Re: Getting Amanda (3.5.1) to run properly under MacOSX 10.15

On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 21:31:50 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > However, if you encrypt the backup, the files on the Linux machine are > opaque, meaning you can't extract a file on the Linux machine. I have > not experimented with an unencrypted backup. Or maybe not. Take a look at the Debia

Re: Getting Amanda (3.5.1) to run properly under MacOSX 10.15

On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 20:57:38 -0400 (EDT) Robert Heller wrote: > I know nothing about "Time Machine". Will it backup to a Linux > machine? Yes. You need Apple networking so the Linux machine will fake a Mac. On Debian, that would be the netatalk package. That also pulls in avahi (bonjour

Re: Amanda is crashing on [runtar invalid option: -]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:02:33 +0700 Olivier wrote: > I have had Amanda running for over a decade, I have also been running Amanda for a long time. When I implemented the proposed work-around, I found I had no definition of amgtar. Is there a preferred canonical (no wordplay intended)

Re: Amanda Community release 3.5.2 - debian test packages

On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 11:52:18 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > The first thing I note is the use of port 5000, and I'm wondering > about the possibility of fighting > over the ports as Octoprint uses FQDN:5000 as its web server to > administer its designated 3d printer. Gene, I don't know where you

Re: Amanda vs lvm with 2, 1T SSD's

On Thu, 07 Apr 2022 05:29:21 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > Does anyone have any experience at useing more than 1 drive in a > vtape setup? Yes. One problem with LVM by itself is that there is no redundancy. Loose a hard drive, and any volume groups on it or partially on it are likely toast. For

Re: amanda client packaging and ambind (amrecover error on client)

On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:07:42 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > No. > > root@hawk:~# apt-file search ambind | grep /ambind$ > amanda-common: /usr/lib/amanda/ambind > root@hawk:~# I should have specified: This is on Debian 11 (Bullseye). It was also the case on Debian 10 (Buster) and

Re: amanda client packaging and ambind (amrecover error on client)

On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:01:24 + David Simpson wrote: > ambind is not included in client packages for 3.5.1, therefore the > client will error trying to launch amrecover - is this across the > board for all distros/packages? No. root@hawk:~# apt-file search ambind | grep /ambind$

Re: amanda vs bullseye 0/1

On Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:20:29 -0800 Gene Heskett wrote: > Trying to setup bullseye's version of amanda to run on bullseye, but > apparently > > its confused as to user or paths, not sure which. > > > Sanitized pw entry for amanda: > amanda:x:1001:1001:amanda#,,,:/home/amanda:/bin/bash

Re: tape problem

On Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:18:08 + ghe2001 wrote: > Any ideas, explanations, fixes? Maybe it's time to move to Bullseye? Short of that, try a kernel from backports. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: building 3.5.1 on bullseye

On Fri, 03 Dec 2021 10:59:38 -0800 Gene Heskett wrote: > And a bullseye install that begins to work > has now taken 7 damned installs, which, because I'm now booting from > a 500G SSD, with a 1.9T /home made of 4 1T SSD's that take hours to > format, making an expert install take around 24

Re: amanda fails

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:19:28 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > Switching the parameter "taperscan" from "lexical" to "traditional" > works around that now. I don't have taperscan in either of my configurations, so I guess I'm running on the default. The lack probably comes from more than a

Re: amanda fails

On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:38:46 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > Anyone seeing this as well? > > > FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: >taper: FATAL Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/amanda/perl/Amanda/ScanInventory.pm line > 343. > > This on a

Re: LVM for vtapes

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:32:28 -0400 Jon LaBadie wrote: > Interesting discussion in other threads got me wondering > whether I should have made some other choices when setting > up my vtape environment. Particularly whether I should > have used LVM (Logical Volume Management) to create one >

Re: backing up the catalogue for Amrestore

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:59:31 + David Simpson wrote: > Is there a definitive guide on backing up the catalogue/indexes? > > (ideally appending to tape as an epilogue of sorts) Oddly enough, we've just been having a discussion related to this. Start with Gene Heskett's email in your inbox:

