amidxtaped: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2

Can some explain why this failed and if I can still restore the file I need? Load tape daily007 now Continue? [Y/n]: y EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file. amrecover: short block 0 bytes UNKNOWN file amrecover: Can't read file header extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1

somehow the .rhosts file was deleted

All the more reason to have amanda complain about access problems! Thanks to all of you for your responses. You were right about not trusting their answers. :-) -- Denise E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Engineer734.822.2037 Download the

Solaris 8 s28_38shwp2 SPARC

All, Just this past week out of the blue amanda on sunny1 (tapeserver) is returning access denied. I inquired to the group of admins here if anything had changed on this box or if any outages occured but they have responded with 'no'. I've checked host IP entries in /etc/host amanda entires in

backing up mounted filesystems

Is amanda capable of backing up mounted filessystems? -- Denise E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Engineer734.822.2037 Download the free WALID WorldConnect software and start using ML.ML domain names today. http://www.walid.com

xinetd set up and my Linux box

Amcheck ran fine the day I added 'groups = yes' to xinetd amanda entry on both and ran /etc/xinetd restart for both new linux boxes. Just last night I scheduled a level 0 for these boxes. {sunny2 and sunny3} Sunny2's back up went well but sunny3 returned the 'infamous' access error. ERROR:

ERROR [can not access /dev/hdg1 (/dev/hdg1): Permission denied]

I corrected the ~amanda .amandahosts access issue by changing amandas default home dir. I still get access Errors on the partitions for my newly added clients. I have tried using both hdg1 and /dev/hdg1 in the disk list. Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR:

Re: xinetd set up and my Linux box

Got it - something was changed - /path/of/amanda's home dir thank you again On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: ERROR: sunny3.neptune.com: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]] This says sunny3 would not let user amanda in from sunny1. First, make sure this

Why does `amcheck' say `access as USERNAME not allowed...'

I read through all posted FAQ's on this. I checked config.status to make sure I ran --with-amandahosts option set up .amandahosts with qualified names chown of .amandahosts to amanda:amanda and set mode to 0600 restarted inetd and amcheck returned these results: Amanda Backup Client Hosts

Re: Why does `amcheck' say `access as USERNAME not allowed...'

Yes On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote: Denise Ives wrote: I read through all posted FAQ's on this. I checked config.status to make sure I ran --with-amandahosts option set up .amandahosts with qualified names chown of .amandahosts to amanda:amanda and set mode

Amcheck troubleshooting

I added another client to be backed up to my disklist ran amcheck and generated this problem message. can not access hdg1 (hdg1): No such file or directory

Re: Thank you again

Files restored with no problem at all. On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, John R. Jackson wrote: Amanda backs-up both machines and the solaris machine (the host) has my tape unit configured on it. Understood. Can I not restore client images to the client machine? (since my host and client

amrestor -ing 3 files but can't find em

As root from the / directory on the tape host I run amrecover -C daily -s sunny1 -t sunny1 -d /dev/rmt/0cbn amrecover sethost to sunny#2 200 Dump host set sunny#2 amrecover setdisk to sda10 200 Disk set to sda10. amrecover cd web /web amrecover cd bin /web/bin ###When I do an ls I see the

core:

ELF 32-bit MSB core file SPARC Version 1, from 'ufsrestore gdb ufsrestore GNU gdb 4.18 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type

tape host is solaris and one client running linux

I can restore all images/files backed-up via the solaris box but Tape Host SunOS sundev1 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60 Client Linux 6.2 I can restore all files on my Sun box. However, Amanda generates a core file every time I try to restore back-ups of the client.

adding a thrid client to be backed up

ERROR: sunny3.neptune.com: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Client check: 1 host checked in 0.014 seconds, 1 problem found. box has been added to both /etc/hosts file Anythoughts?

adding a thrid client

I tried adding the .amandahostfile for sunny1 to in the sunny3 /usr/local and /home/src/amanda/amanda-2.4.1p1 directories - chown root:amanda and I am still getting the same access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am I placing the .amadnahost file in the correct locaiton?

