Re: What are the correct permissions for lib binaries for amanda 3.5

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 07:21:02AM +0200, Uwe Menges wrote: > On 10/16/17 21:32, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > > Aside from that though, it's a case where the benefit to security is > > dependent on things that just aren't true for most systems amanda is > > likely to run on, namely that an

Re: What are the correct permissions for lib binaries for amanda 3.5

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 02:05:05PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On 16/10/17 01:48 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 08:12:43AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > >> On 14/10/17 12:12 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: > >>> On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 a

Re: What are the correct permissions for lib binaries for amanda 3.5

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 08:12:43AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On 14/10/17 12:12 PM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:36:09AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > >> On 14/10/17 11:14 AM, Jose M Calhariz wrote: > >>> -rwsr-xr-- 1 root backup 10232 Oct 13 17:23 ambind

Re: PARTIAL dump on my Fedora 26

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 09:52:38AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > "HJ" == Henrik Johansson writes: > > HJ> Are there any known release-plans for amanda on CentOS-7? > > That is up to Red Hat (since CentOS almost certainly won't diverge from > them in

Re: ambackupd reports missing data

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 02:46:10PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Thanks, I'll try it. > > As a minor additional query, must each DLE generate a separarate > report unlike the normal combined report of amdump? > > Jon > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 08:38:51AM -0400, Jean-Louis Mar

Re: ambackupd reports missing data

ambackup should not print the server-src on the 'SUCCESS dumper' line. > Fix the report to parse it so that it can parse log file with the bogus > server-src > > Jean-Louis > > On 25/09/17 05:28 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 08:57:31AM -0400

Re: ambackupd reports missing data

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 08:57:31AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > Jon, > > Can you post the log..0 file? > > Jean-Louis > > On 24/09/17 05:59 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > When I request a backup of a client using ambackupd, the subsequent > > report

ambackupd reports missing data

When I request a backup of a client using ambackupd, the subsequent report does not include most of the dump statistics (first line of data). Some of them print out on the next regular amdump run when the client backup is flushed from the holding disk to the storage (second line of data) medium.

Re: tapedrive write-protected?

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:44:29PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > for days I get this on an amanda server (3.4.5): > > $ amcheck config > Amanda Tape Server Host Check > - > > [..] > > slot 1: volume 'config34' > Will write to volume 'config34' in slot 1. >

Windows client

Is the Zmanda Windows Client dead? Most recent version is 3+ years old. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)

Re: disklist problem

On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 03:57:32PM -0600, ghe wrote: > Debian Jessie, amanda 3.3.6 > > After a backup, amreport says things like: > > STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: > /-- sbox.slsware.net / lev 1 STRANGE > sendbackup: start [sbox.slsware.net:/ level 1] > sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar >

Re: Debian: inetd required for amanda?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 03:36:48PM +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Jon LaBadie <j...@jgcomp.com> (Di 11 Jul 2017 15:27:47 CEST): > > > BTW the dash after ENVIRONMENT_FILE= is a typo? > > Or some systemd syntax. > > No, in is just a "condi

Re: Debian: inetd required for amanda?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:40:36AM +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Jon LaBadie <j...@jgcomp.com> (Di 11 Jul 2017 07:56:28 CEST): > > > > > > | StandardInput=socket > > > > > | StandardError=journal > > > > Does this prevent writin

Re: Debian: inetd required for amanda?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:49:16AM +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > > > Jose M Calhariz (Mo 10 Jul 2017 > > > 19:51:31 CEST): > > > … > > > > I happily ship a systemd unit for amanda if someone writes one for the > > > > Debian package. > > > > > > Here are

Re: Debian: inetd required for amanda?

