On 6/12/2012 21:27, Joel Franco Guzmán - Oryon TI wrote:
Hi,
I have an amanda server running fine but some of my clients are remote
servers behind a slow bandwitdth data link that requires more than 24h
to do a level 0 backup.
This turns infeasible the level 0 backup once a week.
I have
On 4/22/2012 05:32, gene heskett wrote:
If I have in my excludes file:
./gene/.gvfs
Then there is no complaint about the lack of access perms in the emailed
report.
However, from what I understand about the anchoring process, that line
should also cause /home/gene to be bypassed, and that
On 4/20/2012 19:53, Chris Arnold wrote:
Is this possiblem with Amanda?
Yes.
VPN connection will be very slow.
Just configure amanda to use the NAS as vtapes.
Make sure your networking is set up right all around.
Ask again if you need more specifics or have more possiblems.
On 4/20/2012 20:26, Chris Arnold wrote:
On Apr 20, 2012, at 11:01 PM, Christ Schlactaaarc...@aarcane.org wrote:
On 4/20/2012 19:53, Chris Arnold wrote:
Is this possiblem with Amanda
Just configure amanda to use the NAS as vtapes.
I looked through the docs...not sure how to config Amanda to
After doing so, if you still have issues, can you post the first teen bytes
or so go the regular file please, and the output of file recovery.zip
On Apr 14, 2012 4:02 AM, Prashant Joshi prash...@zmanda.com wrote:
Hi Marco,
Can you try extracting the archive using the below command and then try
Sounds like you're using ZFS on Solaris. ZFS is geared toward data
reliability over speed.
You should use the solaris equivalent of iotop to identify what's using
disk IO. simply put though, if amanda's not running, amanda's not
causing the disk usage. It's possible that something hardware
It seems Amanda enterprise has support for a direct-from-vmware backup. You
should look into using this to create and maintain a separate set of backups
that appear to be tailor made for your purposes
Stefan G. Weichinger s...@amanda.org wrote:
Am 29.11.2011 17:36, schrieb Brian Cuttler:
Can amanda delay server-side compression? I'd like compression to occur
on the server, but only after all the backups have occured. IE: 1)
backup 2) compress 3) tape . is this possible, or does it have to
happen inline during the backup process?
with zfs and snapshots, a 15 minute interval on backup availability is
no problem, however, the time taken to restore from this backup will
grow linearly over time. Amanda can be used to cart snapshots around
and store them offsite, but I'm not sure how the snapshot interface
works really.
On
How does amanda currently handle ZFS snapshots and Tapes? can amanda
pipe zfs snapshots to zfs recv, and store the resulting backups
online, or at least in a zfs filesystem suitable for rapid
retrieval, or is that beyond the scope of zfs+amanda in the present
and planned future?
On 7/16/2011 17:04, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
That's perfect. I can gradually shuffle tapes over to the new system,
and, eventually, all the tapes and all the clients will be there.
During the transition, I can recover stuff from either server
according to which was covering the period of time in
On 6/2/2011 13:42, gene heskett wrote:
On Thursday, June 02, 2011 04:29:42 PM Chris Hoogendyk did opine:
OK, so maybe I shot myself in the foot by asking too much (no replies
from anyone in over 24 hours) ;-).
Let me pare this down to one simple question -- Will Amanda efficiently
do server
Also note: its never wise to backup across intrusted domain boundaries.
They're intrusted for a reason.
Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote:
This untested patch might do it. It should apply cleanly to the 3.3
branch and trunk.
Jean-Louis
Trever L. Adams wrote:
For
On 3/30/2011 08:30, gene heskett wrote:
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:28:05 AM Jean-Louis Martineau did opine:
Tim Johnson wrote:
Hello all...
This might be a silly quetion, however there
are times that some clients are down. My setup
aborts the backups, and then looses the
Another option is to use ZFS, which provides end-to-end data integrity
checking. There are two current Linux offerings. Zfs-fuse is a little slow, but
definately Usable. Zfs-on-linux is newer but progressing fast toward production
ready
Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote:
On
On 3/29/2011 12:44, Chris Lee wrote:
On 29/03/11 16:29, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:26:29AM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
On 3/29/11 10:00 AM, Charles Curley wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:01:49 +0100
Chris Leecslee-l...@cybericom.co.uk wrote:
I was just thinking about
I have over 13EB on an 8GB Flash Drive using ZFS Compression and
Deduplication. That gives me an idea for AManda. We should add
block/file level deduplication to Amanda.
