patch.
Jean-Louis
Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
Hi,
Is there any gross imcompatability that would prevent a 2.6.1p1 client
from being backed up by a 2.4.3b3 server?
I've got it to the point where they are at least talking with each
other, using auth bsd.
amcheck -c is happy.
estimates work
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
I try to keep them compatible, but I don't test with release before 2.4.5.
index_server is used only by amrecover.
Can you post the amandad.*.debug file from the client?
Jean-Louis
Yup, here's a sample below.
-Mitch
1242745188.258722: a
Hi,
Is there any gross imcompatability that would prevent a 2.6.1p1 client
from being backed up by a 2.4.3b3 server?
I've got it to the point where they are at least talking with each
other, using auth bsd.
amcheck -c is happy.
estimates worked ok.
But amstatus is showing this:
client-a:/a
tar dumptype and specify a file path
rather than a device. The tar will run suid as root and the permissions
problems won't occur.
-Mitch
-Original Message-
From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-
us...@amanda.org] On Behalf Of Mitch Collinsworth
Sent: Tuesday,
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
I have set up an Amanda client on a Red Hat 5.2 server and amcheck
recognizes the new client.
One of the things that I had to do for the 5.2 client to work is change
the permissions and group for the device /dev/root.
Are you doing dump or tar back
If your realm is YZ.EDU, then that's what you use. If UVWX.YZ.EDU is
a host name and not a realm name, then it doesn't belong in your
principal names.
Can you explain why you want to auth against the secondary rather than
the primary? I can't think of any reason that should matter.
-Mitch
O
"compress none" turns off compression of the data, but amanda will
still compress the indexes. You can check your tape contents to
verify that the data there is uncompressed.
-Mitch
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, [UTF-8] Edi ??uc wrote:
Hi.
It seems that I can't disable software compression in aman
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
Obviously, this isn't ideal. I'm surprised nobody else has been
snagged by this before. I've been using Amanda on Cyrus mailboxes for
years, with lots of recoveries. I guess I've just gotten lucky.
We have no experience with cyrus, yet, but ha
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Toomas Aas wrote:
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 can't find any online documentati
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
All in all, it sounds like a lot of work, unless this is a months-long
conference :)
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 calli
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Frank Smith wrote:
AIT5 recently came out, and it can read AIT3 and AIT4 tapes, and has
400GB native capacity.
Interesting. I followed up on this and it appears to be true. So, we
will consider upgrading our Qualstar AIT2 library with AIT5 drives at
some point. Still,
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
I'm interested in whether anyone on the list has any experience or
comments on my choice of tape changer, or comments on issues related to
how it is configured and potential modes of upgrading (adding another
tape drive, adding another changer, etc.)
I am trying to use dd to copy a tape made by amanda to a temp spot on the
HDD, but I am having great difficulty. When I try to use dd, it will only
copy one file at a time then stop, no matter what I do. As far as I know, dd
should just take the entire tape from beginning to end. . .
dd do
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Ian R. Justman wrote:
My conjecture of what's happening is that the gtar command is being run with
quotes around the items in the "include" statement in my disklist file,
causing gtar to not perform any globbing and, instead, look for any pathname
with actual brackets and
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Alan Pearson wrote:
I've tried to force a L0 backup of it, like :
amadmin DailySet1 force qtvpdc.lab:/Shares
amadmin: qtvpdc.lab:/Shares is set to a forced level 0 at next run.
But when amdump runs, it just schedules a L1 or L2 backup.
Syntax:
% amadmin help
Usage: a
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
E.g. I use daily-1 for a backup run, and the backup fails for some reason
and some data is on the holding disk. Amanda tells me that she expects
daily-2 or a new tape for the next run. I run amflush, and amanda wants a
tape. Is it a
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, C. Chan wrote:
Is there a quick way to determine which DLEs do not have any
Lev 0s on any tapes?
amoverview
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Alan Pearson wrote:
How can I force a level 0 dump ?
amadmin force
[Please don't cross-post.]
