FL schrieb:
Now that this problem is overcome,
What did now solve it?
chgrp'ing again?
have I run out of tape? Perhaps I
need to split directiories up (200 GB tape_
These dumps were to tape Daily-12.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found].
Some dumps may have
FL schrieb:
A host check reports no slots available, when there are slots available.
What causes this, and what is the remedy? Thanks.
Changer problem: no slots available
In my case it helped to change the group of the used changer-device:
# chgrp tape /dev/sg2
when the amanda-user is
Dipl.Ing.Trompler Wilhelm schrieb:
Dear reader,
I am using VERSION=Amanda-2.4.4p2 on a LINUX 2.6.5 with LTO-3 tapes. In
general the performance is great, but on every forced, complete backup, the
procedure takes almost 24 hours.
I have to backup about 700 GB uncompressed, and supply the
Guy Dallaire schrieb:
2007/2/7, Jean-Francois Malouin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What is 'mtx -f changer status' telling you?
I had to run the mtx command as root. The changer is working fine with
amanda. amverify is working right also, only amverifyrun is not
Glenn English schrieb:
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
This is the perfect lesson to remember that one should test restores
regularly.
Couldn't we build this *into* amanda?
Outstanding. I'd add it to amverify, though, and have the switch(es) in
the configs turn amverify on and off.
Thanks
Jon LaBadie schrieb:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:27:53PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
This is a rough idea, and has to be discussed, sure.
Top of the head things to consider:
- may not be space to restore large DLEs
Could be caught by testrestore_tmpdir_size ...
- assuming
Greets to all of you,
as some of you may have noticed on amanda-users-ml I ran into trouble
when trying to restore data on an older server (and I am still in
trouble there).
This is the perfect lesson to remember that one should test restores
regularly.
Couldn't we build this *into* amanda?
I
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
googled a bit and found notes about a bug in 2.4.4, but I am unsure if I
hit this particular one.
Could anyone *please* let me know if this problem would be avoided with
a more recent release of Amanda?
So noone knows
Gene Heskett schrieb:
I believe that more of the blame for defective backups can be laid at
the gnu.org's (miss)handling of tar than at amanda's doorstep. Amanda
has always had the possibility that something would sneak in, and it
did at least twice on my watch, but was fixed each time in
Kai Zimmer schrieb:
Hi Stefan,
/usr/libexec/chg-zd-mtx -info
I get
none no slots available
do you already have labled tapes in your tapelist available? And
assigned them to slots via amlabel? If not, chg-zd-mtx won't show any
available slots...
Oh, a very good information ...
Sure,
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
Kai Zimmer schrieb:
Hi Stefan,
/usr/libexec/chg-zd-mtx -info
I get
none no slots available
do you already have labled tapes in your tapelist available? And
assigned them to slots via amlabel? If not, chg-zd-mtx won't show any
available slots...
Oh
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
it should be
mtx -f /dev/$changerdev status
errm
mtx -f $changerdev status
to be correct.
S
Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb:
device priority use by mtx:
the -f argument
CHANGER environment variable
TAPE environment variable
/dev/changer
chg-zd-mtx set the TAPE environment variable, mtx use it unless you have
the CHANGER variable set.
maybe we should set CHANGER too.
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
googled a bit and found notes about a bug in 2.4.4, but I am unsure if I
hit this particular one.
Could anyone *please* let me know if this problem would be avoided with
a more recent release of Amanda?
Thank you, Stefan.
Greets, amanda-users,
received a call from a customer today, there are problems with restoring
files on a Amanda-2.4.4p3-machine. amrecover crashed so I went in to do:
# amrestore /dev/nst0 serverX /usr/daten/DATEN
amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20070118 label daily15
amrestore:
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
I ebayed around a bit, and decided for a Dilog Libra 8 library
Currently I am waiting for this box to be delivered, so I still had no
possibility to try it out by myself.
It has been delivered today, after some fussing-around with a defect
power-supply
Pavel Pragin schrieb:
Hello,
What happens when you run:
mtx -f /dev/sg2 status
Also run this and post output:
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Greets, Pavel ...
# mtx -f /dev/sg2 status
Storage Changer /dev/sg2:1 Drives, 8 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element
Greets, amanda-users,
happy new year ...
