tape requested

Hi Today I noticed something weired: amcheck/amdump requests one tape (according to the list in tapelist) while amflush requests a different one. Which brings up the question: how does amflush decide which tape it is supposed to flush backups to? Paolo

amflus not flushing

Hi When I try to run amflush (with the command: amflush daily) to flush today's backup to tape (didn't happen becaose someone write protected the tape) I get the following output: Scanning /opt/amanda/dumps/daily... 20030704: found Amanda directory. 20030706: found Amanda directory. 20

RE: strategy

at 08:43:21PM +0300, Paolo Supino wrote: > > Hi > > Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the > configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some unkonwn > reason amanda ignored the strategy and complained about > not being able to complete incremental back

strategy

Hi Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some unkonwn reason amanda ignored the strategy and complained about not being able to complete incremental backups. Today I tried to put noinc in double quotes (" ") and I ran amcheck af

confused

Hi I'm confused: In amanda.conf the bandwidth is in bps (Bits Per Second) or Bps (Bytes Per Second)? I'm asking this because before the remark it's written bps (which stands for bits per second), but in the remark it's written KB (which stands for Kilo Byte). Paolo

backup strategies

Hi I apologize for posting a question not directly connect to amanda, but the knowledge of the people on the mailing list makes it the perfect place to ask. OK, on to the real question: I recently started working with a new company and the only backup they did was a full backup everynig

RE: FW: strange entries in the index file

? Paolo -Original Message- From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:20 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: FW: strange entries in the index file On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:02:23PM +0200, Paolo Supino wrote: > &

FW: strange entries in the index file

ndows 2000 professional. The tar version (though not relavent for this) is tar 1.13.19 taken from the sunfreeware's packages. I hope I'm giving enough details. -Original Message----- From: Paolo Supino Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 4:47 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subjec

STRANGE ???

Hi Yesterday I ran a backup of 2 windows shares on my LAN. The report I received once it was done wrote it was "strange". Can anyone please look at the log (below) and tell me why does amanda find it strange? Subject: AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR December 14, 2002 These dumps were to tape gis

strange entries in the index file

Hi Earlier today I sent out an email asking what amanda found strange in 2 windows backups I ran over the weekend. To make sure that the backup didn't miss anything vital I sent the index to the owner of the computer asking him to scan it and see if there is anything missing. There was not

RE: amanda-win32 project

Paolo -Original Message- From: Jim Buttafuoco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 6:14 PM To: Paolo Supino; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: amanda-win32 project Paolo, I tried many times to get amanda-win32 to work. The "port" is very old a

amanda-win32 project

Hi Does anyone have any information on the usability status of the amanda-win32 project? Paolo

Amanda under cygwin

Hi I have a simple and straight question: Has anyone ever tried to use Amanda under cygwin (as a client)? What was the result? Paolo

moving the server between machines

Hi Assuming I keep the same configure parameters while compiling amanda on the new server as the one found on the old server. Are there any special things I need to do in order to move amanada backup server from one machine to another? Will it be enough to move the amanda file (conf and databas

last file on tape

Hi I need to build a script that extracts file automatically from amanda backup tapes. This script is supposed to be run after a system wide crash where even the amanda logs/index/db are not available. My only problem at the moment is that I don't know how to tell when I reached the last fi

tar

Hi After being bitten by a problematic GNUTAR I'd like to make the following suggestion: In the amanda source distribution include a properly patched version of GNUTAR, that people can build and use regardless of the tar that came with the system and be sure that they are using a good and sa

Re: file location on tape

Hi Not true. The mail reports are sorted. There is no corelation between the report sequence and the file sequence on the tape (I know this for a fact from today's experiment). Maybe the printed version doesn't sort them. I will have to try it. Thamx Paolo

exclude directive in dumptype

Hi Is exclude a singular entry in the dumptype? If it is, how can I exclude mor ethan one type of file? Paolo

Re: no index

Hi The dumptype is as follows: define dumptype global { exclude "tmp" exclude "MP3" exclude "mp3" exclude "Mp3" } define dumptype incremental { comment "for daily backups where no level 0 is done" compress none index maxdumps 2 priority medium pr

file location on tape

Hi How can I tell where a specific file (amanda backup file that is) is on the backup tape (except for checking all the files, one file at a time)? TIA Paolo

no index

Hi I'm trying to restore a directory from last night's back up. I run amrecover on the destination machine (where the files were backed up from and are intended to be restored). I set the appropriate disk and date and amrecover prints the following error information: No index records for dis

why

Hi Yesterday's backups gave me the following error on alot of filesystems: "stanford /etc lev 1 FAILED [dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps]" without any reason what so ever. The total size of this specific filesystem is: 1279 KB!!! Why did amanda decide that this filesystem

ununderstood error

Hi I got the following error message in the last archive backup I ran: "*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: No space left on device]]." The tape was a brand new one that I labeled the same day the backup ran. It didn't report any problems while labeling it. Running `amcheck` a few mi

