amrecover: use wildcards etc

I once posted about german umlauts and the issues in amrecover. Today I hit that again. In the amrecover UI I found two files in a specific DLE: 2024-01-15-19-30-02 "SOME & FILE Name �bersicht.xlsx" 2024-01-09-19-30-01 "SOME & FILE Name �bersicht.pdf" note the quotes around the names for

Re: changer for more than one usb disk device

On 16.11.23 22:08, Moritz Both wrote: Greetings, we use amanda with usb disks and manually change them every day. I configured udev to create a symlink to /dev/amanda-vtape when the disk is plugged in. In /etc/fstab I configured this device so it can be mounted to /mnt/amanda-vtape by the

Re: multiple LTOs in the same library

Am 16.05.23 um 16:34 schrieb ASV: Thanks exuvo, I'll try to dig a bit in that direction even though I was expecting some built-in functionality for that. Are the LTO7-tapes always in defined slots? As far as I understand all *drives* are LTO8, but not all *tapes* ?

Last full dump overwritten

In an installation with two storage definitions with two POLICY definitions I often get report lines like this: planner: Last full dump of samba.some.tld:boot on tape ARC948 overwritten in 3 runs. As far as I know this means I have less tapes in rotation than "runspercycle". It seems

Re: btrfs snapshots

Am 20.03.23 um 07:38 schrieb Kees Meijs | Nefos: Hi there, On 19-03-2023 18:37, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Do / did you run fileservers on btrfs? Yes. There's a back up server (runnning something other then AMANDA) with a 40-something TB volume with btrfs. Quite often (like every other

Re: using Google Cloud for virtual tapes

Am 27.06.22 um 10:21 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 03.06.22 um 09:13 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I now at last received credentials to that gcs storage bucket, so I can start to try ... Does it make sense to somehow follow https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_to_Amazon_S3

Re: btrfs snapshots

Am 17.03.23 um 09:20 schrieb Kees Meijs | Nefos: Hi Stefan, I'd recommend against btrfs and go for ZFS instead (also on Linux). Although I was a (really) great fan of btrfs; it just seemed to have too much bugs, sometimes even resulting in loss of data. My experience is different, my

btrfs snapshots

Does anyone successfully use btrfs snapshots with amanda? Like in doing LVM snapshots pre-amdump etc ?

Re: 2 CVEs in amanda-3.5.1

Am 22.01.23 um 09:25 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Just in case this hasn't yet been noticed by anyone upstream: https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37704 https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37705 https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192 PRs on their way, as it seems: https

Re: amflush and systemd-oomd

Am 05.02.23 um 15:39 schrieb Uwe Menges: Hi, I just updated my backup server from Fedora 35 to 37. After the upgrade, I tried to run amflush. The session running amflush was killed by systemd-oomd as per these lines in the journal: systemd[1]: session-5.scope: systemd-oomd killed some

2 CVEs in amanda-3.5.1

Just in case this hasn't yet been noticed by anyone upstream: https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37704 https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37705 https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192

Re: Degraded dump in amanda 3.5.2

Am 18.01.23 um 14:09 schrieb Pablo Venini: This is the amanda.conf org "monitoreo10_diario"    # your organization name for reports dumpuser "amandabackup" # the user to run dumps under mailto "xxx...@y.zz"    # space separated list of operators at your site dumpcycle

Re: Degraded dump in amanda 3.5.2

Am 18.01.23 um 14:12 schrieb Pablo Venini: Yes, I was also thinking about installing 3.5.1; I installed 3.5.2 from RPM so I thought it was ok (I was reinstalling an old server wich ran 3.3.9). I tried your suggestion and if I run amdump for each DLE, the dumps are ok Why don't you just set

Re: Degraded dump in amanda 3.5.2

Am 18.01.23 um 01:47 schrieb Pablo Venini: Hi Stefan, sorry for the delay in answering. This is a backup of the amanda server itself (configs, etc.), there is less than 100MB of information. What worries me is that if I use a holding disk without correcting the problem the dumps will go there

