On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 15:57:32 -0600, ghe wrote:
> STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
> /-- sbox.slsware.net / lev 1 STRANGE
> sendbackup: start [sbox.slsware.net:/ level 1]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -xpGf - ...
> sendbackup: info end
> ? /bin/tar:
On 08/05/2017 03:35 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Gnutar writes on the standard error stream both error messages
and informational messages. You are seeing the latter type
for your "/" DLE.
Typically, gnutar is called by amgtar. Amgtar includes lists
of gnutar messages it can ignore and should not
On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 03:57:32PM -0600, ghe wrote:
> Debian Jessie, amanda 3.3.6
>
> After a backup, amreport says things like:
>
> STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
> /-- sbox.slsware.net / lev 1 STRANGE
> sendbackup: start [sbox.slsware.net:/ level 1]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
>
True, but I read where if you edit it manually, the --m (modify) flag may
not work subsequently. so I was just wondering.
Thanks Paul for the help, I was thinking about just editing it directly,
but was hoping to maybe find a shortcut.
John
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Paul Yeatman
For the sake of anyone following this thread in the future, some replies to
my last post:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Michael Stauffer mgsta...@gmail.comwrote:
Thanks Jean-Lous.
In my dumptype I have
program GNUTAR
but I don't know if this always means 'gtar' or if it's
Michael,
Look at the amgtar man page if you are using amgtar:
Similarly, include expressions are supplied to GNU-tar's
--files-from
option. This option ordinarily does not accept any sort of
wildcards,
but amgtar manually applies glob pattern matching to include
Thanks Jean-Lous.
In my dumptype I have
program GNUTAR
but I don't know if this always means 'gtar' or if it's defined somewhere.
I can't find a define for it.
However, other 'include' expressions seem to be globbing correclty, even
though the amgtar docs says gtar won't normal
Robert,
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:16:29AM -0400, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
I want to be able to use a different disklist for different runs. Other than
use shell scripting to mv disklista to disklist is there a way to tell
amanda what disklist to use during a run.
What needs to remain the same
man amanda.conf:
diskfile string
Default: disklist. The file name for the disklist file
holding client hosts, disks and other client dumping
information.
You can use: amdump -odiskfile=disklista
Why do you want to do use different disklist file? You could have one
khalid maqsudi wrote:
What should my disklist look like if I want to dump the entire c1t0d0s5
slice (which is also my holding disk) to tape. I have only 1 machine
(master) and no clients connected to a powervault 128T tape device
running solaris 8. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Two amanda configs needed and two cronjobs?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kaushal Shriyan
Sent: 23 August 2004 05:40
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Disklist file
Hi !
i have two sets of client
one who owns laptop and others who own
Alexander Jolk wrote:
Then create a symlink to that directory with a simple name from
somewhere else and backup that symlink (not the directory containing it,
but the link itself).
So brilliantly simple and obvious that I didn't think of it 8-)
I still believe amanda should deal with such
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 at 4:15pm, Kaushal Shriyan wrote
I wanted to know some more things qualifier used in the disklist file of
amanda, At present i am using comp-root-tar to backup my
amanda client are there more qualifiers which can be used in the
disklist file
Please just email such
Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
Dear Paul Bijnens
I'm not married to Amanda :-)
While I'm waiting while some of my heavy program finish, I like to
respond to posts, where I believe I can help.
This little remark just to say that others may respond too.
(Amanda-hackers is appropriate for this post, I
* Andrea Borgia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:07:15:18:48:50+0200] scribed:
Hello.
On one host I would like to backup the Windows Documents and Settings
directory from Linux, but it appears Amanda is bitching about those
embedded whitespaces.
I've tried both escaping them and quoting the
Michael D Schleif wrote:
Assuming that you are backing up over Samba, what I do is share
Documents and Settings as something else (e.g., docs), which
alleviates this problem.
Nope, sorry I forgot that bit: the client is running Linux and I am
trying to backup that directory that is located on the
Andrea Borgia wrote:
the client is running Linux and I am
trying to backup that directory that is located on the Windows partition
on the same disk and mounted read-only.
Then create a symlink to that directory with a simple name from
somewhere else and backup that symlink (not the directory
Hi, Jobst,
on Freitag, 30. Jänner 2004 at 02:18 you wrote to amanda-users:
JS I have machines that are turned off over the weekend
JS (friday late afternoon) but are mentioned in the disklist.
JS Is this OK to do?
Depends on what you want to do and how.
If you only dump on weekdays this won't
Dan L. Ostrom wrote:
Running the command:
tar cvf /tmp/mytar *200300*
does just tar up the files requested. Since amdump is running
the same tar command
(yes, tar is gtar here), shouldn't the disklist file entries work? Or am
I misunderstanding
what the include/exclude
Bruno,
(No problem with list posting)
Yes, I see that as a valid potential way to go, if only it
was that simple the script you are suggesting could run in
advance of the amanda-server startup.
