No data found on restoring from backups taken from Windows host - Seeking help

ng volumes are needed: DailySet21-08 Press enter when ready Reading label 'DailySet21-08' filenum 1 split dumpfile: date 20170119010002 host pcivmm1.itrnetwork.com disk "C:/Scripts" part 1/UNKNOWN lev 1 comp N program pkzip 1 kb [amandabackup@pciambkup restore]$ Can someone he

RE: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help

to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help Am 2017-01-18 um 12:24 schrieb Dinesh Vashisht: > [amandabackup@pciambkup DailySet19]$ *amcheck DailySet19* > Searching for label 'DailySet19-01':found in slot 1: volume 'DailySet19-01' > all slots have been loaded > > Taper sca

Re: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help

Am 2017-01-18 um 12:24 schrieb Dinesh Vashisht: > [amandabackup@pciambkup DailySet19]$ *amcheck DailySet19* > Searching for label 'DailySet19-01':found in slot 1: volume 'DailySet19-01' > all slots have been loaded > > Taper scan algorithm did not find an acceptable volume. > (expecting

RE: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help

-Original Message- From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:s...@amanda.org] Sent: 18 January 2017 16:34 To: Dinesh Vashisht Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help I think you should reduce retent

Re: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help

I think you should reduce retention-tapes to 11. tapecycle 12 -> retention-tapes 11

RE: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help

[mailto:s...@amanda.org] Sent: 18 January 2017 15:41 To: Dinesh Vashisht; li...@xunil.at Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help Am 2017-01-18 um 10:24 schrieb Dinesh Vashisht: > *amadmin DailySet1 invent

Re: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help

Am 2017-01-18 um 10:24 schrieb Dinesh Vashisht: *amadmin DailySet1 inventory ?* -- It's not a valid command, instead: that should have been: # amtape DailySet19 inventory and please # amadmin DailySet19 tape and show the tapelist file why did you

RE: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help

Re: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help I assume the problem is here: labelstr "DailySet1" That should be something like: labelstr "DailySet1-[0-9][0-9]*" " otherwise every tape has the same label. CONFIDE

RE: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help

age- From: Stefan G. Weichinger [mailto:s...@amanda.org] Sent: 17 January 2017 23:25 To: Dinesh Vashisht Subject: Re: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help Am 2017-01-17 um 17:22 schrieb Dinesh Vashisht: > amserverconfig DailySet1 --template harddisk --tapedev >

Re: Unable to make tape rotation work in Amanda - Seeking Help

I assume the problem is here: labelstr "DailySet1" That should be something like: labelstr "DailySet1-[0-9][0-9]*" " otherwise every tape has the same label.

Re: Request for help: 'amdump' creates empty backup

Am 2016-12-11 um 21:13 schrieb Thomas Fischer: > So, the question is: what am I doing wrong in my second, live CD/USB setup? I > cannot see any obvious problems, so I am open for suggestions! > > Looking forward to your help! Thomas, thanks for your *book* about your tests ;-)

Request for help: 'amdump' creates empty backup

sts Check ---- Client check: 1 host checked in 2.029 seconds. 0 problems found. (brought to you by Amanda 3.3.9) ---8<---8<---8<--- As can be seen in the output, 'Output Size (meg)' and 'Original Size (meg)', despite having data in the directory to be backup'ed: ---8<---8<---8<--- $ ls -l /windows/documents total 8256 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Dec 11 18:34 date.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53103 Dec 11 18:34 dmesg.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11487 Dec 11 18:34 ps-ax.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8388608 Dec 11 18:34 rand.bin ---8<---8<---8<--- So, the question is: what am I doing wrong in my second, live CD/USB setup? I cannot see any obvious problems, so I am open for suggestions! Looking forward to your help! Bye, Thomas

Re: Newbie help

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 10:28:27PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > I agree with Alan’s comment. You shouldn’t need - - notaper. (But you > CAN use it > if you want - see below). > Some comments below. > Deb Baddorf > > > On Dec 1, 2015, at 3:18 PM, Chris Lewis wrote:

Re: Newbie help

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:35:26PM -0500, Chris Lewis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/02/2015 01:36 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > | On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 10:28:27PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > |> I agree with Alan’s comment. You shouldn’t need - - notaper.

