Krahn, Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While a DLE is dumping to tape does the amstatus page dynamically
updates the amount dumped to tape during the dump. Or does it wait until
its done?
Its been sitting pretty at 15071m for some time.
I'm fairly certain it updates dynamically,
Hi all,
Is there a way to use multiple lbl-templ lines simultaneously?
I'd really like to print out the DLT labels to send offsite with my
tapes inside the cases, but it would be really nice to also use the
8x11 template to print out page to keep onsite for quick reference.
We have some people
Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can only define one lbl-templ, but you can easily print another one:
amreport config -o TAPETYPE:XYZ:lbl-templ=/path/to/label-8.5x11.ps
-l /path/to/logdir/log.x
Replace XYZ by the tapetype you use.
Ahhh, right. Thank you for
Hi all,
I'm seeing an error I've never seen before, and google didn't turn up
anything useful. amstatus is reporting this for several file systems
on different machines:
ra:/var 0 driver: (aborted:[request failed: error sending REQ: send
REQ to resource-assembly.permabit.com failed:
Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If sendsize is not running, it's because it crashed.
Hmm, it's definitely not running, but I don't see any trace of a crash.
Is there more verbose logging that can be turned on somewhere?
I don't understand why amandad finish before sendsize, can
Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why you never posted the error in the amandad debug file?
I thought I had. I've got etimeout set to 72000, so seeing it timeout
near 21000 set off alarms for me.
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Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul Lussier wrote:
You should add a spindle for dle on the same physical disk, it can be
a lot faster.
I don't understand this statement. Could you clarify please?
man amanda
search for spindle
All DLE of a physical disk should
Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul Lussier wrote:
Can you point me to where in the docs this is mentioned?
It's not documented, it's not a server limit, it's a client limit we
added do be sure amandad will eventually terminate.
Ahh, that's why I never knew about
Svend Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
chg-zd-mtx is missing a line for the configured prefix. It has a line
for @exec_prefix@, but if that wasn't specified during configure, it
defaults to @[EMAIL PROTECTED] This results in the following block after
`make`.
Heh, I just ran across that
Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's weird.
Do you have an amdump log file or just amdump.1?
The only way to get this is if you killed amanda process on the
server, maybe a server crash.
Do you still have amanda process running on the server?
I do now. I started amanda off
Hi all,
Has anyone come up with a decent way to exclude browser cache directories?
I see lots of errors in my logs like:
./foo/.mozilla/firefox/1914opvg.Remote/Cache/0D5C1D68d01: Warning: Cannot
stat: No such file or directory
The problem seems to be the complete lack of standard locations
Hi all,
I'm using amanda 2.5.1p1-2.1 from Debian/stable.
I have several file systems which take hours to estimate and dump.
My amanda.conf contains:
etimeout 10800 # 3 hours
dtimeout 7200 # 2 hours
ctimeout 30
My sendsize log reports the following:
$ egrep estimate (time|size)
Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's weird.
Do you have an amdump log file or just amdump.1?
The only way to get this is if you killed amanda process on the
server, maybe a server crash.
Do you still have amanda process running on the server?
No, the reason it's a .1 is
Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's the maxdumps setting?
DOH! I don't actually have that one set, so it's defaulting to 1 :(
--
Thanks,
Paul
Chris Hoogendyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could you post your config file?
Sure, no problem. See below.
There are a couple of things that could cause this. One example would
be if you don't have a holding disk.
Nope, I've got a 2TB holding disk.
If you are going direct to tape, then it
Hi all,
I recently changed my disklist such that all DLEs which pertain to my
NFS appliance have a -1 spindle entry. My understanding of the man
page was that a -1 spindle setting for a set of DLEs on the same host
means they would be backed up in parallel.
I've checked with amadmin that the
Hi folks,
I have an ONStor NAS (Bobcat) with about 5.5TB of usable space
(currently we're at 4.6 used). I'm looking for suggestions on how to
back this up efficiently with AMANDA.
We've been using AMANDA for forever, but the time to back up this data
is growing and we're trying to figure out
Hi all,
I'm using Debian/stable, amanda 2.5.1p1 (note 2.5.1, NOT 2.5.2).