Re: Degraded dump in amanda 3.5.2

Am 18.01.23 um 01:43 schrieb Pablo Venini: Hi Nathan, do you know if there is any setting to cause amanda to be more verbose? Another weird thing is that the report says: NOTES:   planner: tapecycle (7) <= runspercycle (7) However the config is like this: tapecycle 8 # the number of

Re: Degraded dump in amanda 3.5.2

Am 30.12.22 um 15:34 schrieb Pablo Venini: Hi Nathan,     no, (as far as I'm aware) I'm not using a holding disk as this is a vtape backup, the dumptype is as follows: You could fix that by defining and using a holding disk. Then a "degraded mode backup" should work. The

Re: what leads to a "new disk" ?

Am 05.12.22 um 19:41 schrieb Jose M Calhariz: I wasn't aware that doing this "resets history" ... I just want to have lev0 runs only on that day It blocks incremental backups to run until a lev0 is run sucessfully. Now I only do a "amdmin force " when I know I have lost the previous lev 0 or

Re: what leads to a "new disk" ?

Am 05.12.22 um 15:03 schrieb Jose M Calhariz: On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 10:18:03AM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I have an installation where I didn't add or remove DLEs for a long time. But now an then amanda seems to "forget" a DLE and come up with something like: samba.intra

Re: what leads to a "new disk" ?

Am 05.12.22 um 06:47 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 10:18:03 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I have an installation where I didn't add or remove DLEs for a long time. But now an then amanda seems to "forget" a DLE and come up with something like: s

what leads to a "new disk" ?

I have an installation where I didn't add or remove DLEs for a long time. But now an then amanda seems to "forget" a DLE and come up with something like: samba.intra rootfs lev 0 FAILED [dumps too big, 42606931 KB, but cannot incremental dump new disk] The DLE is NOT new. Where does

Re: amvault hangs

Am 22.11.22 um 17:13 schrieb Christian: Hello, I'm running a very small amanda installation to create regular backups of local files and also involves archiving at some point. For archiving files, I run a full backup that ends up in holding and then I run amvault twice to write the backup

Re: Multiple storage-definitions, generating archive tapes

Am 30.10.22 um 16:32 schrieb Exuvo: Are you not supposed to do all the -Letter options before the configuration name? Is that maybe why it does not work? I.e: amflush -o storage=storage1 configurationNameHere No. amflush config -o storage=storage1 works fine so far. My question is: how

Re: Multiple storage-definitions, generating archive tapes

So far my setups with multiple storages work. One of the missing features (or I don't know how): if dumps stay in the holding disk I don't know which storage they would go to via amflush. I start amflush config -o storage=storage1 and then see in amstatus, that all DLEs would go to

Re: dumporder

Am 06.11.18 um 19:18 schrieb Chris Nighswonger: This seems to work: amplot /var/backups/campus/log/amdump.1 Running under the amanda user. However, the issue now is the attempt to write the output to the X11 terminal: gnuplot: unable to open display '' gnuplot: X11 aborted. Not sure what

Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived! -- email bounce

Am 29.09.22 um 02:03 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 16:11:15 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 17:29:41 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I received: "Your message to chris.hass...@betsol.com couldn't be delivered. Chris.Hassell w

Re: Amanda Community release 3.5.2 - debian test packages

Am 16.09.22 um 17:52 schrieb gene heskett: The first thing I note is the use of port 5000, and I'm wondering about the possibility of fighting over the ports as Octoprint uses FQDN:5000 as its web server to administer its designated 3d printer. I expect its changeable, and I've done it to

Re: Amanda Community release 3.5.2 - debian test packages

Am 16.09.22 um 16:55 schrieb gene heskett: On 9/16/22 07:28, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I might rebuild later if needed, just wanted to share asap. Right now I am quite busy with X things. . I agree, Wayland in place of X needs all the help it can get. I didn't mean X11 ;-) .. wanted

Amanda Community release 3.5.2 - debian test packages

Am 02.08.22 um 17:26 schrieb Jose M Calhariz: I am not doing progress in solving the autotools problems. I copied debian directory from official Debian 3.5.1, refresh patches, and "debuild". I fails with alot of warnings and this relevant error: automake: error: cannot open <

Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived! -- email bounce

Am 13.09.22 um 22:11 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: (I just tried sending email to this email address. My message was accepted for delivery by the Betsol mail server, and I haven't received any bounce message back [after waiting a few minutes]. So hopefully the bounce you saw was just a

Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived!

