AMANDA 3.x installation doc

2012-04-05 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
/suggestions. Thanks in advance, Yogesh Hasabnis

amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2

2012-04-02 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, Our AMANDA backup configuration consisted of AMANDA 2.5.2p1 on RHEL3 as the backup server and AMANDA 2.6.1p2 on RHEL6 as the AMANDA client. Recently,the RHEL 3 OS on amanda backup server crashed for some reason and I had to install RHEL 5.5 OS on it. I had backed up my original amanda

Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2

2012-04-02 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
From: Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com To: Yogesh Hasabnis yhmai...@yahoo.co.in Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org amanda-users@amanda.org Sent: Monday, April 2, 2012 6:29 PM Subject: Re: amrecover problem with amanda 2.6.1p2 Do 'amadmin config_name find' list all dump? Do

AMANDA migration

2012-02-20 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
server and the newer version of AMANDA. I would appreciate if anybody could suggest the appropriate pointers/docs/howtos. Kindly let me know if I need to mention more specific information about my existing setup or the requirement. Thanks in advance, Yogesh Hasabnis

Re: Error while installing amanda-backup-client on RHEL 5 64-bit

2010-11-19 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
while installing amanda-backup-client on RHEL 5 64-bit To: Yogesh Hasabnis yhmai...@yahoo.co.in Cc: amanda-users amanda-users@amanda.org Date: Friday, November 19, 2010, 7:09 AM I think you should install termcap and libtermcap packages. Use yum. Paddy On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Yogesh

Error while installing amanda-backup-client on RHEL 5 64-bit

2010-11-17 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
. But the suggestions given there didn't work for me. Thanks in advance, Yogesh Hasabnis

Re: Error while installing amanda-backup-client on RHEL 5 64-bit

2010-11-17 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, I would appreciate your suggestions if any. Thanks in advance, Yogesh --- On Wed, 11/17/10, Yogesh Hasabnis yhmai...@yahoo.co.in wrote: From: Yogesh Hasabnis yhmai...@yahoo.co.in Subject: Error while installing amanda-backup-client on RHEL 5 64-bit To: amanda-users@amanda.org Date

amrecover problem

2010-01-18 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, We are using amanda 2.5.2p1 in our setup. The backup server and the client are the same machine and the OS used RHEL 3. As I am trying to do an amrecover -s hostname -t hostname to recover a backed up folder, I get the following error: # amrecover -C tendaily -t hostname -s hostname

Re: amrecover problem

2010-01-18 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
18:11:16 2010 --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Yogesh Hasabnis yhmai...@yahoo.co.in wrote: From: Yogesh Hasabnis yhmai...@yahoo.co.in Subject: amrecover problem To: amanda-users@amanda.org Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 6:03 PM Hi All, We are using amanda 2.5.2p1 in our setup. The backup server

Re: amrecover problem

2010-01-18 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
: time 0.094: (sockaddr_in *)0xd2dd90 = { 2, 10080, 192.168.100.19 } amrecover: time 0.094: security_close(handle=0x86c2988, driver=0xd1bcc0 (BSD)) --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Yogesh Hasabnis yhmai...@yahoo.co.in wrote: From: Yogesh Hasabnis yhmai...@yahoo.co.in Subject: Re: amrecover problem To: Yogesh

Re: amrecover problem

2010-01-18 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
to you for your help.   Thanks a lot, Yogesh --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: From: Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com Subject: Re: amrecover problem To: Yogesh Hasabnis yhmai...@yahoo.co.in Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 8:53 PM

Fw: Amanda 2.5.2p1-1 - Broken Pipe .....again

2009-08-18 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Additional information about this problem. An additional external USB hard drive has been added to this host about one month ago. The filesystem on this hard drive is not backed up with Amanda. But the observation is that the Broken Pipe problem seems to disappear when the filesystem on this

Amanda 2.5.2p1-1 - Broken Pipe .....again

2009-08-11 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, We use Amanda-2.5.2p1 for our daily incremental backup requirements. A single filesystem on a single host is backed up in this setup. The backup server and the client is the same host. The OS on the host is RHEL 3. The setup has been working reasonably fine for last two and half years,

Re: FAILED [data write: Broken pipe]

2009-06-18 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Any suggestions ? My backup has failed for 3 days now.

