tag:www.nabble.com,2006:forum-453Nabble - Amanda2008-11-21T13:34:46ZAMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive. AMANDA uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Recent versions can also use SAMBA to back up Microsoft Windows hosts. Amanda home is <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amanda.org/" target="_top">here</a>.tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20629906am check / dump problems2008-11-21T13:34:46Z2008-11-21T13:34:46Zghe-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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<br><br>I recently brought up a client on a new install of Debian Lenny. amcheck
<br>says all is well, but amdump says it doesn't got estimates on any of the
<br>DLEs, one of which is "/" (at least one of them exists).
<br><br>How can that happen? (The other clients are fine.)
<br><br>I tried looking around in the debug log file(s), but the info is too
<br>cryptic and vast for me to make sense of. Any hints on its
<br>interpretation would be greatly appreciated...
<br><br>- --
<br>Glenn English
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<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20629848Re: My amrecover failure revisited2008-11-21T13:29:21Z2008-11-21T13:29:21ZGene HeskettOn Friday 21 November 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
<br>>On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Gene Heskett <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20629848&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">gene.heskett@...</a>> wrote:
<br>>> Not an 'amanda_changer' in my old amanda.conf, remember this thing can
<br>>> darned near be exempt from child labor laws. I do have:
<br>>
<br>>Sorry, I meant 'amrecover_changer'. I'd have to look at the logs to
<br>>see what happened, then.
<br>>
<br>>Dustin
<br><br>From the last dated client/amrecover log:
<br><br>1227291645.283437: amrecover: Checking with user before restoring into directory /tmp/dlds
<br>1227291652.658502: amrecover: User prompt: 'Continue [?/Y/n]? '; response: ''
<br>1227291652.658565: amrecover: append_to_tapelist(tapelist=(nil), label='Dailys-13', file=-1, partnum=-1,
<br>isafile=0)
<br>1227291652.658578: amrecover: append_to_tapelist(tapelist=0x8768818, label='Dailys-13', file=27,
<br>partnum=-1, isafile=0)
<br>1227291652.658591: amrecover: Requesting tape Dailys-13 from user
<br>1227291653.690542: amrecover: User prompt: 'Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? '; response: ''
<br>1227291653.690588: amrecover: security_getdriver(name=bsd) returns 0x15d120
<br>1227291653.690604: amrecover: security_handleinit(handle=0x8768430, driver=0x15d120 (BSD))
<br>1227291653.690984: amrecover: dgram_send_addr(addr=0x8768450, dgram=0x1650c4)
<br>1227291653.690995: amrecover: (sockaddr_in *)0x8768450 = { 2, 10080, 127.0.0.1 }
<br>1227291653.691002: amrecover: dgram_send_addr: 0x1650c4->socket = 3
<br>1227291653.692296: amrecover: dgram_recv(dgram=0x1650c4, timeout=0, fromaddr=0x1750b0)
<br>1227291653.692321: amrecover: (sockaddr_in *)0x1750b0 = { 2, 10080, 127.0.0.1 }
<br>1227291658.707361: amrecover: dgram_recv(dgram=0x1650c4, timeout=0, fromaddr=0x1750b0)
<br>1227291658.707383: amrecover: (sockaddr_in *)0x1750b0 = { 2, 10080, 127.0.0.1 }
<br>1227291658.707405: amrecover: dgram_send_addr(addr=0x8768450, dgram=0x1650c4)
<br>1227291658.707412: amrecover: (sockaddr_in *)0x8768450 = { 2, 10080, 127.0.0.1 }
<br>1227291658.707419: amrecover: dgram_send_addr: 0x1650c4->socket = 3
<br>1227291658.707457: amrecover: security_streaminit(stream=0x8768d18, driver=0x15d120 (BSD))
<br>1227291658.710599: amrecover: make_socket opening socket with family 2
<br>1227291658.710645: amrecover: connect_port: Try port 1024: available - Success
<br>1227291658.710831: amrecover: connected to 127.0.0.1.41268
<br>1227291658.710839: amrecover: our side is 0.0.0.0.1024
<br>1227291658.710851: amrecover: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536
<br>1227291658.710859: amrecover: try_socksize: receive buffer size is 65536
<br>1227291658.710866: amrecover: amidxtaped_streams[0].fd = 0x8768d18
<br>1227291658.710877: amrecover: security_streaminit(stream=0x8770d50, driver=0x15d120 (BSD))
<br>1227291658.714002: amrecover: make_socket opening socket with family 2
<br>1227291658.714024: amrecover: connect_port: Try port 1024: available - Success
<br>1227291658.714151: amrecover: connected to 127.0.0.1.41269
<br>1227291658.714159: amrecover: our side is 0.0.0.0.1024
<br>1227291658.714171: amrecover: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536
<br>1227291658.714181: amrecover: try_socksize: receive buffer size is 65536
