I had this problem and fixed it by specifying holding-disk -1 local in
disklist for the partition holding ~amanda on the tape server, and
specifying -1 local for the rest of the tape server partitions.
Regards,
Michael Martinez
ISTM/CSREES
United States Department of Agriculture
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I installed and configured amanda-2.4.2p2 rpms on RH 7.1 running kernel
2.4.2-2 with gcc 2.96. I also built, configured and ran
amanda-2.4.4p1.tar.gz source on the same system, no problem.
I've run the same amanda rpm and source builds on RH 7.2, ES 2.1 and
AS2.1 (which are RH 7.2) systems with
I use a separate config for Archives. I find it easy to maintain and
easy to think about. The disklist looks the same for both. And the
amanda.conf looks the same for both (with the exception of the config
name).
I do monthly archives. So I set up the amanda.conf for two years worth
of tapes (24
The devices /dev/*st0
Various letters in front of st0 mean different things, like no-rewind,
no-compress, etc.
Michael Martinez
Linux System Administrator
ISTM/CSREES
United States Department of Agriculture
-Original Message-
From: Bruno Negrão [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday,
What I do is have three different amanda configurations. There's Dailyset1 in which I
let amanda do its incrementals. There's Archives in which I force a full dump. Then
there's Ironmountain in which I do a full dump that gets shipped off site for safe
storage.
Maybe something like that would
subscribe to your list. I would hate to have to un-subscribe
...
I think you should implement a spam prevention policy and a moderated list.
Martinez, Michael
CSREES/ISTM/USDA
-Original Message-
From: Seth, Wayne (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 6
All I know is, none of the other email lists I subscribe to have this
problem. I'm not just going around blatantly complaining to every list about
any little old issue that comes up. I mean, with this list here, it's really
getting annoying receiving so much spam.
Martinez, Michael
CSREES/ISTM
So unsubscribe.
Probably the amanda people would not appreciate that statement.
Also, you may find yourself with legal problems if you
allow someone to post illegal material to your list.
Oh please, what are you trying to threaten people because
you can't be bothered to filter your
We use amanda at the CSREES agency of U.S. Dept of Agriculture. We use it on
our Linux and unix servers. We back up approximately 30 Gigs of data with
it.
Michael Martinez
CSREES/ISTM/USDA
-Original Message-
From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12,
I would forget about trying to get amrecover to recognize index records. I
was never able to do it. And to this day, I don't use amrecover, I use
amrestore instead.
Michael Martinez
-Original Message-
From: John Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 6:07 PM
The index tee error is because you don't have a holding disk defined on
your backup server.
Mike Martinez
-Original Message-
From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 10:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: index tee cannot write [Connection timed
As far as I know, unfortunately there is no way to get around this dilemma
becuase Amanda is not capable of appending tapes.
Michael Martinez
-Original Message-
From: Charles Sprickman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 5:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
DON'T upgrade to xinetd-2.3.9 until you review the xinetd mailing list for
the past three weeks, as there are a number of unresolved issues (software
bugs) with this release of xinetd.
Michael Martinez
-Original Message-
From: Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY
I do
an archival run once a month. I have a separate config called "Archive." It's
identical to my DailySet config, except it gets run once a month. What I do to
make it run full backup is just issue an "amadmin" command using the force
option to make each client do a full backup.
I
issue
Or disable libwrap for amanda by using the NOLIBWRAP flag in your xinetd
conf file
Michael Martinez
-Original Message-
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:jlb17;duke.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 8:15 AM
To: Mozzi
Cc: amanda
Subject: Re: xinetd
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 at
I have an alternative suggestion for you.
I've got two different conf's, one for my regular weekly rotational stuff,
and one called Archives for my permanent archives.
Whenever I want to make a permanent backup of my systems, I just run a dump
of the Archives conf, that way I don't have to
network stuff is right
Michael Martinez
System Administrator
-Original Message-
From: Mozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 2:35 AM
To: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Cc: 'Gene Heskett'; amanda
Subject: Re: Hostname lookups[continued]
Martinez
When I first installed amanda I had this problem too, and fixed it by making
sure .amanahosts had correct permissions and correct contents.
Here's the specs, in the case when an Amanda server is also an Amanda
Client.
Server .amandahosts (perms 400)
server.com amanda
I am already aware of the problem, have fixed it, and taken care of it.
