Hi,
I want to recover files into amanda remote client
from amanda tape server.
I executed "amrecover mailde" command
on amanda tape server.
mailde is amanda remote client hostname.
# amanda mailde
amrecoversethost mailde
200 Dump host set to mailde.
amrecoversetdisk /
200 Disk set to /.
Hi!
Chris Marble wrote:
Martin Oehler wrote:
I use amanda on a solaris 7 box with a DTL drive (20 GB)
attached. My dumpcyle is 4 weeks with 20 runs per cycle.
Because the size of one incremental backup is only
between 2-4 GB I don't want to change the tape each day.
You could
About 2 weeks ago I asked the following:
I'm backing up a single W2K machine to my tape server.
There are 4 partitions on the windows box. Some nights
al 4 partitions are processed normally. Most nights
1 or more of the partitions fail with the query
host offline? which obviously it is
sorry, I forgot
OS is:
SunOS fav 5.4 Generic_101945-43 sun4m sparc
regards,
rainer.
HI all-
Awhile ago, I built a system which was destined to be my webserver which
was a AMD Duron 800 with the fabled Kt133a Southbridge chipset. AFter
numerous backups with amanda, I kept on getting i/o errors and strange
dump reports using an IBM 45 gig ATA 100 drive. On the system, the
Don't know if this will help or not but this problem was discussed
at some
length on various VIA HArdware sites. IIRC, it was tracked down to an
incompatibility
between the Southbridge and, of all things, the Soundblaster Live! sound
card.
Do you have such an animal in this machine?
When I run the extract command in amrecover, I get:
extract_file_setup(): will request tape DailySet100 file 0.
EOF, check amidxtaped.debug file on myhostname.
amrecover: short block 0 bytes
UNKNOWN file
amrecover: Can't read file header
extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
I have mislabled a disk but amanda has done dump to it. If i remove and
relabel it, will i loose the backup?
Hussain
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:41:29PM -0800, Amanda Listee wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install the tapeless amanda-242-tapeio sourceforge version
on a FreeBSD-4.4 white box:
Use amanda-243-branch instead of amanda-242-tapeio.
Maybe some of your software are not up to date?
You can download a
Rainer Fuegenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After adding a new old server named fav to amanda, I keep
getting the following message:
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
fav/home2 lev 0 FAILED [disk /home2 offline on fav?]
It doesn't matter if the disk is specified by device file
Hi,
I'm using the .amanda.exclude.gtar script to exclude a few things from
our backup.
I am having a problem with netscape cache. In the exclude script I have
the following line:
*/.netscape/cache/*
I still get problems in the backup report:
? gtar:
I am curious if people see failed backups regularly, occasionally, or
hardly at all due to IO errors on the tapeserver bus. My own failed
backups seem to be linked to questionable tapes which may have been
ready to fail anyways. Unfortunately, the ecrix tapes are very
expensive to me and I hate
Hi folks, got one here at home.
I added a second machne to the home network, and added some
iptable NAT/MASQUERADE rules, and now amcheck is returning this
error:
WARNING: gene.coyote.den: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
Here is the /home/amanda/.amandahosts file:
gene.coyote.den
hi,
Imagine that during the christmass vacation nobody stay in the company,
so no more people are going to modify any files... Is there a way to
tell amanda to suspend is work for 1 week..without stressing it when we
restart..
I have no idea on how to proceed, anyone, anyone I was thinking to
Gene,
Don't know if this is your first networked machine, but in case your
just getting started with xinetd, bear in mind that by default, the old
inetd configuration used to have all services enabled. Xinetd, on the
other hand, comes standard with all services 'disabled'. So, check the
Title:
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I have Solaris 8 box using Amanda 2.4.2 (client). And when I run
amcheck from the tape server I get the following errors on the console:
Dec 31 09:54:18 oligo inetd[170]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning]
/var/adm/amanda/libexec/amandad: Killed
Dec 31 09:55:28 oligo inetd[170]: [ID 667328
This could be an inetd issue, if you have a whole lot
of disklist entries pointing to the server in question.
