cant switch to incremental dump
Greetings, (I sent a mail about this a few days ago, so if I am duplicating info please forgive) I still cannot get one of my disks to dump correctly. It is reporting the error can't switch to incremental dump. I have unforced the dump w/ amadmin just in case. I have a tape with more then enough space to archive this data. I have plenty of space in my holding disk. I just cannnot figure out why this dump is trying to do an incremental dump and why it cannot. If I use amadmin and force a level 0, shouldn't amanda only run a level 0? The logs in /tmp/amanda dont point me to the solution either. I am really confused here and any help would be appreicated. Thank You. Andrew
can't switch to incremental dump
Hello, I have a question about one of my dumps. I have a disk that currently has only 32G of data. I forced a level 0 a couple of days ago and each night since I have received the message can't switch to incremental dump. My holding disk is about 90G. My tape is and AIT-2 tape with 50G native capacity, with the correct tape type. I have an AIT-2 tape in the drive. I have looked at the sendsize output and it shows calculations for a level 4,5 and 0. The odd thing is that the sendbackup is a level 4??? Should I use amadmin to unforce this backup? How can I research why it wants to run an incremental backup? Thank you Andrew
Re: Help with disklist.
The syntax is: archive_server //win_host/sharedumptype. See the file SAMBA in the docs subdirectory of your source. Drew On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, [iso-8859-1] Hélio Dubeux wrote: How do i set up my disklist file do backup a windows share? -- Hélio Dubeux Neto _ MSN Hotmail, o maior webmail do Brasil. http://www.hotmail.com
smbclient question
Good Morning, I have setup amanda to archive my win 2k clients, and all appeared to be well in testing. I have a client that has a 63G file, that smbclient is only showing as 170M. This is what amanda archived and if I view the file with smbclient the size of the file is reported as 170M. I am running 2.4.2p2 on linux. Any ideas why smbclient is reporting the size incorrectly? Thank you, Drew
Re: smbclient question
The interesting thing is that I restored it an it was only 170M locally on my archive host. Are you saying when I move it over it will expand? I really do not see how that is possible, but I am no smb expert.. Thank you, Drew On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Niall O Broin wrote: On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:38:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have setup amanda to archive my win 2k clients, and all appeared to be well in testing. I have a client that has a 63G file, that smbclient is only showing as 170M. This is what amanda archived and if I view the file with smbclient the size of the file is reported as 170M. I think this is a restriction of smbfs which has a maximum file size of 2GB. You'll probably find that 170M = actual file size MOD 2GB. Regards, Niall O Broin
Re: Thoughts on Win32
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Galen Johnson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I am about to attempt to archive my Win32 hosts with amanda. I was wondering what the list users experience has been with samba and/or the Win32 amanda client. Thank you, Andrew I've had great luck with Samba. I have avoided the win32 client mainly because it doesn't appear to be under development any longer. Others have reported success with cygwin and compiling amanda on each win client. =G= In reading the list archives I found a message that stated that due the the fact that the ctime is not perserved it causes amanda to run a full backup every run. Is this still the case? Andrew
Thoughts on Win32
Greetings, I am about to attempt to archive my Win32 hosts with amanda. I was wondering what the list users experience has been with samba and/or the Win32 amanda client. Thank you, Andrew
Re: no bandwidth
Thanks. Drew On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Martin Schwarz wrote: On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:11:48AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an amanda run that I have been watching over the last couple of days with amstatus. I am receiving a no bandwitdh message for three of my four dumpers. I have the netusage option in my amanda.conf file commented out. Is this what is going on? Does amanda have a compile time default that I am maxing out? What is a good number for this? I archive between 5 and 80Gs a day depending on the level of the backup. According to the amanda manpage, the default value for netusage is 300 Kbps, which IMO is far too low for today's LAN technologies. I have set netusage to 12800 KBytes/sec, the theoretical maximum of a 100MBit/s ethernet, since I want amanda to use all the bandwith she can and needs. Greetings, Martin
Re: comments about amanda packages requested
I have just finished rolling my own debian dpkg for amanda as I need to compile amanda specifically for our setup here. I was using 2.4.2p2. My biggest problem is that DESTDIR did not work. I had to manually copy each file into my package build directory. If I speficied DESTDIR on the cmd line the make file was created with DESTDIR = and nothing else. Is this a known issue? - what config options should be used? Maybe --with-user, --with-group, --with-amandahosts, --with-fqdn - should tapetype be precompiled too? Some newer AIT types would be nice. I can provide AIT-1 and AIT-2 if necessary. (I believe both are aleady in the FAQ-o-matic). Maybe break tapetypes out of the example/amanda.conf and a file with default tapetypes. This would clean up the config file a bit. - how does a package handle the defaults like tape device, ... The package could probe for the tape device or just ask the user prior to install. I know FreeBSD pkgs, Debian dpkgs, and RedHat rpms all have this ability. This would be true for any other default. - should an amanda specific user and backup group be created by the installation, which names? Defaults could be there and a user could be prompted. Maybe amanda or backup. The debian dpkg uses the backup user and group last time I installed it. - should a default amanda configuration directory, with example conf files be installed I am of the firm opinion that packages should never have config files that are named the same as the default config file. Meaning, this pkg would not contain the file /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf but /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf.example or something like that. This insures that the package will never overwrite an existing config file. Drew