Instead of posting to the whole list, you could have just emailed me about
it and I would have taken care of it
thank you very much
Michael Martinez
System Administrator
-Original Message-
From: Mitch
A follow up:
Well, something like three or four weeks ago I posted an issue regarding
that my amanda server logs were having index tee: connection reset by peer
errors. These did not seem to be interfering with the archiving of data to
tape. Possibly it was interfering with the writing of the
I really think spam control is necessary here. This mailing list is by far
the most spammed list I subscribe to (I subscribe to about twenty lists). I
never receive any spam from most of the other lists, but plenty on this one.
I know, I've mentioned this before, and a couple people have
Our respective tolerance levels are irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Spam filtering is the responsibility of the recipient, not an
intermediary like the Amanda listserv.
I really disagree with that. In the arena of spam filtering it's better to
have as many bottlenecks as possible. By
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Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:32 PM
To: 'Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Question about /home/amanda/20020904/ directory
yes, or it may be a dump left over from an incomplete backup
(i.e. one that
didn't get written to tape).
If you
I have
never seen an answer either, and from day one, I have always had the same "index
not found" type of errors. The only thing it affects is "amrecover" which won't
work without an index. But amrestore works fine.
Michael Martinez System Administrator Information
Systems and Technology
Is the /home/amanda/20020904/ (or whatever date on a particular day)
directory a temporary directory used by amanda during the backup process?
I had never noticed these directories before, until a couple days ago.
Michael Martinez
System Administrator
Information Systems and Technology
, September 04, 2002 8:48 AM
To: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question about /home/amanda/20020904/ directory
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 at 8:34am, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote
Is the /home/amanda/20020904/ (or whatever date on a particular day
What does the -1 mean in the following disklist line:
www /home2 nocomp-user -1 local
Thanks in advance
Michael Martinez
System Administrator
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
Just make a backup of a few large files, recover them into a temporary
directory, and compare the recoverds with the originals using cmp -l.
Michael Martinez
System Administrator
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
To: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What does -1 mean in disklist
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 09:41, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
wrote:
What does the -1 mean in the following disklist line:
www /home2 nocomp-user -1 local
According to the notes
at 01:54:56PM -0400, Martinez, Michael -
CSREES/ISTM wrote:
What does the following syslog errors mean? Should I be
concerned about
it/do something to fix it?
Aug 13 00:56:10 ivideo sendbackup[3608]: index tee cannot
write [Connection
reset by peer]
Aug 14 01:00:43 vision sendbackup
What does the following syslog errors mean? Should I be concerned about
it/do something to fix it?
Aug 13 00:56:10 ivideo sendbackup[3608]: index tee cannot write [Connection
reset by peer]
Aug 14 01:00:43 vision sendbackup[1630]: index tee cannot write [Connection
reset by peer]
Aug 15 00:55:16
Don't
you think it's about time to start using spam control? I get hardly any
unsolicited junk on other mailing lists. It's just this one.
Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture (202)
Spam control
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
-Original Message-
From: Candice Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 9:16 AM
Hey guys (amanda admin):
use spamcontrol please
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
I had a problem with my hp surestore dat drive, whereby random byte errors
were occuring in the data recovered from tape. It was impossible to tell
whether the errors were occuring during the write-to-tape, or the
read-from-tape.
A reboot fixed the problem. Without exploring it any deeper, I
Title: RE: amcheck Problem
You
probably just need to add "root" in your server's .amandahosts file. You should
already have an "amanda" user entry.
Michael Martinez System Administrator (Contractor) Information Systems and Technology Management CSREES - United States Department of
I use /dev/nst0 (no-rewind) in my amanda configuration, and it works fine.
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
-Original Message-
From: Bort, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL
I disagree with the statement that it's improper to replace any vendor-stuff
with gnu stuff. I've been doing Unix for like four or five years now, and
I'd say I usually replace about half the vendor software with GNU or other
software. This is partly because, it's difficult to upgrade the vendor
We use it to backup our DNS server, email server, web servers and tarantella
server:
Research, Extension and Education Department
United States Department of Agriculture
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States
Yes you can backup multiple systems. I've got redhat and sco unixware being
backed up
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
-Original Message-
From: dave
Amandad is not a continually running daemon. It only starts up when you run
one of the am programs. Do a netstat to see if amanda is listed in the
registered services.
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States
You're using dump instead of tar for your backups. The exclude option
that is passed to the backup program will only work with tar.