Re: NAT

Hello Olivier The only configuration problem was that I forgot to HUP inetd . We has a power interruption this morning which brought down the whole computer room (backup server and client in question too). When they came back up amanda was able to connect and backup. Conclusion: Dogh! Tha

Re: NAT

-- 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 Hi Olivier Thanx for the reply. If it's possible than my configuration is wrong :( Here is what I currently have: My Amanda server is a linux (Slackware 7, Amanda 2.4.p2). This server has a private IP (i.e. 192.

NAT

Hi From What I read in the FAQ, Amanda won't be able to backup a computer if there is a NAT proxy in the way. Is this true? Paolo -- 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012

using amrecover

Hi I having problems using `amrecover` to find files to restore: on one of my client machines (santafe) I have a filesystem mounted on '/opv'. The actual backup directory is one of the subdirectories below '/opv/rnd'. When I start `amrecover` on santafe woth $CWD being '/opv/rnd' I get followi

misplaced files

Hi Today I've noticed (don't know if it's because I upgraded or not) that I have some files in '/var/amanda' directory. All the files are from one client (the client that is running on the backup server). All the files have the format: -- 989283640 2050 345 ./openldap/schema 2050 4172 ./ama

another problem from upgrading server to 2.4.2p2

Hi Yesterday, the daily amcheck run gave me the following error: sh: /tmp/amanda/amcheck.main.16130: No such file or directory amcheck: mail command failed: /usr/bin/Mail -s " AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE" amanda < /tmp/amanda/amcheck.main.16130 Why is it looking for this

NAK amandad busy

Hi I upgraded my backup server tpday from Amanda 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2p2. Now when I run amcheck daily it reports the folloing errror on the amanda client which is on the backup server: "ERROR: berkeley NAK: amandad busy" Running amcheck daily just prior to the upgrade didn't give any erro

messages in backup log.

Hi I have the following lines in last's night backup and I don't know if they mean bad things or they can be safely ignored: /-- berkeley /var/amanda lev 1 STRANGE sendbackup: start [berkeley:/var/amanda level 1] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -f...

Re: error message help.

Hi John Thanx for the help. Indeed there was a grave problem with the machine. The '/tmp' filesystem got currupted and with it '/tmp/amanda' directory, which I wrote you about Thursday. The only way to fix this was to recreate the filesystem. I don't know the current state of amanda error m

Re: error message help.

Hi John I will download the latest cvs and compile it. I hope it won't have any problems working with 2.4.1p1 (the version I'm currently using). The only caveat. It will take me at ;east until middle of next week to finish this (too much real work to do). Guilty as charged, I upgraded the S

error message help.

Hi I've started getting an error when running amcheck: amcheck weekly Amanda Tape Server Host Check - WARNING: /mnt/amanda/dumps: only 2024816 KB free (4194304 KB requested). NOTE: skipping tape-writable test. Tape week1 label ok. Server check took 8.778 secon

amanda problems

Hi I have a problem compiling amanda on a machine (read my previous post). To overcome it. I compiled amanda on a machine that doesn't have plan9 installed. After a successful compile I tarred the file and moved it to the destination install machine and ran 'make install'. Now when I run am

compile problems ...

Hi I have a couple of machines that I fail to build amanda on (version 2.4.1p1). The machines are Linux Slackware 7.1 and 9libs (for plan9 support). 9libs installs a file called libc.h in /usr/local/include and when amanda builds it gives the following error (I included all the build pr

escaping disasters

Hi What parts of amanda should I be putting aside in case my backup server crashes and I want to restore files from the backups preformed, prior to the crash? Paolo

problem with Amanda

Hi Last Thursday I forced amanda to run level 0 on all the network (Amanda moved from testing phase production, so I wanted to have a full archive 1st). It worked OK. Sunday I tried to force a level 0 again (don't remember why) which gave me the following log (and errors): FAILURE AND STR

user manual

Hi I've been playing with amanda for a week, and hopefully I will move it into production after I'm done with my tests. I've read all the documentation available (FAQ, text files, example files, "Using Amanda" from the book "Unix Backup and Recovery") but I didn't find any documentation which