Hi there,
i have a new Problem if i want to include another host in my backup.
amcheck says the following :
--
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
ERROR: intranet: [addr 192.168.1.42: hostname lookup failed]
Client check: 3 hosts checked in 0.318 seconds, 1 pr
Perhaps someone of you can help me again.
I´ve dumped a disk with amanda and GNUTAR. Now i am trying to write a
script for the restore with a graphical interface. But amrestore seems
to have a bug. When i try
$> opt/sbin/amrestore -p $TAPE $AM_HOSTTYP $ARGUMENT | tar xv
where TAPE is /dev/nst0
Hi,
I'd like to use bzip2 with amanda for two reasons:
1. It compresses a lot better than gzip
2. More importantly -- data recovery is possible from a damaged tape.
>From bzip2's manual:
bzip2 compresses files in blocks, usually 900kbytes long. Each
block is handled independently.
>From: Thorsten Flick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:20:00 +0100
>i have a new Problem if i want to include another host in my backup.
>amcheck says the following :
>--
>Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>
>ERROR: intranet: [addr 192.168.1.42:
Oh yeah, i´m so stupid ! Thanx, for your fast suport.
Michael
Remy Chibois schrieb:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:23:40PM +0100, Michael Lindermann wrote:
> > Perhaps someone of you can help me again.
> > I´ve dumped a disk with amanda and GNUTAR. Now i am trying to write a
> > script for the r
Anyone seen this happen before?
Email Response from peer admin:
I am thinking this happened because of the update of dump I made
yesterday to overcome the security glitch. I don't know if I have made any
mistake but I have followed the procedure given in the site. It did not
give me any errors,
> >Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> >
> >ERROR: intranet: [addr 192.168.1.42: hostname lookup failed]
> >Client check: 3 hosts checked in 0.318 seconds, 1 problem found.
> >-
> >Server and Client are running the same Server-Version.
>
> OK; so fix the DNS (or
Title: RE: .amandahost problems with amanda-2.4.2-19991216-beta1
Some things to check:
1. Is .amandahosts on the client, on the server, or both?
2. Would it work if you replaced the IP address with the server name that appeared in amandad.debug?
3. Do you need to add a "localhost.localdom
I have just inherited a system running Amanda. I have performed a few
test restores and it appears that the system is only backing up files
which are world readable.
I watched it perform a backup and it appears that it is using 'dumper' to
dump all information. This program is running as the u
We can add it easily into configure.in to include a new configure option
"--with-bzip2" to enable bzip2 instead of gzip. If you know how to work
with autoconf tools and how to modify configure.in then feel free to add it
in yourself.
I'm currently working on a small project for Amanda and I coul
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to use bzip2 with amanda for two reasons:
John,
You'll get more details why it is not so easy at the moment. I'd move
gzip out of the way and make a symlink gzip > bzip2.
Johannes Nieß
SUID isn't necessary in this case. All you need to do is add Amanda to a
group that can read the raw device of the hard drive (e.g. /dev/hda,
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0, etc.). On Solaris, it would be sys group and for
Linux, it would be disk group.
Example permission set on /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 on Sun S
>From: Thorsten Flick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:37:49 +0100
>DNS is running well. and i administer it for myself.
Good -- reducing the effects of "middlemen" helps get work done. :-}
>> [stuff about gethostbyname() & gethostbyaddr()...]
>Ok, i will test this. But, did ns
Johannes Niess wrote:
> You'll get more details why it is not so easy at the moment. I'd move
> gzip out of the way and make a symlink gzip > bzip2.
That move would "break" gzip and likely cause a lot of confusion,
especially on a multi-user system.
I make a /usr/local/etc/amanda/bin directory a
I just read the recipe for amanda through a firewall, and was wondering if
there is a way to avoid having to use the compile time options to specify port
ranges. Also, is 2.4.2beta stable enough to run a reliable backup of 3
machines (that's why I'm not running 2.4.2 yet) without having an error m
I would love to have bzip2.
Josh Huston wrote:
> We can add it easily into configure.in to include a new configure option
> "--with-bzip2" to enable bzip2 instead of gzip. If you know how to work
> with autoconf tools and how to modify configure.in then feel free to add it
> in yourself.
>
>
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Sandra Panesso wrote:
> Hi Kevin
>
> I Want to know if you have tried to run amanda on Mac OS X Beta. If you did
> please tell me how was it. My question is because I am testing to run amanda
> on Mac OS X Beta but I found some problems when i tried to compiled it. I
> use
Johannes Niess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'd like to use bzip2 with amanda for two reasons:
>
> John,
>
> You'll get more details why it is not so easy at the moment. I'd move
> gzip out of the way and make a symlink gzip > bzip2.