Re: listing files with amrecover - No index records for disk (fwd)

-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:19:59 -0500 From: John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: listing files with amrecover - No index records for disk 200 Dump host set to cloudy1

listing files with amrecover - No index records for disk

I haven't used amrecover in a while. I used to be able to list file with the ls command: #my disklist file cloudy1.com sda6default sunny1.com dsa10 default #running amrecover [root@sunny1 dives]# amrecover -C daily -s sunny1.com -t sunny1.com -d /dev/rmt/0cbn AMRECOVER

Re: summary details show errors but dumper stats (fwd)

08:18:58 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: summary details show errors but dumper stats Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:42:57 + (GMT) From: Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] show sda10 did its level 1 back up. So did sd10 back up

strange dump details - (again)

-2097472753]: count=512, got=0 ? DUMP: bread: lseek fails ? DUMP: bread: lseek fails To: Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: strange dump summary - can you explain this? ? DUMP: bread: lseek fails ? DUMP: short read error from /dev/sda10: [block

Re: running amverify (a 2nd time)

-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: running amverify ... is there ayway to find out if amverify was hung or if it was just taking a long time to do its thing? Look for blinking lights on the drive is the first thing that pops to mind :-). Next

amverify finished - i guess it wasn't hanging afterall?

I guess the image Check on sundev1.corp.walid.com.c0t0d0s7.20010113.0 was what took so long? thoughts... Subject: daily AMANDA VERIFY REPORT FOR daily119 Tapes: daily119 No errors found! amverify daily Thu Jan 18 12:34:01 EST 2001 Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume daily119, Date

running amverify

amverify was taking forever so I aborted it is there ayway to find out if amverify was hung or if it was just taking a long time to do its thing? amverify daily Wed Jan 17 17:08:13 EST 2001 Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume daily119, Date 20010113 Skipped

strange dump summary - can you explain this?

There was a huge amount of output - so I will only forward you part of the dump summary from the Amanda Mail Report - FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: admin1.cor sda10 lev 1 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 3] STATISTICS: Total Full Daily

No Subject

lists

amanda is working like normal again

There were no problems with amdump's level 0 run last night. sda10 backed-up along with the rest of my partitions. There was no power outage on any of the systems when sda10 failed to dump last weekend. I checked syslogs - etc. and found nothing. Thanks both to Chris and John for constant

sendsize.debug, sendbackup.debug, killpgrp.debug

9 17:47:59 2000 . cat killpgrp.debug killpgrp: debug 1 pid 16439 ruid 543 euid 0 start time Sat Dec 9 17:48:02 2000 /usr/local/pkg/amanda-2.4.1p1/libexec/killpgrp: version 2.4.1p1 sending SIGTERM to process group 16439 child process exited with status 3 On Mon, 11 Dec 20

Re: sendsize.debug, sendbackup.debug, killpgrp.debug

Do you really think we ran out of tape? Subject: daily AMANDA VERIFY REPORT FOR daily001 Tapes: daily001 No errors found! amverify daily Mon Dec 11 16:34:12 EST 2000 Using device /dev/rmt/0cbn Volume daily001, Date 20001209 Skipped admin1.corp.walid.com.sda9.20001209.0 (** Cannot do

tapetype SEAGATE-SCORPION-40

tail -30 amdump.1 taper: reader-side: got label daily001 filenum 8 driver: result time 3968.705 from taper: DONE 00-00016 daily001 8 [sec 863.791 kb 3695872 kps 4278.7 {wr: writers 115496 rdwait 0.051 wrwait 859.368 filemark 0.005}] driver: finished-cmd time 3970.608 taper wrote

4mm DDS-150 40GB compressed 20GB non

4mm x 150m/492ft. - capacity -- Denise E. Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Engineer734.822.2037 Multilingual Internet Domain Name Registrations - http://www.walid.com

Re: AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR December 11, 2000

Ok I will do this and if I remember correctly we can't run 2 amdumps in one day - right - it isn't recommended right? And I do run it a second time the amdump.xx log numbers will increment. So I will unset this force flag on sda10 and let her run again tomorrow am? Anyway I can dump 'only'

sda10 - AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR December 11, 2000 (fwd)

df -k /dev/sda1026375596 11196212 13839568 45% /home I got a level 2 dump here. I need to get a full dump of sda10. What do you suggest I do? Should I stick a tape in the tape drive and force a full dump for tonight's amdump? Is that safe to do or should I let the incrementals

Re: tapetype SEAGATE-SCORPION-4

Do you think this failed because my holding disk is 11 GB and I was trying to dump/write 10 GB at the same time? Could it have bottle-necked? Files reading in and writing out - checksum failure? On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, John R. Jackson wrote: driver: dumping admin1.corp.walid.com:sda10

