over works on the second server.
I am a little uncertain as to how to pprocede now though. Maybe I could
move the log directory to the NFS share as well. Is that what you'd
recommend?
On 11/02/2016 02:08 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
John,
Then it is the tapelist or the lo
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
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
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
:
# 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
True, but I read where if you edit it manually, the --m (modify) flag may
not work subsequently. so I was just wondering.
Thanks Paul for the help, I was thinking about just editing it directly,
but was hoping to maybe find a shortcut.
John
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Paul Yeatman <py
ithout having needing to run amaddclient command
for each --diskdev path to backup?
Thanks,
John
Trever L. Adams wrote at 05:49 -0600 on Jul 19, 2014:
Hello everyone,
So, I am not quite sure what is going on. When I try to do an amrecover,
I get the following:
Load tape normal149 now
Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? Y
Got no header and data from server, check in amidxtaped.*.debug and
Gene Heskett wrote at 10:26 -0400 on Jul 18, 2014:
Trying to figure out why amanda can't backup this machine, one of the
things I noticed in /etc, is that on the shop box, which works, there is
not an /etc/xinetd.d but it has an old-xinetd.d with a single stanza
amanda file in it.
An
Gene Heskett wrote at 12:25 -0400 on Jul 18, 2014:
14/7/18@12:09:37: ERROR: 3859 {activate_normal} bind failed (Address
already in use (errno = 98)). service = amanda
More than one xinetd or inetd running?
Maybe some basic background is in order. The basic operation of
*inetd is pretty
Gene Heskett gheskett-at-wdtv.com |amusersj-ml0| wrote at 15:07 -0400 on Jul
18, 2014:
On Friday 18 July 2014 14:22:48 John Hein did opine
And Gene did reply:
Gene Heskett wrote at 12:25 -0400 on Jul 18, 2014:
14/7/18@12:09:37: ERROR: 3859 {activate_normal} bind failed (Address
Stefan G. Weichinger sgw-at-amanda.org |amusersj-ml0| wrote at 16:38 +0200 on
Jul 9, 2014:
Am 09.07.2014 16:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Would anyone mind sharing some real world scripts he uses with amanda?
I think of stopping/starting DBs or something like that.
I
Jon LaBadie wrote at 09:43 -0400 on Jul 1, 2014:
On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 09:19:19AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
Pursuant to a conversation on the dovecot list about the relatively long
times involved in rebuilding the dovecot.index file when it gets out of
sync.
was the du command or
maybe NFS and not amanda.
On 10/25/13 13:19, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
Hi John,
It always works for me.
I found a bug, it randomly (not that random) take the value of the
tapetype length or the device max-volume-usage property.
In my case, it always use the value
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
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
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
. 300Gb seems more realistic
unless I am missing something.
--
---
John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jh...@math.wisc.edu
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
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
Subscriptions wrote at 02:21 + on Jun 16, 2012:
As there is no Amanda 3.3.1 binary build for 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04, I've
downloaded the latest stable version, but when I run the make I get the
following error
libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../config -I../gnulib
I see no reference to m4_divert_diversion in AMANDA_INIT_VERSION ...
AC_DEFUN([AMANDA_INIT_VERSION],
[
m4_syscmd([test -f FULL_VERSION])
m4_if(m4_sysval, [0],
[
m4_define([AMANDA_F_VERSION], m4_chomp(m4_include([FULL_VERSION])))
],
[
Brendon Martino wrote at 11:53 -0400 on Nov 3, 2011:
I'm running Amanda version 2.6.0p2-14 on Fedora 10. My current
architecture for Amanda is as follows:
.
.
How do I
implement my architecture to only keep about a week (or even a day) of
backups in the holding disk (locally on
Jon LaBadie wrote at 18:49 -0400 on Jul 15, 2011:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:08:24PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Thanks, Brian. So, basically, the upgrade in general is pretty
straightforward.
The key point, though, is that I am promoting an important Amanda
client to be the
Charles Curley wrote at 12:46 -0600 on Jun 3, 2011:
Problem solved. As often happens, user error.
