Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration
Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: You can turn on auto-labeling (label-new-tapes)... I can't find this anywhere in the wiki or other documentaion. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks, Steve -- Steven J. BackusComputer Specialist University of Utah E-Mail: steven.bac...@utah.edu Genetic EpidemiologyAlternate: bac...@math.utah.edu 391 Chipeta Way -- Suite D Office: 801.587.9308 Salt Lake City, UT 84108-1266 http://www.math.utah.edu/~backus
Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Steven Backusbac...@whimsy.med.utah.edu wrote: I can't find this anywhere in the wiki or other documentaion. Can you point me in the right direction? http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda.conf.5.html look for label_new_tapes Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:57 PM, khalil_nouraamanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Thanks for the help. Please quote previous responses -- this is a mailing list, not a forum, so without quoting we have no way to connect this message with your previous messages. I got the backup to copy to tape after I changed the holding disk to a SAN with more disk space. the problem having now is I have to label the tape every time I run a test backup. is there a way to label all the tapes. So the help desk only have to put the next tape in the drive every morning. You can turn on auto-labeling (label-new-tapes) or you can use a 'for' loop in shell to label them all. when I run amcheck I get an error on one of the client. (WARNING: banprod.curry.edu: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for REP Client check: 4 hosts checked in 96.082 seconds. 1 problem found. I disbled the firewall and still get same error. I can ping the server with no problem. See the troubleshooting section of the wiki. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration
khalil_noura schrieb: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [Could not find a tape to use]. Have you allready labeled tapes? If not: # man amlabel If you have allread labeled tapes, check, if the label of your tapes fit labelstr parameter in amanda.conf. Also check if the tapes are also written by amanda. Then it depents on your settings when amanda will use the same tape again. If you want to see amanda an allready used tape as new, relabel it with -f with the same name. I am looking to backup directly to tapes. Directly from your clients to tape? This is not a good idea. You should allways use a holding disk out of performance reasons. Also have a look at: http://wiki.zmanda.com Regards, Marc -- Marc Muehlfeld (Leitung IT) Zentrum fuer Humangenetik und Laboratoriumsmedizin Dr. Klein und Dr. Rost Lochhamer Str. 29 - D-82152 Martinsried Telefon: +49(0)89/895578-0 - Fax: +49(0)89/895578-780 http://www.medizinische-genetik.de
Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration
khalil_noura wrote: I labeled the tapes when I created a vtape test envirement. when I run amlabel I get the message : amlabel: label Backup-012 already on a tape. my amanda.conf file is configured as this : tpchanger chg-disk# the tape-changer glue script tapedev file://space/vtapes/Backup/slots # the no-rewind tape device to be used #tapetype HP Ultrium 3-SCSI #changerfile /etc/amanda/Backup/changer #changerfile /etc/amanda/Backup/changer-status changerfile /etc/amanda/Backup/changer.conf changerdev /dev/null when I change tapedev to dev/nst0'' I get error message (amlabel: could not load slot current: Virtual-tape directory dev/nst0 does not exist.) If you change tapedev to /dev/nst0, you should also comment out tpchanger and other changer-related stuff in amanda.conf. -- Toomas
Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration
khalil_noura wrote: is it ok if I send you a copy of my amanda.conf file? I am not sure if I am missing something on the config file. If you post it to the list, it is quite likely that someone can point out whether there is anything wrong with it. Just to make sure, does /dev/nst0 actually exist on your system? does the command 'mt -f /dev/nst0 status' output anything meaningful? Also, you mentioned that you labelled your vtapes during testing, but did you also label your LTO tapes? -- Toomas
Re: [Amanda-users] Amanda Configuration
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Toomas Aastoomas@raad.tartu.ee wrote: when I change tapedev to dev/nst0'' I get error message (amlabel: could not load slot current: Virtual-tape directory dev/nst0 does not exist.) If you change tapedev to /dev/nst0, you should also comment out tpchanger and other changer-related stuff in amanda.conf. Also note that the leading slash is important: tape:/dev/nst0 Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
