Alexander - You need to define your "dumptypes" in your amanda.conf file (or
another file included in that). You can then refer to them in your "disklist".
Your best source for information should be the amanda.conf manual page. This is
also where you can learn about the other features of the amanda.conf file such
as inheritance.
You may only need one dump type for a very basic setup or you may want to set
up something more complex. You may also want to look at the manual page for
amgtar, amanda's interface with tar. Here is an example from our amanda
configuration:
First I set up the options for amgtar:
define application-tool app_amgtar {
plugin "amgtar"
property "ATIME-PRESERVE" "NO"
property "ONE-FILE-SYSTEM" "NO"
property "SPARSE" "YES"
property "ACLS" "YES"
property "SELINUX" "NO"
property "XATTRS" "YES"
property "CHECK-DEVICE" "NO"
property append "IGNORE" ": value .* out of time_t range"
property append "NORMAL" ": file changed as we read it"
property append "NORMAL" ": Exiting with failure status due to previous
errors"
}
This tells amgtar what flags to use for tar and what kind of messages to ignore
or consider normal. I have a few other "application-tool" definitions as well.
Next, I have a global dump type template that sets options I want to include in
all my other dump types:
define dumptype global {
index yes
strategy standard
ssh_keys "/etc/amanda/eecs/ssh-key"
}
Since I use SSH as the transport mechanism for Amanda, I want to define the key
to use in all dumptypes.
I can then inherit this in a specific dump type:
define dumptype amgtar-nolvm {
global
auth "ssh"
comment "Backup using amgtar with best server-side compression"
compress server custom
server_custom_compress "/usr/bin/pigz"
program "APPLICATION"
application "app_amgtar"
}
As you can see, I include the "global" definition, tell it to use a custom
compress program (pigz, a multi-threaded version of gzip which gives me a nice
speed boost on this 8-core server). I then tell it that I want to use the
application tool app_amgtar (which I defined earlier) as the backup program.
I now have a dumptype I can use in my disk list, for example:
#Host Disk Dumptype
Spindle Network
abzu.eecs.utk.edu /etc amgtar-nolvm
2 main
My example may be more or less complex than what you need in your setup. I hope
that gets you started.
Grüße nach Deutschland,
Markus
On Aug 1, 2013, at 6:38 AM, Alexander Geronymakis <[email protected]>
wrote:
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> Betreff: I need help!
> Datum: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:39:46 +0200
> Von: Alexander Geronymakis <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
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> Hi,
> I'm new to IT , I' m currently doing my internship in a firm in
> germany.I was recently asked to make a research on backup software and
> we all agreed on trying amanda community version as a best solution.So
> after I had succesfully installed and tested the server, I'm currently
> having troubles setting up the clients.More specific ,I have 4 virtual
> machines running debian6-64bit under a centOS host, 3 as clients and
> one as server.My question is how to setup exactly the dumptype in the
> disklist configuration file.I mean what are the options/choices/format?
> amcheck is giving me errors for it and I could't find any helpful infos
> on the internet.Moreover, is amcheck supposed only to run on the
> server?because ,no matter how I tried on the clients I always get the
> same error: amcheck: command not found . I have double-checked
> dependencies,various procedures etc. and everything seems to be in
> order.The version I installed is the latest stable release 3.3.4. I know
> my questions might sound very noob to you,but hey, I'm new to this.I
> would be sooo happy if somenone could help me figure that out.
>
>
>
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