Re: DLE splitting

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 01:27:43 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > No one else has publicly discussed how they've handled that so I have > no clue what others are doing, if anything to prevent a days indexes > loss if the drive or the amandatapes drive pukes and you have to > recover to bare metal. An

Re: DLE splitting

On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 21:28:12 + Debra S Baddorf wrote: > Empty space is still owned by the vtape manager. To pick a nit, the vtape manager and any other applications that use that file system. Otherwise, yes. Well stated. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com

Re: allow-split configuration parameter

On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:09:48 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~$ sudo grep allow /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda.conf > maxdumps 1 # allowing one per host makes sense to me > # skip-full - skip the disk when a level 0 is due, to allow full > backups > > define dumptype global

Re: DLE splitting

On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:55:09 -0400 Jon LaBadie wrote: > I'm seeing instances of wasted VTape with amanda switching > to a new tape for the last DLE even though there is room > left on the current tape. I wouldn't worry about it. Unlike physical tapes, vtapes all pull storage out of the same

Re: amanda with Debian 11

On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 11:18:57 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > Anyone tested that? > > Are there any issues or is amanda working OK with bullseye? I have several Amanda clients running Bullseye with a Buster server. I will move the server over sometime soon. No issues. Bullseye:

Re: Debian Buster, bsdtcp, systemd

On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 14:50:42 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > Am 20.08.21 um 15:29 schrieb Charles Curley: > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 08:42:22 +0200 > > "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > > > >> https://www.oops.co.at/?p=341 > >&

Re: Debian Buster, bsdtcp, systemd

On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 08:42:22 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > https://www.oops.co.at/?p=341 > > comments and feedback welcome Typo: And because we have to tell systemd that it should create a and listen on this TCP-socket, we need a socket-file as well: Create a what?

Re: Optional exclude list results in STRANGE report

On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 12:05:52 +0200 Kees Meijs | Nefos wrote: > Using Amanda 3.5.1-2+b2 (Debian) I've configured: > > > exclude list optional    ".amanda-excludes.gtar" I wonder why you put the excludes file in with the stuff being backed up? I usually put my excludes files in with my amanda

Re: amdump not mailing anymore

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 10:16:46 +0100 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > Am 17.03.20 um 22:01 schrieb ghe: > > Still nothing. > > > > Something changed $MAIL in backup's environment vars back to backup. > > > Any news on that? > > I have one server where postfix is configured correctly: testmails >

Re: new debian buster install, missing /etc/amanda-security.conf file

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 15:36:21 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > Updating both to newer hardware for machines and installing debian > buster, but amcheck says that the /etc/amanda-security.conf file > won't let me run tar as root, but the real problem is that > the /etc/amanda-security.conf file does

Re: Amanda scripts collection(s)?

On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 10:47:40 +0100 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > It's kind of an invitation to share and contribute, yes, and with > your permission I would like to add your script(s) as well. Yes, of course. Thanks for taking this on. > We can discuss if all the scripts should be copied

Amanda scripts collection(s)?

Has anyone collected Amanda helper scripts? I see "Stefan G. Weichinger" just posted Gene Heskett 's helper script on github. https://github.com/stefangweichinger/amanda-helpers/blob/master/genes_helper.sh I have my vtape builder script on my blog, and may yet post more.

Re: Amrecover hangs after restore

On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:44:10 +0100 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > Tried it. > > Does not work to only edit that dumptype, amrecover seems to read the > meta-info/header of the dump on tape. > > Same failure. Drat. > > I'd also prefer to benefit of the parallelity of pigz at compression >

Re: Amrecover hangs after restore

On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:06:09 +0100 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > Am 30.05.18 um 20:21 schrieb Jason L Tibbitts III: ... > > > > [... time passes and I see a byte count increasing ...] > > > > /usr/bin/pigz: pigz: warning: : trailing junk was ignored > > ``` > > I've had problems with

Re: How's amanda feeling these days?

