I have just configured Amanda and i am having some problems:
1) How should i specify a device for backup? I want to make a backup of an ide
disk partition under linux, so I guess the name of the device should be hdaX
where X is the numbre of the partition, so the line will be something like this
Joseph
To interactively list the contents of a tape, pipe the output to the
program you used during the backup. For example I use xfsdump on the SGI,
so I will issue the command:
amrestore -p $TAPE whatever (as you say) | xfsrestore -i - ./
This will allow me to browse the contents of the
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:44:27AM -0400, Karl Bellve wrote:
I am learning to use Amanda but it seems it has a problem, as everyone
knows, backing up a filesystem larger than the tape.
I have a 300GB Raid 5 system and a 35GB AIT tape drive. I would like
to do a backup of the raid system
Olivier,
From the logs and the email, it seems that the dump fails at
approximatively
70% of completion.
The tape is correct (I ran amcheck successfully prior to the dump) and
no
other tool is trying to access the tape device.
Not that I am trying to backup a filesystem larger than the tape
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 03:36, you wrote:
1. Is it possible to use the same tape for multiple (daily) runs? How?
Natively, it is not possible. It can be done using some tricks
2. Is it possible to simply do full backups (full dumps) manually?
Without any schedule? How?
Full dumps
Please help me with an advise regarding purchase a new tape drive that
must (all criteria must be satisfied):
(-) works on a SCSI Adaptec Controller
(-) works on a RedHAt 6.2 distribution with the original 2.2.16
kernel, without the need to recompile that kernel.
(-) be supported by
I'm trying to backup just a small directory, but i get this error:
driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner
What am i doing wrong?
Thanks for your attention
PS: Here's the report with the errors:
These dumps were to tape BackupTotal00.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is:
I am attempting for the first time to back up a Windows (NT) machine using
Amanda. I've set up the amanda server as the samba client, which is a Red
Hat 6.2 machine. The daily amcheck reports no errors however the nightly
backup fails with [Request to localhost timed out.]
Hummm, are you sure
I have nothing about something like this in the FAQ, but Ryan Williams
reported something similar in the mailing list. For him ist was a
problem with autosensing media of the ethernet card.
Next thing I will try is to set the autosensing ethernet cards to a
fixed speed.
Hummm, what is the
Put this in a FAQ somewhere!
It already is. In:
http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/140.html
it says:
If you are using a fire wall or TCP wrappers, make sure it is set up
to allow the amanda service in to the client from the server.
-doug
John R. Jackson, Technical Software
I used a network sniffer to look at the network packets being sent when I run
amcheck and here's what I found:
Can you try to run the network sniffer on the client either? Just to
see if you get the packet there too.
No, i don't believe it uses tcp wrappers.
On modern OS, every service
dgram.c: In function `dgram_send':
dgram.c:185: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
dgram.c:186: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
...
Sigh. That's what I get for trying to use a function (inet_ntoa) that
drives me nuts even on a good day.
Please give the
I though the same thing, but the files are not on the holding disk.
So that i don't understand that error.
Vicent.
Olivier Nicole escribió:
2001-05-31 hermes hda1 0 Cinta3 0 [out of tape]
2001-05-31 hermes hda1 0 --- 0 FAILED (driver) [dump to
tape failed]
pricewatch.com has it $1840 from PC Nation. Since Amanda does not
yet span filesystems across tapes, the SLR 100 is a good choice
for those who have to do block level backups of large disks.
Well here in Thailand, we have to deal with import taxes and so on :(
Now days I would even go for an
So the error I'm getting is tape open: Device not configured. ...
Amanda is just reporting to you what the OS told it. I'm guessing
your tape driver in the kernel is seriously confused. If you know
how and are brave enough, you might try unloading and reloading it.
Otherwise I'd suggest a
Olivier Nicole wrote:
I am learning to use Amanda but it seems it has a problem, as everyone
knows, backing up a filesystem larger than the tape.
Am I wrong? I understood that Amanda is supposed to ask for as many
tapes during a single run, that are needed to complete the back-up.
So
Christoffer Hall-Frederiksen writes:
- I have a Exabyte EXB-480 gismo with 4 Exabyte Mammoth EXB-8900
- tapedrives in it. Now if I use Eric Lee Green's mtx (1.2.12) the
- whole thing works just great. I can load and unload tapes and get
- a nice status of the robot just fine. But in my test-setup
If I hit return key, it will repeat the instruction insert tape into slot 1
and press return
Are you surfe that the tape is an Amanda tape?
Have you run amlabel on that tape?
Olivier
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
However, I *think* (but did not investigate) this will create a hill
in the balancing Amanda tries to achieve, so during the week it will
promote full dumps from what would have been done next weekend up into
the weekdays to reduce the load it
I would like to be able to force a bunch of full dumps on the weekend,
when the total time of the run is not an issue, so that the load should
be a little lighter during the week.
