Re: [Amanda-users] Tape Backup for Windows 2008 Server

2010-01-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Gena B wrote: > What I'd like to know about Amanda open source backup is that if it can > backup MS SQL database in win 2008 server and if it supports backup to tape. > And if those can be done with amanda backup, I'd like to know then if Amanda > backup supports

[Amanda-users] Tape Backup for Windows 2008 Server

2010-01-06 Thread Gena B
> This is an Amanda forum and it's probably bad form for me to comment about > Windows stuff here but have you looked at Windows Server Backup: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754572%28WS.10%29.aspx more > specifically the wbadmin command line tool here > http://technet.microso

Re: [Amanda-users] Changing Next Tape Expected

2010-01-06 Thread Bryan Hodgson
I don't want to disagree with Steve's assessment. Mostly I think he's right-on with his comments. However ... I have on perhaps 5 occassions used 'amrmtape' followed by 'amlabel' to force-clear a tape so that it could re-cycle "early". Mostly this has occurred in the (thankfully rare) case of

[Amanda-users] Tape Backup for Windows 2008 Server

2010-01-06 Thread brnn8r
> Does Amanda backup allow command-line execution? I'm sorry I'm a newbie. I'd > like to know if it can perform tape backup somehow similar to NTBackup > utility executed in command line. > > My problem is that in my Visual Basic program, I need to automate backup of > MS SQL database to DATA

Re: [Amanda-users] Changing Next Tape Expected

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Wray
brnn8r wrote: Hi All, This is my first post on this forum and I'm a bit of a Amanda newb. At my company we have a Weekly backup regime and after each weekly backup the tape is sent offsite for storage and the next Weekly tape is > brought in. I've just come back from holiday and Amanda i

[Amanda-users] Changing Next Tape Expected

2010-01-06 Thread brnn8r
Hi All, This is my first post on this forum and I'm a bit of a Amanda newb. At my company we have a Weekly backup regime and after each weekly backup the tape is sent offsite for storage and the next Weekly tape is brought in. I've just come back from holiday and Amanda is expecting our next

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Wray
I'll attach some debug logs. For the purposes of this test I cut the disklist file down to two entries: One entry is a client which is configured to use simple BSD auth. The other entry is a client which is configured to use bsdtcp auth. Both of these have been verified by running amcheck disk

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Wray
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Run 'amadmin disklist' and check the auth is set as expected for all dles. I've done this, with the amanda.conf having bsdudp and with it having bsdtcp for that entry. In both cases all auth entries for all other DLE's are 'BSD'. In both cases only that one DLE

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Run 'amadmin disklist' and check the auth is set as expected for all dles. Jean-Louis Steve Wray wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Steve Wray wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Steve Wray wrote: On the client, in the sendbackup.20100106012630.debug log I see: sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Wray
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Steve Wray wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Steve Wray wrote: On the client, in the sendbackup.20100106012630.debug log I see: sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.056: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 3348 sendbackup: time 0.057: started backup sendbackup: time 90.352: index t

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Wray
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Steve Wray wrote: Am I to understand that there could be a problem in having 'too many' DLE's for bsd or bsdudp to cope with? I never thought of there being a limit to the number of DLE's before... Our disklist file has 178. Yes, it's

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Steve Wray wrote: > Am I to understand that there could be a problem in having 'too many' DLE's > for bsd or bsdudp to cope with? > > I never thought of there being a limit to the number of DLE's before... Our > disklist file has 178. Yes, it's quite possible, and

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve Wray wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Steve Wray wrote: Am I to understand that there could be a problem in having 'too many' DLE's for bsd or bsdudp to cope with? I never thought of there being a limit to the number of DLE's before... Our disklist fil

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Wray
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Steve Wray wrote: Ah hang on, am I right in understanding that you can't have just one dle using bsdtcp auth? That they would all have to have it? (ie the inetd configuration) Well, all DLEs on a given host have to have the same auth.

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Wray
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Steve Wray wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Steve Wray wrote: Am I to understand that there could be a problem in having 'too many' DLE's for bsd or bsdudp to cope with? I never thought of there being a limit to the number of DLE's

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve Wray wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Steve Wray wrote: On the client, in the sendbackup.20100106012630.debug log I see: sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.056: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 3348 sendbackup: time 0.057: started backup sendbackup: time 90.352: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Steve Wray wrote: > Ah hang on, am I right in understanding that you can't have just one dle > using bsdtcp auth? That they would all have to have it? (ie the inetd > configuration) Well, all DLEs on a given host have to have the same auth. If you define different

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Wray
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Steve Wray wrote: On the client, in the sendbackup.20100106012630.debug log I see: sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.056: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 3348 sendbackup: time 0.057: started backup sendbackup: time 90.352: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] sendbackup: time 9

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Wray
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Steve Wray wrote: On the client, in the sendbackup.20100106012630.debug log I see: sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.056: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 3348 sendbackup: time 0.057: started backup sendbackup: time 90.352: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] sendbackup: time 9

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve Wray wrote: On the client, in the sendbackup.20100106012630.debug log I see: sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.056: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 3348 sendbackup: time 0.057: started backup sendbackup: time 90.352: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] sendbackup: time 90.352: pid 3346 finish time W

Re: intermittent amanda failure

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Wray
Steve Wray wrote: Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: I suspect an estimate or data timeout. Have you tried increasing dtimeout and etimeout? etimeout 2000 dtimeout 2000 I'd be surprised. These seem like fairly substantial values. 2000 seconds is roughly half an hour. I'll increase them by another 1

Re: snapshot cleanup

2010-01-06 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jean-Louis, On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:27:29AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > In case of hard failure, the post_dle_* scripts are not executed and the > snapshot are not removed, you must removed them manually. Not unreasonable, I'd just wanted to ask - a situation we will strive to avoi

Re: snapshot cleanup

2010-01-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
In case of hard failure, the post_dle_* scripts are not executed and the snapshot are not removed, you must removed them manually. Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Jean-Louis, On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:15:48AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Amanda should remove the snapshot. It's a bu

Re: snapshot cleanup

2010-01-06 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jean-Louis, On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:15:48AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > Amanda should remove the snapshot. It's a bug if it doesn't. > > The pre_dle_* scripts create the snapshot and the post_dle_* scripts > remove them. Do you configured the post_dle_* scripts? I'm not sure how to

Re: snapshot cleanup

2010-01-06 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Amanda should remove the snapshot. It's a bug if it doesn't. The pre_dle_* scripts create the snapshot and the post_dle_* scripts remove them. Do you configured the post_dle_* scripts? Jean-Louis Brian Cuttler wrote: Amanda 2.6.1p1 on Solaris 10/x86. We have been running great! However beca

snapshot cleanup

2010-01-06 Thread Brian Cuttler
Amanda 2.6.1p1 on Solaris 10/x86. We have been running great! However because of problems outside the scope of amanda, our work area failing, we have moved the work area to a portion of our ZFS file system. This has worked great for us, however (why is there always a but or however...) for reaso