tar and one-file-system advice
Greetings, I use amanda 2.4.p2-4 with tar and I have a directory on one of my hosts that has an odd setup. I have seven mount points with seven subdirectories that I need to archive. Some of the sub directories have data at any given time and some do not. The data changes rapidly. My thought was that I could create a directory on / and symlink to the real directories (see below), but that is not working. What is happening is that only the symlinks are getting archived. /newdir/link0 - /mnt_pt0/dir /newdir/link1 - /mnt_pt1/dir /newdir/link2 - /mnt_pt2/dir (etc..etc) I believe that this is because of the one-file-system argument passed to tar by amanda. My question is two fold: 1) Is there any way to disable the one-file-system option? If so can this be done on a single disk list entry, new dumptype? 2) Should I just backup each directory seperate? This make restores confusing, as I have to issue a new amrestore cmd for each mount point. Any other suggestions? Thank you for your time. Andrew
Odd behavior
Greetings, This morning I all of my backups failed. They all failed with the message: [no more holding disk space]. My setup: Debian 2.2 w/ a 2.4.18 kernel amanda 2.4.2p2 Yesterday I replaced a 18G drive with a 36G to increase my holding disk capacity. My holding disk is a software raid 1 set. Its total capacity is 81G. This error to me means that the holdingdisk if full, yet there is no data on my holdingdisk. hostname:~# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 1968588516212 1352376 28% / /dev/md0 84509240 32828 80183496 1% /holdingdisk hostname:~# uname -a Linux hostname 2.4.18 #9 SMP Mon Jun 17 14:28:08 EDT 2002 i686 unknown hostname:~# Anybody know why amanda would believe the holding disk if full? Thank you for you time. Andrew Hall
Re: Odd behavior
Hello, Thanks for all the replys. It was permissions. I thought I checked that first, but I guess I overlooked it. Thanks again. Drew On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 at 11:43am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote This morning I all of my backups failed. They all failed with the message: [no more holding disk space]. hostname:~# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 1968588516212 1352376 28% / /dev/md0 84509240 32828 80183496 1% /holdingdisk After rebuilding md0, did you make sure the amanda user still has permission to write in /holdingdisk? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: amanda in an Andrew environment?
Greetings, Amanda does not backup data. She uses the filesystems native backup utility, usually some form of dump. So this way it is not amanda that archives the data it is the filesystems utilities, which should account for the locking issues. HTH, Drew On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Ronald O. Christian wrote: Let's say that for whatever reason an organization is a heavy user of the Andrew file system. (No NFS at all -- all AFS.) There are apparently locking issues with commercial backup software backing up Andrew file systems. (or so I've been told) The company in question has been using Budtool forever, and hated every moment of it. How would amanda benefit this situation? Thanks. Ron http://roc85.home.attbi.com Protesters against the wearing of animal skins by humans unaccountably fail to throw paint over Hell's Angels. -- Terry Pratchett
scheduling question.
Hello, It is my understanding that amanda will run a level 0 dump when it meets certian thresholds based upon definitions in the amanda.conf. It is also my understanding that amanda is not desigined to run a level 0 on some day and some time. Friday two of my hosts had a lvl 0 dump. This morning when I checked the status of the backups over the weekend I noticed that those same two hosts ran a lvl 0 again today. I am curious as to why amanda would run two level 0 dumps in three days. One last note. Last week on wednesday I had to force level 0's on everything with amadmin. Could this be the cause? Thanks in advance. Andrew
tapelist issue?
Hello, I needed to flush a dump to tape the day before yesterday. I put the next tape in the rotation in the drive and ran amflush. That tape was tape8 in my cycle. Amflush reported an error saying tape8 was active and it would not overwrite. So I put in tape9 and ran the flush and it ran ok. Now the odd behavior. The next day I put in tape10 and the backups wrote to tape ok but the amanda mail is saying that tape8 is the next tape it wanted to use. Today tape11 was put in and it failed saying that the tape was still active, and the amanda mail is still stating that tape8 is my next tape. 1) why does amanda want to use a tape in a cycle when two tapes past said tape are already used? 2) how do I get amanda to use the correct tape in my cycle. 3) any idea how this happened? Thanks in advance. PS (my naming of the tapes are only for the purpose of this mail, but the numbers do coencide with reality). Andrew
Re: tapelist issue?