Ummm, this may not behave the way you expect. You probably think that
forcing them on a weekend and having
PATRICK,
I am not Amanda expert either :)
I was hopping that compression would do the trick as I currently only
have
6Gbytes of data on the partition
never ever assume that, Amanda is doing it's own compression, then the
tape tries to recompress again, and it messes everything, could even
Hi,
I'm currently looking for a new tape-drive including a tape-library. What do
you think about AIT Drives? Does anyone know, if there are any tape-libraries
for 19-Racks?
Greetings,
Annette Bitz
Oh?
If you use tar (as opposed to dump) as the low-level utility, you can
use a single amanda config, with a line in the disklist for each 10G
subdirectory.
I didn't know one could do that. How?
DSL
--
ACCUSATION:
David Newall, you have not read your Microsoft Manual
REPLY:
No I haven't
Hang on a moment here. What we should be thinking is that someone
thinks there should be a cross reference to this question in the
FAQ We all categorise things differently to each other so what
might seem like a sensible place for a question to you, may not be
sensible to the next person...
Does it matter that my dumpcycle is 6 weeks? ...
More guesswork, but no, I don't think this will matter. Forcing a
bunch of full dumps at any point is still going to look like a hill
in the load and Amanda will try to flatten it out.
Jonathan F. Dill
John R. Jackson, Technical Software
Hello,
I searched the amanda archives but didn't see a conclusive
answer to my question: any problem with an autoPAK library
with a VXA-1 tape drive (V17 cartridge) driven by Amanda
on a Linux box (Redhat-6.2) with a Adaptec AHA-2940U2/W?
(This server will be upgraded to RH-7.1 real soon).
How
At 09:34 AM 6/13/2001, Bryan S. Sampsel wrote:
That's the bitch of it...it IS resolved: via nslookup, via ping--ANYTHING
but Amanda.
It's bizarre. I'm getting ready to compile amanda from source to see if
it's a problem with the rpm on the client. Rpm installs are OK
sometimes--other times,
So here's a twist. I get the exact same error on one
of machines when I run Amanda but I AM using the non-rewinding
device /dev/nht0. Using the mt and dd tools give results I would
expect (i.e. the device does not rewind with successive commands etc.)
but amlabel constantly pukes on
I was wondering if anyone on the team has looked into making a module for
Webmin. I don't know how difficult a task it is and I realize you guys have
a lot on your plate working on security etc. changes to the code. A Webmin
module would be a great way to simplify usage without having to
Also, while restore the following error pop up:
Note: Doing Quad swapping
. is not on the tape
Root directory is not on tape
Are you restoring on the same client that the image was created on?
In other words, are you running amrecover on nfs-1?
The above implies you're trying to do something
Bryan S. Sampsel wrote:
That's the bitch of it...it IS resolved: via nslookup, via ping--ANYTHING but Amanda.
It's bizarre. I'm getting ready to compile amanda from source to see if it's a
problem with the rpm on the client. Rpm installs are OK sometimes--other times, I'd
rather not
You have to enable reverse DNS lookup i.e. the system must be able to
convert th IP number 172.16.3.1 into a domain name. Hope that helps
Karl Heinz
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IDAS GmbH
Amcheck ran fine the day I added 'groups = yes' to xinetd amanda entry on
both and ran /etc/xinetd restart for both new linux boxes.
Just last night I scheduled a level 0 for these boxes.
{sunny2 and sunny3}
Sunny2's back up went well but sunny3 returned the 'infamous' access
error.
ERROR:
i configure amanda 2.4.2p2 with
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/amanda
--with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-portrange=800,830
--with-udpportrange=800,830
however, after using tcpdump, i find out that it
use udp port 800,830, but tcp port 3. could somebody tell me why?!
thanks.
FAQ We all categorise things differently to each other so what
might seem like a sensible place for a question to you, may not be
sensible to the next person...
Well the web should be a very flexible tool for offering multiple
indexation of a FAQ. Or have a search on contents tool :)
I am trying to use localhost as the host tape names when doing an amdump
and amrecover. ...
Why? In general, I've always advised against this. For one thing, if
you ever change your configuration around and use a different server,
localhost is going to be the wrong name. Why not use FQDN's
If you use tar (as opposed to dump) as the low-level utility, you can
use a single amanda config, with a line in the disklist for each 10G
subdirectory.
I didn't know one could do that. How?
OK lets suppose you mount /dev/da0s1g to /home for the users home
directories.
In /home, you
I had lock ups and freezing when using linux kernel 2.4.0-test6. I
needed 2.4 to get ATA100 support for promise Ultra100 controllers.
Kernel 2.4.5 appears to have solved lockups in the IDE driver/hardware.
Amanda is working great now.
Just wanted this on the list so if someone seaches for the
mt rewind
dd if=/dev/rmt/1hn bs=32k count=1 header.dat # tape label, apparently
Correct.
mt fsf 1 # skip to next archive
You don't have to do the fsf's. Unless you use the 'b' device names on
Solaris, the tape will be positioned after the next tape mark, ready to
read the next image.
I
... Anyway what I would like
to know is if you can make amanda follow symlinks off the filesystem one is
backing up. ...
