Re: Changing a tape's density

iver which implements them in Linux. I don't know if this is the case with DLT too, but I would expect so. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: filling a tape before going to the next ...

does not do it. It is a feature. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: Windows client

onfiguring AMANDA for Windows clients, just search this document for "Windows" and/or "SAMBA". -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: Getting version 2.4.2-beta2

and accept its beta status. You'll have to take one risk or the other, but the concensus is that the risk is acceptable either way. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

How do I check level 1 sizes?

sizes? -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: backup order and starttime

nk of time as such...) are defined in mathematics :-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: explanation of the following dump reports -

computer professionals: "The program does not compile" - compile _what_? "The software ships with a CD" - ships _what_? In this situation, to ask "what" is justified, because here we don't just omit something for brevity, we rape a language - but that's another story. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I check level 1 sizes?)

amanda disk11291 Nov 22 04:25 bacchus_dos_d_1 etc. I see no problem here. Does amcheck have anything interesting to say? No, everything seems to be OK. I am very grateful for any hint. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net sen

Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I checklevel 1 sizes?)

as large as full backups"? In the latter case you are "exorcizing devil with beelzebul"... -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I checklevel 1 sizes?)

simplicity :-( Comments and workarounds are very welcome. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net Conrad Hughes wrote: My suspicion is that GNU tar, which I use in the version 1.12, somehow cannot compute incrementals right, for filesystems

Re: Firewalls and other joyous things..

Dan Wilder wrote: Isn't this a bit off-topic for amanda-users?  Not at all. It deals with the problem of how to use AMANDA to backup a client outside the firewall when using Masquerading, NAT etc. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: access as USERNAME not allowed!!

file should be /home/operator/.amandahosts. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: amanda-user access problem

hosts file contains a line with "theserver" This line must be: theserver bin and not just theserver -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: amanda-user access problem

hosts file contains a line with "theserver" This line must be: theserver bin and not just theserver -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Wrong estimates for SAMBA 2.0.6 shares (repost)

I miss yap (yet another patch)? Don't tell me the answer is yup... -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

ntil I get it. Thanks for all the input. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

dn't I be able to use dump for the estimations and tar for the backups (and vice-versa)? This solution (assuming it is one, i.e. assuming that dump estimates correctly where tar does not), is less general than the above, but should take you only another parameter in amanda.conf and some case checking to im

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:28:49AM +0100, Chris Karakas wrote: If you say that AMANDA can backup SAMBA shares, people will believe it and be happy. People like me (a mathematician...) will believe it so much, that they will eventually construct a case that does

Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I checklevel 1 sizes?)

. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: problem with amdump

often, or use too few tapes (which is actually an equivalent way of saying the same thing). Increase dumpcycle in amanda.conf and/or use more tapes. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I check level 1 sizes?)

Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Dec 1, 2000, Chris Karakas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean that just by undefining GNUTAR_LISTED_INCREMENTAL_DIR, AMANDA is going to call tar using --incremental, instead of --listed-incremental? That's right. ... However, you'll still be missing

Re: amanda cron job doesn't start?

amdump ran as root? If so, you should change it, doing 'su amanda -c "amdump merten"' (if you use the general crontab, or root's). For more details on cron: man cron, man crontab. I'm using joe as editor instead of vi. This is totally irrelevant - are you superstitious? :-) -- Re

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

y just get filled according to the umask, but they are meaningless. Using the above method they at least can be used for something (very) useful. In one sentence: I miss the "map archive/hidden/system" options in the vfat driver of the mount command in Linux. -- Regards Chris

Re: How do I change the ctime of a vfat file?

Martin Brown wrote: How do I change the ctime of a vfat file? try moving it Sorry, I've tried it, but this does not change the *ctime* of a vfat file. Check with ls -lc to see yourself. Any other ideas? -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http

Re: Rebuilt Tape Server

ut it gives you some control over what your distribution did and what not (see step 0). -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: Verify Tape contents

, not whether they are exact copies of their counterparts on the disk. If your motive is to make sure that the backups are O.K., then amverify is your friend. Comparing CRCs may not check the whole image, but only the length of its files. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http

