that it now supports larger units of measurement.
;-) Yes, this helps sometimes, but it also means GOING BETA ...
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on tapes (and maybe
avoiding and optimizing smaller DLEs before big ones).
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mysterious break down to FAQ-kind-of-things in the
end.
Ever noticed that?
As the de-facto-maintainer of the AMANDA-docs I wonder how we could
avoid more of this by improving the docs.
(I don't want to say that you shouldn't have asked things, Fran ;-) )
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available in the
2.4.4p4-release (I noticed that you tried this with 2.4.5b1, this note
is for the thousands of users digging through the archives looking for
precious answers ;-) ).
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the mentioned script and let me know your thoughts.
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to me via CC: ...
email isn't that trivial at all.
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integration of the whole documentation.
All the official AMANDA-Documentation is now available in a
one-file-format (pdf or ps, online-html version also available).
Have a look at http://www.amanda.org/docs/AMANDA-docs.html .
Regards,
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(as I am pretty
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these, with the usual I'm not responsible if you cat has a litter of
GH Dalmations warnings?
You mean the append meta-data-scripts?
Haven't found the time yet to improve them, sorry.
Another curious cat, maybe ...
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, this does not matter to
AMANDA.
So if you want to mark up to 3 vtapes as no-reuse at a time and have
a tapecycle of 10, go and create at least 13 vtapes. Just make sure
that you have at least tapecycle vtapes that are marked reusable all
the time.
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The question is, why didn't this increase the dumptimes of the
linux-boxes (this was the reason for me not suggesting
duplex-debugging ...) ?
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interpreted as eth0 for an
KD interface.
You are right, thank you. Just had a look at the code ...
KD Did interface get introduced after the spindle number? The CVS
KD interface isn't working now.
Yes, the spindle-parameter was introduced first. (CVS fine here)
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would also think this.
Jonathan, has anything changed in the smb.conf of that machine?
Maybe the update-procedure has modified this file.
Also the contents of /var/log/samba might tell you more.
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Hi, Kevin,
on Freitag, 29. Oktober 2004 at 20:53 you wrote to amanda-users:
KD There was a bug in the amanda.conf, which I will correct, but the
KD amanda disklist parsing code could be stricter.
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of the PDF-version
http://www.amanda.org/docs/AMANDA-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
should now work OK (Acrobat Reader 6.0.2 gives no more errors).
More updates and additions to come.
Regards, Stefan G. Weichinger, AMANDA Core Team.
happily) and PLEASE get rid of using localhost.
;-)
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/scrozier. /home/root failed.
DT Most importantly, is the any way to get the data?
Yes.
Rewind the tape, then re-run amrecover. Should help.
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Hello,
on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 01:32) Frank Smith wrote:
FS --On Tuesday, October 26, 2004 15:09:21 -0700 Joe Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I meant was: why does your statement differ so extremely from the
documentation? Or am I misreading it?
FS The documentation you
can find the WISHLIST in the docs-subdir of the current
AMANDA-tarball or you can read it online at
http://www.amanda.org/docs/wishlist.html
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AMANDA-Core-Team.
in the AMANDA-CVS. Check out the current xml-docs-tree :
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There have been some updates through the last week ...
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into one new chapter of the new AMANDA-docs.
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amtape conf label label-of-requested-tape
In terminal1 you continue ...
This does the trick for me ...
Is this what you needed?
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offline ...
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/suggestions/updates/patches ...
Currently I am just into formatting-work, but the content needs an
update badly in some chapters. Just share your experiences, this is
the time ...
Check out the current xml-docs-tree :
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Hi, Gene,
on Dienstag, 28. September 2004 at 23:31 you wrote to amanda-users:
GH Glad you got it going Jason. Now, could you stick around and tutor
GH the next BSD'er that needs help?
Have a look at
http://www.amanda.org/docs/systemnotes.html#id2438204
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Hi, Jason,
on Dienstag, 28. September 2004 at 23:44 you wrote to amanda-users:
JM Totally Cool, first time I have ever been put in for knowledge on official
JM docs.
I do what I can do.
If you dig up more ...
;-)
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ago, it appeared that just the presence of the keyword was all
GH it took to set that variable, but the docs then said it was yes or
GH no. So its presently set for
GH autoflush yes
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, it should be mentioned in the man page.
JLM The latest amanda snapshot fix this.
Tested this, updated amtapetype-manpage and the tapetype-chapter in
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out for quite a few people so far.
If you NEED this, let's look at the code.
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) as this
GH drive is running in the low 40's celcius according to smartctl.
Never mind low 40s ...
Having only Master-devices helps sometimes, as the Slave always brakes
down things. Although the 40k you mentioned are way too slow even for
a master-slave-config.
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Hello, AMANDA-users and -hackers,
just to let you know:
I just added the HTML-version of the manpages to www.amanda.org.
Suggestions and patches welcome.
Thanks for all the flowers.
Regards,
Stefan
libraries:
GH libamserver-2.4.5b1-20040831.so: cannot open shared object file:
GH Nosuch file or directory
GH
GH The library does indeed exist:
Run ldconfig.
