of the
tapes. They all say "DLT IV" but nothing more. Is there any way, short
of running tapetype on every tape, to know for certain its' capacity?
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Is there a way to make amanda use a tape other than what it's expecting?
I have 15 tapes labelled 1 through 15. Last nights' backup failed
because it was expecting tape number 15, but tape number one was in the
drive. I'd like to be able to flush that backup to tape number one.
define tapetype DLT7000 {
comment "HP SureStore DLT7000 Autoloader A5501A"
length 33642 mbytes
filemark 33 kbytes
speed 1840 kps
}
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:18:00PM -0500, Marty Shannon, RHCE wrote:
> John Oliver wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to find the tape density codes for this A5501A DLT 7000
> > library and haven't had any luck yet. The drive seems to think it's a
> > 20GB:
>
his, either.
I'm running tapetype (yes, with compression off!) to see what it'll say.
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:57:14PM +, Simon Young wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:20:22AM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
> > The dumps were flushed to tape Indyme014.
> > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /et
reuse
20030221 Indyme008 reuse
20030220 Indyme007 reuse
20030219 Indyme006 reuse
20030218 Indyme005 reuse
20030215 Indyme004 reuse
20030214 Indyme003 reuse
20030213 Indyme002 reuse
20030212 Indyme001 reuse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
Why isn't it telling me it wants 001?
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1) To exclude a directory that isn't on the host running the amanda
server, is it sufficient to touch .amanda.exludes in that directory?
2) How does amanda react to symlinks in a directory? Will it follow the
link and back up what it finds, or ignore it, or ???
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:39:49AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 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 vali
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:26:59PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 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 m
at the bottom of the list and was used.
Now 010 is done, and 011 is at the bottom of the list. Why isn't it
just taking that, instead of "trying to read my mind"? :-)
dumpcycle 1 week
runspercycle 5
tapecycle 15 tapes
> > What am I doing wrong to get /tmp and /hold excluded?
>
ess client fast
}
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# grep backup /etc/amanda/DailySet1/disklist
backup /dev/hda1 comp-root-tar
What am I doing wrong to get /tmp and /hold excluded?
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pand to about 40GB when
> uncompressed.
OK, now *here's* an explanation that made its' way through my thick
skull! :-) Thanks, Matt. I'm not sure if I fell more or less stupid
now... :-)
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ing up... :-) I just added /hold to the exclude
file. So, backups will shrink dramatically tonight...
I'm still interested in finding out what the flaw in my understanding of
how amanda handles compression is, though. I'm sure it's something
really obvious that I'm an idiot f
ils in their collection, enough to keep
them occupied until sometime after the heat-death of the Universe. A
couple of them will get light slaps on the wrist, and all of them will
keep on spamming :-(
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:10:35PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:49:32PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:14:37PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> > > Throw in that marketing is usually a bit optimistic in saying its a
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 05:06:08PM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote:
> [Posted and Cc'ed]
Why? I subscribe... :-)
> My last posting on this thread, we're in tapeout crunch right now...
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:43:13PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
> > No, not really... :-
e is faster then the
> data comeing in, it will write null blocks for a bit waiting on
> data, and this wastes space. Could be a pretty good percentage
> under the right conditions, like no, or too small a holding disk.
I have a big holding disk.
Holding disk /hold: 47560764 KB disk s
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:58:16PM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:26:22PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
> > > Since we're seeing 18 fulls and 1 daily, it smells like you're dumping
> > > a whole bunch of new DLE's on amanda at the same time?
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:42:31PM -0800, Jay Lessert wrote:
> [posted and Cc'ed]
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:13:26PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
> > > see "GENERATING SCHEDULE" in logdir/amdump.1.
> >
> > DUMP backup feff9f00 /dev/hda1 20030221
hda1', dirname '/',
spindle
-1
sendsize[28619]: time 10.428: child 28621 terminated normally
sendsize: time 10.428: pid 28619 finish time Fri Feb 21 02:00:11 2003
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; Since we're seeing 18 fulls and 1 daily, it smells like you're dumping
> a whole bunch of new DLE's on amanda at the same time? If so, you'll
> probably be OK tonight, just don't put any more new DLE's in.
