Hey,
I was talking with a colleague and amanda came up since we have both
used it at previous jobs for penny-pinching companies (that and it is
awesome). We were discussing the fact that Amanda has a few problems
that really holds it back from more adoption. 1) No gui for a user
interface
Jon LaBadie wrote:
Recently posted to the Big Admin
section of Sun's website is a pretty
long article on setting up amanda.
Haven't read it yet, so I'm unable
to comment on its content.
http://enews.sun.com/CTServlet?id=47250049-814460813:1068762499806
or
Jason Lavigne wrote:
For configuration, testing and restore purposes for newbies like me.
Thanks to the nice folks on this list I have been pointed to a ton of
documentation and now I will read it and hopefully understand Amanda
enough to understand if a GUI makes sense. If it does I will take a
Roberto Samarone Araújo (RSA) wrote:
Hi,
I have an Amanda Backup that was working fine now, when I try to use:
su -c /usr/sbin/amlabel Daily1 DAILY1-01 backup, the system return me:
st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Medium
Error
Additional sense
Gene Heskett wrote:
I think, some jet lag though...
OK Gene...I have to ask...Why are you copyrighting your email?
=G=
Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
Brian Cuttler wrote:
due, payable, owed, expected
The bills are due to be payed this week.
Ok for due, I guess it means I will have to backup that host in two
days, and that other in three days.
But for overdue ? Does this mean I **will** have to backup that host
Robin WONG wrote:
Hmm..this isn't really flexible and eliminates the use of AMANDA to back
this horrible NAS thing up.
r
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:03:30PM -0400, Robin WONG wrote:
include is not valid for smbclient backups with amanda
exclude is,
Galen Johnson wrote:
Is it possible to pull a restore from the holding disk without pushing
to tape first? If so, how?
=G=
sorry for the delayed response...thanks for the insights.
=G=
Has anyone tried to incorporate the -M option into the tar backups of
Amanda? That particular argument is supposed to allow for multi-tape
spanning. I've read that it's not usable with software compression but
I haven't any way to confirm it. My access to a multidisk changer is no
more.
Have you tried:
//bv-miene/test/ amanda%password agki
?
=G=
Matthias Unger wrote:
Hello,
I want to save a windows share on am win2k-workstation. I test the
share with smbmount //bv-miene/test -o username=amanda/agki (amanda is
the backup account in the agki domain). And it works.
Now I want
Actually, he moved it to mtx.badtux.net.but the sourceforge site
should redirect you.
=G=
Frank Smith wrote:
It's on sourceforge, http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx
Frank
--On Monday, January 06, 2003 16:46:02 -0500 Brian Cuttler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm configuring Amanda 2.4.2
---BeginMessage---
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:48:32PM -0500, Galen Johnson wrote:
Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to know if it is possible in a disk list to specify
multiple directories on one line using regular expressions
like so
./NL-SFS3-02[4-7]
fairly certain GNU
Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to know if it is possible in a disk list to specify
multiple directories on one line using regular expressions
like so
./NL-SFS3-02[4-7]
so
NL-SFS3-024
NL-SFS3-025
NL-SFS3-026
NL-SFS3-027
Craig Hancock
fairly certain GNU tar understands
, wrote 0
amrestore: pipe reader has quit in middle of file.
I just keep getting this error - can you identify where I've gone wrong.
Regards
Kevin
-Original Message-
From: Galen Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 04 December 2002 14:52
To: Kevin Passey
Subject: Re: How do I restore
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:24:18AM +, John P. Looney wrote:
Sounds intriguing. Is this a simple matter in amanda, or do you mean
backup root, except /usr in one entry in disklist, then /usr in another
entry ? Does this mean there is a max size to filesystems you can
Deb Baddorf wrote:
What kind of optimiaztion does amanda use while flushing
dumps to tape?
While doing the dump initially, she seems to
optimize to get the small jobs done first, and thus they
go onto tape in a similar order. But I'm currently without
a stacker. So only the first part of
Kirill Alder-Ponazdyr wrote:
An update to this problem:
When I run amanda as root user this does not happen.
I wonder why, amanda user has all rights on tape devices and loader device (it is in sys group). It is also the owner of configuration, debug, log and so on directories, the amanda
Kirill Alder-Ponazdyr wrote:
Greetings,
We have a following setup:
Solaris 9 based Netra 1205 machine
Amanda 2.4.3
Overland Data LibraryPro with 2 x AIT2 drives (4.20 firmware).
