the file is /dev/null. Is that correct?
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ugh all the
> normal steps without actually reading the ordinary file
> data blocks. Saves mucho time for estimates.
I checked all the runtar log files; they all indicate the same output
file. Where do I look to see the results of a backup, if any? The
amandad...debug files seem to be the
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> > >
> > > Looking at the log files, I see a typical runtar log as follows:
> > >
> > > --
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> ... Those types of problems.
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> >
> > > >
> > > > Looking at the log files
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> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:05:35AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:11:36AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >
>
> Forgot to mention, I looked through some old reports, from last month
>
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> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:51:45PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >
> > > runtar is called from other programs and they write debug info to
&g
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> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:31:01AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:55:15PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > >
> > > Forgot to mention, I looked through some old reports, from
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:24:49PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Charles Curley schreef:
> >
> >Nothing other than the problem I've already asked about & to which
> >I've gotten no answer: Is the client trying to connect to
> >0.0.0.0.50509? And if so, whe
in /etc (which I trust your bare metal recovery
backup is already grabbing), and the backup metadata, the location of
which is specified in amanda.conf. Anything else?
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worth checking.
It's a bit late, but you might look at
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are already on the live
CD. The tools include a suitable file system driver for the
partition. Back up to a bare partition, and you would need special
tricks or possibly special software to read it.
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> | In addition, it would make bare metal recovery more difficult. If you
> | back up to a file system any Linux live CD (finnix, knoppix...) can
> | re
> Before getting the card I did try an create the filesystem.
> Took 13 hours to run mke2fs :)
Ouch.
The only thing I'll add to this is that Amanda won't mount the
esternal drive, so yu have to see to that. I mount mine during the
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atest FC5 tar? I'll check bugzilla
later today.
Things I have not yet tried: rolling back to the previous version of
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sendbackup: error [/bin/tar returned 2]
> > \
>
>
> I believe you have a problem with the filesystem that holds /var.
> Is it full? Or is it corrupt? ...
In my case, no. The two offending file systems in my case are /var
itself, which is on /, and /h
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:57:05PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> Have you recently upgraded tar to 1.15?
In my case, no. Fedora Core 5 comes with tar-1.15.1-12.2.i386.rpm,
dated Mar 6 2006. But as I said earlier, I did recently upgrade to
tar-1.15.1-15.FC5.
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ood advice, until that bug gets fixed too.
Wonderful.
Meanwhile, the Fedora powers that be have decided that amanda 2.5
won't go into FC5, but it is in FC6. FC6 is to be released some time
in October. I shall do my usual careful testing before I have it on my
amanda server, so it m
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> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:57:05PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> >
> > Have you recently upgraded tar to 1.15?
>
> In my case, no. Fedora Core 5 comes with tar-1.15.1-12.2.i386.rpm,
> date
with status 1
extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
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> which is slow or up and down?? Pls guide.
If you are using Fedora 7, see bugzilla 244916.
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> I have the following strange problem with a FreeBSD amanda server
> running 2.5.1p3 and a Fedora 7 Linux client running the same. The last
See bug 244916 in Redhat's Bugzilla.
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in the Fedora repo. The one in the Fedora repo also works,
without the workround line.
After you changed the xinetd file for amanda, did you restart xinetd?
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> > After you changed the xinetd file for amanda, did you restart xinetd?
>
> Whoops! I guess I'd better try that before complaining...
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ime Sun Nov 4 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 MST
isdst=0 gmtoff=-25200
Any tzdata from 2006 or later should work for the US. As usual the
most recent version should be the best.
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7-11-16 03:35
00024-charlesc.localdomain._home.0
-rw--- 1 amanda disk 10M 2007-11-16 03:35
00024.charlesc.localdomain._home.0
How do I change that to a more reasonable size, like 3 Gb?
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> Charles Curley schrieb:
> > The dump is to cirtual tapes on a hard drive. The resulting splits are
> > all 10 MB in size. E.g.:
> >
> > How do I change that to a more reasonable size, lik
n in your disk list, use it:
dragon.localdomain /var comp-root-tar-var
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e image that is on the
> network or a flash drive.
I've had good results with Finnix. ~100MB. You can have it load into
RAM, then use the CD drive for data, or get the data over the net.
incoming vacation messages
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nt from Amanda wiki and so used 4GB dvd size as it is
> mentioned there.
Are you planning to back up vtapes to DVD? If not, I'd say, don't worry
about the 4 G size and pick something that suits your data set.
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he OS would like that.
My solution is a bit different: three drives, one of which stays put
and the other two of which rotate to the offsite location.
http://www.charlescurley.com/blog/articles/off_site_backups_for_amanda/index.html
And encrypt the files using ecryptfs.
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I think that gets everything. The naming scheme should work with
multiple configurations. It also ensures a week's worth of backups.
