-span-tar 5
localhost kidstwo-D //kidstwo/D$ only-full-span-tar 6
I am running Amanda 2.5.0p2-8.el5 under CentOS 5.5.
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At Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:15:29 -0400 amanda-users@amanda.org wrote:
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 09:05:44AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
Why does Amanda do multiple level 0 backups? I only want 1 (and only
1) level 0 backup (of any given disk) in the backup cycle (4 weeks / 28
days
of the cycle to deal with the larger fulls?
Arg...
This sort of thing is not really well explained in the man pages...
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At Sat, 2 Oct 2010 16:06:17 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com
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On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote:
So I would be better off setting runtapes to 1? Â And then manually
'flushing' at the beginning of the cycle to deal with the larger fulls
At Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:11:57 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com
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On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote:
I picked a 'virtual' tape size to match the capacity of a DVD-R: 4.3Gig,
with the idea of migrating the fulls and the more major incrs
At Sun, 3 Oct 2010 11:37:25 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com
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On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote:
Also I am pretty much stuck with 2.5.0, since that is what comes with
CentOS... (I don't at this point want to 'experiment
At Sun, 3 Oct 2010 14:19:50 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com
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On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote:
One of the downsides of using a very *stable* Linux distro with long
term stable support. Â OTOH, it avoids the fun of re-installing
When recovering a single directory from a backup (as a test) I got this
message from amrecover:
All existing files in /mnt/RAID0 can be deleted
Continue [?/Y/n]?
What's the significance of this rather ominous sounding line?
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. Is my
expectation wrong? Why?
Note: this is *separate* from a full restore in the event of a disk
crash.
Side question: would the above answers *change* if the backups were done
with gnutar instead of dump?
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the files up to the specificed backup date, expecting human judgement
about the 'extra' files?
On 11/14/2010 17:51, Robert Heller wrote:
I have a client that has a (to me anyway) 'strange' scenario:
Think about this scenario.
Day 1: Directory x has files, a, b c. Amanda does a full
for
dumping
ravel:/mnt/sdb2 1 0m finished (0:20:34)
..
This is in a CentOS 5.5 system:
-sh-3.2$ rpm -qa amanda\* perl dump
amanda-backup_server-3.2.0-1.rhel5
dump-0.4b41-4.el5
perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.2
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/mnt/RAID0 lev 1 FAILED [can't dump in degraded mode]
And there isn't a sendbackup debug file for /mnt/RAID0. There are
sendbackup debug files for the other file systems on ravel. There is a
sendsize debug file for /mnt/RAID0 on ravel.
Jean-Louis
Robert Heller wrote:
Using /var/log
mentioned in the E-Mail archives. Can you
(or Jean-Louis) re-post it?
On 11/15/2010 04:11 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:34:31 -0500 Jean-Louis
Martineaumartin...@zmanda.com wrote:
Because ravel:/mnt/RAID0 was not dumped.
Check the email report to know why
/amanda/amanda.conf.main
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#includefile /etc/amanda/amanda.conf.main
60villagedrive-traditional/amanda.conf:
includefile /etc/amanda/60villagedrive-common/amanda.conf
runtapes 5
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a level one
backup of the other 6 disks on the day it does the full of /data, and
then does full backups of the other 6 disks on the other 6 days.
Why does Amanda make so many full backups? Is there a configuation
parameter we need to set to change this?
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At Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:51:52 +0100 s...@amanda.org wrote:
Am 2011-01-17 23:17, schrieb Robert Heller:
We are running Amanda 3.2.0 on three CentOS 5.5 systems.
We have one large (1.5TB total) file system for data (/data), three
100meg /boot file systems (one on each machine) and three
60villagedrive-traditional
No acceptable volumes found
This used to work. I made some *minor* changes to the config file,
which does check out (amcheck is successful). What is amvault doing
here? The volumns are still in the changer (I checked!). What am I
missing?
Amanda Version 3.2.0
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incrementals. If you want a full month's worth of backups on-line you
would need enough for 4 or 5 weeks worth (4-5 fulls of each DLE, plus
24-30 incrementals).
3. Give what I describe does anyone have concerns?
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amvault command should not be reading 60villagedrive-20110710-1!
60villagedrive-20110710-1 is in fact an *old* vault tape!
Jean-Louis
On 09/24/2011 10:27 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
We have things set up to create weekly archives of full backups using
amvault and have encountered a *strange
At Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:40:55 -0400 Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.com
wrote:
On 09/26/2011 10:33 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:22:59 -0400 Jean-Louis
Martineaumartin...@zmanda.com wrote:
amvault is trying to copy something from the volume labelled
At Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:43:05 -0500 Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:
Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com writes:
At Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:38:36 -0500 Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:
Matt m...@imparisystems.com writes:
I'm trying to run the dump during the day and then send
...