<br>1227291658.714192: amrecover: amidxtaped_streams[1].fd = 0x8770d50
<br>1227291658.714199: amrecover: security_close(handle=0x8768430, driver=0x15d120 (BSD))
<br>1227291669.985349: amrecover: Requesting tape Dailys-13 from user
<br>1227292353.075143: amrecover: User prompt: 'Continue [?/Y/n/d]? '; response: 'n'
<br>1227292353.076838: amrecover: security_stream_close(0x8770d50)
<br>1227292353.077017: amrecover: critical (fatal): Can't read file header
<br>/usr/local/lib/amanda/libamanda-2.6.1alpha-20081114.so[0x138d6b]
<br>/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_logv+0x2f5)[0xa52e35]
<br>/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_log+0x29)[0xa53059]
<br>amrecover(read_file_header+0x373)[0x804f643]
<br>amrecover(writer_intermediary+0x1bf)[0x804f87f]
<br>amrecover(extract_files+0x930)[0x8053b80]
<br>amrecover(yyparse+0x6b5)[0x8056bc5]
<br>amrecover(process_line+0x1e)[0x80576fe]
<br>amrecover(main+0x823)[0x804cc73]
<br>/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0x5ea390]
<br>amrecover[0x804b6a1]
<br>1227292353.078260: amrecover: security_stream_close(0x8768d18)
<br>1227292353.078338: amrecover: append_to_tapelist(tapelist=(nil), label='Dailys-16', file=-1, partnum=-1,
<br>isafile=0)
<br>1227292353.078351: amrecover: append_to_tapelist(tapelist=0x8768818, label='Dailys-16', file=27,
<br>partnum=-1, isafile=0)
<br>1227292353.078364: amrecover: Requesting tape Dailys-16 from user
<br>1227292356.594994: amrecover: User prompt: 'Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]? '; response: 'n'
<br>1227292360.706859: amrecover: user command: 'exit'
<br>1227292360.708305: amrecover: security_stream_close(0x8750f38)
<br>1227292360.708428: amrecover: pid 24873 finish time Fri Nov 21 13:32:40 2008
<br>EOF
<br><br>I must be looking in the wrong file.
<br><br>But there is nothing in the server files carrying this date with anything but
<br>the error reported by amrecover. My crystal ball is well and truly broken
<br>I think.
<br><br>Maybe you can figure it out from the above?
<br><br>--
<br>Cheers, Gene
<br>"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
<br> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
<br>-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
<br>Say "twenty-three-skiddoo" to logout.
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20629440Re: My amrecover failure revisited2008-11-21T13:00:22Z2008-11-21T13:00:22ZGene HeskettOn Friday 21 November 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
<br>>On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Gene Heskett <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20629440&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">gene.heskett@...</a>>
<br>wrote:
<br>>> Not an 'amanda_changer' in my old amanda.conf, remember this thing can
<br>>> darned near be exempt from child labor laws. I do have:
<br>>
<br>>Sorry, I meant 'amrecover_changer'. I'd have to look at the logs to
<br>>see what happened, then.
<br>>
<br>>Dustin
<br><br>That is in there for a fairly long time now, so I'll go scan the logs.
<br>Probably with grep.
<br><br>Thanks Dustin.
<br><br>--
<br>Cheers, Gene
<br>"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
<br> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
<br>-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
<br>Hempstone's Question:
<br> If you have to travel on the Titanic, why not go first class?
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20629250Re: My amrecover failure revisited2008-11-21T12:41:51Z2008-11-21T12:41:51ZDustin J. Mitchell-3On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Gene Heskett <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20629250&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">gene.heskett@...</a>> wrote:
<br>> Not an 'amanda_changer' in my old amanda.conf, remember this thing can darned
<br>> near be exempt from child labor laws. I do have:
<br><br>Sorry, I meant 'amrecover_changer'. I'd have to look at the logs to
<br>see what happened, then.
<br><br>Dustin
<br><br>--
<br>Storage Software Engineer
<br><a href="http://www.zmanda.com" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://www.zmanda.com</a><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20628377Re: only one slot recognized2008-11-21T11:46:36Z2008-11-21T11:46:36ZDustin J. Mitchell-3On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Nicholas Brockner
<br><<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20628377&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">nbrockne@...</a>> wrote:
<br>> This is what I get when I have only 7 tapes loaded in a 16 tape autoloader
<br>> (tapes in slots 10-16):
<br><br>Amanda gets confused when doing its "scan" if you have empty slots.