Recently I lost two tapedrives in a row, one DLT and one DDS-3, so I had
to quickly get another one.
I ebayed around a bit, and decided for a Dilog Libra 8 library, mainly
because of the low price and the fact that I have lots of DDS3-tapes
already.
I
James Wilson wrote:
I got the source bilt and changed the path to amandad in the
/xinetd.d/amandaclient config to point to /usr/local/libexec/amandad.
Put when I run amcheck on the server for this host it still times out.
Any ideas?
faq/doc: restart xinetd, look for /tmp/amanda, permissions,
Jeff Portwine schrieb:
I believe I was root when I compiled it, but I used --with-user=backup
--with-group=backup when I ran the ./configure script.
- Original Message - From: Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.amanda.org/docs/install.html#id2527059
So you did read
Jeff Portwine schrieb:
So it seems to me everywhere I look that it should be running with user
backup but it still tries to run as localuser 'root'.I just don't
understand it.
To me it seems as if you have compiled Amanda as user root, instead of
doing that as user backup.
Jon LaBadie schrieb:
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:37:53AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
My best greetings to all of you, the amanda-users and -hackers,
...
But I am also accepting the fact, that all this is not MINE and that I
have to let it go as well.
All the best to all of you
My best greetings to all of you, the amanda-users and -hackers,
I contact you today as I feel the need to do so for quite a while now.
--
As some of you might have noticed, my activities related to the
Amanda-project are nearly non-existant for quite a while now.
This has various reasons, and
Brian Cuttler schrieb:
grep reserve amanda.conf
reserve 10 # percent
holdingdisk hd1 {
comment main holding disk
directory /amanda/work# where the holding disk is
use 70 Gb # how much space can we use on it
# a non-positive value means:
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
How big are the DLEs in that config?
SORRY: Should have read your initial posting ...
Stefan
chuck.amadi schrieb:
I have edit/vi amanda.conf file and amend the mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which sent a Amanda email reports and notifications to me, I had in
/etc/aliases file as below;
root: root, admin, chuck
admin: root, chuck
amanda: root, admin, chuck
Thus when I amend mailto:
Ronald Vincent Vazquez schrieb:
Hello:
I was wondering if anyone can tell me a way to cheat amanda to override
the expected tape. I am still running in test mode and tonight I want
to run the backup but starting (re-use) with tape one.
Simply re-label that tape with the --force option:
Michael Weiser schrieb:
Hello Karel,
Hello list,
FYI: I'm happily running amanda-2.5.0 on Mac OS X 10.4.6. No compile
problems whatsoever and as a special treat, Apple has updated their UNIX
utilities in 10.4 to properly work with HFS+ and resource forks. So no
hfstar/xtar is needed any
Tobias Weingartner schrieb:
On Monday, May 8, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda
2.5.0p2. It fix a bug in the client code that could lead to corrupted backup
in some rare case, you must have the maxdumps set to a value bigger that 10
stan schrieb:
But when I run amecover disk_only, it defaults to the compiled in
/dev/nst0
Make sense?
Use the option -d of amrecover.
Stefan
Jon LaBadie wrote:
I looked back at the survey results from a few years
ago. At that time the respondents reported maximums
of:
5 TB total disk capacity
4 TB actual data stored
700 GB average size of amdump run
70 clients
? disklist entries (not
John Clement wrote:
Some of you might remember I'm piecing together a previous, non-working,
installation of amanda. The help I've received off here has been great,
so thanks again! The next piece in this puzzle is a FreeBSD (5.4)
machine that appears to have amanda already installed.
John,
John Clement schrieb:
OK, the story continues, thanks to all those who've contributed so
far!! Here's how things are now after all your comments. The client is
a new install of 2.5, server is 2.4.4p3
-rw--- 1 amandabackup disk 109 Apr 25 14:23 .amandahosts
/, /var, /lib,
John Clement schrieb:
Paul Bijnens wrote:
Is there a debugfile created (/tmp/amanda/amandad.*.debug)?
What is in it?