3) any idea how this happened? Have you recently edited the tapelist file or changed the number of tapes in use? Rotated a tape into or out of circulation? Yes. I have been replacing my AIT-1 tapes with AIT-2. I have been relabling them with the same label as the one I am removing. I did not see how this could have caused an error. Andrew
Re: Amanda and Encryption
Hello, Encryption is possible via gnupg and gzip. Please read the info at the the following url: http://security.uchicago.edu/tools/gpg-amanda/ I am in the process of writting a document to cover this. It is about 90% done and is not up to date with 2.4.3. ( I dont know if there are any differences with 2.4.3, I assume none) If you would like I can forward you what I have. Its info is complete but it needs to be proof read again, so understand its not perfect. I am currently running this setup and love it. It has not messed up on me once. Andrew On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Chad Morland wrote: I was wondering if it is possible to encrypt the traffic that amanda sends over a network. I have data that I need to backup and some of the data will have to travel over the public internet. Because this data contains sensitive information I do not want the data to be sent unencrypted. Has anyone configured amanda to use SSL/TLS or even SSH? Thanks. -CM
RE: Amanda and Encryption
Agreed, but it does not encrypt the data on tape. The setup I mentioned is used to encrypt the dump itself, not the transport. Andrew On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Bort, Paul wrote: Another option, depending on how many machines are on the public network, is a VPN tunnel, like FreeSWAN or CIPE. (This also provides a secure channel for other useful things like monitoring and remote control, if desired). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:45 PM To: Chad Morland Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Amanda and Encryption Hello, Encryption is possible via gnupg and gzip. Please read the info at the the following url: http://security.uchicago.edu/tools/gpg-amanda/ I am in the process of writting a document to cover this. It is about 90% done and is not up to date with 2.4.3. ( I dont know if there are any differences with 2.4.3, I assume none) If you would like I can forward you what I have. Its info is complete but it needs to be proof read again, so understand its not perfect. I am currently running this setup and love it. It has not messed up on me once. Andrew On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Chad Morland wrote: I was wondering if it is possible to encrypt the traffic that amanda sends over a network. I have data that I need to backup and some of the data will have to travel over the public internet. Because this data contains sensitive information I do not want the data to be sent unencrypted. Has anyone configured amanda to use SSL/TLS or even SSH? Thanks. -CM
Duplicate mails
Hello, On two occasions this week I have received two Amanda mail report emails at the completion of my dump. Both emails were identical in every way. I am running amanda 2.4.2p2. Has anyone else seen this behavior? Thanks in advance. Andrew Hall
Re: Documentation
I have written two docuements. One on excluding data with amanda, and one on how to setup amanda to use gpg. The exclude doc is now available in the DOCS subdir, but it was about six months between when I finished it and a new version of amanda was released. Is there another location that docs are archived and viewable? Do the members of the list really want docs flying around the list. If so I would like to post my new gpg doc. Thanks. Andrew
thoughts on amanda w/ gpg
Hello, After much heartache and one silly oversite on my part I have amanda and gpg working correctly. I can successfully archive and restore. I have a few thoughts that I could use some feedback on. I am currently compressing on the client with the directive: compress client fast For some of our servers I wish to not do the compression (encryption) on the client I wish to do it on the server. This is failing becuase tar is failing with signal 13. The server has the gzip wrapper script and is recompiled to use it, yet it is failing. I was thinking that if the server has the correct wrapper script and has been recompiled correctly, and the compress directive is for server, could you then get away w/o any changes on the client? I have not been able to get this to work, so I thought I would ask the experts. Thank you again for your time. Andrew
thoughts on amanda w/ gpg Got It!
Hello, I just wanted to let everyone know that I just got this working. I deinstalled amanda on the client (I had build dpkgs), and reinstalled the old amanda dpkgs. I fixed my error that was causing tar to fail, (actually it was gpg) and ran a dump and it worked great!! Andrew -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:39:26 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: thoughts on amanda w/ gpg Hello, After much heartache and one silly oversite on my part I have amanda and gpg working correctly. I can successfully archive and restore. I have a few thoughts that I could use some feedback on. I am currently compressing on the client with the directive: compress client fast For some of our servers I wish to not do the compression (encryption) on the client I wish to do it on the server. This is failing becuase tar is failing with signal 13. The server has the gzip wrapper script and is recompiled to use it, yet it is failing. I was thinking that if the server has the correct wrapper script and has been recompiled correctly, and the compress directive is for server, could you then get away w/o any changes on the client? I have not been able to get this to work, so I thought I would ask the experts. Thank you again for your time. Andrew
Re: .amanda.exclude.gtar
Hello, Use ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache if /home is the root of the partition being backed up. Remeber exclude are relative to the partition being backed up. Andrew On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Troy Nachtigall wrote: Hi, I'm using the .amanda.exclude.gtar script to exclude a few things from our backup. I am having a problem with netscape cache. In the exclude script I have the following line: */.netscape/cache/* I still get problems in the backup report: ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/13/cache3C2C0E93DA8B3B8.css: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/14/cache3C2C0DF4D94B3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/14/cache3C2C0DF4D95B3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/14/cache3C2C0E94DB0B3B8.gif: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/14/cache3C2C0E94DB4B3B8.gif: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/15/cache3C2C0DF5D96B3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/15/cache3C2C0DF5D97B3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/15/cache3C2C0DF5D98B3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/15/cache3C2C0DF5D99B3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/16/cache3C2C0DF6D9AB3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory Any suggestions? Thanks!
amanda and gpg again
Hello, (I know this is not part of amanda's default behavior so if this is not ok for this list please let me know) I am having much trouble getting amanda to work with gpg. I am little confused and could use some pointers. I have re-compiled the client and server and installed the new binaries. I ran amdump and everything appeared to be working I saw the gtar process running, I saw the gpg process, I saw the gzip process running, I have a gpg.debug file in /tmp. The image appeared to write to tape correctly. The email output showed no signs of failure. Here is the issue. I can not restore from the image on tape no matter what I try. The error is: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format gpg: decrypt_message failed: eof ( I assume here that either the wrong data, or corrupted data made it to tape, other issues??) Also the /tmp/amanda/gpg.debug file is still on the disk after the backup completed. Here is the odd part. I copied the gpg.debug file to my backup server and manually ran: gpg -d --homedir=/var/backups/.gnupg/ -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg.debug | tar tvfp - And it worked perfectly. So I guess my questions are: Why does this setup write to /tmp/amanda/gpg.debug? Why was this not written to tape? Why was /tmp/amand/gpg.debug not removed? What was written to tape? Thank you again for all the awesome assistance in advance. Andrew
amanda and gpg
Hello, I am looking at the information on setting up amanda to use gpg. The document that I am looking at, http://security.uchicago.edu/tools/gpg-amanda/ appears to be a written at least two years ago. Before I get into this I must ask if amanda now has any native support for gpg? Any issues with this setup if I use GNUTAR instead of dump? Thankyou for your time. Andrew
Re: LTO and changers
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, John R. Jackson wrote: I know that amanda can not split a dump across multiple tapes, so if a dump was too large to fit on the tape, will amanda write the dump to the next available tape in the changer? Do you mean a bunch of stuff was written to the first tape and then one of the images hit EOT, but the image itself is smaller than a tape? If so, then yes, Amanda will go on to the next tape and start the image over again there (assuming you have configured it to do so). Yes that is what I was asking. I guess the question was a little ambiguous. Does amanda support more than one tape device, and if so can it write to more then one device at a time? Not yet. OK. Thanks again. This list is great! Drew
LTO and changers
Hello, I have a few question about tape changers LTO. I know that amanda can not split a dump across multiple tapes, so if a dump was too large to fit on the tape, will amanda write the dump to the next available tape in the changer? Does amanda support more than one tape device, and if so can it write to more then one device at a time? Has anyone had success using amanda and an LTO changer? TIA! Andrew
scheduling question.