<br>This is due to a design flaw in the use of changers when scanning
<br>(calling "-slot next" $nslots times). It's harmless, and will be
<br>fixed in the new changer API.
<br><br>Dustin
<br><br>--
<br>Storage Software Engineer
<br><a href="http://www.zmanda.com" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://www.zmanda.com</a><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20628225Re: only one slot recognized2008-11-21T11:35:50Z2008-11-21T11:35:50ZNick BrocknerDustin,
<br><br>Thanks. I guess it was working correctly after I added the firstslot
<br>and lastslot parameters, but the difference from amanda 2.5.X threw me off.
<br><br>This is what I get when I have only 7 tapes loaded in a 16 tape
<br>autoloader (tapes in slots 10-16):
<br><br>amtape: scanning all 16 slots in tape-changer rack:
<br>slot 10: time X label week1tape7
<br>slot 11: time X label week1tape6
<br>slot 12: time X label week1tape5
<br>slot 13: time X label week1tape4
<br>slot 14: time X label week1tape3
<br>slot 15: time X label week1tape2
<br>slot 16: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 10: time X label week1tape7
<br>slot 11: time X label week1tape6
<br>slot 12: time X label week1tape5
<br>slot 13: time X label week1tape4
<br>slot 14: time X label week1tape3
<br>slot 15: time X label week1tape2
<br>slot 16: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 10: time X label week1tape7
<br>slot 11: time X label week1tape6
<br><br>Thanks everyone for the help.
<br><br>-Nick
<br><br>Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Nicholas Brockner
<br>> <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20628225&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">nbrockne@...</a>> wrote:
<br>>
<br>>> So, it would appear that I need to specify firstslot in my changer.conf. BUT
<br>>> when I do that, it sees 16 slots, but calls them all "slot 1" and the
<br>>> changer.debug has no output:
<br>>>
<br>>
<br>> You'll need a "lastslot", too.
<br>>
<br>> 178 # firstslot=? #### First storage slot (element) -- required
<br>> 179 # lastslot=? #### Last storage slot (element) -- required
<br>>
<br>> Dustin
<br>>
<br>>
<br></div><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20629001Re: My amrecover failure revisited2008-11-21T11:30:00Z2008-11-21T11:30:00ZGene HeskettOn Friday 21 November 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
<br>>On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gene Heskett <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20629001&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">gene.heskett@...</a>>
<br>wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>>> Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host coyote.
<br>>> Load tape Dailys-13 now
<br>>> Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]?
<br>>> Volume labeled 'Dailys-13' not found.
<br>>> Load tape Dailys-13 now
<br>>> Continue [?/Y/n/d]?
<br>>
<br>>Is amanda_changer set to "chg-disk" in amanda.conf on the server?
<br>>Otherwise, Amanda is probably trying to load a tape device named
<br>>"chg-disk", which won't work very well :)
</div><br>Not an 'amanda_changer' in my old amanda.conf, remember this thing can darned
<br>near be exempt from child labor laws. I do have:
<br><br>tpchanger "chg-disk"
<br><br>and I also have:
<br><br>amrecover_changer "chg-disk" set.
<br><br>and can reset the former of course, but why didn't amcheck complain? Unforch
<br>it will be a while before I can test it, the disk is unmounted atm as
<br>smartctl says there were some 79 errors, so an 'e2fsck -c /dev/sdb' is
<br>running on it now. But its reading about 70M/sec so it should be done in an
<br>hour or so. About 40% now.
<br><br><br>>The new Changer API should clear up this ugly hack, by the way.
<br><br>What else do I need to change in my amanda.conf before it bites me again?
<br><br>Humm, put that in my amanda.conf, but running the 2.6.1alpha-2081114 version,
<br>amgetconf says this:
<br>amgetconf Daily amanda_changer
<br>is a huge syntax error, and the man page doesn't mention this at all.
<br>Building the 1119 version now, but I see no mention in the ChangeLog either.
<br><br>Please clarify.
<br><br>>Dustin
<br><br>Thanks Dustin.
<br><br>--
<br>Cheers, Gene
<br>"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
<br> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
<br>-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
<br>Let's send the Russians defective lifestyle accessories!
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20627441Re: only one slot recognized2008-11-21T10:47:54Z2008-11-21T10:47:54ZDustin J. Mitchell-3On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Nicholas Brockner
<br><<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20627441&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">nbrockne@...</a>> wrote:
<br>> So, it would appear that I need to specify firstslot in my changer.conf. BUT
<br>> when I do that, it sees 16 slots, but calls them all "slot 1" and the
<br>> changer.debug has no output:
<br><br>You'll need a "lastslot", too.
