Thanks for your reply...
However, the Ecrix V17 tapesize is set to 35000 mbytes and...
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
solo.americom.com:/ is: /dev/sda3 7.9G 6.9G 632M 92% /
gorn.americom.com:/ is: /dev/sda4 5.1G 4.3G 547M 89% /
The other
OK, I did:
grep [/_]idebigger amdump.1
setting up estimates for solo.americom.com:/idebigger
solo.americom.com:/idebigger overdue 11782 days for level 0
setup_estimate: solo.americom.com:/idebigger: command 0, options:
got result for host solo.americom.com disk /idebigger: 0 - 8004440K, 2 -
Hello mailinglist,
I have a strange problem with amrecover.
This afternoon I have a presentation about amanda backup service and nothing
works (murphy's task...)
When I start amrecover as root, the following error occurs:
shakira:/ # amrecover -C rtec -s shakira.r-tec.int -t shakira.r-tec.int
+ John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07.04.02 20:24]:
Of course... I've tried 2.4.2p2 too, with no luck. So I updated to the
bleeding-edge version.
OK. Just wanted to make sure you understood what you were running.
I've downgraded to 2.4.2p2 again, since the beta did not work either.
i guess your next step would be the more detailed logs. How about
reviewing the 'amdump.[0-9]' files in the 'logdir' directory defined in
amanda.conf ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your reply...
However, the Ecrix V17 tapesize is set to 35000 mbytes and...
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 19:38, John R. Jackson wrote:
I was wondering how I set the blocksize in amanda?
Version 2.4.3 (now in beta test) has this ability. See amanda(8).
Cool :-)
So the point is, do a **lot** of testing first before deciding to
go down this path. The simplest thing is
Hi guys,
I found the DLT I have.. it's a Tandberg DLT1 (that's why it states
40/80gb on tape type IV).
found this under that drive:
from FAQ-o-matic
Quantum DLT7000 391B Tandberg DLT1
data from tapetype length 38398 mbytes filemark 40 kbytes speed 1494 kps
On FreeBSD 4.4RC5 PIII 1GH 512MB
Hi,
If you want to continue using 2.4.3b3, apply the following patch:
There's one problem with your patch. The fclose() call should either be
protected inside the if (exclude != NULL) test, or it should be changed
to afclose(), which will test for NULL.
Oops -- right! Seems that Solaris
Looks like you didn't specify index yes in your dumptype definition
(near the end of the amanda.conf file). I ran into this yesterday when
I was trying to run amrecover from a client.
Maybe you could do what I did--
- redefine the dumptype (add 'index yes')
- use amadmin to force a level 0
What are the advantages/disadvantages of using the holding disk?
What are the advantages/disadvantages of dumping stuff straight to
tape?
We have a tapeserver which is our fileserver and as such is just
backing itself up. When we upgraded from 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2p2 the
backups suddenly started
I looked around in the archive and didn't find this
answered (directly), so here is a similar issue:
We're using the Amanda version 2.3.0.4 on Solaris.
We have been having the problem (recenlty) where
the backups have been failing due to reaching the end
of the tape. Problem is, the backups
Hi folks,
I'm using amanda-2.4.2p2 on Redhat 7.2 ... all backups seems to be ok
but now I need to recovery some files and when I try to use amrecover
I'm getting the follow error:
---xxx---
amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 28508 ruid 501 euid 501 start time Wed Apr 10
12:24:36 2002
amidxtaped: version
Should be a simple one...
What is the proper way to enter an advfs partition into the disklist?
I looked into the /etc/fdmns/partition domain/ directory, saw which
partition was involved and put that into the disklist. The report comes
back:
FAIL planner mymachine involved partition 0 [disk
On 10 Apr 2002, Frederic Saincy wrote:
- Hi all,
-
- in my amanda.conf
- ###
- dumpcycle 1 weeks
- runspercycle 5
- tapecycle 6 tapes
- ###
-
- i ran 7 amdumps today (testing). The first amdump does a level0, and
- the last overwrite this unique level0 with a level1.
-
- This is a bug, a
node16 sda7 20020410 11775 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 20375963 679198 1
1970:1:1:0:0:0 20375963 679198
driver: adding holding disk 0 dir /home/amanda size 2097152
reserving 629145 out of 2097152 for degraded-mode dumps
driver: start time 110.101 inparallel 1 bandwidth 2600 diskspace 2097152
dir OBSOLETE
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, James Kelty wrote:
When I run the amlabel utility (% amlabel Daily Daily123), I get this error:
rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape
rewinding, writing label Daily123, checking label
amlabel: no label found, are you sure /dev/st0 is non-rewinding?
It is
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Eric Trager wrote:
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, C. Chan wrote:
Is there currently a way to back up to two or more tape drives simultaneously
using the same Amanda config?
Apparently not.
In 2.4.3 (currently in beta) you can stripe a backup accross two tapes
with the RAIT
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, David Flood wrote:
I want to split my backups over two DLT drives. Is this possible and
if so how is it best done? Can amanda be configured to do this
somehow or do/can I run two instances of amanda at the same
time?