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Alan Pearson wrote:
It happened because some large files were added in between amcheck and
amdump, and over the past month more machines added, taking us nearer the
tape capacity. I will add more tapes (when they arrive !!), but it _could_
still
[Please don't cross-post.]
It sounds like you don't have enough tapes in your rotation. You
probably want to look into adding more.
Also, amcheck will alert you to this problem before you amdump. If
you choose to ignore the warning...
-Mitch
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
That'a not fixed in 2.5.0, that will be done after the dumper-api get
implemented.
dumper-api? I thought the story was that's being replaced with
application-api.
In any case I offered a programmer's time 2 years ago to fix
this w/o waiting o
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Mitch Collinsworth schrieb:
It's BAD for those of us who are trying to offer backups for machines
that aren't centrally managed.
It was discussed a bit on -hackers in
2004 - April and again in July. Solutions were suggested but ne
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Mitch Collinsworth schrieb:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
IIRC amcheck does NOT run some of its checks as root.
Thus if the amanda user running amcheck can not visit
/mnt/data06/Deforest3 and needed directories below that,
it could
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:44:50PM -0500, Vytas Janusauskas wrote:
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
ERROR: hal: [Can't open disk '/mnt/data06/Deforest3']
ERROR: hal: [No include for '/mnt/data06/Deforest3_PART1']
Client
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Guy Dallaire wrote:
Could the list insert it's e-mail address in the "reply-to" header of
it's messages ?
Hack the list to work around a missing feature in your e-mail client?
Please, no.
Otherwise, when there's nothing, I thing gmail uses
the Original poster's email ad
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Toralf Lund wrote:
Is it safe to run multiple instances of amdump simultaneously? I mean, with
different configs, but possibly the same hosts and disks?
Different configs: yes
same client hosts: no
-Mitch
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Marcus wrote:
In amanda.conf it says
"If a dump is too big to fit on the holding disk than
it will be written directly to tape."
I'm hoping to write 200g at a time to DLT, and would
like to stream it if possible. Does that mean I need
200g of holding disk?
Yep.
I scroun
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Indeed -- the other person referred to the AIT-4 behavior as "DLT
syndrome". But isn't "variable speed write" different than "writing fill
bytes"? Does DLT8000 lose capacity when not writing as fast as it can?
Yes. Same idea. Tape spins at c
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Michael Loftis wrote:
LTO, DLT, S-LTO, etc all have the huge advantage of the same physical form
factor. So 'upgrading' a DLT library to LTO, or S-LTO is just
adding/upgrading the tape drives in it. DLT (sometimes called Compactape IV)
has a long history and is a good r
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Something else I heard on another mailing list:
"However AIT-4 (unlike AIT-1 til -3) appears to write fill
bytes onto the tape if it's not fed with data quickly enough,
thus wasting lots of capacity."
The person said they heard it somewhere an
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Chris Loken wrote:
BUT - my AIT-4 drive apparently can't even read AIT-3 tapes. Seems
mind-bogglingly stupid but my vendor assures me it's true (haven't dared to
try).
Anybody understand if this is an issue that's going to be resolved and, if
so, will it be in firmware
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
Below the statistics from my last backup. I assume the times are all
elapsed times, but why is amanda so wrong in estimating the times? Or is
it a bug?
STATISTICS:
Total Full Daily
-
[Please reply to amanda-users when asking questions on the list]
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Guy Dallaire wrote:
2005/5/12, Mitch Collinsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
No. Amanda guarantees it will take all data your backup program
sends it, put it onto the tape, and get it back off again, assuming
th
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Guy Dallaire wrote:
I'm still having a hard time figuring out how "levels" work.