Hello, It is my understanding that amanda will run a level 0 dump when it meets certian thresholds based upon definitions in the amanda.conf. It is also my understanding that amanda is not desigined to run a level 0 on some day and some time. Friday two of my hosts had a lvl 0 dump. This morning when I checked the status of the backups over the weekend I noticed that those same two hosts ran a lvl 0 again today. I am curious as to why amanda would run two level 0 dumps in three days. One last note. Last week on wednesday I had to force level 0's on everything with amadmin. Could this be the cause? Thanks in advance. Andrew
Re: .amanda.exclude.gtar
Hello, Use ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache if /home is the root of the partition being backed up. Remeber exclude are relative to the partition being backed up. Andrew On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Troy Nachtigall wrote: Hi, I'm using the .amanda.exclude.gtar script to exclude a few things from our backup. I am having a problem with netscape cache. In the exclude script I have the following line: */.netscape/cache/* I still get problems in the backup report: ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/13/cache3C2C0E93DA8B3B8.css: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/14/cache3C2C0DF4D94B3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/14/cache3C2C0DF4D95B3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/14/cache3C2C0E94DB0B3B8.gif: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/14/cache3C2C0E94DB4B3B8.gif: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/15/cache3C2C0DF5D96B3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/15/cache3C2C0DF5D97B3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/15/cache3C2C0DF5D98B3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/15/cache3C2C0DF5D99B3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? gtar: ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache/16/cache3C2C0DF6D9AB3B8.png: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory Any suggestions? Thanks!
Re: Full dump not running in dumpcycle days
The only message in the FAILED AND STRANGE is that a file changed while reading it. amadmin CONFIG due tells me that each is overdue. I am going to do a little more looking into it today and will report my results tomorrow. Andrew On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 2:42pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I do not have anything defined for runspercycle. What messages are your refering to? I have the mails for each day. OK, runspercycle defaults to be the same as dumpcycle. Are you running amdump every night? Are there any messages in the FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY or under NOTES? What does 'amadmin CONFIG due' say? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: newbie: gnutar problem?
Use tar not restore.
amrestore -p /dev/nrst0 fije /u3/mgmt | tar xfp -
Andrew
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Hussain Ali wrote:
Hello,
I have been using amanda without any problems for a while. I used to use
dump but have switched to gnutar for dumps that are larger then the tape
(ie using a more granular technique of direcotory partitioning )
Now, it dumps fine, but i cannot recover the data that was archived via
dump or gtar . I get the following error (for both gtarred and sumped
disks):
[root@fiji /tmp/tar 899]$ amrestore -p /dev/nrst0 fiji /u3/mgmt | restore
ivbf 32 -
amrestore: short file header block: 2048 bytes
amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset
amrestore: 0: reached end of tape: date Q
Verify tape and initialize maps
End-of-tape encountered
Tape is not a dump tape
note the tape is rewinded and dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1
AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE 20011130 TAPE normal-012
the tape is good, ie it worked before i started using tar. from what i
gather from the archives alot there are those who encountered these errors
with gtar, but the seemed solved... now how do i go about it?
thanks, in advance for any help...
-Hussain
* my environment:
netbsd1.5
gtar 1.12
amanda2.4.2.p2
* relevent amanda.conf:
define dumptype mydir-nocompress {
comment Mydir compress dump type
compress none
program GNUTAR
index yes
}
relevant inetd.conf
amanda dgram udp waitbackup /usr/pkg/libexec/amandad amandad
amandaidx stream tcp nowait backup /usr/pkg/libexec/amindexd amindexd
amidxtape stream tcp nowait backup /usr/pkg/libexec/amidxtaped
amidxtaped
* screen shot (trying to to recover file that was dumped not
* tared)
amrecover add dmesg.boot
Added /var/run/dmesg.boot
amrecover extract
Extracting files using tape drive /dev/st0 on host fiji.agiservices.com.