Rate limiting is a common inetd feature. The idea is that
more than some number of requests per unit time means the
same request is coming in repeatedly, and the server isn't
satisfying
On January 2 2002, I wrote:
[much deleted]
You'll notice that USE_GMAKE= yes appears in the FreeBSD ports of Amanda
(/usr/ports/misc/amanda24-server/Makefile is the master makefile for the
ports), for this very reason.
Actually, it looks like the maintainer of the FreeBSD Amanda ports has
Hi,
Since my incremental backup is not so big(about 20G)per day. I want
amanda to put daily incremental backup to the holding disk first. and then
after 3 or 4 days, I flush it to one tape(100G capacity).That means the
holding disk will have 3 or 4 days of incremental backup. how can I do
this
Someone has never had a similar problem?
amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20011213 label Daily1-CdC-001
amrestore: strange amanda header: AMANDA: FILE 20011211 leonardo / let 1
comp .gz program /bin/gtar
I do not see nothing strange?
Thanks,
Alessandro
I'm a new subscriber, so apologies in advance if this is an FAQ, I was
unable to find an answer on the site. I'll take all relevant redirection
to solutions.
I'm running a large amanda installation without any problems whatsoever,
but with a few desires. The largest of these is client-side
Hi,
I'm trying to install the tapeless amanda-242-tapeio sourceforge version
on a FreeBSD-4.4 white box:
I ran autogen twice, getting which I assume is a harmless error:
configure.in:1617: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without
default to allow cross
I'm using amanda 2.4.2p2 with a patch to append backups to
the same tape. Everything works well and I have managed to
retrieve files using amrecover. Problem is, after running
that command, I'm guessing I need to reset the position of
the tape to 1 beyond the last filesystem written to tape. Is
On Thursday 27 December 2001 02:44 pm, Hussain Ali wrote:
I have mislabled a disk but amanda has done dump to it. If i remove and
relabel it, will i loose the backup?
Hussain
Yes.
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At 14:26 03-01-2002 -0500, Dengfeng Liu wrote:
Since my incremental backup is not so big(about 20G)per day. I want
amanda to put daily incremental backup to the holding disk first. and then
after 3 or 4 days, I flush it to one tape(100G capacity).That means the
holding disk will have 3 or 4 days
Hi,
I have several partitions using XFS and would like to ask how I can use
xfsdump with Amanda?
The backup server runs on Debian Linux and the debian packages amanda-server
amanda-common and amanda-client are installed.
Regards,
Ben
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:52:04PM +0100, Alessandro Prete wrote:
Someone has never had a similar problem?
amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20011213 label Daily1-CdC-001
amrestore: strange amanda header: AMANDA: FILE 20011211 leonardo / let 1
comp .gz program /bin/gtar
It
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 at 3:39pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
in 20020102_1
(head)
07414661435/./var/amanda/gnutar-lists/dagaz.lib.unomaha.edu_usr_local_1
07414664217/./amanda-2.4.2p2/amplot/amcat.awk
07414664217/./amanda-2.4.2p2/amplot/amcat.awk.in
07414664217/./amanda-2.4.2p2/amplot/amplot.awk
On December 28 2001, Amanda Listee wrote:
I'm trying to install the tapeless amanda-242-tapeio sourceforge version
on a FreeBSD-4.4 white box:
[snip]
hotpink# make
Making all in config
Making all in common-src
Makefile, line 440: Need an operator
make:
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:30:57PM -0500, Don Potter wrote:
Dan Wilder wrote:
This could be an inetd issue, if you have a whole lot
of disklist entries pointing to the server in question.
Rate limiting is a common inetd feature. The idea is that
more than some number of requests per
tar version 1.13 puts those extra numbers at the start of each entry.
These mess up the indexing. Uprade to a later version. I use 1.13.17
and 1.13.19 with no problems.