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that version and the
2.5.2p1 versions on older Ubuntus.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Burkhardt
>
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It's been a while since I worked with selinux, so I may be talking out
of my hat. Doesn't selinux have a tool that lets you run something in
permissive mode, then the tool figures out what changes to apply?
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not to loose all backups if the
> storage breaks down.
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But this is a proof of concept.
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:19:42 -0500
rory_f wrote:
> Perhaps what i'm looking to do is guarantee the most economical way
> of filling the tapes.
Which is more valuable, a few terabytes of tape space, or your time?
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Joe Konecny wrote:
> On 1/28/2011 2:11 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
> > For now, with 100 GB of data going to a 1 TB hard drive, you can
> > probably back up to that hard drive. But not for lo
orrectly.) So, yeah, I doubt I would benefit much
from another vtape. Thanks for bring that up.
This with Amanda 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 10.10 on a dual core AMD 64 and
two SATA disks, with data and holding on one, and the vtapes on the
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> Turns out there was a file full of nuthin', only
> null bytes, that was over 10.7 GB.
In that case, I would be sparse with my praise.
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would be very compute intensive at backup time, but these days
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g to wear out. You may
find it expedient to replace it with disk drives loaded with
vtapes. Amanda has supported vtapes for years and the system works
quite well. If I understand the Bacula docs, vtape support was
new, experimental, and not for production use as of version 3.0. I
s. With
physical tapes, you would need a changer or a human attendant.
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 21:22:32 +0100
Gour wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 13:01:28 -0700
> Charles Curley wrote:
>
> > Nope. You leave virtual tapes on the hard drive. You don't bother
> > with tapes at all.
>
> Ahh...but I want to continue using my LTO-2 driv
, and will let this list know.
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tmontools. It uses the drive's firmware to test and collect
data. Unfortunately sometimes the reports can be rather cryptic to the
non-hard-drive-literate.
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Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> Turns out March 31 is "World Backup Day":
Yes, you should back up your world. In case some Vogons decide to build
a bypass through it, you can get it back.
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without opening a whole range
> of ports?
ssh tunnels? I haven't done this, so I am guessing here.
>
> thanks,
> Kai
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problem is that you should be using GNU egrep rather than the one that
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ther words, are these changes backwards compatible?
As far as I know, they are backward compatible.
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: amcheck-server: pgmbad: 0
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entries for other times, but not 17:22.
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Charles Curley wrote:
> I have Amanda 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 10.10 running just fine on auth
> "bsdtcp". I would like to use ssh, so I followed the instructions at
> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Set_up_transport_encryption_with_SSH
Probl
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John Hein wrote:
> 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
vtapes.
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in being able to restore it.
>
> You could, if you wanted, call that the first rule of backups -- Test
> your recovery.
Is there any purpose to making backups other than being able to recover?
Oh, well, job security, I suppose. If you aren't thinking things
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ump.
In the past, conventional wisdom among Amanda users has been that dump
on Linux was broken, and tar preferred (specifically GNU tar of
specific versions). I don't know if this wisdom is still valid. The
wiki appears to be silent on this.
In any case, I run a tar only shop
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:25:24 +0400
sergey belov wrote:
> We have a huge backup job (around 1k servers) using amanda 2.5.1p3-2
> on dedicated server.
I'd look into upgrading to a newer, 3.x version.
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anada:
root@dzur:/# time bzip2 var.test.tar
real157m54.710s
user156m41.360s
sys 0m35.550s
root@dzur:/# ll var.test.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6780647698 2011-08-25 10:07 var.test.tar.bz2
root@dzur:/#
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where the trailer contains the
combined check value.
...
The number of compress threads is set by default to the number of
online processors, which can be changed using the -p option.
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balance'.
I'm skeptical that that will help, but we'll see how tonight's run goes.
If that doesn't help, try commenting out a bunch of DLEs, and
uncommenting them back in slowly over the next few days. I've done that
trick a few times in similar circumstances.
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gene heskett wrote:
> On Thursday, September 22, 2011 01:43:56 PM Charles Curley did opine:
>
> I have now added another 20Gb to the vtape size, so it should flush
> the leftovers and do a normal backup tonight.
>
> But as far as any
t;/crc/amanda10/part-cache"
part-size 900 mb
part-cache-max-size 900 mb
Which are per tape type, and "allow-split yes", which is per dumptype.
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like so:
ssh backup@yendi.localdomain
For DNS purposes, yendi != yendi.localdomain
On client yendi, my perms are as follows:
root@yendi:~# ll /var/backups/.ssh/
total 12
drwx-- 2 backup backup 4096 2011-06-03 13:14 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-11-03 04:35 ../
-rw-r-
entation of GZip, is a fully
functional replacement for gzip that takes advantage of multiple
processors and multiple cores when compressing data.
Homepage: http://zlib.net/pigz/
I don't know if that would help with a swapping issue, but it should
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If the latter,
where did you get them?
