RE: amrecover/amindexd problems, 242p1
Amrecover is not the issue. The issue is why amindexd is quitting. I assume both machines are connecting to the same amindexd server? Everything's happening on the same machine. The problem is not amindexd quitting, I believe, but rather amrecover not being able to connect to it. We ran another strace, this time on amrecover, that shows this. We've gotten it working now, by going back to 2.4.2, applying the /dev/root fix, rebuilding, reinstalling, etc. I'll look at amrecover diffs between 2.4.2 and 2.4.2p1 and see if I can track the problem down. Carey
Backing up WIN NT-Server with Amanda
Hi, I need to backup some Windows-Machines and want to use a linux-server running amanda to do this. Has anyone experiences with the following backup scenario: Some Windows-Machines, running WIN98, WIN95 and WIN NT One LINUX-Machine which is used as a fileserver (via SAMBA) I want to mount the Windows-Filesystems on the LINUX-Host (with smbclient), and use amanda to backup everything. (The clients are running 24h a day) I have an Onstream DI-30 tapedrive, which (should) work fine with the new Linux Kernel. Thanks for any comments, best regards, Harald Husemann System Admin Materna GmbH, 44171 Dortmund
Re: amrecover from client
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: I am using 2.4.2p1. Should I try a development release? The changes I'm thinking of were done after 2.4.2p1 and are in the amanda-242-branch of CVS. I'd give you a set of patches except they were a little more extensive than just a few lines of diffs because they got tangled up in some other minor tweaks. C Scott John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The CVS version works fine. Thanks a lot! Is that a common problem with Linux clients? The clients here are both Red Hat and Debian. C Scott
RE: amrecover/amindexd problems, 242p1
We've gotten it working now, by going back to 2.4.2, applying the /dev/root fix, rebuilding, reinstalling, etc. I'll look at amrecover diffs between 2.4.2 and 2.4.2p1 and see if I can track the problem down. I misspoke. We have it working now, running 2.4.2p1 plus the /dev/root patch. It's a reverse resolution problem. Our temp fix is to create an /etc/hosts entry, and we're tracking down the reverse resolution problem now Carey
amanda problems
HI everybody: I have a machine with Mac OS X that i am trying to backup for level 4 but i get an error " Data write: File too large". The first time that I included this machine into the disklist everything was fine, I could backup but the problem was when I tried to backup all the area /Local that is aprox 12 Gb. I have two holding disks. The First one is about 7.6 Gb and the last one has 4 Gb. IN my amanda.conf i defined the chunksize value 2000 Mb less than 2 Gb as I read in the FAQ but Still I get the same error. I don't know if you need more details. I would appreciate if somebody can help me Thanks Sandra
Re: Backing up WIN NT-Server with Amanda
yep, I have reliably backed up an NT PDC, and win98 workstation data with amanda. the only thing that does not get backed up is files open for write, and things like the registery (because of the active file status) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to backup some Windows-Machines and want to use a linux-server running amanda to do this. Has anyone experiences with the following backup scenario: Some Windows-Machines, running WIN98, WIN95 and WIN NT One LINUX-Machine which is used as a fileserver (via SAMBA) I want to mount the Windows-Filesystems on the LINUX-Host (with smbclient), and use amanda to backup everything. (The clients are running 24h a day) I have an Onstream DI-30 tapedrive, which (should) work fine with the new Linux Kernel. Thanks for any comments, best regards, Harald Husemann System Admin Materna GmbH, 44171 Dortmund -- Ben Kochie | [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMA Systems Office | 400 Lind Hall, 207 Church St. SE http://www.ima.umn.edu | Minneapolis, MN 55455-0463
Re: Backing up WIN NT-Server with Amanda
