special AMANDA-infos
Hey amanda-users, see this: http://wiki.kldp.org/wiki.php/DocbookSgml/Amanda-KLDP -- Bye, Stefan
Re: special AMANDA-infos
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 09:31, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hey amanda-users, see this: http://wiki.kldp.org/wiki.php/DocbookSgml/Amanda-KLDP What is that, kanji? It displays ok, but I don't read that language. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Exclude list syntax.
Is it possible to use todays date as element in a filename in an exclude list? -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
Re: Exclude list syntax.
exclude list syntax depends on your dump/tar/smbtar...usually, no. All you get is wildcards pretty much. --On Tuesday, March 08, 2005 22:09 +0100 Erik P. Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use todays date as element in a filename in an exclude list? -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen -- GPG/PGP -- 0xE736BD7E 5144 6A2D 977A 6651 DFBE 1462 E351 88B9 E736 BD7E
spanning patch
Hi, sorry for the delay, don't wonna break our production setup, so i've setup another Solaris9 box together with a spare dds4x6 changer connected to it for some testing. here we go... 1st of all, spanning of a single DLE over two tapes works fine, using http://www.cs.umd.edu/~building/span_split_V7.0-2.4.5b1-20050214.patch.gz against http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda/amanda-2.4.5b1-20050214.tar.gz i haven't tested recovering yet. John Stange wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I'm afraid that the results of the spanning patch by John Stange (Hi John) are a bit less than optimum in some regards. it's a patch, leading us to some kind of fine release later on, so let's test it :-) using amverify mysetup, i've got this when the next tape is a fresh tape: $ amverify mysetup Tape changer is chg-zd-mtx... 2 slots... (should read: 6 slots ?) Verify summary to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Defects file is /tmp/amanda/amverify.17109/defects amverify mysetup Loading current slot... Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume mysetup07, Date 20050308 End-of-Information detected. Loading next slot... Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume mysetup08, Date X Fresh tape. Skipping... $ ..whereas mysetup07 is the 2nd tape of the last run. mysetup06 would be the 1st tape of this run. never used amverify before anyways... just tested it because of Gene's hint. after loading the 1st tape of this run, i get: Loading current slot... Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume myetup06, Date 20050308 End-of-Information detected. Loading next slot... Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume mysetup07, Date 20050308 End-of-Information detected. $ mail report says: Tapes: mysetup07 No errors found! ...seems as amanda thinks only mysetup07 was written by this run. don't know if this happens using 2.4.5b1-20050214 also... haven't tested. ...will give you more results when i've checked recovery, or should i switchover to the hackers list ? Cheers, Peter -- read http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html before replying
Re: Exclude list syntax.
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:09:04PM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Is it possible to use todays date as element in a filename in an exclude list? You can have multiple exclude statements, IIRC, at most one can omit the append argument. Given that, you could have one exclude statement read a file created at the start of your amdump run with an appropriate pattern. echo ./###$(date +%Y%m$d)### /path/to/exclude/pattern/of/the/day/file amdump Replace the ###'s with whatever constant or filename pattern you need and the date command with whatever syntax your date string needs demand. Then your dumptype might have something like exclude list append optional /path/to/exclude/pattern/of/the/day/file The path could be absolute or relative to the root of the DLE. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Exclude list syntax.
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 17:13 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:09:04PM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Is it possible to use todays date as element in a filename in an exclude list? You can have multiple exclude statements, IIRC, at most one can omit the append argument. Given that, you could have one exclude statement read a file created at the start of your amdump run with an appropriate pattern. echo ./###$(date +%Y%m$d)### /path/to/exclude/pattern/of/the/day/file amdump Replace the ###'s with whatever constant or filename pattern you need and the date command with whatever syntax your date string needs demand. Then your dumptype might have something like exclude list append optional /path/to/exclude/pattern/of/the/day/file The path could be absolute or relative to the root of the DLE. Beautiful! Thanks a lot. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
Re: spanning patch
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 16:42, Peter Kunst wrote: Hi, sorry for the delay, don't wonna break our production setup, so i've setup another Solaris9 box together with a spare dds4x6 changer connected to it for some testing. here we go... 1st of all, spanning of a single DLE over two tapes works fine, using http://www.cs.umd.edu/~building/span_split_V7.0-2.4.5b1-20050214.pa tch.gz against http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda/amanda-2.4.5b1-2005021 4.tar.gz i haven't tested recovering yet. John Stange wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I'm afraid that the results of the spanning patch by John Stange (Hi John) are a bit less than optimum in some regards. it's a patch, leading us to some kind of fine release later on, so let's test it :-) using amverify mysetup, i've got this when the next tape is a fresh tape: $ amverify mysetup Tape changer is chg-zd-mtx... 2 slots... (should read: 6 slots ?) Verify summary to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Defects file is /tmp/amanda/amverify.17109/defects amverify mysetup Loading current slot... Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume mysetup07, Date 20050308 End-of-Information detected. Loading next slot... Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume mysetup08, Date X Fresh tape. Skipping... $ ..whereas mysetup07 is the 2nd tape of the last run. mysetup06 would be the 1st tape of this run. never used amverify before anyways... just tested it because of Gene's hint. after loading the 1st tape of this run, i get: Loading current slot... Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume myetup06, Date 20050308 End-of-Information detected. Loading next slot... Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume mysetup07, Date 20050308 End-of-Information detected. $ mail report says: Tapes: mysetup07 No errors found! This would seem to be the default, since amrecover has not yet been patched to behave itself when doing the spanned tapes. I had a bit of trouble switching it back after the 2 day test, so my stuff is now out of numerical synch, but thats not a showstopper by any means. ...seems as amanda thinks only mysetup07 was written by this run. don't know if this happens using 2.4.5b1-20050214 also... haven't tested. No, thats amverify only, since it hasn't been patched yet according to John. That (2.4.5b1-20050214) also is the version I patched. ...will give you more results when i've checked recovery, or should i switchover to the hackers list ? Cheers, Peter -- read http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html before replying -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: spanning patch
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 16:42, Peter Kunst wrote:((read http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html before replying (this is Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:55:05 +0100 (CET) :-) Loading current slot... Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume myetup06, Date 20050308 End-of-Information detected. Loading next slot... Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume mysetup07, Date 20050308 [..] mail report says: Tapes: mysetup07 No errors found! This would seem to be the default, since amrecover has not yet been patched to behave itself when doing the spanned tapes. I had a bit of trouble switching it back after the 2 day test, so my stuff is now out of numerical synch, but thats not a showstopper by any means. that's why i have _not_ touched production setup o) just joined amanda hackers... give me some days to wait for something like a howto-amanda-hackers, if there is one, like on sunmanagers.org, and i'll join testing, now that i've spent some hours to setup a working test-setup. John, cc: me for updates, please :o) Cheers, Peter -- read http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html before replying
single drive optimizations
I've been wondering what the best option is for me to backup tape size amounts of data (potentially) with only a single drive and without a automated tape changer. Right now I'm using the following: runtapes 1 tpchanger chg-manual All level zero runs total to approximately 60GB on DDS3 tapes (12GB native). Each level zero fits on a tape with some extra room and is staggered from the rest. Thanks for any suggestions on how to improve my setup. -- Nick Jones
