[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hiya gang-
>
> Last night, amreport sent out a 48MB report to my admin mailing list.
> I've tracked down why, and the culprit looks to have been the only
> real change made yesterday, this being a columnspec line with all of
> the width fields set to "-1" in length (
Gene Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I hope this isn't considered off topic. I have been running amanda now
> for a month or so and all is going well (thanks to alot of help from
> this list!).
>
> My tape server is a Sun E250 (Solaris 8) with a single DDS-4 tape
> drive. I
Jordi Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
>
> I want to write a wrapper (if there is no better solution) to inform
> windows users that they will be backed up so they have a chance to
> close its databases, mainly (MS-Outlook .pst files)
>
> The idea is that with a disklist file like ..
>
"Charles R. Gomes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm running Amanda lastest stable version in one Red Hat with Postfix, but
> after I run amdump the summary mail sent to me is blank.
> Anyone was had the same problem ?
> Have another way to I see the tapelist required for next dump ?
> Have anoth
Ben Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 10:49, Spicer, Kevin wrote:
> > I'm not quite clear what you have in mind, you're presumably not
> talking
> > about having a cycle of hard drives (are you?) but just keeping a
> mirror on
> > a different machine.
>
> Nope - I actual
Hi,
I could need help in a somewhat unusual situation: A fellow PhD
student is doing work time measurements with a proprietary digital
video recoder based on Linux. His 120 GB disk is approaching full
capacity and our only backup solution is the department server with
its DAT DDS 4 tape drive (20
"David Flood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm using amanda 2.4.3b3 on two tapeservers. One of them the
> emails work perfectly. The other one works sometimes but not
> others. When I do a amcheck -m conf I don't receive an email but I
> recieve an email when the same configuration completes
Stefan Kiczerjak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hello everboby,
>
> before i am going to buy an expensive dlt-streamer i'd like to do some
> testing with an old iomega 250 floppy-qic.
> I have configured all as discripted in the man-pages but unfortunately
> amlabel closes with an error.
> here
Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:24:17PM -0500, Dan Debertin wrote:
> > One of my client hosts has a drive that is larger than my holding disk
> > -- drive is 18G, holdingdisk is only 4G. No, I can't swap them, and
> > no, I'd rather not buy a bigger disk right
klavs klavsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi guys,
>
> Does amanda use the holding disk, when backing up from localhost?
>
> If it were smart, it would skip the holding disk, as this would just
> waste space..
>
> The reason I'm asking is that I was considering use System Imager to
> back
Hi,
Coming back to work after Easter holidays I found a small annoyance
with amverify:
Our cron backup skript basically does
amdump;
mt status;
amverify;
mt offline;
After inserting the last tape on thursday all backups went to holding
disk as planned. Inserting the next tape for amflush lead
"christopher cuse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi All,
>
> I noticed that attempting to specify a share name containing spaces in
> disklist bombs during amcheck. Has anyone worked around this? I am trying to
> backup a number of directories on each client machine from the
> administrative sha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hiya gang-
>
> Last night, amreport sent out a 48MB report to my admin mailing list.
> I've tracked down why, and the culprit looks to have been the only
> real change made yesterday, this being a columnspec line with all of
> the width fields set to "-1" in length (
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Is there are way of forcing amanda to backup the directories in the
> disklist in a certain order or at least tell it to back up a thew
> directories first?
David,
There is a priority parameter for dumptypes. But it does not work for
your purpose.
priority "strin
Gene Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I hope this isn't considered off topic. I have been running amanda now
> for a month or so and all is going well (thanks to alot of help from
> this list!).
>
> My tape server is a Sun E250 (Solaris 8) with a single DDS-4 tape
> drive. I
Graham Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The body of the daily backup report is always empty. Is there a
> /tmp/amanda/ file I can poke into to see if there's some file
> permission problem?
>
> Graham
Graham,
Did you change your "columnspec" parameter? Especially "-1" values
seem to be buggy
John Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it correct that an AMANDA client (on the same host as the AMANDA
> tape server) will still use the mechanisms as a remote host
> (inetd.conf and amandad program) to communicate with the tape server?
> I believe this to be yes...
