at 7 days) Any thoughts
on what that's likely to require?
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 04:14:41AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:28:37PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> > Am 16.11.20 um 14:25 schrieb Dave Sherohman:
> > I am a bit surprised by the fact
new snap, copy the file to final location?
Pretty much, yeah. That's why I haven't even considered snapshot-based
backups of my linux virts. But, if it makes the Windows admin happy...
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Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:28:37PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 16.11.20 um 14:25 schrieb Dave Sherohman:
> I am a bit surprised by the fact you haven't yet received any reply on
> the list so far (maybe per direct/private reply).
I received one accidentally-off-list reply, a
on that.
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 08:19:58AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Howdy, all!
>
> We've recently had some problems at work with our backup provider, so my
> boss has come to me and requested a recommendation for bringing backups
> in-house. I've previously adminned
ackup from a
> machine that would not even have Amanda running. I choose to use tar
> rather than dump for that compatibility advantage.
Seems like a good tip. Thanks!
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Dave Sherohman
with any kind of (justifiable) hardware purchases.
The sky isn't the limit, but I can almost certainly get whatever is
needed to do it right and I'm sure my boss is expecting this to run at
least US$10-15k in hardware.
--
Dave Sherohman
w we want to terminate that 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.
--
Dave Sherohman
which we
only heard about some time later, so we don't really trust them any more
and have (finally) decided to do it for ourselves.
But I don't really know anything about the hardware or configuration
that the law school is using, only that their chosen software is Tivoli
Storage Manager.
--
Dave Sherohman
.
If amanda isn't a reasonable choice for that scenario, what would be a
better option?
And what kind of hardware specs should I be looking at? Is tape still
king, or is everyone backing up to hard drives now?
--
Dave Sherohman
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:31:46AM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote:
I plan to use gnu tar instead of dump to take my amanda backups. Is it
as stable/safe as dump/ufsdump ? I need to be able to exclude files,
that's why I use gnu tar.
There are those who believe that tar is safer than dump, at least
Hey, all!
I've got a client who was running backups to tape using amanda for several
years and the backup server finally died. After much discussion, the
decision was reached to replace it with a new box mounting a pair of 160G
hard drives (in a RAID1 mirror) and a pair of external DVD burners.
I just installed the amanda client on a new server that's being added
to our backups and, thanks to minor libc versioning issues, the host
check is returning a series of
dir /tmp/amanda needs 64KB, only has -2147483648KB available.
errors.
I've only seen this bug with the large negative sizes
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:27:13PM +0100, Ranveer Attalia wrote:
Sorry
I forgot to mention - the previous nights backup failed, so I was hoping
that if I set the backup to the same config as the night before so that
I could use the same tape labels, those tapes would be just overwritten
when
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:49:48PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
In a 'real' bourne shell $(...) is not available, but `...` is.
And I was so sure it was the other way around... This was pointed out
to me offlist by someone else, too. Ah, well.
I actually wrote it using `...` first, but nesting
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:10:40AM +0200, Hans van Zijst wrote:
First off, I'm not an Amanda expert either, so maybe I'm talking rubbish
here. If so, I'm sure someone will correct me :)
I guess that would be me...
AFAIK you can't use the same tape for several consecutive backup sessions.
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:03:24AM +0200, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
Level n backup is a backup where you save what has changed since the
last level n backup. period.
Minor correction: A level N backup saves all files that have changed
since the last level N-1 backup. Level 0 gets everything,
Well, good news and bad news...
The good news is that, after an apt-get upgrade on the tapehost[1]
last week, the dumps from my samba DLEs seem to be reliable and complete.
The bad news is that amanda still reports them as strange, with the
strange dump summary consisting of several variations
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:35:43PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:10:53AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Where do I go to tell amanda that these SUCCESS... messages should be
considered normal?
It's a hard-coded list.
Then how about a (reasonably) simple way to wrap
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:36:47PM -0600, Frank Smith wrote:
DS Nope. My samba is version 2.0.7-3.4, as packaged by Debian.