You know, actually its not a bad solution, I was going to
object that it wasn't a matter of home
Yes, I see that as a valid potential way to go, if only it
was that simple the script you are suggesting could run in
advance of the amanda-server startup.
yes, in your crontab file you could add a line like this:
(say the script would be called dlmaintainer)
00 2 * * * (dlmaintainer su amanda
Of Brian Cuttler
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:37 PM
To: Bruno Negrão
Cc: Brian Cuttler; amanda users
Subject: Re: disklist file maintenance
Bruno,
(No problem with list posting)
Yes, I see that as a valid potential way to go, if only it
was that simple the script you
Bruno Negrão wrote:
Yes, I see that as a valid potential way to go, if only it
was that simple the script you are suggesting could run in
advance of the amanda-server startup.
yes, in your crontab file you could add a line like this:
(say the script would be called dlmaintainer)
00 2 * * *
Hinrich Aue wrote:
Hello,
I have a problem with my disklist, I entered my / partition, and now I only
want to backup
the /users/mentor/avtstud2/ directory with all it's subdirs.
Is that possible? when yes does anyone know how?
I tried:
mentor1 / {
comp-user-tar
include ./users/
Michael Packer wrote:
I'm trying to break up a large disk into smaller sections when it does a
backup.. I tried:
localhost /sda5/other sda5 {
exclude ./files
exclude ./snap
exclude ./web
always-full
} 1
You are using amanda 2.4.3 or above, I presume.
Is your base
On Thursday 19 June 2003 08:44, Michael Packer wrote:
I'm trying to break up a large disk into smaller sections when it
does a backup.. I tried:
localhost /sda5/other sda5 {
exclude ./files
exclude ./snap
exclude ./web
always-full
} 1
but that doesn't seem to be
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 at 10:42am, Jason Edgecombe wrote
I have a question about the disklist format.
I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump / (without
/home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do that? Must I
specify each directory in / as a separate DLE?
It
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:42:23AM -0400, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
I have a question about the disklist format.
I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump / (without
/home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do that? Must I
specify each directory in / as a
On Monday 02 June 2003 10:42, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
I have a question about the disklist format.
I am using tar to dump my filesystems. I would like to dump /
(without /home) and have /home be on a separate DLE. How do I do
that? Must I specify each directory in / as a separate DLE?
I am, but
pantera /home/depot-af /home/depot {
hard-disk-tar
include ./[Aa-Ff]*
} 1
I'd be pretty much surprised if this include statement didn't mean
`include all files starting with either A, any character between a and
F, or f'. That's probably not what you meant to say, and
Robert Hazbun wrote:
Anyway, my problem is that I am doing just this, but am running into the following
error:
pantera/home/depot-wz lev 0 FAILED [missing result for /home/depot-wz in
pantera response]
...
Upon looking in the amanda source to attempt to find out what's wrong, I found out
Hello John,
2.4.3b3 is buggy with relative exclude list. Try the latest snapshot
from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda .
Jean-Louis
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 08:47:52PM -0400, John Ouellette wrote:
Ok, now that's interesting... I'll agree that the fact that you're using
2.4.3b3
Hi Kevin,
Are you using Amanda 2.4.3b3? I think there is a bug in the 'exclude'
lists in the definition of dumptypes (including the inline exclude
lists like you're using) for that version. The bug causes the dumps to
fail, at least it does in my case.
How to work around your problem
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Subject: Re: Disklist - partial directory backup - advice please
Hi Kevin,
Are you using Amanda 2.4.3b3? I think there is a bug in the 'exclude'
lists in the definition of dumptypes (including the inline exclude
lists like you're using) for that version. The bug causes the dumps to
fail
At 2002-08-19T16:00:21Z, Kevin Passey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I only what to omit the /dumps folders.
I think I will have to create them in a separate partition.
Try this:
1) Create a new dumptype with an exclude list option. For example:
define dumptype compressed-tar-with-excludes
]
Subject: Re: Disklist - partial directory backup - advice please
Hi Kevin,
Are you using Amanda 2.4.3b3? I think there is a bug in the
'exclude' lists in the definition of dumptypes (including the
inline exclude lists like you're using) for that version. The
bug causes the dumps to fail
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 August 2002 16:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Disklist - partial directory backup - advice please
Hi Kevin,
Are you using Amanda 2.4.3b3? I think there is a bug in the
'exclude' lists in the definition of dumptypes (including the
inline exclude
On Monday 19 August 2002 16:12, John Ouellette wrote:
I've played around with the exclude lists for a while (as defined
in the dumptypes) and have had no luck in getting any configs
with exclude lists to work, whether I define the paths with the
leading ./ or no
Kevin was using an exclude
Hello Kevin,
Try the latest snapshot of 2.4.3b3 from
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda
it fixe a few problem with the exclude.