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that to my wraper scripts?
chg-disk takes care of this. Nothing to do for you.
GH Thanks Stefan. You really did save a lot of time in re-inventing
GH this.
I am not sure, do you think I wrote chg-disk? I did not, it was JC
Simonetti ...
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hit an error in my HOWTO.
The loop to create the vtapes runs from 1 to 12, the loop to label
starts with 01, 02, ...
This should be the cause. I will correct this in a minute (gets in the
online-docs).
Sorry for the problem, thanks for digging it up.
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Hi, Gene,
on Mittwoch, 08. September 2004 at 19:27 you wrote to amanda-users:
The loop to create the vtapes runs from 1 to 12, the loop to label
starts with 01, 02, ...
GH I made them by hand, and chown-ed everything after.
I fixed the HOWTO anyway.
GH Let me save the fixed amanda.conf and
is the current development-tree of the
future official AMANDA-documentation. The official release of the
documentation is still the docs-directory in the current stable
release of amanda-2.4.4-p3 !!!
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use of these new
capabilities of smbclient.
patches welcome ;-)
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Hi, Gavin Henry,
on Freitag, 03. September 2004 at 10:25 you wrote to amanda-users:
GH Stefan G. Weichinger said:
Hello, amanda-users,
I just put up a current version of my AMANDA-docs-branch.
The pdf-version now prints fine here, please report any problems to me
(off-list).
http
Hello, amanda-users,
I just put up a current version of my AMANDA-docs-branch.
The pdf-version now prints fine here, please report any problems to me
(off-list).
http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html.
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Hi, Paul,
on Dienstag, 24. August 2004 at 15:34 you wrote to amanda-users:
papc In a message dated: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:15:31 +0200
papc Stefan G. Weichinger said:
Just get the file at:
http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html
papc Hmmm, ghostscript seems to have trouble converting
,
Stefan
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Hi, Kirk,
on Mittwoch, 18. August 2004 at 00:07 you wrote to amanda-users:
KS How would I go about configuring Amanda to not use a tape drive?
Just look into the docs:
docs/HOWTO-FILE-DRIVER in the current tarball.
I think you should not configure the Samba-share as holdingdisk, but
as the
-archive-tapes or similar things.
Better solution:
Setup a config for archiving, with dumpcycle 0, record no, and put
your files onto the tapes of this config.
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. Weichinger wrote:
Hi, Luc,
on Donnerstag, 05. August 2004 at 15:59 you wrote to amanda-users:
LL Hello Stefan,
LL Here's a few corrections (in blue):
The email was the only blue thing in my email-reader.
I will cutnpaste your latest text.
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the best to transform
your input into contributions to AMANDA.
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Hi, Frank,
on Dienstag, 20. Juli 2004 at 07:41 you wrote to amanda-users:
420GB is not the total amount per night. Something is bogging this down
though and I don't know what. I am not using holding disks because the
majority of data is being backed up from one set of disks to another on
the
Hi, Kris,
on Dienstag, 20. Juli 2004 at 23:14 you wrote to amanda-users:
KV The box is running redhat 9 with 2.4.20 kernel and ext3 filesystem.
KV Below is the most recent sendsize.debug
KV sendsize[27747]: time 4.784: Total bytes written: 429923983360 (400GB, 37MB/s)
ok ...
KV
Hi, Joshua Baker-LePain,
on Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2004 at 02:28 you wrote to amanda-users:
JBL On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 12:00am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote
KV sendsize[27747]: time 4.784: Total bytes written: 429923983360 (400GB,
37MB/s)
ok ...
KV sendsize[27747]: time 18815.342: Total
Hi, Max,
on Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2004 at 13:06 you wrote to amanda-users:
MW Hi,
MW I'm getting some errors in my amstatus output - can anyone enlighten me?
# su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amstatus DailySet1
Using /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/amdump from Wed Jun 30 16:46:16 CST 2004
localhost:/etc
:
http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html
There you can also find the top-ten ...
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the '$' metacharacter, what I actually had to run was:
KZ amdump DailySet1 admin '//db/f\$'
Errm, yes, I could have told you that ... escaping meta-characters it
is ...
KZ Thanks, again, for your help and suggestions.
You're welcome ...
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...)
KZ 2. Is there anything I can do right now, before the nightly
KZ normal run, to get a level 0 backup of just this share?
You can do this (after editing your exclusion):
amadmin DailySet1 force admin //db/f$
amdump DailySet1 admin //db/f$
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Hi, Kevin,
on Montag, 21. Juni 2004 at 19:19 you wrote to amanda-users:
KZ Stefan, hi, thanks for your suggestions.
KZ Here's the output before any changes are made:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ amadmin DailySet1 disklist admin //db/
KZ snip of info for admin //db/c$ and admin //db/e$
KZ line 100:
./linux-2.6.5/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_amanda.c
.../Kernel_Sourcen/2.6 #
Does using a firewall-module make sense if your AMANDA-server is equal
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the .config, the side-effect
is that this speeds up compiling.
And if you try that, also make sure to use a version of AMANDA that
has been compiled with a working kernel running.