On 2/25/2011 14:42, Florian Lengyel wrote:
A great pun, given the sparseness of the file (and the pun).
On Fri, Feb 25,
I'm evaluating possible solutions for Drop in USB backup. as an
existing amanda user, I was interested by the possibility of having
amanda run a backup of a flash drive whenever it's connected. I've
got a few simple requirements for this backup operation. 1) a backup
should happen whenever a
On 12/30/2010 09:52, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
Hello,
currently I backup to a storage system and copy it to a second one to
ensure, that if it breaks, I still have my vTapes on the second one.
Is it possible to configure Amanda to write backuped data to two
vTape-Libraries at the same time (the
it may be better to lower the priority of amanda dumper.
On 12/8/2010 7:46 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
Has anyone experimented with using ionice to bump up the priority of the
taper processes? I have a pretty solid amanda server, but the LTO4
drive I've recently started using is so fast
The long and the short of the answer is this: I'd expect to be able to
recover any file: a, b, or c in any combination from up to dumpcycle
days past. the default behaviour should of course be to restore it to
exactly the state the user requests (as of the backup date the user
requests to
if I have a theoretical tapecycle of 20, and the obvious 20 tapes, but a
small changer with only 2-5 slots, which I intend to load daily with the
required tapes for the night's run, is it safe to assume that amanda
will *ALWAYS* request tapes in the same numerical order, or can it at
any point
On 10/14/2010 10:03 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Dustin,
I've been a member of the Amanda community sufficiently
long to have seen the departure of a handful of star
contributors. I count you among them, your impact on
the project has been enormous.
As you leave for Mozilla, I wish you well and am
can anyone recommend a good, inexpensive taper for a startup? I don't
need terabytes of storage, so something in the low gb count, but fairly
quick, widely available, and highly inexpensive would be best.
On 9/29/2010 11:24 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Christian Kratzerck-li...@cksoft.de wrote:
it looks like I might have found the problem. Both windows hosts had
the shadow copy service disabled. I startetd the service and will check
tomorrows full dumps.
Why keep a backup server up 24/7 when it only works durring bakup hours?
Why not append the entire catalog to each tape? Or at least the
entire catalog to date?
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 22, 2010, at 17:53, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, September 22, 2010
I went looking for a version of amanda for ubuntu that's up to date,
and I found the version in ubuntu is 2.6x.. and the 3.x serries is only
available as individual packages. I'd liek to request that the amanda
site add repositories for any of the supported distrobutions, to make
upgrading
a good wiki article can be incorporated into a later man page, so long
as the API isn't changed significantly, and is easier to maintain until
said manpage is created. Plus anyone with the knowhow could in theory
update the manpage.
On 9/14/2010 10:11 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
I'm
On 8/27/2010 13:40, Jon LaBadie wrote:
I have eliminated all dual-boots from my lan. Now
the only Windows are running as virtual guests
using Virtual Box. Each guest acts as its own
network entity, i.e. unique IP, addressable by
name from other hosts.
Two ways of backing these guest OSs are
On 8/27/2010 19:51, Jon LaBadie wrote:
As this is the second suggestion related to ZFS I'll have to say
I'm not using ZFS at all.
You can æffect a similar solution using linux lvm snapshots if you're
using files for virtual disks under the same chriteria, though I don't
know about incremental
does anyone have amanda 3.1.x running on opensolaris (preferably
snv_134)? I can't find binaries or instructions. When I try to build I
can get as far as getting the following error:
checking for GLIB - version = 2.2.0... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test
when using amanda with vfs are holding pools still needed? can (or
should) they be on the same physical disks? is amanda smart enough to
handle it as a move operation, or will it insist on shuffling the data
around? if there's only one small OS drive (40-80GB) and one LARGE data
pool in my
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