This would actually break most everything on the system,
Josh Huston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We can add it easily into configure.in to include a new configure option
> "--with-bzip2" to enable bzip2 instead of gzip. If you know how to work
> with autoconf tools and how to modify configure.in then feel free to add it
> in yourself.
Unfortunately
Can Amanda be used to backup an NFS mounted filesystem ? I have a
Network Appliance
box and have mounted the exported filesystem to a mount point on the
Amanda server
The Sun is running Solaris 7.
The error :
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
sake /netapp1/test lev 0 FAILED [disk /neta
i am trying to setup amanda so that it runs a full backup every day of the
week. i would like to use 7 tapes, one tape for each day. i know that
dumpcycle should be 0 so that i always run a full dump, but what should
runspercycle and tapecycle be? also, how will the cycle align itself? i
would
>In amanda, the configuration file seems to think that the user isn't
>smart enough to manually specify a compression program :-) ...
No offense, but some of them aren't :-).
And that's not necessarily bad. Some software I install I just want to
get up and running without spending forever tryi
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, David Wolfskill wrote:
>I'm pretty sure that all (UNIX) versions of nslookup uses gethostbyname();
>I'm less confident about their use of gethostbyaddr(). (I'm pretty sure
>that there have been some versions of nslookup that would try to do a
>gethostbyname() using an IP add
If anyone is using the TSL-11000 DAT-4 autoloader, I would appreciate it
if you could send me your chg-scsi.conf and tapetype definition. In
chg-scsi.conf, what value should I use for "eject?"
The drive and changer seem to be partially functional, but there is some
weirdness with chg-scsi. I wa
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Matt Glaves wrote:
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:37:08 -0500 (EST)
>From: Matt Glaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>I have just inherited a system running Amanda. I have performed a few
>test restores and it appears that the system is only backing up files
>wh
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Denise Ives wrote:
>Anyone seen this happen before?
Yes.
>Email Response from peer admin:
>I am thinking this happened because of the update of dump I made
>yesterday to overcome the security glitch. I don't know if I have made any
>mistake but I have followed the procedure
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Marvin W. Nachatelo wrote:
>
> Can Amanda be used to backup an NFS mounted filesystem ? I have a
> Network Appliance
> box and have mounted the exported filesystem to a mount point on the
> Amanda server
> The Sun is running Solaris 7.
Yes, it's working fine here. You jus
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>> Can Amanda be used to backup an NFS mounted filesystem ? I have a
>> Network Appliance
>> box and have mounted the exported filesystem to a mount point on the
>> Amanda server
>> The Sun is running Solaris 7.
>
>Yes, it's working fine here. You just
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Marvin W. Nachatelo wrote:
>
> Can Amanda be used to backup an NFS mounted filesystem ? I have a
> Network Appliance
> box and have mounted the exported filesystem to a mount point on the
> Amanda server
> The Sun is running Solaris 7.
Oh, another thing: If the filesystem
>Ok, i will test this. But, did nslookup not use them ?
No, I don't think nslookup uses gethostby*. I've always been under the
impression nslookup only does DNS queries, which are the layer below
the gethostby* routines. I wouldn't, for instance, use it to debug an
NIS problem.
It's entirely p
Title: RE: correct amanda.conf syntax
runspercycle won't matter a whole lot, since it's the number of runs in dumpcycle. Any value > 0 should be ok.
tapecycle should be the number of tapes you're rotating through, which you said was 7.
If you want to align the cycle like that, you'll nee
bzip2 probably isn't fast enough to stream to your tape drive. i'd
suggest that you do some testing...
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >In amanda, the configuration file seems to think that the user isn't
> >smart enough to manually specify a compression program :-) ...
>
> No o
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:24:52 -0600 (CST)
>From: Joi Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>I'm pretty sure that all (UNIX) versions of nslookup uses gethostbyname();
>>...
>I'm not sure of this at all. On our internal machines, various breeds
>of linux and solaris, nslookup doesn't return an answer if
>> Can Amanda be used to backup an NFS mounted filesystem ? ...
>Yes, it's working fine here. You just have to use tar. ...
