. Daily, Archive, Monthly)
followed by incremental numbers.
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-disk-dump # tools (/opt)
lucy /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 hard-disk-dump # gmls (/export/home)
Does anyone have any idea why amanda on odus can't talk to amanda on lucy?
Thanks in advance,
Did you place the correct entries in (x)inetd and restart (x)inetd?
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tape, which for LTO2 is around an hour, I
believe.
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also allow tcp 10082 and 10083.
On my bridging firewall, I modify /etc/modprobe.conf to include a longer
timeout:
options ip_conntrack_amanda master_timeout=2400
That works for me...
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to something else, that might be all right, but I
wouldn't feel comfortable with my backups (or anything other than scratch
space, really) being on RAID 0. I would use RAID 1, or if you have disks to
spare RAID 10.
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=USERNAMEOFYOURCHOICE argument to configure.
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), still not working.
What does the output of
chkconfig --list amanda
chkconfig --list amandaidx
chkconfig --list amidxtape
give?
Have you restarted xinetd once enabled?
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dump quarterly.
You probably just need to adjust your reserve parameter properly in
amanda.conf. The default is 100% is reserved for degraded-mode backups. Set
it to something smaller to allow fulls to fit.
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to fit.
Matt
Thanks for the pointer, I will try this. I assume I turn off autoflush? I'm
going to try with a reserve of 25% - I have a 250 Gbyte holding disk.
If you don't want all spooled dumps to flush to tape when one is inserted,
then disable autoflush.
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, but the estimate
paramater of your dumptype should help considerably. I use CALCSIZE because
I don't really care exactly how accurate the estimates are. There are a
couple other options you should check out.
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//winpc/sharebackup%password
-
disklist:
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winpc.mydomain.com//winpc/sharesamba
Shouldn't that be someunixboxwithsamba.mydomain.org?
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xinetd restart
?
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it the hard way :-)
service foo args is equivalent to /etc/init.d/foo args
Less typing involved, generally.
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to the newer
tcp authentication model, so can someone please show me a list of files
involved, and their perms? Or a url that shows this?
Thanks.
Cannot set security context points to selinux. You might do some ls -Z's
and check the logs for errors in your selinux config.
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for bringing in all sorts of 32-bit
libraries to run a single application.
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cron job just write a wrapper around your amdump job. If the data
is less than your required level, call it with your -o options, if it is
above, call as usual and it will flush everything (including that run) to
tape.
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tape: /dev/nst0: Input/output error
amlabel: pid 17508 finish time Wed Oct 11 09:40:36 2006
Is this a tape problem or am I approaching this incorrectly?
Looks like a tape error to me. Can you read/write it with standard tools
(dd, tar, etc.)?
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will also accept any tape that is more than
tapecycle tapes old, so in my case my tapecycle is 16 tapes, but I actually
use 20 in rotation, so that if one fails, I don't have to replace it
immediately.
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Thanks for any explanation and/or tips.
What settings do you have for your holding disk in amanda.conf? Specifically
the reserve setting.
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that when amdump runs each night, it doesn't read the
headers over and over, shortening the life of the tape (since I spool to
holding disk all week and flush to tape once a week) and forces me to run
another command before I can have a typo erase all of last weeks dumps :-)
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FINISH driver date 20060817 time 34.380
what am I doing wrong?
Have you run amcheck? Better start there before trying to dump anything.
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/libamclient.so - libamclient-2.5.0p2.so
so I'm not sure what the problem is.
Is /usr/local/lib in your ld.so.conf and did you run ldconfig after
installing amanda?
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extract
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? If not, you'll
probably want to look into some sort of VPN or tunnel.
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DLE's from tape.
There is a man page for amrecover and source code. What more do you need?
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*compiled* amanda? That's when the locations
of such things get noted.
Ah... I'm using the binary vendor RPM which I assume doesn't contain XFS
support. Time to go compile my own.
I'd start here:
http://www.math.ohiou.edu/~hyclak/casit/amanda/
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:08:27PM -0400, Nathan Weston enlightened us:
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Yes, you need to create an /etc/amandapass file with the appropriate
username/password combinations. man amanda for the details.
As for the second problem, I don't see anything in the .debug files
that within the RPM environment so you get the advantages of both.
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experience with this?
I'm sure several people do, and you'll probably get better answers if you
ask a better question. Are you having a problem with this? Search the
archives, there are many best-practice types of threads regarding this
subject.
