Hello!
I am using amanda 2.4.2p1 on FreeBSD 4.3. The tape drive is (from
dmesg):
---
sa0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
sa0: HP C1537A L708 Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0:
10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
---
Generally everything seems to work fine, but sometimes I get
=ind0107aL=novellF=S=P=153
60
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directory for copying them
over later, then how am I supposed to replace the files which are
in use by the machine?
Is there a way to restore, for example, the entire /usr
partition 'with one go'?
Am I a fool?
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and restore?
TIA
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Hi Bernhard!
On 23 Oct 01 at 8:22 you wrote:
do make distclean or rm config.cache before you rerun configure
Thanks. I should have figured that one out myself.
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the password is even the same. I have a file called
.rhosts in both the root and amanda user directories of both machines and
I believe you need .amandahosts not .rhosts.
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in ipchains.
I have done it and it works.
There is an excellent write-up titled How Amanda uses UDP and TCP
ports, by John R. Jackson, in the amanda-hackers archive.
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, though, so take this with the proverbial
grain of salt.
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explains all this thoroughly.
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/home/alvaro/myfile (assuming /home is separate partition), you
will restore the file to /home/alvaro/home/alvaro/myfile if you
start amrestore in /home/alvaro directory. If you want to restore
over the original file you start amrestore in /home.
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at least for
2002-02-01 and 2002-02-08. Why doesn't amrecover see these indexes?
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* amanda thinks that all backups were
done to the same tape...
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or file file status
2002-02-22 heerold.raad.tartu.ee / 0 WEEKLY03 5 OK
Are 'log files' something different from index files?
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using separate log directories for separate configs in the future.
Special thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann for helping to track down
the problem.
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such a problem?
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on, then tapetype can show
the tape smaller than it actually is. The reason is that tapetype tests
the tape by writing random data to it, and when the drive tries to
compress the data it might actually expand.
If this is not in a FAQ somewhere, it IMHO should be.
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, it cannot be
dumped.
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times. During past couple of months, three tapes
from the original bunch have gone to heaven of DDS tapes and been
replaced with fresh ones.
The one I replaced had been used 17 times over the last year or so,
In view of my experience, 17 times doesn't seem that much.
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Hi David!
On 5 Apr 02 at 11:25 you wrote:
ERROR: localhost: [DUMP does not support exclude file]
Well, that is true. DUMP *does not* support exclude file, it can only
back up the entire filesystem. If you want to exclude something, you
need to use tar.
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exactly right to me.
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* * 2-6 /usr/local/sbin/amstatus nf-amanda || /usr/local/sbin/amverify
nf-amanda 2 /dev/null /dev/null
I would recommend putting amdump and amverify command into single
shell script and calling this script from crontab. This way you won't
have to guess when amdump will finish.
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.
This is with Amanda 2.4.2p1. It was also some months ago so I
apologize for not remembering the exact error messages that amrecover
gave me.
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night...
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/da0s1f offline on hostname?]
Does the amanda user have permissions to read /dev/da0s1* ?
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index directory is specified in amanda.conf
5. the amanidx/tcp service is specified in /etc/services on the client machine eg. :
6. Are the log files present in Amanda's log directory?
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to index files, are also necessary for
amrecover.
An unrelated note, if I may. Top-posting and sending out entire
paragraphs as single long lines makes replying to your messages
somewhat cumbersome.
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/home/alvaro/myfile (assuming /home is separate partition), you
will restore the file to /home/alvaro/home/alvaro/myfile if you
start amrestore in /home/alvaro directory. If you want to restore
over the original file you start amrestore in /home.
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, it cannot be
dumped.
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...
- cut here -
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#
And, from the lameness-of-the-day department, here's what solved the
problem:
Use the cleaning tape.
Period.
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, file numbers will
be offset
amrestore: 0: reached end of information
** No header
0+0 in
0+0 out
(...etc...)
Given that amrestore works OK from the command line, what might cause
it to fail when invoked by amverify?
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Hi!
Christoph Scheeder wrote:
AFAIK you'll have to rewind the tape explicitly between amdump and
amverify, as neither
amdump nor amverify do that for you.
Christoph
I tried running mt rewind and then amverify from command line.
Still the same errors...
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to be a manpage for it.
ISTR having read somewhere that amandad dies within 30 seconds if it
hasn't received any connection requests.
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in the situation exactly opposite
to yours, i.e. when the tape is not available but holding disk is then
Amanda tries to put as much of stuff as possible on the holding disk?
I still think, though, that in your situation dumps should have gone
directly to tape.
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the tapes with restore or tar, respectively.
The only thing you lose in tape server crash are the index files. But
that just means you can't use amrecover and must use amrestore.
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this is not
an issue for me right now). The speed number is taken from avg tp
write rate as reported by Amanda's nightly run.
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back up entire servers with
various types of files - some better compressible, some worse - is
typically somewhere around 1.4:1.
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they were being read by
gtar. You can check with amrecover whether these files were backed up.