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- I have the index = yes setup in the conf file
-
- when i connect i get:
-
-
Hi,
I have the following configuration:
O/S:Debian 2.2 (potato)
Amanda: amanda-client amanda-server amanda-common packages direct from
Debian.
Client:
Server:
Client SambaTest
Server:calvin
tapedir/tbu
The client has the base Debian install, samba,
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:56 am, Jeffrey S. Mulliken wrote:
Gene,
Don't know if this is your first networked machine, but in
case your just getting started with xinetd, bear in mind that
by default, the old inetd configuration used to have all
services enabled. Xinetd, on the other
I have the index = yes setup in the conf file
when i connect i get:
220 index/tape_server AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2) ready.
200 Access OK
Setting restore date to today (2002-01-02)
200 Working date set to 2002-01-02.
200 Config set to normal.
200 Dump host set to dagaz.site.edu.
Can't
Hi,
I'm using the .amanda.exclude.gtar script to exclude a few things
from our backup.
I am having a problem with netscape cache. In the exclude script I
have the following line:
*/.netscape/cache/*
I still get problems in the backup report:
? gtar:
Hello,
Use ./home/monachus/.netscape/cache if /home is the root of the
partition being backed up. Remeber exclude are relative to the partition
being backed up.
Andrew
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Troy Nachtigall wrote:
Hi,
I'm using the .amanda.exclude.gtar script to exclude a few things from
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:13:10PM +0100, Tom Beer wrote:
ERROR: strawberry.system: [access as operator not allowed from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]] open of //.amandahosts failed
[...]
/usr/home/operator/.amandahosts
We've always had to put .amandahosts in /, for whatever reason.
Ok, I've
Is anyone out there, backing up a Lotus Notes server (on win 2k) with
amanda? Any succes, failures?
Also how much success/failures has anyone had with a restoring about
everything on a windows box? I know backing up data is easy to restore,
but for most programs you need to re-install.
You should probably double check your hardware. I once had a similar
error where every ~2,000,000,000th double word on the tape was
corrupted. It turned out to be a bad mainboard (asus a7v133 pci
problem). Run amverify regulary for a while, gzip will report these
kind of errors (crc error).
Hi,
I'm trying to get amanda(client) running
on a Freebsd4.3-Release. I fetched the ports
did a
./configure \
--with-user=operator \
--with-group=operator \
--with-amandahosts \
Since attempting to replace our old DDS3 tape drives with HP Ultriums,
Amanda backups haven't worked properly. The HP tape drives themselves
seem OK when we back things up to them directly. However when we use
Amanda, the backups seem to work properly but restores fail.
In slightly more
On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 13:07, Moritz Both wrote:
Hi,
actually yes. I have. I did restore some backups a while ago, but it
_could_ be that the Tape drive was connected to a Sym53c875. I
experience exactly the same problem that you describe at the moment (on
an Adaptec UW controller). I currently
You are right, but I have realized that many tapes have the same (let
instead lev) error or a gzip corrupted data format and never a tape header
error. I tested the drive with tar (1.13.17, 1.13.19 and 1.13.25) cpio and
dd (on old and new tapes) and it seems to work properly.
Could the problem be
In a message dated: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 11:08:35 +1100
Ben Wong said:
Hi,
I have several partitions using XFS and would like to ask how I can use
xfsdump with Amanda?
The backup server runs on Debian Linux and the debian packages amanda-server
amanda-common and amanda-client are installed.
You
Hi all,
I'm having trouble getting one of my clients backed up. There are 13
file systems on the client which need to be dumped, totalling about
12GB of data.
I'm getting error messages like the following for several of the file
systems:
hacluster1 /dev/sda12 lev 0 FAILED [dumps
Hello everyone who considers using the Onstream ADR50 drive with
amanda, I won't let you wait any longer since Onstream support do not
get back to me this time.
