On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:25:11AM -0500, Arthur Smith wrote:
Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me with a confusing situation i've
gotten myself into...
First of all, I have configured and tested Amanda to satisfaction, and
am ready to use it in production. Thus, I found and followed the
and so on, and amanda will use them in the order they are put in,
correct? As if they were actually new tapes (even though they're not)...
Am I on track?
--acorn
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:25:11AM -0500, Arthur Smith wrote:
Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:15:51AM -0400, Jordan Desroches wrote:
Hi all :-)
I'm having a hard time finding the answer to this question by
searching around. I have a DLE which is 1TB in size. My server has .8
TB of holding disk, and each of my tapes is .4 TB native.
Can AMANDA span a
With my move to VA comes attending new user groups.
One of the linux user group members said for his
amanda installation he added a full name to the
password file for his amanda user. His user has
a last name of hugenkiss. So each morning he
gets an email report from Amanda Hugenkiss.
--
Jon
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:24:33AM -0500, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
OS: Solaris 10 SPARC
AMANDA Version: 2.5.2P1
Last night my Soalris 10 sparc host Amanda failed with the following errors
zorn /export/users-z lev 0 FAILED
[/local/Amanda/amanda-2.5.2p1/libexec/runtar exited with
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:48:02AM -0600, Gordon J. Mills III wrote:
I have recently run into a problem with restoring. I want to restore a
folder on a DLE that is about 100G. The folder I want to restore is small
but apparently Amanda has to restore the entire DLE to get at the 1 folder.
It
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 06:38:33AM -0800, Wayne Thorpe wrote:
IIRC? is that If I recall correctly or is it a tech/AMANDA term.
Yes, confirmed by www.acronymfinder.com.
--
Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JG Computing
12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884
Reston,
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:28:52PM -0500, FL wrote:
AMANDA is complaining about a tape (Daily07) that has been removed from
the database:
Did that drop the number of active tapes in the tapelist
file below the tapecycle value?
-bash-3.00$ amcheck Daily
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:11:14AM -0800, Tom Herrera wrote:
Quick thanks to Jon, Gene, Chris, and John for assist with my amflush
question
Am now looking for folks suggestions on whay I'm seeing on my amreport.
I've copied it below. Since I'm still very new to both Linux and Amanda I'm
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:33:25AM -0800, Tom Herrera wrote:
I am new to both Linux and Amanda, so please be gentle. I've recently come
over from the dark side of Windoze.
I've inherited a small net from a previous sysop. He was using Amanda on two
servers, and I would like to continue
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:24:53AM -0800, Tom Herrera wrote:
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
One other point to check. Since Tom is coming new into an existing
setup, and didn't specify in his original post, it's possible those are
from another amanda configuration that is not being run.
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 01:36:15PM +0100, Charles Stroom wrote:
Greeting,
since a number of days Amanda reports:
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
fiume.localnet / lev 0 STRANGE
The details given below in the backup report are:
FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
/--
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 06:44:05PM -0800, fedora wrote:
yup. I would say you are a bit confused.
The 26th is the last full backup (the 0 in the column after the date),
and the 29th is the most recent incremental based on that full (the 1 in
the column after the date). Anything else is
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:42:30AM -0500, Jennifer Luisi wrote:
Hi there,
I'm new to Amanda and am trying to get a disk-to-disk backup going.
When I run amcheck, everything seems fine. Then, when I run amdump,
nothing ever gets written to disk (virtual tape). The amanda log file
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:31:24PM -0700, John E Hein wrote:
From gtar docs...
`--numeric-owner'
This option will notify `tar' that it should use numeric user and
group IDs when creating a `tar' file, rather than names.
...
Maybe we should just turn on --numeric-owner by
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:17:50AM -0800, Gil Vidals wrote:
After thinking a bit more on this, for bare-metal recovery, it seems logical
that I MUST include every directory. I shouldn't leave anything out since
the recovery process outlined below never calls for re-loading the OS.