Check for cruft. - amflush failed

amanda@sundev1 [daily] % amflush daily Scanning /dump/amanda... 20001208: found non-empty Amanda directory. 20001211: found non-empty Amanda directory. Multiple Amanda directories, please pick one by letter: A. 20001208 B. 20001211 Select directories to flush [A..B]: [ALL] all

amdump.x - no-diskspace

back-up images from the holding disk. On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Chris Karakas wrote: Denise Ives wrote: driver: state time 3104.913 free kps: 15400 space: 4837972 taper: writing idle-dumpers: 4 qlen tapeq: 0 runq: 1 stoppedq: 0 wakeup: 86400 driver-idle: no-diskspace

forced a full dump for Sat AM - it failed

Any ideas on how/why this happened? thanks - -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 01:15:42 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR November 18, 2000 *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY! *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [no tape online].

Re: forced a full dump for Sat AM - it failed (fwd)

Nov 2000 15:28:55 -0600 (CST) From: Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: forced a full dump for Sat AM - it failed On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Denise Ives wrote: Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 21:20:03 + (GMT) From: Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED

overdue 7 days for level 0

I forced a level 0 dump and left the tape out of the tape drive - as you all know amanda failed to dump because of a tape error. Why didn't amanda put the dump image into the holding disk? Is this expected behavior? READING CONF FILES... startup took 0.019 secs SETTING UP FOR ESTIMATES...

Do you think we are going to run out of holding disk space..

for tonight's level 0 dump? Here is the holding disk area: /dev/md/dsk/d20 1156014410 11444533 0% /dump I have an 11Gb holding disk area - What do you think? amanda@sundev1 [amanda] % amadmin daily force sundev1.corp.walid.com *amadmin: sundev1.corp.walid.com:c0t0d0s7 is

Tweaking reserve

for your time and support. -- Forwarded message -- Date: 04 Nov 2000 02:43:27 -0200 From: Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: can amanda do this? On Nov 2, 2000, "John R. Jackson&qu

did amanda just do a full dump to holding disk?

#amanda.conf bumpdays 0 # minimum days at each level reserve 70 # percent Daily Amanda Mail Reports from Nov. 13, 14, and 15 Subject: daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR November 13, 2000 Total Full Daily

Disregard - Re: the amanda tape cycle (fwd)

-- Denise E. Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Engineer734.822.2037 Multilingual Internet Domain Name Registrations - http://www.walid.com -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:26:56 + (GMT) From: Denise Ives

tape labeling scheme

How can I identify amanda tapes by level of dump? I can label a tape that had a full dump on Nov1 as daily111 but I can't label a tape that had a full dump on Nov 24th as daily1124. Yes - amlabel -f daily 111 or use a letter to represent the month - NO - amanda@sundev1 [amanda] %

removing Warning Message from Amanda Report..

Amanda is running fine. I am running fulldumps to tape on weekends and letting amanda have incrementals dump to holding disk during the off-days. (since I am limited to the amount of tapes i can use) I have just been asked to remove these Tape Error message from the daily Amanda Reports: i.e.

Wait - are you saying that I don't have to re-label each of my tapes?

Does this have anything to do with the tapecycle parameter in the amanda.conf file and which tape to use next? # Backupcentral.com/Amanda tape labeling # Each tape assigned to a configuration needs a unique label. Tapes must be pre-labeled with amlabel so AMANDA can verify the tape is one

'sethost'

Trying to restore a file on a client (admin1.corp.walid.com) How can I set host and connect to admin1 with amrecover? root@sundev1:/home/user/dives# amrecover -C daily -s sundev1.corp.walid.com -t sundev1.corp.walid.com -d /dev/rmt/0cbn AMRECOVER Version 2.4.1p1. Contacting server on

Re: 'sethost' index errors ?