<br><br> 178 # firstslot=? #### First storage slot (element) -- required
<br> 179 # lastslot=? #### Last storage slot (element) -- required
<br><br>Dustin
<br><br>--
<br>Storage Software Engineer
<br><a href="http://www.zmanda.com" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://www.zmanda.com</a><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20627310Re: My amrecover failure revisited2008-11-21T10:39:28Z2008-11-21T10:39:28ZDustin J. Mitchell-3On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gene Heskett <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20627310&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">gene.heskett@...</a>> wrote:
<br>> Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host coyote.
<br>> Load tape Dailys-13 now
<br>> Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]?
<br>> Volume labeled 'Dailys-13' not found.
<br>> Load tape Dailys-13 now
<br>> Continue [?/Y/n/d]?
<br><br>Is amanda_changer set to "chg-disk" in amanda.conf on the server?
<br>Otherwise, Amanda is probably trying to load a tape device named
<br>"chg-disk", which won't work very well :)
<br><br>The new Changer API should clear up this ugly hack, by the way.
<br><br>Dustin
<br><br>--
<br>Storage Software Engineer
<br><a href="http://www.zmanda.com" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://www.zmanda.com</a><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20627049My amrecover failure revisited2008-11-21T10:24:10Z2008-11-21T10:24:10ZGene HeskettGreetings;
<br><br>Conditions still the same, but last night I was again forced to use dd to
<br>extract a directory from a backup vtape file, amrecover again complaining it
<br>cannot find the Daily-18 vtape. And if you ask it to rescan, there seems to
<br>be a lock on chg-disk and it cannot access chg-disk to repeat the operation.
<br><br>Is this one of the failures inherent in switching to the use of amgtar maybe?
<br>The last 8 or 9 runs before the boot disk had a heart attack were made with
<br>its use.
<br><br>amcheck is still as happy as a clam FWIW.
<br><br>No tape labels have been changed in a year, and the vtape directory structure
<br>is too big to post, but looks like this:
<br><br>/amandatapes/Dailys/data ->slot(n), and the first file in each slot directory
<br>is the tape label, 00000.Daily-1 through Daily-30. It doesn't help if I edit
<br>the symlink 'data' to point at the correct slot(n) directory either.
<br><br>[root@coyote F9respins]# ls /amandatapes
<br>Dailys grub lost+found mbr-backups
<br><br>In the Dailys dir:
<br>Dailys-16 slot1 slot12 slot15 slot18 slot20 slot23 slot26 slot29
<br>slot4 slot7
<br>Dailys-8 slot10 slot13 slot16 slot19 slot21 slot24 slot27 slot3
<br>slot5 slot8
<br>data slot11 slot14 slot17 slot2 slot22 slot25 slot28 slot30
<br>slot6 slot9
<br><br>And the label files:
<br>[root@coyote F9respins]# su amanda -
<br>[amanda@coyote F9respins]$ ls -lR /amandatapes|grep 00000
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 06:22 00000.Dailys-1
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-12 01:36 00000.Dailys-10
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-13 01:25 00000.Dailys-11
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-14 01:25 00000.Dailys-12
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-14 05:11 00000.Dailys-13
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-14 06:22 00000.Dailys-14
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-14 07:35 00000.Dailys-15
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-15 01:51 00000.Dailys-16
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-16 01:37 00000.Dailys-17
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-16 05:50 00000.Dailys-18
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-02 01:47 00000.Dailys-19
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 08:25 00000.Dailys-2
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-03 01:57 00000.Dailys-20
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-04 01:42 00000.Dailys-21
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-05 01:35 00000.Dailys-22
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-06 01:42 00000.Dailys-23
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-07 01:42 00000.Dailys-24
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-08 01:50 00000.Dailys-25
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 01:43 00000.Dailys-26
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 03:14 00000.Dailys-27
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 04:43 00000.Dailys-28
<br>ls: cannot open directory /amandatapes/lost+found: Permission denied
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 05:19 00000.Dailys-29
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 13:11 00000.Dailys-3
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 07:23 00000.Dailys-30
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 14:12 00000.Dailys-4
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 15:47 00000.Dailys-5
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 16:49 00000.Dailys-6
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-09 17:39 00000.Dailys-7
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-10 01:35 00000.Dailys-8
<br>-rw------- 1 amanda disk 32768 2008-11-11 01:25 00000.Dailys-9
<br><br>Humm drive perms?
<br>[amanda@coyote F9respins]$ ls -l /
<br>total 213
<br>drwxr-xr-x 6 amanda disk 4096 2008-11-15 00:29 amandatapes
<br><br>So that is ok,
<br>[amanda@coyote F9respins]$ ls -l /amandatapes
<br>total 44
<br>drwxrwxr-x 32 amanda disk 4096 2008-11-20 23:26 Dailys
<br><br>as is that, but I just found two of the slot dirs were owned by root and fixed
<br>that.