Re: format of amandahosts file

3d0s6. 2 - How the heck do I start the amanda daemon on the client!! You must have configured inetd correctly on the client - RTFM ;-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: ERROR: 202.85.165.88: [addr 202.85.164.38: hostname lookup failed]

hosts:") with entries for 202.85.164.38 and all the other adresses that AMANDA will need. If you have a DNS server, then you will have to check /etc/resolv.conf: the DNS server should be listed in the entry "nameserver". If nothing works, it's a deeper DNS problem of your site. -- Re

Re: remote backup pb...

be that, if you start more backups, argon will have to wait longer and then for some reason the connection is timed out. Any firewalls and/or masquerading/NAT in between? -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

gtar-wrapper returned 2 - backup FAILED

I am eager to reach Ithaka...can you help with the last miles? This is AMANDA 2.4.1p1 with the samba patches. Thanks in advance (and of course: as soon as I get this working reliably, I will post a resumee and the script!). -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: remote backup pb...

blocked there by a packet filter, by some security software etc. Ask the firewall's administrator and ... good luck :-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: Using Removable Hard Drives for Backup

as changed!). You are limited to using the same capacity for both types of media though (which leads to just using the minimum of both). This should get you running, until one of the other solutions becomes reality :-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: gtar-wrapper returned 2 - backup FAILED

Paul Bijnens wrote: Chris Karakas wrote: ? /bin/gtar: : Cannot stat: No such file or directory ? /bin/gtar: : Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory | Total bytes written: 53729280 (51MB, 20kB/s) ? /bin/gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors sendbackup: error [/usr

Re: patch

, CHANGES), as well as that of your SAMBA. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: trouble shooting amanda -

results. I consider this a rather normal situation: clients go down and connections are lost from time to time and this happens mostly on weekends, when they run unattended and we need some rest (Murphy's law ;-) ). -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: Using Removable Hard Drives for Backup

ay or two. Please announce it loudly as soon as you are thus far, 'cause I'm eager to mistreat my MO-disks as tapes too :-) Do I need to upgrade to 2.4.2 for this to work? -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: format of amandahosts file

idas", which hangs here on the wall...). How can one be so cruel to say "This is [EMAIL PROTECTED]"? :-) :-) I ended up using a "." ("bacchus.", instead of "bacchus"). This has kept AMANDA, Sendmail and me quiet for some time now.

Re: format of amandahosts file

ful mess... Of course, a DNS server would "simplify" things. But besides the theoretical point of "Occam's razor" (what is simple?), we have all these security announcements for bind, that make the blood chill, even with the most nuclearly hardened packet filter... -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: sendsize.debug, sendbackup.debug, killpgrp.debug

d be happy :-) PS. Get a 9th and a 10th tape for these rare, but exciting Murphy cases ;-) And let the real backup on tape take place in the middle of the week, when you can at least check it the _next_ day, not after 2 days, on Monday... -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack

Re: daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR December 11, 2000 (fwd)

give more details. Did you check for hardware problems on the disk that failed (sda10)? I see that these are just level 1 backups, which are usually small, so the fact that they did not take very long could be normal. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http

Re: Using Removable Hard Drives for Backup

he cryptic incantations for this temple, I _will_ want to know it all when I enter it. I just ask myself why I didn't buy all those fine manuals (BTFM) at once... ;-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: tapetype SEAGATE-SCORPION-40

Denise Ives wrote: driver: state time 3104.913 free kps: 15400 space: 4837972 taper: writing idle-dumpers: 4 qlen tapeq: 0 runq: 1 stoppedq: 0 wakeup: 86400 driver-idle: no-diskspace It just caught my attention: "no-diskspace". -- Regards Chris Ka

Re: Seeking Recommendations on Tape Backup configs

ble to span multiple tapes? -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: Reading a file on the holding disk

bytes (cmp). I will check this. The MO disk does have an ext2 filesystem. But I flushed the files to tape, so I will have to wait until the end of the next AMANDA run in order to find some files on the holding disk to do the test. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack

Re: Reading a file on the holding disk

has the 32k header at the start. What I am trying is dd if=/scsi/DynaMo/linux/20001212/bacchus._usr_src.1 bs=32k skip=1 | zcat | tar -tf - but I get tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http

Re: Reading a file on the holding disk (solved)

for fun, I plan to insert sed in the pipe, to get rid of the extra "running..." line in the corrupted files :-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: about setting up the disklist.conf

