Re: shared holding disk

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 at 10:38am, BRINER Cedric wrote I'm having 2 configuration of amanda : - a DailySet crontab: monday-friday - a WeeklySet crontab: saturday since now I always used the same holding disk for both configurations but what if the WeeklySet

shared holding disk

hi, I'm having 2 configuration of amanda : - a DailySet crontab: monday-friday - a WeeklySet crontab: saturday since now I always used the same holding disk for both configurations but what if the WeeklySet and the DailySet work at the same time... could amanda deal with this or not ?

which partition in level 0 for next dump

Hi, I'm thinking to breaking down some of my _BIG_ partition, by using tar on their respective subdirectories. but when I will do this, amanda will perform a dump level 0. So I'd rather prefer to break down the ones who are going to be dumped at level 0 at the next amdump. any idea how to do

big dump compare to tape size

hi, I'm having problem with amanda when it backups big partition compared to what a tape can contain. the tapes are 70Gb and some dumps are about 30Gb I've set the autoflush to yes. Some times a get : + These dumps were to tape WeeklySet076. + *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file:

Re: amanda tar

hello stefan, Hello, Cedric, BC I'm trying to backup with tar the station obslin13 BC So I've added BC obslin13 /export/diskA1/user1 comp-user-tar #Mdk BC in the Config Directory/disklist BC and the user1 has also the obslin13:/export/diskA1/user1_unsaved BC directory

amanda tar

Hi, I'm trying to backup with tar the station obslin13 So I've added obslin13 /export/diskA1/user1 comp-user-tar #Mdk in the Config Directory/disklist and the user1 has also the obslin13:/export/diskA1/user1_unsaved directory which should no be backuped. The mount table is as

host down? [again]

sorry fo the uncomplete previous message! hi, I'm getting something really strange lattely from amanda. when I use for the first time ``amcheck DailySet'', a lot of machines seems to be down ``selfcheck request timed out. Host down?''. When I relauched the ``amcheck DailySet'' then maybe only a

dump

amanda-2.4.4 compiled from scratch! linuxDistrib:mandrake9.2 hello, I used to work for 2 years with amanda on solaris systems. But now we are integrating a few linux boxes, and also getting into some issues! The problem has I saw it now, is that the user/groups defined in the amanda's xinet

Re: dump

amanda-2.4.4 compiled from scratch! linuxDistrib:mandrake9.2 The problem has I saw it now, is that the user/groups defined in the amanda's xinet file cannot run the dump program correctly under the backuped host (that what i've seen in the /tmp/amanda/sendsize.xx file): cat

Re: dump

ls -l /dev/hda6 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 oct 28 11:40 /dev/hda6 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 # ls -l /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 brw---1 root root 3, 6 jan 1 1970 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 here is the probleme...and now

Re: Newbie with amrecover...

Hello I use Amanda and a tape drive on my database server, and yesterday i deal with disk problems on it. So i wanted to verify my tapes on another server and i encoutered some difficulties. I think that you have to specify to amrecover where is the amandaIndex with the flag -i and also

Re: amflush with tapeless configuration

On Friday 16 August 2002 10:19, BRINER Cedric wrote: hi, I get problem with amflush with my new tapeless configuration. does someone get such kind of problem also ?? I launch the amflush succesfully right after it i look for some process of amanda ps -ef | grep am don't give me

Re: Can I use amanda without tape backup?

On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 09:41, Theewara Vorakosit wrote: Dear All, I have 2 machines running Red Hat 7.3. I want to back up content of these machines into an other machines periodically. I plan to use amanda but I don't have tape drive. Can I use amanda to backup into a hard disk? If you

amflush with tapeless configuration

hi, I get problem with amflush with my new tapeless configuration. does someone get such kind of problem also ?? I launch the amflush succesfully right after it i look for some process of amanda ps -ef | grep am don't give me any amexecfile I don't see any new files in the disktape pointed by

Re: Can I use amanda without tape backup?