The following tapes are needed: normal-012
Restoring files into directory /tmp/tar
Continue? [Y/n]: y
Load tape normal-012 now
Continue? [Y/n]: y
Dec 3 11:19:47 fiji inetd[14799]: connection from fiji.agiservices.com,
service amidxtape (tcp)
Dec 3 11:19:48 fiji /netbsd: isp0: Bus 1 Target 3 at 10MHz Max Offset 8
EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on fiji.agiservices.com.
amrecover: short block 0 bytes
UNKNOWN file
amrecover: Can't read file header
extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
Continue? [Y/n]: n
amrecover quit
** /tmp/amanda/amidxtaped
amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 14799 ruid 32770 euid 32770 start time Mon Dec 3
11:19:47 2001
amidxtaped: version 2.4.2.p2
SECURITY USER root
bsd security: remote host fiji.agiservices.com user root local user backup
amandahosts security check passed
6
amrestore_nargs=6
-h
-p
/dev/st0
fiji
^wd0a$
20011130
Ready to execv amrestore with:
path = /usr/pkg/sbin/amrestore
argv[0] = amrestore
argv[1] = -h
argv[2] = -p
argv[3] = /dev/st0
argv[4] = fiji
argv[5] = ^wd0a$
argv[6] = 20011130
amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20011130 label normal-012
amrestore: missing file header block
amrestore: 1: reached end of tape: date 20011130
amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status: 1
Rewinding tape: done
amidxtaped: pid 14799 finish time Mon Dec 3 11:19:53 2001
Full dump not running in dumpcycle days
Hello, I am seeing some strang behavior with my amanda setup. I have an dump that has a dumpcycle of 7 days, yet seven days has passed and I have not see a full dump. In fact my last full dump was on Nov 20. I have had a successful incremental dump every day since, but no full. Below are the line I believe are relavent from my amanda.conf. dumpcycle 7 days# the number of days in the normal dump cycle tapecycle 10 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation bumpsize 20 MB # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 - 2 bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * (level-1)**bumpmult diskdir /holdingdisk # where the holding disk is disksize 25 GB # how much space can we use on it Any ideas? Thanks in Advance. Andrew
Re: Full dump not running in dumpcycle days
I do not have anything defined for runspercycle. What messages are your refering to? I have the mails for each day. Andrew On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I am seeing some strang behavior with my amanda setup. I have an dump that has a dumpcycle of 7 days, yet seven days has passed and I have not see a full dump. In fact my last full dump was on Nov 20. I have had a successful incremental dump every day since, but no full. Below are the line I believe are relavent from my amanda.conf. dumpcycle 7 days# the number of days in the normal dump cycle tapecycle 10 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation bumpsize 20 MB # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 - 2 bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * (level-1)**bumpmult diskdir /holdingdisk # where the holding disk is disksize 25 GB # how much space can we use on it What's runspercycle? Are you getting any messages in your nightly reports from amanda? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: Testing excludes
Hello, Since GNUTAR must be used as your dump program you can test with tar local on the machine, or check out the exclude doc. It is only available via cvs currently. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/amanda/amanda/docs/EXCLUDE Remember that all patterns are relative to your current partition. For example if you are archiving /var and want to exclude /var/log/messages your exclude entry woule be exclude ./log/messages. Andrew On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: Is there any way to test the patters in the exclude list for a disklist entry? -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator Ace Flood USA 310-342-3602 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tapetype question
Hello,
I have a Sony SDX-500C and tapetype reported the following:
define tapetype SDX-500C {
comment just produced by tapetype program
length 21709 mbytes
filemark 773 kbytes
speed 3660 kbytes
}
From the above output tapetype believes that this tape will only hold 21
Gigs. The tape is an AIT-1 25/50G tape. Is it ok for me to up the
length? Why does tapetype report at least 4 gigs less then the native
capacity of the tape.
Thank you for your time.
Andrew
ip not in list
Hello, I have question that is probably really easy. I am receiving the error (i have changed the hostname): ERROR: hostname.net: [ip address 192.168.254.244 is not in the ip list for hostname.net] The host in question has two ips that it round robins between. This is necessary and can not change. They are 192.168.254.244 and 192.168.253.244. For some odd reason if the client received the .254.244 ip as the servers ip it returns the above error. Forward and reverse DNS for this IP work. I have both ips in the /etc/hosts on the client, and the client is setup to check hosts then dns. TIA. Andrew
ip not in list (fwd) GOT IT!
Please disregard. I figured it out. Thanks anyways. Drew -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:39:29 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ip not in list Hello, I have question that is probably really easy. I am receiving the error (i have changed the hostname): ERROR: hostname.net: [ip address 192.168.254.244 is not in the ip list for hostname.net] The host in question has two ips that it round robins between. This is necessary and can not change. They are 192.168.254.244 and 192.168.253.244. For some odd reason if the client received the .254.244 ip as the servers ip it returns the above error. Forward and reverse DNS for this IP work. I have both ips in the /etc/hosts on the client, and the client is setup to check hosts then dns. TIA. Andrew
exclude list question
Hello,
I have a question about exclude lists:
If my dumptype looks like:
define dumptype test {
program GNUTAR
comment test
priority medium
exclude list /etc/amanda/ConfDir/exclude
}
I get the following process on the client:
25496 ?R 0:03 /bin/tar --create --directory /usr
--listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/hostname.sda5_0.new
--sparse --one-file-system --ignore-failed-read --totals --file /dev/null
--exclude-from=/etc/amanda/ConfDir/exclude .
Which is what I expect to see, but if I attempt to use a directory that
begins with a dot . it does not work:
For example new dump type:
define dumptype test {
program GNUTAR
comment test
priority medium
exclude list .amexclude/exclude
}
Produces the following on the client:
5763 ?R 0:00 /bin/tar --create --directory /usr
--listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/hostname.sda5_0.new
--sparse --one-file-system --ignore-failed-read --totals --file /dev/null
.
Any ideas?
TIA.
