Following and researching Debra Baddorf's thread raised some questions
in my mind. In one posting, JLM said:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 01:16:32PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
...
It autoflush is set, they should be flushed first.
All flush are done in increasing dumptime order.
1. With
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 03:20:09PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
On 12/19/2014 02:39 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Following and researching Debra Baddorf's thread raised some questions
in my mind. In one posting, JLM said:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 01:16:32PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote
, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Debra S Baddorf badd...@fnal.gov wrote:
On Dec 17, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 05:48:07PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote:
Expounding on Jon’s ideas: how about, after all the backups are done
and finished for the day
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 05:48:07PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote:
Expounding on Jon’s ideas: how about, after all the backups are done and
finished for the day.
Then, I run another job
amdump config —no-taper dumphost all-its-DLEs
This would leave them sitting on the holding disk,
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 06:08:47PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote:
I’ve often wondered (and then dropped the idea) — is it possible force a
particular DLE X to be first on the tape?
For instance, it seems useful to have the backup machine’s own backup to
always be first,
in case of
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 09:52:52AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
Running 3.3.6 here.
Last night it played catchup ok, but when DST ended at 2am Sunday morning,
apparently all the timeout timers in amanda went aglay, and it tried to
quit, but left numerous bits and pieces still
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:34:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 23 October 2014 01:28:01 Tom Robinson did opine
...
If you are feeding the tape device compressed files, and the drives
compressor is enabled too, this will quite often cause file expansions on
the tape itself. The
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:28:01PM +1100, Tom Robinson wrote:
Now I have to work out why my tape is reporting as smaller! amtapetype
reports my tape is only half
as big for the same block size...(was 1483868160 is now 743424512). :-/
Checking for FSF_AFTER_FILEMARK requirement
Applying
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 08:23:55AM +1100, Tom Robinson wrote:
Thanks for all the feedback.
Jon is correct, I'm using an LTO5 drive.
Note that, about a year ago I posed this question (and received no response):
Tape Compression: Is it on or off
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:51:43PM +, Joi L. Ellis wrote:
I've got some systems in a similar situation, and I usually don't bother
backing up from the guest's filesystem directly. I have a cron job that
makes an LVM snapshot of the disk image and uses 'dd' to do make a bit image
of the
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 10:06:17AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
I am, at this point, convinced this 'unscheduled' level 0 of the biggest
DLE by far in the system, is preventing amanda from ever reaching anywhere
near consistent backup tape usage. So, just to see what happens, I just
raised
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 02:45:50PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
It turns out some of my backups for this machine will not be usable,
particularly for a bare metal recovery on a new drive, due to a miss-
understanding of the --one-filesystem option by tar-1.27, and 1.27.1 does
not
In my previous answer I forgot one other combination.
If the symbolic link target is a directory on another
file system:
Without the --dereference option the symbolic link is archived.
With --dereference, but without --one-file-system, the directory and
its contents are archived.
With
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:26:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greeting Jean-Louis;
Trying to figure out why amanda can't backup this machine, one of the
things I noticed in /etc, is that on the shop box, which works, there is
not an /etc/xinetd.d but it has an old-xinetd.d with a single
On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 09:19:19AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
Pursuant to a conversation on the dovecot list about the relatively long
times involved in rebuilding the dovecot.index file when it gets out of
sync.
It strikes me that if the backup program could be co-erced
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 04:13:51PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
At Mon, 09 Jun 2014 22:42:00 +0300 Toomas Aas toomas@raad.tartu.ee
wrote:
Mon, 09 Jun 2014 kirjutas Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com:
Question: when using a disk-based 'virtual tape changer', is there is any
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:50:33AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
mark,
It is a new message in tar 1.27.
With the GNUTAR program, you must add exclude like Jens suggested.
A better option is to use the amgtar application:
program APPLICATION
application {
plugin amgtar
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 01:30:46PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
On Wednesday, 12.03.2014 at 14:38 +, Dave Ewart wrote:
What's going on? Why am I not getting to use the full capacity??
Just to follow up on this one: I was able to purchase two, replacement
identical tape drives and with
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:48:02PM +0100, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote:
I have one installation of amanda server 3.3.5, running on Debian
wheezy (7.0), that started to give many headaches.
I have a least two kind of errors:
- One host is not capable of calculating the sizes
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 02:38:48PM +, Dave Ewart wrote:
Hello,
Four years ago I deployed a pair of Tandberg LTO-5 Ultrium (SAS) tape,
connected a Dell PowerEdge server via a Dell H200 SAS controller.