Hold on though .. you don't need to explicitly mount the NT data onto the Linux box. You just let Amanda take care of it for you ... and as Ben quite rightly says, it is reliable. My first posting here BTW, so I would just like to take the chance to say thanks for the great software. I had a pile of nasty shell scripts that were getting more and more convoluted. Now I have a nice clean config file and a setup that can survive for a day or two with no tapes if I am away. Lovely job Andrew Meredith (.sig below for those who care) Ben Kochie wrote: yep, I have reliably backed up an NT PDC, and win98 workstation data with amanda. the only thing that does not get backed up is files open for write, and things like the registery (because of the active file status) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to backup some Windows-Machines and want to use a linux-server running amanda to do this. Has anyone experiences with the following backup scenario: Some Windows-Machines, running WIN98, WIN95 and WIN NT One LINUX-Machine which is used as a fileserver (via SAMBA) I want to mount the Windows-Filesystems on the LINUX-Host (with smbclient), and use amanda to backup everything. (The clients are running 24h a day) I have an Onstream DI-30 tapedrive, which (should) work fine with the new Linux Kernel. Thanks for any comments, best regards, Harald Husemann System Admin Materna GmbH, 44171 Dortmund -- Ben Kochie | [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMA Systems Office | 400 Lind Hall, 207 Church St. SE http://www.ima.umn.edu | Minneapolis, MN 55455-0463 Andrew Meredith ___ The Anvil Organisation Ltd. Director Tel: +44 (0) 1249 444240 | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +44 (0) 1249 460560 | Web: http://www.anvil.org/ Mob: +44 (0) 7802 389007 | SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ The box says Win95 or better .. Must run under Linux then!
AW: Backing up WIN NT-Server with Amanda
Hi Ben, thanks for your prompt answer, I know there are problems with the registry and with open files, but that doesn't mater in this case. So, it will be no problem (as I supposed, with such a nice software like amanda) Thanks + best regards, Harald -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Ben Kochie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Mrz 2001 16:35 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Backing up WIN NT-Server with Amanda yep, I have reliably backed up an NT PDC, and win98 workstation data with amanda. the only thing that does not get backed up is files open for write, and things like the registery (because of the active file status) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to backup some Windows-Machines and want to use a linux-server running amanda to do this. Has anyone experiences with the following backup scenario: Some Windows-Machines, running WIN98, WIN95 and WIN NT One LINUX-Machine which is used as a fileserver (via SAMBA) I want to mount the Windows-Filesystems on the LINUX-Host (with smbclient), and use amanda to backup everything. (The clients are running 24h a day) I have an Onstream DI-30 tapedrive, which (should) work fine with the new Linux Kernel. Thanks for any comments, best regards, Harald Husemann System Admin Materna GmbH, 44171 Dortmund -- Ben Kochie | [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMA Systems Office | 400 Lind Hall, 207 Church St. SE http://www.ima.umn.edu | Minneapolis, MN 55455-0463
Re: Failed backup of / partition
When you ran ./configure, did it say it found setmntent? I don't recall. What do you get when you run this: grep SETMNT config/config.h #define HAVE_SETMNTENT 1 What does your /etc/fstab line look like for /? What about /proc/mounts? /etc/fstab: /dev/hda12 / ext2defaults1 1 /proc/mounts: /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 ^ From what I can see, it's OS dependant problem! hmm! Any suggestions? = -+ Shreedeep Bhachech [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: AW: Backing up WIN NT-Server with Amanda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for your prompt answer, I know there are problems with the registry and with open files, but that doesn't mater in this case. So, it will be no problem (as I supposed, with such a nice software like amanda) I'm also backing up a few Win9x and WinNT and W2K machines. For the registry on NT etc, you _can_ do something. Either you export the registry into a text file, which you back up normally, or you use "rdisk /s-" and then you find a backup of the registry in "%WINNT%\repair". Restoring from these files however is not as simple, but at least you have something! Run one or both just commands just before the normal daily backup and amanda will pick them up in the next run. -- Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.lant.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ...* * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Re: access error when using samba
Alexandre,
I think I understand what you are saying. And yes, vedder is a unix
machine currently configured as an amanda client.