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:34:52PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:17:50AM -0800, Gil Vidals wrote:
After thinking a bit more on this, for bare-metal recovery, it seems logical
that I MUST include every directory. I shouldn't leave anything out since
the recovery
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:10:35AM -0800, Gil Vidals wrote:
I'm aiming to use Amanda for bare metal restores as described in Backup
Recovery by Curtis Preston - p. 145. However, I'm not sure which
directories to exclude. In fact, I'm not sure that I should exclude anything
at all. Should I
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 04:26:38PM +0100, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
Hi,
your e-mail woke me up :-)
I've tested Amanda a little today and it already works quite good.
...
My changerfile basically contains:
firstslot=1 First storage slot (element) -- required
lastslot=5
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:58:29PM -0800, fedora wrote:
hi guys,
What I was wondering is how come I can do backup for database (32GB) even
using default estimate which is client estimate compare to the 2 DLEs
(only 12GB total + using calcsize). As I know the calcsize estimate do a
faster
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:07:17PM -0600, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On 11/5/07, Chris Hoogendyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The question is, why does the planner go on about promoting full dumps,
when taper already knows there is no tape?
Keep in mind that the planner/driver separation is the
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:31:53PM -0500, Tom Hansen wrote:
BACKGROUND INFO: I have Amanda 2.5.2p1 running on Ubuntu linux 6.10,
configured to backup several large (300Gb +) filesystems spanning
several tapes. I have a robot changer, LTO1 tapes (100Gb capacity) and
I used:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:59:48PM -0500, Tom Hansen wrote:
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:31:53PM -0500, Tom Hansen wrote:
BACKGROUND INFO: I have Amanda 2.5.2p1 running on Ubuntu linux 6.10,
configured to backup several large (300Gb +) filesystems spanning
several tapes
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 04:24:25PM -0500, Linda Pahdoco wrote:
I was really hoping I could get the tape changer configured before this
happened, but it bit me on the rear.
Amanda 2.4.5 server.
I've got a level 0 sitting on my disk. It's too large to fit on tape.
I need to extract a
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 12:13:57PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
Hi all,
Is there a way to use multiple lbl-templ lines simultaneously?
I'd really like to print out the DLT labels to send offsite with my
tapes inside the cases, but it would be really nice to also use the
8x11 template to
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:46:59AM -0700, JJB wrote:
Hello,
Does Amanda's mac and windows client software allow open files to be
backed up the way that commercial backup software like EMC Retrospect
(what we are using now) does?
Haven't heard any problems with Mac's as they now are
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:53:09AM -0500, Krahn, Anderson wrote:
Here are some errors i get with chg-zd-mtx:
chg-zd-mtx: debug 1 pid 9380 ruid 30063 euid 30063: start at Mon Oct
15 14:34:48 2007
14:34:48 Using config file /etc/amanda/Full/changer.conf
14:34:48 Arg info:
$#
/usr/local/sbin/mtx
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:09 AM
To: amanda-users@amanda.org
Subject: Re: problems with chg-zd-mtx and using 2 drives
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:53:09AM
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:26:51PM +0100, Johan Booysen wrote:
I'm using amanda to back up our Linux servers, and want to exclude some
directories from a specific folder on a backup client.
In my disklist on the backup server, I've got an entry such as:
backupclientname
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:47:48PM +0200, Ingo Freund wrote:
On 02.10.2007 12:49, Paul Bijnens wrote (please find the answer below the
original text):
On 2007-10-02 12:34, Ingo Freund wrote:
Hi list,
...
- the wiki says the vtape-partitions should not
be in a amanda
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:50:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm setting up Amanda for the first time and would like to configure
it for our existing backup strategy. We want to do complete backups
nightly during weekdays, i.e. Monday-Friday night. Once a week, let's
say Wednesday, we
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:26:01AM -0500, Tim Johnson J. wrote:
I am running amanda 2.5.1p1-2.1 to a disk array on a debian backup
server and all of a suddenly it is not refusing to
run via a cron job or starting in the backround, it never initiates
data transfer (ie: /usr/sbin/amdump
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:26:50PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
One of the most important feature of amanda was (it still is but read
on) the possibility of doing a bare-metal restore with just a few
utilities. I say was because in my case the ever increasing amount of
data, the size
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:57:11PM -0600, John Hein wrote:
The other night, a number of incremental dumps included a lot of files that
should not have been dumped.
