From: Behalf Of Winston Sorfleet Sent: October 31, 2025 16:39
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> There's still a pulse, but yeah I don't get the feeling that there are
> more than a hundred users of amanda anymore.
Hi Winston:
Thanks for your response.
> I don't use xfs, but my first expectation of an amanda problem is that
> it's usually permissions-related.
This is always a good call but, in this case, the xfsrestore command is
being found and executed but it objecting the parameters on the command
line.
> What was the exact command you were issuing? Is this the result of
> sudo -u backup amcheckdump --verbose <config>
I have not been able to determine what the amcheckdump xfsretore command
looks like but when I run:
amcheckdump WeeklySet1
I get the same results that are in the amcheckdump generated email.
> It would be helpful if you posted your config files.
Here is the amanda.conf file contemnts:
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org "WeeklySet1" # your organization name for reports
dumpuser "amandabackup" # the user to run dumps under
mailto "[email protected]" # space separated list of operators at your site
dumpcycle 0 week # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
autoflush on # flush the dumps from holding disk to tape
define changer my_robot {
tpchanger "chg-robot:/dev/changer"
property "tape-device" "0=/dev/nst0"
property "use-slots" "6-10"
}
dtimeout 1800 # number of idle seconds before a dump is aborted
ctimeout 30 # max number of secconds amcheck waits for each client
etimeout 300 # number of seconds per filesystem for estimates
define dumptype global {
comment "Global definitions"
auth "bsdtcp"
}
define dumptype gui-base {
global
program "GNUTAR"
comment "gui base dumptype dumped with tar"
compress none
index yes
}
define dumptype excl-tar {
global
program "GNUTAR"
comment "user partitions dumped with tar"
compress none
index yes
priority medium
exclude list "/etc/amanda/WeeklySet1/excllist"
}
define policy WeeklySet1 {
retention-tapes 4
retention-days 0
retention-recover 0
retention-full 0
}
define storage WeeklySet1 {
policy "WeeklySet1" # the policy
tapepool "WeeklySet1" # the tape-pool
tpchanger "my_robot" # the changer
runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump
tapetype "HP-LTO6" # what kind of tape it is
labelstr "^DS5W1-[0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all tapes
must match
#autolabel
#meta-autolabel
taperscan "traditional"
#max-dle-volume 1000000
#taperalgo first
#taper-parallel-write 1
}
storage "WeeklySet1"
define tapetype HP-LTO6 {
comment "Created by amtapetype; compression disabled"
length 2442818016 kbytes
filemark 256 kbytes
speed 89467 kps
blocksize 32 kbytes
}
holdingdisk hd1 {
directory "/u10/tmp/hd1"
use 100 gb
chunksize 1 mbyte
}
includefile "advanced.conf"
includefile "/etc/amanda/template.d/dumptypes"
includefile "/etc/amanda/template.d/tapetypes"
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Thanks, Hugh
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Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com
