Hi Folks,
Our amanda was set up by set up by someone who has moved on.
I feel like I have a pretty good handle on it after 6mos. It has worked
reliably. I've learned to add/delete disks, manipulate some of the
config options and have succcessfully "twinned" our master configuration
so I can test migration of our tape device from one platform to another
as
well as change the config for a different tape device.
As time has passed our needs have progressed and I'm
unsure of the best way to proceed. I also have some questions re: day to
day
operations.
Our present setup is Amanda-2.4.2-19990920 on an HPUX 10.2 system
backing up
a heterogeneous environment of NT, Irix, FreeBSD and HPUX systems to
an Overland 4000LX 15tape/1drive DLT. We are backing up the NT systems
via Samba.
Changes needed:
1: Move the drive to a PC based system - right now we have a FreeBSD
4.2-Stable
system on a dual 266mhz P-II ASUS P2B-D mother board and an Adaptec
2930CU SCSI adapter.
2: Add backup for a Dell PowerVault 705 NAS device and Windows 2000
systems
3: Do archival backups
3a: use a second magazine
4: resolve authentication error
Related questions:
1: When we move the Overland to the FreeBSD PC and run amlabel, we get
errors in the system log file and the DLT goes out to lunch - we setup
an HP SureStore 2300 6 tape DDS as a test and saw some similar errors
but
after the tapes were labeled they subsided:
(ch0:ahc0:0:0:1): MOVE MEDIUM. CDB: a5 20 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0
(ch0:ahc0:0:0:1): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:3b,d
(ch0:ahc0:0:0:1): Medium destination element full
ch: warning: could not map element source address 0d to a valid element
type
(sa0:ahc0:0:0:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM
command to clear this state.
Neither the FreeBSD list nor Overland has had any insight into this...
2: We can't directly access the NAS disks - how would we give dump
instructions
to a system that has it mounted via NFS or SMB? I thought Amanda used
tar
on Unix but a dump request to an Irix system with the NAS mounted failed
"disk /remote/nas01/2 offline on nimble". A remote SMB mount can't be in
turn shared so when trying to backup via smbclient we get:
"PC SHARE //lassiter/N access error: host down or invalid password?"
3: How can we configure amanda to do only level 0 or only incremental
backups?
We'd like to (say) run level 0 over the weekend to one tape set and
incrementals to
another, with an eye to adding a second tape machine and do level 0 to
one and
incrementals to the other.
3a: To use a second 15 tape magazine, is there a way to setup
amanda.conf to count
all 30 tapes sequentially? The problem seems to be that Amanda thinks
there is
30 slots if there are 30 tapes, so the chio routines fail. We'd like to
have it stop
the tapers, ask for the next magazine and start at slot 1 again.
4: We compiled the latest Amanda for FreeBSD (VERSION="Amanda-2.4.2")
which included
patches for Windows 2000 via smbclient - that works fine now. We are
getting "auth"
errors on the cd /usr/local/amanda/FreeBSD system that we built as the
tape server:
" ERROR: vermeer: [access as backup not allowed from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]]\
amandahostsauth failed " - Did we miss something - I'm not able to track
this down.
5: What other Amanda guidance/support resources are available?
6: Just out of curiosity, is anyone working on a gui configuration
interface for Amanda?
my apologies for the "laundry list"
thanks in advance for any help
hurf
Hurf Sheldon, Dir. Research Systems email:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Program of Computer Graphics voice:607 255 6713 fax:607 255 0806
580 Rhodes Hall, Cornell University
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~hurf/
Ithaca, N.Y. 14853