Am 13.09.22 um 14:14 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: @Chris ... any news? Could you pls provide packages, for example for Debian 11.x ? thanks I received: "Your message to chris.hass...@betsol.com couldn't be delivered. Chris.Hassell wasn't found at betsol.com."

Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived!

Am 24.08.22 um 14:10 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 02.08.22 um 20:31 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 12:30:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote: And where do I get the debian approved versions of 3.5.2? That's what Jose is attempting to create now... (So watch

Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived!

Am 02.08.22 um 20:31 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 12:30:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote: And where do I get the debian approved versions of 3.5.2? That's what Jose is attempting to create now... (So watch this thread for news.) We are :-) Tried another build in my

Re: Multiple storage-definitions, generating archive tapes

Am 23.08.22 um 23:16 schrieb Exuvo: I use two separate backup configurations. One for weekly backups and one for yearly archival. The weekly i start from crontab and the archival one i start manually with "sudo -u amanda amdump archive". Each configuration has its own storage definition with

Re: Multiple storage-definitions, generating archive tapes

Am 10.08.22 um 08:52 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: What I try: storage1 should leave the lev0 backups in the holding disk after writing to tapes in pool1 storage2 should be allowed to remove them when written to the tapes in pool2 Does noone else use multiple storage definitions? I have

Re: Multiple storage-definitions, generating archive tapes

(resend with correct ML-email) Am 09.08.22 um 16:50 schrieb Jose M Calhariz: On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 04:34:11PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 04.08.22 um 10:08 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: (...) combined with flush-threshold-dumped 200 # (or more) flush-threshold-scheduled

Re: Multiple storage-definitions, generating archive tapes

Am 04.08.22 um 10:08 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: 1) I would have to "split" a physical tape change into 2 logical changers: 12 tapes for "daily" runs (= storage 1) 12 tapes for "full-only" runs (= storage 2) (How) would amanda handle that? As there is only

Multiple storage-definitions, generating archive tapes

Now that I understand a bit better how to use 2 storage-definitions I'd like to improve a setup at a customer. Back then I tried to use amvault, but didn't get the concepts right (reading the old threads I see that I didn't even get the command-options right ...). What is set up right

Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived!

Am 02.08.22 um 10:06 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 02.08.22 um 09:44 schrieb gene heskett: On 8/2/22 01:40, Winston Sorfleet wrote: Much appreciated José, count me in as a beta tester. Me too, but its been a while and this is a fairly fresh bullseye install, and autogen complains

Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived!

Am 02.08.22 um 10:06 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: pressing SEND now, my build is still running hitting https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/184

Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived!

Am 02.08.22 um 09:44 schrieb gene heskett: On 8/2/22 01:40, Winston Sorfleet wrote: Much appreciated José, count me in as a beta tester. Me too, but its been a while and this is a fairly fresh bullseye install, and autogen complains mightily, and quickly.

Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived!

Am 29.07.22 um 04:11 schrieb Pavan Raj: Hello Everyone, We at Zmanda are pleased to announce the 3.5.2 release of Amanda Community. URL: http://www.amanda.org/download.php https://www.zmanda.com/downloads/ lists packages for Debian-9.9 (for example)

Re: Is there a write-up on using amvault with an archive config?

Am 02.08.22 um 08:13 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: So that sounds like two "storage" definitions. Will try. Yep, got it. That works great so far :-) Now for some tuning, for example only writing FULLs to one storage etc That might lead to some reconfiguring in some of my setups ...

Re: Is there a write-up on using amvault with an archive config?

Am 22.03.22 um 05:34 schrieb Winston Sorfleet: I use amvault to tertiarary media (LTO-2, I am just a casual home user) while my main archive is VTL on a slow NAS.  I use cron, but obviously I could just run as-needed from the command line. You're right, it is a bit hard to intuit, and I had

Re: Is there a write-up on using amvault with an archive config?