Andrew
Still trying to get gzip/gpg
Hello, I am still trying to get gzip/gpg working. I did not receive any replies from my last two mails, so let me try again not so broad. If someone might be able to answer this, that would be awesome: As I understand the process the data should be written to tape with gzip, not dump. But what is weird is that it appears that amanda is attempting to backup the data with dump, but restore it with gzip. sendbackup: start [localhost:sda1 level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/var/backups/bin/gzip -dc |/sbin/restore -f... - sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz sendbackup: info end Why is the BACKUP command /sbin/dump, and the RECOVER_CMD gzip? How can I change this? BTW, When I get this all figured out I will write a doc covering exactly how to do this. TIA. Andrew
gnutar and gpg
Hello,
I am attempting to setup amanda with gnutar and gpg. I configured amanda
as such:
GZIP=/var/backups/bin/gzip ./configure --with-user=backup
--with-group=backup --without-force-uid --with-fqdn --with-amandahosts
My dumptype looks like:
define dumptype sw-test {
comment sw test
priority medium
}
My disklist:
localhost sda1 sw-test
Soif my dumptype is NOT using gnutar and I am NOT using a compress
line why is amanda attempting to use the gzip wrapper?
FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
/-- localhost sda1 lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 3]
sendbackup: start [localhost:sda1 level 0]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/var/backups/bin/gzip -dc |/sbin/restore
-f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
| DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Oct 16 11:07:05 2001
| DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
| DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda1 (/boot) to standard output
| DUMP: Label: none
? gpg: your_gpg_key_id: skipped: public key not found
? gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: public key not found
| DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
| DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
| DUMP: estimated 2412 tape blocks.
| DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Tue Oct 16 11:07:05 2001
| DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
| DUMP: Broken pipe
| DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
sendbackup: error [/sbin/dump returned 3]
\
I understand the error about the key not being found, but why is it even
trying to use gzip. Also why is the BACKUP using /sbin/dump and RESTORE
using gzip?
Thanks in Advance.
Andrew
Re: Really simple Q (probably FA, but I couldn't find it)
Hello, The main reason that the FAQ and list suggest using gnutar 1.13.19 is that versions below are known to not exclude data correctly. If your need is to backup everything on your machine any version of tar should be ok. Andrew Hall On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, John Dalton wrote: Hi, I'm rolling out Amanda on our network, and using tar to do backups. I'm wondering why so many answeres in the FAQ and on this list say to use the latest version of tar? I have FreeBSD boxes here ranging from 2.2.5 to 4.1 (which is several years worth of releases) and they all use GNU tar version 1.11.2 by default. Putting a new version of tar on all of my machines when the FreeBSD developers seem quite happy with the version they're using is something that I'm cautious about. ;) In my testing so far I don't seem to have encountered any problems with tar, so why should I upgrade? Pros/Cons? Thanks, John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]Tas Access Systems Administrator Phone: 1300 655 633 Accounts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regular Expression with gnutar examples
Hello, I am putting the finishing touchs on an document that covers excluding data in amanda. I am working on a regular expression section and am having a little difficulty doing anything other the basic regex. I am using gnutar 1.13.19. If I use something like: --exclude=[ab] --exclude=[a\|b] --exclude=*.log --exclude=*a* These seem to work ok. If I try to use anything more advanced it just does not seem to be working. Could anyone provide me with any examples of more complex regular expressions that work with tar. Thank you in advance. Andrew Hall
broken gnutar
Hello, I understand that there are some versions of gnutar that do not correctly exclude data. Does anyone know which version(s) are affected? Thank you in advance. Andrew
reuse tape issue
Hello, This morning I needed to overwrite an old tape. I looked in the tapelist file and my tape is listed as reuse. If I try to flush data to that tape I get the error cannot overwrite active tape. Must I run an amrmtape before I can reuse a tape? I feel I am missing some piece of this puzzle, so if one could shed some light. Thanks again in advance for your help. Andrew Hall
Re: reuse tape issue
Thanks for the help. I had my tapecycle set too high. I want to say that this is one of the most helpful lists I have ever been subscribed to. Thanks again. Andrew On Wed, 16 May 2001, Chris Marble wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning I needed to overwrite an old tape. I looked in the tapelist file and my tape is listed as reuse. If I try to flush data to that tape I get the error cannot overwrite active tape. Must I run an amrmtape before I can reuse a tape? I feel I am missing some piece of this puzzle, so if one could shed some light. Thanks again in advance for your help. In you amanda.conf file you specify tapecycle. Using that and dumpcycle and runspercycle Amanda figures out how often you should reuse a tape. If you lower tapecycle then you should be able to reuse this tape without problems. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - HMC UNIX Systems Manager My opinions are my own and probably don't represent anything anyway..
can't switch to incremental dump
Hello, I ran an amadmin to force a level 0 dump, then ran amdump. I received the following error can't switch to incremental dump Why is amanda trying to do an incremental dump, when I just told it to do a full? Andrew
Re: can't switch to incremental dump
You are correct.. I just missed it. Sorry for the unnecessary mail... Thankyou! Andrew On Mon, 14 May 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: Why is amanda trying to do an incremental dump, when I just told it to do a full? Amanda always tries to fall back to an incremental if it cannot do a full dump. The message is just telling you it couldn't fall back because you forced it to do a full. The reason it could not do the full should also be in the messages. Andrew John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Easy Questions
Hello, I have a question about dumpcycle/tapecycle and reusing tapes. Firstly I have dumpcycle = 7, and tapecycle = 40. I used 40 because I wanted a months worth of tapes before I reuse a tape, + 10 for extra tapes. Is this logic ok? Tomorrow I want to reuse tape 1. Can I just put tape 1 in the drive, or must I run an amrmtape before I can reuse it. Thankyou for your time. Andrew Hall
Re: IPSec for safety?