, so the second configuration is what you will want: dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 1 days tapecycle 7 tapes That's fine :-) PS. Read http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html for a detailed description of AMANDA. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http

Re: amdump inconsistancy.

here might be hope for you, John :-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: about setting up the disklist.conf

read the RESTORE file in the docs first. AFAIK using numeric values, instead of hostnames, for hosts is *not recommended* ;-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: about setting up the disklist.conf

n't forget the "-" after "-xvf") This should work fine. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: dump scheduler algorithmn

of course), up to a certain percentage. AMANDA will *not* try to fill the tapes as much as possible because she tries to spread the backups evenly on the tapes. As soon as you see that you have steadily "room" on your tapes, that is left empty, you can start decreasing your dumpcycle carefully

Re: amanda

= /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped disable = no } snip- -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: amanda to blame for NT crashes?

(Joi and David, please just read on) Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Dec 4, 2000, Chris Karakas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when you use SAMBA for the vfat partitions of your dual boot system, it does not work. What do you mean? It works for me. Or are you talking about backing up vfat

Re: Backup of soft-raid device?

Rainer Hofmann wrote: Is it possible to backup a device /dev/md0/, which is a software raid level 0, at all? Yes, I use tar (1.13.18) for that without any problems. In the disklist, I use directory names, instead of devices. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5

Re: RPM Weirdness with amreport

, or both (so that amreport complains /usr/bin/lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/midas-lp/.seq and the AMANDA reports do not get printed!) chmod 700 /usr/sbin/lpd chown root.lp /usr/bin/lpr chmod 6555 /usr/bin/lpr -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http

Re: Small tapes

n a 14 day dumpcycle using 3M's 650MB floppy tapes (MC3000XL) and "best" software compression on AMANDA with *no* problems. I guess I should break down and buy a SCSI. Anyone have any advice on a good low cost SCSI tape? And I thought you would stay in the AMANDA floppy tape club... ;-) --

Re: Colorado Tape

to help where I can to get this work for you too. I really only need to back up /etc on the local machine and a few others so the size of the tape would be perfect if I can make it work. Go on and give it a try! -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http

Re: will tapes in rotation be reused???

etter. You see, it's all about combinatorics and statistics (and I am happy that AMANDA does this for me) :-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: RV: RV: amdump

!! 4) tar in the 1.13.17 version is problematic too, but for other reasons. You should upgrade to 1.13.18. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

tar: 200MB vfat system allegedly changed mtime in one second!

T is a mke2fs on /dev/sdd (MO disk, 2048 bytes sector media) with the necessary "syncing disks". But we're talking about /dos/d, which is on /dev/hda... As I said, I consider this to be a bug. Any ideas? -- Regards Chris Karakas don't waste your cpu time, search for an OGR: http://www.distributed.net

Re: unable to amcheck, amdump

ocalhost) seems to be misconfigured as far as AMANDA is concerned. Check the FAQ for this (and also the rest of the documentation in the docs directory, as well as http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html). -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: Help replacing tapes

can safely relabel the old tapes. You can actually relabel the tape just after you have amrmtaped it. For AMANDA, after "amrmtape" the tape is "new", even if for you it is "old" ;-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: Disaster Recovery Recipe

t I insist on having it doubly copied to MO after each AMANDA run. You can read horror stories about lost backup databases in "Unix backup and recovery" ;-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: taper: FATAL shmctl: Invalid argument

g, in which case you can use ipcrm to clear them, or it will tell you shared memory is not enabled, in which case you'll have to find out from someone who knows about your OS (or from the system documentation) how to turn that on. (If it works don't thank me, thank the list ;-)) -- Regards Chri

Re: help

). Every other line is considered "strange". If the backup failed or there were any strange lines, it reports them in this section of the E-mail. The character at the front of the line is a code for the class of line: | a normal (expected) line ? a strange (unclassified) line

Re: Question

ith-samba-user=chris \ --sysconfdir=/etc --with-gnutar-exclude \ --with-buffered-dump --disable-libtool \ --disable-shared --disable-static -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: Problem with amcheck

resolve.conf and should change /etc/nsswitch.conf, probably not only on the gateway, but also on all internal machines too, just for having DNS set up properly...). That said, let me say that I will be happy to hear about a simpler solution than the above that also sets up DNS properly. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: amcheck with gnutar

al/var/, /usr/local/var/amanda. Also it is a bad idea to have write permission to all other groups on the system, someone could be nasty! -- Robert "bobb" Crosbie. System Administrator, Internet Ireland. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: Will amanda do what I need?

