Actually, let me begin again. We actually this working on amanda 2.4.1 (I think). The source code for amanda-client had to be patched to collect the correct estimate, AND you had to replace /sbin/dump with the perl script(s), and everything worked. When we went to 2.4.2 it broke and we didn't get around to fixing it. Now we have a new, larger, filer and the project is back on. I've tried letting amanda back up via nfs, but it almost always fails at some point, the error we get in the sendsize debug is "/bin/tar cannot create directory" (or something like that).
You have to create "devices" for the filer in /dev so amanda thinks the filer is itself, not another host. my disklist looks like this: sherman.cs.unm.edu /dev/poptart/etc dump sherman is my amanda server, poptart is my NetApp. My entries in /dev/ are: sherman:/dev# ls -l poptart total 0 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 3 Jun 12 10:31 etc crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 3 Jun 12 11:43 staff If I run dump by hand: /sbin/dump 0usf x - /dev/poptart/etc > somefile it works fine. Running it from amanda fails. When you say "modified dump" do you mean the perl scripts and setuidump.c? Ashwin Kotian wrote: > > Are you saying that you are able to successfully > backup the Netapp without using the modified dump > program & using Amanda version earlier than 2.4.4 ? > > If you are successfully able to do so, can you send me > your disklist for the Netapp part so that I can > compare with mine ? > > The modified dump program for Netapp works fine for > smaller directories. But I'm using DDS4 tapes (20Gb > uncompressed) & my filesystem on the Netapp is about > 90 Gb, so usually backups for the directories on the > Netapp that are greater than 20 Gb fail. > > Thanks, > > Ashwin. > > --- Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --On Thursday, June 12, 2003 14:56:18 -0600 George > > Kelbley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I may be missing something simple here, but, we > > want to back up a > > > Network Appliance using amanda. 2.4.4 seems to > > have patches to collect > > > the correct size, and I installed the perl scripts > > and dump program that > > > I found at > > www.xs4all.nl/~johnpc/amanda-netapp-dump-0.1/, but > > the dump > > > script exits with "cannot handle dump", and I > > think its because it > > > doesn't like the 'S' argument its getting from > > amanda. > > > > > > Since the 2.4.4 code has been patched for a > > NetApp, I'm assuming someone > > > is actually using it? > > > > Never tried the ndmp stuff since I started using > > Amanda before it was > > included, so I NFS-mounted the NetApp filesystems on > > the backup server > > and treat them as local disks. Probably not quite > > as fast, especially > > if you do client-compress and don't have a lot of > > CPU on the server, but > > it works. > > > > Frank > > > > > > -- > > Frank Smith > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Systems Administrator > > Voice: 512-374-4673 > > Hoover's Online > > Fax: 512-374-4501 > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com -- George Kelbley System Support Group Computer Science Department University of New Mexico 505-277-6502 Fax: 505-277-6927