Running two amdumps with different configs at the same
You can certainly put / in your disklist as the drive name.
Probably /dev/hda6 isn't working because that is not how the
drive is mounted in /etc/fstab, rather it is mounted by LABEL=/
or some other such thing.
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am a relatively new amanda
Sounds like the configure script couldn't find a mail program and
set it to NONE.
You should have gotten an error message like:
*** WARNING: Amanda cannot send mail reports without these programs.
Set MAILER to some program that accepts -s subject user message_file.
when you ran configure.
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Tom Van de Wiele wrote:
hi
I was just wondering. We have a big fileserver here, which is backup'ed
every day. On two occassions, 2 dirs have disappeared.
I'm just making sure, amanda doesn't write to the disk its backup'ing,
right? If it doesn't, then some (l)user
When you are using hardware compression on the tape drive, the
backup image cached on disk is of course not yet compressed.
If it thinks the dump won't fit on the tape, did you pick
a different tapetype for the compressed device?
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Matthew Boeckman wrote:
I have two
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Juanjo wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to run amanda without-tapes so it dumps only to holding
disk?
But what I mean is not to take off the tapes physically but disabling tape
writing. I want to accumulate incrementals worth a week and flush them on
friday to a tape...
How
Amanda is not so picky about tape rotations. As long as the scheme you
use doesn't try to overwrite any backups which you've said you should
still keep of a given partition, and the tape labels match the regexp in
your amanda.conf, you can rotate the tapes any way you like.
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002,
--On Wednesday, April 10, 2002 13:56:02 -0500 Marc W. Mengel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Juanjo wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to run amanda without-tapes so it dumps only to holding
disk?
But what I mean is not to take off the tapes physically but disabling tape
writing. I
Also Sprach Marc W. Mengel:
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, C. Chan wrote:
Is there currently a way to back up to two or more tape drives simultaneously
using the same Amanda config?
In 2.4.3 (currently in beta) you can stripe a backup accross two tapes
with the RAIT code, but to do so you
http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3
for what Linus has to say about it.
Which as always is handwaving to cover the fact that he's too lazy to fix it.
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, David Flood wrote:
What are the advantages/disadvantages of using the holding disk?
What are the advantages/disadvantages of dumping stuff straight to
tape?
Advantages of holding disk:
* Better tape throughput, better tape reliability because you can stream
your
Sounds like your /dev/nst0 device is not readable by your amanda
user. What does an 'ls -l /dev/nst0' look like?
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm using amanda-2.4.2p2 on Redhat 7.2 ... all backups seems to be ok
but now I need to recovery some files and when I
I am trying to get AMANDA working for the first time and am stuck
getting amdump to complete with all my partitions. I have tracked the
problem down to this error at the end of the sendbackup.debug file on
the client:
error [/bin/tar got signal 13]
The error changes slightly if I change the
Misspelled amanda config? That would keep it from finding the right
index directory in that config's amanda.conf...
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Nünighoff, Leonie, NUE wrote:
Hello mailinglist,
I have a strange problem with amrecover.
This afternoon I have a presentation about amanda backup
Also Sprach Anthony A. D. Talltree:
http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3
for what Linus has to say about it.
Which as always is handwaving to cover the fact that he's too lazy to fix it.
I'm still confused about this. Is it because the kernel buffer vs page
cache architecture is
--On Wednesday, April 10, 2002 14:26:34 -0500 Greg Wardawy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The current problem is that I'm getting the WARNING: tapedev is /dev/null,
dumps will be thrown away
but I have no tapedev /dev/null in my amanda.conf file.
Here goes the beginning part of amanda.conf:
Hi all,
i just joined a new startup and am setting up everything.
So of course, i'm looking around for a backup software and
while there are some good expensive commercial solutions,
there's also amanda.
In my previous job, we had a very customized amanda setup
which worked fine but i was
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:26:40PM -0500, Marc W. Mengel wrote:
I never used amanda with negative chunksizes, so I can't help you
here. The chunksize doesn't have anything to do with whether something
is put on disk, it just says what the biggest chunk of a backup
image will be put in one
Sorry I have to keep posting this but I cannot find the problem...
I do not understand what is causing the error RESULTS MISSING.
Is this an error anyone understands or has experienced?
I implemented a couple of patches a few weeks ago for other problems I
was encountering (based on
Hi,
I'm new to Amanda and I want to use it because I have multiple
platforms (Sun, SGI, Linux and PCs) that I need to back up. Only the
server will be backup daily while users data will be backup weekly (or
something other than daily).
Anyway, my question is, Is there a way to 'force' amanda
file origK compK secs
0 20020410 DailySet1-041 492800 182109 278
Current info for orion.progiweb.home /home:
Stats: dump rates (kps), Full: 1006.0, 1003.0, -1.0
Incremental: 115.0, -1.0, -1.0
compressed size, Full: 61.6%, 61.6
, Full: 37.0%, 37.0%,-100.0%
Incremental: 6.4%, 6.4%, 6.4%
Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs
0 20020410 DailySet1-041 492800 182109 278
Current info for orion.progiweb.home /home:
Stats: dump rates (kps), Full
This is the closest method Amanda has to spanning one partition or
filesystem over multiple tapes, correct? ...