Please explain to me (who should be a server/client) how all this should
work, using my environment as an example. I have a Linux machine
(vedder) that is a amanda server (and client). I have a few other unix
machines (which we can ignore for now) and a Windows 2000 machine (ozzy)
that I need to backup two directories called c:\mydata and c:\mydata2.
How do I specify these directories?
Thanks,
Terry
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Mar 19, 2001, Terry Koyama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
disklist contains: vedder //vedder/ozzybkup windows-test
This must be wrong. Is vedder a Unix machine, configured as an Amanda
client? In this case, what's the point of naming is as the SMB server
too?
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RE: amrecover/amindexd problems, 242p1
It was on the mailing list within the past couple weeks. I'll send it to you directly. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shreedeep Bhachech Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: amrecover/amindexd problems, 242p1 I misspoke. We have it working now, running 2.4.2p1 plus the /dev/root patch. What is this /dev/root patch? Where can I find it? Might be of help in my case, maybe! Carey Shreedeep = -+ Shreedeep Bhachech [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: access error when using samba
Please explain to me (who should be a server/client) how all this should work, using my environment as an example. I have a Linux machine (vedder) that is a amanda server (and client). I have a few other unix machines (which we can ignore for now) and a Windows 2000 machine (ozzy) that I need to backup two directories called c:\mydata and c:\mydata2. How do I specify these directories? vedder //ozzy/mydata whatever vedder //ozzy/mydata2 whatever This tells Amanda to connect to vedder (via normal Amanda amandad) and vedder will run smbclient to //ozzy/mydata. In other words, the Amanda client (first column) is **always** a Unix box. The "disk", in the case of Samba, is the share name that will be accessed from the Amanda client, and thus it contains the PC host name. Terry John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: amrecover/amindexd problems, 242p1
After all was said and done, it turned out that our amrecover problems had to do with reverse dns lookup errors. We had a named db misconfigured. Sorry for the waste of bandwidth. Carey
amanda dns semantics
We would like to turn off the reverse DNS resolution checking that amanda does, because frankly, it's a nuisance for us. We're doing appropriate firewalling, ipsec security, etc., via other means. In particular, even if it's just for amrecover/amindexd, is there an easy way to do this (i.e., recompile), or do we need to modify the source. If this is a braindead idea, I'd like to know that, too. Thanks in advance. Carey Jung IT Freedom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512.419.0070, fax 419.0080
RE: exclude list format
John, I tried your scripts and they helped some. I am not sure if you can help me or not. I had some questions on backing up Microsoft clients. We are trying to backup Microsoft clients and we want to exclude some of the files and directories. We tried putting the exclude file on the client and on the server and didn't have any luck. It did not matter what syntax we used, the files were always backed up. Have you done anything like this or have any suggestions? Here is what we are running: amanda@parody:p0 /home/amanda amadmin x version build: VERSION="Amanda-2.5.0" BUILT_DATE="Mon Oct 23 13:56:02 CDT 2000" BUILT_MACH="FreeBSD parody 4.1.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE #3: Fri Oct 20 12:21:37 CDT" amanda@parody:p0 /home/amanda /usr/local/bin/gtar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13 Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. smbclient version 2.0.7 Thanks, William William Lorfing System Administrator VIEO, Inc. 12416 Hymeadow Drive, Suite 200 Austin, TX 78750 Office: (512) 257-3031 x 108 Fax:(512) 257-3031 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vieo.com VIEO: Enabling Fabric Computing -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John R. Jackson Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: exclude list format I understand you figured out the syntax (congratulations! -- it always gives me a headache :-), so the following is just rambling. The problem is that even though I am telling it to exclude these files AND use tar it still creates the tarball with those directories which causes the dump