At that time ran the amtapetype utility which produced this output:
define tapetype
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 04:55:30PM +, Dave Ewart wrote:
On Wednesday, 12.03.2014 at 12:28 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
A guess only.
I note the measured speed has dropped by 45%. Due to what I haven't a
clue, but maybe some hardware change or cables or ???
Hmmm, yeah: I noticed
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 04:48:16PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
One issue that comes up repeatedly is the requirements of a server
and the holding disk configuration to keep an LTO6 (or LTO5)
streaming at something approaching its rated speed, which is faster
than that of an individual disk
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 05:16:05PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:19:24PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote:
Amanda 3.3.4
Hi,
Another long post from me - thanks to anyone who has time
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:47:53PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote:
...
Any thoughts on how I can approach this? If amanda can't do it, I
thought I
might try a script to create DLE's of a desired size based on
disk-usage,
then run the script everytime I wanted to do a new level 0
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:09:20PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote:
Amanda 3.3.4
Hi,
Seems like I'm having trouble getting amanda to use my holding disk.
Here's my setup in amanda.conf:
define holdingdisk holdingdisk1 {
directory /mnt/amanda-holdingdisk1/
use 4500Gb
chunksize
. Its good to be considerably larger as many DLEs (a configurable
number) could be collecting at the same time.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:09:20PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote:
Amanda 3.3.4
Hi,
Seems like I'm
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:19:24PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote:
Amanda 3.3.4
Hi,
Another long post from me - thanks to anyone who has time to read it.
I've been reading various docs and posts about dumpcycle, runspercycle,
tapecycle, runtapes online, but still can't figure out how I
. But it doesn't
have to be compiled into the kernel.
I don't have the document in front of me, but my take on unreliable
was available or not available. In addition to not available, remote
filesystems (eg. nfs or samba mounts) would not honor the option.
Jon
Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:44:23AM +0100, Charles Stroom wrote:
Jon and Paul, many thanks for your suggestions. I started off looking
at the gnutar-lists directory and found many entries dated from before
my cleaning operation (that included as per FAQ reset its databases so
as to start from
Had another thought. All the files you back up are read;
by tar! Can you check your logfiles for the options tar
uses, both when doing the actual dumps and during the
estimate phase.
Gnutar has a --atime-preserve option. Tar notes the a/mtime
stamps and after backing up the file it resets the
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:52:28AM +0100, Charles Stroom wrote:
Hi all,
on 20 Feb, I have been running my first backup after cleanup the test
results (amanda 3.3.5 compiled on opensuse 13.1). As expected, the 13
DLEs were all level 0, exceeded the capacity of my DDS4 backup tape and
I
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:39:33AM +0100, Charles Stroom wrote:
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:00:01 -0500
Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
...
You said that an include implies exclude all else, this clarifies
some behaviour. But I have 1 DLE with multiple includes:
fiume.localnet Vbox
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 03:29:03PM +0100, Charles Stroom wrote:
I am now running my compiled 3.3.5 amanda on opensuse 13.1 and have
reformatted my disklist. I have difficulties to understand what will be, or
what will be not included. To take an example, i have a directory
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:47:18AM -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
From: Brian Cuttler Sent: February 4, 2014 07:42
Personally I think periodic archives are a good idea.
Pulling the January monthly sounds like a reasonable approach.
Thanks. It is nice to have confirmation that I am on
it is allowed to autolabel. Then the responsibility is yours ensure
no valuable tape meeting those conditions is ever encountered by amdump.
HTH
Jon
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 06:47:32PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote:
Hi,
I'm
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:26:34PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote:
On Feb 4, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com
wrote:
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:47:18AM -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
From: Brian Cuttler Sent: February 4, 2014 07:42
Personally I think periodic archives
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:21:25PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
On 02/04/2014 02:59 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:26:34PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote:
On Feb 4, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com
wrote:
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:47:18AM -0800, Hugh E
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 06:47:32PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote:
Hi,
I'm hoping to use autolabel like this:
autolabel $b-$c-config-name
so that I can do tape labeling like this to easily label new tapes:
amlabel config-name slot N
With my definition of autolabel above, will
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:41:48PM -0800, Andrius D. Ilgunas wrote:
Hey all,
Still going through my learning curve and I'm studying dumptypes by looking
at the examples.
How/why does amanda differentiate between a root partition and a user
partition?
e.g.
define dumptype root-tar {
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 05:54:21PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote:
Tom and Jon, thanks for the great replies. I'm just getting back to this
project again.