On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 07:34:08 -0500 Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've got a couple developers who are backing up their workstations via > rsync to the FreeNAS server, which sounds like basically the same > concept. They seem happy with it, although we've never needed to do a > restore on any of that

Re: How's amanda feeling these days?

On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 07:54:46 -0500 Dave Sherohman wrote: > But now we want to terminate th[e law school] contract and > start handling backups ourselves, within the library's own IT group, > which will remove both TSM and the law school from the picture > entirely. So this is a "green field"

Re: How's amanda feeling these days?

On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:19:58 -0500 Dave Sherohman wrote: > So let's see what the current users have to say. Is a new amanda > installation still a sane choice in 2020? I think so. You have a lot more machines to herd than I do, but I don't think that's an impediment. Add a few machines at a

Re: Is amanda busy

On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:18:32 -0400 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:10:21 +0700, Olivier wrote: > > Does it exist a command that can be used to check whether amanda is > > busy or not? > > > > For example, do not launch the daily backup if the previous one is > >

Re: Error with chg-disk

On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:53:51 +0200 Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner wrote: > > From your mail it's not clear if you successfully labelled and > > created your virtual tapes. > > > > Seems not: "tapelist file does not exists" > > Oh dear. I thought I had created (though not labelled) them; but it >

Re: Strange bug on Debian buster, v10.3, segmentation fault on client doing amcheck

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:36:33 +0100 Jose M Calhariz wrote: > On my main amanda installation I have a client that gives time out > when doing backups. I have researched and checked out the most common > problems. In the end I have found that: > > - "amcheck Config -c client" gives 30 seconds of

Re: holding disk too small?

On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 04:43:15 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > > # systemctl status amanda.socket > pi@rpi4:/etc $ sudo systemctl status amanda.socket > Unit amanda.socket could not be found. Same on Debian 10.2. Also, it appears that no Debian 10.2 package provides amanda.service: charles@hawk:~$

Re: holding disk too small?

On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 00:00:24 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > Lesson #2, I just learned today that the raspbian AND debian buster > 10.2 versions have NO inetd or xinetd. Ditto for RH. I don't know where you get that idea, as far as Debian goes. root@jhegaala:~# cat /etc/debian_version 10.2

Re: keep one DLE in the holding disk

On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:32:51 +0100 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > > amvault might be worth looking at. > > I never understood that one ... :-( Drat. I never did, either. I was hoping you'd figure it out and then I could use it. :-) -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: keep one DLE in the holding disk

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:13:00 +0100 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > One DLE uses amsamba-application to dump a Windows-share, containing a > specific SQL-Server-export > > That dump should go to (a) amanda's vtapes (done already) and (b) > rsynced to some remote server off-site > > Now how do I

Re: Best size for vtapes

On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:13:00 +0700 Olivier wrote: > I am wondering what is the best size to declare for the lenght of the > vtapes. Too long a vtape could lead to disk space being unused, You may have a misconception here. Vtapes emulate physical tapes, but not in all respects. If you don't

Fw: Bug#939411: Acknowledgement (amanda: merged /usr and tar path problem in /etc/amanda-security.conf)

Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 17:36:03 + From: "Debian Bug Tracking System" To: Charles Curley Subject: Bug#939411: Acknowledgement (amanda: merged /usr and tar path problem in /etc/amanda-security.conf) Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian

Re: new reject msg from an arm64 buster install -- /usr/bin/tar executable?

On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 12:10:09 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > You can see from Gene's error messages that it's currently trying to > > run "/usr/bin/tar" -- and that is what you would expect on a > > usrmerged system. So he just needs to grant that permission (i.e. > > with a

Re: new reject msg from an arm64 buster install -- /usr/bin/tar executable?

On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 07:02:58 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > This is a net install of buster, arch=arm64, on an rpi-3b. So far, Nathan and I have been discussing bog-standard debian, not rasbian. I don't use rasbian. If there are differences between them, I wouldn't know of them. > FAILURE DUMP

Re: new reject msg from an arm64 buster install -- /usr/bin/tar executable?