Am 23.03.22 um 07:19 schrieb Jon LaBadie: Thanks Winston, this moves me a bit closer. Jon, are you successful with amvault now? I have to try to set that up again, I want to "amvault" an existing setup with a LT0-4-changer to additional virtual tapes. Back then I didn't get it right, now I

Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived!

Am 29.07.22 um 04:11 schrieb Pavan Raj: Hello Everyone, We at Zmanda are pleased to announce the 3.5.2 release of Amanda Community. Nice to hear ... anyone touched that yet? Looking forward to that release packaged for Debian (most of my amanda-servers run Debian Linux). On gentoo I am

Re: using Google Cloud for virtual tapes

Am 27.06.22 um 10:21 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 03.06.22 um 09:13 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I now at last received credentials to that gcs storage bucket, so I can start to try ... Does it make sense to somehow follow https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_to_Amazon_S3

Re: using Google Cloud for virtual tapes

Am 03.06.22 um 09:13 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I now at last received credentials to that gcs storage bucket, so I can start to try ... Does it make sense to somehow follow https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_to_Amazon_S3 ? I don't find anything mentioning Google Cloud

Re: using Google Cloud for virtual tapes

Am 05.04.22 um 11:55 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 04.04.22 um 23:33 schrieb Chris Hassell: Google cloud works and works well enough indeed.   All of them work... but a non-block technique is capped at 5TB by almost all providers, and getting to there is complicated and can DOUBLE your

Re: "overdue" wrong

Am 02.06.22 um 14:02 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: The amadmin info shows that this dump has no size (in addition to the "zero" date), so somehow the amanda history is not recording a successful dump Can you make sure sure that the dump was in fact written successfully all the way to

"overdue" wrong

I see wrong "overdue" information in $ amadmin vtape due [..] Overdue 19140 days: server:dle007 [..] $ amadmin vtape info Current info for server dle007: Stats: dump rates (kps), Full: 64128.6, 62520.7, 64225.8 Incremental: 10.0, 1.1, 2.0

Re: slow USB vtapes

Am 01.06.22 um 12:04 schrieb Jose M Calhariz: How many DLEs and how many run in parallel (inparallel parameter)? inparallel 4 basically 3 linux hosts involved, 20 DLEs, some of them via amsamba I even have to encrypt things ... Maybe I should decrease inparallel, yes And only flush after

slow USB vtapes

I see low write performance to (modern) USB disks attached via USB 3.0 This leads to lng backup windows and even DLEs somehow not written because things get stuck (?) somehow. Until yesterday the disks were attached to USB 2.0 ports, I expected to solve this by adding a PCIe card with

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 27.05.22 um 17:30 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: Ah, so euxvo_crypt is run by the amidxtaped process rather than by the amrecover process itself. What does strace show amrecover is doing during this period? And "ps -ef" shows that the openssl process is still alive (i.e. not defunct).

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

forgot pstree: -tmux: server-+-bash---amrecover-+-amandad-+-amandad | | `-amindexd | |-amandad-+-amandad | | `-amidxtaped-+-exuvo_crypt---openssl

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 27.05.22 um 14:28 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 27.05.22 um 14:05 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 10:28:09 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: After that both tar and gzip.binary are shown as in ps, whatever that means. Okay, that's a little progress

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 27.05.22 um 14:05 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 10:28:09 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: After that both tar and gzip.binary are shown as in ps, whatever that means. Okay, that's a little progress in the investigation. "" means that the process

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 26.05.22 um 12:05 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 26.05.22 um 12:01 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 26.05.22 um 04:10 schrieb Exuvo: I think i had "/bin/gzip: gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored" before i used -q to zstd which suppresses warnings and int

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 26.05.22 um 12:01 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 26.05.22 um 04:10 schrieb Exuvo: I think i had "/bin/gzip: gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored" before i used -q to zstd which suppresses warnings and interactivity. Maybe I could edit to "gzi

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 26.05.22 um 04:10 schrieb Exuvo: I think i had "/bin/gzip: gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored" before i used -q to zstd which suppresses warnings and interactivity. Maybe I could edit to "gzip -d" somewhere in the code to also suppress this?