"DLE"?
I assume you mean
ot result for host backup disk /dev/hda1: 0 ->
21156480K, 1 -> 19996640K, 2 -> 19996600K
> Confirm your dumptype compress is set where you expect for
> backup:/dev/hda1.
Again, I'm not sure what you mean by this. I see:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] DailySet1]# grep backup /etc/amanda/D
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:46:44PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 at 11:51am, John Oliver wrote
>
> > I got this report from amanda. It looks to me like it's reporting that
> > it used 48.9% of the tape (a DLT 4000 20/40GB), but that it ran out o
4 71:351379.4
69:061429.0
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.3)
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s out
that the "Density" button on the drive can also affect compression.
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ive is a Quantum TH5AA DLT 4000. I found the Product Manual on
Quantum's site, and it mentions that you *can* disable compression, but
neglects to say how. Nothing I can find does :-(
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:56:17PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 1:07pm, John Oliver wrote
> > data wasn't going through the holdingdisk, that that was precluding
> > compression, which is why I was running out of space (since my drive is
> &g
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:42:58PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 11:09am, John Oliver wrote
> > OK, this led me to my answer... :-) I had never really paid a whole lot
> > of attention to holdingdisk :-) I noticed it was going to /var/tmp,
> >
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:11:50PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 12:17pm, Frank Smith wrote
>
> > --On Wednesday, February 12, 2003 08:50:56 -0800 John Oliver
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm still having a pro
ounted on a filesystem that doesn't have a whole bunch of free
space. So I created /hold and mounted it where I do, and changed
holdingdisk appropriately. That ought to take care of it... :-)
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2.4.3)
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On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:45:31PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 at 11:37am, John Oliver wrote
>
> > ~19GB. But the failure happens when it's also trying to back up a
> > bunch of other stuff. That's my question... why doesn't amanda
still
thinking that this might be something other than a known issue. What
exactly is it that was changed in 2.4.4b1 that has to do with what I'm
seeing?
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On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:40:21PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> That's a known bug in amanda-2.4.3, it was fixed on 2003-01-17
Nice.
Know if anyone's created a .src.rpm for 2.4.4b1?
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On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:18:05PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 at 10:09am, John Oliver wrote
>
> > Feb 7 06:04:56 backup kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1
> > (dumper).
>
> This is a separate issue than running out of tape. Are you
one
partition is too big, then it would schedule it with fewer other things
to make room. But this keeps happening every day... how do I fix?
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:27:11PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 at 10:39am, John Oliver wrote
>
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:28:37PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > > > dumpcycle 4 days
> > >
> > > Amanda will get a ful
...the number of times each tape has been used? So, after a given tape
has been used X times, amanda can send a reminder to replace it?
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ng a
new drive that's the same make/model as what they have on the Windows
network, so they may balk at paying $70 each for tapes that may be junk
in a few weeks.
I want to make the most efficient use of the tapes I have until I know
what's going on... :-)
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spercycle 4
>
> You'll run amanda 4 times per dumpcycle
Is it possible to make amanda spread the full backups out over the
course of the dumpcycle?
Also, if I change the dumpcycle to 5 days and leave the runspercycle at
4, will that work? I do want to keep tapes in "sets" of
run amanda each Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
mornings. I do want to get more tapes, so I have a multiple of 5.
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dumpcycle 4 days
runspercycle 4
tapecycle 8 tapes
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something that needs to be flushed or not???
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Can amanda send a signal to my DLT IV to unload the tape after backups
are finished, so whoever goes back to swap tapes can just do it without
waiting to manually unload?
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nstallation (2.4.2) does not complain if the exclude file
> is missing. It does in 2.4.3. That could be a surprise to a user.
It was...
> However gtar complains and aborts the backup if the exclude file
> is missing. That would be a real big surprise and disappointment!!
