How to accept Source-High-Ports on an Amanda Client

2012-02-26 Thread Thomas Marko
Hi! I have an Amanda Server running behind a Check Point Firewall (R75.20). Connections to the Internet are natted behind the firewall's external IP address thus the source port as well as the source ip address is translated. The Amanda client (3.2.1) runs on a machine directly connected to

Re: Understanding Amanda [SOLVED]

2011-09-02 Thread Thomas Marko
Hi, as my problem is solved now - thanks to Nathan - I want to share my knowledge: The problem was indeed changing device IDs of LVM2 volumes. One can see this by using the following command: stat --format=%D DIR on a LVM volume Run this command after a reboot and it will show the device ID

Re: Understanding Amanda

2011-08-25 Thread Thomas Marko
Am 23.08.2011 um 16:40 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 13:29:03 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: This seems to be something related to the Lucid version of perl; if I move the snapshot file from my Lucid machine to a machine with an older version of perl, the

Re: Understanding Amanda

2011-08-22 Thread Thomas Marko
Am 22.08.2011 16:23, schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:33:27 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 07:18:43 +0200, Thomas Marko wrote: Some facts about the DLE: The DLE is a subdirectory of a mounted LV (LVM2) part of a PV configured

Re: Understanding Amanda

2011-08-21 Thread Thomas Marko
Am 21.08.2011 um 18:17 schrieb Jon LaBadie: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 07:47:59AM +0200, Thomas Marko wrote: Hi, I have a question regarding dump levels in Amanda. I do backup several DLEs with an Amanda server 3.2.1 on a dedicated machine (Ubuntu Natty). On another machine (Ubuntu Lucid

Understanding Amanda

2011-08-20 Thread Thomas Marko
Hi, I have a question regarding dump levels in Amanda. I do backup several DLEs with an Amanda server 3.2.1 on a dedicated machine (Ubuntu Natty). On another machine (Ubuntu Lucid, Amanda 2.6.1) there is a DLE which approx. 175GB data. The first time backup was a level 0 backup with approx.

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

2010-12-03 Thread Thomas Marko
Hi! amcheck test /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: dumptype parameter expected /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: end of line is expected amcheck: errors processing config file I think you mean the split_diskbuffer parameter: See example amanda.conf: #

Re: Best practice for backups with amanda

2010-10-30 Thread Thomas Marko
Hi Jon, thank you very much for your help! I rebuilt my whole configuration. Now I use only one Backup Set (DailySet1) with several DLEs I tried to keep from similar size. Just for the information of people reading this thread in future my chosen configuration: - Two HDDs each 320GB (in vendor

Re: Best practice for backups with amanda

2010-10-27 Thread Thomas Marko
Brian, thank you for your patience. As I am pretty new to the backup business it's not easy to understand how some things work. Am 25.10.10 16:25, schrieb Brian Cuttler: Amanda gets its parallelism by running multiple dumpers simultaniously, multiple DLEs being dumped concurrently to the

Re: Best practice for backups with amanda

2010-10-27 Thread Thomas Marko
Jon, thank you for help! Am 25.10.10 18:31, schrieb Jon LaBadie: Amanda tries to get balance things so that each days dump will backup the same amount of data (actually, if compressed, the same amount of tape is more accurate). But it can't get there until it has a history of dumps and

Re: Best practice for backups with amanda

2010-10-25 Thread Thomas Marko
Thank you Jon, Brian and Charles for your answers! Am 21.10.10 21:50, schrieb Jon LaBadie: I'm not sure if it is best to make up 5 distinct Amanda configs, or just one config with customized DLEs and dumptypes. I'd probably try the latter first. I think it would make the best use of your