can someone please tell how we can unsubscribe from this list? > > For the last time ... I call this spam > > -- > geworth >
