Gene Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I hope this isn't considered off topic. I have been running amanda now
for a month or so and all is going well (thanks to alot of help from
this list!).
My tape server is a Sun E250 (Solaris 8) with a single DDS-4 tape
drive. I'm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hiya gang-
Last night, amreport sent out a 48MB report to my admin mailing list.
I've tracked down why, and the culprit looks to have been the only
real change made yesterday, this being a columnspec line with all of
the width fields set to -1 in length
Ben Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 10:49, Spicer, Kevin wrote:
I'm not quite clear what you have in mind, you're presumably not
talking
about having a cycle of hard drives (are you?) but just keeping a
mirror on
a different machine.
Nope - I actually wanted to
Hi,
I could need help in a somewhat unusual situation: A fellow PhD
student is doing work time measurements with a proprietary digital
video recoder based on Linux. His 120 GB disk is approaching full
capacity and our only backup solution is the department server with
its DAT DDS 4 tape drive
David Flood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm using amanda 2.4.3b3 on two tapeservers. One of them the
emails work perfectly. The other one works sometimes but not
others. When I do a amcheck -m conf I don't receive an email but I
recieve an email when the same configuration completes it's
Stefan Kiczerjak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hello everboby,
before i am going to buy an expensive dlt-streamer i'd like to do some
testing with an old iomega 250 floppy-qic.
I have configured all as discripted in the man-pages but unfortunately
amlabel closes with an error.
here the
Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:24:17PM -0500, Dan Debertin wrote:
One of my client hosts has a drive that is larger than my holding disk
-- drive is 18G, holdingdisk is only 4G. No, I can't swap them, and
no, I'd rather not buy a bigger disk right now.
klavs klavsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi guys,
Does amanda use the holding disk, when backing up from localhost?
If it were smart, it would skip the holding disk, as this would just
waste space..
The reason I'm asking is that I was considering use System Imager to
backup all
Hi,
Coming back to work after Easter holidays I found a small annoyance
with amverify:
Our cron backup skript basically does
amdump;
mt status;
amverify;
mt offline;
After inserting the last tape on thursday all backups went to holding
disk as planned. Inserting the next tape for amflush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there are way of forcing amanda to backup the directories in the
disklist in a certain order or at least tell it to back up a thew
directories first?
David,
There is a priority parameter for dumptypes. But it does not work for
your purpose.
priority string
Gene Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I hope this isn't considered off topic. I have been running amanda now
for a month or so and all is going well (thanks to alot of help from
this list!).
My tape server is a Sun E250 (Solaris 8) with a single DDS-4 tape
drive. I'm
Graham Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The body of the daily backup report is always empty. Is there a
/tmp/amanda/ file I can poke into to see if there's some file
permission problem?
Graham
Graham,
Did you change your columnspec parameter? Especially -1 values
seem to be buggy in 2.4.2.
John Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it correct that an AMANDA client (on the same host as the AMANDA
tape server) will still use the mechanisms as a remote host
(inetd.conf and amandad program) to communicate with the tape server?
I believe this to be yes...
If the tape server
C. Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I see that Amanda in 2.4.3 has features to allow backup to disk instead
of tape.
Is it possible now, using the same configuration (amanda.conf,
disklist, and tapelist) to tell amanda to perform lev 1+ dumps to disk and
lev 0 dumps to tape?
Hi,
A slight
Hikawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I could not do backup big size directory.
The directory size is 1.9GB.
I use 4GB DDS2 tape.
I want to do backup 1.9GB directory into 4GB DDS2 tape.
My dumptype is root-tar in amanda.conf file.
It is the following.
Hi,
Somehow old messages from December and January get replayed to the
list. Please keep an eye on message dates before answering.
Johannes Nieß
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Hi,
Sorry for beeing slightly off topic, but I'm sure someone can help me.
I use a Seagate Scorpion DAT DDS 4 drive for Amanda backups on a Linux
2.2.20 box. SCSI controller is either a Vortex hardware RAID or from
the Adaptec 7xxx family. The drive is working fine unless I issue a
mt status
chandrasekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi everyone
I have a HP-DAT 24*6 tape drive attached to my amanda Back-up
server.Recently I replace one of the active tapes(DDS3) in slot 6 with a DDS
cleaning tape. But when it comes to running the cleaning tape amcheck gives
me the message
Sarah Hollings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hiya,
Just thinking about coding up some perl scripts so I can see how my backups
are going from a web browser, and was wondering if there was anything like
that already - no point in reinventing the wheel.
Something like Analog for Amanda I
Benjamin Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i've been using amanda for a few weeks now, and i am very happy with it.
my current tape cycle is 7 tapes, but i wanted to have two sets of 7 tapes (so one
can reside offsite). after backing up to the first 7 tapes, i ran amlabel -f on a
new set
Kasper Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
Im using amanda on a linux box with an old SONY-SDT5000 DDDS2 drive.