The problem is, that chg-scsi crashes with segmentation fault when we enable barcode reader (havebarcode 1) for
jeff covey wrote:
i've been over the documentation, through the faq-o-matic, etc., and i
can't find the answer to what i think is a simple question: how can i
use amanda to back up to space on the server's hard drive? all the
documentation is about tapes, tapes, tapes. i have a set of windows
Hey Gang,
Anyone seen this before?
NOTES:
planner: Incremental of www.thepilot.com:/usr/local/apache bumped to level 2.
yet the actual summary says:
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS
HOSTNAME
Galen Johnson wrote:
jeff covey wrote:
i've been over the documentation, through the faq-o-matic, etc., and i
can't find the answer to what i think is a simple question: how can i
use amanda to back up to space on the server's hard drive? all the
documentation is about tapes, tapes, tapes
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:18:22PM +, Marius Sorteberg wrote:
Hi list,
I use Amanda2.4.3 on FreeBSD 4.7, compiled from ports.
My tapedevice is a DLT 15/30.
I recently switched to software compression, and therefore whish to disable
hardware compression. This is done
Caitlyn M. Martin wrote:
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 16:43, Galen Johnson wrote:
I've never heard of any but I can't think of any questions I've asked
that haven't been resolved with just this mailing list.
Hi, Galen, and everyone else,
In principle I agree. Try and sell that to a suit who
Joseph Sirucka wrote:
Hi All
just got this problem as below, anyone know how to resolve this
[amandaolbs3 olbs2db.in.telstra.com.au]$ amcheck daily
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
WARNING: holding disk /usr/dumps: only 486732 KB free, using nothing
Holding disk
am missing out on.
regards
Joseph
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 11:36, Galen Johnson wrote:
Joseph Sirucka wrote:
Hi All
just got this problem as below, anyone know how to resolve this
[amanda@olbs3 olbs2db.in.telstra.com.au]$ amcheck daily
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
Joseph Sirucka wrote:
Hi All
thanks for your help that seems to fix the error.
my next question is this.
I have a tape in the unit and for the last three days it have not asked
me for a different tape. How can I force amanda to use the next set of
tapes.
Thanks guys for your help
regards
I've never heard of any but I can't think of any questions I've asked
that haven't been resolved with just this mailing list.
=G=
Eric Bergeron wrote:
Does anyone know of any companies that provide techincal
support for Amanda?
I have looked at the FAQ O Matic pages but it does not look
like
Jon LaBadie wrote:
snip
Thing is that amanda does not need substantial administration support.
It needs setup support. Seems once it is up and running you just
change tapes and do recoveries as needed.
Probably the most memorable residue of two of my consulting assignments was
setting up
Meik Hellmund wrote:
Hi,
I would like to use the fssnap facility for snapshots on Solaris and write a
wrapper script. It seems to me that the paths to tar and dump are hardcoded
to amanda at compile time.
Is it possible to avoid recompilation of the amanda client by
giving another path to
Frank Smith wrote:
--On Saturday, November 09, 2002 23:20:07 -0500 Eric Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3) If I attempt what I believe to be labelling a tape, I get:
labeling tape in slot 0 (/dev/nst0):
rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape
rewinding, writing label test00
Eric Webb wrote:
Okay, tape labelling issues were related to device node permissions. Silly
me.
Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the
DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's
configure (/usr/local/sbin/dump).
amdump logs
Eric Webb wrote:
On Sunday 10 November 2002 03:30 pm, Galen Johnson wrote:
Still having the issue with the planner. amcheck claims it can't find the
DUMP program, despite it being installed already and detected by amanda's
configure (/usr/local/sbin/dump).
amdump logs indicate problem
Galen Johnson wrote:
Jon LaBadie has been corresponding with me offlist in regards to this
topic. I will summarize when I am confident I have found the culprit.
(whether it be Amanda, tar or the actual disk being backed up)...
=G=
Sorry for the delay in this
This seems to have been
Ben Simpson wrote:
I got my amrestore and amrecovers mixed up when i typed this email.
It is asking for a specific tape. When i does I just open another
session and tell the changer to find the tape.
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:38:05PM -0500, Ben Simpson wrote:
amrestore
Orion Poplawski wrote:
Last night's run gave the following:
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailySet1-02.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP
Is it proper for amanda to not see the indexes for disks that have been
removed from the disklist but are still on the current tapes? I
recently stopped backing up a server to keep from getting a bunch of
failed messages in my reports. Now when I run amrecover and setdisk to
that backup it
Jon LaBadie has been corresponding with me offlist in regards to this
topic. I will summarize when I am confident I have found the culprit.
