The parameter columnspec from amanda.conf allows you to resize the columns.
I don't know if you can print out sizes in Gb, but this solution will allow you to
distinguish the 2 figures.
In my case I wouldn't like the printout in Gb because I use some sotware after Amanda
to analyse and compute
New Amanda conf - yes
Hardlink HD and so on - no (quite dirty / heavy solution; in France we call that
using a power hammer to crush a fly)
I think about 2 solutions:
1. RAIT that would allow you to point 2 different tape devices to write onto
2. if you're using 'disk' driver, you may find some
amrecover does not change the tape by itself.
You have to keep in mind that the chg-disk emulates a robotic with the hard drive.
And amrecover (certainly due to security reasons that I won't discuss here) does not
automatically search the correct tape in the robot: the tape(s) you want to use
This is a feature of the changer: the next slot is curslot++.
Some robotics support a looped search: when at last slot, the next slot is first
slot, some others don't.
I have 2 robots with chg-zd-mtx, one supports this loop search, the other one doesn't.
So concerning my first robot I don't have
[...]
But in the testing so far, we're finding some odd results:
* The actual program that the Win32 client uses to do the backups
appears to be an NT port of tar. But trying to restore a file
made from that backup on a FreeBSD system generates a message saying
that the file does not
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 04:52:33 -0800
David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:26:37AM +0100, JC Simonetti wrote:
[...]
But in the testing so far, we're finding some odd results:
* The actual program that the Win32 client uses to do the backups
appears
[...]
In addition to cygwin, which has a large overhead,
the same project has another package called, I think,
mingw. Unlike cygwin, which requires a cygwin dll
to be on the system, and is GPL'ed, mingw compiles
are standalone and can be used to generate non-GPL'ed
executables (I think
I've coded a chg-disk driver that acts exactly like the chg-zd ones.
You use it like that:
--- cut here ---
tapedev file:/BACKUP2/slots/
rawtapedev file:/BACKUP2/slots/
changerdev /dev/null
tpchanger chg-disk
--- cut here ---
And everything else is made automatically.
The patch including the
I am interested quite a lot in making backups on two different media, like what you
said disk and tape. In my case I would like to write my data on disk and disk, but
with 800km between the 2 disk shelves.
I don't think RAIT can handle this.
And if there's no existing solution, I don't mind
For archival purposes, personnaly I use a combination of your two solutions.
I use a different config of Amanda with dumpcycle 0, strategy noinc, but the main
goal of a different config for me is concerning the logs: it's easier to restore data
if your archives are not in the middle of your
Personnaly I use that and it works well:
define tapetype HP-DAT24 {
comment HP SureStore DAT24# disabled compression
length 12288 mbytes # 12 GB
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 1024 kbytes
}
I measured that my DDS3 is:
_ tape capacity 12 274 139 136 bytes
_ file marks 2 708 758
I have different values for the filemarks, measured with another program and not
amtapetype.
Do you know if the filemarks are application-dependant, tape-dependant,
tape-and-taper-dependant ???
The IBM fms software tells that filemarks are tape-and-taper-dependant. Do you know
more? Do you have
I've just checked my configuration and seen that my Cygwin backups are also configured
as server-side compression...
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 00:12:29 -0400
Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:32:04PM +0200, Franz Skale wrote:
Hi !
But if i use client compression,
Hi!
First of all let me tell you this post should go on amanda-users mailing-list, not the
hackers one: your question si about using and not implementing Amanda ;)
Well... Your issue makes me think of the *timeout parameters in the config file.
Your compress step may take too long for Amanda
Hi!
mt can turn on and off the hardware compression (take your man to see if it's
compression or datcompression, it differs from mt versions), but is not able to
tell you whether the compression is set or not. You just set it on or off completely
blind.
Take the GNU mt and the Debian patches
Hi all!
I'm stuck while reading my today Amanda report: 27 Gb backed up today that did not fit
in 40 Gb (2 tapes of 20 Gb)!
Well...
It's normal, since: nearly all data were onto tape 1 (about 7 Gb). Another DLE tried
to go on this tape, but too large (14 Gb). So it took the next tape and went on
You have 3 ways to backup Windows by Amanda:
1. Win32 client: good luck, since its development has been stopped 2 years ago
2. Windows shares and Samba client on your Amanda box: not so good because of the
rights of the files that are bot backed up
3. Amanda standard client installed under Cygwin
Concerning you and Uwe Beger, could you please tell me the approximative size of your
Windows backups per day? Do you back up a production site, workstations?
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:33:35 -0500
Josh Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
JC Simonetti said:
You have 3 ways to backup Windows
Try a higher etimeout, this would solve your problem.
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:56:04 +0200
Moliere Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Here it is my settings in my conf file :
ctimeout 10 # number of seconds to check each servers.
dtimeout 7200
etimeout 600#
Hi all!
I experience quite a strange problem with Amanda on Cygwin: I do not get the index
results of dumps. The backups go well (I can amrestore them without error) but the
indexes are not generated (the index files on the server are 0 byte...) so I cannot
amrecover them.
This is not a
Hi!