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:18:22PM +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Jose M Calhariz (Mo 10 Jul 2017 19:51:31 > CEST): > … > > I happily ship a systemd unit for amanda if someone writes one for the > > Debian package. > > Here are the unit files, I created

Re: Backup NAS to LTO7 tape library

ing disk is to provide a consistant, high speed data source for feeding the tape drive. Jon > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Jon LaBadie <j...@jgcomp.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 03:30:19PM -0400, Greg Dickie wrote: > > > Hi Alan, > > > > > &

Re: Backup NAS to LTO7 tape library

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 03:30:19PM -0400, Greg Dickie wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Thanks for the response. It looks to me like taper is slow. I'm trying to > not use a holding disk, the NAS is 250TB and doesn't make sense to have > 250TB locally to cache it. It's connected by a 10G ethernet

ambackup defect

Most often, my laptop backup get started from the client using ambackup. However, if it happens to be booted when the amanda server does its dumps, the laptop gets backed up then also. Last night I ran ambackup from the laptop but it had not finished by bedtime so I left it on to complete and

Re: DLE entries containing # (hash mark) break the communication

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 05:15:34PM +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Jon LaBadie <j...@jgcomp.com> (Mo 26 Jun 2017 16:40:34 CEST): > … > > > ERROR [FORMAT ERROR IN REQUEST PACKET Error on line 1 char 2216: \ > > > Element 'property' was closed, but the currently

Re: DLE entries containing # (hash mark) break the communication

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 01:42:55PM +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Hello, > > Amanda-Server is3.3.6 (package by Debian 8 (jessie)) > Amanda-Client is3.3.9 (package by Debian 9 (stretch)) > > My server side configuration contains: > > define application tar { > plugin

Re: Labelstr issues with 3.4.3

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 05:46:26AM +0200, Uwe Menges wrote: > On 05/02/17 03:19, Luc Lalonde wrote: > > Since upgrading to 3.4.3 I seem to having problems with Amanda recognizing > > my tapes. > > > > Here’s the ‘labelstr’ directive in my ‘amanda.conf’: > > labelstr "^000[0-9][0-9][0-9]*” > >

Re: amrecover isn't

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:52:00PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > The last time I used amrecover I had to make a tempdir on the same disk > as the stuff I wanted to recover was on. thats ok because I figure I > can always copy it back to where it goes. > > The last time I ran

Re: strange initial backup - crc difference

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 07:51:49AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On 24/04/17 06:29 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > I just added a new DLE to my disklist and ran a > > "no-taper" dump of just the new DLE. The amdump > > report listed it as "STRANGE" and s

strange initial backup - crc difference

I just added a new DLE to my disklist and ran a "no-taper" dump of just the new DLE. The amdump report listed it as "STRANGE" and showed an error I do not recall seeing before: sendbackup: native-CRC 3faac26a:42524590080 sendbackup: client-CRC 11399450:30775008478 I presume this means the

Re: lots of level-0 backups

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 05:01:32PM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > Jon LaBadie writes: > >On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:03:02PM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > >> despite the documentation saying that the "diskdevice" must be a mount

Re: lots of level-0 backups

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:03:02PM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > Jean-Louis Martineau writes: > >On 11/04/17 11:41 AM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > > > despite the documentation saying that the "diskdevice" must be a mount > point (it isn't anymore). > where was that? it

Re: lots of level-0 backups

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:45:52PM -0400, hymie! wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 04:14:25PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 02:24:52PM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out a way to split my two largest DLEs (

Re: lots of level-0 backups

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 09:05:32AM -0400, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > Greetings. > > I seem to be getting an awful lot of full (level-0) backups: > > -rw--- 1 amanda backup 805,089,376 Apr 1 23:04 > slot140/00020.alfred._var.0 > -rw--- 1 amanda backup 805,100,793 Apr 2 23:04