Can someone confirm to me that each time amanda is run, it will backup
a file if it has been modified during the day (or since the last run)
In other words: does amanda guarantee that if a file is
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Jon LaBadie wrote:
The only way I know of to get an "accurate" backup of windows
systems is to use a Windows-based backup program that outputs
its results into a file. Then that file can be saved onto
tape by amanda. Restores would similarly be an unpleasant,
two-step process
Todd,
mail.vh.org is re-sending old messages (from earlier today) to the
amanda-users mailing list. Example below. It should probably be
blocked from posting until this is fixed.
vh.org postmaster, please fix your system.
-Mitch
-- Forwarded message --
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTE
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Mark Lidstone wrote:
It would still be worth pointing out what a huge security risk the rcp
command is, and if they insist on using their scripts at least get them
to remove the r* accounts setup stuff and use something like rsync over
an encrypted channel (why bother protectin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:53:26AM -0800, DK Smith wrote:
It would be really cool if a single changer glue module was
re-written in an OOP fashion, reusing the same logic code
for every situation, but overriding the driver interface methods
for specific drive
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
So I had a crazy idea that hasn't yet been implemented, a pg dumper similar
in appearance to GNUTAR and DUMP on the client machine. Your DLE would look
somethign like:
host database/table pg
where pg would be the dumptype telling amanda to use the pg dum
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, [iso-8859-1] Germán C. Basisty wrote:
2. To use pg_dump to get a hot snapshot of the desired DB, put it on
some directory and then backup that directory with amanda.
We use pg_dump. We just run it from cron in advance of amanda's
start time.
-Mitch
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote:
I am trying to backup a directory with a space in its name,
however, amanda doesn't seem to like it in the disklist.
That's a known limitation of the current implementation.
But there's an easy workaround: create a symlink on the
client without spaces (if y
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> I have one computer which is busy now, and is dumping *very* slowly.
> I want to kill the dumper for this computer. Killing all the dumpers
> is even OK. I could do a "killall dumper", but it seems a bit crude.
> Is there a more polite way of killing a
Would people please stop cross-posting between -users and -hackers.
If your message is about using amanda, send it to -users. If it's
about the source, send it to -hackers.
Don't mean to single out Gavin here. This has happened several times
recently, each then multiplied by all the followups.
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I consider such crap as exactly that, crap, totally useless crap at
> that, usually brought about by someones overblown ego trying to
> convince the rest of the world how important they are and without
> them the world will stop.
"Never ascribe to malice
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Ranveer Attalia wrote:
>
> > When running the amanda backup yesterday. It still doesnt appear to have
> > finished. I checked the /tmp/ambackup_Daily.log file and its giving me
> > the error:
> > Use of uninitialized value at /opt/amanda/sbin/amstatus li
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
>
> > Today one of my dumps failed in an unusual manner.
> >
> > After the dump finished and the index was completed, I received the
> > following error:
> >
> > error [renaming /var/a
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Jim Summers wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 19:53, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> >
> > error [renaming /var/adm/amanda/gnutar-lists/usda01afs:usda01_b_.*.backup_0.new
> > to /var/adm/amanda/gnutar-lists/usda01afs:usda01_b_.*.backup_0: No such file or
>
Today one of my dumps failed in an unusual manner.
After the dump finished and the index was completed, I received the
following error:
error [renaming /var/adm/amanda/gnutar-lists/usda01afs:usda01_b_.*.backup_0.new
to /var/adm/amanda/gnutar-lists/usda01afs:usda01_b_.*.backup_0: No such file or
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Joe Rhett wrote:
> FYI, dumper appears to break the backup into 1gb chunks? I don't know if
> this is relevant or not.
You mean on the holding disk? That's normal but you can configure the
chunksize or turn it off if you wish.
> > I'm seeing EXTREMELY slow backups of a mo
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Luc Lalonde wrote:
> In case of backup server failure, I 'rsync' all my configuration files
> in /etc with the Amanda index files onto another server. If my server
> crashes or becomes unavailable, I have instantaneaous access to my
> backup indices and configurations withou
ago.
