Backups with Samba - new release 3.0.2rc1

sed on the 2.2 version (including Amanda). If you still have to use a release of AMANDA that is pre-2.4.4p2 and therefore does not support Samba-3 already it might be interesting to look at shiny new Samba. -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Level 1 dumps acting like level 0 dumps

{ > comment "Global definitions" > index yes > record no <--- ??? > program "GNUTAR" > compress client fast > } Set this to yes (or remove the line) and try again. I am not sure if this is important for GNUtar but please try. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Level 1 dumps acting like level 0 dumps

ot work out that well ...) We will be able to help you much better with those details ;) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Specifying certain subdirectories for smb mounted backups

sts a BKW> directory call "stuff", is there a way to specify that I only want BKW> Amanda to backup that directory instead of all of the c$? # disklist amanda-server //server/C$/stuff nt-tar DLEs like this work out fine for me. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

offered either. > > Default: client signing = auto We are getting pretty much off-topic on amanda-users ;) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

and-alone Samba. > However, it doesn't matter if it's set to yes or no, it's still broken. > :-( It´s not clear to me if you tested both settings and both failed ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

Windows 2003 domain controllers in particular. Default: client use spnego = yes ## Ok? Give it a try ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

tail, but this seems to be worth considering ... You could also test if your backup works with "security = share" if your setup allows. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba backups failing after a specific amount of data

5 GB ? Why not split your DLEs into smaller chunks? Is it a typo or did I get that calculation wrong? Provide us with slightly more details, and we will try to help you. Exact versions of Samba, AMANDA, [global]-part of smb.conf, etc ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: howto determine tape position ???

= Number, I assume ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tapeless configuration

er.conf-access, don´t you think so? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amrecover does not use my changer

he same. Try it with tpchanger "chg-iomega" amrecover_changer "chg-iomega" tapedev "file:/mnt/iomega" -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amrecover does not use my changer

t; have to set amrecover_changer to the same value as the tapedev variable in DCP> the same config file ? # amanda.conf tapedev "YOUR_CHANGER" amrecover_changer "YOUR_CHANGER" Both have to be the same, I assume ... No "hallo" ;) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tapeless backup configuration

t task is to add my win2k PC to the backup using Samba. I will CJ> probably be back for more help with that next week. We will see ;) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tapeless backup configuration

apes than chg-multi. There is a FILE-DRIVER-HOWTO in the amanda-2.4.4p2-tarball that explains the setup of chg-disk. No more changer.conf-file, for example. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMANDA in the holidays

xinetd-settings. Let me know if you think it´s ok. I am not using it, either ;) -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] INSTALL_xinetd.diffs.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: AMANDA in the holidays

uld have worked out, or not? Using amverifyrun seems to be the solution for the particular case. "Using the lock" should be discussed by more amanda-users, I assume. Thank you. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMANDA in the holidays

Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger, on Montag, 05. Jänner 2004 at 19:44 you wrote to amanda-users: SGW> Hello, Jon I am sorry, somehow my reply to Jon LaBadie fell into amanda-users. Sorry for the noise. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMANDA in the holidays

Hello, Jon, Montag, 05. Jänner 2004, 18:56 you wrote: JL> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:39:57PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> In the last days I get problems at one client´s site when AMANDA runs >> into degraded mode. This happens more often right now because of all

AMANDA in the holidays

houldn´t amcheck/amdump notice that there is still some amdump/amverify active? I assume I should write some small script that removes the "&&" from my crontab. Thanks for help. -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Samba backup with excludes ...

and "L", for example. So I would have to create 26 DLEs ... It seems that I don´t get my head around this right now. Must be the flu I caught ... -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba 3.0.1 breaks again

Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger, on Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2003 at 10:38 you wrote to amanda-users: SGW> Hello, amanda-users, SGW> just to let you know: SGW> I upgraded an AMANDA-box to Samba 3.0.1 yesterday. SGW> The report mail shows that there are the "no backup size line"

Samba 3.0.1 breaks again

st regards, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backing up via NFS.