<br><br>Trace of procedure:
<br><br>[root@coyote share]# amrecover Daily
<br>AMRECOVER Version 2.6.1alpha-20081114. Contacting server on
<br>coyote.coyote.den ...
<br>220 coyote AMANDA index server (2.6.1alpha-20081114) ready.
<br>Setting restore date to today (2008-11-21)
<br>200 Working date set to 2008-11-21.
<br>200 Config set to Daily.
<br>501 Host coyote.coyote.den is not in your disklist.
<br>Trying host coyote.coyote.den ...
<br>501 Host coyote.coyote.den is not in your disklist.
<br>Trying host coyote ...
<br>200 Dump host set to coyote.
<br>Use the setdisk command to choose dump disk to recover
<br>amrecover> setdisk /usr/dlds
<br>200 Disk set to /usr/dlds.
<br>amrecover> lcd /tmp/dlds
<br>amrecover> ls
<br>2008-11-15-01-25-04 tgzs/
<br>2008-11-15-01-25-04 rpms/
<br>2008-11-15-01-25-04 misc/
<br>2008-11-15-01-25-04 .
<br>amrecover> add tgzs rpms misc
<br>Added dir /tgzs/ at date 2008-11-14-05-11-08
<br>Added dir /tgzs/ at date 2008-11-15-01-25-04
<br>Added dir /rpms/ at date 2008-11-14-05-11-08
<br>Added dir /rpms/ at date 2008-11-15-01-25-04
<br>Added dir /misc/ at date 2008-11-14-05-11-08
<br>Added dir /misc/ at date 2008-11-15-01-25-04
<br>amrecover> extract
<br><br>Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host coyote.
<br>The following tapes are needed: Dailys-13
<br> Dailys-16
<br><br>Restoring files into directory /tmp/dlds
<br>Continue [?/Y/n]?
<br><br>Extracting files using tape drive chg-disk on host coyote.
<br>Load tape Dailys-13 now
<br>Continue [?/Y/n/s/d]?
<br>Volume labeled 'Dailys-13' not found.
<br>Load tape Dailys-13 now
<br>Continue [?/Y/n/d]?
<br><br>At which point you have to answer n twice to get the amrecover prompt back.
<br><br>So its all there. What could have changed? PEBKAC?
<br><br>--
<br>Cheers, Gene
<br>"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
<br> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
<br>-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
<br>Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac; you can always take something for it.
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20625635Re: Huge file number in one directory makes problems while recovering2008-11-21T09:08:49Z2008-11-21T09:08:49ZPaul BijnensOn 2008-11-21 15:38, Uwe Beger wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Hello list members,
<br>>
<br>> I am using amanda since many years successfully (and with still an old
<br>> version VERSION="Amanda-2.4.4p3") for backing up a small server.
<br>>
<br>> The backup scheme is comp-user-tar for the disklist entry in question. I
<br>> try to restore one subdirectory of this disklist entry containing about
<br>> 2 MILLION files using amrecover. This restore takes very very very long
<br>> and I am looking for a faster method.
<br>>
<br>> Any ideas are highly appreciated.
</div><br>Did you do in amrecover:
<br><br> cd subdirectory
<br> add *
<br><br>(this is very slow, and I even doubt it would work at all...)
<br><br>or did you do:
<br><br> cd parentfolder
<br> add subdirectory
<br><br>should be faster.
<br><br>But anyway, 2 million (2000000) files for one folder *is* much in any case.
<br>Even on disk, I wouldn't even *dare* to execute an "ls" there!
<br><br>And then, do you restore *over* the existing folder? In that case
<br>the OS will need to hunt through the existing *huge* folder removing eventually
<br>the already existing entry, and then probably slower each time, adding
<br>a new name into the directory.
<br><br>Anyway, a completely different approach would be to use amrestore
<br>and pipe to tar:
<br><br> cd /the/destination/top/level/dir
<br> amrestore -p /dev/nst0 hostname '^/disk/name$' |
<br> tar --numeric-owner -xpGvf - ./your/lost/subfolder
<br><br>(from: <a href="http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Restoring_files#Using_amrestore" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Restoring_files#Using_amrestore</a> )
<br>And see the above page for e.g. the meaning of tar option "G", possibly
<br>slowing down your process...
<br><br>--
<br>Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services Tel +32 16 397.511
<br>Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512
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<br>***********************************************************************
<br>* I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, *
<br>* F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, *
<br>* stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, *
<br>* PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, *
<br>* init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... *
<br>* ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out *
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<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20624727Huge file number in one directory makes problems while recovering2008-11-21T06:38:22Z2008-11-21T06:38:22ZUwe BegerHello list members,
<br><br>I am using amanda since many years successfully (and with still an old
<br>version VERSION="Amanda-2.4.4p3") for backing up a small server.