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compile
4. Use native windows tools to dump to files in a directory being backed up
I'm sure all of these have been covered in the mailing list, and the
documentation, so it's up to you which best suits your needs.
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to understand Amanda - they should have called her George
or something :)
You're doing just fine :-)
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to set record
to no in your amanda.conf so that your system doesn't count those as being
full dumps and messing up your schedule every month. Other than that, it's
pretty straightforward.
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to be used?
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be defined in root-tar
index yes# This may already be defined in root-tar
exclude list amanda.exclude
} 1
Your compress and index lines are overriding anything in root-tar. It may be
redundant, but I just thought I'd point it out.
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at
http://www.math.ohiou.edu/~hyclak/casit/amanda/ for using Amanda on RPM
based systems. I recommend you rebuild the SRPM anyway, to get rid of
necessary but bad default compilation settings.
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has
to be defined before you can reference it. It will start
define dumptype root-tar {
global
program GNUTAR
...
}
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in
the current release.
Anyhow, I'd really like to know more about how the spanning actually
works. Is it documented anywhere? http://www.amanda.org/docs and FAQ
still say that the option does not exist...
Try http://wiki.zmanda.org/index.php/Splitting_dumps_across_tapes
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on your data and how
compressable it is.
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Of Tape (EOT), but sometimes there are media
errors, etc.).
Does that help?
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and also the VirtualA IP.
In you disklist you have DLEs for both Server1 and VirtualA.
Amanda contacts Server1 to start an estimate/dump.
Amanda tries to contact VirtualA to do the same, but amandad is already
running on that machine.
Sound like a possibility?
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(level 0) dumps,
not incrementals.
Without more information, we can't tell you what's wrong.
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less than your directory size.
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in the drive.
Is there a way to do so?
I would just script it:
mt -f /dev/tape status | grep ONLINE /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
amverify
fi
Flavor to taste.
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to prevent the Dailies from running, then
run amdump Fulls by hand. When it's done, I remove the hold file and
amanda continues with the Dailies as usual. (Usually this is one command:
amdump Fulls rm /etc/amanda/Dailies/hold, so I don't have to babysit).
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to
return you to that date.
amrestore will do mass dumping of backups from whichever tape you chose.
That may be more what you're looking for.
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. Is there anything else there that is worrying?
Strange is OK, it's the Failure's you have to worry about.
Looks good to me.
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-static DLEs to save space, but I'm not sure I'd
bother with it.
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/~hyclak/casit/amanda/ would be applicable.
For the zmanda packagers: The RHEL4 packages really shouldn't require
tar = 1.15. RHEL 4 will always have tar 1.14 with backported patches.
Perhaps not the best idea, but that's their policy, so we have to live with
it.
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, using the -s option
in particular.
That won't solve the RPM dependency. For that, he can rebuild the Fedora
tar-1.15.1.src.rpm.
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find the commands being run in the logs, sendsize and sendbackup
specifically.
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. There are obvious exceptions to the
rule, but you'll find at least on RedHat-like systems that no normal user
has access to /sbin, /usr/sbin, etc. by default. For those special cases,
you can just add it to the path of the necessary user as you did with the
.bash_profile.
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to the
first)
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for tar 1.15. I can easily change that but before that I
just what to be just that it is a requirement
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That doesn't mean that 1.15 should be required by the spec file. tar 1.14
from Redhat works just fine
(see https://www.redhat.com/advice
: ./var/log/lastlog: invalid sparse archive member
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2
Continue [?/Y/n/r]?
What version of tar are you using?
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libamserver.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 23 23:06 libamserver.so -
libamserver-2.5.0-20060323.so
Is there anything I can check before the run starts,
or should I just re-install the older one?
Did you re-run ldconfig?
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-S 7200 10 800
I think this is a red herring, but I could be wrong.
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the
tar commands being run, the .include and .exclude files will show you the
contents of the includes/excludes. See if you can track down the difference.
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I'd look at the sendsize.* files on the server. The .debug will show you
the
tar commands being run, the .include and .exclude files will show you the
contents of the includes/excludes. See if you can
, you'll just have to guess how compressible your data
is and adjust the length accordingly. Might take some experimenting to find
the right amount.
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}
Note /export_JQ where I want to ignore the profiles directory, but profiles
is part of j-q. Same goes for the catchall at the end, I backup profiles
separately so I want to exclude it as well as all of the already known
quantities.
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/~hyclak/casit/amanda/ for
some hints.
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The clients are trying to contact themselves for the index service. I
suspect that means you are using distro-provided RPMs and they have
localhost compiled as the index server.