>
> If the tape ser
"C. Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I see that Amanda in 2.4.3 has features to allow backup to disk instead
> of tape.
>
> Is it possible now, using the same configuration (amanda.conf,
> disklist, and tapelist) to tell amanda to perform lev 1+ dumps to disk and
> lev 0 dumps to tape?
Hi,
"Hikawa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I could not do backup big size directory.
>
> The directory size is 1.9GB.
> I use 4GB DDS2 tape.
> I want to do backup 1.9GB directory into 4GB DDS2 tape.
>
> My dumptype is root-tar in amanda.conf file.
> It is the following.
> -
Hi,
Somehow old messages from December and January get replayed to the
list. Please keep an eye on message dates before answering.
Johannes Nieß
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chandrasekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi everyone
> I have a HP-DAT 24*6 tape drive attached to my amanda Back-up
> server.Recently I replace one of the active tapes(DDS3) in slot 6 with a DDS
> cleaning tape. But when it comes to running the cleaning tape amcheck gives
> me the message
Hi,
Sorry for beeing slightly off topic, but I'm sure someone can help me.
I use a Seagate Scorpion DAT DDS 4 drive for Amanda backups on a Linux
2.2.20 box. SCSI controller is either a Vortex hardware RAID or from
the Adaptec 7xxx family. The drive is working fine unless I issue a
"mt status" c
Sarah Hollings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hiya,
>
> Just thinking about coding up some perl scripts so I can see how my backups
> are going from a web browser, and was wondering if there was anything like
> that already - no point in reinventing the wheel.
>
> Something like Analog for Ama
Kasper Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Im using amanda on a linux box with an old SONY-SDT5000 DDDS2 drive.
> Everything works like a charm - I have actually restored some files ;)
>
> The question: Is it recommended to use hardware compression or should I
> leave it off? When I
Benjamin Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i've been using amanda for a few weeks now, and i am very happy with it.
>
> my current tape cycle is 7 tapes, but i wanted to have two sets of 7 tapes (so one
>can reside offsite). after backing up to the first 7 tapes, i ran amlabel -f on a
>ne
Kasper Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it possible to make amanda follow symlinks?
>
> I have a disk that has grown larger than the tape used and need a way to
> backup this disk without splitting it into different disks. I made a script
> that creates a few directories and populate t
José Vicente Núñez Zuleta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello people,
>
> This list has been a very good source of information
> on setting up amanda and i will like to contribute; I
> made a little Perl script that sents an email to the
> responsible of changing tapes on a tape unit for the
>
Hi,
my amreport is segfaulting in a working configuration since I
mistakenly set dumpcycle to days and setting it back to 4 after I
wondered about missing level 0's. I'm still in the first cycle after
the change. It's OK if this error will grow out after one cycle, but
will it happen?
At th
the
mirrored data.
If you are guarenteed to bee on the network at dump time (with any OS)
you could choose Samba (with ext2 and Solaris drivers for NT) as the
lowest common denominator and fiddle with DFS (Microsoft Distributed
File System) to get a common share structure with all OS'es.
Johannes Niess
n as belonging to the linux box and
backup that.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
info from the Amanda guru's on the
amanda mailing list. Under normal circumstances this would take am
(North/South)-Amercian work day. AFAIK there is an mailing list
archive at www.egroups.com (Check www.amanda.org for the correct
URL). Or you can try to grep through the code.
Sorry for beein
y separated disks. If software compression or network are no
bottle neck it'll speed up the backup if "max dumpers" is set to at
least the maximum spindle number.
A better aproach would is to tweak the "small dumpers" and "big
dumpers" in the source. But that's not host based. There was a
discussion about it some days ago.
Johannes Niess
ow what a crontab file is
for...
Apart from getting the Amanda mail reports I seldom have to invest
time into Amanda. Even I can operate it...
Johannes Niess
no-reuse" and give out new names. This way the information on
and about old tapes is retained so they can be used as an archive. Be
aware that used tapes may not be the best solution for long time
storage.
Johannes Niess
ke to find out, however, before
> I need to know...
You just need a network connection to get at the data to restore and
to access the amanda binaries. This prelimary installation is
overwritten by the restore procedure. AFIK you could even use a rescue
system in RAM with network and disk/(tape) support for your hardware.