<br><br>The backup scheme is comp-user-tar for the disklist entry in question. I
<br>try to restore one subdirectory of this disklist entry containing about
<br>2 MILLION files using amrecover. This restore takes very very very long
<br>and I am looking for a faster method.
<br><br>Any ideas are highly appreciated.
<br><br>Thank you in advance.
<br><br>With best regards
<br><br><br>Uwe
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20621716Re: only one slot recognized2008-11-21T06:02:10Z2008-11-21T06:02:10ZJean-Louis Martineau-2Try to put tape in the library, chg-zd-mtx automatically skip empty slot.
<br><br>Jean-Louis
<br><br>Nicholas Brockner wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>>
<br>>
<br>> Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
<br>>> Nicholas Brockner wrote:
<br>>>> Hi Jean-Louis,
<br>>>> Please see inline.
<br>>>>
<br>>>> Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
<br>>>>> What's in your changer config file?
<br>>>> -sh-3.2$ more changer.conf
<br>>>> changerdev=/dev/sg3
<br>>>> havereader=1
<br>>>> offline_before_unload=1
<br>>>> OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1
<br>>>> poll_drive_ready=10
<br>>>> Max_drive_wait=99
<br>>>> unloadpause=20
<br>>>> driveslot=0
<br>>> Try to set firstslot and lastslot in the changer.conf file:
<br>>> firstslot=1
<br>>> lastslot=16
<br>>>
<br>>
<br>> I did this, and it comes back with:
<br>> -sh-3.2$ amtape dailyfull show
<br>> amtape: scanning all 16 slots in tape-changer rack:
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>>>>
<br>>>>> What's the output of : mtx -f /dev/sg? status
<br>>>> MTX looks fine:
<br>>>>
<br>>>> -sh-3.2$ mtx -f /dev/sg3 status
<br>>>> Storage Changer /dev/sg3:1 Drives, 16 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
<br>>>> Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded)
<br>>>> Storage Element 1:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 2:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 3:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 4:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 5:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 6:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 7:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 8:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 9:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 10:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 11:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 12:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 13:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 14:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 15:Empty
<br>>>> Storage Element 16:Empty
<br>>>>> What's in the debug file?
<br>>>> -sh-3.2$ more changer.debug
<br>>>> Args -> -slot advance
<br>>>> -> loaded -1
<br>>>> Exit -> 0 /dev/null
<br>>>> Args -> -slot advance
<br>>>> -> loaded -1
<br>>>> Exit -> 0 /dev/null
<br>>>> Args -> -slot advance
<br>>>> -> loaded -1
<br>>>> Exit -> 0 /dev/null
<br>>>> Args -> -info
<br>>>> -> info -1
<br>>>> Exit -> 0 5 1
<br>>>> Args -> -slot current
<br>>>> -> loaded -1
<br>>>> Exit -> 1 /dev/nst0
<br>>>> Args -> -slot next
<br>>>> -> loaded -1
<br>>>> -> load 0
<br>>>> -> status 1
<br>>>> -> result
<br>>>> Exit -> 0
<br>>>> arguments -> -info
<br>>>> Exit -> <none> chg-multi: firstslot not specified in
<br>>>> /etc/amanda/dailyfull/changer.conf
<br>>>
<br>>> What's that? chg-multi
<br>>> Which changer are you using? You should use chg-zd-mtx
<br>>
<br>> That is a remnant- I was trying everything yesterday to get it
<br>> working. I am using chg-zd-mtx.
<br>>> What is your tpchanger: amgetconf dailyfull tpchanger
<br>> -sh-3.2$ amgetconf dailyfull tpchanger
<br>> chg-zd-mtx
<br>>
<br>>> It must be set to chg-zd-mtx
<br>>>
<br>>> Jean-Louis
<br>>>
</div><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20627633Re: only one slot recognized2008-11-21T05:59:25Z2008-11-21T05:59:25ZNick Brockner<br><br>Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Nicholas Brockner wrote:
<br>>> Hi Jean-Louis,
<br>>> Please see inline.
<br>>>
<br>>> Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
<br>>>> What's in your changer config file?