Re: Newbie help

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/2015 01:36 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: | On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 10:28:27PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: |> I agree with Alan’s comment. You shouldn’t need - - notaper. |> (But you CAN use it Thanks all, I think I understand now. It's a

Newbie help

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Running Amanda 3.3.3 on Ubuntu 14.04, with a simple LT04 tape drive. I've found myself elected as the "tape backup-er" for three different (and not network connected machines). The tape drive is on one of the three (on my machine). I've made

Re: Newbie help

I agree with Alan’s comment. You shouldn’t need - - notaper. (But you CAN use it if you want - see below). Some comments below. Deb Baddorf > On Dec 1, 2015, at 3:18 PM, Chris Lewis wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Running

Re: Newbie help

On Tuesday, December 01, 2015 04:18:44 PM you wrote: > If I try to dump directly, the drive can't keep up and the tape > shoe-shines. So, I try to do a "amdump --no-taper " so the > 4Tb drive gets dumped onto my holding area (which is 50% larger than > the contents of the drive), to flush it

Re: Newbie help

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/2015 04:44 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote: | On Tuesday, December 01, 2015 04:18:44 PM you wrote: |> If I try to dump directly, the drive can't keep up and the tape |> shoe-shines. So, I try to do a "amdump --no-taper " so |> the 4Tb drive gets

RE: Losing it, need help with amrecover

and then run amrecover. The recovered files will be placed in the temporary directory and its then up to you to move them where they belong. > -Original Message- > From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] > On Behalf Of Gene Heskett > Sent:

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

ake a temporary directory in /tmp, cd there, and then run amrecover. > The recovered files will be placed in the temporary directory and its > then up to you to move them where they belong. > > > -Original Message- > > From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org > &g

RE: Losing it, need help with amrecover

[snip] > > Which is sort of what I did Joi. > > amrecover bothers me because that is no apparent way to strip the leading > part of the path from what you want to recover, and from the messages it > presents, if you don't just give up and use a scratch directory, then move > what it recovers,

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 12:04:34AM +, Joi L. Ellis wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > Which is sort of what I did Joi. > > > > amrecover bothers me because that is no apparent way to strip the leading > > part of the path from what you want to recover, and from the messages it > > presents, if

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

On Wednesday 07 October 2015 20:04:34 Joi L. Ellis wrote: > [snip] > > > Which is sort of what I did Joi. > > > > amrecover bothers me because that is no apparent way to strip the > > leading part of the path from what you want to recover, and from the > > messages it presents, if you don't just

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

On Tuesday 06 October 2015 09:54:41 Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > On 06/10/15 09:20 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have been following the recomendations spit out by amcheck as I am > > needing to restore a machine after the machine in that spot failed. > > > > I am now down

Re: Losing it, need help with amrecover

On 06/10/15 09:20 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have been following the recomendations spit out by amcheck as I am needing to restore a machine after the machine in that spot failed. I am now down to this error, and apparently something in the installer did setup the amanda-client

Losing it, need help with amrecover

nda-client and amanda-common freshly installed, that file is not there. Slowly running out of hair folks. Thanks for any help. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Au

I need help!

Thank you all so much for your lightning-fast responses, your examples and comments have helped me a great deal and I have been able to move own with my configuration.I have also done my homework and I think I wont bother you anymore with such trivial questions.

Fwd: I need help!

Original-Nachricht Betreff:I need help! Datum: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:39:46 +0200 Von:Alexander Geronymakis a.geronyma...@portunity.de An: amanda-users-requ...@amanda.org Hi, I'm new to IT , I' m currently doing my internship in a firm in germany.I

Fwd: I need help!

Original-Nachricht Betreff:I need help! Datum: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:47:30 +0200 Von:Alexander Geronymakis a.geronyma...@portunity.de An: amanda-users-requ...@amanda.org Thank you so much for the quick response,now my only obstacle left ,is how to set

Re: I need help!

My example may be more or less complex than what you need in your setup. I hope that gets you started. Grüße nach Deutschland, Markus On Aug 1, 2013, at 6:38 AM, Alexander Geronymakis a.geronyma...@portunity.de wrote: Original-Nachricht Betreff: I need help

Re: I need help!