For some reason amandad keeps dying on me. I can't find any reason in
any of my logs for this. Currently, I still have the following
processes running:
amanda2:/var/log/amanda/amandad# ps -ef |grep backup
backup
Ralf Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi everybody,
I have a little problem with the 'etimeout' setting in my
amanda.conf. I have set 'etimeout' to 900. To my understanding this
makes Amanda wait for 15 minutes per DLE and client, then a timeout
should occur.
For some reason this value
Paul Bijnens schrieb:
How did you came to the conclusion that the server still waits for the
estimates? amstatus? which output? of just the fact that amanda is
still running? or...
Ralf Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
a 'amgetconf NewSetup etimeout' returns '900'. So, it seems to be
Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone else see this problem? Paul, I'm not a Debian user -- is
there a quick way to see what patches the distro has applied?
Yeah, I can install the source package which will separate out the
upstreamm source from the patches.
I'll take a
Marc Muehlfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hi,
Paul Lussier schrieb:
Is it possible to have amanda use both of these drives simultaneously
so my writing-to-tape phase goes faster?
Currently you can't write simultaneously with a single configuration at
the same time.
That's a shame.
Chg
Hi all,
I've just installed a second drive into my Overland ARCVault tape
library. I'm using chg-zd-mtx, and can manipulate tapes in to/out of
both drives.
Is it possible to have amanda use both of these drives simultaneously
so my writing-to-tape phase goes faster?
Alternatively, can I write
Hi folks,
I just ran amverify on my most recent amanda run from this past
weekend and saw this in the amverify report:
...
** Error detected ()
amrestore: missing file header block
amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset
amrestore: error reading file
Harald Schioeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
definately off-topic, but i have written a script to generate sheets
with LTO barcode labels.
Hi, thanks a lot for sharing this with us, I for one am quite grateful.
One question I have though, is what barcode symbology is supported?
I have 2
Hi all,
I have an Overland ARCVault 24 LOT3 tape changer library which can
reserve either 1 or 12 of it's slots as Import/Export slots.
When I reserve 12 slots, the number of slots available, as seen by mtx
is 12, which makes sense. When I reserve only a single slot for I/E,
the changer uses
Hi all,I have a 1 TB RAID5 array which I inherited. The previous admin configured it to be a single file system as well. The disklist I have set up currently splits this file system up into multiple DLEs for backup purposes and dumps them using gtar.
In the past, on systems with multiple
On 5/23/06, Andreas Hallmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since in the raid blocks are spreed sequentially (w.r.t the file) amongmost (raid5) of the avail platters, it will behave more like a singlespindle with more layers. So, my question is this: Am I doing the right thing by dumping these
DLEs
On 5/2/06, Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The client runs a gtar --sparse --totals -f /dev/null --otheroptsNo piping through gzip, no transfer over the network.Gnutar itself has special code for handling output to /dev/null, anddoesn't even read the files in that case (unless the stat()
Hi all,Is it possible to tune the estimate phase of a backup run? We appearto be getting NFS timeouts experienced by our NFS clients during theestimate phase when the NFS server is getting backed up.
The going theory is this that during the estimation phase, amanda isdoing a gtar|gzip -c
In a message dated: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:13:04 EST
Joshua Baker-LePain said:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 at 2:07pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
I'd prefer to use tar to perform backups, primarilly for portability
of restores. However, amanda is running as user 'backup' which
doesn't seem to have read
Amanda for backups at least while I was there. I have no knowledge
of what any of them use now, however.
Hope that helps :)
Seeya,
Paul
--
Paul Lussier(877) 625-4689/(978) 606-0256
Senior Systems and Network Engineer 100 Foot of John Street
In a message dated: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 11:08:35 +1100
Ben Wong said:
Hi,
I have several partitions using XFS and would like to ask how I can use
xfsdump with Amanda?
The backup server runs on Debian Linux and the debian packages amanda-server
amanda-common and amanda-client are installed.
You
Hi all,
I'm having trouble getting one of my clients backed up. There are 13
file systems on the client which need to be dumped, totalling about
12GB of data.
I'm getting error messages like the following for several of the file
systems:
hacluster1 /dev/sda12 lev 0 FAILED [dumps
Amanda for backups at least while I was there. I have no knowledge
of what any of them use now, however.
