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From: "Mark L. Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 11:27 AM
Subject: Simple daily-use questions
> Okay, our backup plan, with major thanks to you guys, and especially John
> R. Jackson, is ready to go into daily
>You really must get some sleep. ...
Or a couple less jobs :-).
>By using 2 separate configs does amanda
>search both when you do a restore? ...
Not automatically. But I'm not sure that's an issue.
>What I can do with Networker is to
>run the recover program and it will automatically restor
Hi John,
You really must get some sleep. By using 2 separate configs does amanda
search both when you do a restore? What I can do with Networker is to
run the recover program and it will automatically restore all the
Incrementals back to the last full dump. That is one of the main reasons
that I
Hi,
I have just received an Exabyte 210 tape library (a.k.a. Sun
SPARCstorage) with two EXB-8505 drives installed.
I have been running Amanda with no changer for some time so I'm pretty
familiar with it's operation. I'd like to get this operational in
the least amount of time. Before I re-inven
>... I can set the first 4
>tapes to be used as Incremental backups only and the last 2 tapes to be
>used as full backups. ...
>
>Are there any plans (or any way) of making amanda work in a similar
>fashion? This would be really good to ensure Incrementals for most of
>the month and then a full b
Hi Folks,
I am using amanda on one of my networks and Legato Networker on another.
Obviously the Networker is a little more expensive than the amanda
option but it allows me to use tape pools eg. I can set the first 4
tapes to be used as Incremental backups only and the last 2 tapes to be
used as
>I'm wondering if amanda can be configured to backup to tape and to disk
>at the same time. We need to archive backups onto tape but we'd like to
>have at least 24 hours worth of backups on disk for ease of restores.
>Can this be done?
Not without a small code change.
In driver.c, function handl
>Yes there is, and it is /dev/hda6, and amanda uses the default "/dev/"
I'm not sure what you mean by "amanda uses the default".
Are you using the system dump program or GNU tar for these disks? Is
hda6 (in some form :-) listed in /etc/fstab?
What happens here is Amanda takes any of three form
>When I run amcheck it sits there and changes tapes even though it finds
>empty ones.
It's probably looking for the so called "exact match", which is the
oldest tape in the tapelist file.
>If I increase the tapecycle it works fine. However, I would like to
>start reusing tapes if possible.
>
>I
>First, some background... I'm using a 22-tape changer on a linux box, and
>using two tapes per run...
What that really means is that you will use **up to** two tapes per run.
If what you have to back up fits on one tape (for whatever reason),
Amanda will only use one tape.
>dumpcycle 2 weeks
>r
I'm struggling with similar issues.
What I did was try to find a solution based on
setting starttime in the dumptype. My first attempt
was to use starttime to delay the start of the laptop
until mid-day (amanda runs about 3am). This achieved
nothing, because amanda couldn't reach the laptop at
"John R. Jackson" wrote:
> >/var/backups/.amandahosts has,
> >
> >localhost backup
>
> Is /var/backups the home directory for "backup"?
yes under /etc/passwords the permissions of the dir and .amandahosts are
backup:backup
>
>
> Note the message you got:
>
> access as backup not allowed fro
I'm wondering if amanda can be configured to backup to tape and to disk
at the same time. We need to archive backups onto tape but we'd like to
have at least 24 hours worth of backups on disk for ease of restores.
Can this be done?
Also, what is the proper way to configure amanda to dump only to
"backup" is in /etc/group under the group disks.
disk:x:6:backup and under /dev/ sd??'s are group disk
/var/backups/.amandahosts has,
localhost backup
the holding disk is set to backup:backup
but I dont think its getting that far.
I fogot to mention this is a Debian 2.2r2 machine and im back
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> >ERROR [can not access hda6 (hda6): No such file or directory]
> So, is there an hda6 on that machine? In particular, a /dev/hda6?
Yes there is, and it is /dev/hda6, and amanda uses the default "/dev/"
An interesting sidebar, if I explicitely include the
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, James Sharp wrote:
> Put the laptop into your disklist...when the laptop is present, it
> gets backed up. If not, the backup times out and it shows up in your
> nightly mail report.
Cool idea, but the laptop is never here at night -- ie. when the backups
actually are going
>ERROR [can not access hda6 (hda6): No such file or directory]
So, is there an hda6 on that machine? In particular, a /dev/hda6?
I assume your disklist just says "hda6" and you don't really know what
mount point it is?
>All three machines are running the same version of AMANDA (2.4.0).
FYI,
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Mark L. Chang wrote:
> I want to back up a laptop that is only sometimes on the network. I'd love
> to roll this into our main daily set since setting up a whole 'nother tape
> for this 10-20g drive is not what I feel like doing.
>
> The laptop in question is a Win98 box.
>
>/var/backups/.amandahosts has,
>
>localhost backup
Is /var/backups the home directory for "backup"?