The ADR50 drive, which is supposed to be a full linux compatible SCSI
tape drive (it should work with the standard st scsi tape
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:20:02PM +, Chris Cooke wrote:
with this command:
amrestore -p /dev/rmt/0n machine name disk | ufsrestore -if -
When this is tried with one of the Ultrium backup tapes, the restore
proceeds as normally: I choose the files to be restored, type
extract,
hello,
is anybody out there who can tell me, whether I can put the saved files from
the tape directly on the original position of a client?
I backuped an etc-directory over eth0 and want to write it back directly in
the old etc-directory.
is this possible over ethernet? and how?
Thank you very
Paul,
A couple of things might help track down where the problem is coming from.
First, if you can add a third tape to a run, that will indicate whether the
problem is with AMANDA's tape size estimate or not. Next, do you have enough
holding disk space for that backup? You can test this by
Hi,
it's a bug in tar version 2.13.
Just update your tar on the client side.
Following I documented how it should look like:
--- ERROR: tar v2.13 ---
07372062604/./user/.bash_history
07372062604/./user/.profile
07372603054/./user/.mc/history
07372603054/./user/.mc/ini
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 at 5:13pm, Hikawa wrote
I could not recover .emacs.el file into remote host (mailde).
.emacs.el file was recovered into tape server's /root directory.
Could you tell me how to recover files into amanda remote host ?
amrecover recovers files onto whatever host it is run
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 at 1:30pm, Nünighoff, Leonie, NUE wrote
is anybody out there who can tell me, whether I can put the saved files from
the tape directly on the original position of a client?
I backuped an etc-directory over eth0 and want to write it back directly in
the old etc-directory.
--- Thomas Hepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:00:00PM +, Robert
Early wrote:
Hi,
I;m getting the following compile error when
trying to
compile amanda amanda-2.4.3b2:
gcc -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -O2 -o chg-scsi-chio
chg-scsi-chio.o scsi-hpux.o
I think I know the answer, but I'm fairly new to amanda so I wanted to
make sure.
I have amanda backing up 8-10 solaris/linux boxes and just recently 3
windows boxes.
I am assuming that if I need to recover anything for the windows boxes,
i have to amrecover to one of the unix/linux boxes
I run a proftpd server for Windows recovery on the Amanda backup server.
When I need to recover files from a MS box, I cd to the ftp server's
root directory and run amrecover there. I then have the MS client's user
ftp into the server and download the files that they need.
It works well in my
Henning,
have you ever been able to actually *restore* files from amanda tapes
using this device? Which is the firmware verison it has?
See also my email on the list from half an hour ago.
Greetings,
Moritz
Dan Wilder wrote:
This could be an inetd issue, if you have a whole lot
of disklist entries pointing to the server in question.
Rate limiting is a common inetd feature. The idea is that
more than some number of requests per unit time means the
same request is coming in repeatedly, and the
Paul Bijnens wrote:
BRINER Cedric wrote:
Imagine that during the christmass vacation nobody stay in the company,
so no more people are going to modify any files... Is there a way to
tell amanda to suspend is work for 1 week..without stressing it when we
restart..
First let me
I'm hoping someone can give me some advice on setting up Amanda with a
firewall and Network Address Translation.
My amanda system backs up hosts both inside and outside the firewall.
The clients's inside backup fine. I've never been able to get the ones
outside to pass the amcheck DailySet1 -c
Hi,
Somehow old messages from December and January get replayed to the
list. Please keep an eye on message dates before answering.
Johannes Nieß
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Martin Oehler wrote:
Chris Marble wrote:
Martin Oehler wrote:
I use amanda on a solaris 7 box with a DTL drive (20 GB)
attached. My dumpcyle is 4 weeks with 20 runs per cycle.
Because the size of one incremental backup is only
between 2-4 GB I don't want to change the
Brandon Moro wrote:
It seems to be expecting an entry in the gnutar-lists file, and didn't find
it.
Can someone give me a better explanation concerning what exactly
the gnutar-lists do? (what function it serves?)