As a result, I got a number of 'dumps way too big' failure messages
causing a number of DLEs to not get dumped since the planner
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:00:37PM +1000, Craig Dewick wrote:
Something that bothers me is that the 'sgen' driver won't pickup the
robotics card. /kernel/drv/sgen.conf contains:
device-type-config-list=changer, sequential;
inquiry-config-list=HP, QUANTUM;
Make sure the
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:16:14AM +1000, Craig Dewick wrote:
Ok I've just done this with the mtx 1.3.11 utility:
# /usr/local/sbin/mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/c1t0d0 inquiry
Product Type: Medium Changer
Vendor ID: 'HP '
Product ID: 'C7145-8000 '
Revision: '206S'
Attached Changer API: No
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:18:35PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
Hello!
I'm thinking about buying an used DLT8000 drive for the puropse of
occasionally reading some old DLT tapes (not with Amanda, so sorry for
the OT). Sun Model Number 622, Part Number 599-2347-02 is available on
eBay, but I
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:57:18AM -0500, Linda Pahdoco wrote:
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
That arrangement is ok, with the proviso that you can't use tape
spanning on the server, or you won't be able to recover using older
clients. There may be more limitations -- someone else please
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:47:41PM +0200, Francis Galiegue wrote:
Hello again!
I have a DLE with more than 378k files in it (that's not a joke), I'm trying
to restore it using (again) amrecover. The DLE is found without a hitch,
however, it's been now 30 minutes that I've issued the add *
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:39:10AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to test Amanda before installing a tape drive, therefore I
am using the tapetype HARD-DISK.
Since the backup will be about 1TB in size, I created a partition of
this size ( /amandatapes ).
I don't have the
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 05:14:24PM +0200, Mark Scheufele wrote:
Hi,
I am having the problem that our amanda installation doesn't increment
the dump levels for the filesystems defined in the DLE.
This is the backup status mail from Friday 7th of September:
NOTES:
planner: Last full
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:07:18AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been doing tapeless backups for some time now (using tapedev
file:/...) and my backups have now gotten big enough that the following
is an issue:
First, to achieve parallel dumps, I use a holdingdisk. This however
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:44:31PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
I am running amanda 2.5.2p1 on a Solaris sparc host.
Below is output from an amrecover run.
amrecover add tidyview-1.13.tar.gz
Added file /rmcgraw/tidyview-1.13.tar.gz
amrecover extract
Extracting
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:57:45AM -0600, Mario Silva wrote:
Does any doby know how to manupulate when is going to take the full or
incrmental backups?
Use a dumptype that specifies incremental only.
Before the dump on the days you want a full dump
use amadmin's force command to schedule a
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:12:44PM -0600, Mario Silva wrote:
Hi all:
I have a question that I know it might not have question because I could not
find nothing about how to limit the bandwidth that amanda uses while is
backing up a file system.
See the INTERFACE SECTION of amanda.conf.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:48:06PM +0100, Rory Beaton wrote:
Quoting Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 02:28:10PM +0100, Rory Beaton wrote:
grunt:/usr/sbin # amtapetype -o -e 80g -f /dev/nst0
Writing 512 Mbyte compresseable data: 94 sec
Writing 512 Mbyte
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:18:51AM +0200, Ralf Auer wrote:
Hello everybody,
if you don't mind, I have two questions concerning hardware compression.
I have two HP Ultrium 960 drives. Up to now I used them with hardware
compression disabled and compressed my data on the clients.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:17:02AM +0900, d_boy wrote:
Hello list
Please let me ask a question about an Amanda2.4.X version.