Since changing the user in xinetd to 'amandabackup' there haven't been
any debug files. I checked by putting 'amanda' back in there and
restarting xinetd and I did get
John Clement schrieb:
OK guys, 'amanad' was my typo copying the message into the email, here's
.amandahosts
Expected this, yes ...
orinoco.deanst.rroom.netamanda
orinoco amanda
and amcheck
WARNING: murray.deanst.rroom.net: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
Does
John Clement schrieb:
Paul Bijnens wrote:
On 2006-04-26 15:59, John Clement wrote:
Paul Bijnens wrote:
On 2006-04-26 12:03, John Clement wrote:
/, /var, /lib, /var/lib/amanda are all readable.
To be complete, they should also be executable.
Just made that change.
Do you mean that one of
Paul Bijnens schrieb:
I think I see the light... :-)
The /tmp/amanda directory is owned by the wrong user!
or is not writable by the amanda-user, yes ... I saw that light also ;-)
Let's see if it gets through now ...
Stefan
shigeru serizawa schrieb:
Hi,
Can I ask a very primary question?
Sure ...
Can amanda archive a windows NTFS file system?
Either via smbclient or mount.cifs ...
If amanda can mount NTFS volume then she may access files as CIFS so I
guess she can...
You can mount the FS via mount.cifs
stan schrieb:
I'm starting to upgrade my clients. The HP-UX boxes (10.20) went flawlessly.
But I'm having a few issues with [...]
Sorry to be the bad guy again:
Please don't hijack threads, this messes up the threads etc.
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_Hijacking for details.
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
stan schrieb:
I'm starting to upgrade my clients. The HP-UX boxes (10.20) went flawlessly.
But I'm having a few issues with [...]
Sorry to be the bad guy again:
Please don't hijack threads, this messes up the threads etc.
APOLOGIES I seem to have had
I am currently considering to offer a training-course on Amanda later
this year.
This training would be given in Germany and held in german language :
Deshalb möchte ich die deutschsprachigen Amanda-Users mal nach dem
vorhandenen Interesse befragen, um abschätzen zu können, ob so ein Kurs
Alessandro Gimona wrote:
Is there the possibility to change the report that amanda send by mail
after the amdump? The problem is that some times the columns ORIG-KB
and OUT-KB are too much wide and is difficult read the table.
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS
Alessandro Gimona wrote:
Try this again using smbclient, verify that you got the same problem,
maybe enable debugging in samba, and post on the samba list.
The fact that it works with an old version is probably also relevant
for those specialists.
Yes, I've tried also with smbclient and
listrcv schrieb:
listrcv wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
prometheus /share_programs /share {
tar-dfault
include ./programs
} 1
prometheus /share_rest /share {
tar-dfault
exclude append ./cpc ./cs ./data ./db-vnr ./edv ./programs
} 1
As promised, I updated the
Lengyel, Florian schrieb:
An amanda client that used ...
Please don't hijack threads ...
Thank you, Stefan.
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Graeme Humphries schrieb:
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Reiser, to be frank, scares me. I've heard too many horror stories
about changing on-disk formats and the like. Both ext3 and XFS have
very solid, stable on-disk formats.
I agreed with this
Chrisopher R Davis schrieb:
I believe you can sort this out by editing an alias file somewhere - I'm
actually nowhere near a linux box to verify where it is - /etc/alias?
But there's a file out there that redirects mail to those system
accounts to root - you can remove the amanda entry from
Thomas Widhalm schrieb:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# amadmin IS balance
due-date #fsorig KB out KB balance
--
3/16 Thu0 0 0 ---
3/17 Fri0 0 0 ---
3/18 Sat0 0
Dave Ewart schrieb:
On Wednesday, 08.03.2006 at 10:27 -0500, Ian Turner wrote:
Please
try upgrading your tar and check if you still see this behaviour.
OK, you've hit the nail on the head:
Using the existing system tar:
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.14
And using a
Paul Bijnens schrieb:
Why not implement some check-routine into Amanda that checks for the
installed tar-release and gives a WARNING if a well-known problematic
release is found?
That would give a lot of false positives.