to fail. What is the syntax of the exclude file. ... FYI, I wrote some scripts to help me figure out and test exclude patterns: ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gtartest-exclude Does anyone know of a GOOD place for amanda docs. All I can find says use fearture A but gives no way of how to use feature A. For example the man page talks about the exclude file but does not cover the format of the exclude file. Have you looked at http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html? There is a section in there about exclusion patterns, although I had to fight through figuring them out, so make no guarantees they are 100% correct. As to the exclude syntax specifically, why should Amanda document GNU tar parameters? If you're having trouble (as many, **many**, people do, including myself :-) with a feature of GNU tar, it seems to me that's the place you should go for documentation. On the other hand :-), Amanda is a (the) *heavy* user of this feature, so it would probably be good to write a docs/EXCLUDE file for release. At a minimum, we should at least make it clear that "exclude" maps to "--exclude=PATTERN" and "exclude list" maps to "--exclude-from=FILE" so you could have some hope of finding the right stuff in the GNU tar docs. Any volunteers? (yeah, I thought not :-). Why does amcheck not find these errors? What errors? Amcheck knows nothing about exclusions (although I think it will check for the file). Are you asking that it run GNU tar and make sure doing it with the exclusions and without generates different results? That would be a bit, shall we say, time consuming. Andrew Hall John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exclude list format
We are trying to backup Microsoft clients and we want to exclude some of the files and directories. We tried putting the exclude file on the client and on the server and didn't have any luck. It did not matter what syntax we used, the files were always backed up. Have you done anything like this or have any suggestions? This is trivial. All you have to do is convince the Samba folks to support it. :-) It's not an Amanda issue. It's a lack of feature support in smbclient. William John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amrecover from client
... Is that a common problem with Linux clients? ... The Amanda code was just plain wrong (or mistaken in its approach), but most clients didn't care. I guess some clients do now. C Scott John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
amanda behind firewall
Hi all, I'm using amanda-2.4.2p1 and I used to compile ./configure --with-portrange=1000,1005 --with-udpportrange=850,854 --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk but ... when I'm trying to do a backup my firewall response: --cut-- DENY eth2 PROTO=6 207.245.14.66:3267 207.245.14.71:32886 --cut-- how can I fix it ? thanks sergio
Re: access error when using samba
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: Huh? It's the Unix machine that is running Samba, not the PC. The Windows machines must "share" what they want visible, but there's no server involved (well, I guess there is an SMB server on the PC but it's part of the base Windows OS). But maybe I don't understand the question. To clarify - the windows boxes need to be running "file and print sharing" in their network setup. This, as far as I know, is not how Windows comes configured out of the box. You need to explicitly say somewhere that you want to enable it, and it will install the appropriate stuff. Mark -- http://www.mchang.org/ http://decss.zoy.org/
AMRECOVER-No index records for disk for specified date
I have just installed Amanda 2.4.2p1 on SuSE 7.0. I have troubles with
AMRECOVER.
I am sure, that my index file is:
/etc/amanda/csd/index/linux1/_dev_ida_c0d0p4/20010314_0.gz
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When I write in AMRECOVER :
amrecover setdisk /dev/ida/c0d0p4
Scanning /var/amanda...
200 Disk set to /dev/ida/c0d0p4.
No index records for disk for specified date
If date correct, notify system administrator
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When I write wilfully incorrect:
amrecover setdisk /dev/ida/c0d0p5
501 No index records for disk: /dev/ida/c0d0p5. Invalid?
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I conclude, that I can correctly reach directory, but cannot reach index
file.
cat /tmp/amanda/amindexd.debug gives:
amindexd: debug 1 pid 16111 ruid 37 euid 37 start time Mon Mar 19 13:03:12
2001
amindexd: version 2.4.2p1
220 linux1 AMANDA index server (2.4.2p1) ready.