You also have to set up the NFS mounts so root == root because Amanda
runs tar as root. They are often configured so root turns into "nobody"
for security and this would
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:31:42 -0800 (PST)
>From: Nate Eldredge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Can Amanda be used to backup an NFS mounted filesystem ? I have a
>> Network Appliance
>> box and have mounted the exported filesystem to a mount point on the
>> Amanda server
>> The Sun is running Solaris 7
>>ERROR: admin1.corp.walid.com: [can not read/write /etc/dumpdates: No such
>>file or directory]
>...
>Go chown /etc/dumpdates back to user amanda and it will be fine.
If it was a permissions problem, the error code would have said
"permission denied" or something like that. This error says the
OK it looks like "eject" has to be "0" or else the drive ejects the
multi-tape carrier cartridge.
I try to run "amtape dds4 show" just to check if it can cycle through
the tapes--the tapes aren't labeled yet, so I expect "Input/output
error" but it should still be able to eject and load the tapes
>| DUMP: WARNING: no file `/etc/dumpdates', making an empty one
>| DUMP: cannot create /etc/dumpdates: Permission denied
A little more information. This also says /etc/dumpdates is just plain
not there. Dump tried to create it for you (just like the sequence of
commands I sent in the previo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> bzip2 probably isn't fast enough to stream to your tape drive. i'd
> suggest that you do some testing...
Probably. That's why there's the holding disk, right? I'm backing up
some machines over VPN Internet connection anyway, so this may
actually speed that up. The
Joi et al:
> (I'm not positive about the read-write, but it definately needs read.)
It appears that AMANDA must write to:
* its config directories
* /etc/dumpdates (if you're using dump)
* /etc/amandates
* /usr/adm/amanda or wherever you've set the log directories to
* /tmp
If it can't write t
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, David Lloyd wrote:
>It appears that AMANDA must write to:
>
>* its config directories
>* /etc/dumpdates (if you're using dump)
>* /etc/amandates
>* /usr/adm/amanda or wherever you've set the log directories to
>* /tmp
>
>If it can't write to any of them it can simply die sile
On 16 Nov 2000, John Goerzen wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > bzip2 probably isn't fast enough to stream to your tape drive. i'd
> > suggest that you do some testing...
>
> Probably. That's why there's the holding disk, right? I'm backing up
> some machines over VPN Internet connectio
"John R. Jackson" wrote:
>
> >>ERROR: admin1.corp.walid.com: [can not read/write /etc/dumpdates: No such
> >>file or directory]
> >...
> >Go chown /etc/dumpdates back to user amanda and it will be fine.
>
> If it was a permissions problem, the error code would have said
> "permission denied" or
"John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I'd much
> >rather specify "gzip -9" and "gunzip" than specify "best compression"
> >or whatnot. ...
>
> But that's not the point. By adding a layer of abstraction, Amanda can
> deal with the various nastiness of what command line arguments are
Hello all,
I am having a problem slightly similiar. I am trying to back up some
directories on an NFS mounted drive using gnu tar but I am running into
permission problems. Is there a way for me set the NFS mount so that it
allows a program running with root permision on the back up system have
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Jody McCluggage wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am having a problem slightly similiar. I am trying to back up some
> directories on an NFS mounted drive using gnu tar but I am running into
> permission problems. Is there a way for me set the NFS mount so that it
> allows a progr
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:30:54PM -0500, Daniel Blakeley wrote:
> Does the AMANDA conf directory need to be writable? Our setup has the
AFAIR is has to be writeable by the amanda user for the tapelist.
>But I'd rather tell it to use "/usr/bin/gzip -9" manually than let it
>futz around with figuring out which gzip to use. ...
And are you also willing to handle the E-mail from each and every new
Amanda user who gets it wrong? :-)
>1. It means I have to keep a locally-compiled version on each o
Could someone please send sample amanda.conf and changer files for
chg-zd-mtx?
I have gathered from searching through the archives that chg-zd-mtx is
probably the best bet for my Sony TSL-11000, but I find no example of
how to configure it correctly.
Thanks,
--
"Jonathan F. Dill" ([EMAIL PROTEC
First of all, having you configured and gotten the "mtx" program to work?
Second, you'll probably need to re-run ./configure and let it find mtx so
that it can compile the support in.
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:25:00PM -0500, Jonathan F. Dill wrote:
> Could someone please send sample amanda.conf
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 02:57:09PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
[...]
> >> I have a Network Appliance box ...
>
> This comes up here every once in a while. I did a very quick search
> and didn't find the person I'm thinking of, but someone came up with
> a mechanism for doing these backups (sho
>I have just inherited a system running Amanda. I have performed a few
>test restores and it appears that the system is only backing up files
>which are world readable.