Re: retention-tapes

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:29:56PM +, Tobias Köck wrote: > Hi, > > I get an error about retention-tapes with Amanda 4.4.3. > Is it a new feature added to the build? It did work before. > > backup@chronos:~$ amcheck kundenarchiv > Amanda Tape Server Host Check > -

interesting /bin/ls option

In the category of "You learn something new every day", I just stumbled across the "-v" option of the "ls" command. When I list my vtape "Slots" directory, the first 5 entries are: slot0 slot1 slot10 slot100 slot101 slot2 doesn't appear for another 40 or 50 entries. Well the "-v"

ambackup level 0 only

I've gotten a couple of DLEs to do a "backup on demand" using ambackup. Two things I've noted: - each DLE is considered a separate backup and thus generates a separate report for each - so far (4 dumps of 3 DLEs, 1 done twice) each backup has been a level 0. Is that the only level

Re: Amanda Busy [revisited] -- now ambackupd

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 09:10:49AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > Jon, > > You can remove the faullty 4 lines. > 3.4 can do multiple backup in parallel. > > Instead of using amdump_client/amdumpd, you should use ambackup/ambackupd. > amdump_client/amdumpd is the old protocol and is kept

Re: Amanda Busy [revisited]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 12:33:28AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Anyone ever seen a "Amanda Busy" message before? > > Got a little further with amdump_client. Now the > two remote clients (Fedora 24&25, Fedora binaries 3.4.2) > are connecting to the server (CentO

Re: Amanda Busy

On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 09:22:34AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 March 2017 00:33:28 Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > Anyone ever seen a "Amanda Busy" message before? > > > > Got a little further with amdump_client. Now the > > two remote clie

Amanda Busy

Anyone ever seen a "Amanda Busy" message before? Got a little further with amdump_client. Now the two remote clients (Fedora 24&25, Fedora binaries 3.4.2) are connecting to the server (CentOS7.3, Zmanda binaries 3.4.2). Of the three amdump_client commands, "list" is working but "check" and

Re: tapelist format

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:31:38AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > Jon, > > Can you try the attached patch? I'm running the zmanda pre-builts and do not have a build system set up here. > > On 25/02/17 01:58 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > I'm getting a lot of these m

tapelist format

I'm getting a lot of these messages in my nightly report planner: Last full dump of cyber.jgcomp.com:Home on tape DS1-084 overwritten in 1 run. planner: Last full dump of cyber.jgcomp.com:Vault on tape DS1-079 overwritten in 1 run. It made little sense as there are many full dumps or these

inconsistant config argument

The typical "example" amanda configuration is 'DailySet1'. To much typing for me, so I normally use 'DS1'. Thinking some amanda commands let you skip the config argument and default to a "coded-in" 'DailySet1' I was looking for how to define the default when using pre-built binaries. Looking at

Re: segfault from planner (3.4.2-1)

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 01:50:03PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 07:55:27AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > Uwe, > > > > Thanks for your good bug report and patch. > > Can you tried the attached patch instead of yours? > > > >

Re: segfault from planner (3.4.2-1)

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 07:55:27AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > Uwe, > > Thanks for your good bug report and patch. > Can you tried the attached patch instead of yours? > > Jean-Louis Any idea when the patch will make it into the "prebuilt" community packages? I erased the CentOS7 repo

Re: make DLE wait for a job

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 09:46:00AM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > (didn't show up on the ml, so I re-send) > > is there any good trick to do this: > > on amanda-client-host I run backups of VMs to tarballs (using > virt-backup and LVM) > > in my amanda config I have DLEs pointing at

Re: exclude files

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 05:27:24AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I asked an exclude file question back up the log a month or so ago that I > guess got lost in the noise at the time. > > So let me ask it in a different way. > > Where is the log file that records where a

Re: big update killed 1 host

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:45:37PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I added updates to my CentOS Amanda server that > changed the OS release from 7.2 to 7.3. Amanda > version remained at 3.3.3. Before update, all > clients including the server were working fine. > > After the u

