tape file origK compK secs
0 20030618 sir-1-20 54 10650330 6617775 2915
1 20030703 sir-1-107 9873700 6578667 3104
This happens with dump and gntar backups. If I do a find on the filesystem it
claims that no files have been modified
Anthony Worrall wrote:
We have a filesytem which contians files that are basically static. However
when they are backed up the incrementals are almost as big as the full backups.
...
This happens with dump and gntar backups. If I do a find on the filesystem it
claims that no files have been
Hi
Paul hit the nail on the head.
It seem the administrator of that machine was running a find over the
directories which updated the ctime of all the files.
Thanks Paul.
Anthony
- Begin Forwarded Message -
Anthony Worrall wrote:
We have a filesytem which contians
:0: skipping start of tape: date 20030703 label nameon1
amrestore:1: skipping ..backup file1...
Yet if I run it again I get this:
amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape file numbers will be offset
amrestore:1: skipping ..backup file2...
and so on.
I'm assuming that amrestore invoked
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 3:04pm, Mikkel Gadegaard wrote
*snip*
tpchanger chg-zd-mtx # the tape-changer glue script
tapedev /dev/nst0 # the no-rewind tape device
used
changerfile /var/lib/amanda/BackUp/changer.conf # path to changer.conf
changerdev
messed up copy/pasting :)
I'm using the part where changerfile is /var/lib/amanda/BackUp/changer
-Original Message-
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 3. juli 2003 15:15
To: Mikkel Gadegaard
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problems with amlabel/amcheck
On Thu,
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:16:56AM +0100, Anthony Worrall wrote:
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.18
everything below 1.13.19 should be upgraded _immediately_.
Prepare for at least problems with the index!
--
Alles Gute / best wishes
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Reporter (to
Paul Bijnens said:
Josh Welch wrote:
Amcheck gives no erors. However, when I try to do amdump, its
breaking. I've included the email from amanda below. There doesn't
look to be anything particularly interesting in the logs, but I've
pasted the amandad.debug from the client below.
Gene Heskett said:
snip
Did I not already post a howto? In this case I think you are going to
have to install the compiler, and build from tarball before its going
to work.
If you install the compiler from rpms, it can then be removed when you
are done, just keep track of which
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:18:50PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
Thank you, all of you, for your help -- I have a working amanda!
Now, I am trying to understand amanda's built-in backup strategy. How
can I know when `disk' will be backed up full or incremental?
I do not have a changer,
Yes, I am learning -- at the expense of many questions ;
First, a brief overview:
I have five (5) Linux servers, totaling ~50 Gb used diskspace, divided
roughly even across all five.
I have several DAT tape drives, the largest of which is an HP DDS-3. I
have twelve (12) DDS-3 tapes, and twenty
Michael D. Schleif said:
[1] Should I use hardware compression?
There seem to be several schools of thought here. I want to know
how
Amanda works with hardware compression? What are the advantages of
using software compression? What are the disadvantages of using
*both*
hardware and
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Question: If you want to occasionally take a full dump off site
for storage, how does one decide which tape? And when to take it?
I Have the opposite viewpoint. I prefer hardware compression. It allows me to offload
processing required to the tape drive (instead of my computers) Since some of my
systems (including the backup server itself) can be slow, this actually speeds things
up for me. Also, with hardware
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 12:17pm, Ean Kingston wrote
I Have the opposite viewpoint. I prefer hardware compression. It allows
me to offload processing required to the tape drive (instead of my
computers) Since some of my systems (including the backup server itself)
can be slow, this actually
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
[1] Should I use hardware compression?
There seem to be several schools of thought here. I want to know how
Amanda works with hardware compression? What are the advantages of
using software compression? What are the disadvantages of using *both*
hardware and software
This is more appropriate for amanda-users, I've redirected the message there.
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:07:28PM -0400, Harry Mbang wrote:
Hi all, I have reformatted my Linux box and want to try again from
scratch.
I was wondering if anyone has an opinion of the best source of
No, Sorry no bearing. Thanks a lot will try that out.
Harry.
-Original Message-
From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 12:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Harry Mbang
Subject: Re: Staring From Scratch --Installing AManda
This is more appropriate for
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:40:35PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Also, in creating the Amanda user should I let the system do this by
simply specifying --with-user=Amanda or should I create an Amanda user
then specify --with-user=Amanda?
--with-user=foo will *not* create the foo user for you;
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:57:22AM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote:
I prefer software compression personally:
-Amanda can make a more accurate estimate of how much tape is
needed. So if you know your tape is 20 GB, and your
software-compressed dump files total 21 GB, you know they won't all
fit.
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:17:16PM -0400, Ean Kingston wrote:
Also, with hardware compression, I know I can restore the tape without having
to worry about finding the right libraries and programs to do the restore.