Note the message you got:
access as backup not allowed from backup@kascha
So this says you need this line in .amandahosts:
kascha backup
>Thing
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Sp
For what its worth, what I do here is use a native backup
package on the laptop that does a backup during the day to
a mounted filesystem that is in turn backed up by amanda
at night. Works well for non-supported systems (like mac's)
as well.
Andy Rundquist
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Okay, our backup plan, with major thanks to you guys, and especially John
R. Jackson, is ready to go into daily operation. I _do_ have some "daily
use" questions that I just couldn't get answered in the FAQ, or on "the
chapter".
First, some background... I'm using a 22-tape changer on a linux box
I just inherited a small network which had amanda already installed.
There is one server and two client machines. The server is running solaris
and the clients are running redhat. One client works fine, but amanda
can't seem to find the disks on the other one.
I get
ERROR [can not access hda6 (h
>1) No decent way to do incrementals
Since you'll be doing by hand what Amanda does automatically, you can do
incrementals just as well as it can (which isn't all that well with PC's,
but that's a separate issue :-).
Just beef up the script the user runs so it does a full on some schedule
("it's
I want to back up a laptop that is only sometimes on the network. I'd love
to roll this into our main daily set since setting up a whole 'nother tape
for this 10-20g drive is not what I feel like doing.
The laptop in question is a Win98 box.
My idea is to force the user to hook into the network
>Unfortunately last week Amanda started sending out blank emails rather
>than it's normal informative reports. ...
What do you mean by "blank"? Are you getting a piece of E-mail but
the body is empty? Is the Subject correct?
Or are you not getting any E-mail at all?
You didn't say what versi
Moving the 11gb file out of the backup tree fixed things. I do not know
who to blame, nor do I care at this exact moment. I'll figure it out later
today. Thanks for your input, John.
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> Agreed, although I don't know that I'd use the word "culprit" yet.
Hi all,
I've been using amanda 2.4.2 cvs for a while and I'm a little confused
with the config.
When I run amcheck it sits there and changes tapes even though it finds
empty ones.
If I increase the tapecycle it works fine. However, I would like to
start reusing tapes if possible.
I have 70 DLT
>ERROR: /dev/st0: reading label: Input/output error.
That's almost for certain not the right device name. It should probably
be /dev/nst0. You need to use the no-rewind name with Amanda.
That would not cause the I/O error, but you need to fix it in any case.
>Index dir "/var/lib/amanda/DailyS
> I have the following lines in last's night backup and I don't know if
>they mean bad things or they can be safely ignored:
>...
>? gtar: Cannot add file ./daily/index/santafe/_home/20010325_1.gz.tmp:
>No such file or directory
>...
Those are the Amanda catalogue (index) files. They are creat
>I have resolved my issues with tapetype crashing ...
Glad to hear it. Just for curiosity, what was the problem?
>so here is the tapetype
>provided from the tapetype program: ...
Thanks. Would you mind posting that to the FAQ? Just follow the link
at www.amanda.org to the FAQ and then to the
>I am trying to use amrestore, however I can only appear to restore to the
>backup machine not to the machine that I backed up.
>...
>Surely there has to be a way that I can restore the backup directly to the
>original machine?
The usual method involves doing the work from the client (original
ma
you are a bit mistaken as to how amanda works, amanda automaticaly
decides if it should do a full or incremental backup each day of the
backup cycle. if you only want to change tapes once a week, but have
backup every night, here is what you could do.
have a dump disk big enough to handle all ba
I have resolved my issues with tapetype crashing so here is the tapetype
provided from the tapetype program:
define tapetype tr5 {
comment "TR-5 Seagate STT22N-RFT"
length 9598 mbytes
filemark 15 kbytes
speed 720 kps
}
Hello Folks,
Many thanks to John R. Jackson and Yura Pismerov for their answers
concerning estimating the tape size by hand for hardware compression.
Regards...
--
Luc Lalonde, Responsable du reseau GIREF
Telephone: (418) 656-2131 poste 6623
Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi All,
I've been running amanda for sometime now with no problems.
Unfortunately last week Amanda started sending out blank emails rather
than it's normal informative reports. I am lost to why this is and I am
having trouble finding what has changed to cause this.
Best regards
Rodney Edwards
hope this helps:
Have a look at the group which owns the device files in /dev/... you want
to
backup.
The backup user must belong to this group to have access to the devices.
bye Mike
Hi "Thing",
the Amanda-FAQ says:
---schnipp---
Q: Why does `amcheck' say `access as not allowed...'
A: There must be something wrong with .amandahosts configuration (or
.rhosts, if you have configured --without-amandahosts).
First, if the is not what you expect (i.e., not what you
have spe
Hello,
I was wondering - how does one back up dail incrementals onto a hard
disk while the weekly backups are on tape?
Thanks.
Mohammed
anybody have any idea why?
I get the email below, it runs from cron as "backup"
I suspect permissions on the partitions, however I cannot find anything
in the docs or web site to give me a clue, so im almost ending up making
the user backup the same group as root to allow access, this seems
exce
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