Aga
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:03:21PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:15:35PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:27:30PM -0600, Deb Baddorf wrote:
> >
> > > And did you put a file "exclude.gtar" in there?
> >
ure... I did this locally.
> And did you put a file "exclude.gtar" in there?
Yes, I did, and that got rid of the message. But if amanda needs this
file, why doesn't it just create it?
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by Amanda 2.4.3)
Up until now, amanda has used /var/lib/amanda So I created
/usr/local/lib/amanda/ and chowned it to amanda, but I still get the
same message.
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Your linux needs will probably vary.
That Makefile worked just fine... :-)
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ystem isn't any bigger than any
that are being successfully backed up, I've always used user "amanda", I
do have dump installed, etc.
System is Red Hat 8.0 out-of-the-box.
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On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:04:25PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 04:26:30PM -0800, John Oliver wrote:
> > [root@backup root]# amrecover
> > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on localhost ...
> > 220 backup AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2) rea
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:50:31AM -0500, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, John Oliver wrote:
>
> > 501 No index records for host: backup.indyme.local. Invalid?
> > Trying backup.indyme.local ...
> > 501 No index records for host: backup.indyme.local.
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 08:22:10AM +0300, Hery Zo RAKOTONDRAMANANA wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> >On Monday 30 December 2002 19:26, John Oliver wrote:
> >
> >
> >>[root@backup root]# amrecover
> >>
> I had this problem but solvd it when launc
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:24:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 30 December 2002 19:26, John Oliver wrote:
> >[root@backup root]# amrecover
> >AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on localhost ...
> >220 backup AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2) ready.
> &
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:19:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 30 December 2002 19:25, John Oliver wrote:
> >[root@backup root]# su amanda -c "amstatus DailySet1"
> >bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied
> ^^^
> Th
ugh, there is no /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amdump But amanda is
supposed to automagically create that stuff, right?
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: backup.indyme.local. Invalid?
Trying backup.indyme.local ...
501 No index records for host: backup.indyme.local. Invalid?
Trying backup ...
501 No index records for host: backup. Invalid?
I do have "index yes" in amanda.conf. Why is it still unhappy?
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comment you want"
> compress client fast
> priority medium
> index yes
> }
Why does the conf file come without "index yes" in it already?
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ndex yes" needs to be in the dumptype in amanda.conf But, if this is
so, why isn't it already in there? Or is it possible that something
else is really the issue?
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If I have to buy a new changer (or "new" to us...), what would be a good
choice? The capacity of the TSL-S7000 is sufficient. A changer that
there are specs for, that holds about 7 tapes, that is relatively
inexpensive... what are my choices?
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host root
localhost amanda
backup root
backup amanda
backup.indyme.local root
backup.indyme.local amanda
Or would it be more like:
localhost amanda root
?
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#x27;d put my bet on you needing a line for localhost in your
> .amandahosts file as well.
That's it! Thanks! :-)
I find myself wondering, though... am I going to have to edit this file
every time I want to back up and restore? The docs say to have the
amanda username in ./amadahosts,
The drive in my TLS-S7000 autoloader is bad (sucks up tapes, then won't
give 'em back. Has a wrench on the display). I'd like to find a
new/rebuilt SDT-7000 drive for this unit, preferably from a local (San
Diego, CA) vendor. Anyone know of one?
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backup.indyme.local 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 12:13:11 EDT 2002 i686
athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[root@backup DailySet1]# cat /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts
backup root
backup.indyme.local root
What's the beef?
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loader, and I'm not sure how to (or if I need to) disconnect it.
In any case, there's a screw marked "Load" on the bottom of the drive.
It seems to free-wheel in place. I'm not sur if I need to turn it in
one dirction or the other until something happe
a 2.4.2p2)
Jumping down to line 140 of /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx, I don't see
anything that loks wrong to me.
Unfortunately, I can't chck th archives right now... the company I'm
working on this for has a web proxy that blocks egroups, and I haven't
been able to get them t
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