I use dump for backup myself so I don't know about gtar, but I'd guess
you're OK.
BTW, please accept my sincere sympathy for running Lotus Domino :-)
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suppose I could
still read the dump images with dd, though?
Over the last couple of years I've done many OS upgrades on this Amanda
server and this is the first time I see such problem. Has anyone else
seen it?
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From: Scott Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:15:52AM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote:
Hello!
My Amanda server is running 2.4.3b4. Three days ago I upgraded the
operating system from FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p6 to 4.7-RELEASE-p9. This is
really just some security
Hi!
Is there an easy way to UNINSTALL Amanda? I need to do this because well
first of all this isn't a server anymore and it was set up as user
operator, and all my other clients are using amanda user.
I'd like to completely uninstall everything server/client and then install a
new version
to? I'm running Amanda on FreeBSD 4.7
using IBM DDS-4 drive and I had the same error as long as the tape blocksize
was set to 1k. When I set it to variable, amverify started to work correctly.
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when not doing a backup or recover.
Is there a way to do this?
Instead of just running amdump from crontab, run something to a tune of:
mount /backupdisk amdump YourConfig umount /backupdisk
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, so I'm not sure if any of above
is applicable to this situation. Maybe you can smbmount (does such a term exist?)
some other share on the Windows machine on the Linux client, cd to there and
then run amrecover.
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port
993 is blocked by default. port 993 works work only a few minutes until
the allow related rule timesout.
I understand it you have iptables/netfilter on the server? Then this
might well be the reason. However, then it should also fail during daytime.
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Linux too much I haven't had a chance to try this. I think
your best chance right now is not to rely on ip_conntrack for Amanda connections
but rather allow all traffic between Amanda server and Amanda client regardless
of tcp/udp state, opening the ports as specified in docs/PORT.USAGE.
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Hi!
I have a mixed Linux/Intel Solaris/Sparc environment. The tape drive
resides on the sparc box. Will I be able to restore dumps to the Linux
box using amrestore?
Yes, if you run amrestore on the Linux box.
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, it is not that uncommon.
Just an example from our mail server (ca 300 users):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data# du -h --max-depth=1 | grep MAIL
21G ./MAIL
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there is a risk, then, that
something happens to the holdingdisk before you flush the data...
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issues with Kerberos might still remain, though.
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bind to ports in your
'portrange', because you have mistakenly started Amanda services on
these same ports. So it goes for the next thing it can do, which is
random high number port.
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What's the length set to in the tapetype? If backing up to hard disk,
Amanda is said to emulate end of tape when hitting the limit set in
tapetype. Maybe 2 GB is the default when no limit is set?
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, especially
for non-unix-guru users?
I use the 'settape' command in amrecover, e.g. (typing from memory):
settape name.of.tape.server:file:/mountpoint/SLOT
Seems to work.
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done. We want to minimise user
intervention during the backup.
I believe the above is about as minimal an user intervention as you can
get without a changer. It should surely be better than editing the
disklist all the time.
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techniques do exist for some
combinations of database + backup program)
but for the Exchange server I am left to
backup using BackupExec. :(
Now that one I can't help you with :-(
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2.4.2 but I haven't had any success with it in later versions. Amanda
asks for the next tape, I insert the correct tape but she spits it out
and again asks for (the same) correct tape. I tried to debug this
several times but got nowhere. Maybe it's just me.
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capacity.
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31144 Sep 30 15:54 taper
-r-xr-xr-x 1 operator operator3188 Sep 28 12:22 versionsuffix
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http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20041007
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, that we are not using this library with
Amanda. Our Amanda setup is still using single DDS-3 drive ;-)
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Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Regarding external vs. internal, I strongly prefer external. Tape drives
can get hot.
Additional upside is that if you need to power cycle the tape drive for
whatever reason, you don't need to power cycle the entire server.
David Newman wrote:
Note to those installing from the BSD ports collection: You'll need to
modify the amanda-server Makefile to list amanda (or whomever) as your
tape operator.
It is not necessary to modify the Makefile. Many configuration
parameters that you'd want to specify when building
the /backup partition from the drive that is
no longer present, then I'm screwed. The entire process just hangs
indefinitely. Fortunately my script seems to do a good job in avoiding this.
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Amanda? If you don't, Amanda uses it's built-in default DailySet1. You
can override the default at run time with 'amrecover -C Daily'.
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Gene Heskett wrote:
Or is that as simple as 'amrecover Daily'
in the invocation?
According to 'man amrecover', it is.
and started over with this DLE on next
tape. Amanda cannot span one single DLE across multiple tapes.
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Claus Rosenberger wrote:
how i have to create backup jobs if i want to do some stuff before i dump
and after i finished the dump?
create a bashscript which do all the stuff and run amdump between this steps?
If all the stuff needs to be done on the server, this is a good way.