: Original-Nachricht Betreff: I need help! Datum: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:39:46 +0200 Von: Alexander Geronymakis a.geronyma...@portunity.de An: amanda-users-requ...@amanda.org Hi, I'm new to IT , I' m currently doing my internship in a firm in germany.I

[Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

here is what i have so far, but i welcome any suggestions or help.. https://github.com/neallawson/Amanda-LVM-snapshot +-- |This was sent by neal.law...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +--

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:30:45AM -0800, neal lawson wrote: here is what i have so far, but i welcome any suggestions or help.. https://github.com/neallawson/Amanda-LVM-snapshot Glad to see someone working on this important piece. I question if ruby is a good choice of languages as none

[Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

i chose ruby since its a stable modern language i know, and most linux distributions already ship with 1.8.7 +-- |This was sent by neal.law...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

[Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

i chose ruby since its a stable modern language i know, and most linux distributions already ship with 1.8.7, further more Amanda should be agnostic to the language that the helper scripts use. If Amanda requires i use perl, it might be time to find another backup solution.

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

On Feb 8, 2013, at 5:21 PM, neal lawson amanda-for...@backupcentral.com wrote: i chose ruby since its a stable modern language i know, and most linux distributions already ship with 1.8.7, further more Amanda should be agnostic to the language that the helper scripts use. If Amanda requires

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I would also like to see improved scripts, I have the issue at one client that the LVM-snapshots aren't correctly removed sometimes ... that leads to non-working backups and dozens of lurking snapshots ... I had a lot of problems with LVM

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

Am 2013-02-01 10:56, schrieb Bob Vickers: On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I would also like to see improved scripts, I have the issue at one client that the LVM-snapshots aren't correctly removed sometimes ... that leads to non-working backups and dozens of lurking snapshots

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

Am 28.01.2013 17:48, schrieb Markus Iturriaga Woelfel: I would, however, be interested in seeing an effort to rewrite this from the ground up as there are certainly a lot of things that could be improved/fixed. I would also like to see improved scripts, I have the issue at one client that the

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

On 01/26/2013 01:33 PM, neal lawson wrote: I've been working on a custom LVM snapshot script, I have the bulk of the script working, but i'm not sure how to message amanand to change the backup location to the snapshot location. and thoughts would be helpful. The script must print the

[Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

Markus Iturriaga Woelfel, it seems the repo you referenced no longer exists, Markus Iturriaga Woelfel Jean-Louis Martineau, the current scripts seem to be a bit of a disaster, and i did try to fix them, currently i do have a ruby based script that is 99% there i'm just missing the last bit to

[Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

so the correct link to the repo is https://github.com/marxarelli/amlvm-snapshot the one posted had a trailing ., there are sever versions of this on github, this project seems to be abandoned as it was last updated over 2 years go

Re: [Amanda-users] Help with a custom LVM snapshot script

On Jan 28, 2013, at 11:23 AM, neal lawson amanda-for...@backupcentral.com wrote: so the correct link to the repo is https://github.com/marxarelli/amlvm-snapshot the one posted had a trailing ., there are sever versions of this on github, this project seems to be abandoned as it was last

Re: [Amanda-users] Help in installing Amanda Client in FreeBSD 8.0/9.0

Jose, Im new to Amanda. I have installed Amanda Server on a CentOS but on trying to install it on the FreeBSD clients I have I am experiencing hitches. Any help you can accord will be highly appreciated. I am not sure what are your problem sin installing amanda client on FreeBSD. Go to /usr

Re: help with moving client between servers

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Recovery Help Request

. Even if I need to use a different recovery tool (amrestore). Help, -- Greg Copeland g...@copelandconsulting.net Copeland Computer Consulting

Re: Recovery Help Request

Have you tried amfetchdump? In the near-worst case scenario you can use the log file to help you locate the file on tape, extract the file to disk using dd, and then manually process things. On 04/13/2012 10:30:55 AM, Greg Copeland wrote: I have a client who needs to recover a file. I'm using

Re: Recovery Help Request

A quick google came up with two solutions: http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?3691-amrecover-segmentation-fault http://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg46079.html I'll offer my own, upgrade to the latest version (3.3.1) and see if that helps. Steve -- Steven J. Backus