Re: big update killed 1 host

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 02:07:46PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > Jon, > > Why systemd print the ExecStart on the socket? it's a systemd bug or a > misconfiguration. > > Jean-Louis > I don't know that "systemd" is printing the string. I simply said the string matches what is in the

big update killed 1 host

I added updates to my CentOS Amanda server that changed the OS release from 7.2 to 7.3. Amanda version remained at 3.3.3. Before update, all clients including the server were working fine. After the update, all clients backed up fine except the server itself. amcheck -c gives an error:

Re: big update killed 1 host

in the systemd service file "/usr/lib/systemd/system/amanda@.service". On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:45:37PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I added updates to my CentOS Amanda server that > changed the OS release from 7.2 to 7.3. Amanda > version remained at 3.3.3. Before update,

amdump_client - failing planner

I'm still trying to get amdump_client working. The sub-commands "check" and "list" are working, "dump" is not. Whether I list the disks on the amdump_client command line or not, the report says "no DLE to dump". Planner is returning with an exit code of 1. Here is the brief planner logfile for

Re: GNUtar 1.29 on FreeBSD doesn't support --atime-preserve='system' option

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:36:24PM -0500, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > * Jean-Louis Martineau [20170119 10:29]: > > On 19/01/17 09:49 AM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > > > Hi,, > ... > > > > > > > > > Question: are they any drawbacks, performance, etc, when setting >

backups of snapshots

Has a procedure been "standardized" for backing up from a filesystem snapshot rather than the live fs? Or do people still roll their own procedures? Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703)

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 06:35:39PM +, Jose M Calhariz wrote: > I am reviewing the patches used by Debian to build amanda 3.3.9 and > updating them for amanda 3.4.1. I think some of them are not specific > to Debian. My plan is to present the patches here so they can be > reviewed for

big estimate / faulty dump

I'm getting faulty, incomplete dumps of several DLE. For example, /home is a separate DLE, 82GB used according to df(1) and estimated by calcsize at 52GB. But the dump is only 0.5GB. I see nothing unusual in the logs, suggestions on what to research welcomed. Client is Fedora 24, amanda 3.3.9

Re: Backing up the backup server

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 12:29:07AM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2017-01-04 um 18:21 schrieb Ochressandro Rettinger: > > Are there any instructions available for how to do a full bare metal > > restore onto a physical server? I've got a process down for > > restoring VMs, but that's

short hostname vs FQDN

In my disklist file I have typically used just the short name for my hosts rather than the FQDN versions. I.e. the first line below rather than the second. vost Home /home comp-user-tar vost.jgcomp.com Home /home comp-user-tar My server and all the clients are in

Re: Monthly full backups

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 06:03:22PM +, Ochressandro Rettinger wrote: > > I've got Amanda running in the normal manner, with a 10 day > tape cycle, 7 day dump cycle, and 5 runspercycle, letting Amanda handle when > to do fulls and incrementals. My boss wants to do separate

Re: amdump_client

.com" fails with: Argument 'cyber.jgcomp.com' matches neither a host nor a disk. Jon > Jean-Louis > > On 15/12/16 10:23 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > I have finally gotten amdump_client "trying" to work. > > Had to modify the systemd amanda@.service unit file. >

amdump_client

I have finally gotten amdump_client "trying" to work. Had to modify the systemd amanda@.service unit file. Of the three amdump_client commands, list works, check fails (below), and dump shows not errors but ends quickly. The server is CentOS 7.2, Amanda 3.3.3 and the client is Fedora 24, Amanda

Joys of SystemD

On my Fedora systems (amanda clients) there seem to be 6 SystemD unit files associated with amanda (output reordered and grouped). My CentOS amanda server has only the first 4. $ systemctl list-unit-files | grep aman amanda-udp.service static amanda-udp.socket

Re: amservice

On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 09:48:17AM +0100, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Hello, > > Jon LaBadie <j...@jgcomp.com> (Do 08 Dez 2016 19:36:07 CET): > > Is amservice a client-side program or server-side? > > In Fedora packages it does not come in with the clien

amservice

Is amservice a client-side program or server-side? In Fedora packages it does not come in with the client package. Playing with amanda_client I get this error: amdump_client: open3: exec of /usr/sbin/amservice -f /dev/null \ -s amandahost bsdtcp amdumpd \ failed