RedHat for example backports important bugfixes to earlier versions
Thomas Widhalm schrieb:
I removed all tapes from the config. I just save to the holding disk. I
can live with the daily tape error, but I want amanda to do less full
backups.
||
|| holdingdisk hd1 {
|| comment main holding disk for IS
|| directory /data/amanda/IS
|| use -1
Paul Bijnens schrieb:
On 2006-03-15 17:27, Jon LaBadie wrote:
I don't think this is the problem, but I do not see a record yes
setting. I wonder if that is needed to ensure amanda knows when
the last full dump was done? It is needed for dump, but I'm
uncertain about gnutar.
I think you
Thomas Widhalm schrieb:
I ran a amadmin config disklist right now and here is one example for the
disks I encountered many level 0 backups.
host springfield.edvz.sbg.ac.at:
interface default
disk /:
program GNUTAR
priority 1
dumpcycle 6
Jochen Kaechelin schrieb:
how must I use amlabel when I will store my backups on
a harddisk?
amlabel aaa.hostname.de prefix-001
and amdump aaa.hostname.de
works fine and everything is backup-ed.
Bue I cant make
amlabel aaa.hostname.de prefix-002
...prefix-001...is in use...
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Thomas Widhalm schrieb:
Have you tried resetting some parameters like bumpsize, bumpmult,
and bumpdays? They may have an affect on your situation.
This could really be it. bumpsize was set 100Mb. Maybe, because this
setup was used to backup on
Mitch Collinsworth schrieb:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
IIRC amcheck does NOT run some of its checks as root.
Thus if the amanda user running amcheck can not visit
/mnt/data06/Deforest3 and needed directories below that,
it could cause errors like that above when amcheck looked
Mitch Collinsworth schrieb:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Sounds BAD.
I'd like to know more on that ... is this a major issue for Amanda in
general ... do we have to do major patches ... what can we do ...
It's BAD for those of us who are trying to offer backups
Paddy Sreenivasan schrieb:
Coverity has evaluated software quality of different open source
projects. They had
released their report on March 6th. Their tool, Coverity Prevent (does static
analysis of source code) was used to determine software quality.
Amanda was the worst performer in
Moritz Both schrieb:
As it turned out, all backups of the windows servers were
incomplete. smbclient thought 70-80 files per directory must be enough.
At backup time, it just went ahead to the next directory, and whenever a
directory contained more than this many files, they were simply
Wayne Johnson schrieb:
I've added a W2k server to my backup. I'm getting a strange dump
warning. I believe this is just a false alarm, but it would be nice to
get this out of the way. Anyone have suggestions on how to ignore
this? One web page says that there are regular expressions that
Sebastian Koesters schrieb:
- what is the size of your holding disk (for my normal backups i do not
use any holding disk)
see below
- is the directory you are backing up really called /pst and is on
host pst and is there 80GB of data under that one directory (yes it is
called pst...both.
Jon LaBadie schrieb:
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 05:17:18PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Gene Heskett schrieb:
ftape-tools are for some jurassic tape drives that attached to a floppy
controller. Typically much less than 1GB devices.
I dare say zero usage of that rube goldburg
Anthony Worrall schrieb:
Hi
Is there an easy way to see what the usage of the tapes are?
Please don't hijack threads.
Thanks, Stefan.
stan schrieb:
I'm preparing to upgrade an existing Amanda installation.
It's been a while since I looked at what Amanda can do, since the existing
system just works. I'm considering using virtual tapes, in some fashion
on the new system.
These leads me to a question (perhaps the first of
Josef Wolf wrote:
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:04:26PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
The contents of the file must always be specified as relative to the
head directory of the DLE.
Since you guys are currently working hard to get 2.5.0 out, it might be
a good time to put this sentence into the
Gordon J. Mills III wrote:
Stefan, the only problem I have had with the debian packages was
with the
amverifyrun script. It probably depends on the version that you use. There
were some spaces at the end of the fgrep fields which caused it to not find
the tapes used. Once I deleted the extra
Cédric Lucantis wrote:
amanda has little (or no) code dealing with multiple backups on
the same date.
I have read somewhere that this was in project, can anyone tell me more about
this ?
As the REAL amanda-hackers have told me this is a problem that is much
tougher to solve than a bad
Wrrr10-G schrieb:
Hi there,
I was wondering the following:
Is there a simple way to hack holding.c so the dumps are kept in the
holdingdisk after amflush has finished streaming to tape?