On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 21:15:55 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 21:48:52 -0400 > Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > > p.s. On the Buster systems you have installed from scratch, and thus > > have the merge-onto-/usr in place, is the "usrme

Re: bad tape?

On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:01:58 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > But AFAIK, tapes don't maintain an allocation map, and we have no > tape writing tools so organized as to be able to implement such a > scheme. Not entirely true. Tape drives such as Colorado Memory Systems' QIC drives were random

Re: Zmanda debian packages on Debian 10 ("buster")

On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:33:54 -0400 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > (I'm not familiar with gdebi and don't have it installed, but off hand > it looks like the code causing the error is line 113 of the > /usr/bin/gdebi program, rather than anything found within the Amanda > package.) Yup.

Re: Zmanda debian packages on Debian 10 ("buster")

On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:20:34 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > I think my next step will be to upgrade the VM on which I compiled > those packages, rebuild them, and re-install them. Did the upgrade. On the build machine, apt dist-upgrade removed the zmanda packages. So much for testing t

Zmanda debian packages on Debian 10 ("buster")

I upgraded the VM on which I installed my zmanda packages to debian 10 ("buster"). The cron job then silently failed to run. amcheck reports no errors. Running amdump by hand produced no output. The log produced the following, among other things: FATAL taper Bizarre copy of FORMAT in scalar

Re: amanda-client: HOST localhost ERROR: //192.168.0.250/ftp: Application 'amsamba': exited with status 1

On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 17:51:44 +0200 Tobias Koeck wrote: > Hi, > > since I have upgraded to Debian 10 I get strange amsamba errors. > > Any ideas why? I'm no expert on Samba. However, while upgrading from Debian stretch (9.x) to buster (10.0), I saw the following notices which may be relevant

Making Amanda Vtapes

I occasionally have need of building a bunch of vtapes. I wrote a script to simplify the process. https://charlescurley.com/blog/index.html And a deep link at https://charlescurley.com/blog/posts/2019/Jun/04/making-amanda-vtapes/ Enjoy. -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to

Re: Caveat on the Tape Extraction Command

On Wed, 29 May 2019 17:49:56 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 29 May 2019 05:00:22 pm Charles Curley wrote: > > > Gene's query on the recipe for extracting in the tape headers got me > > curious. The few I looked at were complete backups. However, I also > > spli

Caveat on the Tape Extraction Command

Gene's query on the recipe for extracting in the tape headers got me curious. The few I looked at were complete backups. However, I also split my backups into chunks. Those did not have a suitable command line, and I'm not sure you could automate one for inclusion in the header. The algorithm

zmanda on debian 9

Two notes on my experiments building and installing the zmanda debian packages. Specifically amanda-backup-server 3.5.1.git.19364c7b-1Debian99 amd64. Thanks to Nathan Stratton Treadway for helping me debug these issues. * Additional dependencies: libencode-locale-perl libjson-perl

Re: amanda tape header stripped, why?

On Tue, 28 May 2019 11:40:33 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > In my build on stretch the tape header, with normally contains > instructions for a gzip/tar only system, the recipe for bare recovery > has disappeared. It now looks like this: > AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE 20190527162707 TAPE Dailys-1 > >

Re: building (non-Debianized) Amanda on Stretch

On Mon, 27 May 2019 16:48:38 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~$ sudo apt install netstat > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable to locate package netstat For debian et al. users: apt-file is your friend.

Re: zmanda setup Issues: farkled permissions

On Sun, 26 May 2019 14:02:18 -0400 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > amcheck wants /etc/amanda-security.conf, but the file is > > in /etc/amanda, not /etc. That one cannot solve with a symlink. > > Copy the file instead. > > (This sounds like an Debian-package-build issue; I'll see if I can

zmanda setup Issues: farkled permissions

Having create a set of zmanda debian packages on one debian 9.9 machine, I have copied those to another freshly built machine, and installed them. I seem to hit a problem with permissions and ownership of /etc/amanda-security.conf. amcheck wants /etc/amanda-security.conf, but the file is in

