* Ben Elliston [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:10:15AM +1000)
jrj wrote:
Is this 2.4.2? If so, I think you're not the only one who's mentioned
this. Sigh.
Yes, it is. Interestingly, I think this is the first partition of mine to
receive a level 3 dump.
Are you using
* Sebastian Frankfurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:27:41AM +0100)
Mack Earnhardt wrote:
I was getting connection refused on amrecover for a while. The
..amandahosts file allowed access to root@localhost, but amrecover would
use root@servername and fail. My solution was
Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
* Sebastian Frankfurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:27:41AM +0100)
Mack Earnhardt wrote:
I was getting connection refused on amrecover for a while. The
..amandahosts file allowed access to root@localhost, but amrecover would
use
getting estimates with gnuatr takes forever and then some.
Amanda also comes with a little tool called calcsizes that
1) seems to be fatser than gnutar
2) can do mutlipel estimates in one run.
Currently getting an estimate on the big disk takes 3 -4 hours
and that's mainly because for every
Hey folks,
Is this safe to put in the Amanda crontab?
/usr/sbin/amdump Daily; /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/nst0 eject
I'm just wondering if "amdump" spawns other jobs that need to be executed before
quitting and then ejecting the
tape.
Cheers, Luc.
PS: Amanda is really great. I've only one
Hi all
I have a problem ...
I use this dumptype to dump my / filesystem (I use the /dev/sda1 in the
disklist file) :
define dumptype comp-root-tar {
root-tar
comment "Root partitions with compression"
compress client fast
exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Linux/root-exclude"
* Luc Lalonde [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:55:29AM -0500)
Hey folks,
Is this safe to put in the Amanda crontab?
/usr/sbin/amdump Daily; /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/nst0 eject
I have it in mine.
I'm just wondering if "amdump" spawns other jobs that need to be executed before
Hi Javi,
I've had 2 problems with this. First of all, try to check what file
amanda thinks the gtar exclude files are in--I found out that it was
really looking in /usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar even though it was
supposed to be /usr/local/var/amanda/exclude.gtar. I just kept the file
in
Over the weekend, we received this error message from Amanda:
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
amanda sd0e lev 1 FAILED [nak error:unexpected ack packet]
amanda is the name of the backup server. I checked what I knew to check and
could not find anything wrong. The backup last night ran
I just hacked sendsize.c to use calcsize iso gnutar to estimate dumpsizes.
The speed difference is enorm.
Whereas gnutar took well over 4 hours to get the estimates using calcsize
gives results within 45 minutes.
Now my question is:
1) Why is gnutar used in stead of calcsize ?
2) Are there any
Hello everybody:
i configured amanda to run as a server in a machine whith an oldhostname
Now i changed the hostname to newhostname
when i do amrecover it looks for oldhostname.
How can i tell amanda that i have changed the name of the server where it is
running?
I sent the message below yesterday. After having read some other seemingly
unrelated messages, I realized that I did change one of the disks on the
client "client.foo.com" from using dump to tar (see dumptypes below). It
was after this change that the entire client started coming back as
so, I see the "." prepending the path, and added another path to the exclude
list :
/var/spool
./var/spool
but the error persists :/
could anyone let me know why ? :?
Jonathan had a really good idea about making sure GNU tar is even
using the exclusions file you think it is. Take a look
...
when i do amrecover it looks for oldhostname.
How can i tell amanda that i have changed the name of the server where it is
running?
Do a "man amrecover" and look for the -s and -t flags.
If you don't want to use those flags and want it to pick the new name
by default, you'll have to
Tue Jan 30 0:04:03 2001: enter: getTapeParams
Tue Jan 30 0:04:03 2001: running: /bin/chio -f /dev/null params
I don't know much about chio, but passing /dev/null to it seems like a
bad idea. That comes from "changerdev" in amanda.conf. Are you sure
that parameter didn't get dinged in the
Title: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before?
Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before? Running an Exabyte 8500 series tape drive.
If so please!!! Tell me how you did it.
Christopher A.
Los Angeles, Ca.
I'm using amanda-2.4.2, and I've got one filesystem that's (after
compression) 500MB too big for my tape. :(
I'd rather not use gtar, due to previous bad experiences with it.
Does 2.5 out of CVS support splitting dumps across multiple tape
volumes?