It's a different situation under HP/UX 11.x, sure. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda 2.4.4p1 and Samba 3.0

e´s no reason to choose 2.x. Take 3.0.1rc2 or wait for 3.0.1, if you can. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amandad not running

else would it need to be jb> set? Ah, the "localhost-question" ;) ! Don't use localhost. Use host.domain.somewhat or the FQDN (fully qualified domain name). This is a topic frequently discussed in here. You can find it by browsing the archives easily. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amandad not running

ad-binary is exactly where the file says. Also check execute-permissions on the amandad-file (755 for amanda user or similar). It seems xinetd does not find amandad. Browse the group-archives, if needed, there have been xinetd.conf-examples posted. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weiching

Re: samba backup error [no backup size line]

ba3 went in on 2003-10-30. This error can occur due to other issues, too. Let us know if problems persist. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: samba backup error [no backup size line]

Hi, Geoff, on Sonntag, 07. Dezember 2003 at 19:03 you wrote to amanda-users: GA> Samba: 3.0.0-15 GA> Amanda: 2.4.4p1 GA> I'll have a look at the snapshot. That´s the way to go in your case. GA> Many Thanks for your help Stefan, You´re welcome. -- best regards, Stefan Ste

Re: samba backup error [no backup size line]

r. Which versions of AMANDA and Samba? You have to use one of the latest AMANDA-snapshots to be able to use Samba 3. This combination is well known to behave the way you reported. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND

does not belong to Amanda. It belongs to Samba 2.x, Samba 3.x uses Unicode. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

amrecover with file-tapes

d 1801 finish time Wed Nov 26 20:02:30 2003 As I noticed the WARNING, I tried to "rewind" my filetape using > ammt -f "file:/shares/samsung20/amandatapes" rewind Everytime amrecover asked for tape daily05, I did > amtape daily slot 5 to position the changer. Any hints? I would be very sad to see Amanda fail in my customer´s view because of THAT ;-) thank you -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some little, but anoying things

tape > # changer, and you don't want to use more than one tape per run of > # amdump, just comment out the definition of tpchanger. Recheck your tapecycle-settings and your tape-labels. Sounds like your labels don´t fit. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Amanda chapter in pdf?

Hello, amanda-users, does anyone know where to get the Amanda chapter contained in "Unix Backup and Recovery" from W. Curtis Preston in one file, let´s say pdf? thanks -- best regards, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why too large ?

get to 2.4.4p1. It´s good. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amdump Mail Report - Description

For example, I only found out the meanings of Dump Time and Run Time SGW> via web research (which lead me to some mail of Jon LaBadie asking a SGW> similar question ... ;-) ). SGW> I looked through some manpages, but could not find it ... SGW> Thank you, SGW> Stefan G. Weichinger SG

Re: backup lasts forever on large fs

split that fat chunk of data into smaller ones to serve Amanda the way she can digest ... ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup lasts forever on large fs

t your etimeout somewhat higher and try a run again. --- Otherwise set it up to something like 3600 (one hour) and try that. --- Another way would be to split the /home-directory into some smaller disklist entries. But more on that later if necessary. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. We

Re: backup lasts forever on large fs

right now with these settings, Let us know. And look at it with amstatus ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup lasts forever on large fs

t your amanda.conf, disklist and stuff. Also tell us if your Amanda-setup works for other disks. Do you use a holdingdisk? More infos will help us to help you. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Amdump Mail Report - Description

ot find it ... Thank you, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda GUI

interface making all that backup-stuff even easier. Show me what you think can be done in backup via GUI. I am ready to learn all the time. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems backing up via Samba - again.

t the backup medium (tape, disk) For which setup does it signal the error? [ide|scsi][tape|disk]? Using a holdingdisk for that share? Which bus? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems backing up via Samba - again.

ticular file is open or loaded at that time or if the os has not released lock on it because of some problem/bug ... I am too less of a Windows-programmer to know that. I can´t test for your questions right now. I have to get to the system in question (NT-WS, no remote control ...). thank you, best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems backing up via Samba - again.