True. But one can work around that by backing up / uncompressed,
and making
On Thursday 03 July 2003 09:56, Josh Welch wrote:
Gene Heskett said:
snip
Did I not already post a howto? In this case I think you are
going to have to install the compiler, and build from tarball
before its going to work.
If you install the compiler from rpms, it can then be removed when
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:18:26PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote:
- Better compression, probably. Hardware compression is
typically some variant of LZ, isn't it? I don't know how
gzip -1 (the default compress-fast) compares with that, but
gzip -9 (the default compress-best) does a lot
On Thursday 03 July 2003 11:42, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
Yes, I am learning -- at the expense of many questions ;
First, a brief overview:
I have five (5) Linux servers, totaling ~50 Gb used diskspace,
divided roughly even across all five.
I have several DAT tape drives, the largest of which
On Thursday 03 July 2003 12:10, Steven J. Backus wrote:
Question: If you want to occasionally take a full dump off site
for storage, how does one decide which tape? And when to take it?
You don't take just one tape, you take the last 'dumpcycle' tapes to
offsite. When the next dumpcycle is
On Thursday 03 July 2003 13:21, Eric Siegerman wrote:
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:40:35PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Also, in creating the Amanda user should I let the system do
this by simply specifying --with-user=Amanda or should I create
an Amanda user then specify --with-user=Amanda?
This has happened twice so far. Has anyone else seen it?
amcheck-server: slot 6: date 20030702 label twilley006 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot Use: tape_rdlabel: tape open: of uninitialized value in numeric
eq (==) at /usr/local/libexec/amanda/chg-chio line 396.: No such file or directory
Also sprach Gene Heskett (Thu 03 Jul 02003 at 02:51:39PM -0400):
On Thursday 03 July 2003 11:42, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
Yes, I am learning -- at the expense of many questions ;
First, a brief overview:
I have five (5) Linux servers, totaling ~50 Gb used diskspace,
divided roughly even
True. But one can work around that by backing up / uncompressed,
and making sure it contains a (possibly statically linked) copy
of gzip.
... or just write a couple of copies of a CD with gzip and whatever else
you might need.
Gene Heskett said:
snip
If I haven't lost my mind (at my age it could happen :), it should be
in the archives of this list, just a few days old. It even has a
couple of attachments, which are the configuration stuff I use here.
The attachments only totalled a bit less than 1400 bytes.
Is it possible to backup several servers to one tape
in a consecutive manner over several day (e.g., 5
days)?
Enclosed in this email are my amanda.conf and disklist
files.
Thank You,
Anwar
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:59:35PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 03 July 2003 13:21, Eric Siegerman wrote:
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:40:35PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Most people build the software as the amanda_user.
Why? I just built it under my own account, and everything went
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 1:02pm, Anwar Ruff wrote
Is it possible to backup several servers to one tape
in a consecutive manner over several day (e.g., 5
days)?
Enclosed in this email are my amanda.conf and disklist
files.
Amanda, by design, doesn't append to a tape. Period.
--
Joshua
Hi all,
please forgive me in advance for what for most may seem
simple minded questions, here goes:
I rebuilt amanda (reintsalled), unlike the previous time I
do not have an etc folder under /usr/local. An amanda
folder is found under /usr/local/share. In it is located
text files
I have succesfuly installed amanda.
However, on the servers I have installed drbd.
And it seems that amanda does not hork with drbd.
Or maybe amanda does not work with reiserfs partitions?
Does somewoane succesfuly tried this combination?
Even that all the checks are succesfully:
amcheck -c conf
Assuming you're running Linux, all you need is some form of Linux
rescue disk. I've got a bunch of Debian installer cd's lying around
and have used them for similar purposes before. Probably most Linux
installer cd's can be used like this, and I'm quite certain
something like Knoppix would include
Michael D. Schleif said:
Also, what is the best way to turn off compression?
# sudo mt-gnu -f /dev/nst0 datcompression
Compression on.
Compression capable.
Decompression capable.
# sudo mt-gnu -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 0
Compression off.
Compression
restoring w/o amrestore can be done with dd, gzip, tar, and so on, way
messy compared to amrecover (or amrestore) but its possible. That's one
of the plus's to amanda.
Kurt Yoder wrote:
Assuming you're running Linux, all you need is some form of Linux
rescue disk. I've got a bunch of Debian
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 4:34pm, Kurt Yoder wrote
Assuming you're running Linux, all you need is some form of Linux
rescue disk. I've got a bunch of Debian installer cd's lying around
and have used them for similar purposes before. Probably most Linux
installer cd's can be used like this, and
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 02:29:20AM +0300, Sterpu Victor wrote:
I have succesfuly installed amanda.
However, on the servers I have installed drbd.
And it seems that amanda does not hork with drbd.
Or maybe amanda does not work with reiserfs partitions?