Hello, I am not using IPsec but there is a way to use tar and gpg to encrypt the data. Check out http://security.uchicago.edu/tools/gpg-amanda/ for instructions. I use this system and it works great. I have not had any problems restoring data. Hope this helps. Andrew Hall On Wed, 2 May 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi, I looked at amanda some time ago, and everything looked really great except for lack of encryption/authentication (who wants their password files flying unencrypted all over the network?)... I'm discounting Kerberos, as that is another project to set up. One thing that has changed is that IPSec now ships on FreeBSD... That seems to solve both problems. Anyone doing this? Everything work as expected? Any hints? Thanks, Charles | Charles Sprickman | Internet Channel | INCH System Administration Team| (212)243-5200 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How amanda thinks
Hello, I have three questions about how amanda operates: 1) When I run an amflush I notice that the dump are put on tape starting with the smallest and working its way up to the largest last. Why is this? 2) When an incremental runs does it do the incremental based on what was on the drive at the completion of the last full, or last incremental if one has run after the full? 3) If a full backup fails, why does amanda continue with an incremental the next day? TIA, Andrew
Re: How amanda thinks
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: 1) When I run an amflush I notice that the dump are put on tape starting with the smallest and working its way up to the largest last. Why is this? I suspect the theory is to get as many images safely out to tape as quickly as possible. Would you prefer it was done some other way? Why? This is fine by me, I was just curious. 2) When an incremental runs does it do the incremental based on what was on the drive at the completion of the last full, or last incremental if one has run after the full? That depends on the dump program, not Amanda. In general, dump programs back up everything that has changed since the most recent backup at a lower level. For instance, a level 2 will back up everything since the most recent level 1 (a level 3 would also back up everything since a level 1 if there had not been any level 2's in between). I am using tar. Where is this info about each file backed up saved, in the amanda db file? 3) If a full backup fails, why does amanda continue with an incremental the next day? What do you mean by fails? Did the dump succeed but just not get to tape? Or did it totally fall apart? It completly fails. Full dumps can shift around in the Amanda cycle. Amanda might decide to promote (move earlier in the cycle) a full dump one day but make a different decision another day, based on what else was going on. OK. So what I hear is that amanda is not guaranteed to do a level 0 on the same day in each dumpcycle. So if I have dumpcycle 7 days then I might get a lvl 0 on Monday on week, and Wed on the next? Am I correct, and if so how do I force amanda to do a full on the same day every week? Thanks. Andrew
Re: How amanda thinks
[the level 0] completly fails. What incremental level did Amanda do the next day? Did it go back to 1, or did it repeat whatever it had been doing before the full? Check this out. I received this in the mail: (my real hostname removed) Day one: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: hostname sda5 lev 3 STRANGE Day two: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: hostname sda5 lev 0 FAILED [Request to hostname.net timed out.] Day three (Backup also failed, I had etimeout set too low): FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: hostname sda5 lev 0 FAILED [Request to hostname.net timed out.] Day four: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: hostname sda5 lev 3 STRANGE It went from 3 - 0 - 0 - 3. Did amanda just give up and go to a level it believed it could complete? Thanks again for all the assistance. Andrew
Estimate level 0, but ran level 4
Hello, I am having some strange behavoir with amanda. This morning I came in and my level 0 had failed due to the fact that the disk has more data then my tape device is capable of backup up. Thats cool. I tweaked the exclude file to backup only what will fit. I ran amcheck - all good. So here is where it gets weird. I ran amdump and started a new backup. I was watching /tmp/amanda/sendsize.debug to make sure everything is ok. I got the follown output from the estimate: sendsize: getting size via gnutar for sda5 level 0 Total bytes written: 5240483840 (4.9GB, 9.1MB/s) Which is great, expect when it went to actually create the tarball to send it did a level 4 incremental backups: sendsize: getting size via gnutar for sda5 level 4 Total bytes written: 891750400 (850MB, 1.1MB/s) Why did it estimate a full, but actually run a inc? How does one force a full backup with amanda. Andrew Hall
Re: Estimate level 0, but ran level 4
On 6 Apr 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Apr 6, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why did it estimate a full, but actually run a inc? It estimated *both* a full and an inc, and decided to run an inc because either a full wasn't due or it wouldn't fit. OK. Here is the weird thing. An estimate for the lvl4 was never ran. Just the estimate for the full (4.9G), which will fit on my tape, then the tar for the inc? Is this an error I should be concerned about, or just weird behavior. Andrew
Re: large filesystem problem
Hello, Check /tmp/amanda/ for log files of the tar attempt. Specifically look at sendsize.debug. This will give you the output of your tar. What size is your tape drive? What happens after "getting estimate"? Andrew On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Jeff Heckart wrote: Hello. I have recently added a disk that is roughly 60gb in size. One of the partitions is about 51gb. This particular machine is running bsdi4.2. This and the tapeserver are running amanda 2.4.2. My tape server is a redhat 6.1 machine, and is successfully backing up three other systems. I am using dump, no compression, and level 0. When I run amdump, everything appears to be ok, but I use amcheck and it tells me that it is "getting estimate", on both the large 51gb part, and the smaller 50mb part. When I try to backup only the 50mb part, it runs perfectly fine. This has all started by introducing this large partition. I have spent a couple of hours looking through the mailing list and found people with similiar problems, but they all seemed to be using tar. I am not. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You, Jeff Heckart MICS Staff
Tape Duplication
Hello, Is there any way to duplicate a tape with amanda? Andrew
Re: FreeBSD Build
cd /usr/ports/misc/amanda24-server make install Andrew On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, C Scott wrote: What is required to build amanda-2.4.2p2 on FreeBSD 4.2? I can't use the ported version because I have a CVS version of amanda installed on my clients which are all Linux and produced timeout errors with the version that FreeBSD has ported. I have tried to build p2, but it fails at amoverview. make: don't know how to make amoverview. Stop *** Error code 1 Thanks Casey Scott
Exclude question
Hello, I am working with exclude lists and am seeing weird behavior. Lets say I am backing up /src but do not want /src/1 and /src/2. I do want /src/3 and /src/4 My exclude list looks like: ./1/* ./2/* The problem is that when then dump runs it backs up the directory /src/1. It does not get anything in the directory but it does backup the directory itself. How can I modify my exclude list to not get /src/1 at all. Thankyou in advance. Drew
Re: Can I back-up just certain directories?
