Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I don't know right now if there are differences between includes and
excludes when it comes to permissions, if there are, we should think
about how to handle them and if we should remove them.
It would seem to me that includes are processed by amanda before running
Hi, Frank,
on Samstag, 14. Mai 2005 at 01:54 you wrote to amanda-users:
I thought this would be obvious ... every DLE has to be readable by
the amanda-user or, more detailled, the user, AMANDA has been
configured with (--with-user).
FS That's not technically correct, I back up several DLEs
Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
Alexander Jolk wrote:
Ahm, sorry, I don't quite follow you there. Your sendbackup.* files
are empty, zero bytes?
Yeah, zero bytes.
Barring an installation problem that others have suggested, could you
tell us whether there are any files of nonzero size in /tmp/amanda/?
Hi, Joshua,
on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 01:54 you wrote to amanda-users:
JBL On Thu, 12 May 2005 at 9:34pm, Rodrigo Ventura wrote
Alexander Jolk wrote:
Once again, your syntax seems right to all of us, but nobody really
seems to be actively using `include' right now. I know for certain
Jon == Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jon Is your runtar (and several other amanda programs) set-uid'ed
Jon root?
-rwsr-x---1 root backup 50972 Feb 19 16:57 runtar
among others. It seems amanda is properly installed, as far as
setuid's are concerned.
The amdump I'm doing right now is looking good: the sendsize.*.include
files for the var/spool/imap/user is non-zero (and its contents make
sense). I guess the problem was that the directory var/spool/imap/user
was not readable by amanda. Although gnutar is performed as root, and
therefore there
My amdump has just finished, and the report looks good:
DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISKL ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-- -
omni /
On Fri, 13 May 2005 at 2:12pm, Rodrigo Ventura wrote
During the run, I noticed a process called gzip --best being used by
amanda, however I have a compress none directive. I want to switch
Amanda compresses the index files -- that's the gzip.
to gzip in the future -- change compress to
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:12:57PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura enlightened us:
My amdump has just finished, and the report looks good:
DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISKL ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:23:12AM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
The amdump I'm doing right now is looking good: the sendsize.*.include
files for the var/spool/imap/user is non-zero (and its contents make
sense). I guess the problem was that the directory var/spool/imap/user
was not readable
Hi, Matt,
on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 16:03 you wrote to amanda-users:
MH If you are using software to disable compression, and you are using DDS
MH tapes, you will want to look in the archives for Gene Heskett's script that
MH rewrites tapes...DDS stores compression on/off flags on the tape
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Hi, Matt,
on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 16:03 you wrote to amanda-users:
MH If you are using software to disable compression, and you are using DDS
MH tapes, you will want to look in the archives for Gene Heskett's script that
MH rewrites tapes...DDS stores compression
Hi, Jon,
on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 16:14 you wrote to amanda-users:
Let me strongly suggest that a paragraph explaining that the base
directory in the DLE *must* be readable by amanda, so that it can
build the include file.
JL Absolutely. I think it is only needed for include, not for
--On Friday, May 13, 2005 23:27:20 +0200 Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, Jon,
on Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 at 16:14 you wrote to amanda-users:
Let me strongly suggest that a paragraph explaining that the base
directory in the DLE *must* be readable by amanda, so that it can
Jon == Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jon These are level 1 dumps. Maybe no changes? Did you get the
Jon same results on the last level 0? If I recall, these are
Jon mail dirs, is there stuff there?
Last dump summary:
DUMPER STATS
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:40:21AM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
Jon == Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jon These are level 1 dumps. Maybe no changes? Did you get the
Jon same results on the last level 0? If I recall, these are
Jon mail dirs, is there stuff there?
Jon == Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jon Does 'amadmin config disklist omni /var/spool/... ' show
Jon indexing turned on?
Yes.
Jon Are there index files for those DLE's under your index dir?
Yes, all gzipped; decompress to an empty file.
Jon Was there ever a
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:19:16PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
Jon == Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jon Was there ever a successful backup of the DLE's in question?
No, I'm pretty sure there was never one.
Jon I presume the DLE's for /home/{ag|hm|nt} are similar to
Alexander == Alexander Jolk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alexander I'm pretty sure there's an error somewhere in your
Alexander disklist config since your index files are empty. I
Alexander don't remember whether you showed us already your
Alexander relevant /tmp/amanda/ debug
The man page has this suspicious paragraph:
diskdevice
Default: same as diskname. The name of the disk device to be
backed up. It may be a
full device name, a device name without the /dev/ prefix, e.g.
sd0a, or a mount point
such as /usr.
Alexander Jolk wrote:
Once again, your syntax seems right to all of us, but nobody really
seems to be actively using `include' right now. I know for certain that
using `exclude' works, for example.