I've tried this
amtapetype -f -b 524288 -t IBM-ULTRIUM-TD5 /dev/sg2 21 | tee
tapetype-ultrium-512k-block
and get this
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:04:14PM -0500, Michael Stauffer wrote:
Hi,
I'm setting up amanda 3.3.4. I can't find a definiton for changer's drives
(IBM ULTRIUM-TD5 LTO-5) in /etc/amanda/template.d/tapetypes
Can someone point me to a source for this, or to where I can learn how to
determine
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 08:18:22AM -0800, Andrius D. Ilgunas wrote:
Thanks a brazillion all!
There's a lot of good info here that I'll need to take some time to digest.
Amanda sure is a big sandwich.
While I'm processing it all, might someone point me to the syntax of what
might be
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:47:56PM -0800, Andrius D. Ilgunas wrote:
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
Again, you are thinking there will be a weekly full dump. Unless that
is a separate config that does only full dumps, and you run it once
each
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:29:27AM -0800, Andrius D. Ilgunas wrote:
Thanks a brazillion Charles!!
I'll probably setup my systems likewise, but I wonder if anyone has any
other opinions on this.
--
Andrius
What kind of write speed to S3 can you expect?
Can your backups to holding disk
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:31:52PM -0800, Andrius D. Ilgunas wrote:
Hmm...Jon's question got me to a'thnkin' about something that I haven't yet
read about.
So let's say the dump cycle is 30 days and I want to keep a copy of the
previous month's dump before the tape1 gets overwritten so that
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 11:37:44AM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote:
...
The LTO is advertised as having block level decision making on
compression so that it doesn't expand the data, wonder if that
is not quite true.
My experience is limited to LTO-1, but I found amtapetype gave
'exactly' the
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 02:11:15PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 08 January 2014 13:13:43 Brian Cuttler did opine:
...
Also - Isn't there another level of tape header that needs to be
cleared? Isn't re-writing the tape with compression off a little
bit of a trick? If you don't
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 08:28:41PM +, Subscriptions wrote:
Hi,
Have been using Amanda for years on Ubuntu and backups were ok until
about 4 days ago.
I received an Amanda Report containing the following
---
I was discussing a presentation about Amanda and
someone asked Does Amanda run on Apple computers?.
I didn't know the answer, so I'll ask here.
Anyone tried amanda on apples?
If so, any differences from linux/unix versions?
Are pre-built binaries available?
Jon
--
Jon H. LaBadie
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 06:27:48PM -0400, Michael Stauffer wrote:
Hi again,
I've got another batch of questions while I consider switching to Amanda:
1) catalog (indecies)
It seems the main catalog/database is stored in the index files. Is it
straightforward to back these up?
This doc
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 01:22:49PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Just for reference, if you are running in a private network without
dns lookup, then you should put all the machines you want to backup
into /etc/hosts. That's what I had to do when my Amanda server was
on our private net and had
could act as a WINS server. But
I don't see anything in docs for the name service switch (nsswitch.conf)
that say it can use a WINS server. Did I miss it?
Jon
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:09:15AM -0400, Mike Neimoyer wrote:
Hello all,
Attempting to follow the examples in the amanda documentation and
results when I search for it in the mailing list Archives, I
encounter problems. I have one DLE (/home) that is approx 200GB and
would like to split
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Content preview: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 01:23:11PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Amanda gets advertisment and credit in funny places. On my Fedora 18
system I was looking at the killpgrp(8) man page and found this at the
bottom: SECURITY killpgrp needs
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 01:02:35PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:14:36 -0400
Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
Later I noticed the killpgrp command wasn't on the system
even though the manpage was. Turns out the command comes
from the amanda client (Fedora
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 11:05:36AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
Hello amanda users,
I just updates amanda 3.3.0 to 3.3.0 on a Solaris 10/x86 system.
The system is both the server and the client, there are no other
clients of this system.
We have ~265 DLEs on this system (large zfs arrays
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:07:11AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
I have to pull in an SQL-dump from a Windows Server ... using smbclient
... works fine so far.
The guy from the software company told me to look at the creation date
of that dump, sometimes some windows-services crash
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 01:59:33PM +, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
Amanda Server Info:
Thu May 23 05:36:00 2013: amandad: build: VERSION=Amanda-3.2.3
Thu May 23 05:36:00 2013: amandad:BUILT_DATE=Tue Feb 5 17:10:59
EST 2013 BUILT_MACH=
Thu May 23 05:36:00 2013: amandad:
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 07:24:01AM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
Hello!
On Thu, 23 May 2013 McGraw, Robert P wrote:
I use hardware compression to max the size of the tape.