When you log in over SSH the first time, you get the usual The
authenticity of host 'foo' can't be established. message. To avoid
that, you log in manually, accept the fingerprint entry in
As you surmised, these are mostly gtar questions.
If your DLE is not a filesystem, then the other dump-ish choices are out.
But gtar (and star as well as the various flavors of dump) does _try_
to save space when it encounters hard links.
For instance (gtar 1.26),
mkdir xx
dd if=/dev/zero
Gour wrote at 16:23 +0100 on Mar 3, 2011:
Is there any concern when migrating Amanda from Linux to FreeBSD?
Amanda should not have problems. If you hit a snag, ask the list.
You may hit issues like the mt(1) syntax is different
(use mt for things like setting blocksize and disabling hardware
Please help me out with selinux context.
I have a RHEL5.4 as zrm server and the MySQL server is a fedora13.
Everything is fine if i put the selinux in the permissive mode. But when its
enabled the zrm schedular is a unable to access the
/var/lib/mysql/.ssh/authorized_keys
file which is needed
I have a client with an amandad that has been running since Sep 23...
backup 97592 0.0 0.1 26780 7016 ?? Ss 23Sep10 40:30.43 amandad
Most of the backups on that client still work fine. But two DLEs
fail nightly. On the server, you get:
1286525084.841860: chunker: getcmd: START
I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,my family and I came down here
to England for a short vacation and i was mugged at gun point last
night at the park of the hotel where we lodged,all cash and credit
card were stolen off us but luckily for us we still have our passports
with us.
I've been to
Brian Cuttler wrote at 09:20 -0400 on Sep 14, 2010:
Not sure which part of amanda is the driver, amdump itself ?
driver planner are executed in amdump. You can see yourself - it's
just a script.
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 14:09 -0500 on Sep 13, 2010:
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:36 PM, John Hein jh...@symmetricom.com wrote:
This may not be considered a nitpick but more of a feature request.
If I move a disk or rename a host or move the host to a different
domain, it'd be nice
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 14:56 -0500 on Sep 13, 2010:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Brian Cuttler br...@wadsworth.org wrote:
Virtual DLEs !?!
That is EXACTLY what we need !
I know you warned us, but I'm REALLY Excited about this !
That would _so_ fix my Terrabyte sized
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 10:55 -0500 on Sep 9, 2010:
I bet most of you have some small nitpick with Amanda that you've
never felt warranted an email. Well, now's your chance! I'd like to
put some polish on Amanda, and it's hard for me to see the areas that
need burnishing, since I
me to build and install
amanda-3.1.2 and to complete a successful backup. I know nothing
about writing ebuilds, so this is nothing more than a very crude and
shameless and uninformed hack of the 2.6.1_p2 ebuild. There's very
little testing behind it. But it worked for me.
John
amanda-3.1.2
. Any advice on how to proceed from here? Thanks for
your help!
John Blinka
Gene Heskett wrote at 12:04 -0400 on Jul 21, 2010:
Greetings all;
My catchup script seems to be working with 2 exceptions, first being that I
am not getting any emails from it, so I installed dnsmasq to see if that
fixes that.
2nd, each pass through my catchup script loop elicits
Sorry to hijack your thread, but I tried 'exclude file' a few months
ago and they didn't work either.
Chris Nighswonger wrote at 11:00 -0400 on Jun 9, 2010:
Does ZWC honor exclude/include lists?
I have a DLE like:
foo.bar.com C:\\Documents\ and\ Settings {
exclude list
As a workaround, perhaps you could unhide the snapshot directory.
man zfs.
McGraw, Robert P wrote at 11:23 -0400 on Jun 2, 2010:
I am not sure if this got sent to the group so I an fordwarding.
This explains what is going on in the gtar code to cause gtar to seg fault.
All the
Has anyone seen a tape that was marked no-reused get _used_?
It happened last night here (amanda-2.6.1p2).