Johannes Niess
t
full hardware and software details we can't even guess what's
wrong. What kind of resources get used up? CPU, RAM, (holding) disk
space?
Johannes Niess
gets
tricky when you commonly add large sub dir's to a common dir
(e. g. large data sets from experiments)
HTH,
Johannes Niess
a? Problem 2 still
applies. As long as you don't backup the holding disk directories,
there is no problem. E. g. I use /tmp/amanda/ for the holding
disk and don't backup /tmp.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
k (or even other disks
on the same controller) at the same time.
On new systems SCSI termination is a comon cause of error.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
rt shows the entries in decreasing reference count but
> increasing label name, which might be a bit more readable.
>
> >Johannes Niess
John,
Thank you for the tips. I know that my script is not the best example
of shell skript ever done. Emphasis for this first implementation was
o
modify the script. May it save you from worn out
tapes at restore time.
Johannes Niess
P.S: Keep an eye on line endings for the commands.
#! /bin/sh
# Made by Johannes Niess (mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
if test -z $1 ; then echo "Amanda-tapestats reports the number of times the tape list
entr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hello there,
>
> I figure my last mail was less than informative - usually not my
> style and I apologize.
>
> Anyway, one problem seems to persist and I'm clueless as to what
> may cause it.
> So, my amanda server is a FreeBSD 4.3 STABLE machine with a
> Tandberg
Tom Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:43:03PM +0200, Johannes Niess wrote:
[...]
> > What about sudo? The recovered files keep owner and permissions. Let
> > the operator's sudo to the (too powerfull in this case) Amanda user
>
ut sudo? The recovered files keep owner and permissions. Let
the operator's sudo to the (too powerfull in this case) Amanda user
just for amcheck, amrecover and what else you like. You'll see their
actions in the syslog. The good thing: no password for the Amanda user
has to be given away.
We h
art of
tape and the MRS stripes). New Sony tapes get not rewinded that far
(only black usable part of tape is visible). Manually winding the tape
in either direction does not help.
Thanks for any help,
Johannes Niess
Albrecht,
Onstream went out of buisness approximately 9 months ago. I would not
bet on continued cartridge support.
Johannes Niess
Cedric,
Amanda has no other choice than to postpone some level 0 dumps to
later tapes. Amanda cries loud about that, but you can ignore it. IMO
it's better to leave the scheduling to Amanda. You can tweak what gets
level 0's first with the priority parameter in the dump type or
directly in the disk list file.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
Matteo Centonza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to set up a backup server with two tape drives:
>
> - Tandberg SLR 100
> - Sony SDT-5000 (DDS-2 DAT Tape Drive)
>
> is it possible to force the planner in order to use smallest tape to
> perform incrementals and SLR for full
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Knut A. Syed) writes:
> Is it possible to exclude some of the hosts listed in disklist from
> amcheck?
>
> I have some laptops which I do not want to be warned about if they are
> not connected during amcheck.
Knut,
Unless you patch amcheck for a regexp parameter (or similar
was 2GB, how does it come?
The chunks are concatenated (without some headers) to rearrange
images.
Johannes Niess
"John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >is it possible to put a path into the disklist, which contains blanks?
>
> As Olivier says, the current answer is "no". I have a TODO list item
> to clean up the Amanda parsing so quotes may be used most anyplace,
> but it will be quite some time
"Bernhard R. Erdmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Are there options to tar to prevent it from tossing a good backup
> > because tar could not write its index file?
>
> GNU tar (at least 1.13.17) understands the option
> --buy-some-bigger-disks.
I prefer --choose-a-good-partitioning-layout :
Hi,
today I recieved the attatched report from Amanda. The /usr/ partition
got filled up by another process, so Amanda (tar, to be correct) could
not keep track of its state. The wrong tape was inserted on purpose,
so backups ended up on the holding disk. Before I cleaned up the /usr
partition, o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi there,
>
> after a period successfully using amanda on our lan, I think about the
> possibillity to verify the contents on an amanda tape (before removing
> the files from holding disk).
>
> >From my point of view: Making backups is necessary, but how to enshure
>
Anthony Worrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >From: "John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >>Using a NFS mounted holding disk doesn't seem possible ...