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 26.05.22 um 04:10 schrieb Exuvo: From my notes when i was doing recovery testing:  For some reason if i use encryption i get a single spurious error at the end of amcheckdump or amrecover if you recover the last file written:   application stderr: /usr/bin/tar: Skipping to next header  

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 26.05.22 um 03:48 schrieb Exuvo: To handle changing device names use ex /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-HUE12340E22-nst and /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-DEC1234567 Nice hack, thanks. Applied.

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 25.05.22 um 16:46 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: The tested DLE is encrypted and compressed. Yes, redundant ... I can change that in the future. The first part gets read perfectly, but it seems that the end of the tarball crashes things somehow. I remember that error from mailing list

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 25.05.22 um 16:12 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: When doing an extract tar does read on to the end of the tar file before exiting, but "hours and hours" seems like a long time to wait for that... Is tar still running (e.g. what does "top" or "ps" show)? If so, what does strace on the

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 25.05.22 um 15:35 schrieb Nuno Dias: That messages seems ok, but usually the "kb" will increase with the time, the same "kb" everytime seems a little strange, unfortunately I can't help more than this! I think you need someone that understand more of amanda. Never mind, thanks for

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 25.05.22 um 14:41 schrieb Nuno Dias: My conf (the relevant parts) tpchanger "robot" define changer robot { tpchanger "chg-robot:/dev/changer" changerfile "/etc/amanda//changer-state" property"tape-device" "0=tape:/dev/nst0" property

Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 25.05.22 um 12:17 schrieb Nuno Dias: I have "tapedev" in /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf but is commented, maybe was used a long time ago, but right now is not necessary with my configuration. And yes I do not choose any device or changer when I execute amrecover. OK, great. My

amrecover usage with chg-robot

At a customer I decided to do some recovery testing. We use the chg-robot changer there, with one tape drive. See below: * tapetype * changer * taperscan * storage * amrecover_changer (I could also show the whole config, but don't want to flood the list ...) Amdumps work fine. Recovery

Re: Request for interested reviewers ...

Am 16.05.22 um 10:01 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 13.05.22 um 18:12 schrieb Chris Hassell: ANNOUNCEMENT:  I'm going to try to push Betsol's attempt at a 3.6 "community build" into a 3_6 branch, so it can be tested as a whole. We will serve binaries built for many distros as

Re: Request for interested reviewers ...

Am 13.05.22 um 18:12 schrieb Chris Hassell: ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm going to try to push Betsol's attempt at a 3.6 "community build" into a 3_6 branch, so it can be tested as a whole. We will serve binaries built for many distros as we can get them together. There's enough changes to merit a

Re: Request for interested reviewers ...

Am 02.12.20 um 01:17 schrieb Chris Hassell: Greetings, It’s been a long spring and summer.   At BETSOL we’re (sigh) very nearly done with our new Django-based UI for Zmanda 4.0 based on Amanda 3.5.1.   Along with that, we have several updates that need review and we’d like to get in to the

Re: amsamba breaks with samba-4.14?

Am 24.08.21 um 17:38 schrieb Chris Hassell: @Tobias: We have a new version of the amsamba app that you can try. We need to get it out to get reviewed but it's nearly all changed. We were hoping to get a community build out ... but that keeps getting delayed. It's been refined and corrected

Re: amcrypt: deprecated key derivation used

Am 06.05.22 um 12:34 schrieb Exuvo: Sorry for a lot of replies. never mind, I am happy to get help and some communication going Added your suggestion with: echo "$@" > /tmp/encryptparams now I looked at my config and i only use estimate calcsize and estimate server as estimate client was

Re: amanda fails

Am 18.10.21 um 14:38 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Anyone seeing this as well? FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY:   taper: FATAL Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/amanda/perl/Amanda/ScanInventory.pm line 343. This on a debian-10.10 server Hitting