>
> I get errors like TypeError in method 'critical' , argument 1 of type
> char *
Is there a reason not to move to a more recent version of Amanda?
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ree_full' was here
> glib-util.h:68:6: error: conflicting types for
> 'g_slist_free_full' /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gslist.h:52:10: note:
> previous declaration of / 'g_slist_free_full' was here amxml.c:
Hmmm, sounds like a header file missing??? ./configure should
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> 27 places in 14 files. Too bad grep doesn't stand for Globally
> Replace. :) For this I could be it being handier than a cold 6 pack
> of Mikes Hard Lemonade!
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need to copy to another server to make sure I can run
> amrestore on a separate server to get my files back?
You can probably adapt my metadata backup script to your purpose.
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hat Amanda can absorb the new ones gracefully. It will try to do level
0 (total) backups with new entries. You don't want to swamp your
holding disk or tape drive by adding too many at once.
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to another disk for offsite backup.
I encrypt the file system on the offsite disks with ecryptfs.
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mpression, special for
yendi:/home/charles"
exclude list "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/excludes.yendi.home" }
This is on Amanda 3.2.1, and tar 1.25 (Ubuntu 11.04).
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nd 1023
A program must be root to bind to any port between 1 and 1023
(inclusive).
I use:
backup@dzur:~$ amgetconf DailySet1 unreserved-tcp-port
5,50100
backup@dzur:~$
Many servers that use those ports start as root, bind the port, then
drop privileges by changing to a non-root use
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> A program must be root to bind to any port between 1 and 1023
> (inclusive).
>
> I use:
>
> backup@dzur:~$ amgetconf DailySet1 unreserved-tcp-port
> 5,50100
> backup@dzur:~$
Open mouth, insert foot. Ju
are using bsdtcp
>
>
> Either fix xinetd for bsdtcp or use bsdudp.
>
> bsdtcp is the preferred choice.
Request for enhancement: a configuration sanity check for xinetd to
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are using bsdtcp
>
>
> Either fix xinetd for bsdtcp or use bsdudp.
>
> bsdtcp is the preferred choice.
Request for enhancement: a configuration sanity check for xinetd to
catch this sort of thing. I know I've been bitten by that myself.
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~$ pre amanda
amanda-client 1:3.2.1-1 amd64
amanda-common 1:3.2.1-1 amd64
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designed to be called from cron, you can wrap it in a script for pre-
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e.g.:
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t few lines; we need the initial failure.
Or the whole kazoo. Given these errors, I suspect a missing header file.
This is often due to a missing dev rpm.
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do not use an amanda-client.conf file, the port can only be
> configure at configure time.
Can you configure the client to use ssh? That should bypass the port
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nda 3.3.1-4 on it. This replaces 6, (Squeeze), with Amanda
2.6.1p2-3. Debian admins tend to be a cautious lot, but I expect we'll
see migrations over the next few months. I'm already running a 2.6.1p2
server with several 3.3.1 clients, and no problems so far. I should do
some test rest
l.
It would be if you have both tape drive compression turned on (as you
do) and compression specified in the disk list entries (DLEs).
Conventional wisdom on this list has been that DLE compression (using
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irectories and files, e.g. logs.
* "rm -r /etc/amanda/DailySet1" (adjusting the path to suit).
* You may have other data. Wait a day for locate to rebuild its
database, then "locate DailySet1".
On Debian, there are directories named DailySet1
under /var/lib/amanda/, /etc/amand
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> Later I noticed the killpgrp command wasn't on the system
> even though the manpage was. Turns out the command comes
> from the amanda client (Fedora) or server (CentOS) package.
So how did the man page get on the box? Was amanda installed
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> that ancient software used to have
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:44:07 -0800
"Andrius D. Ilgunas" wrote:
> We're setting up amanda on our servers, and the primary backup is
> going to be on a dedicated disk/virtual tapes. One of the offsite
> locations is going to be a bucket on Amazon's S3.
>
> Now I see that amanda has the capability
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:05:58 -0800
"Andrius D. Ilgunas" wrote:
> I would expect them to be network-type speeds on a T1 even as the
> buckets are mounted via FUSE. I don't have numbers, but I can say
> that a copy of one of my databases to /mnt/s3/bucket1 of around 250MB
> will timeout approximat
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 22:34:16 +0700
Olivier Nicole wrote:
> > What do I check next?
Firewall?
That's bitten me more than once.
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and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated, and no Warra
On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:55:38 -0500
Jon LaBadie wrote:
> Change the start time of your amdumps to 0301 ?
Don't run dumps Sunday mornings?
Get the whole county away from these brutal time zone changes?
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and effects, again
Oops, this should have gone to the list.
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 18:18:31 -0700
From: Charles Curley
To: Gene Heskett
Subject: Re: A heads up about the end of DST while amanda is running
On Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:52:52 -0500
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Running 3.3.6 h
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