A question is asked about the item called dumpcycle in an
amanda.conf configuration file.
Is a full backup performed at intervals of that value, as for the
value
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 02:28:10PM +0100, Rory Beaton wrote:
For the record, here's the output of amtapetype for the Hewlett Packard DAT160
USB with hardware compression OFF.
There are no visible jumpers or dip-switches to disable hardware compression
like earlier DAT devices - inside the
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:10:58AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:09:50AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
What really happens when GTAR INDEXING is enabled ?
Briefly, the client 'tees' the tar output to another invocation of tar
with the -t (table of contents)
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 04:08:19PM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a ?crit sur 08/08/2007 15:44:30 :
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:11:12AM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
Hi,
I just would like to know if Amanda is able to write 2 tapes at the
same time to improve
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:10:31AM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Mitch Collinsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Which is why it would be really nice to have a different triggering method
for performing backups on roaming laptops. Something that begins with the
laptop calling in to
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 12:47:27PM +0200, Gerrit A. Smit -TI- wrote:
Gerrit A. Smit wrote:
I would like a way to tell amrecover that
those tapes are off site without too much fiddling around with setdate.
This question remains unsolved, I think.
By telling Amanda not to re-use a
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:03:35PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
My bad, replying to myself...
Here's the outpout of 2 simultaneous running dd's on non-compressing
tape devices daisy-chained to the same scsi hba (LSI U320 PCI-X):
grumpy:~# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=32k
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:25:00AM +0200, Ralf Auer wrote:
Why with such a tight setup do you have runtapes set to
greater than 1. With only 1 tape allowed per day you would
have gotten a failure to backup that DLE that did not fit.
This would have been noticed by amanda during the
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:22:42AM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
Thanks for the whole story Jon.
Do you see something I should take care of before buying one of these 2
tape library?
Here are some documentation about these:
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:18:15PM +0200, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
...
Also, can somebody explain me the main difference between a tape library
and a tape autoloader?
Not sure if this is accurate or not - so take it with a grain of salt.
Practically I think of them as differing in scale. A
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:13:09PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:36:49PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
So, you have sendmail and lotus notes running on it. Does the other
lotus notes server load balance with this one? Or do they serve
different groups? Does it
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:52:01AM +0200, Ralf Auer wrote:
Hi everybody,
I have a question that is related to that 'friday tape question' in
Amanda's Top10 I quoted below:
/*
Imagine that you have your classic backup-schedule running fine.
Everything is calculated and designed
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:01:34AM +, Gerhard Brauer wrote:
No, my message was unclear. A single drive with chg-manual should
be ok. But, do you have chg-manual working? Just because you
specify it as your tape changer doesn't say that. Have you tested
it as I suggested with
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:38:07AM -0500, Steven Osborn wrote:
I did give it -e of 200G which is it's native capacity, and it estimated 51
hours. It's capable of 86.4GB/hr so each pass *should* take about 2.5 hours.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jon
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:50:20PM +, Gerhard Brauer wrote:
Hello,
this is my first post, i try amanda since a few days. And sorry for my
sometimes bad english, i'am not a native speaker.
I don't understand the new concept when a backup must go over two or
more tapes cause one tape is
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:04:52PM +, Gerhard Brauer wrote:
Hello!
* Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am [29.07.07 22:31]:
Is your hardware a tape drive or a tape drive and changer
mechanism. I'm getting mixed information from your
description.
Sorry for confusing you
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 07:18:32PM -0500, Steven Osborn wrote:
I have a Dell Powervault 124T LTO-2 and I'm running amtapetype on it and it
is running incredibly slow. It estimates 51 hours to check the tape. I'm
new to amanda, but this seems absurdly slow to me.
I'll bet you did not give
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 03:10:40AM -0700, fedora wrote:
Hello,
There was no tape in your drive/changer or it was not writeable (write
protected, broken tape, no tape with valid label,...)