Re: amcrypt: deprecated key derivation used

Am 04.05.22 um 16:46 schrieb Exuvo: Ah yes my RANDFILE was probably already created long ago when i initially set up encryption. From what i have read the random file is not really on most systems as it is only there to help with low entropy systems (ie server that does nothing most of

Re: amcrypt: deprecated key derivation used

Am 04.05.22 um 12:46 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 04.05.22 um 11:36 schrieb Exuvo: Yeah the included ossl usage is using old key derivation. On my installation i have replaced amcrypt-ossl usage with: # cat /etc/amanda/encrypt #!/bin/bash AMANDA_HOME=~amanda PASSPHRASE=$AMANDA_HOME

Re: amcrypt: deprecated key derivation used

Am 04.05.22 um 11:36 schrieb Exuvo: Yeah the included ossl usage is using old key derivation. On my installation i have replaced amcrypt-ossl usage with: # cat /etc/amanda/encrypt #!/bin/bash AMANDA_HOME=~amanda PASSPHRASE=$AMANDA_HOME/.am_passphrase    # required RANDFILE=$AMANDA_HOME/.rnd

Re: amcrypt: deprecated key derivation used

Am 17.12.21 um 04:35 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: That's an old one, but as far as I see, not fixed yet: I get problems with DLEs using amcrypt-ossl. The message in amstatus contains "deprecated key derivation used". This seems to point to something like this iss

Re: debian 11, vtapes not found correctly anymore

Am 21.04.22 um 09:12 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 21.04.22 um 09:03 schrieb Kees Meijs | Nefos: Hi, Anything in /var/log/kern.log and the like about the "amcheck-device: new Amanda::Changer::Error: type='failed', reason='notfound', message='No removable disk mounted on

Re: debian 11, vtapes not found correctly anymore

Am 21.04.22 um 09:03 schrieb Kees Meijs | Nefos: Hi, Anything in /var/log/kern.log and the like about the "amcheck-device: new Amanda::Changer::Error: type='failed', reason='notfound', message='No removable disk mounted on '/mnt/externaldisk01'' maybe? Maybe there's a clear error about the

Re: debian 11, vtapes not found correctly anymore

Am 14.04.22 um 07:28 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 13.04.22 um 15:29 schrieb Jose M Calhariz: My setup is more simple I have several RAID6, each one is always mounted, on /vTapes1, /vTapes2, ... and there is a /vLibrary where there is all slots directories that are symbolic links

Re: debian 11, vtapes not found correctly anymore

Am 13.04.22 um 15:29 schrieb Jose M Calhariz: My setup is more simple I have several RAID6, each one is always mounted, on /vTapes1, /vTapes2, ... and there is a /vLibrary where there is all slots directories that are symbolic links into /vTapes* Have you look inside /mnt/externaldisk* to

Re: debian 11, vtapes not found correctly anymore

Am 13.04.22 um 10:37 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: ... up to changer disk3. all the disks are listed in /etc/fstab correction: up to changer disk7, sure

Re: debian 11, vtapes not found correctly anymore

Am 13.04.22 um 09:56 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 12.04.22 um 17:57 schrieb Jose M Calhariz: Hi, To tell that I have 1 instalation of amanda in Debian 11 with vtapes working flawless.  Can we share the setup? Sure, I'd appreciate that. I have several vtape-installations working OK

Re: debian 11, vtapes not found correctly anymore

Am 12.04.22 um 17:57 schrieb Jose M Calhariz: Hi, To tell that I have 1 instalation of amanda in Debian 11 with vtapes working flawless. Can we share the setup? Sure, I'd appreciate that. I have several vtape-installations working OK, it seems that the special config with aggregating 2

Re: debian 11, vtapes not found correctly anymore

Am 05.04.22 um 14:39 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: At two amanda-installations on Debian11 I see this lately: both setups use an aggregate setup of multiple external usb disks with vtapes on them. That worked well for years. Now I get errors because amanda does not find valid tapes on one

debian 11, vtapes not found correctly anymore

At two amanda-installations on Debian11 I see this lately: both setups use an aggregate setup of multiple external usb disks with vtapes on them. That worked well for years. Now I get errors because amanda does not find valid tapes on one or more external disks. "amtape config

