In a message dated: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:49:47 EST
Jon LaBadie said:
As an alternative, couldn't you change the human aspect of the problem?
Sure, and that was my fall back plan in case a techical solution
wasn't feasible. But I felt it was at least worth asking about :)
Thanks!
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In a message dated: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:17:19 +0100
Gerhard den Hollander said:
2) even easier and cheaper
when you store the tape, in the tape box (and on the tape and on the paper
insert that comes with the tape) simply write that this set only has one
tape.
This is what my fall back plan was
Hi all,
Is there an easy way to change the amanda label of a tape that's been
written to? Short of that, is there an easy way to recover the
contents of the tape in amdump form, then re-label the tape and use
amflush to get the contents on the newly/properly labelled tape?
Thanks.
Oh, and
In a message dated: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:03:47 +0100
Gerhard den Hollander said:
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Is there an easy way to change the amanda label of a tape that's been
written to? Short of that, is there an easy way to recover the
In a message dated: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:14:02 EST
Jon LaBadie said:
Quick answer is sure, just overwrite the 32KB first file on the tape.
Longer answer dependes on what you want to do with the tape and how
much you expect amanda to remember about the tape, its contents, and
its new label.
To
Debian/stable (2.4.22 kernel)
Amanda-2.4.4p2
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
Hi all,
I'm trying to use amrecover to restore a users homedir, and keep
getting the following error when I answer 'Y' to the 'Load tape now'
question:
EOF, check amidxtaped.timestamp.debug file on
Thanks for the replies. Everyone who did so suggested that the tape
was not rewound. Unfortunately, that's not case. I've made sure to
eject the tape, reload the tape, and run mt -f /dev/st0 rewind, and
then mt -f /dev/st0 status which shows:
$ mt -f /dev/st0 status
drive type =
grin=sheepish, emarrassment_level=extremely high
I forgot to 'settape'. For some reason I thought this was
automatically detected from the amanda conf file, but evidently not.
/grin
I could have sworn I set amanda up to automatically use my changer
for this, and upon inspection of the
In a message dated: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:12:52 EDT
Frederic Medery said:
Thanks,
in fact what I want is to speed up my backup so i moved my tape charger
to the biggest server, now I have a /amanda with 160 GB of free space. I
thought that HW compression would also speed up my backup.
I find
In a message dated: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:15:31 +0200
Stefan G. Weichinger said:
I would prefer to just put the current pdf online, as I want to put
the xml-stuff online in early september. I want to avoid the
side-effects of distributing stuff per email ...
I am very busy with other things these
In a message dated: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:15:31 +0200
Stefan G. Weichinger said:
Just get the file at:
http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html
Hmmm, ghostscript seems to have trouble converting this to postscript:
$ pdf2ps amanda.pdf amanda.ps
Unknown operator: '.
Error:
In a message dated: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:34:06 BST
Maccy said:
I'm after some advice, as I haven't had any experience of setting up a
backup system before.
I apologize for the delay in responding, I was on vacation when you
posted this and am now just catching up on my Amanda mail :)
I
Hi all,
Is there anyway to flush backups on the holding disk prior to dumping
new backups? I have a bunch of stuff sitting on a holding disk which
will likely fit fine on the same tape as tonights backups. However,
even if something it causes tonight's backups to be placed on the
holding
In a message dated: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:55:28 EDT
Joshua Baker-LePain said:
autoflush yes
G! I hate it when I RTFM, but my v-grep fails me :)
Thanks.
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Paul
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If you're not having fun, you're not
(I've sent this to the amanda-afs list, but I appear to be the only
person other than Mitch actually on it, and he's apparently really
busy :(
I've installed the amanda-afs utilities on my AFS server/amanda
client, and I've installed amanda (with afs patches) on the same.
amcheck returns
Is there anyone backing up OpenAFS using amanda? Is there anything
special that needs to be done, or is it just like backing up any
other file system?
I'd like to use gnutar if possible.
Thanks,
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Paul
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All file systems on one of my backup clients failed over the weekend.
The dump summary thinks the system was offline, but it wasn't, and
the amadad debug log had this in it:
amandad: time 0.016: amandahosts security check passed
amandad: time 0.016: running service /usr/lib/amanda/sendsize
In a message dated: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:15:47 +0200
Paul Bijnens said:
Besides the fact that a LOT of programs will fail mysteriously when
/dev/null has been tampered with, here is a patch for sendsize.c .
Thanks!
ps. Ever replaced /dev/null with a plain file by accident? :-)
M, can I
Hi all,
For some reason, when my backups fail, the holding disk isn't being
used. I'm running a weekly full dump config, and have 'skip-incr'
and 'holdingdisk yes' in my dumptypes. But the holding disk this
morning is empty.
What did I miss?
Thanks.