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 12:22 -0600 on Mar 10, 2010:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:44 AM, John Hein jh...@symmetricom.com wrote:
Has anyone seen a tape that was marked no-reused get _used_?
It happened last night here (amanda-2.6.1p2).
To take a guess: label_new_tapes is set
On a 2.6.1b1 client ...
1251090802.506210: sendbackup: pid 61161 ruid 5001 euid 5001 version 2.6.1b1:
start at Sun Aug 23 23:13:22 2009
1251090802.506278: sendbackup: Version 2.6.1b1
1251090802.511032: sendbackup: pid 61161 ruid 5001 euid 5001 version 2.6.1b1:
rename at Sun Aug 23 23:13:22 2009
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote at 11:48 -0400 on Aug 24, 2009:
John Hein wrote:
On a 2.6.1b1 client ...
Hmm, beta software ...
It's not fixed in 2.6.1 neither in 2.6.1p1.
You must use the latest 2.6.1p1 snapshot from
http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php
Building a new
stan wrote at 16:59 -0400 on Aug 24, 2009:
The firts thing I notice when comparing this function in 2.5.0 vs 2.5.2 is
that 2.5.0 does:
tv.tv_usec = 0;
and 2.5.2 does not. Could thim make a difference? Both do
tv.tv_sec = timeout;
In 2.5.2, the memset sets the entire struct to
stan wrote at 10:56 -0400 on Aug 21, 2009:
OK here is the latest on this saga :-)
On one of the OpenBSD 4.5 machines I have built 2.5.0p1, and was able to
back this machine up successfully (using classic UDP based authentication)
On another of them, I built 2.5.2p1. The first attempt
stan wrote at 13:56 -0400 on Aug 21, 2009:
OK, I reproduced the failure with only a crossover cable between the test
client and the Amanda Master:
Just because you're using a crossover cable doesn't rule out firewall
or other such socket level interference. I'm not saying that's your
Onotsky, Steve x55328 wrote at 14:23 -0400 on May 14, 2009:
I agree, but the caveat is that the planner will do its darndest to
make full use of the extended capacity of the LTO4 cartridge.
In my case, our backups went from between 5 and 8 hours with LTO2
tapes to well over 24 hours in
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 11:11 -0400 on May 1, 2009:
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Joe Konecny jkone...@rmtohio.com wrote:
I just ran amrecover and successfully put a file into /tmp.
amrecover prompted me set owner/mode for '.'? [yn] to
which I answered n and hit enter. Now it
Gene Heskett wrote at 08:53 -0400 on Apr 9, 2009:
Uptime is about 5 days now, but this may be the beginning of the
end. Something made it think all data was new from the looks of
this. This was the first run of 20090323, 20090321 works fine.
Another device mapper screwup? It was
Gene Heskett wrote at 10:05 -0400 on Apr 9, 2009:
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net
wrote:
Uptime is about 5 days now, but this may be the beginning of the end.
Something made it think all data
John Hein wrote at 08:47 -0600 on Apr 9, 2009:
This (snippet below from the gtar NEWS file) was added in 1.21
Woops. Sorry --no-check-device was added for 1.20. I've never tested
it, however. If you can prove a device number change and use of this
option is causing the big incremental dump
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 10:11 -0400 on Mar 17, 2009:
2009/3/17 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com:
Ever since the upgrade, I am not able to perform the backup.
% /usr/local/sbin/amdump Backup2Disk
amgetconf: not found
I use FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE if that matters.
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/
stan wrote at 08:30 -0500 on Mar 2, 2009:
I really think we need to come up with a plan that results in it being
easier to comile clients on older machines. I have expressed my opinion
that this needs to be a forkof a 2.5 branch, but I did not seem to get much
in the way of buy in by
Charles Curley wrote at 08:29 -0700 on Mar 1, 2009:
r...@dragon:/home/ccurley/projects/ror# amrecover -C /etc/amanda/DailySet1
AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2p1. Contacting server on localhost ...
