afbackup VS amanda
Hello List : afbackup is better than amanda i find a good backup tools for my servers.but i dont know what is tools that have EASILY CONFIG and EASILY MANAGE??? -- Trust & Unique ... Axacheng's PGP Public Key http://www.navigation.idv.tw/pgpkey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deadbeat maintainer (afbackup)
"Timothy H. Keitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The 3.3 source contains a "debian" directory. If you edit the change >log in that directory (I tried adding a new entry, but couldn't get the >format exactly right) Since you talk about running debuild, you've got debchange (also available as dch) as well - run 'dch -i' and you'll get a new changelog entry. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deadbeat maintainer (afbackup)
The 3.3 source contains a "debian" directory. If you edit the change log in that directory (I tried adding a new entry, but couldn't get the format exactly right) so that the version is 3.3, you can simply run "debuild" in the top level source directory and it will create the debs. Tim Gary Hennigan wrote: "Timothy H. Keitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Does anyone have information on the status of the afbackup package? Its way out of date (with a rather severe bug that can cause data loss). Is this package orphaned? There are many bugs filed against it and the maintainer does not respond to email. (I posted a query to the afbackup email list and apparently others have tried to contact the package maintainer without success.) It's not listed as being orphaned (http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp), but you're right, it's way out of date. Too bad. I supposed I'll have to install it from source into /usr/local. I like afbackup. The documentation isn't great, but I need a client-server model for my little home LAN and Amanda seems sort of daunting for a little 2-3 PC home LAN. Gary -- Timothy H. Keitt Department of Ecology and Evolution State University of New York at Stony Brook Phone: 631-632-1101, FAX: 631-632-7626 http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/keitt/
Re: Deadbeat maintainer (afbackup)
*sigh* He also (un)maintains scilab... Check out the list of bugs against his packages: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&repeatmerged=yes Peter "Timothy H. Keitt" wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > On 08-Feb-2001 Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > > > >> the maintainer does not respond to email. > > > > > > Package: afbackup > > Maintainer: Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > T.
Re: Deadbeat maintainer (afbackup)
"Timothy H. Keitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have information on the status of the afbackup package? > Its way out of date (with a rather severe bug that can cause data > loss). Is this package orphaned? There are many bugs filed against > it and the maintainer does not respond to email. (I posted a query to > the afbackup email list and apparently others have tried to contact > the package maintainer without success.) It's not listed as being orphaned (http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp), but you're right, it's way out of date. Too bad. I supposed I'll have to install it from source into /usr/local. I like afbackup. The documentation isn't great, but I need a client-server model for my little home LAN and Amanda seems sort of daunting for a little 2-3 PC home LAN. Gary
Re: Deadbeat maintainer (afbackup)
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 08-Feb-2001 Timothy H. Keitt wrote: the maintainer does not respond to email. Package: afbackup Maintainer: Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T. -- Timothy H. Keitt Department of Ecology and Evolution State University of New York at Stony Brook Phone: 631-632-1101, FAX: 631-632-7626 http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/keitt/
Deadbeat maintainer (afbackup)
Does anyone have information on the status of the afbackup package? Its way out of date (with a rather severe bug that can cause data loss). Is this package orphaned? There are many bugs filed against it and the maintainer does not respond to email. (I posted a query to the afbackup email list and apparently others have tried to contact the package maintainer without success.) Tim -- Timothy H. Keitt Department of Ecology and Evolution State University of New York at Stony Brook Phone: 631-632-1101, FAX: 631-632-7626 http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/keitt/
Help with afbackup
I would like to use afbackup for my home network. Can anyone help with the commands? I have tried several and have not succeded yet. I have read all the docs I could find but none helped me out. Thanks for any help you can be. Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.linuxexpert.org
afbackup
I am wanting to use afbackup on my home network but I cannot seem to figure out the sintac of the command. I have tried several diferent commands to no avail now. I have read everything that I can find on it and I still cannot get it to work. Can someone give me a hint as to how to use this program? Thanks Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: afbackup
> does anybody know what this error message means and how to fix it: > "Error: Cannot open communication socket." Hui, I've got it. There where lines missing in /etc/services: afbackup 2988/tcp afmbackup 2989/tcp > This occurs after trying to start afclient with: > "afclient -X full_backup -h localhost -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey" And I've changed this line to: "afbackup -X full_backup -h localhost -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey" and everything works, Uwe
afbackup
Hi there, does anybody know what this error message means and how to fix it: "Error: Cannot open communication socket." This occurs after trying to start afclient with: "afclient -X full_backup -h localhost -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey" I am using Debian Linux v2.1 - 2.1.9 with Kernel 2.0.36 Thanks in advance, Uwe
Help with afbackup
Hi We have four machine here that we wish to backup (better: we NEED to backup). After trying amanda and not getting anything we switched to afbackup. There is one machine with the tape (the afserver) and four clients (including the server itself). We are trying to do the four backups. We start the first one and everythinf is ok, but when we start the second one the server starts complaining with messages that say something about media-sense and recovery error to end with mt: input/output error. Does anyone have any clue why this is happening. /proc/scsi/scsi says the following about the tape: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.26 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 thanks for any help. If necessary i will send the some of the configuration files. -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
Re: afbackup: comments and problems.
> Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > WHAT DOES NOT WORK: > > Centralised process, no clashes, but afbackup = afclient = Does not > > work. Briefly it's a specail type of installation (remote client) > > of afbackup-client that is missing in slink. Please correct me if > > I'm wrong here. > > You talk about the /usr/lib/afbackup/rexec directory? According to > this entry in the HOWTO... file: > > ... > This starts an incremental backup on the supplied host. Each program > on the remote host lying in the directory configured as > Program-Directory in the configuration file of the serverside > installation part of the remote host (default: > $BASEDIR/server/rexec) can be started, but no other. The entries may > be symlinks, but they must have the same filename like the programs, > they point to. > ... > > I would assume that these files should be part of afbackup (server > part). But there are bundled in the afbackup-client package. Do you > report this as a bug or should I? Hm-m-m... I think it's not a bug. The program in $BASEDIR/server/rexec are full_backup and incr_backup. You want them to be in client, as you run them as client. Server start them remotely, but it start it on client. The issue here is that this third type of installation, may indeed need special afbackup-remote-client.deb package. For example you need then line for afbackupd in /etc/inetd in your afbackup-client package to be set (Server will knock in the door of client to ask permission to run full_backup) and a bunch of executables. BTW Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (author of the original program) confirmed my thoughts about this installation. Perhaps debian maintainer decided to implement one version of afbackup, which seems most natural to him. That's OK, after all deb packages are working perfectly, in the configuration when each client is running "full_backup". Anyway it's a minor problem I think. After all afbackup is an excellent program and deb package. Sasha.
Re: afbackup: comments and problems.
Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > WHAT DOES NOT WORK: > After reading documentation, man pages, mail archive I thought that > the program I should run is "afbackup", it seemed natural as that's > the name of the package after all. My idea was to run periodically > following programs on server: > > afbackup -h linux_box_1 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey > afbackup -h linux_box_2 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey > afbackup -h linux_box_3 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey > afbackup -h linux_box_4 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey > > Centralised process, no clashes, but afbackup = afclient = Does not > work. Briefly it's a specail type of installation (remote client) > of afbackup-client that is missing in slink. Please correct me if > I'm wrong here. You talk about the /usr/lib/afbackup/rexec directory? According to this entry in the HOWTO... file: ... This starts an incremental backup on the supplied host. Each program on the remote host lying in the directory configured as Program-Directory in the configuration file of the serverside installation part of the remote host (default: $BASEDIR/server/rexec) can be started, but no other. The entries may be symlinks, but they must have the same filename like the programs, they point to. ... I would assume that these files should be part of afbackup (server part). But there are bundled in the afbackup-client package. Do you report this as a bug or should I? > CRITICISM: > Document that helped me a lot is called "PROGRAMS" in original > afbackup distribution. It is missing in Debian distribution. Fortunately, I used afbackup quite some time before the debian package appeared. So I knew all its information before using the debian package. I assume some the information are available as manual pages. But I would like to see this file in the package too. Torsten BTW: Waiting for the current 3.1.1 to be packaged ;-) -- Homepage: http://www.in-berlin.de/User/myrkr
afbackup: comments and problems.
Hi, In my search for backup software I settle down on afbackup. I would say it's an excellent piece of software with GUI interface for configuration + build-in help. It's powerful, flexible and simple enough for small clusters of Linux boxes and single Linux box. Unfortunately setting it up was not trivial, primarily because I did not quite realize how the basic installation should look like. I decided to summarise it for non-experienced users like me. PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: We want to backup 6 Debian (slink) Linux boxes. WHAT WORKS: 1. Install afbackup-client on all computers that you want to backup. 2. Install afbackup on one computer that is supposed to be server. It's likely to have afbackup-client installed on it,as you want to bakup it too. 3. configure them. Configuration programs have GUI, they are terrific and very understandable. Read /usr/doc/afbackup-client/CONFIG. First select small directory to backup. Read /usr/doc/afbackup/HOWTO.FAQ.DO-DONT if you want to backup on disk 4. Run "full_backup" as root on one of clients 5. Check on you server that backup is made, check your email for notification. 6. Come back to client and restore backup using "afrestore -a -C /tmp" Your backup will be restored in /tmp. Now you can run "diff -r" to see that indeed everything was succesfully recovered. 7. Now you can automate and enhance it. Create cron jobs for full_backup and incr_backup. Add more directoies for backup. WHAT DOES NOT WORK: After reading documentation, man pages, mail archive I thought that the program I should run is "afbackup", it seemed natural as that's the name of the package after all. My idea was to run periodically following programs on server: afbackup -h linux_box_1 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey afbackup -h linux_box_2 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey afbackup -h linux_box_3 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey afbackup -h linux_box_4 -X full_backup -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey Centralised process, no clashes, but afbackup = afclient = Does not work. Briefly it's a specail type of installation (remote client) of afbackup-client that is missing in slink. Please correct me if I'm wrong here. You can make it work if you install on all computers both "afbackup" and "afbackup-client" packages. Actually you need just few files from "afbackup" to be added to your "afbackup-client". Again: It's not original afbackup code fault, just this configuration is missing in Debian. This configuration is assumed in the code. CRITICISM: Document that helped me a lot is called "PROGRAMS" in original afbackup distribution. It is missing in Debian distribution. Hope that may help other people to setup their backup. Sasha.