-Mitch
-
From: Mitch Collinsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:38:38 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: amanda and OpenAFS?
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there anyone backing up OpenAFS using amanda? Is there anything
> special that needs t
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there anyone backing up OpenAFS using amanda? Is there anything
> special that needs to be done, or is it just like backing up any
> other file system?
>
> I'd like to use gnutar if possible.
We are, and I've heard from a few other sites who also
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Justin Gombos wrote:
> [anti_ooo.msg file]
>
> My scripts have detected that you posted an out of office reply to a
> public forum. Please control your auto-responder.
>
> If you are receiving this in error, I apologize; please disregard it.
At the risk of prolonging t
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> What you cannot do is have the amanda server drive a tapedrive on
> another host.
Agreed, in the traditional sense. However iSCSI sounds like a
means of accomplishing this. I say "sounds" because I haven't
actually looked into it yet.
-Mitch
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I use Amanda to backup an iMac running Mac OS X (10.2). The backup runs
> perfectly, but the machine is horribly unresponsive while tar is running,
> both during the estimate and dump stages. Renice'ing the tar processes
> doesn't seem to help, so I'm
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> In the report, see that some borneo tape writes were fast, but one
> is much slower. So why is that particluar one *always* slow? It
> should be just a mindless tape dump, right?
Are you using a holding disk?
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> I have a system and I am attempting to backup a filesystem with
> approximately 30G of data. The estimates for a Level 0 take 3000
> seconds. For a level 1, 7000 seconds. Is two hours just to get an
> estimate for an incremental dump? Is it typical
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Paul Root wrote:
> Nope. Same subnet
Software firewall on client?
> Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Paul Root wrote:
> >
> >
> >>it runs, the Mac times out waiting for a random local
> >>port.
> >
> >
> > Any firewalls involved?
> >
> > -Mitch
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Paul Root wrote:
> it runs, the Mac times out waiting for a random local
> port.
Any firewalls involved?
-Mitch
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Also, I've found that 'tar' seems to take longer in the estimate phase
> than do 'dump' (and 'vxdump'), but for all I know, that could be due to
> local influences (e.g., disk traffic). Or has anyone else also found it
> to be the case that 'tar' es
Hi,
Am wondering about embedded spaces in the "diskdev" field of disklist.
Suppose I need to backup just the directory "/mail attachments".
Since disklist is whitespace delimited there is a problem parsing the
file unless the embedded space can be recognized as part of the directory
name. What
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> But all of those -- tar, cpio, rsync -- are kludges. Is it just
> me, or do other people also find it ludicrous that 30+ years on,
> UNIX still doesn't have a proper copy command?
Huh? You just showed there are enough flavors to suit just about
any
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Good grief Toomas! Can you not institute a mail box size limit, about
> 10 megs maybe?
Good grief indeed. This discussion has absolutely nothing to do
with using amanda. Please take it offline.
-Mitch
P.S. To whomever posted the original 'one syst
The plug you sent to another list a few minutes ago ended with:
> This ends my one-time-only plug for my book. Thanks!
Then you posted it again here, without the one-time-only caveat!
So now I've received it twice, so far, and have to wonder how many
more lists I will have to see it on before
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> Nicolas Ecarnot a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently had this kind of problem with my amanda server. It has to
> > backup around 120 samba clients :
> >
> > GETTING ESTIMATES...
> > planner: time 0.371: dgram_send_addr: sendto(192.168.10.66.10080)
> >
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Scott Phelps wrote:
> Dump was a stupid program in the first place. Leave it behind."
Linus has been bad-mouthing dump for as long as I can remember.
Linus is obviously not a sysadmin or he would have more clue than
this.
> Any comments, advice? (Does Amanda even work with
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> Mitch Collinsworth said:
> > If I were list manager I would either unzubscribe or block posting
> > from sites generating these replies.
>
> So who *is* the list manager who would be in charge of doing this
> anyway?