Does somewoane succesfuly tried this
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:28:41PM -0400, Harry Mbang wrote:
Hi all,
please forgive me in advance for what for most may seem
simple minded questions, here goes:
I rebuilt amanda (reintsalled), unlike the previous time I
do not have an etc folder under /usr/local. An amanda
How do you recover an amanda dump file without amrestore? I had dd'd
one to disk and tried to untar it but got the message not a tar
file. Once I ran it through amrestore I was able to untar it
though.
George Kelbley said:
restoring w/o amrestore can be done with dd, gzip, tar, and so on,
way
Also sprach George Kelbley (Thu 03 Jul 02003 at 02:41:12PM -0600):
restoring w/o amrestore can be done with dd, gzip, tar, and so on, way
messy compared to amrecover (or amrestore) but its possible. That's one
of the plus's to amanda.
Kurt Yoder wrote:
Assuming you're running Linux,
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 at 2:29am, Sterpu Victor wrote
I have succesfuly installed amanda.
However, on the servers I have installed drbd.
And it seems that amanda does not hork with drbd.
Or maybe amanda does not work with reiserfs partitions?
Does somewoane succesfuly tried this combination?
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:02:03PM -0700, Anwar Ruff wrote:
Is it possible to backup several servers to one tape
in a consecutive manner over several day (e.g., 5
days)?
Not the way you're thinking.
One easy thing to do in amanda to install a large cheap holdingdisk,
set reserve to some low
Thanks,
It's seems to be working. I now am seeing the back up indexes
(indices?).I'm not %100 sure of what the solution was but some of
the things I did were
1. Re-installed cygwin making sure that cygwin/bin was in the
windows enviroment path.
2. made sure that I
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 4:20pm, Michael D. Schleif wrote
Am I right that amrecover is useless *without* an index?
Yep.
Also, using only amrestore, is it possible to get at individual
files/directories, or is it only a matter of restoring the entire
dump/tarball?
Yes, depending. If you use
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:07:25PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote:
No. My personal account is NOT a member of the
disk/operator/backup/whatever group. Amanda doesn't *run* as me;
I did the usual -- created an amanda account and configured the
package with:
--with-user=amanda
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 4:20pm, Michael D. Schleif wrote
Am I right that amrecover is useless *without* an index?
Yep.
No argument about it.
But, I don't keep index files along with the backup image on tape.
Before running amrecover,
I would run a script to
Hello folks
I've only got one tape drive with no robot, so if I have more than
one tape, I change it manually. Thus, I've set up a manual changer
configuration; part of that is setting runtapes 2. So far, so
good.
Now if I run amverify, it verifies once (ok), then rewinds and
*re-verifies the
The only compression option I can see on my mt is defcompression,
so to turn it off is:
/bin/mt -f device defcompression 0
correct?
Also, when I built amanda I did:
--enable-FEATURE=x
'cuz I thought there's some sort of X interface to amanda. Now I'm
not so sure. What is this x thing?
On Thursday 03 July 2003 14:56, Jack Twilley wrote:
This has happened twice so far. Has anyone else seen it?
amcheck-server: slot 6: date 20030702 label twilley006 (active tape)
amcheck-server: slot Use: tape_rdlabel: tape open: of uninitialized
value in numeric eq (==) at
On Thursday 03 July 2003 15:10, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
Also sprach Gene Heskett (Thu 03 Jul 02003 at 02:51:39PM -0400):
On Thursday 03 July 2003 11:42, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
Yes, I am learning -- at the expense of many questions ;
First, a brief overview:
I have five (5) Linux
On Thursday 03 July 2003 16:07, Eric Siegerman wrote:
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:59:35PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 03 July 2003 13:21, Eric Siegerman wrote:
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:40:35PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Most people build the software as the amanda_user.
Why? I
On Thursday 03 July 2003 16:28, Harry Mbang wrote:
Hi all,
please forgive me in advance for what for most may seem
simple minded questions, here goes:
I rebuilt amanda (reintsalled), unlike the previous time I
do not have an etc folder under /usr/local. An amanda
folder is found under
On Thursday 03 July 2003 18:03, bao wrote:
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 4:20pm, Michael D. Schleif wrote
Am I right that amrecover is useless *without* an index?
Yep.
No argument about it.
But, I don't keep index files along with the backup image on tape.
Before running
On Thursday 03 July 2003 21:03, Steven J. Backus wrote:
The only compression option I can see on my mt is defcompression,
so to turn it off is:
/bin/mt -f device defcompression 0
correct?
Also, when I built amanda I did:
--enable-FEATURE=x
'cuz I thought there's some sort of X interface to
On Friday 04 July 2003 19:29, Sterpu Victor wrote:
I have succesfuly installed amanda.
However, on the servers I have installed drbd.
And it seems that amanda does not hork with drbd.
Or maybe amanda does not work with reiserfs partitions?
Does somewoane succesfuly tried this combination?
Even
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