> >
> >I would consider that a feature :-). Why in the world would you drag
> >a bunch of dump images across the network to an Amanda serv
Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I see that the drive is an OnStream. Haven't there been
> significant problems reported on this list, with those?
According to the SCSI newsgroups they are out of buisness.
Johannes Niess
;, but requires a running amanda client on the
crashed box.
Using dd to extract whole tapes isn't that cumbersome if your tapes
hold only data from that host. Write a litte skript that "dd's" in a
while loop. Requiring all data sometimes makes live easier.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
P.S: A great chance to move from partitions to using quotas...
;ll need the indexing daemon with
it's database.
An approach with amrestore is to restore the dump to a temporary place
and to pick the files you need.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
..]
Amlabel does the entries into the tapelist file. Amanda.conf needs to
be changed by hand.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
ent.
As the subdirectories in the holding disk (named after date in
MMDD format) get created, you'll need a little script to remove
the outdated ones.
Unless you want long time archiving, you might avoid using tapes. Tape
is a lot cheaper per gigabyte than disks. And saver, too.
Johannes Niess
really needed is a non-destructive "can I write on this
> tape" method, e.g. a test of permissions or access(). But that's
> (unfortunately) highly OS dependent, if possible at all. G.
>
> >Johannes Niess
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist,
ade if the tape is otherwise correct.
"
Why doesn't Amanda use the following portable, non-destructive write test:
read label; amlabel -f config label
Does it mess up the indexes?
Johannes Niess
Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:44:33PM +0100, Johannes Niess wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had dumps from two different configurations dumped to the same
> > holding disk, but to two directories as usual. Beeing t
Hi,
I had dumps from two different configurations dumped to the same
holding disk, but to two directories as usual. Beeing too lazy to sort
out what date belongs to what configuration, I decided to flush all
directories. I expected Amanda to flush only the directory belonging
to the configuration
Radu Filip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello, Johanness!
>
> Thank you very much for your answer.
>
> On 27 Feb 2001, Johannes Niess wrote:
>
> > 1) Amanda sets options for gnutar to stop at partition boundaries.
>
> >From the logs I see that it'
Filip,
Two things come to my mind:
1) Amanda sets options for gnutar to stop at partition boundaries.
2) If your holding disk is on the same partition as /, Amanda tries to
backup the holding disk. Its a vicious circle.
I'd recomment to include your holding disk directory into the exclude
list
d i'm not sure if this is related to the first or
> not but in the same log file i have this error which is odd:
This Amanda issue is treated already...
[...]
> I'm not subscribed to this list so if you could please respond to my
> message by directly emailing me I would greatly appreciate it.
I'd subscribe. You get answers for the questions you'll ask some weeks
later :-)
HTH,
Johannes Niess
Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Johannes Niess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 04:01:03PM +0100)
>
> > My first thought was to disable compression, but that's already
> > done. What's your network technology? 2 MBytes/sec i
Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> see attached amreport.
>
> The avg dump rate is listed as 2M/s
> The avg tape rate is listed as 10M/s
>
> now I've upped maxdumps to 4 (which measn I should expect to get 4 dumps at
> 2 M/s so ~ 8 M/s to holding disk,
> and from there with 10
und is "amlabel -f taeglich taeglich7" every time I insert
tape taeglich7. The combination rewind/read fails (as seen on all
other occasions); the following write/read succeeds. Amflush after
that works fine.
The tape is forced to SCSII 2 and no hardware compression. What are
the differences between SCSII 2 and 3 with regard to tapes? Anything
applicable in my case?
Johannes Niess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi, people
>
> In order to perform my 22GB (level 0) i have to use a SONY DDS3,
> but whenever i need to backup everything i have to use that "strategy
> nofull" parameter to perferm incremental backups and then i use "admin XXX
> force " to force level 0 b
#x27;ve read and written to it successfully. SCSI errors
should pop up all over the place while writing/reading with a
hardware/cabling fault. It's not the case, so I've to suspect
firmware.
Johannes Niess
g setup:
Your /dev/hda disk on the Redhat system is backed up via the standard
amanda client.