(whether it be Amanda, tar or the actual disk being backed up)...
=G=
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
snip
Joshua is right.
I comment the disklist entry when I remove a disk.
I uncomment it if I need to restore it.
But I don't like that.
A solution could be to add a new option in a dumptype
active [yes|no]
alive [yes|no]
backup [yes|no]
dobackup
After further study of the restore issues I've had with amanda (mostly
tar related) I have just today run into what I feel is another problem
(I suspect is a combination of tar and amanda in this case). I am
concerned with the incremental backups. Amanda seems to treat
incrementals as
the file anywhere.
Galen Johnson wrote:
Ben Simpson wrote:
I am running amanda on a Sony tape changer.
I am using chg-zd-mtx to interface with the changer using MTX
When I run amrestore it fails to load the tape it needs.
I have to open another session and tell it to load the right tape.
So my
Ben Simpson wrote:
I am running amanda on a Sony tape changer.
I am using chg-zd-mtx to interface with the changer using MTX
When I run amrestore it fails to load the tape it needs.
I have to open another session and tell it to load the right tape.
So my question is (after looking at some of
Hey Gang,
Is a samba restore any different from a regular restore in the process
needed? I have had a samba shared data disk die and need to restore the
files but haven't had a chance to do a dry run yet. Another question
is...can I restore multiple disks since I had to break up the smb
Galen Johnson wrote:
Hey Gang,
Is a samba restore any different from a regular restore in the process
needed? I have had a samba shared data disk die and need to restore
the files but haven't had a chance to do a dry run yet. Another
question is...can I restore multiple disks since I had
Ok...I've pretty much decided that amrecover requires a manual load of
the tape needed. Is there any way for it to determine that the tape may
need to be rewound (the debug file seems to imply that it is rewinding
but I get the header error). I can't find any way to make the rewind
timeout
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 12:35pm, Galen Johnson wrote
I also have an issue with recover in that it deletes files when the
incremental is restored. I can almost understand why. It seems that if
the files aren't included in the incremental (and they won't
Galen Johnson wrote:
Ok...I've pretty much decided that amrecover requires a manual load of
the tape needed. Is there any way for it to determine that the tape
may need to be rewound (the debug file seems to imply that it is
rewinding but I get the header error). I can't find any way
find where in the code the options are fed to tar for the backup
so I can try to give it a -g instead of -G (it was easy to find for
amrecover).
=G=
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 4:59pm, Galen Johnson wrote
I also have an issue with recover in that it deletes files when
Howdy Gang,
Further news on the tar issue...it is NOT amanda (I figured as much) but
it is indeed tar...I (finally) found the documentation I was looking
for. I quote the relevant snippet below...
--incremental (-G) in conjunction with --extract (--get, -x) causes
|tar| to read the lists of
Where do I need to look if I want to add some functionality to the
smbclient. Unless I am mistaken the newer versions of smbclient allows
you to specify an exclude list not just a single file. From the
sambatar man page we have the following:
o X - Exclude files and
Frank Smith wrote:
--On Friday, November 01, 2002 19:21:50 -0500 Galen Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hmmm...it seems I sent my last reply only to Joshua..anywho...anyone
have any clue as to which maillist one needs to be on for tar
issues? I had responded to Joshua that I'm beginning
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 4:59pm, Galen Johnson wrote
I also have an issue with recover in that it deletes files when the
incremental is restored. I can almost understand why. It seems that
if the files aren't included in the incremental (and they won't
Wayne Johnson wrote:
I just bought a Tecmar Travan NS20 IDE tape drive. Took me a while to
figure out that I should use the IDE-SCSI shim to get it to work.
One question. There are 4 modes for the driver, tied to device names
/dev/st0, /dev/st0l, /dev/st0m, and /dev/st0a. Anyone know what
My first thought would be what is in your .amandahosts file? You still
need to have it set up correctly. It sounds like you don't have root or
the amanda user in it...
=G=
Larry Dunham wrote:
I've been trying to get our restore procedure setup, and now I'm at the
point where I eed to
looks like either your path is incorrect or you need some packages or
both. you need to make sure your path includes the following:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/ccs/bin. There may be be a link to
the gnu tools as well but I can't recall what that path is right
offhand. I'm also
Jerry wrote:
Is amanda NAT friendly?
i.e. I have a tape server with a private ip address
(10.100.100.x) and I want to backup a server outside
of that space with a public ip. When the server
contacts the system with the public ip it gets nat'ed
to a different ip.