<br>>> -sh-3.2$ more changer.conf
<br>>> changerdev=/dev/sg3
<br>>> havereader=1
<br>>> offline_before_unload=1
<br>>> OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1
<br>>> poll_drive_ready=10
<br>>> Max_drive_wait=99
<br>>> unloadpause=20
<br>>> driveslot=0
<br>> Try to set firstslot and lastslot in the changer.conf file:
<br>> firstslot=1
<br>> lastslot=16
<br>>
</div><br>I did this, and it comes back with:
<br>-sh-3.2$ amtape dailyfull show
<br>amtape: scanning all 16 slots in tape-changer rack:
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>>>
<br>>>> What's the output of : mtx -f /dev/sg? status
<br>>> MTX looks fine:
<br>>>
<br>>> -sh-3.2$ mtx -f /dev/sg3 status
<br>>> Storage Changer /dev/sg3:1 Drives, 16 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
<br>>> Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded)
<br>>> Storage Element 1:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 2:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 3:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 4:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 5:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 6:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 7:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 8:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 9:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 10:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 11:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 12:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 13:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 14:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 15:Empty
<br>>> Storage Element 16:Empty
<br>>>> What's in the debug file?
<br>>> -sh-3.2$ more changer.debug
<br>>> Args -> -slot advance
<br>>> -> loaded -1
<br>>> Exit -> 0 /dev/null
<br>>> Args -> -slot advance
<br>>> -> loaded -1
<br>>> Exit -> 0 /dev/null
<br>>> Args -> -slot advance
<br>>> -> loaded -1
<br>>> Exit -> 0 /dev/null
<br>>> Args -> -info
<br>>> -> info -1
<br>>> Exit -> 0 5 1
<br>>> Args -> -slot current
<br>>> -> loaded -1
<br>>> Exit -> 1 /dev/nst0
<br>>> Args -> -slot next
<br>>> -> loaded -1
<br>>> -> load 0
<br>>> -> status 1
<br>>> -> result
<br>>> Exit -> 0
<br>>> arguments -> -info
<br>>> Exit -> <none> chg-multi: firstslot not specified in
<br>>> /etc/amanda/dailyfull/changer.conf
<br>>
<br>> What's that? chg-multi
<br>> Which changer are you using? You should use chg-zd-mtx
</div><br>That is a remnant- I was trying everything yesterday to get it working.
<br>I am using chg-zd-mtx.
<br>> What is your tpchanger: amgetconf dailyfull tpchanger
<br>-sh-3.2$ amgetconf dailyfull tpchanger
<br>chg-zd-mtx
<br><br>> It must be set to chg-zd-mtx
<br>>
<br>> Jean-Louis
<br>>
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20621405Re: only one slot recognized2008-11-21T05:45:21Z2008-11-21T05:45:21ZJean-Louis Martineau-2Nicholas Brockner wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Hi Jean-Louis,
<br>> Please see inline.
<br>>
<br>> Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
<br>>> What's in your changer config file?
<br>> -sh-3.2$ more changer.conf
<br>> changerdev=/dev/sg3
<br>> havereader=1
<br>> offline_before_unload=1
<br>> OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1
<br>> poll_drive_ready=10
<br>> Max_drive_wait=99
<br>> unloadpause=20
<br>> driveslot=0
</div>Try to set firstslot and lastslot in the changer.conf file:
<br>firstslot=1
<br>lastslot=16
<br><div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>>
<br>>> What's the output of : mtx -f /dev/sg? status
<br>> MTX looks fine:
<br>>
<br>> -sh-3.2$ mtx -f /dev/sg3 status
<br>> Storage Changer /dev/sg3:1 Drives, 16 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
<br>> Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded)
<br>> Storage Element 1:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 2:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 3:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 4:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 5:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 6:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 7:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 8:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 9:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 10:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 11:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 12:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 13:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 14:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 15:Empty
<br>> Storage Element 16:Empty
<br>>> What's in the debug file?
<br>> -sh-3.2$ more changer.debug
<br>> Args -> -slot advance
<br>> -> loaded -1
<br>> Exit -> 0 /dev/null
<br>> Args -> -slot advance
<br>> -> loaded -1
<br>> Exit -> 0 /dev/null
<br>> Args -> -slot advance
<br>> -> loaded -1
<br>> Exit -> 0 /dev/null
<br>> Args -> -info
<br>> -> info -1
<br>> Exit -> 0 5 1
<br>> Args -> -slot current
<br>> -> loaded -1
<br>> Exit -> 1 /dev/nst0
<br>> Args -> -slot next
<br>> -> loaded -1
<br>> -> load 0
<br>> -> status 1
<br>> -> result
<br>> Exit -> 0
<br>> arguments -> -info
<br>> Exit -> <none> chg-multi: firstslot not specified in
<br>> /etc/amanda/dailyfull/changer.conf
</div><br>What's that? chg-multi
<br>Which changer are you using? You should use chg-zd-mtx
<br>What is your tpchanger: amgetconf dailyfull tpchanger
<br>It must be set to chg-zd-mtx
<br><br>Jean-Louis
<br><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20627152Re: only one slot recognized2008-11-21T05:30:46Z2008-11-21T05:30:46ZNick BrocknerHi Jean-Louis,
<br>Please see inline.