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
And if that doesn't work, try exclude ./tmp/*
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
-Original Message-
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
I don't think anyone knows. I tried everything also, and continued to have
the same problem as you.
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
-Original Message-
From:
We use it:
Research, Education and Extension Program
Department of Agriculture
Washington, DC
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
-Original Message-
From: Paul
Immediately after I first installed Amanda, I tested recovering.
I restored some files, and did a cmp -l between them and their counterparts
on the disk.
It's a good thing I did too, because there were random byte differences that
did NOT affect the checksums or byte counts (ls -l) of these
The qmail web page (www.qmail.org) has a list of REQUIREMENTS. Among these
requirements are the GNU packages that you need to install, before trying to
compile amanda.
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States
A couple weeks ago I posted a detailed instructions of how I got amanda
compiled on sco unixware 7.1.1 system.
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
-Original
Just wait til you come in, and run amflush
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
-Original Message-
From: Tom Van de Wiele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
First thing, check the dump logs to make sure it dumped the root file
system.
Second, check the amanda indexes to make sure the root filesystem is there
Third, try to restore it by using amrestore, instead of amrecover
Fourth, try to restore it by using tar, or dump, directly from the tape,
Hi David,
Hey thanks for the info on the diagnostic tools!
-Mike Martinez
-Original Message-
From: David Meissner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 5:44 PM
To: 'Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM'
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: My client backup is populating
Martinez
-Original Message-
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:49 AM
To: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: My client backup is populating directory names, but not
files
On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 7:59am, Martinez
of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
-Original Message-
From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 6:08 PM
To: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM; 'Jon LaBadie';
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: ./var/adm not being excluded
On Thursday 13 June 2002 11:50, Martinez
Message-
From: Oscar Ricardo Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:01 PM
To: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ./var/adm not being excluded
At 11:32 AM 6/12/2002 -0400, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM, you wrote:
I had posted this msg
I installed, configured and am running Amanda on Sco UnixWare (just the
client services). I don't know what the differences are between openBSD and
Unixware, but here's the installation procedure I used:
- Installed gzip-1.2.4 - /usr/local/bin
- Installed gtar-1.13 - /usr/local/bin
-
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: ./var/adm not being excluded
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:32:47AM -0400, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
wrote:
I had posted this msg before, but I had given the wrong info.
I'm backing up / on one of my clients. I would like to exclude
/var/adm/syslog from
I had posted this msg before, but I had given the wrong info.
I'm backing up / on one of my clients. I would like to exclude
/var/adm/syslog from the backup.
On my server:amanda.conf, I have defined a disklist entry with exclude
./var/adm/syslog and I'm using this in my disklist file.
But it's
Orion has the Amanda port (10082) turned off.
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
i'm getting the same problem too. Makes it impossible to use amrecover to
restore data
Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223
-Original Message-
From: John D.
I've got a backup client I want to start backups over from scratch. So, I
went to the server, and removed everything under
/var/lib/amanda/DailySetxx/curinfo and .../index for this particular client.
Also on the client I removed /etc/amandates. However, afterwards when I
issued amrecover --
Type file hostname.local.hda1.20020511.0
It will tell you it's a tar file, or dump image, according to what dump
program you're using with amanda.
-Michael Martinez
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:33 AM
To: [EMAIL
it
-Mike Martinez
-Original Message-
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:45 PM
To: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: My client backup is populating directory names, but not
files
On Mon, 6 May 2002 at 1
Martinez
-Original Message-
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:49 AM
To: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: My client backup is populating directory names, but not
files
On Tue, 7 May 2002 at 7:59am, Martinez
Okay I've narrowed down the problem.
Orginally I was having problems restoring data (checksum errors; missing
files). I was using dump, so I switched to gnutar.
Gnutar worked better, in that I was able to restore files. But when I went
and did a diff or a cmp, many of the restored files do
In reference to this thread, in which it has been determined that writing
to/from my tape drive is producing some loss of integrity, (mis-translation
of random bytes, occurs both with tar, and dump, and using amanda) does
anyone here know how to troubleshoot a SCSI tape drive or whether it is in
I've got Amanda installed on a tape server (also a client) and another
client.
On the tape server/client, backup and recovery are working.
On the other client, the backup procedure seems to go well - log files show
okay. The problem comes in restoring. When using amrecover, it errors with
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