Your Redhat system uses its Samba (and its smbtar) to back up shares
from the NT servers.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
how was it resolved?
Sid,
What's the maximum file size limit of your OS? In most cases it boils
down to set chunksize = 1.9 GB for the temporary files in the holding
disk.
Johannes Niess
s. Writing a new label seems to help but only as long as
the tape is not taken out of the bay. Maybe Amanda should not trust all
SCSI errors.
Has anybody seen something similar on Linux Suse 7.0, ICP Vortex RAID
Controller (LVD), and a Scorpion 40?
Johannes Niess
Bill Delphenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have amanda running on a RedHat 7 server and it is now backing up
> several Linux client servers to a DLT drive very nicely. The next thing
> I need to get going is backing up my SAMBA stuff. I have SAMBA running
> on a Linux server, serving applica
Javi Polo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I think the problem is that it tries to pop the backup from /dev/null
> instead of /dev/tape as I told him in amanda.conf
>
> anyone knows where the problem can be and/or how to solve it ? :?
r11c:~ # amrecover --help
amrecover: invalid option --
Christian Lox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I am a bit confused about the usage of Amanda together with Macs.
> The archive say, it should work, but backupcentral.com/amanda says,
> there is no support for Macs.
> What is right and how to get it work?
Christian,
I'll assume
Chris Karakas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Any more ideas now? How can this "ATTR_ARCH" flag be reasonably used
> here?
What about msdos and umsdos file systems?
The former is plain 8.3 chars file length. Vfat is based on that, so
I'd not expect a change.
The later simulates unix permissions
"Joe Prochazka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After I installed Amanda and seemed to have it working the computer started
> throwing the following error:
>
> Unusual System Events
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Dec 2 00:45:18 kernel: (scsi0:0:5:0) Invalid SCB during SEQINT 0x71,
> SCB_TAG 80.
> Dec
switch
hardware compression off. Or you can go for the increased safety and
speed of not using compression at all. The problem with compression is
a bit flipping somewhere on tape: AFAIK tar.gz and dump tape "files"
are not readable behind the block with the switched bit.
Johannes Niess
--JAA13530.975659970/server.landtechnik.uni-bonn.de--
's job on all file
systems. Unix/Linux file systems like ext2 allow for a much more
flexible administration of Samba because you can use Samba's access
control on top of standard Unix access rights.
Johannes Niess
Heiko Muenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> since last week I've problems on one of our amanda clients. I got the
> following error message:
>
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> hol1 /data/slash/www.hannover.de lev 0 FAILED [badly formatted response from
>hol1]
>
> I've fou
ntab:
... nice /path/amdump ; /path/mtst -f /dev/nst0 rewoffl
Does amanda support error levels to do amdump && mtst ?
Johannes Niess
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
ing the tape drive only. In theory old tapes are still
usable.
Johannes Niess
P.S: Convincing the bosses to invest into backup hardware is easy: Let
them figure out what an hour of downtime for the whole company is
worth!
"Henk Martijn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Planner says it will do a level 2 incremental, but it does a level 0.
> Why?
Henk,
I've seen this, too. I supect that "level 2" is the answer from the
client during estimate phase. After getting information from all
clients the server command
onf:
One with the real tape device and one with /dev/null. Cron can do that
for you. AFAIK the required version of Amanda is 2.4.2.
Johannes Niess
Jeff Bearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I searched e-groups and didnt' find what i was looking for. I have 2
> quick questions,
>
> First I'd like to eject the tape after the backups are complete, I
> can't see where to do this, Is there a place to have it run `mt
> offline` when it's done
"Alessandro Chiauzzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> I need to backup a Windows client.
> I wrote on the Samba host (which is tape server too):=20
> 1. in /etc/amandapass: the Windows share name (//pluto/software/), clear =
> text password and domain (lallino.it).
I might be wrong, but sett
Hello,
Some days ago there was a rumor that patches are available to backup
to block devices (e. g. CD-RW). I tried to locate them via e-grpups
but their search feature is brain dead. I'd like to see them on
sourceforge or www.amanda.org (as an ongoing project?).
Johannes Niess
cript versions of the slides are available on request
(as long as numbers stay low...)
Johannes Niess
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