Re: Client triggered backup

On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 07:24:08AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On 08/12/16 03:56 AM, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > > Jon LaBadie <j...@jgcomp.com> (Do 08 Dez 2016 06:05:17 CET): > > > I'm thinking of systems, like laptops, that are booted > > > irregular

Client triggered backup

I'm thinking of systems, like laptops, that are booted irregularly and are unlikely to be running during the normal backup time period. It may be something like the client hitting a port on the amanda server saying "I'm up now, back me up to the holding disk". The topic comes up regularly, has

amanda-security.conf

My first contact with this config file. If I properly understand its purpose I think the comment section has an error. # If a program and symbolic name is not listed, then the # # configured binary is allowed to be run as root. # Shouldn't that be "binary is NOT allowed" ? If

spreading vtapes among disks

I'm going to be setting up an amanda server with vtapes spread over 4-6 disk drives. I expect several of the drives will be able to hold two or more dumpcycles worth of vtapes. What would you recommend for the distribution of the vtapes, each disk hold a single sequential group of tapes or

Re: amcheck failing when checking multiple clients

On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 08:05:35AM +0200, Uwe Menges wrote: > On 07/29/16 16:59, Chris Nighswonger wrote: > > Yes, but they are compiled with user 'amandabackup' whereas packages in > > the distro repo are compiled with 'backup.' The site here is large > > enough that the pain of switching the

Re: Amanda Scheduling related.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 08:40:17AM +0900, Chaerin Kim wrote: > Hello. > > I heard Amanda can schedule backups automatically. > So I tried using this function. > But it doesn't work as expected. > > I set Amanda as follows. > - dumpcycle: 1 days > - runspercycle: 5 > - tapecycle: 8 tapes > -

Re: tapes and external disks: how to combine all this

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 07:12:38PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2016-07-13 um 22:19 schrieb Jon LaBadie: > > > I've not used it on Linux, but an Overlay FS (OFS) was introduced > > in the kernel about 2 years ago. With that, your two drives > > could have thei

Re: tapes and external disks: how to combine all this

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 04:20:51PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2016-07-13 um 16:12 schrieb Jean-Louis Martineau: > > > amanda detect the disks via the meta label. > > The 'changerfile' must be located on the disk,it is where the meta label > > for the disk is written. > > ok, I have

Re: Backup of backups, and backup migrations

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 02:42:31PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > AMVAULT will copy an Amanda backup from one media to another, > and will tell Amanda about it too, so that she knows the data > is on the new media. I used it to copy some LTO2 tapes to > LTO5 tapes. > > Deb Baddorf (from phone)

Re: includefile in disklist

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 07:30:56PM +0100, Mikalai Krot wrote: > Hi all, > ... > Anyway, the issue is solved. I know that multiple includefile stanzas are > not possible with amanda-3.3.3 in rhel7. > > Thank you for your help, > Nikolai Is there a second observation of that defect in 3.3.3? jl

Re: increments taped before level 0 ?

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 03:39:39PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On 27/01/16 11:47 AM, jflack wrote: > >On 01/26/2016 05:51 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > > >>What is the taperalgo setting? > >largestfit > > man amanda.conf: > largestfit >The largest dump image

Re: [focus...@focus1data.com] DLEs not being backed up properly, only dumping 1-10kB each run

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 02:51:27PM -0500, Focus1 IT wrote: > Alright, looking into package install history on the amanda-server host, I > don't see any changes to tar. > > This is a list of everything installed since November: > > 2015-11-04 12:08:17 install libicu48 4.8.1.1-3ubuntu0.6 ... > >

Re: DLEs not being backed up properly, only dumping 1-10kB each run

On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 04:00:23PM -0500, Focus1 IT wrote: > Hi, > > This is my first post to the amanda-users list, I'm hoping the community > can help me resolve an issue that has rendered our backup-set 90% > ineffective. In short, I've got about 65 DLEs that are not being backed > up, 60 of