Everything works like a charm - I have actually restored some files ;)
The question: Is it recommended to use hardware compression or should I
leave it off? When I first
José Vicente Núñez Zuleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello people,
This list has been a very good source of information
on setting up amanda and i will like to contribute; I
made a little Perl script that sents an email to the
responsible of changing tapes on a tape unit for the
next
Hi,
my amreport is segfaulting in a working configuration since I
mistakenly set dumpcycle to days and setting it back to 4 after I
wondered about missing level 0's. I'm still in the first cycle after
the change. It's OK if this error will grow out after one cycle, but
will it happen?
At
to the linux box and
backup that.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
mailing list. Under normal circumstances this would take am
(North/South)-Amercian work day. AFAIK there is an mailing list
archive at www.egroups.com (Check www.amanda.org for the correct
URL). Or you can try to grep through the code.
Sorry for beeing unable to be more specific.
Johannes Niess
speed up the backup if max dumpers is set to at
least the maximum spindle number.
A better aproach would is to tweak the small dumpers and big
dumpers in the source. But that's not host based. There was a
discussion about it some days ago.
Johannes Niess
on weekends you could think
of doing no backups on weekends. If changes occur, they are backed up
on mondays. I'm pretty sure that you know what a crontab file is
for...
Apart from getting the Amanda mail reports I seldom have to invest
time into Amanda. Even I can operate it...
Johannes Niess
they can be used as an archive. Be
aware that used tapes may not be the best solution for long time
storage.
Johannes Niess
use a rescue
system in RAM with network and disk/(tape) support for your hardware.
Johannes Niess
backup the holding disk directories,
there is no problem. E. g. I use /tmp/amanda/config for the holding
disk and don't backup /tmp.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
,
Johannes Niess
systems SCSI termination is a comon cause of error.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
be a bit more readable.
Johannes Niess
John,
Thank you for the tips. I know that my script is not the best example
of shell skript ever done. Emphasis for this first implementation was
on the main algorithm. I'll wait a couple of days for other comments
and post an improved version.
Johannes
it save you from worn out
tapes at restore time.
Johannes Niess
P.S: Keep an eye on line endings for the commands.
#! /bin/sh
# Made by Johannes Niess (mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
if test -z $1 ; then echo Amanda-tapestats reports the number of times the tape list
entry has been updated. The skript
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello there,
I figure my last mail was less than informative - usually not my
style and I apologize.
Anyway, one problem seems to persist and I'm clueless as to what
may cause it.
So, my amanda server is a FreeBSD 4.3 STABLE machine with a
Tandberg MLR1.
the operator's sudo to the (too powerfull in this case) Amanda user
just for amcheck, amrecover and what else you like. You'll see their
actions in the syslog. The good thing: no password for the Amanda user
has to be given away.
We have set up just our tape changing that way.
Johannes Niess
Tom Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:43:03PM +0200, Johannes Niess wrote:
[...]
What about sudo? The recovered files keep owner and permissions. Let
the operator's sudo to the (too powerfull in this case) Amanda user
just for amcheck, amrecover and what
Albrecht,
Onstream went out of buisness approximately 9 months ago. I would not
bet on continued cartridge support.
Johannes Niess
(only black usable part of tape is visible). Manually winding the tape
in either direction does not help.
Thanks for any help,
Johannes Niess
. Amanda cries loud about that, but you can ignore it. IMO
it's better to leave the scheduling to Amanda. You can tweak what gets
level 0's first with the priority parameter in the dump type or
directly in the disk list file.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
Matteo Centonza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I'm trying to set up a backup server with two tape drives:
- Tandberg SLR 100
- Sony SDT-5000 (DDS-2 DAT Tape Drive)
is it possible to force the planner in order to use smallest tape to
perform incrementals and SLR for full dumps,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Knut A. Syed) writes:
Is it possible to exclude some of the hosts listed in disklist from
amcheck?
I have some laptops which I do not want to be warned about if they are
not connected during amcheck.
Knut,
Unless you patch amcheck for a regexp parameter (or similar), I
images.
Johannes Niess
John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is it possible to put a path into the disklist, which contains blanks?
As Olivier says, the current answer is no. I have a TODO list item
to clean up the Amanda parsing so quotes may be used most anyplace,
but it will be quite some time before
Bernhard R. Erdmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are there options to tar to prevent it from tossing a good backup
because tar could not write its index file?
GNU tar (at least 1.13.17) understands the option
--buy-some-bigger-disks.
I prefer --choose-a-good-partitioning-layout :-)
Hi,
today I recieved the attatched report from Amanda. The /usr/ partition
got filled up by another process, so Amanda (tar, to be correct) could
not keep track of its state. The wrong tape was inserted on purpose,
so backups ended up on the holding disk. Before I cleaned up the /usr
partition,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi there,
after a period successfully using amanda on our lan, I think about the
possibillity to verify the contents on an amanda tape (before removing
the files from holding disk).
From my point of view: Making backups is necessary, but how to enshure
that
Anthony Worrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: "John R. Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using a NFS mounted holding disk doesn't seem possible ...
I would consider that a feature :-). Why in the world would you drag
a bunch of dump images across the network to an Amanda server and then
Dan Wilder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
I see that the drive is an OnStream. Haven't there been
significant problems reported on this list, with those?