Re: Recovery Help Request

On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 12:01 -0600, Steven Backus wrote: A quick google came up with two solutions: http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?3691-amrecover-segmentation-fault http://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg46079.html I'll offer my own, upgrade to the latest version

Re: Recovery Help Request

:02:33 AM, Greg Copeland wrote: On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 10:48 -0700, Marcus Pless wrote: Have you tried amfetchdump? In the near-worst case scenario you can use the log file to help you locate the file on tape, extract the file to disk using dd, and then manually process things

Re: Recovery Help Request [RESOLVED]

Just a quick follow up. I wanted to share the file in question was successfully recovered without further problems. The trick is to comment out all of the debugging statements in the index server (amidxtaped). Change these lines: debug(CTL $chopped); Into these lines: #debug(CTL $chopped);

Re: Need help with new architecture for NAS/NFS setup

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 11:53:46AM -0400, Brendon Martino wrote: Thus, it was proposed that I mount some NFS space from another system (a NAS, for all intents and purposes, though it has a WORM architecture and is only used for archiving data with retention periods that delete old archives).

Need help with new architecture for NAS/NFS setup

I'm having trouble figuring out what type of new architecture to go with for an NFS share dir on a NAS. I'm running Amanda version 2.6.0p2-14 on Fedora 10. My current architecture for Amanda is as follows: I'm running a set called DailySet1. My holding disk/vtapes are: /amanda/day0x/data/

Re: Need help with new architecture for NAS/NFS setup

On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:53:46 -0400 Brendon Martino brendon.mart...@hds.com wrote: I'm having trouble figuring out what type of new architecture to go with for an NFS share dir on a NAS. I'm inclined to think you can't, short of a messy script that plays with symlinks and rsync. I wouldn't touch

re: Need help with new architecture for NAS/NFS setup

Hi Brendon, I'm having trouble figuring out what type of new architecture to go with for an NFS share dir on a NAS. You could run two dumps in parallel, one with tapecycle of 7 onj your local disk and one with tape cycle of 30 or 60 on your NAS. Best regards, Olivier I'm running Amanda

Re: Need help with new architecture for NAS/NFS setup

Brendon Martino wrote at 11:53 -0400 on Nov 3, 2011: I'm running Amanda version 2.6.0p2-14 on Fedora 10. My current architecture for Amanda is as follows: . . How do I implement my architecture to only keep about a week (or even a day) of backups in the holding disk (locally on

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Hello again, I think I am starting to realize that something needs to be configured properly in order to Fill the tapes to their MAX capacity. I'd like some advise on that. I can create another thread for that however, it may be something to do with existing configuration so I am continuing

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

of work area and can delay your dumps until there are mulipul DLE in the work area so the taper algorithms have more choices there are paramters for that as well. I believe (unless they have been removed in the last itteration) that these relatively new parameters will help you get where you want to go

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Thanks for your quick advise Brian, I still want to post my DLEs and their sizes, may be you or someone can throw additional ideas. weeklyfull ~ total size about 58GB pluto.ece.iit.edu /export/./abc /export {12G comp-tar include ./abc } -1 pluto.ece.iit.edu /export/./def

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Thanks for your quick advise Brian, I still want to post my DLEs and their sizes, may be you or someone can throw additional ideas. weeklyfull ~ total size about 58GB client.domain.com /export/./abc /export {12G comp-tar include ./abc } -1 client.domain.com /export/./def

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Thank you Jon and everyone who have helped me understand a lot of things in Amanda. I have been able to split DLEs into multiple DLEs for the sake for distributing them in proper schedule. I also tried using inparallel and maxdump in amanda config and was successful only after configuring

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Ok guys, I got busier with other tasks so could not reply. sorry about that. I did manage upgrading to Amanda 3.x version on solaris amanda server and solaris amanda client. I tried amcheck and it worked. So I tried amdump. However it seems to me I really need to adjust the numbers because I

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 09:55:14AM -0500, upengan78 wrote: Ok guys, I got busier with other tasks so could not reply. sorry about that. I did manage upgrading to Amanda 3.x version on solaris amanda server and solaris amanda client. I tried amcheck and it worked. So I tried amdump.