Re: using Google Cloud for virtual tapes

Am 04.04.22 um 23:33 schrieb Chris Hassell: Google cloud works and works well enough indeed. All of them work... but a non-block technique is capped at 5TB by almost all providers, and getting to there is complicated and can DOUBLE your storage cost over one month [only] if you cannot make

Re: using Google Cloud for virtual tapes

Am 29.03.22 um 15:34 schrieb Chris Hassell: Google Cloud is somewhat difficult because they don't fully the support Amazon S3 operations. One cannot upload blocks and "CopyPart" them into a larger object. Wasabi and S3 and others can do that. There needs to be a simple overhaul of the

using Google Cloud for virtual tapes

At a customer I have to somehow move the backups into Google Cloud (the company moves everything there). Does anyone already combine that with amanda somehow? They forwarded me this: https://www.cloudbooklet.com/gsutil-cp-copy-and-move-files-on-google-cloud/ I could think of using amvault

Re: Sent out a pull-request to upgrade the packaging system....

Am 17.03.22 um 22:28 schrieb Chris Hassell: First of many.  It is not configured-and-tested as is but it is very close to our working version. -Versioning based on tags from git -An in-directory build as well as below-directory package build -Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 packages -Better

Re: example config for aes-256-ctr and zstd

Am 21.02.22 um 18:55 schrieb Exuvo: In case anyone is interested i made a post about LTO-5 tapes that includes example configs for amanda that uses aes-256-ctr with password and zstd compression https://www.eevblog.com/forum/general-computing/lto-tape-usage-(modern-tape-drives)/ thanks for

amcrypt: deprecated key derivation used

That's an old one, but as far as I see, not fixed yet: I get problems with DLEs using amcrypt-ossl. The message in amstatus contains "deprecated key derivation used". This seems to point to something like this issue:

Re: amanda vs bullseye 0/1

Am 04.12.21 um 20:32 schrieb Charles Curley: You seem to have installed both the upstream amanda package and the Debian package, and managed to conflate the two. That won't work. Back out the upstream package entirely, and continue with the Debian package. Remove the Debian packages. Kill off

Re: tape problem

Am 06.12.21 um 15:39 schrieb David Simpson: Further to Jose's questions. Some config excerpt may help. On blocksize, that is defined within the tapetype. blocksize 512 kbytes And maybe try a run with amtapetype.

Re: Solaris 11.4 64 binaries

Am 10.11.21 um 05:36 schrieb Chris Hassell: I have.  We have a community release due… way … way way overdue.   I’m afraid it’s been only myself doing it.    (A lot of change has been disruptive, I’m afraid). Well, why not share development with the users within let's say github or so, and

Re: Ordering the dumps?

Am 28.10.21 um 10:42 schrieb Diego Zuccato: Il 28/10/2021 10:02, Stefan G. Weichinger ha scritto: btw: it's recommended NOT to use "localhost" in disklist. There's even an FAQ for that. Sorry, I can't find it. Could you please post a link? Since I have some 'localhost' entries I'

Re: Ordering the dumps?

Am 27.10.21 um 09:28 schrieb Olivier: Hello, My backups have not been runnig for some time due to a combination of work from home and general power failure. Now that I have restarted it, it fails for all the DLE with an error like below: localhost / lev 0 FAILED [dumps too big, 171153 KB,

Re: amanda fails

Am 19.10.21 um 16:45 schrieb Charles Curley: On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:19:28 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: Switching the parameter "taperscan" from "lexical" to "traditional" works around that now. I don't have taperscan in either of m

Re: amsamba breaks with samba-4.14?

Am 24.08.21 um 17:38 schrieb Chris Hassell: @Tobias: We have a new version of the amsamba app that you can try. We need to get it out to get reviewed but it's nearly all changed. We were hoping to get a community build out ... but that keeps getting delayed. It's been refined and

Re: amanda fails

Am 18.10.21 um 18:00 schrieb Charles Curley: On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:38:46 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: Anyone seeing this as well? FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY: taper: FATAL Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/amanda/p

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