Concerning the backup of the Windows Hives, I've made a brainstorm using MS
documentation (ouch my head). So this is the result.
The Windows Hives are composed of many files:
_ %windir%\system32\cache\* for the system hives
_ ~user\ntuser.dat for the user hive
The system hives are always
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:48:35 -0400 (EDT)
barryc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
JC Simonetti wrote:
Thus there is only one way to backup the loaded hives (and only one to restore
them): using 2 Windows programs available in the Windows Resource Kit:
_ regback.exe
_ regrest.exe
I cannot join them
Right, right...
Would be difficult for me to be infected by Windows viruses, since the OS on my
personal computer (the one I'm using right now to send this email) is based on a
2.4.19 linux kernel :-)
But it is also right i should have tar'ed my attachments since I know that Outlook and
maybe
.
No, they are not viruses, they are batch files written by me to backup and restore the
Windows registry. But if Windows thinks backing up its registry is a virus behavior...
;-)
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:17:45 +0200
JC Simonetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
Concerning the backup of the Windows Hives, I've made
16:46:30 +0200
JC Simonetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry guys, I would have been aware that Outlook and other Exchange softwares would
be afraid of my previous attachments since they were 2 .bat files...
So in case of someone could not get them and would have to get them, I've tar'ed
First let me say that you have an old version of Amanda. But I don't know where your
problem come from.
I only thing I can say is that, in my case (amanda 2.4.3), I also have problems with
Cygwin and index generation. Amanda does not tell me that there was a problem during
the backup; but when
Personnally I've had to add some sleep 60 to this script: the tapes took too much
time to swap and the script ended before, saying where's my tape?.
JC
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:36:15 -0500
Ron Bauman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I went thru the same problems. Be sure to read all the instructions
Hi all!
I have a running Amanda config that runs on 20 DLT tapes and a changer. I would like
to make Amanda go on disk storage rather than tape storage (the file: driver).
But I have a security problem. What if my disks crash? A Raid 5 is of course the first
thing I would do, but if my server
Hi!
This is a parameter in your amanda.conf file. See below for an example.
--- cut here ---
columnspec
HostName=1:35,Disk=1:50,Level=1:1,OrigKB=1:10,OutKB=1:10,Compress=1:6,DumpTime=1:7,DumpRate=1:8,TapeTime=1:7,TapeRate=1:8
# Resizing of columns for amreport. Necessary
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], JC Simonetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Well... You're right, I got the actual state of the Sourceforge
project and did not touch to anything to the sources. Everything goes
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:23:25 -0400
Galen Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
JC Simonetti wrote:
amrecover is possible. You extract the tarball archive on your backup server and
upload it to the Windows box, and there you untar it with the WinTar provided with
Win32 Amanda (different
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:02:09 -0400 (EDT)
Samuel Nicolary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
Hello gang,
A while back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines
without having to deal with samba. Someone had responded with the win32
through? I remember there's an exe you have to
run to turn any program into a service (anyserv.exe?) as I've had to do it
for a perl script before.
Would be nice to get it all under the same backup system.
On 9/12/02 2:35 AM, JC Simonetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:16:11 -0400
Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:35:57AM +0200, JC Simonetti wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:02:09 -0400 (EDT)
Samuel Nicolary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
I downloaded
Hi!
Go search for amanda win32 on SourceForge... There is a Win32 client for Amanda. You
will need to make stuff around it to make sure it works (about a 2 week work for me)
and go backup!
And if you manage to use this client, you will be able to save data, but also
filesystems rights
Hi!
Maybe not... Windows has a tricky perception of locked files when opened, so could I
recommend you to create a Windows account (maybe amanda ;) ) but member of the
backup operators group instead of administrators one? And of course make Amanda
log into Windows as this account...
In some
Hi!
A common problem with space on holding disks is when amanda runs into degraded mode
(no tape). In that case, level 0 dumps won't work if you have reserve 0 in your
conf. I'm putting something like reserve 30 in general...
Hope it helps.
Hi!
First of all congratulations to Jonathan Johnson for his little Amanda!
I have a tricky issue with my Amanda 2.5 and native Kerberos V (all from the
Sourceforge CVS). I managed to compile everything correctly (well... correctly I don't
know, but it compiles!), but I cannot set up any
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:53:54 +0200
Guillaume Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have to save Windows (NTFS) files, but it seems that Amanda doesn't
keep the ACLs. Does someone know if there is a mean to do that, or is it
definitly not possible?
thanks
Guillaume
Hi!
Search in
automake, have you?
if it is installed, try upgrading it to a newer version.
then rerun autoconf and retry.
After that the error went away for me.
Christoph
JC Simonetti wrote:
Hi all!
I have a pretty tricky issue with autoconf and Amanda 2.5.0 from the Sourceforge
CVS.
In fact, when
Hi all!
I have a pretty tricky issue with autoconf and Amanda 2.5.0 from the Sourceforge CVS.
In fact, when I give my configure.in file to autoconf, I have a warning, and when I
run my new configure I craches after 5 lines :(
This is a paste of my console:
# autoconf
configure.in:1782:
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