Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread Nick Smith
Dear Amanda Administrators. What dump configuration would you suggest for backing up a ZFS pool of about 300GB? Within the pool there several smaller 'filesystems'. Would you : 1. Use a script to implement ZFS snapshots and send these to the server as the DLE? 2. Use tar to backup the f

Invalid Service?

2008-04-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Using Amanda 2.5.1p1 under Debian Etch, my backups work fine, and I can recover partitions from tape using dd, etc. However: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo amrecover HomeDumps AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p1. Contacting server on localhost ... NAK: amindexd: invalid service What does this message mean, and

Amanda and eeePC

2008-04-25 Thread Charles Stroom
Hi all, has anyone tried to have an amanda client running on an ASUS eeePC? Regards, Charles -- Charles Stroom email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.")

Re: Invalid Service?

2008-04-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Tony van der Hoff schrieb: Using Amanda 2.5.1p1 under Debian Etch, my backups work fine, and I can recover partitions from tape using dd, etc. However: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo amrecover HomeDumps AMRECOVER Version 2.5.1p1. Contacting server on localhost ... NAK: amindexd: invalid service What

Re: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Nick Smith wrote: Dear Amanda Administrators. What dump configuration would you suggest for backing up a ZFS pool of about 300GB? Within the pool there several smaller 'filesystems'. Would you : 1. Use a script to implement ZFS snapshots and send these to the server as the DLE? 2. Us

Re: Invalid Service?

2008-04-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 25 Apr at 13:22 "Stefan G. Weichinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tony van der Hoff schrieb: > > Using Amanda 2.5.1p1 under Debian Etch, my backups work fine, and I can > > recover partitions from tape using dd, etc. >> > > However: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo amr

Re: Amanda on a Cobalt Raq-4 web server?

2008-04-25 Thread Craig Dewick
Hi everyone, Ok I've had another go at compiling Amanda (2.5.2p1 is the source version I have in use on other systems at present) on my Cobalt Raq-4i system, and it's aborted when compiling dgram.c like this: start source='dgram.c' object='dgram.lo' libtool=yes \ DEPDIR=.deps depm

Re: Invalid Service?

2008-04-25 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Tony van der Hoff schrieb: I wish it were that simple. What authentication do you use? Have you checked out the link http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Configuring_bsd/bsdudp/bsdtcp_authentication at the "Configuring xinetd section", too? -- Marc Muehlfeld (Leitung Systemadministration) Zentrum

Re: Invalid Service?

2008-04-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Tony van der Hoff schrieb: Thanks for taking an interest, Stefan; that's what I thought, too. I wish it were that simple. Maybe I'm missing something, but what is wrong with this (3 seperate files, each with the same name as the service): #default: on # description: The amanda index service se

Re: Invalid Service?

2008-04-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 25 Apr at 14:02 "Stefan G. Weichinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tony van der Hoff schrieb: > > Thanks for taking an interest, Stefan; that's what I thought, too. I > > wish it were that simple. Maybe I'm missing something, but what is wrong > > with this (3 sep

Re: amanda 2.6.0 planner segfaulting when the estimate for a pending backup is larger than the tape size

2008-04-25 Thread Telsin
Jean-Louis- It looks like that did the trick. I'll test a little more and let you know for sure, but it correctly produced a "dumps way to big, must skip incremental dumps" error and ran the rest of the dumps last night after I applied the patch. Thanks! -Darrell On Apr 23, 2008, at 8:

RE: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread Anthony Worrall
Hi unfortunately zfsdump, or "zfs send" as it is now, does not relate to ufsdump in any way :-( >From man zfs zfs send [-i snapshot1] snapshot2 Creates a stream representation of snapshot2, which is written to standard output. The output can be redirected to a

Re: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 02:32:27PM +0100, Anthony Worrall wrote: > Hi > > unfortunately zfsdump, or "zfs send" as it is now, does not relate to > ufsdump in any way :-( > > [ big snip ] > > One of the properties of zfs is that in encourages the use of a > filesystem for a logical set of fil

Re: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Anthony Worrall wrote: Hi unfortunately zfsdump, or "zfs send" as it is now, does not relate to ufsdump in any way :-( hmm. I guess I was being a bit naive. I had assumed zfs development was more mature. After reading the comments on this thread, I went searching for references to zfsdum

RE: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread John E Hein
Anthony Worrall wrote at 14:32 +0100 on Apr 25, 2008: > unfortunately zfsdump, or "zfs send" as it is now, does not relate to > ufsdump in any way :-( Sorry to hijack this thread, but... Can Solaris and/or ZFS snapshots support partial filesystem dumps (and restores)? If not, how do people u

RE: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread Anthony Worrall
neat > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie > Sent: 25 April 2008 16:00 > To: amanda-users@amanda.org > Subject: Re: Amanda and ZFS > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 02:32:27PM +0100, Anthony Worrall wrote: > > Hi > > > > unfortuna

Re: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread John E Hein
Jon LaBadie wrote at 10:59 -0400 on Apr 25, 2008: > Another way would be to use include directives. For example, if the > zfs pool was /pool and had file systems of a, b,c, and d, you could > set up multiple DLEs that were rooted at /pool (different tag names) > and had include directives of "

Re: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread Pieter Bowman
I started using ZFS in a big way over a year ago on our main file server. Since there is no ufsdump replacement to use with ZFS, I elected to use GNU tar. I know this doesn't yet cover backing up things like ACLs, but we don't use them in our very heterogeneous environment. The main idea I had w

Re: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread John E Hein
Pieter Bowman wrote at 11:41 -0600 on Apr 25, 2008: > The final issue I found was that the inode numbers in the snapshots > change each time a new snapshot is created. This is a problem with > GNU tar's listed-incremental facility. To work around this I ended up > hacking GNU tar to make it i

Re: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:46:34AM -0600, John E Hein wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote at 10:59 -0400 on Apr 25, 2008: > > Another way would be to use include directives. For example, if the > > zfs pool was /pool and had file systems of a, b,c, and d, you could > > set up multiple DLEs that were roo

Re: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread John E Hein
Jon LaBadie wrote at 13:57 -0400 on Apr 25, 2008: > Though I've not tried it, it should. > > I base that on the description of the command > > /usr/sbin/ufsdump [options] [arguments] files_to_dump > > and the belief that the include directive merely provides the args > corresponding

Re: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread Pieter Bowman
>> ... >> The gtar devs finally accepted something to help with this problem: >> --no-check-device. >> ... Thanks, I hadn't caught the addition of that option. That also reminds me that the problem isn't the inode number, but the device number which was the problem. Pieter

Re: Amanda and ZFS

2008-04-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 01:36:35PM -0600, John E Hein wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote at 13:57 -0400 on Apr 25, 2008: > > Though I've not tried it, it should. > > > > I base that on the description of the command > > > > /usr/sbin/ufsdump [options] [arguments] files_to_dump > > > > and the

more re Amanda on Cobalt Raq-4i - 2.6.0 source tree configure fails

2008-04-25 Thread Craig Dewick
Ok well putting the problems with 2.5.2p1 aside for now, I decided to give the brand new 2.6.0 source tree a go, but it's failed during the configure phase with this: start checking for pkg-config... no checking for GLIB - version >= 2.2.0... no *** A new enough version of pkg-conf