Re: FAILED [data write: Broken pipe]

2009-06-18 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com wrote: From: Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com Subject: Re: FAILED [data write: Broken pipe] To: Yogesh Hasabnis yhmai...@yahoo.co.in Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 6:02 PM Yogesh Hasabnis

FAILED [data write: Broken pipe]

2009-06-17 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, We use Amanda 2.5.0p2 in our backup setup. We have the same host acting as the amanda backup server as well as the client. The OS on the backup server/client host is RHEL3. The setup has been working reasonably OK for the last 2 years. I am facing problems in backups for the last 2

Backing up autofs/NFS shares

2008-11-20 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, I use amanda 2.5.0p2 for our backup requirements with RHEL3 Linux being the OS of the amanda server. Till now we have been backing up only one directory on our fileserver which contains the home directories- say /vol/vol1/home. More importantly, the backup client and the backup

Re: Backing up autofs/NFS shares

2008-11-20 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hello, Jon, Thanks for going through my long email. And thanks a lot for the suggestions. Regards, Yogesh Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:37:41AM -0800, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, I referred the doc at http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php

amrecover: Extractor child exited with status 2

2008-05-02 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
non-zero status: 1 I want to know about how serious this error is and would be grateful if I get some suggestion for resolving this error. Thanks in advance. Yogesh Hasabnis - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile

Reusing a tape

2007-12-05 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, I have two different amanda configurations - one for daily incremental backups and the second for monthly full backup. The most recent monthly full backup failed for some reason. The error reported in the amanda email is as follows: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:

selfcheck request failed

2007-11-06 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hello, We use Amanda 2.5.0p2 for our backup requirements. Actually the same Linux host acts a backup server as well as a backup client. The backup process has been working fine for more than last 6 months. Have started observing a few problems since last 2 days. Error observed after running

data-write: Broken pipe

2007-08-17 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi, We use amanda-2.5.0 for our backup requirements. The backup failed yesterday and the error message received in the email is as given below. Would like to get some advice about why this error may have occurred. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:toe.tti.tensilica.com /vol/vol1/home

Changing the label of an Amanda tape

2007-07-03 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, I need to reuse a tape which was used for an old amanda configuration to a newly created amanda configuration, for some reason. For that, when I use the amlabel command to change the tape label and configuration, I get a message as follows: tape is in another amanda configuration

Re: amcheck fails but backup works

2007-04-18 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
to it and get a backtrace. It's often because of a stale mount point. Did 'df' succeed? Jean-Louis Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hello Jean-Louis, Thanks for the reply. The amcheck*.debug reads as follows: amcheck: debug 1 pid 21824 ruid 30318 euid 0: start at Wed Apr 18 17:00:00

Re: amcheck fails but backup works

2007-04-18 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi, We use Amanda 2.5.0p2 in our backup setup. The setup was working fine for last 2 months. I have started observing a strange problem from yesterday. I observe that the amcheck config_name command which is scheduled to run some 4 hours before the backup

Backup of index and config files

2007-03-02 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, In my case the machine which works as an Amanda backup server itself is backed up by Amanda. So which are the important files/directories (index and config files/directories or any other important files) that I should save on some other machine, so that I can recover data from the Amanda

Query about a backup failure

2007-02-28 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, I observed a backup failure today. The details related to failure that I find in the email sent by amanda are as follows: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: client_name /vol/vol1/home lev 2 FAILED [data timeout] client_name /vol/vol1/home lev 2 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

amanda-client.conf in version 2.5.1

2007-02-26 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi, I would like to know about the significance of the file /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf. I didn't need to edit it or create when I had configured ver 2.5.0. Is it necessary to create this file for the 2.5.1 configuration to work? Thanks Yogesh

2.5.0p2 to 2.5.1p3 upgrade

2007-02-22 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi, I had a working amanda configuration with amanda-2.5.0p2. My backup server and the backup client are the same machine. And the OS used is RHEL3. To upgrade the configuration to version 2.5.1p3, I simply downloaded the amanda-backup_server rpm for version 2.5.1p3 and used the rpm -Uvh

Configuration for my requirement

2007-02-19 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi, After all the testing, I have decided upon a basic Amanda configuration for my requirements. I have 20 tapes with me that I plan to rotate every 4 weeks. I plan to configure Amanda to take full backup once a week. The backup will executed only on the 5 week days. So, as per my understanding

Re: Configuration for my requirement

2007-02-19 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-02-19 11:22, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi, After all the testing, I have decided upon a basic Amanda configuration for my requirements. I have 20 tapes with me that I plan to rotate every 4 weeks. I plan to configure Amanda to take full backup once a week

Warning: Cannot stat: and socket ignored errors

2007-02-11 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi, I took a test backup of a filesystem containing the home directories of all the users. The email sent by amanda after the completion of the backup contains the following errors for various files: ? gtar: path_to_the_file: Warning: No such file or directory #observed several times | gtar:

Re: selfcheck request failed

2007-02-11 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
as the disklist file. Right now I have configured Amanda-2.5.0 and that doesn't seem to need the -auth directive. Thanks for the help. Yogesh --- Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi, The output of the amandad.timestamps.debug is as given below