l backup of some (configurable in the disklist) portion of your filesystem plus the incrementals for the rest (the increment level is decided by AMANDA, so what really matters is the daily rate of change of your systems). Read http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html for the details. -- Regards Chris Ka

Re: Only one dumper running

you don't have enough holding disk space. Perhaps you have enough space, but you didn't free it for full backups, so that the extra dumpers are not allowed to do anything -- set the "reserve" parameter to a value lower than 100, see the comments in amanda.conf for this. -- Regards Chris

Re: Weird illustration of peculiar interactions :-}

e, according to some old papers). -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: amanda hacks

large part of your hard disks, large enough to accomodate 7 days's worth of data. Your holding disk should be separate from this and also large enough to hold one day's backup images. Try it, "It works with AMANDA (TM)" :-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: Ejecting tapes

e a script that calls amdump and after that does a "mt rewoffl" and whatever other stuff you like. Let cron, then, run this script. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: self check request timed out

, but I think libc.so.6 is the state-of-the-art and everything older is asking for trouble... Could you please double-check your symlinks and libraries in the paths listed in your /etc/ld.so.conf ? thanks, -Ben -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http

Re: Weird Tape drive behavior

^^ You didn't set the tape's block size. Try mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 32768 to set it to 32k, which is AMANDA's fixed block size. If this does not help, then I suspect a hardware failure, probably cabling (LVD?). -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http

Re: Linux setup problems

Assuming that this is set so on all three disks, you should make "amanda" (your AMANDA user) a member of the group "disk". ERROR: debian: [can not read/write /etc/dumpdates: No such file or directory] touch /etc/dumpdates amanda should get read/write permission on this file.

Re: It's Impossible!! Is the tape full?

d the docs and http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

Re: Can I use only one tape for backing up all the week?

), so the drive will not find the transfered files on it. The result was that all the transfered images were lost :-( My double net strategy saved me: I copied the images from the MO disk back to the holding disk and started amflush again :-) -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time

Re: gtar returns 2

- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

amverify and grep

his curiosity, since I did not find any similar message. Please CC me - I am not on the list anymore. -- Regards Chris Karakas Dont waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (solved: Description of solution)

and spirit of the Linux Documentation Project in producing this document, which can be found in various formats in the address given. It is referring to an older AMANDA version though (2.4.1p1). Enjoy! -- Regards Chris Karakas http://www.karakas-online.de

Re: amrestore problems after replacing tape drive

of the tape header (the virtual table) and then it's O.K. But this advice may be QIC-specific, so YMMV (I use the ftape programm and tools). -- Regards Chris Karakas http://www.karakas-online.de

Re: question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed and configured Amanda in our system (client/server). How do a back up? Could you please show me an example? http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html -- Regards Chris Karakas http://www.karakas-online.de

Re: Full Backup Configuration

? Why? This thinking will only bring you trouble. The AMANDA philosophy is you press the button, AMANDA decides for you. -- Regards Chris Karakas http://www.karakas-online.de

Re: Full Backup Configuration

dumpcycle is too small, or runspercycle is too small, or both, or my tapes are hopelessly underdimensioned for the task. It's as simple as that. -- Regards Chris Karakas http://www.karakas-online.de

Re: Dump size calculator

you be kind enough to post a link? Try http://www.storagemountain.com/amanda-12.html http://www.storagemountain.com/amanda-17.html http://www.storagemountain.com/amanda-8.html -- Regards Chris Karakas http://www.karakas-online.de

Re: Replacing a partially bad tape

Anthony Valentine wrote: I would like to replace this tape with a new one, however I don't want Amanda to forget about the old one yet. This is also interesting in this context, although probably not exactly what you want: http://www.storagemountain.com/amanda-18.html -- Regards Chris

Re: features: append, span tapes, compress?

is running. So I don't know how you can get all 4 drives run concurrently :-( . But don't give up, ther must be a way... run in a chrooted environment perhaps? -- Regards Chris Karakas http://www.karakas-online.de