See if those files get created once you've got the backups running. I may
We wish you all a
Merry Christmas
and a happy
New Year
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Is
Rebecca Pakish wrote:
I am wondering the same thing...I only received it from the list, but
anything with a Christmas subject in February pricks my sys admin ears. I
can't find anything from my usual virus sources...if anyone knows anything I
would appreciate the info.
A lot of mails seem
Somehow is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps the list manager can unzubscribe
him until he has his problems sorted out.
-Mitch
On 18 Feb 2002, Johannes Niess wrote:
Hi,
Somehow old messages from December and January get replayed to the
list. Please keep an eye on message dates before answering.
Hi everyone
I have a HP-DAT 24*6 tape drive attached to my backup server running on
linux. I do partial backups on 5 tapes labelled as Archive - Mon to Arhive
-Fri on weekdays and full backup on the sixth tape on weekends Archive-Wek.
For some reasons the backup on the 5th tape failed. Now
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Lewis Watson wrote:
Yup. Has been delivered here about six times, we scan for virus' at the
server and its not seeing anything. Nothing at sarc.com at this time...
Regardless of whether or not it's a virus can people PLEASE stop
replying to the amanda-users-list address?
- Original Message -
From: Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lewis Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: Merry Christmas and a happy New Year
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Lewis Watson wrote:
Yup. Has been delivered here
Hello,
(I know this is not part of amanda's default behavior so if this is not ok
for this list please let me know)
I am having much trouble getting amanda to work with gpg. I am little
confused and could use some pointers.
I have re-compiled the client and server and installed the new
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Lewis Watson wrote:
Hmm. Ok. The only reason I was responding here was because they came from
within the list. Sorry to have inconvenienced you.
I don't think you understood me. It's perfectly okay to reply *here*,
this is [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you will all go look back
John, have I lost your attention with this, are you too busy?
Thanks.
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:14:03PM +1100, Jason Thomas wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:50:31PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
Could you try this again and make sure you remove the /tmp files first.
Also, try it with
John, have I lost your attention with this, are you too busy?
Any point in trying to use 4k (I assume hardware) blocksize? My
experience has shown DDS drives are best driven at hardware blocksize of
0 (variable) and Amanda writing with 32k blocks.
I ran across a machine using a bad version of tar (big numbers in the
index files). That has been fixed, and a full backup is being forced
tonight, but I'm wondering about backups on old tapes.
I realize that I wouldn't be able to interactively use amrecover,
but would a manual fsf and tar
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:25:00AM +0100, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
John, have I lost your attention with this, are you too busy?
Any point in trying to use 4k (I assume hardware) blocksize? My
experience has shown DDS drives are best driven at hardware blocksize of
0 (variable) and
I was wondering if any of you had experience with Amanda on IPv6 machines. I am
expermenting with IPv6 and on a RedHat 7.2 machines Amanda seems to break if I give
the machine an IPv6 address. The same machine works when I remove the IPv6 address
and only have an IPv4 address. I am able to
well I had it at 0 initially, and struggled with failures reading back
from the tape constantly. I changed it to 4096 and it seems to be a
little more reliable. BUT, I still get errors. just less. I happy to use
any block size that will work. why would I get more errors with DDS4
tapes
Hi!
Hauke Fath wrote:
Rainer Fuegenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After adding a new old server named fav to amanda, I keep
getting the following message:
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
fav/home2 lev 0 FAILED [disk /home2 offline on fav?]
It doesn't matter if the
I realize that I wouldn't be able to interactively use amrecover,
but would a manual fsf and tar -x of a level 0 return a full backup
of the directory, or is it all so much wasted tape? In other words,
do corrupted indexes mean corrupted data or just partial incrementals?
Just the
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:57:39AM +0100, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
well I had it at 0 initially, and struggled with failures reading back
from the tape constantly. I changed it to 4096 and it seems to be a
little more reliable. BUT, I still get errors. just less. I happy to use
any
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