Uncompressed the tape is 800GB compressed the theoretical max size
is 1.6TB. I know that I will not get the 1.6TB.
In
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:55:40PM +0800, Amit Karpe wrote:
Brian,
Yes, initially I was using holdingdisk for all config. But when I see
backup is low and taking more time, I had doubt that my backup
holdingdisk are on same disk (NAS) which is 19TB. So I change it force
not to use it.
On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 01:01:28PM -0500, Joseph Cheng wrote:
I have been looking at mailing list archives but I am not sure if this is
possible or not. please advise.
1. Specify only certain directories per host to be backed up. Not global
list of directories configured on server and
On 02/22/2013 05:38:50 AM, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
Hello,
I've multiple backup sets. The dumptype
define dumptype ??? {
program DUMP
record yes
index yes
}
My DLE use the dump type above. It works. But now I start using
multiple configs, using the same DLE, the same dump types -
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:30:45AM -0800, neal lawson wrote:
here is what i have so far, but i welcome any suggestions or help..
https://github.com/neallawson/Amanda-LVM-snapshot
Glad to see someone working on this important piece.
I question if ruby is a good choice of languages as none of
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 10:34:26AM -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
I help admin some machines on a small LAN and a couple of what I believe
are minor issues, but the guy I work for is worried about them.
First of all, the backup server is an older 32-bit machine, with an IDE
hard drive. Backups
Might your files have passed through a windows system?
I'm thinking that each line ends with the M$ style of CR/LF
but your OS is expecting only LF.
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:59:11PM -0800, bulut wrote:
hi everyone,
I installed Amanda-3.3.2 on debian (32 bit) from source code.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:20:37AM +0800, Amit Karpe wrote:
Any idea for my problem.
The last line of your first message seems critical:
...
I could not able to write anything using amdump or dd.
If you can't read or write using standard system tools
like dd, there is nothing amanda can do
Jean-Louis,
Thank you for the correction.
Apologies for the misinformation.
Jon
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 07:20:28AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
On 11/27/2012 12:52 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 03:34:23PM -0600, Neil Carter wrote:
Greetings:
Yes, I've looked
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 03:34:23PM -0600, Neil Carter wrote:
Greetings:
Yes, I've looked into this, the network engineer (separate group) is not
interested in bonding, so that won't work. I have to use the four NICs as
independent interfaces.
...
I'm assuming the client is just sending
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:30:17PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
Hi,
I apologize for coming crying here, but since I updated my manda
server to FreeBSD 8.3 (from 7.4), any big DLE will fail.
I tried many versions of Amanda (2.5, 2.6, 3.3), with no success.
Before I start sending debug,
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:07:36AM +0100, Gour wrote:
Hello!
I've a dump slit into 3 parts which I'd like to re-assemble into
working tar archive in order to do selective restore.
So far, I did amrestore 2 images from the tapes and glued them together
into one file named 'whole'.
Due
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 08:15:15PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 Toomas Aas wrote:
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Charles Curley wrote:
I believe running amcheck during an amdump run is a harmless error.
It doesn't probably do any harm, but it turns out that in this
case the
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:32:17AM +, Kervin L. Pierre wrote:
Hi,
I have a diskllist with 2 folders
/a/b
/d/c
The current schedule works perfectly except for one thing.
Whenever 'b' gets a full, level '0' dump then folder 'c' should
as well. Having a situation where I have a full
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:23:30PM +1000, Subscriptions wrote:
Hi have posted this in the forum too, but have had no replies
I have now downgraded/installed 3.3.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS since the
problem has been fixed but am now getting the following error
WARNING: ml.zudiewiener.com:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 07:57:57AM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
Hello!
Does this means that the last recoverable backup is at 2012-06-11? I
suspect of that because the older backups are level 1 and so are not
recoverable without a level 0. Am i correct?
Yes.
Allow just an adjustment to
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:25:05AM -0300, Joel Franco Guzm?n - Oryon TI wrote:
On 13-06-2012 02:56, Christ Schlacta wrote:
On 6/12/2012 21:27, Joel Franco Guzm?n - Oryon TI wrote:
Hi,
I have an amanda server running fine but some of my clients are remote
servers behind a slow
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:19:02AM -0500, Greg Copeland wrote:
I'm having a hard time getting a DLE correctly created to archive some
snapshots. My snapshots are housed in directories like:
snapshot/monthly.0/
a/
b/
c/
snapshot/monthly.1/
a/
b/
c/
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 03:17:32PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
Thu, 17 May 2012 kirjutas Christopher X. Candreva ch...@westnet.com:
One file system means just that. Unless /storage/lists is a separate
partition mounted at that point, /storage is one file system, as you say
above. You need the
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:32:25AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
If I have in my excludes file:
./gene/.gvfs
Then there is no complaint about the lack of access perms in the emailed
report.