I see. My problem is that I have a /home full of users (34G used) and a
/var/spool/imap/users
Alexander Jolk wrote:
Ahm, sorry, I don't quite follow you there. Your sendbackup.* files are
empty, zero bytes? That shouldn't be the case already. (Don't get
caught by the fact that they are readable only to your amanda user, and
root!) And which files are the include files? Could you
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:37:09PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
In fact /var/spool/imap is not readable by amanda. But it is absurd that
amanda has to read every file in the system... (mode=600 files are
unbackupable???) Or maybe amanda only needs to be able to read the base
directory of
--On Thursday, May 12, 2005 21:37:09 +0100 Rodrigo Ventura [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Alexander Jolk wrote:
Ahm, sorry, I don't quite follow you there. Your sendbackup.* files are
empty, zero bytes? That shouldn't be the case already. (Don't get
caught by the fact that they are readable
On Thu, 12 May 2005 at 9:34pm, Rodrigo Ventura wrote
Alexander Jolk wrote:
Once again, your syntax seems right to all of us, but nobody really
seems to be actively using `include' right now. I know for certain that
using `exclude' works, for example.
I see. My problem is that I have
Thank you for the answers.
I have one more question/problem: I have several partitions that are
not being dumped. The device/directory/include specifications in DLE
is not yet very clear to me. I have a root partition (/) where the OS
is installed, as well as IMAP accounts at
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:12:21PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
Thank you for the answers.
I have one more question/problem: I have several partitions that are
not being dumped. The device/directory/include specifications in DLE
is not yet very clear to me. I have a root partition (/)
Jon == Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jon So far your DLE's seem ok to me. The one part I question is
Jon global. What is your global definition? Is it even
Jon specifying GNUTAR as the dump program?
My global is:
define dumptype global {
comment Global definitions
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:58:09PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
Jon == Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jon So far your DLE's seem ok to me. The one part I question is
Jon global. What is your global definition? Is it even
Jon specifying GNUTAR as the dump program?
--On Wednesday, May 11, 2005 00:36:04 +0100 Rodrigo Ventura [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm working on setting up a automated backup system using amanda
2.4.4p4 on a linux slack 8.1 server. The tape system is a HP DAT 72x6
autoloader (36/72 GB tapes)
Q1: Using tapetype I got the following
-Original Message-
Server A - Solaris 8 - Disklist:
/dev/md/dsk/d1 always-full # 67M
/dev/md/dsk/d4 always-full # 126M
/dev/md/dsk/d5 always-full # 2.8G
/dev/md/dsk/d6 always-full # 12.5G
/dev/md/dsk/d7 always-full # 76G
Server B - Solaris 8 - Disklist:
/dev/md/dsk/d1
Hi John!
Lauro, John schrieb:
-Original Message-
Server A - Solaris 8 - Disklist:
/dev/md/dsk/d1 always-full # 67M
/dev/md/dsk/d4 always-full # 126M
/dev/md/dsk/d5 always-full # 2.8G
/dev/md/dsk/d6 always-full # 12.5G
/dev/md/dsk/d7 always-full # 76G
Server B - Solaris 8 - Disklist:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 02:45:40PM +0200, Michael Schaller wrote:
Am I right: Amanda WILL change tapes AUTOMATICALLY between different
DLEs in ONE configuration if the rest of the tape doesn't fit for the
next DLE
Yes. If runtapes is 1, Amanda will move onto the next tape if a DLE
hi
mogorva wrote:
Hi All,
I'm totally new to amanda so please excuse me for the long mail.
I have a linux box here (debian woody) with one disk and a DAT drive.
There are 3 partitions on the disk (/boot, / , swap).
so far so good, but you'll need holding space in order to store the
backups
Hi Mogorva,
First off, I'm not an Amanda expert either, so maybe I'm talking rubbish
here. If so, I'm sure someone will correct me :)
AFAIK you can't use the same tape for several consecutive backup sessions.
Amanda uses its dumpcycle parameter to decide how long it will refuse to
overwrite a
mogorva wrote:
This PC will be a remote PC (it will be really far away from here) and I
will have only ftp access.
Not even ssh?
My task is to create a method to archive the data from the disk.
Fortunately (or not) the data is quite static (this means it changes
very rarely) so it's not
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:10:40AM +0200, Hans van Zijst wrote:
First off, I'm not an Amanda expert either, so maybe I'm talking rubbish
here. If so, I'm sure someone will correct me :)
I guess that would be me...
AFAIK you can't use the same tape for several consecutive backup sessions.
Fernan Aguero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
[I've tried also building amanda --with-user=amanda and creating the
user to no avail]
The only thing that works is letting amanda have a login shell in
/etc/passwd, which I guess is the wrong thing to do (from a security
standpoint).
Hi! It's
I've just installed amanda ...
Welcome!
In this case, the port is configured by default with the following
options:
--with-user=operator
--with-group=operator
However, the operator has /sbin/nologin as a shell ...
As you've noted, this is apparantly a bad thing. But it's really a
question
+[ John R. Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) dijo sobre Re: newbie questions:
|
| I've just installed amanda ...
|
| Welcome!
Thank you John. And thanks to all the others who sent me comments and
help!
| In this case, the port is configured by default with the following
| options:
| --with-user
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:57:38PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
+[ John R. Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) dijo sobre Re: newbie questions:
|
| One possibility (although I know zip about FreeBSD) might be to set the
| shell to /bin/false and add /bin/false to /etc/shells (or whatever file
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