Re: building (non-Debianized) Amanda on Stretch

On Sat, 25 May 2019 17:16:55 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > git clone $$ please. What I got from github last required i > completely redo my paaswd and group files and still insisted it was > amandabackup. > I just checked the first client machine and there is only backup in > either

Re: building (non-Debianized) Amanda on Stretch

On Sat, 25 May 2019 17:43:15 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Amanda may well work that way, but if the networking event gets a > faint whiff of ipv6, it won't assign a route to the ipv4 setup. > local host work fine, a dns lookuo is stuck in your shirt pocket and > the network hardware is wasting

Re: Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git: Files questions

On Fri, 17 May 2019 20:44:13 -0400 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > drwx-- 2 amandabackup amandabackup 4096 May 15 14:17 oldlog > > -rw--- 1 amandabackup amandabackup 3328 May 15 14:17 > > log.20190515141736.0 -rw--- 1 amandabackup disk36 > > May 15 16:27

Re: Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git: Files questions -- "disk" group

On Fri, 17 May 2019 19:53:11 -0400 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 16:52:57 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > * amanda seems to be creating a lot of stuff as amandabackup:disk. > > Is that right? Shouldn't it be creating stuff as > > aman

Re: Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git: Files questions

On Thu, 16 May 2019 22:37:02 -0400 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 16:52:57 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > * amanda is putting some log files into /var/log/amanda, which seems > > reasonable. But it is also tossing log files > > into /etc/am

Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git: Files questions

I now seem able to round-trip my test bed, so it looks like I have proof of concept. Two notes on files: * amanda seems to be creating a lot of stuff as amandabackup:disk. Is that right? Shouldn't it be creating stuff as amandabackup:amandabackup? An I creating the user correctly?

Re: Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git: amrecover tape device issue

On Wed, 15 May 2019 22:18:42 -0400 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 19:58:52 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Wed, 15 May 2019 20:48:46 -0400 > > Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > > > > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 17:02:

Re: Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git: amrecover tape device issue

On Wed, 15 May 2019 20:48:46 -0400 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 17:02:57 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > Using the official debian packages, I am accustomed to CDing to the > > desired directory, and entering "amrecover DailySet1". I g

Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git: amrecover tape device issue

Using the official debian packages, I am accustomed to CDing to the desired directory, and entering "amrecover DailySet1". I go through the process with no issue as to which tape device to use and get a good extraction. Using the git package, I have to specify the tape device like so: amrecover

Re: Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git

On Tue, 14 May 2019 19:22:16 -0400 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 16:56:16 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > apt-file reports 61 files named JSON.pm, in different places and > > different packages. One of them is libjson-perl. Sigh. > > >

Man Page Typo: /man/xml-source/amanda-security.conf.5.xml

While working on my amanda-security.conf, I noticed what looks to be a typo in the man page. To find the range of TCP ports, would you not use "amgetconf CONF reserved-*tcp*-port"? The option does exist. I did not check to see if it works correctly. The proposed patch for the man page is:

Re: Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git

On Wed, 15 May 2019 13:43:11 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > Now to get amanda-security.conf set up. Or amanda over SSH; we will > see. The next step was to get amcheck running. I had two steps here: * Set up amanda-security.conf correctly. To do that, I added the line below to it, per

Re: Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git

Oops, forgot to add the list to this. On Tue, 14 May 2019 19:22:16 -0400 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 16:56:16 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > apt-file reports 61 files named JSON.pm, in different places and > > different packages. One of them is lib

Re: Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git

On Mon, 13 May 2019 22:23:30 -0400 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 14:36:09 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > The short of it is that JSON.pm is not in my @INC. It has been > > installed, at /usr/local/share/perl/5.24.1/Amanda/Report/. But that >

Installing amanda on Debian 9 from git

I can build and install. Hurrah! I have a script that builds a runtime environment for amanda, including building some vtapes. When I run that, all seems to run well, until I go to build my vtape slots with amlabel. then I get a loop of: -- 21