What??? You're actually testing??? :-)
>I watched it perform a backup and it appears that it is using 'dumper' to
>dump all
Joe Rhett wrote:
> First of all, having you configured and gotten the "mtx" program to work?
>
> Second, you'll probably need to re-run ./configure and let it find mtx so
> that it can compile the support in.
I had already completed those steps. The mtx load and unload commands
work fine, but m
>I just read the recipe for amanda through a firewall, and was wondering if
>there is a way to avoid having to use the compile time options to specify p=
>ort
>ranges. ...
Sure. Write the code to get the values out of amanda.conf and submit
the patch :-).
>Also, is 2.4.2beta stable enough to r
>... mtx next causes a SCSI bus reset and returns an error
>status although the next tape was loaded. ...
I don't see a SCSI bus reset in the following. Just an error return.
Did you really mean a reset (which is pretty serious)?
>[root@amanda ~]# mtx -f /dev/sg4 next
>Unloading Data Transfer
Joi!
> Amcheck tests and reports on all of these conditions. Didn't you put it
> into your nightly backup script as suggested in the install guide?
Yes. And amdump still dies with no error if one of them doesn't work.
Personally, I would be inclined to set the logic to:
* can't write to /tmp
Hello John,
The delay was exactly the problem--Neither mtx nor the chg-zd-mtx script
allowed for a delay between unloading one tape and loading the next one,
and the changer did not like this. I editted the chg-zd-mtx script and
put in a "sleep 30" command (may increase that value to be on the s
Hello. I'm going to be setting up amanda in the near future on a bunch of
machines, and have a spare Seagate Scorpion. I was wondering if anyone had
any experiences with this device, and if it's well supported.
Its model number is STL696000N, and it's a DDS3 4-tape changer.
The backup server wil
>amtape: scanning all 7 slots in tape-changer rack:
>slot 0: reading label: Input/output error
>amtape: could not load slot 1: slot 1 move failed
Here's what I can deduce from the log (bless you for sending it :-):
* It was able to properly decode all the device specs -- number of
drives (
Hi,
I forced a level 0 on a few disks today and began to back them
up to tape. When I realized that one of them, a large one, had
received a level 0 backup only a few days ago and that Amanda was
dumping that one to tape at the moment, I Ctrl C'd the amdump and
amrmtape'd the tape (I won't bore
>The delay was exactly the problem ...
Well, damn. I getting good at this wild guess stuff :-).
>As for the reset, I have an Exabyte 10h and Exabyte Mammoth on the same
>SCSI bus--The 10h and Mammoth both stopped what they were doing and did
>their usual initialization bit ...
You're right, th
Just out of curiosity, why would you opt
to do it this way. Doesn't amanda provide
a way to do this client-server?
TIA
Nate Eldredge wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Marvin W. Nachatelo wrote:
>
>
>> Can Amanda be used to backup an NFS mounted filesystem ? I have a
>> Network Appliance
>> box
>I am trying to track down a problem with timeouts between my tape server
>and itself when I run amcheck (and amdump, too). My amandad.debug file
>says:
>...
Thanks for sending it along. The one line you omitted that is important
is the last one, showing how long the whole run ended up taking.
On Nov 16, 2000, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The compressed representation of each block is delimited by a
> 48-bit pattern, which makes it possible to find the block
> boundaries with reasonable certainty. Each block also carries
> its own 32-bit CRC, so dam
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:16:07 -0600
>From: Miles Lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Just out of curiosity, why would you opt
>to do it this way. Doesn't amanda provide
>a way to do this client-server?
A reason is that the NetApp Filer is not a general-purpose UNIX
machine; porting the amanda client c
>My uncertainty is whether this partial, interupted level 0 backup
>on a removed tape will have any effect on future incremental backups of
>this disk.
I wouldn't think so. The database only gets updated after dumper
completes. Do an "amadmin info " and I'll bet
it's all old data.
I'm a litt
Hello all,
I'm trying to install amanda-2.4.1p1 on a machine running Linux-2.2.16 and
it's given me a very consistent problem. Running './configure' gave me no
error but when I did a 'make' it always ended up with this error:
Usage: sash [-a] [-q] [-c command] [-p prompt] [script]
gcc -DHAVE_CON
> The delay was exactly the problem--Neither mtx nor the chg-zd-mtx script
> allowed for a delay between unloading one tape and loading the next one,
> and the changer did not like this. I editted the chg-zd-mtx script and
> put in a "sleep 30" command (may increase that value to be on the safe
>
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