backup client on SUSE

/amanda, I have users as amanda, same server_args with S1. I created .amandahosts files as directed. I hope someone can help me. -- Nina Pham Gibbons and Associates, Inc n...@gibbons.com Phone: (408) 984-1441

reconfigure amanda on fedora core

is there anyway to reconfigure amanda on fedora core 6? i have to use diferent user other than default user amanda. I couldn't find the way to reconfigure, so i uninstalled amanda and amanda package on the system which serves as client, and configure from source. But then I always get error

can not run amanda check

I can't run amcheck, the error message is : amcheck:running as user root instead of general. I configure amanda to run --with-user=general, and the attribute for amcheck -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk usr/sbin/amcheck Please help. Nina

amanda webmin module

Anybody is using webmin to configure amanda? I'm having an amanda webmin module on 1 of my server and can't not figure out where Igot it. Now I'm building another server with fedora core 3, found 1 amanda webmin module but it failed when I tried to intall it. anyone knows where I can download

configure error

I'm trying to configure and install amanda-2.4.5 to my new server running fedora core 3. It reported error when i tried to configure. The configure command is: *./configure --with-user=general --with-group=disk --with-amandahosts \ --with-configdir=/Backup/Configs --with-config=WeeklySet

amanda ignores full backup

---BeginMessage--- I wrote to this list once about my problem, but got no reply. I think I better explain some more. I have a redhat linux 9 machine running amanda server to backup some folders of its all and backup some folders of another client amanda machine running fedora Core 2. I have 2

incremental backup grows larger and larger

Our amanda server backups itself and backup another host machine which runs amanda client. We run incremental backup 6 days a week and full backup 1 day a week (incremental backup is not ran on that day). Reading the logs, size of files backed up from amanda server is growing till the full

Re: incremental backup grows larger and larger

Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:58:32AM -0800, Nina Pham wrote: Our amanda server backups itself and backup another host machine which runs amanda client. We run incremental backup 6 days a week and full backup 1 day a week (incremental backup is not ran on that day). Reading

configure for amanda server and client coordinations

Please let me setup the scenerio first for 2 unix machines. The amanda server machine(amserver) is running redhat linux 9, the amanda client(amclient) machine is running FC2. In addition to serve the client machine, amserver also backups some files locally. The amserver is already setup to

amanda server and client

I'd like to setup amanda server and client on some linux machines. are they separate packages?

Re: amanda change ctime

Thanks folks. Now I need to learn how to configure run amanda client. Thanks again. Mike Delaney wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:01:31AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 at 4:27pm, Nina Pham wrote The files we are backing up are resigned on more than 1 servers

amanda change ctime

I have problem doing incremental backup on mount file. I'm using FC2 systems. The server mount to some files and does incremental backup everyday. The proplem is the ctime some how got changed when backing up, so the files endup archived even though it's not been touched. Any idea? Thanks.

Re: amanda change ctime

I mount using smbmount Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 at 2:40pm, Nina Pham wrote I have problem doing incremental backup on mount file. I'm using FC2 systems. The server mount to some files and does incremental backup How does the server mount to the files

Re: amanda change ctime

The files we are backing up are resigned on more than 1 servers, and we want to store that archive on the same place. Therefore we need to mount. Mike Delaney wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:38:36PM -0800, Nina Pham wrote: I mount using smbmount Don't do that then. Install Amanda

turn off hardware compression

I having problem with the backup. The backup tape capacity is 20/40G, I tried to backup only around 17 G compressed. Following are the error message tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now So I tried tar

add more config into amanda

I have amanda running for Daily config and Weekly config. Now I want to add 1 more config just to do the test (say tempConfig). Do I need to rebuild amanda? or what do I need to do?

tape changer status

hi, our backup didn't run the day before because our server crashed on that day. So last night when backup is running, it suppose to stored data in dailyset2, but it stored data in dailyset1 since it din't get run the day before and the file changer.stat say curslot 1 and curloaded 1. So

amanda failed to report via email

I have amanda running in a cron job, it suppose to backup 3 things. However, for some permission problem, 1 thing is failed to back up. I thought it would send the report via email to the email address specified in mailto no matter what. But that day, I didn't recieve the report via email.