Just to be safe.
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on
port-handling.
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in my opinion.
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problem. Looking forward to the solution ...
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it seems that your non-working config just uses different ports
somehow which are blocked ...?
Did you compile amanda under the new kernel? Which options did you
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blank tape on my
SK raid.
SK Hope this explanation is better?
You have to amlabel your tapes, even your vtapes.
Follow HOWTO-FILE-DRIVER in the docs.
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OS Next day everything is fine, or other filesystems on other hosts are
OS failing .. !?
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at bonnie and bonnie++ maybe, they will test overall disk
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Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger,
on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 09:12 you wrote to amanda-users:
SGW Hi, Glenn,
SGW on Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2004 at 06:51 you wrote to amanda-users:
GE I looked at another system: an old Dell server downstairs with a Maxtor
GE PCI IDE card and a 2 or 3 year old Maxtor
=-with-tcpportrange+5+50040q=b
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-usersw=2r=1s=-with-tcpportrange+5+50040q=b
Nice circular reference, as Paul pointed out to me.
More general:
Search for the given options at
urlmarc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=amanda-usersr=1w=2/url
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for the label.
PJL Schedule the job to run every Sunday at 8 P.M.
PJL Repeat for Monday through Friday incrementals.
...
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AMANDA one tape.
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seconds, 1
SZ problem found
...
SZ Inside this
SZ file, i put :
SZ b4.uhp-nancy.fr amanda
SZ b4.uhp-nancy.fr root
not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...
So you have to allow this via putting in
b4 amanda
b4 root
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of your
amanda-tarball.
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is the given TAPELABEL?
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Hi, Jon,
on Samstag, 29. Mai 2004 at 20:07 you wrote to amanda-users:
JL Until now I've never seen a 240GB file system :))
How do you feel about that ? ;-)
JL Part of my concern is the age of the OS and the components.
JL Don't suggest an OS upgrade, they use it for a very costly
JL
Hi, Marcelo,
on Freitag, 28. Mai 2004 at 16:42 you wrote to amanda-users:
MLC amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
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Hi, Chris Lee,
on Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2004 at 12:46 you wrote to amanda-users:
CL Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Hello, amanda-users,
CL -SNIP
MS Exchange seems to only be able to dump ONE BIG FAT dumpfile, from
which you can only recover ALL the server.
CL SNIP-
CL
this would open some doors ;-)
I will research on this on the web, but maybe someone in here already
knows what to do and how ...
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más preguntas!!
I don't understand, but welcome the spanish community in here ;-)
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Hi,
on Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2004 at 16:38 I wrote to amanda-users:
SGW You have to have this in your file:
SGW irixoa06.des.udc.es root
Sorry, incomplete:
irixoa06.des.udc.es root
irixoa06.des.udc.es amanda
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Hi, Toni,
on Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2004 at 16:54 you wrote to amanda-users:
TM On Wed, 26.05.2004 at 16:34:37 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Subject: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers?
TM to answer this question first: Dispose of them and upgrade to a decent
TM Unix
with Amanda, which replaced
CC Seagate Backup Exec.
Hey, it's on-topic again !
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in
the docs-subdir, or online, for example at
http://www.oops.co.at/HOWTO-FILE-DRIVER.htm
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Hi, Eric,
on Freitag, 21. Mai 2004 at 19:09 you wrote to amanda-users:
ES On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:15:44PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Just to mention it: In the next release of AMANDA there will be a
WARNING in the amcheck-output if you use something like localhost in
your DLEs.
ES
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] except big1 and big2
high-tar
include ./[a-g]*
exclude ./big1 ./big2
} 1
and such.
This should do the trick for you.
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this?
Raising etimeout only influences the estimate-phase, not the actual
dumping.
I assume that amcheck runs through fine?
Read the sendbackup.XYZ.debug file for more infos on what AMANDA tries
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/.amanda.exclude.
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Stefan
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in the dumptype, if you want to dump subdirs.
This does NOT work with
program DUMP
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,
configure a dumptype for your nearly-static stuff that has a long
dumpcycle and start going.
If you leave the tapes out, AMANDA will fill your holdingdisk, modify
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%,
AMANDA will only do incremental backups in that case, but if you have
sufficient space, you can set reserve to something else, and then
get full backups to the holdingdisk, even without a tape inserted.
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PB should be even more straightforward: it's then that you're working
PB under high pressure (disk crash? important file erased? agry
PB users waiting etc.)
Brrr ...
;-)
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Hi, Paul,
on Dienstag, 18. Mai 2004 at 23:43 you wrote to amanda-users:
PB Those vtapes are probably quiet large.
Yeah, I can't hear mine at all.
;-) Stefan
the device is failing to write a filemark.
Maybe try another tape, but as you said that this happens since 2 days
(and 2 tapes, I assume, or is it still the same?) the scsi-system
seems to be responsible.
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.
This sometimes does the trick ...
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to me off-list.
I also will talk about the way things get done here in the list, how
calm and helpful people are in here, so if any of you has some kind of
thanks for saving my data/company/life !-message, let me know ...
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