NAK: user root from localhost is not allowed to execute the service
amindexd: Please add amindexd
Charles Curley wrote at 11:48 -0700 on Mar 1, 2009:
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:11:38AM -0700, John Hein wrote:
Charles Curley wrote at 08:29 -0700 on Mar 1, 2009:
r...@dragon:/home/ccurley/projects/ror# amrecover -C
/etc/amanda/DailySet1
AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2p1. Contacting
Charles Curley wrote at 16:53 -0700 on Mar 1, 2009:
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:18:27PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 12:50:50PM -0700, John Hein wrote:
Do you know how your stock ubuntu build of amanda was configured (the
args to configure)?
I just
John Hein wrote at 17:49 -0700 on Mar 1, 2009:
man amrecover (see -s -t). I don't know if there is a run-time
configuration option for these (I didn't see one after a quick read
of the man pages) - if so, -o would be of no help.
^^^ s/so/not/
Toomas Aas wrote at 10:13 +0200 on Mar 1, 2009:
Sunday 01 March 2009 04:59:54 kirjutasid sa:
Is this new DLE big? Lots of files?
The new DLE is not that big. Its 'raw capacity' is 21 GB, ca 25000 files,
but
most of it are MySQL and PostgreSQL database files which are excluded
Charles Curley wrote at 18:54 -0700 on Mar 1, 2009:
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:49:20PM -0700, John Hein wrote:
man amrecover (see -s -t). I don't know if there is a run-time
configuration option for these (I didn't see one after a quick read
of the man pages) - if so, -o would
Toomas Aas wrote at 11:04 +0200 on Feb 28, 2009:
I have a single-machine (client==server) setup which has been working
well for quite a long time. It's running Amanda 2.5.1p3 on FreeBSD 6.4.
Yesterday I added a new disk to the machine, mounted it under /db and
added corresponding
stan wrote at 16:13 -0500 on Feb 25, 2009:
It appears that the mainstream development of Amanda has taken off in a
direction that has/will result in making in impossible to compile on many
existing platforms that have been historically supported by Amanda.
While there are good reasons
Tom Robinson wrote at 12:30 +1100 on Jan 22, 2009:
I've got several disks that are showing weird compression results in the
amanda report. Here's one of them:
DUMPER STATS
TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK
John Hein wrote at 21:38 -0700 on Jan 21, 2009:
Tom Robinson wrote at 12:30 +1100 on Jan 22, 2009:
I've got several disks that are showing weird compression results in the
amanda report. Here's one of them:
DUMPER STATS
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote at 14:00 -0500 on Dec 19, 2008:
* Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com [20081219 13:51]:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin
jean-francois.malo...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca wrote:
for module Amanda::Types:
John Hein wrote at 16:00 -0700 on Dec 13, 2008:
Tim Bunnell wrote at 17:03 -0500 on Dec 13, 2008:
Folks,
We're running Amanda (version 2.5.1p1) on a Debian Linux system with an
8-tape AIT-2 library. We have around 314GB spread over two file systems
that we are attempting
Tim Bunnell wrote at 17:03 -0500 on Dec 13, 2008:
Folks,
We're running Amanda (version 2.5.1p1) on a Debian Linux system with an
8-tape AIT-2 library. We have around 314GB spread over two file systems
that we are attempting to backup in one run across as many tapes as
necessary.
Steven Backus wrote at 17:50 -0700 on Nov 6, 2008:
I'm doing a trial installation of amanda and don't want to mess
up my regular install, so I compiled with --prefix=/local.
Regardless of this, amrecover is still looking for my config files
in /usr/local/etc/amanda/config instead of
Leon Me=DFner wrote at 12:22 +0100 on Nov 6, 2008:
Hi,
=
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 06:46:52PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
Ian Turner wrote:
I don't know if 2.5.1 is old enough to qualify for this issue, but =
it used =
to be the case that the entire set of disklists for a
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 00:41 -0400 on Oct 3, 2008:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Aaron J. Grier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I beg your pardon, but /sbin/dump is perfectly capable of dumping
subdirectories on most unixes. it just won't record (or read) the date
of the dump in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 13:09 -0400 on Sep 26, 2008:
Hmm, thanks for mentioning. If I condense down my browser window,
the text goes beyond the bounding box but I can still scroll over
to see the full line of text. Are you not getting the same?