The current Samba package is 2.2.3a-12.3 in stable (woody) and
3.0.2a-1 in testing (sarge). Perhaps it's about time to do an
apt-get upgrade.
Gah! I tend to ignore
Along with several Linux boxes, I have one Windows NT 4 server which
I'm using amanda to back up using tar over samba. The DLEs, in case
anyone's curious, are simply:
peterbilt //server/e$ comp-high-tar
peterbilt //server/f$ comp-high-tar
(peterbilt is the tapehost, and,
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:42:02PM -0500, Sergio Pereira wrote:
ok. but doesn't amanda get confuse with two configs?
Not if one of them (the weekly always-full) has the no-record option set.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:58:18PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I have to say first that I don't have the solution, but maybe we can
add another piece to the whole picture ...
Please let me know, what Samba-release you use.
I bet it is 2.2.x
Nope. My samba is version 2.0.7-3.4, as
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:42:33PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
So, here is the result of an amcheck. What is the possible problem
with the system? Why is expecting a new tape? Is there a way to reset
the device and make it think there is a new tape in? Thanks!
Amanda Tape Server Host
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:48:35PM +0200, Mark Le Noury wrote:
I guess I wanted it to do full backups on the Saturday just for ease of
administration. That way I would know exactly which tapes the full dumps
were on and I could send them to storage accordingly.
There are two common ways of
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:24:24AM -0700, bao wrote:
For networks where there
is a full-time backup admin, letting Amanda spread out the level 0's
seems simpler. Restoration is what the admin
does most often, and (s)he should have mastered it.
As I mentioned earlier, amanda works great for
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:17:25AM -0400, Kin-Ho Kwan wrote:
After the testing was done, I want to reuse the tape for the real
backup. Should I just need to amrmtape all tapes and rewind them using
mt or I have do somthing else?
Personally, I've used amlabel -f in that sort of situation (the
Now that I know the date they want to see the database from, I've tried
(twice) to amrestore the files in a safe location, but with no joy.
After setting the host/disk/path/date to restore, I get the following
from amrestore:
---
amrecover extract
Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:59:27AM -0700, Pro-Fit wrote:
Recently, the backups to Weeklyset0201,Weeklyset0202,
and Weeklyset0203 were successful (mon, tues, wed).
On thurs night amanda asked for Weeklyset0202 again.
Since I had in Weeklyset0204 in the drive, the backups
went to disk. I did
I recently returned from a vacation to discover that a database app had
decided to do strange things about a week and a half ago. There was
no damage to the data (just a bunch of spurious reports printed), but
the app's vendor would like to see what the database looked like before
this happened.
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:43:57PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
Amrecover even warns
you that you're not at the root of correct filesystem, but in this case that's
exactly what you want.
Cool. Sounds easy enough. I guess I must have assumed at some point
that the warning was a hard error instead
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:13:49AM -0500, Brendon Colby wrote:
1. If I have a 16 tape tapecycle, and a dumpcycle of 7, does this mean I
effectively have 16 days of backups? As in, I can do a restore of up to 16
days? (I'm just trying to wrap my head around this new-to-me backup method.)
It
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:02:36PM -0500, Brendon Colby wrote:
I will have to compile the distro from the Amanda site as the Debian packages
must not contain the amtapetype utility.
Debian doesn't appear to include a binary named amtapetype, but there
is this:
$ man tapetype
NAME
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:02:09PM +0800, Mathias Körber wrote:
In detail:
- users will not read the daily email telling them which
tape is expected and want to have a scheme as simple as
possible
- users will not understand that 18 tapes make a 3 week cycle
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:46:18PM -0500, Marty Shannon, RHCE wrote:
Why is the list set up to allow non-subscribers to post to it?
Ummm... Because people who don't subscribe to the list might want to
ask a question about amana?
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:01:26PM -0500, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote:
Also, you may find yourself with legal problems if you
allow someone to post illegal material to your list.