Don't forget to upgrade the server and the client.
I'm not sure it works if you use the device name in the disklist,
you should try with the directory name.
We're going a bit far afield from what Kevin had originally posted but oh
well.
Are you using version 2.4.2, Gene? Kevin and I are using v2.4.3b3 and
have found the same problem with exclude lists. What I have found (again,
with v2.4.3b3) was that the exclude keyword in a dumptype
On Monday 19 August 2002 20:09, John Ouellette wrote:
We're going a bit far afield from what Kevin had originally posted
but oh well.
Are you using version 2.4.2, Gene?
No, 2.4.3b3-20020805 right now. And I'm not having any known
problems, none. And other than some broken scripting in the
Ok, now that's interesting... I'll agree that the fact that you're using
2.4.3b3 and aren't having problems indicates that you're right.
However... The comments in the amanda.conf file say:
Note that the `full pathname' of a file within its
filesystem starts with `./', because of the way
On Monday 19 August 2002 20:47, John Ouellette wrote:
Ok, now that's interesting... I'll agree that the fact that
you're using 2.4.3b3 and aren't having problems indicates that
you're right. However... The comments in the amanda.conf file
say:
Note that the `full pathname' of a file within
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 07:06:07PM -0500, Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello all after playing with amanda all week I have finally gotten into
a situation were my entry in disklist file is to big. From what I've read
amanda isn't smart enough to pick were it left off if it ran out
On Monday 22 July 2002 20:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello all after playing with amanda all week I have finally gotten
into a situation were my entry in disklist file is to big. From
what I've read amanda isn't smart enough to pick were it left off
if it ran out of tape it will attempt to
On Monday 22 July 2002 23:15, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 07:06:07PM -0500, Craig Hancock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all after playing with amanda all week I have finally
gotten into a situation were my entry in disklist file is to
big. From what I've read amanda isn't
When you are using hardware compression on the tape drive, the
backup image cached on disk is of course not yet compressed.
If it thinks the dump won't fit on the tape, did you pick
a different tapetype for the compressed device?
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Matthew Boeckman wrote:
I have two
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 at 7:59am, Matthew Boeckman wrote
20+hour backup cycle. Or is there something that I have to configure in
amanda to let it know i'm using hardware compression and to ignore tape
warnings?
To use hardware compression, you fib to amanda about your tapelength. In
your
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Matthew Boeckman wrote:
I'm running an ultra5, and trying to level0 a 60+gig filesystem. Using
software compression took over 22 hours (i killed it at that point) so I
decided to use hardware, specifying /dev/rmt/0cn as the tape device in
amanda.conf. When I tried to
The second and sort-of corollary to that is what is the exact syntax of
exclude files referenced from disklist? ...
Andrew Hall wrote a nice description of exclusion patterns. It is
part of the 2.4.3 docs directory, so you could grab a recent beta from
www.amanda.org.
Matthew Boeckman
John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there are way of forcing amanda to backup the directories in the
disklist in a certain order or at least tell it to back up a thew
directories first?
David,
There is a priority parameter for dumptypes. But it does not work for
your purpose.
priority string
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going to deploy AMANDA as a backup system.
However, I'm in doubt some parts in disklist file
What should it be in the file if
- I want backup only index.html in every user's home dir
/home/*/htdocs/index.html
- I want backup only all file have .pl
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 at 11:33pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
My dumptype has no exclusions at all. How come
the original disklist with:
hostname / dumptype
does not pickup the other file systems which are mounted as /usr and /var?
'dump' always works on a per-filesystem basis, and amanda passes
Trying to get this running on MacOSX.
Disks are labeled as /dev/rdisk0,/dev/rdis1, etc.
How does one write the entry for the 9th partition on /dev/rdisk0? ...
What does df -k say for that 9th partition?
Why aren't you using mount points instead of /dev names?
John R. Jackson, Technical
but i get an error reading disklist. I have seen in the disklist file example
Interesting, what error?
2) When i tried to backup a directory of a mounted linux server unit i don't
get errors but it doesn't backup anything. Any idea?
What is a directory of a mounted linux server unit ?
Olivier
1) How should i specify a device for backup? ...
By far the easiest way is to list the mount point. For instance /var.
There is no reason to convert that to a disk name. Amanda will do all
of that for you, if needed.
... i get an error reading disklist. ...
Please post what you tried to do
the error messages complain about not being able to open /dev/root.
This and your other item are two symptoms of the same problem.
Does amanda have the ability to interpret the LABEL= portion
of fstab then dig the information out of ext2fs? ...
Yes. You need to upgrade
what is the content of this "disklist" and where should I put it?
The disklist file tells Amanda what clients and disks to back up.
It goes in the same directory as amanda.conf. "man amanda" describes
the syntax, and there is an example file with the sources.
John R. Jackson, Technical
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