NOP AFAIK the tapeless amanda is with 2.4.3xxx briner Thanks for you suggest. Can I use amanda 2.4.2p2-7 that equip with Red Hat 7.3 Thanks, Theewara - Original Message - From: BRINER Cedric [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Theewara Vorakosit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: _amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: amrecover

Hi! We have an Amanda 2.4.0 Server running and want to recover some files. I start amrecover -C TwiceAWeek on the Server, I get a timeout. In the daemon.log : Aug 16 13:47:34 calvin amindexd[31263]: warning: can't get client address: Connection timed out Aug 16 13:47:34 calvin

tapechanger for tapeless amanda

hi folks, I don't know that much about this line in amanda.conf #tpchanger chg-manual # the tape-changer glue script But I thought that this glue-script could be used for auto-rotating the data link when tapeless backup is used in amanda 2.4.3b3. Any pointer on whatever around this topic the

tapeless configuration

hi, I'm trying to amrecover file which were backed up with tapeless amanda.conf (amanda-2.4.3b3). 1)amanda.conf tapedev file:/unige/amanda/bckp/ 2) ls -l /unige/amanda/bckp/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 30 Jul 2 16:15 DSD01 - /net/atalante/export/diskF// 3)creating the data

AGAIN amrecover: file is not on Volume

hi, I'm using amanda for a while (about a year now), and I get this strange output telling me that amrecover cannot retrieve the file on the tape amrecover DailySet -t atalante -s atalante -d /dev/rmt/0cbn : : amrecover ls 2002-06-20 . 2002-06-13 .smhist 2002-06-20 Alarm_T.txt 2002-06-13

using hard disk instead of tape ??

hi, Does someone had never thought to use a bunch of hard disks spread over their own Local Network to replace the tapes. I thought that it shouldn't be a so big hack to redirect the output of amflush to a disk instead of a tape... Wihtout forgetting to also hack a little bit the amrecover to

Re: I don't understand this (the Response)

Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez wrote: This is my FIRST tapelist file: 0 Diaria-000 reuse 0 Diaria-001 reuse 0 Diaria-002 reuse 0 Diaria-003 reuse 0 Diaria-004 reuse 0 Diaria-005 reuse 0 Diaria-006 reuse I do ?amdump Diaria? today, and the tapelist file is now: 20011214

changing the /tape/dev

hi, My question is quite simple... can we enable the hard-compression of the tape after using the soft compression in amanda for a while. soft compression = comp-user in the disklist and /dev/rmt/0bn hard compression = nocomp-user in the disklist and /dev/rmt/0cbn One of the problems that I

deleted log files

Hi, I accidentally removed the logfiles that amanda managed. So now the situation is that I can't use anymore the amrecover ...arhh.. I thought that the only file that we need was the ones under index/ and curinfo/ but it's not the case. I thought so because even if the log was deleted, the

deleted log files

Hi, I accidentally removed the logfiles that amanda managed. So now the situation is that I can't use anymore the amrecover ...arhh.. I thought that the only file that we need was the ones under index/ and curinfo/ but it's not the case. I thought so because even if the log was deleted, the

Incoherente saving when moving a directory

Hi, One of my users changed the name of one of his directory one day ,and few days and few backups later, he deleted some files that it would like to recover. But amanda didn't save them again... why ??? I still had an older backup where the data are saved, but I'm wondering why amanda did'nt

Suspend amanda

hi, Imagine that during the christmass vacation nobody stay in the company, so no more people are going to modify any files... Is there a way to tell amanda to suspend is work for 1 week..without stressing it when we restart.. I have no idea on how to proceed, anyone, anyone I was thinking to

Re: Suspend amanda

Paul Bijnens wrote: BRINER Cedric wrote: Imagine that during the christmass vacation nobody stay in the company, so no more people are going to modify any files... Is there a way to tell amanda to suspend is work for 1 week..without stressing it when we restart.. First let me

Suspend amanda

hi, Imagine that during the christmass vacation nobody stay in the company, so no more people are going to modify any files... Is there a way to tell amanda to suspend is work for 1 week..without stressing it when we restart.. I have no idea on how to proceed, anyone, anyone I was thinking to

Re: Suspend amanda

Paul Bijnens wrote: BRINER Cedric wrote: Imagine that during the christmass vacation nobody stay in the company, so no more people are going to modify any files... Is there a way to tell amanda to suspend is work for 1 week..without stressing it when we restart.. First let me

Re: Problems with amresotore

Stan Brown wrote: It's been a while since I needed to recover some data my friend amanda is backing up, but this morning I lost a disk on a apache machine. I decided to put the data on a new machine i'm building that doesn't have amanda set up yet, so I wnet to a machine that does have