Afbackup on a single computer
I am trying to use afbackup on my pc which is not part of a network using the following command (resulting in an error): $ afclient -h localhost -X full_backup /dev/qft0 Error: cannot get the port number of the backup service. How do I fix that? How do I set up afbackup on a single computer? According to the Package file's description it is easy. I do not find it in the documentation. Johann . -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) |
afbackup problems
Hi guys,
I am still having problems with afbackup. This probably isn't the right
place to ask for help but I was hoping one of you might have already dealt
with this problem.
I am using my hamm system as the backup server. Two Solaris machines are
backup clients. The problem I am having is with remote starts. I can
start a backup to the backup server (hamm machine) from the Solaris backup
clients just run by running {full,incr}_backup but I can't remote start a
backup on the Solaris clients from the backup server. For example, I use
the following command on the server to start a remote backup:
afclient -X full_backup -h remote_host -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey
but I get the following error on the server:
Server Error: device has not been opened for writing.
The server log says the following:
mt: /dev/nst0: Input/output error
However, if I "remote start" a backup on the localhost, i.e. the server
machine, as follows:
afclient -X full_backup -h localhost -k /etc/afbackup/cryptkey
the backup works fine. What's the deal? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
-Ossama
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Re: AFBACKUP problems
Hi, I checked my inetd.conf and services files. Both had the correct afbackup entries. The "backuphost" problem seems to be related to the fact that afbackup is looking for "backuphost" instead of "localhost" which is what is configured. If I add "backuphost" as an alias to localhost in /etc/hosts then the afclient seems to work. However, I still have the problem that authentication fails between the client and the server. If I specify the cryptkey file on the command line then it works. Both problems seem to be related to the possibilty that afclient isn't honoring the settings in /etc/afbackup/client.conf. I checked the submitted bugs at the debian site and the afbackup maintainer mentioned something related to this in his response to someone elses afbackup bug report, and that he was going to contact the upstream afbackup maintainer. Just in case, I submitted my own bug report. -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AFBACKUP problems
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've been trying to get afbackup (the Debian package) working on my > hamm system. Whenever I run the "afclient -q" command to see if the > backup server is running properly I get the following: > > Error: cannot find address of host backuphost. > > My /etc/afbackup/client.config file has "localhost" as the backup > server since I am running these tests on the local host. If I force > afclient to use the localhost with "afclient -q -h localhost" I get > some authentication error, although I can't seem to reproduce the > error now. At one point I had to explicitly give it the cryptkey > file with the "-k" flag. Now whenever I try "afclient -q -h > localhost" I get the following: > > Error: Cannot get the greeting message from server. > > Q1: Why should I need to tell afclient what host to use if the > client.config file tells it to use "localhost?" I checked > /etc/hosts and there is a localhost entry (I'd be really surprised > if there wasn't one). > > Q2: What would cause the authentication error? I wish that I could > reproduce it, but I can't. :( > > Q3: What's with the "Cannot get the greeting message from server" > error? Check if you have the: afbackup2988/tcp# afbackup system entry in your /etc/services file and the corresponding: afbackup stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/afserver server /etc/afbackup/server.conf line in /etc/inetd.conf. IIRC, the services entry was missing on my system too (It was changed from backup to afbackup with version 2.11.5-3 and it seems the author forgot the change the entry for the services file. If that is not the problem, I could send you my server.conf and client.conf. I have a similiar (local) setup and afbackup works without problems. Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AFBACKUP problems
Hi, I've been trying to get afbackup (the Debian package) working on my hamm system. Whenever I run the "afclient -q" command to see if the backup server is running properly I get the following: Error: cannot find address of host backuphost. My /etc/afbackup/client.config file has "localhost" as the backup server since I am running these tests on the local host. If I force afclient to use the localhost with "afclient -q -h localhost" I get some authentication error, although I can't seem to reproduce the error now. At one point I had to explicitly give it the cryptkey file with the "-k" flag. Now whenever I try "afclient -q -h localhost" I get the following: Error: Cannot get the greeting message from server. Q1: Why should I need to tell afclient what host to use if the client.config file tells it to use "localhost?" I checked /etc/hosts and there is a localhost entry (I'd be really surprised if there wasn't one). Q2: What would cause the authentication error? I wish that I could reproduce it, but I can't. :( Q3: What's with the "Cannot get the greeting message from server" error? Thans for any help or suggestions. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with afbackup.
hello, I'm using Linux Slakware with a kernel 2.0.25, and afbackup 2.9. I probed afbackup 2.6 to but there are the same problems. During the installation of both, server and client were no problems. The telnet to afbackup port was ok. But when I started the following: client -X /my/path/full_backup -h my.host.de I get this errors: Error : Authentication failed. Exiting. Error : command 126 failed (running a backup as client failed). At both, client and server has the same password. Can anybody help my?? thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