What I need to know is if
Kurt Olsen wrote:
Aloha,
Does anybody know what version of mtx understand cmd line args of '-s'
as opposed to 'status'?
Or alternatively - anybody know why the amanda chg-zd-mtx script won't
cooperate with the
version of mtx (and amanda) that came with my linux 7.2 system?
Mahalo (thanks)
of the same connection.
Does anyone have this setup?
--- Galen Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jerry wrote:
Is amanda NAT friendly?
i.e. I have a tape server with a private ip address
(10.100.100.x) and I want to backup a server
outside
of that space with a public ip. When
Let's solve this a problem at a time...Does mtx work with the device?
What device are you using for the changer (/dev/sg0)? What does
loaderinfo /dev/sg0 give (substitute your changer info for /dev/sg0)?
You need to make sure that mtx actually gives you the changer info,
status, etc before you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
I am about to attempt to archive my Win32 hosts with amanda. I was
wondering what the list users experience has been with samba and/or the
Win32 amanda client.
Thank you,
Andrew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
I am about to attempt to archive my Win32 hosts with amanda. I was
wondering what the list users experience has been with samba and/or the
Win32 amanda client.
Thank you,
Andrew
I've had great luck with Samba. I have avoided the win32 client mainly
O-Zone wrote:
Ho i can solve that problem of /home/backup/ etc etc !!! .amandahosts exists
and have the right permission !
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Toralf Lund wrote:
Toralf Lund wrote:
snip
No, I don't have those examples. Also, I don't quite recognise the
syntax. What version is this example from? 2.4.3? I'm still on 2.4.2p2...
yes, this is 2.4.3.
# An example of how to separate a big disk (/diskA) in multiple
smaller
Toralf Lund wrote:
Toralf Lund wrote:
Toralf Lund wrote:
snip
No, I don't have those examples. Also, I don't quite recognise the
syntax. What version is this example from? 2.4.3? I'm still on
2.4.2p2...
yes, this is 2.4.3.
# An example of how to separate a big disk (/diskA) in
O-Zone wrote:
Hi All,
i've just solved any problems with conf but i have a new worry...when i'm
running amcheck it say to me:
ERROR: moon: [access as backup not alloweb from [EMAIL PROTECTED]] open
of /home/backup/.amandahost failed
Why ?
I would guess one of 2 reasons. 1) it doesn't
Paul T. Root wrote:
Hi,
I've just moved my Exabyte 10i changer from
a Solaris 2.6 box to Solaris 8. Is there a device
driver available? I've been searching Exabyte and
I can even find the chs stuff I had before.
Thanks,
Paul.
check out mtx at mtx.badtux.net. Just be sure and make
John P. Looney wrote:
Hi, I was wondering if anyone had solutions for backing up live
databases.
I've some (smallish) databases - around 2GB maybe, that I'd like to
backup. I was wondering how amanda could be configured to do this.
Is it possible to do something like getting the amanda user to
Hey Gang,
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. This would also make the archives a bit more
complete
Martin A. Brooks wrote:
At 13:54 03/10/2002 -0400, Galen Johnson wrote:
Actually, I've run across this and would have to say it's a bug in
the code. The offline_before_unload option should be
OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD...the sed script doesn't ignore case (I wish it
would and may take
Martin A. Brooks wrote:
At 03:03 03/10/2002 -0700, Alan Horn wrote:
What sort of output are you seeing in /tmp/amanda/changer*.debug (or
whatever it's called). Those can be useful files to look in.
I think I've found the cause of the problem, but not the cure. I
previously didn't have
Bob Tanner wrote:
amanda-2.4.3b4
EXB-8700 Tape Drive
Exabyte 160M XL tapes
Got amanda configured. But amdump keeps erroring out. I used the EXB-8500 as my
template for the EXB-8700. But since amdump wasn't working, I ran tapetype.
Here is how I ran it:
# /usr/sbin/tapetype -f /dev/nst0
This
Bob Tanner wrote:
Quoting Galen Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
The filemark is just a way for tape systems to waste tape...be glad that
it's zero...the real question is what is the advertised capacity of
these tapes?
7G uncompressed. The tape drive I have is listed below:
http
Caitlyn M. Martin wrote:
Hi, Gene,
The only thing that comes to mind quickly is probably related to the
question/statement you do have a user amanda, who is a member of
group disk, don't you?
Yes, of course. I think that was done automagically when I installed
the amanda rpms.
As
Jason Greenberg wrote:
Is there any way to measure how many bytes where written to the tape
every night? I would like to feed the values to MRTG or something, so I
can see when I am close to using two tapes per dump.