I believe it&
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Chris Barnes wrote:
> Changing an email address is a horrid way of dealing with spam. Either
> personally or for a list. *IF* it's a problem, running the email
> through a filter (my favorite is SpamAssassin) before it gets
> distributed is a MUCH better way to go.
SpamAss
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:15:08AM -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> >
> > There's also amtoc. You can run it at the end of each amdump run.
> > I like to then print its output to paper and save in a folder.
>
> When
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:34:41AM -0600, Steven J. Backus wrote:
> > Selon Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes;
> >
> > > It helps greatly if there is a TOC of each tape available.
> >
> > Is there a slick way to create these rather than just print ou
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> AFAIK it will hit end of tape and ask for another tape. However,
> there is no way to flush a single dump image to multiple tapes. So
> if you have a 20 GB dump image (even if it's been split up into
> pieces due to the chunksize parameter) and a 10 GB tap
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Jeroen Heijungs wrote:
> Do I overlook something, or isn't there a way to temporarily disable delivery of
> mail during holidays?
> Most lists do have that possibility, but I cannot find it, it seems I have to
> unsubscribe and subscribe again.
Whats the difference?
-Mitch
One of my staff encountered the same problem with 2.4.4. He was able
to successfully compile 2.4.3 and we've done some successful dump and
restore tests with that. I was going to look into it further but
haven't so far.
-Mitch
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Ken Simpson wrote:
> Hi, I am a newbie to UN
On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
> You need to set maxdumps to something greater than 1 in your
> amanda.conf. It defaults to '1'. See amanda(8) for details.
Urg. yes, maxdumps not inparallel. Somebody kick me for not checking
my facts before posting.
-Mitch
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Bort, Paul wrote:
> 1. Client-side compression
> 2. Better chance of backing up ACLs (using special tar)
> 3. Works on machines that have all shares disabled (I have seen disabling
> shared recommended for some servers, especially SQL.)
> 4. More straightforward restore
> 5.
Have we reached the point yet where the spam discussion has generated
more list messages today than all the spam that's crossed it in the
past year?
-Mitch
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Adam Smith wrote:
> On FreeBSD 5.0 with UFS2 + ACLs, what is my best method for backing up my
> ACLs along with my files?
>
> I am only experimenting with Amanda at this point, but it seems to use the
> native tar utility, however tar does not support the backing up of ACLs.
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 at 5:06pm, justin m. clayton wrote
>
> > I've been receiving this error on some, but not always all, of my hosts
> > during amcheck. What could be causing this issue? Which logs are most
> > likely to be housing the magic info
duplex.
> Do you agree?
>
> Thanks!
>
> David
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Mitch Collinsworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:18 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: speed problem
>
>
>
>
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My tape server is a Linux host (Redhat 7.3).
> My clients are either Linux hosts or Sun Solaris hosts.
> All client hosts are on the same domain.
> When I run 'amdump' to backup Linux hosts, the speed is pretty good.
> When I run 'amdump' to backup Su
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 at 12:47pm, Don Carlton wrote
>
> > Has anyone changed the mail report to produce html?
>
> Oh, the horror! ;)
Agreed if sent by e-mail, but if it were instead dumped into a web-served
directory...
-Mitch
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Aline wrote:
> Is TSM free?
No. It's an IBM product...
-Mitch
> >> May I know some of the reasons why AMANDA edges over other traditional
> >> Unix backup utilities.
> >
> > stable
> > does what it claims
> > source available
> > well supported
> > good, unique scheduling module
> > networked
> > scales well from a single system to moderatly large installati
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, John Oliver wrote:
> 501 No index records for host: backup.indyme.local. Invalid?
> Trying backup.indyme.local ...
> 501 No index records for host: backup.indyme.local. Invalid?
> Trying backup ...
> 501 No index records for host: backup. Invalid?