At the moment, yes.
... If so, how do I configure to toss the parity
away if I only have two tape drives? If it's similar to RAID 3 then
I can just specify the third drive as
Put /dev/null in for your tape device when running the amdumps, then
set it to a real tape and do an amflush.
Wasn't there a comment on this list before about using something non-
existent (like /dev/nosuchdevice) instead of /dev/null because amanda
was somehow 'aware' of /dev/null and would
We're using the Amanda version 2.3.0.4 on Solaris.
Good grief! :-)
We have been having the problem (recenlty) where
the backups have been failing due to reaching the end
of the tape. ...
There are two ways you could be hitting end of tape. It might be that
the total cumulative size of all
Even when 2.4.3 proper comes out, there's really no compelling reason to
upgrade *unless* you need any of the new features. If it ain't broke...
If it's not broken, it hasn't got enough features yet. ;-)
I have a strange problem with amrecover. ...
As Alisa said, the most likely cause is that you don't have indexing
turned on. A quick way to check this is:
amadmin rtec disklist shakira.r-tec.int
Look for index YES.
If I try to set the disk default by using
setdisk /backup/client1
Hi everyone,
I've got three partitions on IRIX 6.5 (efs and xfs) that return total
bytes written as a negative number.
Ex. Total bytes written: -594548736
I'm using gnutar, and needless to say there's no size line match in
above gnutar output. Any idea what's going on?
Thanks,
Jenn
Tapetype reported speed at 2811kb/s and the vendor supplied data is 3mb/s)(=
3072 kb/s).
Close enough. You never want to believe what vendors tell you. They take
the rotational speed of the tape and the density and claim that's how
fast it can run, when back here in the real world we all know
The current problem is that I'm getting the WARNING: tapedev is /dev/null,
dumps will be thrown away
but I have no tapedev /dev/null in my amanda.conf file.
Frank is right. You need to set tapedev to /dev/nst0.
I'm not sure about my changer config file ...
It would help if you posted it.
I am trying to get AMANDA working for the first time and am stuck
getting amdump to complete with all my partitions. I have tracked the
problem down to this error at the end of the sendbackup.debug file on
the client:
error [/bin/tar got signal 13]
Signal 13 is broken pipe, which is rarely the
So I'm thinking about testing the backups on that server without
using the holding disk. How is this done, is there a way of
specifying it in the amanda.conf for all dumptypes as well as
somehow specifying it for individual dumptypes?
Put:
holdingdisk no
in whichever dumptypes you want.
I think it has to do with the amanda demon. I send parts of my amdump.1
logfile with it. Anybody any Idea
Ummm, yes. It's pretty obvious:
dumper: stream_client: gethostbyname(localhost) failed
Amanda can't do a host name lookup on localhost. You've got something
wrong with the DNS or
Ex. Total bytes written: -594548736
I'm using gnutar ...
What version (gnutar --version)? You **must** use 1.13.19 (or later)
or else 1.12 plus the patches at www.amanda.org.
Jenn
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is the proper way to enter an advfs partition into the disklist?
Regardless of file system or OS type, you should be able to
enter either the mount point (e.g. /home) or a full device name
(/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0) or a device shorthand (c0t0d0s0).
I don't know how the latter two relate to
I agree it should warn you about the over-write, but if I remember
your original posting correctly your config had a tapecycle of
about a week and runspercycle was around 6 or so, yet you ran
amdump 8 times in one day. The planner logic might not be set
up to handle this extreme case.
I took a
Hi,
Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The planner logic might not be set
up to handle this extreme case.
I don't know very well amanda's internal and this is the occasion for
me to look at the sources. If the planner can't, amdump must wonder:
If i do this, can admin restore the system
Hi,
I have a Qualstar tape library, which has 20 tapes.
The library can be configured to look like one massive tape drive,
with the 20 physical tapes hidden from the host application. I can
cause the unit to eject the current physical tape and load a
new one by using the mt offl command.
My
--On Thursday, April 11, 2002 03:37:15 +0200 Frederic Saincy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The planner logic might not be set
up to handle this extreme case.
I don't know very well amanda's internal and this is the occasion for
me to look at the
--On Thursday, April 11, 2002 03:26:08 + David Trusty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have a Qualstar tape library, which has 20 tapes.
The library can be configured to look like one massive tape drive,
with the 20 physical tapes hidden from the host application. I can
cause the
Frank,
Thanks! Here is some more info.
I am using the Qualstar under HPUX.
I haven't found a way to address the tapes individually. I see
only two SCSI devices, whether I use the RANDOM or SEQUENTIAL
modes on the Qualstar. Is that how yours works too?
Does Amanda have some way of accessing
--On Thursday, April 11, 2002 04:21:10 + David Trusty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using the Qualstar under HPUX.
Mine's on a Linux box.
I haven't found a way to address the tapes individually. I see
only two SCSI devices, whether I use the RANDOM or SEQUENTIAL
modes on the Qualstar.
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