Re: selfcheck request failed

2007-02-09 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
2.5.0p2? Thanks for all the help till now. Yogesh --- Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then it should works if you have the xinetd file you posted. Could you post the amandad.timestamps.debug file? Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi, The output of the 'amadmin config disklist

selfcheck request failed

2007-02-08 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi, I had to upgrade to amanda-2.5.1p2 for some reason. I used the doc at http://amanda.zmanda.com/quick-backup-setup.html for reference. Now when I run the amcheck config_name command at the end, I get the following error Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check selfcheck request failed: timeout

Re: selfcheck request failed

2007-02-08 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You configured your client to use the bsdtcp auth, but you didn't say that you use it in your disklist? You should have 'auth bsdtcp' in your dumptype. Jean-Louis Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi, I had to upgrade to amanda-2.5.1p2 for some reason

Re: selfcheck request failed

2007-02-08 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the output of 'amadmin config disklist'? It should list the auth you are using? is it bsdtcp? Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Thanks for the reply. I followed suggestions in both the replies. Which both? As per your suggestion, I have added - auth bsdtcp

Re: AW: Estimate timeout

2007-02-07 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
values for etime. Regards W.Trompler -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Yogesh Hasabnis Gesendet: Mittwoch, 07. Februar 2007 06:48 An: amanda-users@amanda.org Betreff: Estimate timeout Hi, Yesterday, I created one

Estimate timeout

2007-02-06 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi, Yesterday, I created one configuration for always full backup with the name FULLBACK. The 2 volumes to be backed up had a size of roughly 150GB. But the backup perfromed yesterday seems to have failed. The amanda logs for this backup run, read as given below (I have edited the hostname and

Differential backups

2007-01-30 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, Does AMANDA support differential backups? Can anybody provide me pointers about the terms level 0 backup, level 1 backup..level 9 backup etc? Thanks in advance. Yogesh Bored stiff? Loosen up...

Re: Query about full backups

2007-01-23 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
--- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 23.01.2007 at 01:16 -0600, Frank Smith wrote: Thanks for the reply. So if I only have one DLE, will the full backup always take place on a particular day and will only incremental

Query about full backups

2007-01-22 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, As per the AMANDA faqs, AMANDA spreads full backups along the dumpcycle, so you wont' have any full-only or incremental-only runs. What I understand from this is that if you have multiple filesystems on multiple hosts to be backed up in an AMANDA dumpcycle, AMANDA will take care of

Re: Query about full backups

2007-01-22 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
--- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: Hi All, As per the AMANDA faqs, AMANDA spreads full backups along the dumpcycle, so you wont' have any full-only or incremental-only runs. What I understand from this is that if you have multiple filesystems

Media rotation and backup scheduling

2007-01-19 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, We have data which is approximately 220GB in size. We have got an HP Ultrium 960 tape device for our backups with 10 numbers of media (400GB LTO3). I have a few queries about media rotation. I plan to use a dumpcycle of 5 days (5 working days of a week). Suppose I use a media set of 5

Re: Tapetype defintion for HP Ultrium 960

2007-01-17 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
filemark 0 kbytes speed 67629 kps } Thanks for the help Yogesh --- Yogesh Hasabnis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the help. I had given a command amtapetype -e 400g -f /dev/nst0 before leaving for the day yesterday. The output on the console I find today is Writing 4096

Tapetype defintion for HP Ultrium 960

2007-01-09 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, I would be grateful if anybody can forward me the tapetype definition for an HP Ultrium 960 LTO3 tape device (external). The SCSI controller used is an HP 374654-B21 - 64-bit Single Channel Wide Ultra320 SCSI Controller. Basically, on what factors does the tapetype deifintion depend? Else

Re: Tapetype defintion for HP Ultrium 960

2007-01-09 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
and the forward the output to the mailing list in the evening today. Thanks Yogesh --- Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yogesh Hasabnis schreef: Hi All, I would be grateful if anybody can forward me the tapetype definition for an HP Ultrium 960 LTO3 tape device (external

Disk to disk backup setup

2006-10-20 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, We have decided to use Amanda for our backup requirements. We are in the process of procuring our backup device. By the time the device arrives, I wish to do some hands-on and get more comfortable with Amanda. For this, I plan to configure a disk-to-disk backup setup with one machine

Backup device for Amanda

2006-08-04 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, I am trying to figure out a proper backup strategy for our setup, using Amanda as the backup tool. We have roughly 20 Linux/Windows dual-boot machines and one file server with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3" as the OS. To keep the backup procedure simple, we plan to keep all the