Actually I am using tapeless. I made HDD as virtual tape (tapetype
HARD-DISK). The tape was
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:45:06PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:11:21PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Ralf Auer schrieb:
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to use two physical tape drives (HP Ultrium 960) with
Amanda. According to the manual, I could use
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 08:46:56AM +0200, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
Hello,
fedora schrieb:
Questions:
1) No writable valid tape found. What does it mean?
There was no tape in your drive/changer or it was not writeable (write
protected, broken tape, no tape with valid label,...)
Just an
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:19:54AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've restored amanda file systems in the past from tape using amrestore.
However, I switched from tapes to vtapes several months ago and am trying
to restore a file system.
According to the FAQs and posts I saw searching
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:32:46PM -0400, FM wrote:
Hmm still not luck,
Here is some info from amanda.conf :
runtapes 2
tapedev /dev/nst0
tapetypeULTRIUM-3
changerfile /etc/amanda/global/chg-scsi.conf
While the compatibility list at http://mtx.opensource-sw.net
doesn't list your
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 07:16:21AM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
* Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070720 00:51]:
A DLE using tape spanning from a client (amanda 2.5.1p3 Debian/Sarge)
to server (2.5.2p1 SGI/Irix) just seems to dump **extremely** slowly:
so far in ~8hrs not even
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:16:24PM +0200, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
Hi,
Charles Stroom schrieb:
amcheck reports no problem.
amcheck doesn't use the full source/destination portrange like amdump.
On the client, I have opened TCP/UDP port 10080, and TCP
ports 10082 and 10083, because
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:42:30PM +0200, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
Jon LaBadie schrieb:
With the increasing use of pre-built amanda binaries and
the ever increasing concern for security, isn't it about
time to make port usage a run time parameter?
This was introduced in 2.5.2 (not sure
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:31:57PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
Hi,
What happens when a DLE on a client goes to tape directly (PORT-WRITE)
because it can't fit in the holding disk and it bigger than tape
capacity? Is it possible to use tape spanning in that case?
I don't believe
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:48:59PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Paul Bijnens wrote:
Instead of making it a different configuration, and running into trouble
on which full to base an incrmeental, why don't you run an additional
amdump of the normal config in the weekend, but which
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:43:50PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
...
then I created a dumptype that was the same as my regular dumps but with
record no
strategy incronly
I thought this would work, because the incremental would be based on
ufsdump, and it would know there had been a
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:10:21AM -0700, Rudy Setiawan wrote:
ah sorry i pressed the sent button accidentally.
thank you all for the inputs.
With the number of hosts that I have,
what are the best configuration such as, should I separate each file
for each host or I can dump them into one
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:43:40PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:43:50PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
...
then I created a dumptype that was the same as my regular dumps but with
record no
strategy incronly
I thought
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:06:36PM -0500, Paul Crittenden wrote:
I have set up amanda-2.5.2p1 on Solaris 9, with it being the server and
client. I have run amcheck with no errors. I can label tapes but when I
run an amdump It fails. Here is the email I get.
FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
I haven't used amfetchdump before and thought I'd try its
inventory mode, option -i. As I understand it, with this
option amfetchdump will examine the tapes (vtapes in my
case) and generate output showing the contents in a
syntax similar to logfile entries.
If I enter amfetchdump -i mylog
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:31:59PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
Whenever i run an amanda backup around 30mins into the run I get the
following errors in the logs. I've included a few extra unrelated
lines at the beginning to give some context.
From what i can see something bad happened,
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:27:32PM -0400, Charlie Reitsma wrote:
Has there been any work on amanda being aware of backups going to
virtual tape and then the virtual tape being archived to real tape?