root@sundev1:/admin1-home/user/dives# amrecover -C daily -s sundev1.corp.walid.com -t sundev1.corp.walid.com -d /dev/rmt/0cbn AMRECOVER Version 2.4.1p1. Contacting server on sundev1.corp.walid.com ... 220 sundev1 AMANDA index server (2.4.1p1) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today

amrecover - trying to restore 1 file

root@sundev1:/etc# amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.4.1p1. Contacting server on sundev1.corp.walid.com ... 220 sundev1 AMANDA index server (2.4.1p1) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2000-11-07) 200 Working date set to 2000-11-07. 200 Config set to daily. 501 No index records for

file did not restore - using amrecover

root@sundev1:/etc# amrecover AMRECOVER Version 2.4.1p1. Contacting server on sundev1.corp.walid.com ... 220 sundev1 AMANDA index server (2.4.1p1) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2000-11-07) 200 Working date set to 2000-11-07. 200 Config set to daily. 501 No index

daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR November 4, 2000 (fwd)

Just sda10 failed this time. There have been no changes made to any of the config files since I reported this problem last Thursday. Last Thursday's amanda dump reported that sd9 and sda10 Failed Nov 4th - amanda dump reported that only sda10 Failed Nov 5th - amanda dump reported that only

daily AMFLUSH MAIL REPORT FOR November 6, 2000 (fwd)

To get my full backup - Should I force a level 0 to tape tonight? When I finish running tonight's level 0 to tape will amanda know to run the next dump as an incremental? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:55:28 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

I had enough holding disk but part of the dump failed -

claiming there was [no more holding disk space] - What do you think went wrong? Filesystemkbytesused avail capacity Mounted on /dev/md/dsk/d20 11560144 1847220 959732317%/dump Subject: daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR November 3, 2000 *** THE DUMPS DID NOT

Re: I had enough holding disk but part of the dump failed -

(example: -2 Gb) Is the use wrong? ** On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: From: "Denise Ives" [EMAIL PROTECTED] claiming there was [no more holding disk space] - What do you think went wrong? Filesystemk

Re: I had enough holding disk but part of the dump failed -

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, John R. Jackson wrote: Here is my amanda.conf file with respect to the holding disk - ... use -500Mb ... That's OK. chunksize -1 ... This is not related to your problem, but you should change this at some point to something like "1000 Mb". Is the use

back to square 1

How can I get amanda to do incremental dumps? Can anyone offer a sample amanda.conf, dislist or dumptype definition that may help me out? The dunmp type i am using now is set to always-full - and I thought amanda would run a complete dump and automatically do incrementals based on amanda's

can amanda do this?

Mon-Sat: Incremental dump to holding disk sundev1:/dump (level 1). Sun Eve/Mon AM: Full backup of everything to tape. Flush incrementals to tape as well. Is this accurate? it looks to me like the right thing to do is: netusage 1 Kbps #

I have just been granted an 11Gb /dump partition for Amanda

amanda@sundev1 [daily] % df -k Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 3122055 2029508 1030106 66% / /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 1018191261555695545 27% /var swap 161528816 1615272 0% /var/run swap

Re: I have just been granted an 11Gb /dump partition for Amanda

Yes - there will never be anything in /dump to backed up. The only files that exist in /dump right now are the ones generated from amdump run last night. I just moved them from their original holding disk space /home/dumps. As you can see one partion failed to be dumped last night because

Re: bump*

Got it - i made the change needed. On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, John R. Jackson wrote: It looks like we are ready for a level 3. As I mentioned in some other E-mail, Amanda has its own ideas about what level to run when. In general, it avoids "bumping" to the next level any more than it

running amcheck

O.k. - I ran amcheck against my configuration file just to check things out before tonights scheduled dump. Looks like there is no problem with client connections - but the subject header does have this BOLD warning message. Can this be ignored? Subject: daily AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX

Re: daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR November 1, 2000 (fwd)

: On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:39:53PM +, Denise Ives wrote: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [no tape online]. *** PERFORMED ALL DUMPS TO HOLDING DISK. THESE DUMPS WERE TO DISK. Flush them onto a new tape. Tonight's dumps should go onto 1 tape: a new tape. Did you amlabel the tape(s

i removed the .log file and now i can run amflush.

daily01 filenum 7 driver: send-cmd time 127.951 to taper: QUIT taper: DONE [idle wait: 0.668 secs] taper: writing end marker. [daily01 OK kb 370144 fm 7] amanda@sundev1 [daily] % *** On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Denise Ives wrote: I am trying

Re: extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1

Yes - you are awesome. thankyou - On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, John R. Jackson wrote: Extracting files using tape drive /dev/null on host admin1.corp.walid.com. Ummm, /dev/null makes for a really bad tape drive :-). Try the -d option on amrecover. Denise E. Ives John R. Jackson,