Re: I don't understand this (the Response)

Adolfo Manuel Pachón Rodríguez wrote: This is my FIRST tapelist file: 0 Diaria-000 reuse 0 Diaria-001 reuse 0 Diaria-002 reuse 0 Diaria-003 reuse 0 Diaria-004 reuse 0 Diaria-005 reuse 0 Diaria-006 reuse I do ?amdump Diaria? today, and the tapelist file is now: 20011214

changing the /tape/dev

hi, My question is quite simple... can we enable the hard-compression of the tape after using the soft compression in amanda for a while. soft compression = comp-user in the disklist and /dev/rmt/0bn hard compression = nocomp-user in the disklist and /dev/rmt/0cbn One of the problems that I

deleted log files

Hi, I accidentally removed the logfiles that amanda managed. So now the situation is that I can't use anymore the amrecover ...arhh.. I thought that the only file that we need was the ones under index/ and curinfo/ but it's not the case. I thought so because even if the log was deleted, the

deleted log files

Hi, I accidentally removed the logfiles that amanda managed. So now the situation is that I can't use anymore the amrecover ...arhh.. I thought that the only file that we need was the ones under index/ and curinfo/ but it's not the case. I thought so because even if the log was deleted, the

changing the /tape/dev

hi, My question is quite simple... can we enable the hard-compression of the tape after using the soft compression in amanda for a while. soft compression = comp-user in the disklist and /dev/rmt/0bn hard compression = nocomp-user in the disklist and /dev/rmt/0cbn One of the problems that I

obsul40 /export/diskA1 lev 0 FAILED [obsul40 NAK: amandad busy]

hi, I start having this probleme only in one machine when it used to work for a while without having any problems. I noticed that some deamon was still working on this machine ps -ef | grep am root 12346 168 0 00:45:00 ?0:00 amandad root 12347 12346 0 00:45:02 ?0:00

Approximate a 2weeks with a daily configuration !

hi, I do use amanda on a --DAILY BASIS-- base over 2 week(dumpcycle) with a -dumpcycle :2 week -runspercycle :10 (so 1 run per day) -tapecycle :1 month ( 28 tapes) -64 backup host -100 entries in the disklist -the average of data on

Re: balancing dumps over host

hi, thanks for your help on the topic, but I do not understand what is the second approach... could you be more specific on it ??? any example or reference please ?? briner BRINER Cedric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the disklist in now composed of more than 100 entries

Re: balancing dumps over host

Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to solve the following problem the disklist in now composed of more than 100 entries. but the problem reside in the fact that I do have some big server that has about 20 entries in the disklist. So as I read...amanda is not launching more than

balancing dumps over host

Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to sove the following problem the disklist in now composed of more than 100 entries. but the problem reside in the fact that I do have some big server that has about 20 entries in the disklist. So as I read...amanda is not launching more than one

backuping from a partition to a partition

hi, Is there any problem in backuping a partition of a disk to an other partition if the same disk .. briner

Re: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

Hi, Thks for zour former helps.. I do a special configuration with only the host that I'm having a problem with (atalante). and amanda success to do this. So i'm kind of puzzled about it. To give you more information I would like to tell you that -atalante is the backup client host

Failure strange dump

Hi, I'm using amanda with the same configuration for 10 days without having big issue. but after the other administrator touchs the disklist by suppressing one record and do change other stuff on the host that that have the tape server... all my dumps fails with the same error message /--

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

Hi, I get the fellowing error after launching amdump. Stuff to know: -atalante is the server that contains the holding disk on /export/diskE/amanda -in the disklist (atalante /export/diskE/ comp-user) FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: atalante /export/diskD lev 0 FAILED

Balancing the dumps in the first full dumps?

Hi, The idea to balance the dumps during the dumpcycle is to keep constant the among of data archived by run on the tape. One of the problem I get is that the first run i launch will do a full dump for every host. So that mean that the first tape will have about runspercycle times more data to

Dump Strategy

Hi, 1) I still have problem to understand what is the strategy of amanda on how it will dump the machines. I do understand that each machine will be dumped at each run. The level of this dump will be set through 2 paramters : bumpsize , bumpmult. But I don't really know how. could you please