I'd love to be able to keep as much as possible on virtual tape but at
some point I need
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:15:26PM +0200, Harald Schioeberg wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I don't know whats the right place for bug-reports, sorry if its off-topic.
amanda (2.5.2) crashes without further notice if /tmp/amanda has no
space left.
amstatus shows in
I'm stumped. A few days ago, 6/6, one client stopped backing
up completely, all DLE's. The basic error message(s) are
cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768
data timeout
Of course I made no changes to either client or server around
that date :)) (big smiley just in case)
Estimates
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:27:04PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
I'm stumped. A few days ago, 6/6, one client stopped backing
up completely, all DLE's. The basic error message(s) are
cannot read header: got 0 instead of 32768
data timeout
Of course I made no changes to either client
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 04:19:52PM -0700, Kevin Till wrote:
Carl D. Blake wrote:
I am running a 2.4.2p2 amanda server which is attempting to backup a
machine with 2.5.1p1 amanda client (Debian Etch). The server is backing
up several machines, but it seems to have trouble with the machines
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:31:45PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Paul Crittenden wrote:
I am trying to install amanda backup software on my Sun server running
Solaris 9.0. At the end of the configuration I get:
checking whether posix fcntl locking works... no
checking whether
taper does.
jl
Jon LaBadie wrote:
Back to back posts to the list on amtapetype and the file:driver
made me wonder, will amtapetype work with virtual tapes? Not
that it would be of any benefit, just wondered if it would.
Well, to my surprise, amtapetype does seem to work with vtapes
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:40:38AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:00:21AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
Jon,
amtapetype should terminate once it fill
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:10:16PM +0200, Harald Schioeberg wrote:
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
I'm always happy to see that amanda do what it should do.
Ok, but what's the autoflush off parameter good for?
Flushing deals with dumps that were left in the holding
disk on a previous run
Back to back posts to the list on amtapetype and the file:driver
made me wonder, will amtapetype work with virtual tapes? Not
that it would be of any benefit, just wondered if it would.
Well, to my surprise, amtapetype does seem to work with vtapes.
But ...
It recognized the slot and amanda
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:28:22AM -0700, James Brown wrote:
I have 500GB of data from a single dump to flush that
barely overflows a single tape. I'd prefer not to
flush and waste all that space on the second tape.
Set runtapes to 1 and do an amflush.
It will only fill one tape and the
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:19:42PM -0500, Jeanna Geier wrote:
Any idea where 'backup' is being called from?
amanda uses either dump or tar (or programs that act like
dump and tar) to actually do the backups.
Not finding a real dump, it appears that amanda's configure
script considered
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:36:20AM -0700, James Brown wrote:
This is a problem for me. The particular
configuration I am using does FULL backups only.
In this case, I don't need the extra backup and I
can't remove the job from the disklist since Amanda
won't flush otherwise.
What is the
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:47:15AM -0700, abrantes wrote:
I'm trying to configure Amanda in my system (actualy with ARCServe 9), but
I'm having some dificulties with amtapetype. My system is:
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 1600SC
OS: SuSE Linux Enterprise 8 (32 bits)
Tape Device: Dell Power
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:32:28AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
I posted to the web -- but I don't know that it will find its
way back to amanda-users. Besides, the thread was 2 years old...
but its come back to haunt me.
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On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 03:33:34PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
Jon,
I'm confused, apparently not parsing this correctly.
I believe you are saying that using strings you confirmed that
the message is generated from ufsdump, but that you would not
expect ufsdump to create /tmp/amanda,
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 04:26:46PM -0500, James Wilson wrote:
Amanda is not reusing tapes in my library. I have them setup to overwrite
when it reaches the last tape but now I am getting this tape error. Any
ideas? Thanks in advance.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No writable valid tape
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:40:00PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:47:33PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
ISTR, from your original message, that the Strange message said
unable to create temporary directory under, /tmp, /var/tmp, and /.
I don't recall it saying
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:23:22PM -0500, James Wilson wrote:
Sorry, I will post my configs this time. I have them split up into 2
separate backups. DailyTapes run from Monday-Saturday and WeeklyTapes
run on Sunday which are always full backups. I meant the conf files by
Them.
Here is my
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 04:58:15PM -0700, David Lynum wrote:
List,
I'm new to Amanda. It's running on a Fedora Core 2 server. Below is
the message I receive from an amanda:
DailyBackup1 AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
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