SECURITY USER root
bsd security: remote host linux1.local user root local user amanda
amandahosts security check passed
200 Access OK
DATE 2001-03-19
200 Working date set to 2001-03-19.
SCNF csd
200 Config set to csd.
HOST linux1
200 Dump host set to linux1.
DISK /
501 No index records for disk: /. Invalid?
DISK root
501 No index records for disk: root. Invalid?
DISK /dev/ida/c0d0p4
200 Disk set to /dev/ida/c0d0p4.
OISD /
500 No dumps available on or before date "2001-03-19"
OISD /
500 No dumps available on or before date "2001-03-19"
DISK /dev/ida/c0d0p5
501 No index records for disk: /dev/ida/c0d0p5. Invalid?
DISK /dev/ida/c0d0p4
200 Disk set to /dev/ida/c0d0p4.
OISD /
500 No dumps available on or before date "2001-03-19"
OISD /
500 No dumps available on or before date "2001-03-19"
QUIT
200 Good bye.
If I debug amrecover, in set_commands.c
if (server_happy())
{
suck_dir_list_from_server();
}
else
{ /* Here goes after test in server_happy()*/
printf("No index records for cwd on new date\n");
printf("Setting cwd to mount point\n");
disk_path = newstralloc(disk_path, "/");/* fake it */
clear_dir_list();
}
inside server_happy() I see: server_line[0]=53'5', which is ( I hope) error
code, but what does it mean?.
Do You have any idea ? Thank You in advance.
Martin Novacek
Re: amanda dns semantics
We would like to turn off the reverse DNS resolution checking that amanda does, because frankly, it's a nuisance for us. ... ... In particular, even if it's just for amrecover/amindexd, is there an easy way to do this (i.e., recompile), or do we need to modify the source. ... In essence, you want to remove all gethostbyaddr calls, right? You're effectively turning off all Amanda security since amandad uses that to do a lookup by IP address to get back the connecting host name to do the search in .amandahosts. To do that, just reconfigure/rebuild using --without-bsd-security and it will let anything in. There is also some code in amindexd.c that does a gethostbyaddr but the result does not appear to be used. You'll still have to go in there and comment it out, though. If this is a braindead idea, I'd like to know that, too. It bothers me to turn off security, but I don't know your setup. Carey Jung John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: This is just weird!
How can a given client "sometimes" not be able to resolve the tapehost? You're asking the wrong folks. Amanda just calls the system provided gethostby* routines. You need to look into how those work (i.e. whether they look at /etc/hosts, DNS, etc) and guess at why those are failing sometimes. My guess would be that you are using DNS and that the server just goes to sleep on occasion. And/or you don't have enough fallback servers to take up the cause when the primary does not respond. Stan Brown John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: access error when using samba
In the scenario that you've described, is it true that every Windows machine needs to run a samba server? Huh? It's the Unix machine that is running Samba, not the PC. The Windows machines must "share" what they want visible, but there's no server involved (well, I guess there is an SMB server on the PC but it's part of the base Windows OS). But maybe I don't understand the question. Terry John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
user permissions problem
Question that I can't seem to find in the FAQ or on "the page"... it seems trivial, but I guess I'm missing _something_ very obvious -- excuse the lengthy posting. --BEGIN-- tape-server == prefect (slack linux) client == brain (solaris 8) amanda users are all backup/backup (and group sys). I am trying to backup an entire partition on brain (client) mounted as /export/home . This disk is: /export/home (/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 ):15472040 blocks 2123875 files disklist contains: brain c1t1d0s0 comp-user-tar I've given access (group) read to the device that the disk is accessed as: brw-r- 1 root sys 32, 8 Mar 5 11:06 pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3/sd@1,0:a So, is this disklist right? I put in