Hope that helps :)
Seeya,
Paul
--
Paul Lussier(877) 625-4689/(978) 606-0256
Senior Systems and Network Engineer 100 Foot of John Street
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:10:28 EST
Steve said:
Any pointers would be appreciated.
man amtape.
--
Seeya,
Paul
God Bless America!
If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
...we don't need to be perfect to be
In a message dated: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:41:04 EST
Brandon D. Valentine said:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Hmmm, you did 'rpm -e' the RPM version, right? Pre-build amanda=bad.
Word. Especially the moronic way in which RedHat has decided to build it.
I'm glad I'm not the
Hi all,
I've been asked to locate a set up tapes based on dates. Any idea
how I do this? Basically I just need to search the date stamps for
each tape and tell my boss which tapes contain backups for the
specified period of time.
I looked at the amadmin command, but the sub-commands all
In a message dated: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:05:58 -0200
=?iso-8859-1?q?T=FAlio=20Machado=20de=20Faria?= said:
Ok,
I modifed my amanda.com with:
runtapes 2
but, the amcheck is not check my second tape unit.
Where is problem?
Are you saying you want to backup to 2 tapes or to 2 different tape
In a message dated: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:24:01 -0200
=?iso-8859-1?q?T=FAlio=20Machado=20de=20Faria?= said:
2 different tape drivers.
I don't think you can do this easily. You'll need to set up
different amanda configurations each pointing to a different drive
and split the total number of
In a message dated: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 09:43:10 EST
Charles Farinella said:
As suggested we have fixed our .amandahosts file to reflect the fully
qualified hostname. Now I get the following:
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
ERROR: localhost.localdomain: [could
In a message dated: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 11:08:35 +1100
Ben Wong said:
Hi,
I have several partitions using XFS and would like to ask how I can use
xfsdump with Amanda?
The backup server runs on Debian Linux and the debian packages amanda-server
amanda-common and amanda-client are installed.
You
Hi all,
I'm having trouble getting one of my clients backed up. There are 13
file systems on the client which need to be dumped, totalling about
12GB of data.
I'm getting error messages like the following for several of the file
systems:
hacluster1 /dev/sda12 lev 0 FAILED [dumps
Hi all,
I have a system which I'm trying to back-up, but it's being stubborn.
It appears that the amount of data being sent for the estimate is too
big. I have 10 file systems on this system which need to be backed
up. I only back this system up once a week, and therefore only
require
In a message dated: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:16:17 EST
Jean-Louis Martineau said:
It's doing level 1 estimate in case it will go in degraded mode.
Look for 'strategy' in `man amanda`
A, okay. It looks like I need to use both:
strategy noinc
no-incr yes
in addition to:
I'm having problems backing up one particular host on my network.
amandad.debug reports:
amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
amandad: waiting for ack: timeout,
In a message dated: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:17:17 EST
Paul Lussier said:
I'm having problems backing up one particular host on my network.
amandad.debug reports:
amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
amandad: waiting for ack
In a message dated: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:38:58 EST
Yura Pismerov said:
http://amanda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fom?_highlightWords=firewallfile=16
Thanks, except it's not a firewall problem, nor was amcheck reporting
errors.
As I pointed out in a subsequent post/followup, the problem appears
In a message dated: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:29:54 GMT
Thomas Robinson said:
Hi,
Has anyone seen or hear of this problem.
Ayup, I get it all the time. I have no idea what the problem is
though. It seems to come and go sporatically.
I've run e2fsck -c /dev/sda5 to no avail. I also upgraded the
In a message dated: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:58:35 +0100
Bernhard R. Erdmann said:
Doublecheck /etc/fstab for this entry. Dump gets the corresponding block
device to the filesystem in the disklist by looking at /etc/fstab.
Hmmm, does that mean that if there's not an fstab entry that there
will be
In a message dated: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:13:09 EDT
Mitch Collinsworth said:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Rivera, Edwin wrote:
we may have to reboot the internet for this.
Which of course means we first have to send a notice to all users...
We might want to think about doing this during off-hours as
In a message dated: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:33:30 CDT
Marc W. Mengel said:
I'm asking around on amanda-hackers. It looks like the cgi-bin
directory for the amanda pages on sourceforge has been deleted...