Oh please, what are you trying to threaten people because
you can't be bothered to filter your
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:37:14PM -0500, D. Keith Higgs wrote:
Up sides: you can get as broad or fine grained as you want and you have
the ability to impose user quotas. Use a little bit of clever scripting
and you have a means of rotating backup files so you only keep the most
recent ###
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:13:33AM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
Is there a way to make amanda use a tape other than what it's expecting?
Yes. You can muck about in tapelist and change the last-used date of
a tape. amanda will always ask for the oldest (ties go to the tape
listed farthest down).
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:28:02PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:26:59PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Just a guess, but I'd say it's because 0 is not a valid date, so
those lines are being ignored completely.
Those lines are what results when you amlabel a tape
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:38:46PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
I thought amanda would just read from the bottom of the list.
Nope, amanda goes by date first. List position is only significant
when 2 or more tapes have the same last-used date.
When it
was done with tape 009, 010 was at the
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:43:12AM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
The sudden jump in the size of this backup was caused when I moved the
holdingdisk. It didn't occur to me that I was moving it on to the
filesystem I was backing up... :-) I just added /hold to the exclude
file. So, backups will
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:08:05PM +, Alex Page wrote:
I'm setting up an amanda system, and I'm a little confused by the
jargon. What I'm trying to do is one full backup a week (on Fridays) and
partial backups every other weeknight.
(I assume every other weeknight means every weeknight
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:01:17AM -0800, Keith Nasman wrote:
What are the amanda.conf settings (dumpcycle, runspercycle, tapecycle) for
getting a full backup each night, five days a week, with a four weeks
worth of tapes (20)?
dumpcycle is how often you want a full.
runspercycle is the number
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 01:15:17PM -0500, Jeremy L. Mordkoff wrote:
Would
dumpcycle 1 week
runspercycle 3
tapecycle 16 tapes
work better?
Interesting question... I assume that amanda would make a point of
getting a full on each filesystem at least once every runspercycle runs
as well as
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:16:24AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
ERROR: Host_B: [host Host_A: port 32782 not secure]
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.085 seconds, 1 problem found
Each time I run this the port number
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:26:07PM +0100, Nicolas Cartron wrote:
But i'd like to know how to do if i want to recover my data ?
I mean there will be some full dumps, some incremental,... what's the hell?
Such is the magic of amrecover. So long as your dumps are indexed, you
can start up
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:36:34PM -, Kevin Passey wrote:
My tapes are labelled mon,tue,wed etc.
I want to use tue tape but amanda is expecting fri - how can I skip fri and
mon tapes.
This is a perfect example of why you don't want to label your tapes
according to when you expect to use
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:23:05PM +0300, Lishtovny Denis wrote:
Everyday amanda2.4 doing backup into one tape. (one day, one tape).
Is it possible to do two or more backups into one tape? (14*2=28 Gb) (two
days, one tape).
If it is possible, please tell me how.
Short answer: No.
Detailed
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:38:18PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
Forgot to mention this earlier: I'm not using incrementals at all. Tapes
from the same week will contain full backups of different directories, and
a given file is backed up (only) once a week.
OK, I'll bite... How hard did you
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:41:18AM -0400, Galen Johnson wrote:
I've had a thunk regarding the list...would it be possible to set it up
so the list actually inserts a 'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
header. This would make it so the default reply (rather than reply to
all) goes to the list.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:58:09PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 at 12:19pm, Gene Heskett wrote
On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:58, Jerry wrote:
Not to beat a dead horse, but it would be nice to see
[amanda-users] in the subject line to make it easier
to sort
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:46:05AM -0500, Larry Dunham wrote:
I don't know what lists you belong to (I belong to 10 or 12), but this is
the only list I've ever heard of where the default reply goes to the person
who posted the question rather than back to the list. Reply All is a
bandwidth
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:53:55PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
Well, no matter what I do, I need *some* way to label new tapes without
too many '-f's etc. Also, I know some people are using separate configs
for permanent backups, but it seems like this requires a lot of additional
work,
Not
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:52:31AM -0400, Jason Greenberg wrote:
I cron schedule my amanda dump for 12:45 am, but it doesn't complete
until about 9:00am. If I look at my switch graphs, the data transfer
only takes about 1 hour. What is it doing the rest of the time???
