doesn't change during the backup and cause errors?
Thanks for any insight,
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a has more than 64 KB available.
OK /tmp/amanda has more than 64 KB available.
OK /etc has more than 64 KB available.
amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying
amandad: waiting for ack: ti
warning?
On a related note, if it all fits on one tape now and I change runtapes
to 2, will it only use the second tape if it needs to or will it constantly
be promoting dumps to fill the two tapes every day?
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to the list every few days asking 'what about the foo.com model X?'. In the
meantime, anyone have any recommendations for a 2 drive 20-40 slot AIT library?
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it easier for non-Amanda users
to decide if they could switch to Amanda with their current hardware.
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and take several hours, dragging the data
across twice seems like a gross inefficiency. I could just make direct
copies of the tapes, but two separate writes has better odds of having at
least one good one.
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Forget about all fulls on weekend, incrementals weekdays
Does this mean do full backups each time?
No. it just means you might need to change your mindset from
/users/portranges/etc were read from the config file then there would
be little need for recompiling.
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-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 curious,
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(or having your holding disk
crash), so the sooner you do your flushes the better.
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of the filesystem you are trying to back up on the client.
Try setting chunksize in your amanda.conf to something your server can
handle ( try 1 GB ).
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different from the full?
I want to quit using compression on a few filesystems that don't
compress well to save CPU, but have a few months worth of backups
that are compressed. Also, would a switch between dump/tar handled
the same way?
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. Is
this correct?
Doug
-Original Message-
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To: Doug Johnson
Cc: Amanda-Users (E-mail)
Subject: RE: amrecover - I have obviously overlooked something
Also make sure you added lines for amandaidx
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existent (like /dev/nosuchdevice) instead of /dev/null because amanda
was somehow 'aware' of /dev/null and would perform backups differently?
You could just not have the correct tape in the drive and amanda will
keep accumulating the backups in the holding disk.
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changerfile /usr/local/etc/amanda/chg-scsi-linux
changerdev /dev/sga
tpchanger chg-zd-mtx
I think you might also need tapedev specified in your amanda.conf,
something like:
tapedev /dev/nst0 # the no-rewind tape device to be used
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--On Thursday, April 11, 2002 03:37:15 +0200 Frederic Saincy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi,
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The planner logic might not be set
up to handle this extreme case.
I don't know very well amanda's internal and this is the occasion for
me to look
in those slots. That's how I use our Qualstar
80 slot, and it is working fine like that. I don't think the 'just
one really big tape' idea fits well with how Amanda works, but maybe
someone else on the list can give some advantages to that approach.
Good luck,
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have the
opposite opinion.
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Wouldn't it be simpler to just set a 'starttime' value for all the
'unimportant' disks so that all the dumpers will do the 'important'
ones first?
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tapetype if you are not getting EOT errors.
much trimmed
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is much
easier, IMHO).
Good luck,
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that only existed on that tape. Power glitches,
I/O errors, SCSI resets, other users, and various other things can
easily cause a drive to rewind with your noticing, and they would all
be fatal to your data.
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are SOL. I would recommend
making sure you always have at least two full backups of everything,
even if there are a couple of errors during your cycle.
Good luck,
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(well, probably GNU tar) saves files there containing times that files
were backed up so it knows what is 'new' for incrementals. Just
create the directory (as the Amanda user) and all should be well.
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you have
tried (such as what happens if you run amandad from the command line on
the client as the Amanda user).
Good luck,
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).
Normally Amanda writes none, some, or all of the backups to the holding
disk (depending on its size and reserve setting) if the correct tape
is unavailable, and then exits.
What exactly do you see when it stalls?
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You plan to run Amanda 9 times in 7 days using only 1 tape?
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customer that want
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of a disk on tape in case of a read error during a restore.
Frank
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changer script to use.
Frank
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Next question - folks using chg-mtx with it?
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respectfully request a pointer to a resource to determine my
holding disk requirements?
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clearly resolve, I have tried using
the IP also with the same results. Why is amcheck only binding to 0.0.0.0
and not 10.1.0.3? What am I doing wrong?
Thank you,
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Sent: 14 June 2002 16:48
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Subject: Re: GNU tar and SAMBA backups
Does /usr/local/bin/tar exist (and is it executable) on edinburgh ?
Frank
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amcheck -m geo errors out by
not finding the tape. However, if I enter the same command (as
amanda user) at the command line, it works fine, finds the tape and
OKs the job.
Help?
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all i all i am quite happy with amanda and i look forward to implementing it here at
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On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 12:28:52PM +0200, Ulrik Sandberg wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Frank Smith wrote:
For example, cron started one config at 9:30PM, sent the report
email at 11:23PM, and reported
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For example, cron started one config at 9:30PM, sent the report
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Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:06
Run Time (hrs:min
the incrementals.
If you just want the second config to do fulls for offsite storage,
set record to no and allwaysfull.
2. Make sure that the run times don't overlap. Only one can run at a time
unless you compile two versions with different names and portranges.
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have anything written to it, but if Amdump made a
run then the tape is marked as 'active' and won't be overwritten until it
goes through the rest of your tapecycle.
While you are testing just do an 'amrmtape tub qbn-backup01' and then
you can re-use it.
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Hi all,
I added a 'big' disk to my disklist yesterday. About 8G
on the tape. 'barcode' is the paper barcode on the outside of the tape. Some
changer scripts can associate the two if you have a barcode reader in your
library, some can't.
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colorflex or print your own.
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Continue? [Y/n]: y
cannot connect to 192.168.100.1: Connection refused
amrecover - can't talk to tape server
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secret file somewhere, or I can use some deft command-line switches to
audit all my file systems.
Any ideas?
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using RH, you have to install amanda-server rpm as
well)
as I have specified in both .amandahosts that root can connect (just in
case)
cheers
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I doubt it is an Amanda problem (you might want to also try the
linux-managers mailing list http://www.linuxmanagers.org/ ), but
I'll toss out some suggestions of things
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Is the exclude list file in the top level of the directory you're trying
to back up and is it in the correct format?
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I just installed
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. 11hrs seems a long time even considering
gzip as the software compression.
Is there something I am missing here?
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the command line then it should be
straightforward to use Amanda's chg-mtx driver instead of chg-scsi.
I believe mtx accesses the changer through a raw device, bypassing
the scsi driver, and can sometimes do more with some changers.
Good luck,
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disklist entry for /export/home
into a few (or several) subdirectories that will each fit on a tape and
use tar to do the backups (dump usually either won't back up subdirectories
or will be unable to keep track of the dumpdates for them).
Frank
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tapetype's data bigger. Try turning off the
compression and re-running tapetype.
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you hit an error.
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???
Look at your daily report, it tells you how long it took to dump
and tape each disklist entry and the total dump and tape time.
If you want to know what's going on while Amanda is still running,
then run amstatus and it will tell you.
Frank
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on the Amanda
server has root access to /xtreme23/scratch, so tar can see all of
the files.
Frank
Thanks in advance,
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/usr/sbin/amdump DudeWeeklySet
Thanks
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Looks OK. Don't forget to use a dumptype with 'record no'
for your weekly or you will hose your daily schedule.
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I'd like to set up a second set of tapes for making a full backup each
sunday. My daily set
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get
deleted or corrupted and you don't notice it before 11pm on the day
it happens, you won't be able to recover. If you ever get a tape
error you have no backup.
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the clients. Even if you
don't have enough disk for the entire backup, whatever you can
add to it will help (assuming your tape drive is the limiting
factor.
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to the client, but why? If you are just
trying to avoid physically going to the client, just ssh to it and
run amrecover remotely.
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