Do! Were they using Amanda to back that system up ? :)
--
Seeya,
Paul
Hi all,
I recently added a new client to my backup rotation. The first night
all went well. Last night however the client did not get backed up.
According to the report, the client was off-line.
This morning, I got the amcheck error report stating:
ERROR: ebeneezer NAK: amandad
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:12:02 +0200
Nicolae Mihalache said:
Hello!
I have a tape changer with 7 tapes and I want to run a dumpcycle of one
month. So only 6 tapes can be used for a full backup resulting an
average of 1 tape/5 days. In the meantime the backup should be holded on
Hi all,
If you set the 'runtapes' option to something 1, is there anything
else you need to do?
Do you need to specify the beginning/ending slots or anything,
or does amanda assume that you X number of tapes in sequential
order in your changer and will automagically issue a 'slot next'
In a message dated: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:39:54 CDT
Marc W. Mengel said:
I have a script that will rsh over to some list of nodes and make a
disklist, and one to check your disklist and tell you if new filesystems
have appeared, and suggest a new disklist. I can post them if
anyone's
Hi all,
I just checked the FAQ-O-Matic and docs/, but couldn't find this answer.
(btw, looks like that fom needs some clean-up, there are a bunch of
empty New Item items in there).
I have a tape, and want to find out what's on it directly from
the tape. I know I've seen this answered some
Hi all,
As I was browsing the Amanda FOM, I noticed that not only are there a
bunch of empty New Item listings, but also that there is a lot of
information missing from the FAQ that I would expect to be in there.
If whomever is in charge of the FOM is willing, I'll gladly volunteer
to clean
In a message dated: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:21:13 +0200
Sandor Feher said:
HI,
I use 2.4.2p2 and I have a weird problem with my tapes.
Sometimes they work sometimes not. Rather not in these time.
I back up my data to a hp surestore t4000 and I got the following
message:
bash-2.04$
In a message dated: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:06:33 EDT
Mitch Collinsworth said:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
I'm not sure what causes it, but I'd guess there's some time-out
somewhere that needs to be increased. It almost seems that amanda
isn't waiting long enough for the tape
Hi all,
What is the purpose of this switch? I thought it was so one could
install 2 parallel versions of amanda, one of which would have
different names than those of the previously installed instance.
However, things didn't seem to get installed with what I chose as a
suffix.
Am I
In a message dated: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:06:25 CDT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Can anybody tell me if amanda supports backup images larger than the tape
drive.
No, it does not. The feature is being actively worked on, but no working
code exists as of yet.
Of course, the fact that it has been
Hi all,
Is there a way to tell amanda to back up everything on a system?
This would solve my problem if amanda were able to essentially do a df
of the system, find out what file systems were mounted locally, and
then back them all up.
That way, which ever node in my cluster is the master is
Hi all,
I was just reading through the docs for 2.4.2p2 and noticed a few
discrepancies and/or places for improvement:
amanda-2.4.2p2/README - still refers in several places to 2.4.1
- does not mention what's new in 2.4.2 at all
In a message dated: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:41:24 +0200
Kris Boulez said:
Isn't there an option since amanda 2.2 to use multiple tapes for one
dump (see docs/MULTITAPE ). Is this just a 'would be nice to have' or
are people using this in production.
Good question, I don't know. It's been some
In a message dated: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:40:13 +0200
Vicente Vives said:
My problem is very 'simple'...
I have to dump 13 GB using 2 GB tapes.
Can i do this?
How ?
You can, you just need to be creative in how you do it. There are
several approaches you could take:
- split the 13G
In a message dated: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 13:14:06 EDT
Peter Matulis said:
Hi,
First post. Here are my initial questions with using Amanda:
1. Is it possible to use the same tape for multiple (daily) runs? How?
I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. Do you mean
- append
In a message dated: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 18:37:48 BST
David Galveias said:
I'm running amanda for the first time.
When i run amdump it asks for a new tape. I have all my tapes already
labeled. What can i do?
What do mean by labeled? You stuck a label on the cartridge or you
ran amlabel on them?
In a message dated: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:09:12 EDT
Joshua Baker-LePain said:
One of the reasons for the move to 2.2.19 is NFSv3 support (finally).