Re: Fwd: amrecover seems to work but just leaves empty directory

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 05:02:46PM -0500, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > It's kind of annoying that over a span of many years gnu tar seems to have > recurrent bugs that cause trouble with Amanda. I'm sure I've done quite a > few recoveries on this system over the last year, and this is the first

Re: Newbie help

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 10:28:27PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > I agree with Alan’s comment. You shouldn’t need - - notaper. (But you > CAN use it > if you want - see below). > Some comments below. > Deb Baddorf > > > On Dec 1, 2015, at 3:18 PM, Chris Lewis wrote:

Re: Newbie help

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:35:26PM -0500, Chris Lewis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/02/2015 01:36 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > | On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 10:28:27PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > |> I agree with Alan’s comment. You shouldn

Re: question about layout on tape

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 04:52:22PM +, David Simpson wrote: > Sorry I'm back so soon with more Qs - I guess getting stuck into the > restores is giving me a lot to think about! > > How can one find out the number of filemarks on the tape? (assuming > worst case no amanda info and

Re: Throughput/write to tape

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 01:22:24AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 24 November 2015 21:41:44 Jon LaBadie wrote: > ... > > You may wish to check your data. Create a huge file on that 2TB > > holding disk. Make it 10-20% of the tape capacity, say 700GB-1TB. > &g

speaking of LTO

All this talk of fancy tape drives reminded me, I've got an unwanted, external LTO-1 drive (SCSI interface). Available to anyone for shipping cost (no handling charge). I think there are also a couple of unused tapes. My location is in my signature. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie

Re: Throughput/write to tape

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 09:51:56PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > Others: how about also some comments about software vs hardware > compression? > I was under the impression that software compression allows amanda better > control, since she then knows how much will actually fit on the tape,

Re: Throughput/write to tape

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 09:27:56PM +, David Simpson wrote: ... > > The problem now is throughput. > > My average dump rate is quite poor on the test I've run - I'm not surprised > though as this client is limited by network. This will be made better at some > point by running a test over a

Re: archive and near-line usage

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:27:30PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > AMANDA USERS LIST: anybody else want to jump in here with better ideas?? > > I’m open to better suggestions ….. I’m probably making a real hash of > this, and > not necessarily making suggestions in the best order….. >

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 12:04:34AM +, Joi L. Ellis wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > Which is sort of what I did Joi. > > > > amrecover bothers me because that is no apparent way to strip the leading > > part of the path from what you want to recover, and from the messages it > > presents, if

Re: Amanda client weirdnesses on MacOSX

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 09:12:46AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > I am using the Amanda 2.5.0p2 client on a MacOSX (matching a Amanda 2.5.0p2 > server on a CentOS 5.11 system) and have it set up to use GnuTAR for backup > on > the Mac (a MacMini). This works OK, but there are some weirdnesses:

Re: Upgrade woes and eternal hanging of dumps

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 01:49:46PM -0500, Seann wrote: ... The only errors for the manual run are 'Strange' errors, related to files that either have been removed during backup, or files (log files mainly) that have changed during the tar process. I updated my cron tasks last night, to run

Re: [Amanda-users] amzfs-sendrecv - restore how?