the partition/disk information instead of the /export/home, since I gave the user backup group read on that partition? It seems to have gathered all the files, given the size of the backup it wrote, but I can't seem to find a bunch of the stuff using amrecover. So, ls -la /export/home gives: total 1389534 drwxrwxrwx 19 root research1024 Mar 14 13:26 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Mar 5 11:14 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root research 512 Sep 13 2000 TT_DB/ drwxr-xr-x 8 akshay research 512 Mar 15 17:03 akshay/ drwxr-xr-x 34 chandi research2048 Mar 19 13:06 chandi/ -rw-r--r-- 1 chandi research 671441037 Oct 13 09:57 chandi.tgz drwxr-xr-x 16 2003 research1024 Jan 24 15:46 harrisjs/ drwxr-xr-x 16 hauckresearch1024 Feb 15 10:10 hauck/ drwxr-xr-x 41 justin staff 2560 Mar 19 11:22 justin/ drwxr-xr-x 9 kati research 512 Mar 16 15:20 kati/ drwxr-xr-x 3 justin research 512 Sep 25 09:05 kio/ -rw-r--r-- 1 1019 research 39 Sep 13 2000 larry.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 22 mchang research1024 Mar 20 17:32 mchang/ drwxr-xr-x 21 melany research1536 Mar 14 12:58 melany/ drwxr-xr-x 32 mholland research2560 Mar 20 15:10 mholland/ drwxr-xr-x 15 phillips research1024 Mar 20 15:26 phillips/ drwxr-xr-x 27 root other 1536 Feb 20 16:17 root/ drwxr-xr-x 7 2004 research 512 Feb 14 15:23 silkworm/ drwxr-xr-x 25 zaphod research2560 Mar 17 17:22 zaphod/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root research 39581685 Mar 9 12:39 zaphod.tgz drwxr-xr-x 38 zl research3072 Mar 16 17:47 zl/ drwxr-xr-x 2 zl research 512 Oct 12 13:14 zl.old/ Where in amrecover (sudo amrecover daily -s prefect -t prefect): AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p1. Contacting server on prefect ... 220 prefect AMANDA index server (2.4.2p1) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2001-03-20) 200 Working date set to 2001-03-20. 200 Config set to daily. 200 Dump host set to brain. Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD amrecover setdisk c1t1d0s0 Scanning /dumps... 200 Disk set to c1t1d0s0. amrecover ls 2001-03-20 chandi/ 2001-03-20 hauck/ 2001-03-20 justin/ 2001-03-20 melany/ 2001-03-20 mholland/ 2001-03-20 root/ 2001-03-20 zl/ -END- What's goin on here? Thanks. -- http://www.mchang.org/ http://decss.zoy.org/
Re: This is just weird!
On Tue Mar 20 17:10:21 2001 John R. Jackson wrote... How can a given client "sometimes" not be able to resolve the tapehost? You're asking the wrong folks. Amanda just calls the system provided gethostby* routines. You need to look into how those work (i.e. whether they look at /etc/hosts, DNS, etc) and guess at why those are failing sometimes. My guess would be that you are using DNS and that the server just goes to sleep on occasion. And/or you don't have enough fallback servers to take up the cause when the primary does not respond. Mmm, I am really puzzled by this. The tapeserver is an HP-UX 10.20 box, on the same network are 2 other HP-UX boxes, also 10.20. All of these machines have each other in the /etc/hosts file, and nsswitch.conf set up to check there first. Almost all the other machines that the tapserver backus up are on other subnets, and have to go through a FreeBSD gateway box. Like I said, it's just weird. Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: This is just weird!
... All of these machines have each other in the /etc/hosts file, and nsswitch.conf set up to check th ere first. Are you absolutely certain they are checking /etc/hosts first? If you do something that does a hostname lookup (e.g. ftp or telnet, etc), does the access time (ls -lu) on /etc/hosts get updated? Just a thought. Stan Brown John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba restores don't work ...
Greetings;
Backups are working great across a network of 16 different UNIX variants, and several
NT servers. My problem is restoring to the NT servers.
We are using Amanda 2.4.2p1, Samba 2.07 and gtar 1.13 on a Solaris 2.6 box.
The Samba shares are accessible to the user "backup" who has "Full Control" on all
directories and files within the share.