However, from what I understand about the anchoring process, that line
should also cause
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:30:18AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
You must authorize a client to do its own backup.
$ man amanda.conf
dump-limit [ server | same-host ]*
Default: server. Specify which host can initiate a backup of the
dle. With server, the
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 08:36:06AM +0200, Marco Carcano wrote:
Dear Debra
thank for your reply
I'm trying to do what you suggested - I'll tell you how it will end
(it will take a while since the file size is 35 GB and we are coping
at 32K blocks)
however before doing what you suggested
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 03:53:48AM -0700, contenidos2000-ama...@yahoo.com.ar
wrote:
Hello; i have a standard amanda configuration to virtual tape (disk)
dumpcycle 1week
runspercycle 7?
tapecycle 16???
runtapes 1??
The first day run a normal full backup
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 06:22:58AM -0700, contenidos2000-ama...@yahoo.com.ar
wrote:
Hello; i have a standard amanda configuration to virtual tape (disk)
dumpcycle 1week
runspercycle 7?
tapecycle 16???
runtapes 1?
I have a question:
I run everyday at morning a
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 03:55:27PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Should work. But, check your amanda.conf and see what the value of
usetimestamps is. It should be yes if you want to do this.
I believe that the dumcycle will be seen as 7 runs of amdump in any
case. So, if you run it twice
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:12:36PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:06:19 -0500, Matt wrote:
Recently, I had to install the amanda client package on my laptop
to recover a file. However, Ubuntu installed it with the user backup
and now I'm getting
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 08:19:26AM -0600, Neil Carter wrote:
Greetings:
Here's the output of 'ldd /usr/local/libexec/amanda/amandad':
/# ldd /usr/local/libexec/amanda/amandad
libamandad-3.3.0.so = /usr/local/lib/amanda/libamandad-3.3.0.so
libamanda-3.3.0.so =
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:01:36AM -0500, Bryan Hodgson wrote:
One day next week I want to prevent any level 0 dumps, and run only
incrementals for that one night.
It's not obvious to me from the docs that 'amadmin force bump' will
actually prevent amanda from concluding that it's time for
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:14:31PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 29.11.2011 15:32, schrieb Jens Berg:
On Tue Nov 29 2011 15:17:35 GMT+0100
br...@wadsworth.org (Brian Cuttler) wrote:
(although I have to keep in mind that
amanda doesn't follow symlinks, does it?).
No, AFAIK
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 05:42:10PM -0500, Valeriu Mutu wrote:
Hi,
Running an older version of Amanda 2.6.1p2 and have been doing backups and
restores without any issues for a long time now.
Today I ran into this error during a restore:
[...]
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 10:55:22AM +0200, Alexis Huxley wrote:
Hi All,
...
But this I don't understand. If those incrementals were all
unexpectedly large and used 2 tapes each then the fifth incmental
backup would overwrite the full backup... but Amanda *knows* that it
is the only remaining
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:41:22AM +0200, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:02:12 -0400
Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
Nothing strange there. It attempted to put it a DLE, or depending on
your configuation, a chunk of the DLE on to a tape but it didn't
fit. Thus
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 08:03:57AM +0200, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
Hello!
I've 3 different sets of multimedia data which I want to backup for
longer-term archival with occassional restore of some specific data. At
the moment the data is backed up using 3 different configurations:
*
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 06:08:04PM +0200, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:47:08 -0400
Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
If you want each DLE on its own tape, consider running each
DLE in a separate amdump run.
$ amdump config host dle
Thank you. I somehow
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 07:47:59AM +0200, Thomas Marko wrote:
Hi,
I have a question regarding dump levels in Amanda. I do backup several DLEs
with an Amanda server 3.2.1 on a dedicated machine (Ubuntu Natty). On another
machine (Ubuntu Lucid, Amanda 2.6.1) there is a DLE which approx.
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:41:29AM -0400, Matt Burkhardt wrote:
Perfect! Thank you, Dennis.
On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 16:45 +0200, Dennis Benndorf wrote:
Hello Matt,
the simplest way to do so, is to run
amdump --no-taper daily when you want to do the backup, and run another
cronjob
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 02:31:23PM +, Gunnarsson, Gunnar wrote:
Hi,
I'm runing amvault excluding host starting with t or u but I want to keep one
u machine as well.
How can I specify this with amvault ? I though that this might work out with
this but apparently not.
$ amvault
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