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

#Congratulations on a successful amdump! Wow, tell you what I am so happy to see those words! Thanks much! By the time I saw your reply, I had impatiently split my single DLE into 9 DLEs which also includes the last one for excluding all 8 DLEs on the top. I did see same message again in the

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

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[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Oh, it looks like when I add splitdisk_buffer, it shows me below error on amcheck, amcheck test /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: dumptype parameter expected /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: end of line is expected amcheck: errors processing config file Relevant

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Actually the reason I decided to split DLE into multiple DLEs because I thought it is tar/gzipping 31GB data in one go and it might cause lower i/o speed and also feared if it 'd use more server resources. Although , I am actually looking to make best use of 16GB memory on amanda server and 8

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Hi! amcheck test /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: dumptype parameter expected /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: end of line is expected amcheck: errors processing config file I think you mean the split_diskbuffer parameter: See example amanda.conf: #

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 04:29:59PM -0500, upengan78 wrote: Oh, it looks like when I add splitdisk_buffer, it shows me below error on amcheck, amcheck test /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: dumptype parameter expected /opt/csw/etc/amanda/test/amanda.conf, line 43: end of line

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 04:04:16PM -0500, upengan78 wrote: Now I am thinking about, removing runtapes option completely, and add splitdisk_buffer option to the holding disk, I am confused about one thing, why you mentioned that looks like your splits are about 0.5GB. I have actually set

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Sorry for being late to reply as I was away from computer for last 5 days. Has this system successfully passed an amcheck configname? Yes, It works fine always. No errors found. Here is the o/p Holding disk /random//amanda/amandahold/test: 3881997 kB disk space available, using 3881997 kB

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:08:04AM -0500, upengan78 wrote: @ Jon, It doesn't show me 3.1.1 version available in CSW which I am using here. See below, /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -c amanda Checking catalog integrity with gpg. gpg: Signature made Sun Oct 17 21:35:22 2010 CDT using DSA key ID

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Sorry for being late to reply as I was away from computer for last 5 days. Has this system successfully passed an amcheck configname? Yes, It works fine always. No errors found. Here is the o/p Holding disk /random//amanda/amandahold/test: 3881997 kB disk space available, using 3881997 kB

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Sorry for double reply. I pressed back button on Midori and forum reposted/resent my reply earlier. Thanks for that info JL. I was completely unaware of OpenCSW. I will try to use Opencsw and see if I can get Amanda to 3.1.1 and proceed from there which will be best thing to do. Anyhow I

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

will just fill each vtape with a single part before moving on to the next vtape. Thanks for continuing to help guys. Appreciate it and it is wonderful to see how much deep knowledge people have about backups and sharing it happily. And, I do understand there has to be offsite storage as I know pipes

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

(Vtapes) For vtapes, spanning is automatically enabled, as the VFS device supports LEOM. You can add a part_size if you'd like to split dumps into smaller parts; otherwise, Amanda will just fill each vtape with a single part before moving on to the next vtape. Thanks for continuing to help

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Hello Brian, Thanks again. I just ran amdump test and looks like there is some issue which I am not able to understand why it's happening. Here is ther email from Amanda Admin. These dumps were to tape TEST-1. The next 6 tapes Amanda expects to use are: 6 new tapes. The next 6 new tapes

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 02:22:52PM -0500, upengan78 wrote: Hello Brian, Thanks again. I just ran amdump test and looks like there is some issue which I am not able to understand why it's happening. Here is ther email from Amanda Admin. These dumps were to tape TEST-1. The next 6

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Hi, I just had to create those slots directories (29) and then I edited amanda.conf and modified length as length 10240 MB in tapetype defination. After this ran amlabel to label 29 slots and then amcheck test which did not find problems. Only thing I had not done was restart Amanda server

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:37:31AM -0500, upengan78 wrote: I have made some changed to amanda.conf. First I have changed disk size to 10GB, then number of Vtapes/slots = 29 and also added runtapes = 6 My amanda.conf dumpcycle 7 runspercycle 7 tapecycle 29 runtapes 6 dumpuser amanda

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:27:15AM -0500, upengan78 wrote: Hi, Using Amanda on Solaris 10 2.5.2p1,REV=2008.05.21 and amanda client on a solaris 8 which I beleive has same version of Amanda. OpenCSW shows amanda version 3.1.1. Why are you using such an old version? Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie

[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Hi, Using Amanda on Solaris 10 2.5.2p1,REV=2008.05.21 and amanda client on a solaris 8 which I beleive has same version of Amanda. I am not sure what settings for tapecycle dumpcycle should be used for efficient usage of Vtapes. I'd like advise in setting those parameters in amanda.conf Here

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

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[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Firstly, thanks for the response! 1. You have 50 gig under backup/amanda control, but how much data are you currently backing up per week ? Currently not doing any backups through Amanda. I am trying to understand this whole theory of numbers involved in configuration. I want to start backing

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:35:10 -0500 upengan78 amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Firstly, thanks for the response! 1. You have 50 gig under backup/amanda control, but how much data are you currently backing up per week ? Currently not doing any backups through Amanda. I am trying to

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

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[Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

Thanks for the advise. I understand you have asked me some questions and that is actually making me think of more points to be considered while sizing and make correct decisions. Some of the points that you have mentioned I did not really think of them when I started. Thanks for pointing them

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

On 11/23/10 2:34 PM, upengan78 wrote: snip One thing I am confused about and want to confirm do I really need to use spanning in Virtual tapes ? snip *How many DLEs, disklist entries, will you have, what are their relative sizes ? Only 1 entry for a amanda-network client server. Size is

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

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Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:34:17 -0500 upengan78 amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: One thing I am confused about and want to confirm do I really need to use spanning in Virtual tapes ? This document here mentions that one doesn't need to configure 'runtapes' variable with vtapes but

Re: [Amanda-users] amanda.conf config help

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:34:17PM -0500, upengan78 wrote: Thanks for the advise. While Amanda can be used for your needs, it may not be an optimal choice. Amanda is a backup manager, she makes choices about what and how to backup your DLEs. But you are trying to do most or all of Amanda's

script help?

Greetings all; My catchup script seems to be working with 2 exceptions, first being that I am not getting any emails from it, so I installed dnsmasq to see if that fixes that. 2nd, each pass through my catchup script loop elicits an error warning from the main script: ./flush.sh: line 173:

Re: script help?

Gene Heskett wrote at 12:04 -0400 on Jul 21, 2010: Greetings all; My catchup script seems to be working with 2 exceptions, first being that I am not getting any emails from it, so I installed dnsmasq to see if that fixes that. 2nd, each pass through my catchup script loop elicits

Re: script help?

On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 01:10:50 pm John Hein did opine: Gene Heskett wrote at 12:04 -0400 on Jul 21, 2010: Greetings all; My catchup script seems to be working with 2 exceptions, first being that I am not getting any emails from it, so I installed dnsmasq to see if that

plea for help: chio + chg-robot

A user on IRC asked me about support for chio, the FreeBSD equivalent to mtx. I know Amanda has chg-chio, but for some reason this wasn't working well. This particular user didn't hang around long enough to get things working, but it did remind me that chg-robot doesn't support chio, since I

Re: plea for help: chio + chg-robot

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:20:03AM -0600, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: A user on IRC asked me about support for chio, the FreeBSD equivalent to mtx. I know Amanda has chg-chio, but for some reason this wasn't working well. This particular user didn't hang around long enough to get things

Re: plea for help: chio + chg-robot

that I would have the option of implementing a direct-to-SCSI interface, but it turns out this isn't such a great idea. However, the abstraction should make it easy to add in support for chio in parallel to that for mtx. I don't know if it's any help, but both Subversion and Git are options

I accidentally ran chown and need help

I'm trying to set up a backup for a client machine running 8.10 Ubuntu using an Ubuntu 8.04 server running 2.6.1b1 - but the version on the client machine is an earlier one. Anyway, I fat fingered something and changed the ownerships on all the files in /usr/libexec/amanda and I'm now getting an

Re: I accidentally ran chown and need help

Here are my permissions. Notice all the files owned by root have the setUID permission set. [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]$ ls -alrth total 1.5M -rw-r--r-- 1 amandabackup disk 956 Jun 25 18:11 amanda-sh-lib.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 amandabackup disk 48K Jun 25 18:11 amandad drwxr-xr-x 3 root root

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