Well, IMO, the only and best reason for moving to 2.2.19 is to get
rid of the ptrace root exploit which exists in all kernels 2.2.18,
and, AFAIK,
In a message dated: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:42:13 BST
Anthony Worrall said:
One reason would be the NFS server has a 1Gb interface and the clients and
tape server have only 100Mb.
Okay, so now you're saturating the 100Mb interface on the tape server
twice? I still don't see the advantage in
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:30:36PM +0100, Christoph Scheeder wrote:
Hi,
sorry to interupt,but debian does not use rpm packageformat.
it has it own format called dpkg, so www.rpmfind.com is a bad idea...
No, it's not necessarilly a bad idea. You can still use RPMs with Debian.
Either by
Hi Michael,
Where to shop for anything seems to be a pretty loaded question. I would
start with whomever your hardware vendors are, then shop around to see who has
what for what price. Compare things like hw support, RMA policies,
re-stocking fees etc.
Obviously, for a tape drive, you
In a message dated: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:54:20 EST
Mitch Collinsworth said:
Well don't let that stop you. Get on amanda-users and ask. Someone
will know how. I haven't done it on Linux myself yet, but plenty of
people have.
-Mitch
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, George Kelbley wrote:
Yeah, several
In a message dated: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:50:50 MST
George Kelbley said:
Actually the clouds are beginning to clear, we figured this out earlier
today,
Doh! I had started to compose this e-mail early this morning but got
distracted and forgot to send it :)
however we still can't seem to get
In a message dated: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:54:52 MST
Greg Skafte said:
I'm looking at getting a couple of DLT Changers, and seeking advice
on peoples preferneces and opions.
I'm using the HP SureStore 818 w/ DLT7000 drive. I've had it for about 8
months now, and it's rock solid. I've also used
In a message dated: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:48:08 +0100
Juan Jos Ferrer said:
Hi
Has anybody a HP SureStore DLT Autoloader 818 ?
I have problems with the tape changer (HP C6280-8000) in linux (2.2.16).
If you know an easy form to change tapes... please tell me.
Ayup, works just dandy for me.
In a message dated: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:55:13 PST
Phil Davis said:
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
dhcp /dev/ida/c0d0p6 lev 0 FAILED [disk /dev/ida/c0d0p6 offline on dhcp?]
dhcp /dev/ida/c0d0p7 lev 0 FAILED [disk /dev/ida/c0d0p7 offline on dhcp?]
dhcp /dev/ida/c0d0p5 lev 0 FAILED [disk
In a message dated: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:36:58 GMT
"Christopher P. Mills" said:
Easy.
Set the cron line to include a tape eject command after running amdump.
In my configuration, the line looks something like:
30 03 * * * /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amdump default; mt -f /dev/nst0 rewoffl
I think
In a message dated: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:44:29 CST
Bill Carlson said:
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
I think you could also do something like:
amdump default amtape default eject
Does amdump exit with a nonzero status on some errors now? I seem to
remember that it always
In a message dated: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 17:09:24 EST
"John R. Jackson" said:
EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on amanda.
Would it help if we made this message 72 point, bold and rang the
bell? :-) :-)
Probably not, but it might be a fun touch to add ;)
What's in amidxtaped.debug on
In a message dated: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:48:40 GMT
Denise Ives said:
Can Amanda be configured to automatically eject the tape from the tape
drive when a dump to tape is finished?
Well, there's not much to it, in amanda's crontab entry, just do something
like:
55 23 * * 0 amdump
Hi all,
Is there a way to tell amanda to not re-use a tape more than X number of times?
I'd like to limit my tape re-use to something like 7 times or so before I
remove it from the configuration and replace it with a new one.
Thanks,
--
Seeya,
Paul
I'm in shape, my shape
Hi all, could someone please explain what this error means?
[root@amanda amanda]# amrecover -d /dev/st0
AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2. Contacting server on amanda ...
220 amanda AMANDA index server (2.4.2) ready.
200 Access OK
Setting restore date to today
In a message dated: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:51:33 EST
"John R. Jackson" said:
Never mind, I was stupid, I forgot the config name :)
Which obviously should be better handled, i.e. an explicit message back
to amrecover. So it wasn't exactly all your falut :-).
I already have a note to myself to fix
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