Re: Building amanda on Debian 9 from git

On Mon, 13 May 2019 00:31:04 +0200 Uwe Menges wrote: > > cp -rp /root/.ssh /home/amandabackup > > This copies also root's private key(s) and authorized_keys and config, > which is not desired. You should probably create at least one separate > key pair for amandabackup (it's up to you if

Re: Building amanda on Debian 9 from git

On Sun, 12 May 2019 03:27:54 + Chris Hassell wrote: > Try the branch "3_5".  That has build fixes that should let it work > more easily. > > All you need: I did a "make distclean" first. Then: > >     % git checkout -b 3_5my_branch origin/3_5 That complained: charles@amanda:~/amanda$

Building amanda on Debian 9 from git

I am making progress on building amanda from the git repo. I have buit a new machine and populated it as needed. So far, my build process is: ./autogen ./configure packaging/deb/buildpkg I am stopped at this point: -- charles@amanda:~/amanda$

Building Instructions?

I built a nice new virgin debian virtual machine to build amanda on. I figured I'd fill in dependencies as I solved them, and go from there. Where are the canonical instructions for building amanda? I pulled in the git repo: git clone git://github.com/zmanda/amanda.git INSTALL says to look at

Re: if to fork Amanda

On Tue, 7 May 2019 22:27:14 + Chris Hassell wrote: > There we go! Debian 9.0 looks good to me. > > % bash autogen && ./packaging/deb/buildpkg Chris, I am going to try duplicating your work. One thing I have learned is to build test environments on throwaway machines. I now use virtual

Re: Redesigned Amanda site live on GitHub Pages

FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB https://charlescurley.com >From 8e497b3429757a4f412353c7fd49f4cbbe181fdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Curley Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 11:55:51 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Some suggestions, mostly grammatical glitches. modified: content/_index.md --- content/_index.md | 8

Re: amanda client on updated debian-9.8

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:56:35 +0100 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > Do I understand correctly: > > with "auth ssh" amanda only uses ssh for auth and transport of data? > > So port 22 per default? Correct, unless you specify otherwise. -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to limit

Re: amanda client on updated debian-9.8

On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 08:12:21 +0100 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > on my way. amcheck ok, amdump not. seems to still run via inetd. > > I assume I should disable inetd on the client ... does not help so > far. Digging further ;-) Once you shift over to ssh, you no longer need inetd for Amanda.

Re: Configuration confusion

On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 09:03:00 -0800 (PST) Chris Miller wrote: > If I run three backups, serial or otherwise, then do they know about > each other? Meaning, is AMANDA smart enough to know not to run more > than one level 0 dump per night? The problem is that level 0 backups > take several hours

Re: Meeting Minutes : Amanda Open Source Community

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:39:12 + Ashwin Krishna wrote: > Meeting Minutes : [10/08/2018] : Connect with Amanda Open Source > Community Thank you, sir. -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to limit the meaning of the word to its mere embellishments, such as arts and sciences; but

Re: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL -- future of Amanda development?

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:47:02 -0700 "Schlacta, Christopher" wrote: > So since there seems to be no official word from BETSOL, from those of > you community members who were able to attend, what was the general > feeling you got from them? Is the future of amanda a bright, positive > one? or are

Re: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL -- future of Amanda development

On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 08:13:58 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > As several have pointed out, I am still looking at the green side of > the grass. Please continue to do so. This list would not be the same without you. -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to limit the meaning of the word to

Re: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL -- future of Amanda development?

On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 16:34:40 + Ashwin Krishna wrote: > We propose to have the call on Oct 8th at 11 AM Mountain Time. Works for me. Thank you. -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to limit the meaning of the word to its mere embellishments, such as arts and sciences; but the

Re: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL -- future of Amanda development?