know: - The DLE-fs (NTFS) was checked clean. - The permission of the backup-user is ok (can fully access the file). We think it´s a Samba-problem because of several reasons, but I dare to post it on amanda-users because I hope someone else using Amanda has already found the solution. Thank you all, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: Amanda 2.4.4 and Samba 3.0.0 problems]

nk you, Jean-Louis ... best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: Amanda 2.4.4 and Samba 3.0.0 problems]

d make friends soon ;-) Or stay with Samba 2.2.8a-rpms. If you only use it for backup, it´s no problem at all. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda 2.4.4 and Samba 3.0.0 problems

Gregor Ibic has posted his patch to this list, I use it on 2 servers and it works out fine. Look through the archives to find his patch. Or take this link ;-) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=amanda-users&m=106648029010247&w=2 -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help

Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 at 08:30 you wrote to amanda-users: WFec> help which help? geht auch auf deutsch, wenn gewünscht ;-) -- best regards, Stefan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stefan Gregor Weichinger oops! linux consulting and implementation

Samba 3.0 and Amanda 2.4.4p1

if needed. Thank you, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question on Tapetypes

> compression in the future. `tapetype' writes random data to tape, and > random data will expand instead of compressing, therefore you'll get > an estimate that's smaller than expected. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda and Samba 3.0.0

, make noise, bother me, to post a patch. Could you post your 3rc?-patches, I would like to have a look and give the 3.0.0-patch a try. Just curious -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No chg-scsi.conf file found

e example amanda.conf and my chg-multi-setup: Use tpchanger "chg-scsi" instead of tpchanger "/usr/lib/amanda/chg-scsi" your changerfile-line seems ok, I hope you used the template and edited it properly. It will show as soon as it is read by chg-scsi ;-) >>> i have eve

Re: Amanda and Samba 3.0.0

find its place on the amanda.org-patches-page. I am happily looking forward to it. -- thank you, best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adding Clients

ecessary first steps. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda and Samba 3.0.0

gt; exclude. I replace smbclient with a wrapper to allow more excludes. JL> But I have not gotten wildcards to work for me. I commented out all the excludes for testing. Didn´t change a thing. I also have to tell you that I don´t get any mail after the finished amdump. Maybe it stalls Is there a particular file written to the debug-dir after successful amdump? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Amanda and Samba 3.0.0

e ".\hiberfil.sys" > exclude ".\RECYCLER\*" > priority low > dumpcycle 4 > } I will have a closer look at the exclude-options of the new smbclient. Maybe leaving the excludes away for testing tells me more. Good old Samba-exclusion-topic ;-) --- I haven´t explored further, but just want to probe: Is there a patch necessary to use Amanda 2.4.4p1 with Samba 3.0? If yes, does that patch exist already ? ;-) Thank you, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amcheck - why run it?

best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amcheck - why run it?

ing testfiles, which is dumped full every run and can be used to be recovered via a script. Has anyone done something like that? -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Editing disklist

tched CS>by the dle with the excludelist, and you'll see its size increase CS>in your daily mailreports. Cool trick! Things are that easy if you think about them ;-) thank you. best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Editing disklist

with amrecover? Or does amrecover use disklist? Thank you, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: strange dump summary

g like that ...) Using localhost does no good ... ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amanda doesn't use holding disk

reasonably fast machines" JCHS> compress none JCHS> dumpcycle 4 JCHS> priority high JCHS> } What does your dumptype "global" look like? Maybe the "holdingdisk no" option is set there. The default is "holdingdisk yes" ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No amanda.conf file

he directory by yourself and copy the file amanda.conf.in to the file /usr/local/etc/amanda/amanda.conf . amanda.conf.in is found in the example-branch of the unpacked Amanda-tarball. Read the INSTALL file and edit amanda.conf according to your configuration (hardware, tapes, ...) -- best regards,

Re: amanda tapeless howto

manda do some dumps and look if the indexes change. Your configuration my lead to some sort of overwriting and stuff ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems backing up large W2K drive

the cygwin port became available. So I never PB> tried that path. It could be a valid path too. I'm interested PB> in the result. I am, too. best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems backing up large W2K drive

describe. Maybe it should be pointed out clearer in the docs ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems backing up large W2K drive

Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger, on Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2003 at 20:47 you wrote to amanda-users: SGW> After I read that I just implemented something like that in a customers amanda.conf SGW> today. SGW> Like: SGW> define dumptype hugedisk { SGW> program "GNUTAR" SGW>