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Paul
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In a message dated: Tue, 04 May 2004 05:43:42 EDT
Gene Heskett said:
But, some have setup two configurations, one that runs weekly and is
forced to do fulls on everything in the disklist, and one that runs
during the week that does the incrementals. I do not do that here,
so I'l let someone
In a message dated: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:02:00 CST
Russell Adams said:
I ended up creating some scripts that use GNU Barcode and Label Nation
to print DLT barcodes on Avery labels.
Had it running for two years. ;]
If you're interested, I'll share.
Yes PLEASE :)
(sorry for such a late
Hi all,
What variables affect Run time as reported by amanda after a run
is complete? For example, in my reports, I see the following:
Estimate Time (hrs:min)2:49
Run Time (hrs:min)10:33
Dump Time (hrs:min)8:38 8:38 0:00
So, it took almost 9 hours to
In a message dated: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:12:05 BST
William Hargrove said:
I was thinking I could do the incremental backups to a hard disk area on the tape
server each night and then run Amanda once a week to archive the full backups plus
the HDD incremental ones.
I did this once, way back when
Hi all,
Is there some way of getting an index of what's on a given tape?
I'm using the long DLE format to break down my file system into
smaller disks and am using 'exclude append' to exclude certain
things. The mail report obviously tells me which disks were backed
up, but since these are
Is this being worked on and likely to happen anytime in the reasonably
near future? I really don't want to punch holes in my firewall if I
don't have to :)
Thanks,
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Paul
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If you're not having fun,
Thanks for such a quick response Stefan, it is greatly appreciated!
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Stefan == Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Stefan Have a look in the amanda-manpage. In the section DISKLIST
Stefan FILE you will find the explanation (yes, they are kind of
Stefan labels).
I actually
Again:
jpt /u1/backup/specific subdir dumptype spindle
is sufficient. No {stuff} needed here.
This seems to be the general concensus, so, I guess I'll just go with
that :)
Thanks again, I appreciate all the help!
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Paul
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On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Steve == Steve Manuel wrote:
Steve The man page for amanda can be more explict about what backup
Steve programs can be used and where they record the time-stamp.
If Amanda is going to modular such that it can use different backup
programs, it's probably a lot easier
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Stefan == Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Stefan I want to change some DLEs from
Stefan /mydisk/bigdir
Stefan to
Stefan /mydisk/bigdir/smalldir1
Stefan /mydisk/bigdir/smalldir2
Stefan /mydisk/bigdir/smalldir3
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, CScheeder == C.Scheeder wrote:
Hi all,
I need to back up a data base, but want to have it dump the tables
first. I thought there was a way to have amdump trigger pre/post
dump processes natively. Or, is the only way to wrap amdump in a
script of the same name, and effectively hide the real amdump program?
Thanks,
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In a message dated: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:52:13 EST
Henson, George Mr JMLFDC said:
Is there support to have the network traffic to be encrypted? We have several
systems we would like to backup over the network, but we have a mandate from
our management that all the data transfers need to be
In a message dated: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:56:38 EST
Ken D'Ambrosio said:
Any idea on where I'm going astray?
Ken,
Try using GnuTar for your dump program instead. Running 'dump' over
an NFS mount if it ever works, is likely to be frought with problems.
To compile amanda, you may well need to
Hi all,
Does anyone know if there's a backport of amanda 2.4.4p1 to Debian
Woody? I could use the packages in testing, but the require an
upgrade of libc, which I really want to avoid on my production
servers right now.
Thanks!
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Paul
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Hi all,
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 permissions in many places.
How have others solved this problem?
Thanks,
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Paul
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Hi all,
I'm trying to specify a 'chunksize' for my holding disk and I keep
getting errors stating:
/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf, line 45: configuration keyword expected
I'm running 2.4.4p1-1 on Debian testing. I also noticed that there
seems to be no 'holding disk' config area any more
Hi all,
I'm having trouble coming up with a chg-scsi config file. I'm hoping
someone can tell me what I'm missing.
Hardware config is an Overland Storage PowerLoader with a 17 slot
library and a single Ultrium LTO2 drive connected to a Debian Linux
system. Amanda 2.4.2p2 is installed via
In a message dated: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:25:39 EDT
Joshua Baker-LePain said:
That's at FAQ-O-Matic (linked from the amanda home page, possibly down).
I attempted to search there, but didn't find it. I'm also rather
dismayed at the condition of the Amanda F-O-M. It's been about 2 and
a half
In a message dated: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:42:24 +0200
Peter Kunst said:
using an Overland Powerloader connected to a Solaris8 box works
fine here, but might not help you with your Debian setup. We drive
the changer itself using stc (http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~eric/stctl)
...just a hint.
Great!
Hi all,
It's been a while since I've used amanda, but I thought at one time,
there was a list of drives and/or library/autoloaders known to work
with amanda. I've searched amanda.org, but couldn't find anything.
Is there such a list, if so where? If not, does anyone have anything
good or
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