Exactly the same. I was wondering if
Paul Yeatman wrote at 16:59 -0700 on Sep 24, 2008:
Online Amanda documentation for inetd.conf configuration for both
server and client are found on the Amanda wiki site here
server:
Where are the docs for what args need to be added to amandad in
inetd.conf?
I added amindexd and amidxtaped on the backup server in order to do
amrecover, but then amcheck failed (needed noop, then selfcheck).
Then amdump failed (needed sendsize, ...).
I see the full list in amandad.c, and I
Olivier Cherrier wrote at 18:46 -0400 on Sep 23, 2008:
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:27:26AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where are the docs for what args need to be added to amandad in
inetd.conf?
I added amindexd and amidxtaped on the backup server in order to do
amrecover, but
John Hein wrote at 17:22 -0600 on Sep 23, 2008:
Richard Stockton wrote at 14:28 -0700 on Sep 23, 2008:
How do I force a full dump under ALL circumstances?
(I do have my disklist set to always-full).
Put these in your global dumptype settings...
strategy noinc
skip-incr
Richard Stockton wrote at 14:28 -0700 on Sep 23, 2008:
How do I force a full dump under ALL circumstances?
(I do have my disklist set to always-full).
Put these in your global dumptype settings...
strategy noinc
skip-incr
Richard Stockton wrote at 16:42 -0700 on Sep 23, 2008:
At 04:29 PM 9/23/2008, you wrote:
How do I force a full dump under ALL circumstances?
(I do have my disklist set to always-full).
Is your holding disk sufficiently large?
Yes. 260 Gigs to hold about 240 Gigs of backup in 2
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:36 PM, John Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My question is, is this actually a good idea? Will there be any problems I
haven't anticipated, such as the two configs conflicting? For example, I
notice that there is only one /etc/amandates
! This configuration has been running for a few
weeks without any evident problems so far, except for one DLE whose
incrementals are always the same size as the level 0s, despite that
there are very few changes to the filesystem; I'm still working that one
out.
John
Taalaibek Ashirov wrote at 14:58 +0300 on Sep 12, 2008:
Let me recant, it may be amanda at fault or a combination. If you add
the following to the initialization of 'lock' in the test, does your
problem go away?
lock.l_start = 0;
lock.l_len = 0;
If the short test
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 09:40 -0400 on Sep 12, 2008:
creating amflock-test
make: don't know how to make amgpgcrypt. Stop
*** Error code 2
Stop in /root/amanda-2.6.0p2/common-src.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /root/amanda-2.6.0p2.
web#
Amanda requires GNU make now (gmake).
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 09:32 -0400 on Sep 12, 2008:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a mechanism in Amanda to ensure that only a single tape
changer process is running at any given time?
No -- and this poses a problem for
Taalaibek Ashirov wrote at 10:31 +0300 on Sep 11, 2008:
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 09:56 -0600, John Hein wrote:
What happens when you compile and run this (as the backup user)?
#include err.h
#include fcntl.h
#include stdio.h
int
main()
{
struct flock lock;
int
John Hein wrote at 07:19 -0600 on Sep 11, 2008:
Taalaibek Ashirov wrote at 10:31 +0300 on Sep 11, 2008:
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 09:56 -0600, John Hein wrote:
What happens when you compile and run this (as the backup user)?
#include err.h
#include fcntl.h
#include
Taalaibek Ashirov wrote at 15:16 +0300 on Sep 10, 2008:
I am using FreeBSD 6.3 and amanda 2.5.1p3. Running amcheck results no
errors. All the debug files result no
errors.