I would like to hang on to these dumps for a while for fast restores..
but still have the tape for
stan schrieb:
Thanks.
So the consensus seems to be get the higher powerd CPU unit, even though
it's SATA vs SCSI for the other one.
BTW, the machines in question are the top end of each of these 2 product
lines. So it is a dual core versus single core choice.
Errm ..
Sorry, if I don't have
Salvatore Enrico Indiogine schrieb:
2006/1/30, Dmitri Joukovski [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
BTW, why do you migrate from BRU in the first place?
1. We have the strange SCSI error: Medium destination full I have
a feeling that it is related to the fact that the change from one tape
to the other of
Gene Heskett schrieb:
On Monday 30 January 2006 03:08, Leonid Shulov wrote:
After I have upgraded amanda in server side to 2.4.5p1-2 version it
stoped backup.
In log file of amdump I see:
dumper: FATAL must be run setuid root to communicate correctly
What means did you use to install it,
Leonid Shulov schrieb:
I found solution for 2 Debian PC's(clients), I changed inetd.conf:
#amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd/usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandadgram udp wait backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandadamandad
But for _*Suse*_ PC until found any thing.
Show
Leonid Shulov schrieb:
/erc/passwd:
amanda:x:37:6:Amanda admin:/var/lib/amanda:/bin/bash
I assume it's /etc not /erc
/var/lib/amanda:
-rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 28 Jan 19 15:02 .amandahosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 21 Jan 5 2001 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 10 Jan 5 2001
host checked in 0.245 seconds, 0 problems found
Thanks to Stefan G. Weichinger and Paul Bijnens
Greets, Stefan.
Leonid Shulov schrieb:
ERROR: /dev/nst0: Permission denied
(expecting tape DailySet106 or a new tape)
Get that permission right ...
Its happens when cartridge is not in tape.
I get Input/output error then, but OK.
Stefan
Sebastian Marten schrieb:
Hi,
I have a small fileser at home and I'm looking for a brackup software.
I found amanda, and i think it can be the right thing for my server.
But I don't have a taper. I only habe a DVD-Writer with DVD-RAM support.
Can I packup with amanda on DVD or is this inpossible
David Gitman schrieb:
$ restore -i -v -b 2 -f host1._.20060116.1
Verify tape and initialize maps
restore: Tape is not a dump tape
Did you use
program GNUTAR
inside of your dumptype?
If yes, then you have to use tar to restore the data also.
Stefan
Ian Turner schrieb:
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 06:10 am, you wrote:
You're making unwarranted assumptions about other people's situations,
and telling them what to do without even understanding their needs.
Even if you do understand, the policy choice is theirs to make. Some
people have data
Jens Theisen wrote:
Hello,
is there a way to control what in a disk given in the disklist should be
backed up, when only access to this disk is given?
I'm thinking of a user controlling what should be backed up by putting
something in his home directory. Clearly it can be undesirable to backup
Jens Theisen schrieb:
Hello!
Assuming you are backing up with gnutar, not dump,
have you read the docs or the amanda.conf comments
and checked out the exclude and include directives?
My environment is that of many machines to backup and a single
backupserver; so this means I would have to
Jens Theisen schrieb:
Hallo Stefan,
The exclude-files get placed on the clients!
No NFS needed.
Sorry, I haven't look carefully enough.
This happens from time to time ... ;)
This means, however, that indeed all of the data is fetched by amanda
prior to backing up, right (so all will go
Josef Wolf schrieb:
and put /media into /.amanda.exclude on that host, but this doesn't
seem to help.
You need to put ./media into the exclude file.
Huh? How comes that this makes a difference on the root-filesystem? Anyway,
I'll try it (but I will have the result not before tomorrow).
Freels, James D. wrote:
The problem I had started at kernels greater than 2.6.12.x (starting at
2.6.13.0) and was finally cleared at 2.6.15.0.
Interesting ... I am using that module with kernel 2.6.13 and have no
problems. Maybe this related to the old hardware I use, maybe to the
fact that
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Freels, James D. wrote:
The problem I had started at kernels greater than 2.6.12.x (starting
at 2.6.13.0) and was finally cleared at 2.6.15.0.