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:24:52 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Fork it if someone has a long term interest in seeing a good, long > term backup solution keep sucking air regularly. > > Said by a 20 year user of amanda. I am interested. Also a user of Amanda for a long time. -- "When we talk of

Re: compiling amanda-3.3.5 client on a Debian8.0/Jessie fails

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 14:11:15 -0400 Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > The server is running 3.3.5. > I usually prefer compiling clients and servers as I never liked to > way amanda was packaged for Debian. For instance (it might have > changed) the amanda user is 'backup' and there is already a user

Re: compiling amanda-3.3.5 client on a Debian8.0/Jessie fails

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:12:23 -0400 Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > Trying to compile amanda-3.3.5 client on a Debian8.0/Jessie but I get > this compile error. This is on a newly installed system, so I guess > I'm missing some packages... Any reason you need 3.3.5? The current packaged version on

Re: compiling amanda-3.3.5 client on a Debian8.0/Jessie fails

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:12:23 -0400 Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > Trying to compile amanda-3.3.5 client on a Debian8.0/Jessie but I get > this compile error. This is on a newly installed system, so I guess > I'm missing some packages... Do you have all the dependency packages, and their

Re: Restoring files from amanda in a script

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 20:28:09 + Jose M Calhariz wrote: > In short I want to restore from a specific date, all the data from > multiples DLEs and multiples servers into a unique tree of files in > the amanda server. This is too much tedious to do using the >

Re: keep a backup forever

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:29:24 -0500 hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > So having had this > emergency, I now want to keep, in perpetuity, my last full backup of > the now-dead machine. You may prefer to grab the last full backups and any subsequent partial backups, so that you have a snapshot

Re: approaches to Amanda vaulting?

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 17:19:57 +0100 Jose M Calhariz wrote: > In my case is to duplicate the locals vtapes into a remote S3 > endpoint, for purposes of reliability in case of disaster. If I have > 50 locals vtapes, I want to have the same 50 vtapes on S3, on a >

Re: client-crc in header (01591e60:14438416) and client-crc in log (38e41ca3:40960) differ

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:10:02 -0400 Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > It is a compatibility issue between amrecover 3.3 and a 3.4 server. > The restore is successful, It is the error message that is bogus. > > Try the attached compat-crc.diff patch. > Patching only the

Re: client-crc in header (01591e60:14438416) and client-crc in log (38e41ca3:40960) differ

On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 09:42:36 -0400 Jean-Louis Martineau <jmartin...@carbonite.com> wrote: > Which version of amanda are you using? > > On 09/08/17 05:03 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > > Does anyone know what this message from amrecover means? Is it a > > problem? &

Re: mailing list issue: long delays

On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:47:19 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > Does the amanda-users mailing list still work properly? No. There is an echo in here. I have now received three different copies of your email. They are of different lengths. I have not diffed them to see where

Re: client-crc in header (01591e60:14438416) and client-crc in log (38e41ca3:40960) differ

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:34:17 -0400 Jean-Louis Martineau <jmartin...@carbonite.com> wrote: > On 12/09/17 01:32 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > > Can you post the dump header? > > > > Where do I find it? > > amfetchdump -p -h CONF HOST DISK

client-crc in header (01591e60:14438416) and client-crc in log (38e41ca3:40960) differ

Does anyone know what this message from amrecover means? Is it a problem? client-crc in header (01591e60:14438416) and client-crc in log (38e41ca3:40960) differ I am working on some bare metal restore software (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/index.html). I

Debian: inetd required for amanda?

It seems that inetd is required for amanda 1:3.3.9-5 on Debian 9 (stretch). In the days of SSH, is this necessary? I have no use for it, and if it isn't installed it can't be cracked. -- The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable

Re: server failed to back itself up last night

On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 08:54:27 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > To recap, this is a wheezy install. Apparently that update should > have forced a reboot, but did not. You may want to install needrestart (in wheezy-backports). It will restart daemons as needed on an upgrade, and

Amvault for the Compleat Dummy

I get the distinct impression I should do some setup before I can use amvault. However, none of the documentation I've found so far indicates what I should do to get set up. -- The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and

Re: Draft of amanda 3.4.5 for Debian jessie

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 23:30:09 +0100 Jose M Calhariz wrote: > http://blog.calhariz.com/public/sft/amanda/amanda-3.4.5-1_rc1_bpo8_1.tar > > The tar file contains the package source for anyone to recompile, the > i386 and x86_64/amd64 packages for jessie. > > I am

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