Then at night:
amflush whatever-amazontape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (NetBSD)
iEYEARECAAYFAk7EO2wACgkQ+vesoDJhHiXHdwCfVyhEs5jpGrPUE2zQ8v/erpR/
yb4An3+NqD5Xi6ra2wkkCGRAAkXwBRVf
=CY8E
-END PGP SIGNATURE-
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/storage/* will backup both disks (and no others
mounted under them).
(Yes, this is probably more straw grapsing..)
jl
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in the right direction are welcome
Thanks
/Andreas
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this LAN for thinks Amanda might be
confused, but I don't think so.
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At Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:32:29 -0500 amanda-users@amanda.org wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 10:34:26AM -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
I help admin some machines on a small LAN and a couple of what I believe
are minor issues, but the guy I work for is worried about them.
First of all
something.
You are missing. 80Gb is probably too *large*.
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fast# Compress in client side with less CPU (fast)
tape_splitsize 1 Gb
}
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disk? I understand that a holding disk is a good idea
when using real tapes, as this helps in keeping the tape drive streaming --
that is the holding disk smooths out the 'bumps' in the actual backup process.
Jean-Louis
On 06/09/2014 11:05 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
I am using 2.6.1p2-8.el6
At Mon, 09 Jun 2014 22:42:00 +0300 Toomas Aas toomas@raad.tartu.ee wrote:
Mon, 09 Jun 2014 kirjutas Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com:
Question: when using a disk-based 'virtual tape changer', is there is any
point in using a holding disk? I understand that a holding disk
At Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:01:25 -0400 amanda-users@amanda.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 04:13:51PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
At Mon, 09 Jun 2014 22:42:00 +0300 Toomas Aas toomas@raad.tartu.ee
wrote:
Mon, 09 Jun 2014 kirjutas Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com
-- will this really matter in my case?
There will be little on this file system other than the base MS-Windows
installation. There won't be any third party applications and no user data.
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with the 2.5.0p2 server? Will this work properly? Are there
any special things I need to do or be worried about?
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hel...@deepsoft.com
6:47 10245.8 5:39 12294.7
newserverroot02216-- PARTIAL 16:25 2303.9
TAPE-PARTIAL
newserverub1404643 408 135 33.21:15 1858.8 1:15 1860.5
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.6.1p2)
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-- services which don't have a full time deamon with a listener and connection
dispatcher of their own.
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OK, I figured out what was going on: a combination of a bad 'tape' and a lack
of available 'tapes'. Once I fixed that, the backup went through.
At Tue, 15 Sep 2015 09:49:17 -0400 Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> What does this error mean:
>
> frodo /Us
tions
./Library
./System
./Users
./.dbfseventsd
./opt/local/var/macports/software/
./private/tmp/
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:
amdump deepsoft-normal frodo /Users
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ib-2.0.so.0(g_logv+0x1b9)[0x7fa3e39e9519]
/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_log+0x83)[0x7fa3e39e9933]
amlabel(main+0x887)[0x7fa3e55014f7]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7fa3e1e3ad5d]
amlabel(+0x1b49)[0x7fa3e5500b49]
What am I doing wrong?
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.el6_6.x86_64
amanda-server-2.6.1p2-9.el6_6.x86_64
amanda-2.6.1p2-9.el6_6.x86_64
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OK, I solved this: it was a broken Perl install (I think cpanel caused this),
reinstalling/updating Perl cured the problem.
At Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:07:13 -0400 Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> OS: CentOS 6
> Amanda version: 2.6.1p2-9.el6_6.x86_64
>
> I am tr
your vault changer and point amrecover at the changer. amrecover
should "just work".
use amrestore to extract the backup files from your archival media.
> Thanks.
>
> --EbH
>
>
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ne), something needs to be updated somewhere in amanda to allow
for that.
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is newer than Amanda expects. I am
not sure how to procede...
(I am using this version of amanda to match what I have on my CentOS 6 box,
which is the amanda server for my LAN.)
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At Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:40:56 -0400 (EDT) Robert Heller
wrote:
>
>
> OK, I got Amanda 3.5.1 to compile under MacOSX 10.11.6, using these configure
> options:
>
> '--without-server' '--with-ssh-security' '--prefix=/opt/local'
> '--with-user=amanda' '--with-group=wheel
At Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:44:57 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 28 August 2019 08:16:23 Robert Heller wrote:
>
> > I inadvertenly deleted everything from my amanda database (amadmin
> > config delete ...). Is there a way to rebuild the database? I am
> >
I inadvertenly deleted everything from my amanda database (amadmin config
delete ...). Is there a way to rebuild the database? I am using Amanda
2.6.1p2 on my server.