Interesting ... I am using that module with kernel 2.6.13 and have no
problems. Maybe this related to the old hardware
Christopher Davis wrote:
Its nothing I need immediatly - but it would be really nice to have.
I definitely agree on this, all the Samba-server-people will like that
(including me).
Stefan.
Gene Heskett wrote:
I can send those scripts offlist if you'd like, but the caveat is that
they aren't pretty, and have a lot of dross still in them from when
they were being fine tuned originally.
Or, I'd sent Stephan W those and he may have cleaned them up, although I
think he just threw
Tony van der Hoff wrote:
I have 6 tapes, HomeDumps_01 - HomeDumps_06. Each day, Mon-Sat, I run
HomeDumps with a different tape, repeating that the following week. amverify
correctly asks me for the appropriate tape each day, before coming out with
the warning.
My amanda.conf includes:
takes
care of the backups in the meantime :-)
All the best,
Stefan G. Weichinger.
Myron Kowalski wrote:
I've never had a problem restore files to solaris boxes;
however, I'm trying to restore a linux backup, which I've
never done. This is the message I got.
amrestore: 79: restoring aimserver._dev_hda2.20051216.0
Volume is not in dump format
amrestore: 80: reached end of
Gavin Henry wrote:
Stefan G. Weichinger said the following on 22/11/05 10:04:
http://wiki.zmanda.com
A big thanks from us!!
Don't thank me alone, I am just one of a team ... thanks to the guys at
Zmanda for hosting and setting up the Wiki and the forums.
Now it's time for us all to make
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an amanda user account. I don't know what password the portage
install used for it, so I stomped on it using the passwd command. No
doing an:
su amanda
appears to work (there is no login error), but when I do a whoami, it
reports root, or whatever user I
Francesc Guasch wrote:
Hi. I restored from amanda before without problems,
even a full server that crashed.
Now I'm trying to restore a directory. When I browse
it from amrecover I see the files that were in the
date I want to restore it. I mark the directory and
I do an lcd, then I start the
Francesc Guasch wrote:
En/na Stefan G. Weichinger ha escrit:
Francesc Guasch wrote:
When amanda finishes it has removed most of the files
it restored from the first tape.
Might sound strange, but are you sure that you use the non-rewinding
tape-device when using amrecover?
Hi Stefan, thank
Paul Yeatman wrote:
Unlike James, I failed to mention when posting my question how
wonderful having a tool such as AMANDA is! Endless thanks to all
developers!
Paul Yeatman
---received from James D. Freels--
Hello folks ! I have been using AMANDA now for several years and find11 it
Paul Bijnens wrote:
...
if [ -d $VTAPE_DIR ]; then
echo found existing tape-dir at $VTAPE_DIR
if [ $FORCE_DEL = 1 ]; then
echo ATTENTION - force-flag set !!!
# rm -fR $VTAPE_DIR
In the production environment, I guess the comment sign needs to
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
The metadata on my
testmachine is about 1.2 MB in size ok, other installations will
exceed this but I think it should not be much of a problem.
Correction on this:
I took the data of a small test-config, the metadata of my productive
configuration sums up
Gene Heskett wrote:
My method simply waits till amdump is done and has returned to the
script that launched it, at which point the script then launches a
second script that tars up all this stuff and appends it to the tape. It
could be all in one script I guess, but I tend to scratch
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 11 November 2005 05:07, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
He meant a script to read the complete tapes and reconstruct the
database from that information.
I don't know but what there may be such a utility hidden in the myriad
of utils that already come with amanda. Its
Jon LaBadie wrote:
Might not be the last file on the tape. Suppose you collected things
on the holding disk, possibly several days of dumps, before taping.
If the metadata were to hold the DLE - tape mappings, the dump of
the metadata couldn't begin until after all other DLEs were taped.
Does
Erik P. Olsen wrote:
| gtar: ./cache/samba/winbindd_privileged/pipe: socket ignored
? gtar: ./lib/slocate/slocate.db: file changed as we read it
| Total bytes written: 545894400 (521MiB, 3.1MiB/s)
sendbackup: size 533100
sendbackup: end
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The weird messages do not make any sense
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