However, if stuff
Erik P. Olsen wrote:
Until recently I had a DDS3 tape streamer. Then it broke down a few
weeks ago and I bought a DDS4 tape streamer. I therefore have a lot of
DDS3 tapes which I like to use for incremental back-ups because the new
tape streamer can also handle DDS3 tapes.
Note that although DDS4
complicated!) and configure your firewall
accordingly.
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Bruce S. Skinner wrote:
I'm running a DLT8000 with no tape changer, but have set runtapes 3
with autoflush on on the assumption that when a tape gets full it
will wait for me to load another and kick it with amflush.
I'm not sure if this is related to your error message, but for this
behaviour
Edson Noboru Yamada wrote:
Suppose I want to perform one full backup per week, and one day is time
enough to do that for all the clients. All the images fit in 2 tapes.
I defined the following parameters:
dumpcycle = 1 week
runspercycle = 1
tapecycle = 4
Are these values
running this on tux:
# amrecover daily
and follow the prompts.
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Mike wrote:
Is there anything in amanda that would prevent a unauthorized/unknown
person from backing up to, or restoring data to, their personal machine
remotely.
There is a file on each Amanda client called .amandahosts. This file
lists the hosts and usernames from which amanda accepts
problem (some
files missing from amrecover listing). If you describe your environment
in more detail (are you using dump or tar? which version of tar? is
samba involved? etc?) then someone else on the list may be able to help you.
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with version 1.15.1.
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Please review the Amanda archives for discussions of the pitfalls of
using localhost as part of your backup configuration. This is a
subject that has been beaten into submission quite thoroughly.
The short answer and general consensus from the Amanda community:
Don't
Guy Dallaire wrote:
The default setting for the netusage parameter is 600 kbps.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a 100 Mbps ethernet interface is 10 000
kbps (roughly)
The 'netusage' parameter is not as important as you may think it is.
This parameter is only used when Amanda decides whether or not to
Ryan Pagquil wrote:
another question, why does amstatus reports that some dumps are not
successful and giving this reasons:
0 driver: (aborted:could not connect to data port: Connection
timed out)(too many dumper retry)
1 driver: (aborted:[request timeout])(too many dumper retry)
the firewall rules to specifically allow Amanda
traffic only between Amanda server and client(s), not just any hosts.
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Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote:
#disklist file
#server.domain.co.uk / comp-root-tar #Thought I was using tar.
and I get the above error.
Whats the best to tackle this still using DSS-4 150mm DAT tapes.
and how to cannot incremental dump new disk as above error.
Thus can I change
*have* died on me.
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FM wrote:
Does some of you using HD backup ? if so what is you stategy ?
How you take backup off-site ?
At one site, I'm using two external FireWire HDDs (Maxtor 5000DV), 5
'virtual tapes' on each. One of the HDDs is off-site, every Monday it's
brought in and the HDD that was used during
/094114.html
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, for example, which you can't do with dump) and tar allows
you to make backups of arbitrary (sub-)directory trees instead of
entire filesystems.
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Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote:
I have found a SCSI tape drive spec below it was once used for backups
prior to moving over to Amanda.
External Seagate DAT subsystem for NT, Windows, NetWare, DDS-3
recording format, consists of STD124000N DAT drive (data
transfer rate 2.2 MB/s, 24 GB
there's no
reason to worry.
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amount backed
up is less than usual, because one DLE wasn't backed up at all.
Without seeing more of your Amanda report that's all merely a guess, but
I'm pretty sure that's it.
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Joshua Kuperman wrote:
While I have no problem dumping the files on
the solaris machine; I can't seem to figure out what is in them. Except
for a few text characters on the tape label I'm stumped. the dd command
works as expected. I don't remember the order, etc and I don't have the
Jon LaBadie wrote:
How are current users sizing their vtapes and what has
been their experience in disk usage?
I've divided my ~160GB removable disks into 5 vtapes each. I have a total of
8 DLEs, two of which are 40 GB (after compression) and the rest are no
larger than 2 GB. On the days
Hello!
Just curious - what are people's experiences with different brands of LTO2
media? I've lost two HP LTO2 tapes within last two months due to the drive
reporting 'media write errors'. Should I switch to some other manufacturer?
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, thus amanda should know that it
needs to go back to 1 after 5 and I have labelled all of them at the
beginning using amlabel.
If the label on vtape 1 were correct, that's exactly what would happen.
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this '3' actually influence the planner?
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' changer using chg-manual.
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with their
defaults and set the maxpromotedays for some larger DLEs to 2.
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was set to more
than 1 in your config file. But every single DLE had to fit on one tape.
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/
--with-index-server=amandaServerName
--with-tape-server=amandaServerName --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0
--with-portrange=850,859 --with-udpportrange=850,859
I believe the TCP portrange should be unprivileged (ports above 1024).
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John Clement wrote:
I can't find any documentation on getting the client working on BSD so
started going by all the information I've gleened troubleshooting the
Linux machines here.
Getting the client working on FreeBSD is nothing special :) Just install
the client (I understand that's
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