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an even older
MacMini, that has Amanda Client 2.6.1, compiled from source, but before I
compile Amanda Client 2.6.1, I thought I'd check to see if there was a
precompiled version.
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; FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
amandad: COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
amandad:COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
amandad: time 30.118: pid 38379 finish time Sun Aug 4 15:23:51 2019
(And yes, I have identical .amandahosts files, etc.)
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reasonable choice for that scenario, what would be a
> better option?
>
> And what kind of hardware specs should I be looking at? Is tape still
> king, or is everyone backing up to hard drives now?
>
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DDISK
runtapes 20 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump
And in /etc/amanda/deepsoft-common/amanda.conf I have:
define changer vault_changer {
tpchanger "chg-disk:/backupdisk/deepsoft_vault/slots"
changerfile "/etc/amanda/deepsoft-common/vault_change
ut why or how to get amtape to
just exit with an error (which I can then handle).
This is with Amanda 3.5.1 on a Ubuntu 18.04 system.
(The Java version is OpenJDK 11.0.13, in case that matters.)
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At Wed, 9 Mar 2022 19:11:40 -0500 Nathan Stratton Treadway
wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 18:27:47 -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> >
> > I've written a Java program that goes through vaulted tapes and forks
> > amtape
> > (using Runtime.getRuntime().exec(())
(long story).
>
> Anton "exuvo" Olsson
> ex...@exuvo.se
>
> On 2022-03-09 00:27, Robert Heller wrote:
> > For some unfathomably reason amtape "hangs" when forked from a Java program.
> >
> > I've written a Java program that goes through v
At Wed, 9 Mar 2022 22:50:29 -0500 (EST) Robert Heller
wrote:
>
> At Wed, 9 Mar 2022 19:11:40 -0500 Nathan Stratton Treadway
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 18:27:47 -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> > >
> > > I've written a Java program
At Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:11:04 -0500 Nathan Stratton Treadway
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 22:50:29 -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Wed, 9 Mar 2022 23:50:45 +0100 Exuvo wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Could you give the exact command line you give when
At Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:46:43 -0500 Nathan Stratton Treadway
wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 09:55:30 -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> > Here is the Java fragment:
> >
> > public class FlushOldVaults extends BackupVault {
> > private static final Str
At Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:07:14 -0500 Nathan Stratton Treadway
wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 14:03:07 -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> > It prints an error message and returns an error status:
> >
> > backup@newserver:~$ amtape -otpchanger=vault
ta from time to time. Data integrity seems to be good.
>
> Vtapes are on the one logical volume that exists.
>
> Oh, and for the truly paranoid, I have three USB drives which I rotate
> to off-site storage and take with me on trips. I use rsync to back up
> portions of the log
ty Protection (SIP). You will need to add the executable
> amandad to System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Full Disk Access.
>
> Pieter
>
> On 6/7/23 5:43 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> > Is there some "trick" to getting Amanda (3.5.1) to run properly unde
cky UIs and hate it when a
computer treats me like a 2 year old.)
At Thu, 8 Jun 2023 08:22:09 -0700 Jim Lawson wrote:
>
> I think you need the program that actually reads the files (in this case,
> /opt/local/bin/gtar) added to Full Disk Access.
>
> > On Jun 8, 2023, at 7:40
ually reads the files (in this case,
> > /opt/local/bin/gtar) added to Full Disk Access.
> >
> > > On Jun 8, 2023, at 7:40 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > It already is there.
> > >
> > > At Thu, 8 Jun 2023 08:31:15 -060
I know nothing about "Time Machine". Will it backup to a Linux machine?
At Thu, 8 Jun 2023 17:39:47 -0600 Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
> On 6/8/23 09:50, Robert Heller wrote:
> >
> > Already doing that.
> >
> > I'm beginning to think that I n
At Thu, 8 Jun 2023 21:31:50 -0600 Charles Curley
wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 20:57:38 -0400 (EDT)
> Robert Heller wrote:
>
> > I know nothing about "Time Machine". Will it backup to a Linux
> > machine?
>
> Yes. You need Apple network
d.plist:
Warning: Cannot open: Operation not permitted
? /opt/local/bin/gtar:
./Users/jaffe/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail-shared.plist: Warning: Cannot
open: Operation not permitted
? data compress: gzip: stdout: Connection reset by peer
? data compress: exited with status 1
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>
> > On Jun 8, 2023, at 10:36 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> > I know nothing about "Time Machine". Will it backup to a Linux
> > machine?
> >
> > At Thu, 8 Jun 2023 17:39:47 -0600 Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> O
At Sat, 10 Jun 2023 08:25:45 -0600 Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
> On 6/10/23 06:13, Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Fri, 9 Jun 2023 23:35:23 -0400 Deb Baddorf
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> ÃÂïÃÂûÃÂÿTime Machine is built into current Mac OSes.
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