Chris
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Title: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before?
Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H changer before? Running an Exabyte 8500 series tape drive.
If so please!!! Tell me how you did it.
Christopher A.
Los Angeles, Ca.
Hey all,
I've got a puzzler here, any suggestions on how to handle this would be
great (except using gnutar).
I'm using amanda-2.4.2 on Solaris 2.6, works great. However, my file
systems are such that I have three file systems that are an order of
magnitude larger than the rest(18GB vs 2 GB).
and sure enough, if I check out the permissions:
-rw---1 root disk 104 Jan 30 01:05 tapelist
I can change the permissions, but they'll be reset after the next dump.
Which program writes to this file? ...
Taper (amdump), amadmin and amlabel.
I'm assuming that I have a
Now my question is:
1) Why is gnutar used in stead of calcsize ?
For one thing, it knows about exclusion lists. Whether you can actually
write one that does what you want is a separate question :-).
My guess is the original sequence of events went something like this:
* Using tar to
Yes, this was all that was in the file and I now see that it was
incomplete. I didn't see the process running so it was either killed or it
crashed. I'll stay with tar and the increased timeout for tonight and see
if the process does complete.
Oscar
At 05:20 PM 1/30/01 -0500, John R.
This is what the amrecover sends to stdout:
AMRECOVER Version 2.4.1p1. Contacting server on localhost ...
amrecover: Unexpected server end of file
And this is what I found in /var/log/messages:
...
Jan 29 07:52:07 myhost xinetd[1318]: warning: can't get client
address: Invalid
Also, if this is not possible, does anyone have any other suggestions on
getting a speedup on the estimates ?
Fix GNU tar? :-)
The sendsize.c file menations a maxdumps= variable ..
How can this be set ?
With "maxdumps" in amanda.conf. It will cause more than one estimate (on
separate disks)
Title: Quick question about STCTL
I'm trying to get stctl working so that I can move on to the Amanda stages, Can anyone help me with this that has probably had troubles in my same area? I'm situation is below:
I have stctl installed and configured (I think properly) on my Sun E250 running
Does increasing tapebufs improve the speed in which amanda dump to disk ?
No.
I thought tapebufs was only for dumping to tape ?
Yes.
Gerhard
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 01:21:43AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
My diff doesn't understand "-u" as an option. I've attached a normal diff
and a context diff between the original chg-zd-mtx.sh.in and my update.
A context diff is fine.
It works perfectly as a drop-in replacement. It also -
*
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:55:57PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
The email output of amreport seems to have been broken somewhere between
2.4.1p1 and 2.4.2.
What you call "broken", others call a new "feature" :-).
Look for "columnspec" in "man amanda". FYI, here's what I use:
Yes, but we'd need to know that OS, hardware, etc you are running
before we can help you in any useful fashion. If I told you
"Yes, running my private distribution of Linux" it wouldn't help you much ;-)
The actual answer is 'yes, running Solaris 8 with the sgen driver and mtx'
but again this
Title: RE: Has anyone EVER gotten Amanda to work with an Exabyte 10 H change r before?
I'm running Solaris 7 in 64 bit mode with the stctl driver, but the stctl driver keeps reporting all the bays empty. The connection type from Sun Box to Exabyte changer is SCSI II. Let me know if I can
How does one configure the blocksize?
Marc was (I assume) referring to old, crufty, icky, by hand scripts he
used in the far past, not wonderful, shiny Amanda :-). I fully intend
to ignore the fact that they were faster :-).
I think what he meant was he changed the 'b' flag value on the dump,
I believe mine was either a 10h or a 10i. Anyway, I had to use Fermilab's
Juke software. Depends on the OS you are running as well. This was
under Digital Unix 4.0x. It worked out pretty dang good. I suspect
you will have more choices of robot software if you are using Linux
or Solaris.
On Jan 30, 2001, "John R. Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note that it will not run multiple estimate levels of the same disk at
the same time (I don't think) since that would normally beat on the disk
too hard.
OTOH, if they start all at the same time, they might take advantage of
1) Why is gnutar used in stead of calcsize ?
For one thing, it knows about exclusion lists.
For another, it knows about incrementals.
Actually, we might be wrong on both counts. I took a very quick look
at the source and there is at least some support for exclusions.
And I think it can
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