Use the gtar and the exclude-list option. Add something like this to your dumptype: options exclude-list "/some/dir/you/choose/file_name" In this file you must refence the directories you don't want from the directory they live in. For example if you have /var on a partition and did not want to backup /var/log your exclude file would look like: ./log/* The reason for this is the way that amanda creates the tarball. To backup only certain directories put all the dirs you do not want in the exclude file. Andrew Hall On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: Is there a way to set amanda to only backup certain directories inside a file system instead of a whole partition? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 __
Re: exclude list format
Thankyou. I will add it. Could the list members please provide me details of this problem and the version of gnutar that have been known to cause this error. Thank you in advance. Andrew Hall On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Tom Schutter wrote: I have a suggestion for you Andrew (of course it involves more work for you). A number of times I have seen on this list (and I have experienced it myself) that exclusion problems are related to broken versions of GNU tar. At a minimum, you should have a "Broken GNU tar" section, and let other people tell you what those broken versions are. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any volunteers? (yeah, I thought not :-). I would be willing to write an EXCLUDE doc. It took me over two hours yesterday to figure this one out. The tar man page and a ps on the client were my friends here. I would need a least a week to allow my schedule to open up. Is there any start point yet? Andrew Hall -- Tom Schutter (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Platte River Associates, Inc. (http://www.platte.com)
Re: Need help understaning dump output
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: ... I am encrypting the backups with gnupg and using tar. ... Huh? How are you doing the encryption? Amanda doesn't support that. Check out this url: http://security.uchicago.edu/tools/gpg-amanda Pretty easy to get going. Just uses a wraper on the client. When I run amdump I get the error "dump larger then tape, but cannot incremental dump new disk" This says the estimated dump size Amanda got is larger than 3274 mbytes (the "length" value in your tapetype). So what I am hearing is that amanda can backup no partition larger then the size of the tape drive + whatever compression is in use. Can amanda span a dump across multiple tapes? ... Not yet. I madly trying to work on this in the five spare minutes I get a day as I now have file systems that won't fit, even with compression. OK. One last question how do you specify to use hardware or sofware compression? Thankyou for your time. Andrew Hall
exclude list format
Hello, I have a 25 gig partition that I need to backup. My tape drive is only a 4/8 gig drive. My thought was to create an exclude list and run the backup in two steps on two tapes. I am only using 12 of the 25 gigs. My dumptype has the line: otions exclude-list "/etc/amanda/Backup-Test/exclude.sda5" that file exists on the client and is owned by user and group backup. The contents are: /var/FTP /var/HOMES The problem is that even though I am telling it to exclude these files AND use tar it still creates the tarball with those directories which causes the dump to fail. What is the syntax of the exclude file. Does anyone know of a GOOD place for amanda docs. All I can find says use fearture A but gives no way of how to use feature A. For example the man page talks about the exclude file but does not cover the format of the exclude file. Why does amcheck not find these errors? Thanks again for your time. Andrew Hall
exclude list format GOT IT
ahhh it works on files not directories. Sorry to send an unnecessary mail. Andrew -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:18:30 + (GMT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exclude list format Hello, I have a 25 gig partition that I need to backup. My tape drive is only a 4/8 gig drive. My thought was to create an exclude list and run the backup in two steps on two tapes. I am only using 12 of the 25 gigs. My dumptype has the line: otions exclude-list "/etc/amanda/Backup-Test/exclude.sda5" that file exists on the client and is owned by user and group backup. The contents are: /var/FTP /var/HOMES The problem is that even though I am telling it to exclude these files AND use tar it still creates the tarball with those directories which causes the dump to fail. What is the syntax of the exclude file. Does anyone know of a GOOD place for amanda docs. All I can find says use fearture A but gives no way of how to use feature A. For example the man page talks about the exclude file but does not cover the format of the exclude file. Why does amcheck not find these errors? Thanks again for your time. Andrew Hall
Need help understaning dump output
Hello,
I am new to amanda so please excuse the lay questions. I have searched
the archives but did not find what I was looking for. I have two servers.
The backup server has a SONY SDT 7000 4/8gig drive. I have everything
setup, labeled the tapes and ran amcheck with no errors. I am
encrypting the backups with gnupg and using tar. When I run amdump I get
the error "dump larger then tape, but cannot incremental dump new disk"
Can amanda span a dump across multiple tapes? I assume you cannot due a
multiple tape backup with tar? My tapetype is:
define tapetype SONY-SDT-7000 {
comment "Sony 4 gig"
length 3274 mbytes
filemark 107 kbytes
speed 638 kbytes
}
Thankyou for your time.
Andrew Hall