What did you use for the ho
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Josh More wrote:
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> backupmast /home RESULTS MISSING
Firstly, before running amdump did you run amcheck?
If yes, what do you see in /tmp/amanda?
-Mitch
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Adnan Olia wrote:
> I was just wondering why would amanda send a message "amandad busy". Do I
> need to check before running amdump that would solve my problem??
Typically this means that a previous run has not yet finished. Maybe
something got hung? Does ps show any aman
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> Often the same device is sold under many brand name plates. I don't think
> Sun manufactures any tape drives and Sears doesn't make any dishwashers.
> They just relabel/repackage others products.
>
> And often a library/changer sold by one company uses a
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, John Dalbec wrote:
> Hadad wrote:
> > [root@localhost amanda-2.4.3b4]# ./configure --disable-libtool
> --without-client --with-user=amanda and --with-group=amanda
>
> Take out the word "and" here and you should be OK. That is,
> ./configure --disable-libtool --without-cli
On 23 Sep 2002, Anthony Valentine wrote:
> When I manually extract a tar image from tape, then list or extract it's
> contents, I seem to always get the following:
>
> gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
> gtar: Child returned status 2
> gtar: Error exit delayed from pr
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Neil wrote:
> What is amanda's approach to backup commercial software like Microsoft
> Exchange 5.5 mail server? It's because in Exchange, they have this public
Jon's reply is a good description of amanda itself. Haven't checked
into it yet but I've heard there's another p
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 19 September 2002 08:52, Jason Greenberg wrote:
> >I cron schedule my amanda dump for 12:45 am, but it doesn't
> > complete until about 9:00am. If I look at my switch graphs, the
> > data transfer only takes about 1 hour. What is it doing
Here's the relevent section of headers:
Received: from pwd.reeusda.gov ([192.73.224.125])
by surly.omniscient.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8IImln797017
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:48:47 -0400 (EDT)
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On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> Tread lightly -- thar be dragons here. :) They both have their pros and
> cons, and it can be a matter of deep seated religous belief for people.
> FS specific dump programs can back up things that tar doesn't know about
> (e.g. ACLs), and can
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 15 August 2002 14:49, John Koenig wrote:
> >So does the chunksize parameter affect performance in any way?
>
> Only in that it prevents troubles with a filesystem that can't
> handle large files. There was, at the time amanda was first
> d
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, John Koenig wrote:
> Yup... after I deployed a 181 GB drive for our holding disk, I saw
> somewhat different behavior in amstatus... though I would have
> expected the total time of the backups to drop (compared to a
> relatively small 25 GB holding space I used before) they
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Kevin Passey wrote:
> What is the best size for a holding disk - is it a "how long is a piece
> string" or are there some optimal values.
It mostly a tuning thing that's up to you to decide what's best for you.
That said, I prefer my setups to have as a minimum, enough to
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Paul G. Allen wrote:
> [root@ista root]# amtape csd show
> amtape: scanning all 12 slots in tape-changer rack:
> slot 2: reading label: Input/output error
> slot 3: reading label: Input/output error
> slot 4: reading label: Input/output error
> slot 5: reading label: Input/ou
Hmm... Looks like you didn't have a (usable) tape in the drive.
Were the level 0 dumps of these new disks bigger than would fit on
your holding disk(s)?
-Mitch
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Michael P. Blinn wrote:
> A few questions about my report. I have a cron set to force level 0 dumps
> a minut
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 21 July 2002 02:44, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> >You asked what amanda does with changers. I believe when amdump
> > completes the tape is rewound but not ejected.
>
> Its not even rewound here Mitch. Since amanda use
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Ulrik Sandberg wrote:
> Estimate Time (hrs:min)1:25
> Run Time (hrs:min) 4:02
> Dump Time (hrs:min)3:07 2:38 0:30
> Tape Time (hrs:min)0:43 0:42 0:02
>
> Does this mean:
>
> a) Total run time (estimate, dump and tape): 4:02
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