Re: Tapeless operation
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:18:40PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi fellows, OS: RH9 AMANDA: 2.4.3 I configured AMANDA for tapeless operation but when amcheck runs its return the followed error: amcheck-server: could not get changer info: could not read result from /usr/lib/amanda/chg-disk My amanda.conf look as follow: tapedev file:/BACKUP2/slots/ rawtapedev file:/BACKUP2/slots/ changerdev /dev/null tpchanger chg-disk I've downloaded the chg-disk driver from http://www.elysiria.org/projects/amanda/chg-disk.tgz If I run amdump manually so Amanda mails me: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [new tape not found in rack]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush to flush them to tape. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. Somebody help-me. I dont know what to do anymore. Have you configured and labeled any virtual tapes? Do you have a tapelist file with reasonable entries created by amlabel? Can you use amtape to select a tape? Even if you do not build and install the latest amanda version, I'd encourage you to download it an take a look in the doc's directory. There is a new how-to for disk based operations. jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: Tapeless operation
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 at 12:38pm, Eric Zylstra wrote I have terrabytes of storage available via NFS. I want to backup to that NFS mount. No tape will ever be involved. I'm using 2.4.p2. I've seen discussion before about doing such a thing with older versions. Using files on disk like tapes has only ever been supported in the 2.4.2-tapeio branch of CVS, which (as I understand it) became 2.4.3b3. So you'll need to go that route. As I mentioned, details are in amanda(8) in that distrib. Also, look through the recent mailing list archives -- this has been discussed a fair bit recently. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: Tapeless Operation
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 at 2:27pm, Rajasekhar Madasu wrote Does anyone know how to get AMANDA to backup to a holding disk and not have the tapes/tape drive in the equation atall ? Look in the archives for posts regarding the tapeio branch in CVS. This lets you use files on disk as tapes. It's still experimental, but others seem to be using it in production. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: Tapeless operation
On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 01:34 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 at 1:21pm, Eric Zylstra wrote I've been looking, but don't know where to find info about tapeless use. The FAQ has an entry on this, but no answer. Any pointers? Do you mean degraded mode (i.e. you usually use a tape, but one wasn't in) or the file: driver? If the latter, you need 2.4.3b3 (or whatever the latest is), and info you need is in amanda(8). If the latter, just set reserve to something greater than 0 and have at it. I have terrabytes of storage available via NFS. I want to backup to that NFS mount. No tape will ever be involved. I'm using 2.4.p2. I've seen discussion before about doing such a thing with older versions. Thanks, EZ
Re: Tapeless operation
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 at 12:38pm, Eric Zylstra wrote I have terrabytes of storage available via NFS. I want to backup to that NFS mount. No tape will ever be involved. I'm using 2.4.p2. I've seen discussion before about doing such a thing with older versions. Using files on disk like tapes has only ever been supported in the 2.4.2-tapeio branch of CVS, which (as I understand it) became 2.4.3b3. So you'll need to go that route. As I mentioned, details are in amanda(8) in that distrib. Also, look through the recent mailing list archives -- this has been discussed a fair bit recently. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: Tapeless operation
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 at 1:21pm, Eric Zylstra wrote I've been looking, but don't know where to find info about tapeless use. The FAQ has an entry on this, but no answer. Any pointers? Do you mean degraded mode (i.e. you usually use a tape, but one wasn't in) or the file: driver? If the latter, you need 2.4.3b3 (or whatever the latest is), and info you need is in amanda(8). If the latter, just set reserve to something greater than 0 and have at it. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: Tapeless Operation
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 at 2:27pm, Rajasekhar Madasu wrote Does anyone know how to get AMANDA to backup to a holding disk and not have the tapes/tape drive in the equation atall ? Look in the archives for posts regarding the tapeio branch in CVS. This lets you use files on disk as tapes. It's still experimental, but others seem to be using it in production. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: Tapeless Operation
do you mean doing incremental or full backups? Rajasekhar Madasu wrote: Hi Does anyone know how to get AMANDA to backup to a holding disk and not have the tapes/tape drive in the equation atall ? Thanks in advance Madasu