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:51:29PM -0700, harpingon wrote: Hello This is probably a stupid question, but I'm not finding the answer by searching I'm backing up a SPARC/Solaris 11 server with amzfs-sendrecv via pfexec , and I do get my dumps okay. They show up on the amanda server tape

Re: meaning of plus (+) in amanda.conf(5)

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 12:27:08PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 01/08/15 03:35 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: When replying to Gene H's thread I quoted the amanda.conf(5) manpage estimate [ client | calcsize | server ]+ I thought I knew the meaning of the + at the end of parameter

Re: timeout on reply pipe errors are killing me, 2 days in a row

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:38:54PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 31 July 2015 17:06:30 Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 04:21:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 18 July 2015 10:40:38 Gene Heskett wrote: Only on THIS machine, the remotes being backed up over

meaning of plus (+) in amanda.conf(5)

When replying to Gene H's thread I quoted the amanda.conf(5) manpage estimate [ client | calcsize | server ]+ I thought I knew the meaning of the + at the end of parameter specifications -- the final term can be repeated. But now I'm not certain. In a spec like: property [append] string

Re: timeout on reply pipe errors are killing me, 2 days in a row

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 04:21:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 18 July 2015 10:40:38 Gene Heskett wrote: Only on THIS machine, the remotes being backed up over the cat5 always work. etimeout was 600, made it 1800 dtimeout was 1800, made it 2400 uptime is 7 days small

Re: amanda 3.3.7 intermittent issue

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 08:19:07AM +1200, dmitry.lozits...@asparona.com wrote: Thanks Gene and Alan, Thank you for your recommendations. Seems that increasing of holding disk space does the trick, though I didn't want to go that way. It's still not clear for me why shoe shining happens

Re: transition to new tape library

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:49:23AM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Thanks, Brian. I think that amrestore comment is the key. What I did was move my amanda.conf and changer.conf to amanda1.conf and changer1.conf. Then I replicated them with a 2 and edited that for the new tape library. Finally,

Re: Trouble with breaking up large directory

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:45:11AM -0700, Alan Murrell wrote: Hi Jon, Thanks for the reply :-) You seem to the the only one who does :-) On 21/05/2015 7:49 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: and is optional. Spindle number is later defined as: OK, I think that makes sense. So if I had another

Re: Trouble with breaking up large directory

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 06:57:43AM -0700, Alan Murrell wrote: Hi All, I have a Windows host I am trying to back up, on which I have the Zamanda client. One of the directories is really huge (it has all the departmental shares in it), and to make file retrieval times reasonable (both in

Re: Question about backup cycle

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 02:54:11PM -0700, Alan Murrell wrote: I am looking at Amanda, and I have a question about Amanda's ability to distribute out the backups over the course of a cycle to make each backup about the same size. I am just wonder if it will do this even for one directory.

Re: amrecover, samba

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 02:55:27PM -0700, Alan Murrell wrote: I understand that if I backup using the Zamanda Windows Client (ZWC), I can't restore a single file; I have to restore the entire backup, then extract the resulting archive onto the Windows server. This appears to be due to the ZWC

Re: Advice requested: Offsite suggestions?

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 02:57:09PM -0700, Alan Murrell wrote: Hello, I am currently evaluating Amanda (community edition). I have been intrigued by it for a long time now, but am just now seriously looking at it. Our current practice when we setup backups for clients (using a well-known

Re: Question about backup cycle

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 03:58:07PM -0700, Alan Murrell wrote: Thanks for the reply, Jon. On 05/17/2015 03:48 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: No a single DLE can not be balanced. Amanda does its balancing by adjusting dump levels of DLEs. If a dump estimate is lower than average size, amanda may

Re: Behavior when no tape in the library is free

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 03:53:16PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Jason, Which taperscan are you using? The default 'traditional' read all slots. Try the 'lexical' or 'oldest'. I've never used a changer where all slots were not devoted to amanda. So I ask these from inexperience.

Re: support for removable (RDX) disks

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:43:51PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 16.02.2015 10:02, Gour wrote: Hello, tried with forums, but got no reply, so I'm trying here now... I'm considering to upgrade my current backup system consisting of Amanda and LTO-2 drive/tapes. My needs are

Re: An odd problem...

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 12:11:23PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; ... then: su amanda -c amcheck Daily root@coyote:/home/amanda# su amanda -c amcheck Daily su: Authentication failure (Ignored) sh: 1: amcheck: not found But amcheck is sitting in /usr/local/sbin. And its in

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