I meant distro-provided packages
that stupid.server is the wrong IP?
This is usually a reverse-DNS issue. What does
host stupid.server.edu
return?
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!
snip -- snip -- snip
3.
Stupid.aix.client can properly nslookup smart.amanda.server.
Do I need to switch that nsswitch.conf thing?
No, you need to fix DNS so that all the IPs map to the right hostnames and
vice-versa.
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own. It Just Works(TM). :)
I hope you build your own RPMs, since I know you use an RPM based system ;-)
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development repository and rebuild them on my system.
That's what I did for tar, and what I do for amanda (even on production
systems I do that). Just a suggestion :-)
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after 2:00am,
but my backups start at 12:30am. Ideally I would like to keep my backups
starting at 12:30. Is there a way to control what time a certain box is
backed
up? I checked the docs, but didn't see anything.
Check the starttime parameter in amanda.conf.
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version of 2.6? There was an off-by-one type of error in Fedora Core
2's kernels at one point around 2.6.5, I think. ip_conntrack_amanda works
just fine on my CentOS (RHEL) 4 machines, which is 2.6.9. All I do on
clients is allow udp 10080 through and load ip_conntrack_amanda.
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are allowing RELATED traffic back in to the box, right?
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that is 23GB and a dump on Feb
16th that is 13GB, it will pick the Feb 15th because it is older.
Has this been changed in 2.5?
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I recommend getting the lastest 2.4.5pX source RPM from Fedora and
rebuilding it on your CentOS machine. That way you can specify tape servers
and default configurations with options to rpmbuild.
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that is faster.
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(or CentOS, WB, Tao, etc.), version numbers are not
enough to determine problems.
That being said, rebuilding the 1.15.1 srpm from Fedora works fine as well.
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have FW1 rules allowing for the backup
UDP and TCP ports.
Check the setting of your dtimeout value in amanda.conf.
You might also want to check out
http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2551493 if you have a firewall
configured on your CentOS box.
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Check the setting of your dtimeout value in amanda.conf.
You might also want to check out
http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2551493 if you have a firewall
configured
?).
Maildir moves the files from the new/ directory to the cur/ directory when
they've been accessed. Usually this means that the user (or the user's mail
program) was running between the estimates being done and the backup being
performed.
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and apparently fixed it by installing xinetd.
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is running:
/path/ssh -l CLIENT_LOGIN client.zmanda.com $libexecdir/amandad
to start the backup process.
That's a problem (at least on RedHat/Fedora) for 64-bit users, since
$libexecdir is /usr/lib64 as opposed to /usr/lib on 32-bit systems.
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from disklist
aimserver /dev/hda2linux-tar # /usr
The image was backed up using tar, and you're trying to restore with
ufsdump. That does not compute.
Try:
amrestore -p (drive) aimserver /dev/hda2 | tar xvf -
or similar.
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messages in my logs, so maybe they've improved the policy
for FC5.
I haven't tried amanda on a RHEL4 box with SELinux on yet or not. I'll try
to get to that when I have a spare tuit, but will file a bug report if
necessary.
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tried putting the perms to 777 ..still same error
Any feedback on this would be appreciated :)
Do you by chance have SELinux enabled on this machine and not on the others?
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there needs to be some work done on the selinux definitions.
/me pokes Jay
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not sure sure it handles amrecover connections though...
I just ran amrecover from a client outside my firewall with
ip_conntrack_amanda handling everything just fine.
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with ~amanda for your configuration.
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Which ports does amrecover use to contact the tape server ?
10082 tcp and 10083
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now amanda tells me which tape it expects when it completes a
successful backup; I want to query it so it tells me on demand
amcheck will tell you, or alternatively amadmin CONFIGNAME tape
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local changes are in those RPMs now. I'll just
rebuild from there when I need a new version.
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as amanda, you don't collide. I believe
that's in a bugzilla on redhat's site, you might voice your opinion there if
that is something you'd be interested in.
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hard coded into it.
See http://www.math.ohiou.edu/~hyclak/casit/amanda - specifically the
Recompiling Amanda via RPM.
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probably others, as well, but it's late :-)
HTH,
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cases mentioned
index yes is set, amrecover is call with -C , and I use Gnu tar
tar-1.14-4 on my fedora core 3 backup systeme ( kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3
amanda-server-2.4.4p3-4)
tar 1.14 is not a good version of tar to use. See
http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2554919
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on a directory, not a mount point like it was
designed. If you only want to do a subdirectory, you should use tar, not dump.
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