best amanda tutorial/quickstart ?

2009-03-05 Thread John G. Heim
Any recommendations for the best amanda tutorial or quick start guide? -- John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu 3-4189 http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/

recreating lost changer.conf

2013-03-11 Thread John G. Heim
I lost my changer.conf file via a hard disk failure. I didn't realize /etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf was a symlink to /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf. So when I restored /etc/amanda/DailySet1 from backup, all I get was a broken symlink. I Does this look right? # cat

virtual tapes on nfs mounted file system

2013-10-01 Thread John G. Heim
I want to create virtual taps on an nfs mounted disk. The tricky part is that the disk I'm mounting belongs to another department and they are not going to want to create a user for me to use to write to the disk. I mount the disk like this: mount -t nfs nfs1.example.com:/bigdisk /bigdisk

virtual tape size

2013-10-14 Thread John G. Heim
. 300Gb seems more realistic unless I am missing something. -- --- John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jh...@math.wisc.edu

virtual tape size (take #3)

2013-10-25 Thread John G. Heim
put comments in my amanda.conf to say that the tape length is set to 16G so amanda writes 24G to 25G to each tape. But that's hardly an ideal solution. -- --- John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jh...@math.wisc.edu

Re: virtual tape size (take #3)

2013-10-30 Thread John G. Heim
How do I apply the patch? I installed amanda from the package in debian wheezy. On 10/30/13 09:07, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 10/30/2013 09:32 AM, John G. Heim wrote: Did you mean to tell me to set max_volume_usage or max-volume-usage? I don't see any docs on max-volume-usage

Re: virtual tape size (take #3)

2013-10-30 Thread John G. Heim
For the record ... 1. Cd to the amanda installation root directory. On debian 7 (wheezy) that is /usr/lib/amanda. 2. Install the patch with the patch command: # patch -p1 fix-max-volume-usage.diff On 10/30/13 09:59, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On 10/30/2013 10:44 AM, John G. Heim wrote

Re: virtual tape size (take #3)

2013-11-01 Thread John G. Heim
path fix the bug. Jean-Louis On 10/25/2013 12:49 PM, John G. Heim wrote: But that same man page also says, that for the vfs device, This device supports the ENFORCE_MAX_VOLUME_USAGE property. Default value is true. Furthermore, the man page says that if ENFORCE_MAX_VOLUME_USAGE is false

restoring from vtapes on client machine

2016-10-28 Thread John G Heim
: # amrecover DailySet1 -o auth=local -s localhost That gives me the error message, ""501 Could not read config file for DailySet1!". I amd doing this as root. Root does have permission to open/read /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf. -- -- John G. Heim; jh...@math.wis

Re: restoring from vtapes on client machine

2016-11-01 Thread John G Heim
to access the index-process and maybe the tape-process?I have entries like this: node.FQDN root amindexd amidxtaped I’m not certain that both of those are still needed, but there was at one time a reason I put them there. Deb Baddorf On Oct 31, 2016, at 12:35 PM, John G Heim <jh...@math

Re: restoring from vtapes on client machine

2016-11-02 Thread John G Heim
AST\n YES\n YES\n AMANDA\n\n" On 11/01/2016 09:29 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Any error message in the amindexd debug file? It looks like the amindexd process can't read the index files. Jean-Louis On 01/11/16 10:26 AM, John G Heim wrote: I tried both "localhost backup&q

Re: restoring from vtapes on client machine

2016-11-02 Thread John G Heim
g..0 files that are not correct. What 'amadmin DailySet1 find' returns? It should list all dumps available. Jean-Louis On 02/11/16 03:04 PM, John G Heim wrote: Oops, I mislead you. There is an error message displayed. It is the classic no dumps available before this date. I am blind and I just didn't hea

Re: restoring from vtapes on client machine

2016-10-31 Thread John G Heim
id it have permission to read /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf. Jean-Louis On 28/10/16 11:08 AM, John G Heim wrote: I am using the ubuntu amanda-server and amanda-client packages (3.3.6) on ubuntu server 16.04 to backup to virtual tapes on an NFS mounted file system. Everything is great on