Also, if the data is available, is it the raw uncompressed bytes, or the
John Dalbec wrote:
I sometimes get sendsize packets being dropped by iptables, presumably
because the iptables connection tracking decided the UDP connection
was closed. This causes the estimates to take much longer because the
first sendsize process gives up. Has anyone found a
Alan Horn wrote:
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
[cropping out a LOT of stuff :)...]
what do you get when you run the mtx commands by hand?
=G=
I get expected output, I can move tapes around, load and unload, inventory..
etc
Kablan BOGNINI wrote:
Hello,
I am using HP DDS-3 tapes for my backup. I've tried to
get the correct values for my tape. But tapetype gives
this result:
define tapetype HP-DDS3-DAT {
comment just produced by tapetype program
length 9860 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 840 kps
}
I
JC Simonetti wrote:
amrecover is possible. You extract the tarball archive on your backup server and
upload it to the Windows box, and there you untar it with the WinTar provided with
Win32 Amanda (different of course from the GNU tar, due to NT file rights...).
amrestore is possible, but I
Galen Johnson wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm moving forward with backing up my windows machines amanda. I've
gotten samba talking to my windows boxes and can run 'smbclient
-Uamanda%herpasswd -L windows_host' just fine.. .I see all the shares,
etc...I can also see my samba server on the windows
Hello gang,
A while back I had sent a request regarding backing up windows machines
without having todeal with samba. Someone had responded with the win32
amanda client on sourceforge. I have looked it up and it seems like
it'll do what I want. However, it hasn't been touched in 18 months.
woohoo...I'm actually making progress...amcheck actually completed
mostly without errors (mainly because I stupidly left the disklist at
the default that came with amanda...silly...silly). I also forgot to
label my tapes (I am currently in the process of this). Now the
question...I have a 7
ok...I've determined that the best change script to use (for me) is
chg-zd-mtx. Now, for some reason when I try to run the chg-zd-mtx -info
I get the error 'none changerfile must be specified in
amanda.conf'...now, this file is defined in my amanda.conf file
Ok...this is really bugging me...is the config_dir supposed to be
compiled into amgetconf? A preliminary look at the code seems to infer
that it is as well as config. I'm having an issue with amgetconf
(currently) in that it expects amanda.conf to be in whatever directory
it is run from or
I'd like to thank all those who have helped me in my quest to get amanda
going. I have successfully backed up a file system and restored some
files. Now the bigger part begins...the rest of the network...
=G=
OK...I'm still reading as much documentation as I can find before I
really decide I'm ready to tackle Amanda...One thing that keeps cropping
up is that if Amanda hits the end of tape during a dump, it jumps to the
next tape and starts over. This brings up the situation where the dump
itself
I'd like to interject one item...if your chg-scsi trial doesn't fix the
issue, you may want to look at your SCSI controller. You mentioned that
you have an Adaptec 2940 while Chris is using a 7890/91...that could be
part of the equation as well.
=G=
Stefan Hellwig wrote:
Hello!
I am very
I'm reading the article on backupcentral regarding Amanda and was
wondering what the progress was on the Future Capabilities is. I have
snipped the text (hope they don't mind)
In addition to the usual enhancements and fixes constantly being added
by the AMANDA Core Development Team, three
Hi folks,
I realize that amanda may be overkill for what I want but...has anyone
setup amanda to use a Sony DDS2 tape device? I'm currently running the
'tapetype -f /dev/nst0 -e 8g' command to verify the tape itself. Of
course, the 8g is compressed instead of normal. Has anyone already
itself. I'll post a summary when/if I get this working like
I think it should just so that there is something in the archives for
posterity (a la the sunmanagers list)
=G=
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 26 August 2002 15:47, Galen Johnson wrote:
Hi folks,
I realize that amanda may
Microsoft Windows 95/NT hosts. I may check out the win32
client that JC Simonetti mentioned snice all the machines I have to deal
with are from the stone age.
Thanks Again...
=G=
Galen Johnson wrote:
Has anyone found a way to use amanda with Windows systems? I have a
mixed environment I
Has anyone found a way to use amanda with Windows systems? I have a
mixed environment I need to do backups for and would love to have a
single solution. For some reason veritas couldn't use the Exabyte
changer properly.
=G=
I had considered a samba solution...just wanted to be sure I didn't miss
anything simpler.
=G=
Mark Fearer wrote:
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Galen Johnson wrote:
Has anyone found a way to use amanda with Windows systems? I have a
mixed environment I need to do backups for and would love
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