From Daily/disklist:
sun26 //nt4/StarTeamVault windows-samba
From amanda.conf:
define dumptype global {
index yes
}
define dumptype windows-samba {
global
program "GNUTAR"
comment "Critical Windows shares"
options no-compress
priority high
}
From /etc/amandapass:
//nt4/StarTeamVault backup
ckup
"Backups proceed uneventfully. Restoring using "setmode tar, works as expected, so the
tape is certainly readable. The following is a transcript of amrecover using Samba:
with the correct tape in the drive
#
amrecover/ setdisk //nt4
StarTeamVault
.../200 Disk set to //nt4
StarTeamVault.
amrecover
cd Java///nt4/StarTeamVault
Java
amrecover
add Server-16-Feb-01-12-46-32.Log/Added /Java
Server-16-Feb-01-12-46-32.Log
amrecover
setmode smb
SAMBA dumps will be extracted using smbclient
amrecover
extract
/Extracting files using tape drive /dev
autodrive_norewind on host sun26.:The following tapes are needed
Daily01
/Restoring files into directory /tmp
amanda(,unless it is a Samba backup) that will go through to the SMB server
?Continue[ /Y]n:
y
Load tape Daily01 now?Continue[ /Y]n:
y
amrecover
quit#
:From amidxtaped.debug
...:amrestore: 7
restoring sun26.__nt4_StarTeamVault.20010319.0(Error 32 )Broken pipe+ offset 0,32768
wrote 0:amrestore
pipe reader has quit in middle of file.:amrestore, skipping ahead to start of next
file
please wait...:amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status
2:Rewinding tape
done:amidxtaped: pid 8305 finish time Tue Mar 20 19:11
09 2001
:From amrecover.debug
..."Started amidxtaped with arguments /6 -h -p /dev^autodrive_norewind sun26
///nt4$StarTeamVault" 20010319
'Exec/ing /usr/local/samba/bin:smbclient with arguments
smbclient///nt4
StarTeamVault
X -U %backup
backup
-d0
-Tx
-/./Java
Server-16-Feb-01-12-46-32.Log:amrecover: pid 7587 finish time Tue Mar 20 19:11
22 2001
:From amindexd.debug
.../ 200- Opaque list of
Java
.../ 201- 2001-03-19 0 Daily01 /Java
Server-16-Feb-01-12-46-32.Log
.../ 200 Opaque list of
Java
TAPE/ 200 /dev
autodrive_norewind
QUIT:Removing index file/
/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/info/index/sun26/__nt4_StarTeamVault
20010319_0
200 Good bye.:amindexd: pid 7588 finish time Tue Mar 20 19:11
22 2001
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The file is not restored to the NT server as is needed.
I will Thank You very much in advance for any help or insight into this problem.
tony%0A
Silly question re: samba
Hi Folks, Having read the FAQ-O-Matic and not really answering my question, here goes : I have my server lagoon, samba server tamar and client arthur (solaris 2.8) client prion-pc (Win 98). Does amandad have to be running on the samba server (tamar) in order for lagoon to backup the C$ share on prion-pc? Thanks -- ___ David Logan 102 Cameron Street Broadband e-Lab Launceston Tas 7250 Australia Ph : (03) 6323 2667 Fax: (03) 6323 2666 Mob: (0419) 890 763
Re: Silly question re: samba
Having read the FAQ-O-Matic and not really answering my question ... This has come up a few times recently. The docs/SAMBA file has recently been updated, and I'll see if I can't beef up "the chapter", too. I have my server lagoon, samba server tamar and client arthur (solaris 2.8) client prion-pc (Win 98). Does amandad have to be running on the samba server (tamar) in order for lagoon to backup the C$ share on prion-pc? Yes. The disklist entry will look like this on lagoon: tamar //prion-pc/some-share-namesome-dumptype This tells Amanda to connect to tamar and run amandad/sendbackup, who in turn will run smbclient to back up //prion-pc/some-share-name. David Logan John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba Backups
Hmmm! I have compiled Samba 2.4.2 with: ./configure --with-libsmbclient (and the other options are the same as the ones that worked before) Added: [adlcds1 ]# cat /etc/amandapass //WEBAPP/Web asifiwouldtellapubliclist Added: [adlcds1 ]# cat disklist adlcds1 //WEBAPP/Web comp-tar BUT amcheck -c says it can't find the disk "//WEBAPP/Web"... And I don't know what's wrong...using smbclient by itself works correctly. DSL -- And though you turn from me To glance behind The Phantom of the Opera is there... Inside your mind!