According to the SCSI newsgroups they are out of buisness.
Johannes Niess
rashed box.
Using dd to extract whole tapes isn't that cumbersome if your tapes
hold only data from that host. Write a litte skript that "dd's" in a
while loop. Requiring all data sometimes makes live easier.
HTH,
Johannes Niess
P.S: A great chance to move from partitions to using quotas...
method, e.g. a test of permissions or access(). But that's
(unfortunately) highly OS dependent, if possible at all. Grrrr.
Johannes Niess
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John,
AFAIK the label has a fixed size of 64kB, so writing it over itself
should not change
after date in
MMDD format) get created, you'll need a little script to remove
the outdated ones.
Unless you want long time archiving, you might avoid using tapes. Tape
is a lot cheaper per gigabyte than disks. And saver, too.
Johannes Niess
you,
Joe
Joe,
why don't you use amrecover? It has an ftp-like interface to select
directories and files to restore. You'll need the indexing daemon with
it's database.
An approach with amrestore is to restore the dump to a temporary place
and to pick the files you need.
HTH,
Johannes
Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:44:33PM +0100, Johannes Niess wrote:
Hi,
I had dumps from two different configurations dumped to the same
holding disk, but to two directories as usual. Beeing too lazy to sort
out what date belongs to what
read label; amlabel -f config label
Does it mess up the indexes?
Johannes Niess
Radu Filip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello, Johanness!
Thank you very much for your answer.
On 27 Feb 2001, Johannes Niess wrote:
1) Amanda sets options for gnutar to stop at partition boundaries.
From the logs I see that it's not this one...
2) If your holding disk
ich is odd:
This Amanda issue is treated already...
[...]
I'm not subscribed to this list so if you could please respond to my
message by directly emailing me I would greatly appreciate it.
I'd subscribe. You get answers for the questions you'll ask some weeks
later :-)
HTH,
Johannes Niess
Gerhard den Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Johannes Niess [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 04:01:03PM +0100)
My first thought was to disable compression, but that's already
done. What's your network technology? 2 MBytes/sec is not the optimum
They're all local disks
to it successfully. SCSI errors
should pop up all over the place while writing/reading with a
hardware/cabling fault. It's not the case, so I've to suspect
firmware.
Johannes Niess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi, people
In order to perform my 22GB (level 0) i have to use a SONY DDS3,
but whenever i need to backup everything i have to use that "strategy
nofull" parameter to perferm incremental backups and then i use "admin XXX
force " to force level 0
Bill Delphenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have amanda running on a RedHat 7 server and it is now backing up
several Linux client servers to a DLT drive very nicely. The next thing
I need to get going is backing up my SAMBA stuff. I have SAMBA running
on a Linux server, serving applications
Javi Polo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
I think the problem is that it tries to pop the backup from /dev/null
instead of /dev/tape as I told him in amanda.conf
anyone knows where the problem can be and/or how to solve it ? :?
r11c:~ # amrecover --help
amrecover: invalid option -- -
Christian Lox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello everyone!
I am a bit confused about the usage of Amanda together with Macs.
The archive say, it should work, but backupcentral.com/amanda says,
there is no support for Macs.
What is right and how to get it work?
Christian,
I'll assume that
"Joe Prochazka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After I installed Amanda and seemed to have it working the computer started
throwing the following error:
Unusual System Events
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Dec 2 00:45:18 kernel: (scsi0:0:5:0) Invalid SCB during SEQINT 0x71,
SCB_TAG 80.
Dec 2
speed of not using compression at all. The problem with compression is
a bit flipping somewhere on tape: AFAIK tar.gz and dump tape "files"
are not readable behind the block with the switched bit.
Johannes Niess
--JAA13530.975659970/server.landtechnik.uni-bonn.de--
Heiko Muenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
since last week I've problems on one of our amanda clients. I got the
following error message:
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
hol1 /data/slash/www.hannover.de lev 0 FAILED [badly formatted response from
hol1]
I've found no error
config; /path/mtst -f /dev/nst0 rewoffl
Does amanda support error levels to do amdump mtst ?
Johannes Niess
"Henk Martijn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Planner says it will do a level 2 incremental, but it does a level 0.
Why?
Henk,
I've seen this, too. I supect that "level 2" is the answer from the
client during estimate phase. After getting information from all
clients the server commands a
that
for you. AFAIK the required version of Amanda is 2.4.2.
Johannes Niess
"Alessandro Chiauzzi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I need to backup a Windows client.
I wrote on the Samba host (which is tape server too):=20
1. in /etc/amandapass: the Windows share name (//pluto/software/), clear =
text password and domain (lallino.it).
I might be wrong, but setting
versions of the slides are available on request
(as long as numbers stay low...)
Johannes Niess
Hello,
Some days ago there was a rumor that patches are available to backup
to block devices (e. g. CD-RW). I tried to locate them via e-grpups
but their search feature is brain dead. I'd like to see them on
sourceforge or www.amanda.org (as an ongoing project?).
Johannes Niess
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