Writing to the tape.
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:53:56PM -0700, Chris Bourne wrote:
Well I finally got my tapes to rotate and amdump to write now I need help with
getting this thing to do incrementals.
.and in my disklist.
localhost /dev/sda3 always-full
Uh, not to point out the obvious, but could it
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:28:17PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 at 12:08pm, Dave Sherohman wrote
Second, the taper stats read N/AN/A for all drives that were dumped.
This would seem to indicate that nothing was actually written to the
tape, wouldn't
Late last week, amanda started to consistently produce reports such as
the following:
- Forwarded message from backup [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
*** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing filemark: Input/output error]].
*** PERFORMED ALL DUMPS TO HOLDING DISK.
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:45:22PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
What is the purpose of dating the tape.
To prevent it from being immediately requested.
I presume 0 indicates not yet used.
Doesn't amanda accept a new tape at anytime?
Yes. However, in the example presented, the new tape was #6
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:29:55AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) why does amanda want to use a tape in a cycle when two tapes past said
tape are already used?
Because it has the oldest data on it. The numbers on the tape labels
mean nothing to amanda, it just asks for whatever is
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:54:23PM -0700, shanna wrote:
running amanda 2.4.2p2 w/ ufsdump (solaris) using HW compression ( no
SW compression) on tape drive.
Consider switching to SW compression. It can be more efficient than
HW compression and, more importantly, you don't have to worry about
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:12:14PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:37:51AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Yep. A tape must be at least tapecycle tapes old before amanda will
agree to reuse it. So for you, with tapecycle set to 14, amanda will
refuse to overwrite
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:59:45AM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
and asked for #15 for tonight. From what I've read before, amdump will use
the last tape in the tapelist marked reuse (incidentally, every tape in my
tapelist is marked reuse - is that correct ?) so what exactly does the
tapecycle
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:02:54PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
I asked about this the other day and it transpired that I didn't have record
yes in my dumptype, so that explained that, or so I thought. However, I now
do have record yes in my global dumptype but still level 1 dumps are of the
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:39:55AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
On 19/04 2002 16:18 Dave Sherohman wrote:
You can do this manually by not changing tapes (or leaving the tape
drive empty) tonight, which will cause all of tonight's dumps to stay
on the holding disk (provided it's big enough
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:25:02AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
Well, obviously, the simple answer is run amflush, which is what I did
the last time I got this. The problem with this was that the flush
required a tape of its own, which was not what I wanted; what I really had
in mind was to
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:59:12PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
What exactly controls the order of which file systems are dumped by
Amanda? Based on my brief experience, it looks large filesystems tend to
be taped after the smaller ones included in the run.
I've been wondering about how this
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:05:38PM +0200, Frederic Saincy wrote:
Detect the first abnormal dump, then mail a warning and stop to back
up this tapecycle ?
I don't know that amanda can reasonably do much more than sending
an advance notice[1] (Warning: Last level 0 dump of /dev/foo will be
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:36:11AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
You broke the report off just too early :-)
Ah, well...
First Amanda said that it was writing md1 from host cat to tape
while it ran out of tape.
In the NOTES section of the Amanda report you'll find something
like: (cut from my
Late last week, amanda started to consistently produce reports such as
the following:
- Forwarded message from backup [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
*** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing filemark: Input/output error]].
*** PERFORMED ALL DUMPS TO HOLDING DISK.
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:28:17PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 at 12:08pm, Dave Sherohman wrote
Second, the taper stats read N/AN/A for all drives that were dumped.
This would seem to indicate that nothing was actually written to the
tape, wouldn't
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