But I got Result Missing errors back in the amreport after
amdump. Below is the error in amdump.1 file under
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 10:01 -0400 on Sep 7, 2008:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:44 AM, John Hein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was a zmanda wiki page that described issues with various gnutar
and amanda version combinations, but I can't seem to find it at the
moment (the search
Jon LaBadie wrote at 01:57 -0400 on Sep 7, 2008:
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 01:46:50AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:44:11PM -0600, John Hein wrote:
Someone may already know about this, but using gtar 1.15.1 and
amanda 2.5.1 will not work very well
Someone may already know about this, but using gtar 1.15.1 and
amanda 2.5.1 will not work very well.
The format of the listed incremental file has changed. Among other
things, the entries are now separated by '\0' null bytes rather than
newlines. [I'm not exactly sure why since it doesn't
Steven Backus wrote at 10:20 -0600 on Aug 7, 2008:
I've determined my drive can label tapes but can't read old
tapes. I get the Input/Output error whenever trying to read a
previously labeled tape or dd out anything. However, if I re-label
the tape it works again. Does this indicate
I'm having trouble making backups because the estimates are taking too long.
I inherited an amanda backup setup and my predecessor had already increased
the etimeout to 1800. I doubled it to 3600 and I was still getting timeout
warnings at the top of the email when I did an amdump. So I doubled
Hi,
I'm getting an error message from amdump. Amanda is installed on a machine
called marvin. But amdump is saying all estimate timed out regarding
directories on marvin itself. The email message from amanda with the error
message is copied below. I tried amcheck:
$ amcheck -c DailySet1
Paul Bijnens wrote at 12:33 +0200 on May 27, 2008:
On 2008-05-25 18:55, jehan procaccia wrote:
hello,
some clients with big partitions (100Gbytes) freezes my amdump, I
usually get dumps errors which cannot end properly.
I have 2 questions,
1) how can I resolve that client
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote at 15:12 -0400 on May 15, 2008:
On #amanda, I've been working with Scott Bender, who's trying to build
Amanda-2.6.0 on HP/UX 11.11. He's gotten all of the prereqs
installed, but is having some trouble with network communication.
We've boiled the problem down to
Anthony Worrall wrote at 14:32 +0100 on Apr 25, 2008:
unfortunately zfsdump, or zfs send as it is now, does not relate to
ufsdump in any way :-(
Sorry to hijack this thread, but...
Can Solaris and/or ZFS snapshots support partial filesystem dumps (and
restores)? If not, how do people
Jon LaBadie wrote at 10:59 -0400 on Apr 25, 2008:
Another way would be to use include directives. For example, if the
zfs pool was /pool and had file systems of a, b,c, and d, you could
set up multiple DLEs that were rooted at /pool (different tag names)
and had include directives of
Pieter Bowman wrote at 11:41 -0600 on Apr 25, 2008:
The final issue I found was that the inode numbers in the snapshots
change each time a new snapshot is created. This is a problem with
GNU tar's listed-incremental facility. To work around this I ended up
hacking GNU tar to make it
Jon LaBadie wrote at 13:57 -0400 on Apr 25, 2008:
Though I've not tried it, it should.
I base that on the description of the command
/usr/sbin/ufsdump [options] [arguments] files_to_dump
and the belief that the include directive merely provides the args
corresponding to
Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote at 18:33 -0500 on Mar 21, 2008:
I'm attempting to compile the client version of amanda on a Dell PowerEdge
server running FreeBSD 6.3 but keep running into an ssh related error. I
use
the following configure statement:
./configure
Yes, it's the classic problem. I understand the cause, but I have a
question.
a little background for those who don't know about this one...
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Last night I got a bunch of these...
elmer /hr lev 3 FAILED [dumps way too big, 9065 KB, must skip
incremental dumps]
As a result,
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote at 14:50 -0500 on Mar 6, 2008:
By defaults, amanda will never do more than runtapes * tape_length,
unless you set 'maxdumpsize', added in 2.4.4.
... or the estimated dump size winds up being less than the actual
dump size. But I understand your basic point.
I
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