You could change the code to do this if you're using GNU tar, but I
can't think of any good reason to. You could even end up with loops
that would dump forever.
If I use
Hi Guys
I have a problem with one of our backup systems running amanda on a Sun Server on 12
Tape library. I have the following problem:
When the scheduled amcheck is run on the server all hosts passes the test execpt for
the Amanda server. It gives me the following error :
WARNING:
Also, while restore the following error pop up:
Note: Doing Quad swapping
. is not on the tape
Root directory is not on tape
abort? [yn] n
./2/home2/p/r/protract is not on the tape
and amidxtaped.debug reports the following:
amrestore: 12: restoring nfs-1.c1t2d0s0.20010607.0
On Wed, Jun 13,
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
What's stc-changer? I don't see anything in the Amanda sources by
that name.
It's part of the STCTL package that works with AMANDA and the hardware
to.. (hehe i'm sure you know the rest)
When I do an 'stc-changer -slot 1' ...
I get the slot #,
If the guilty party of this thread can put forth another $.1, I just
wanted to point out my frustration in trying to determine why amanda was
having this problem with inetd. I had honestly forgotten about the tcp
wrapper part, and it didn't occur to me how inetd/amanda would react if
there
Is each interface on a completely separate subnet?
I had a similar situation a while back with a Sun box that had multiple
interfaces, but at that time they were all on the same subnet. The problem
was, packets were going out the default interface (which, IIRC, is the
last one that gets
Hi,
I solved my problem alone.
FYI the problem was that the basename of the machine was not well registred
(baseinstall in /etc/hostname, another name in DNS).
Thank you.
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 11:09, you wrote:
Hi all,
I'm new to Amanda and have a brand new config running. My backup
I ran into the same problem.
What I think it is:
the installation on rh7.0 and 7.1 has a different
amanda-user voor handling amanda operation.
On one system it is amanda on the other it's operator.
I also tried to install rh7.1 amanda rpm on rh7.0 system.
Changing the permission of
Instead its' unable to read the status from stc-changer. ...
What's stc-changer? I don't see anything in the Amanda sources by
that name.
When I do an 'stc-changer -slot 1' ...
I get the slot #, total # of slots, and one other number I forget now
Ummm, do you mean stc-changer -info?
instead
On Jun 9, 2001, Grant Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am needing to archive data on a long term basis. If I I run one
backup a week I will only get about 25gb of data which does not fill up
my AIT(50gb) tape. Due to disk limitations (NetApp) I really can not
let this one process take
On Jun 13, 2001, Aaron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but amlabel constantly pukes on it with the same error listed below
Which version of amlabel? There was an embarrassing bug in 2.4.2 (or
some earlier snapshot?) that caused it to fail every time on some
platforms. It's most definitely
On Jun 13, 2001, Henk Vandecasteele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also tried to install rh7.1 amanda rpm on rh7.0 system.
Changing the permission of /etc/amandates changes the
behaviour, but I could never make it to work. Looks like
the package is incompatible.
My understanding is that
I was wondering if there is anyway to get amanda working with a
rewinding tape device
because I dont want to go buy a new tape drive, unless im talking crap
no chance of winning - Amanda writes several files onto the tape and
closes the device in between.
having this problem with inetd. I had honestly forgotten about the tcp
wrapper part, and it didn't occur to me how inetd/amanda would react if
there wasn't an entry in the hosts.allow file. Considering that amandad
Doug,
There is no reason to blame yourself on that. Systematic use of TCP
Hello,
I can't run amanda with user root? I only can run wih user opeator? The
problem especified in the message is then user who run the amanda?
tanks,
Original Message
Subject: diaria AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR June 14, 2001
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:41:01 +0200
From: root
thanks,
I have a problem with the service and the xinetd. I have defined the
service but I have disabled (option default) the xinetd.d/amanda
xinetd.d/mandaidx and xinetd.d/amidxtape.
In the RedHat 7.1 if I define the inetd.conf I need to define also the
confiruration i the xinted.d
Thank
but they are running as setuid already.
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 146854 Jun 15 12:40 amandad
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 222418 Jun 10 15:46 amcleanupdisk
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 138181 Jun 15 12:40 amidxtaped
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 373203 Jun 10 15:46
amcheck-server: could not get changer info: could not read result from
/usr/local/libexec/stc-changer
H. This says Amanda fork'd and ran /usr/local/libexec/stc-changer
but when it did a read to gather the result string (or an error message)
all it got was EOF.
When you ran stc-changer by
On Jun 17, 2001, Wong Ching Kuen Frederick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
however, after using tcpdump, i find out that it use udp port
800,830, but tcp port 3.
Did you use --with-portrange when building the client too?
--
Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
I am wondering if it is possible at all to use tape libraries or small
tape changers like the EZ17 with AMANDA.
If anyone has gotten robotics to work with AMANDA I would love to hear
details. If it is not possible, I would like to know what devices people
think work best with AMANDA.
Thanks,
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