Re: Problems backing up large W2K drive

be to smbmount your windows-share to the backup-host and GnuTar it right from there. Haven´t tried that by myself, but read about that idea on the list. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HPUX 11.0 Install

you have to specify which user and group you will run the dumps under. Apart from that it is generally recommended to read that file carefully. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The old GnuTar vs. Dump topic

Hi, on 24.07.2003 at 11:20 you wrote to amanda-users: NE> Selon Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Please note that these tests were done in 1991. >> That's an eternity in the life of a development cycle in software. >> But, yes, it gives an idea of what you should take into account. NE> Tha

The old GnuTar vs. Dump topic

Hi, amanda-users, is there a brief comparison between using dump or tar with amanda anywhere? I´d like to have the dis/advantages in a compact form. Thank you, Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Suggestions for a dedicated Amanda-System

Hi, Amanda-Users, I´m thinking about building a system dedicated to just run Amanda at its best. I want to strip down a linux-system to the basics needed for backup. Just the necessary hard- and software, rock-solid and fast. As the brand new kernel compiles in another window on my desktop I th

Re[4]: scsi-tape

Hallo Gene, Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 9:30:19 PM, you wrote: GH> Which it will happily do. One should have in his crontab entries, a GH> command to run amcheck at some point early enough in the day that you GH> get its email if it sends any and can fix whatever it fusses about GH> before the

Re[2]: scsi-tape

Hallo Christoph, Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 10:17:51 AM, you wrote: CS> Hi, CS> amanda allways rewinds the tape before writing a new session to it, CS> because it first checks the label of the tape and the rewrites the CS> label with the new date of the backup-run, CS> so in this case (travan) yo

Re[2]: scsi-tape

Hallo Gene, Tuesday, June 11, 2002, 11:32:29 PM, you wrote: GH> So you should be using the /dev/nst(number) descriptor as it doesn't do GH> an automatic rewind as it closes the path. Amanda will rewind the tape GH> by herself when she needs it rewound. When using the HP Colorado 8GB Drive it

Re: scsi emulation for tape drive

Hallo Trevor, Tuesday, June 11, 2002, 11:17:26 AM, you wrote: TF> Hi all. TF> Operating System:Red Hat Linux 7.1 TF> Amanda Version: 2.4.2p2 TF> Tape Drive: Seagate Travan 20GB ATAPI (ide) Model TF> I've been scanning through many different docs this past few weeks and I T

Re[3]: Backing up only one host at a time and ...

Hallo Joshua, Tuesday, December 04, 2001, 2:59:03 PM, you wrote: JBL> I'm wondering if you're seeing lots of collisions when the 10M clients JBL> start dumping. I don´t know how to use netstat correctly. How should I look for the collisions ? JBL> I believe (taking into account your next mail)

Re[2]: Backing up only one host at a time and ...

Hallo Joshua, Monday, December 03, 2001, 8:23:33 PM, you wrote: JBL> What is your runspercycle? Tapecycle *must* be >= (preferebably >) JBL> runspercycle. Otherwise, you may be overwriting the *only* full dump of a JBL> filesystem you have on tape. If that happens, you're SOL at restore time

Re[2]: Backing up only one host at a time and ...

Hello Joshua, Monday, December 03, 2001, 8:23:33 PM, you wrote: JBL> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 at 9:56am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote >> 1) Not all hosts to be backed up have 100M-NICs inside, so while >> dumping them it slows down the connection to 100M-hosts. >> >> (Get

Backing up only one host at a time and ...

Hello amanda-users, I´m fiddling around with my settings right now to optimize my backups. Amanda is running fine now, I have just some more questions: 1) Not all hosts to be backed up have 100M-NICs inside, so while dumping them it slows down the connection to 100M-hosts. (Getting about 10kB/s

.amandahosts-Problem (again, I know ...)

Hello amanda-users, I´m writing to you, because -surprise- I have a problem. I set up Amanda 2.4.2 last week on our Suse Linux-box. I took all the (working) config-files from my recent installation and modified them for the new host. I tried running amcheck and got the message "Acce

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