<br><br>Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
<br>> What's in your changer config file?
<br>-sh-3.2$ more changer.conf
<br>changerdev=/dev/sg3
<br>havereader=1
<br>offline_before_unload=1
<br>OFFLINE_BEFORE_UNLOAD=1
<br>poll_drive_ready=10
<br>Max_drive_wait=99
<br>unloadpause=20
<br>driveslot=0
<br><br>> What's the output of : mtx -f /dev/sg? status
<br>MTX looks fine:
<br><br>-sh-3.2$ mtx -f /dev/sg3 status
<br> Storage Changer /dev/sg3:1 Drives, 16 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
<br>Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded)
<br> Storage Element 1:Empty
<br> Storage Element 2:Empty
<br> Storage Element 3:Empty
<br> Storage Element 4:Empty
<br> Storage Element 5:Empty
<br> Storage Element 6:Empty
<br> Storage Element 7:Empty
<br> Storage Element 8:Empty
<br> Storage Element 9:Empty
<br> Storage Element 10:Empty
<br> Storage Element 11:Empty
<br> Storage Element 12:Empty
<br> Storage Element 13:Empty
<br> Storage Element 14:Empty
<br> Storage Element 15:Empty
<br> Storage Element 16:Empty
<br>> What's in the debug file?
<br>-sh-3.2$ more changer.debug
<br>Args -> -slot advance
<br> -> loaded -1
<br>Exit -> 0 /dev/null
<br>Args -> -slot advance
<br> -> loaded -1
<br>Exit -> 0 /dev/null
<br>Args -> -slot advance
<br> -> loaded -1
<br>Exit -> 0 /dev/null
<br>Args -> -info
<br> -> info -1
<br>Exit -> 0 5 1
<br>Args -> -slot current
<br> -> loaded -1
<br>Exit -> 1 /dev/nst0
<br>Args -> -slot next
<br> -> loaded -1
<br>-> load 0
<br>-> status 1
<br>-> result
<br>Exit -> 0
<br>arguments -> -info
<br>Exit -> <none> chg-multi: firstslot not specified in
<br>/etc/amanda/dailyfull/chang
<br>er.conf
<br>arguments -> -info
<br>Exit -> <none> chg-multi: firstslot not specified in
<br>/etc/amanda/dailyfull/chang
<br>er.conf
<br>arguments -> -info
<br>Exit -> <none> chg-multi: firstslot not specified in
<br>/etc/amanda/dailyfull/chang
<br>er.conf
<br>arguments -> -info
<br>Exit -> <none> chg-multi: firstslot not specified in
<br>/etc/amanda/dailyfull/chang
<br>er.conf
<br>Args -> -info
<br> -> info -1
<br>Exit -> 0 5 1
<br>Args -> -slot current
<br> -> loaded -1
<br>Exit -> 1 tape:/dev/nst0
<br>Args -> -slot next
<br> -> loaded -1
<br>-> load 0
<br>-> status 1
<br>-> result
<br>Exit -> 0
<br><br><br>So, it would appear that I need to specify firstslot in my changer.conf.
<br>BUT when I do that, it sees 16 slots, but calls them all "slot 1" and
<br>the changer.debug has no output:
<br><br>-sh-3.2$ amtape dailyfull show
<br>amtape: scanning all 16 slots in tape-changer rack:
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br><br>And when I try to change to the next slot:
<br><br>-sh-3.2$ amtape dailyfull slot next
<br>amtape: changed to slot 1 on tape:/dev/nst0
<br>-sh-3.2$ amtape dailyfull slot next
<br>amtape: changed to slot 1 on tape:/dev/nst0
<br>-sh-3.2$
<br><br>I'm stumped. mtx and mt work fine.
<br><br>Thanks for your help with this, and thank you for your continued work on
<br>amanda, it is a wonderful suite of programs.
<br><br>-Nick
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>>
<br>> Jean-Louis
<br>>
<br>> Nicholas Brockner wrote:
<br>>> Hi All,
<br>>>
<br>>> I have been banging my head against this all day:
<br>>>
<br>>> I have a superloader3 16 slot LTO3 unit I am trying to set up. For
<br>>> some reason, the glue script only sees one slot (slot 1):
<br>>>
<br>>> -sh-3.2$ /usr/libexec/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -info
<br>>> 1 1 1 1
<br>>>
<br>>> -sh-3.2$ amtape dailyfull show
<br>>> amtape: scanning all 1 slots in tape-changer rack:
<br>>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>>>
<br>>> I am using 2.6.0p2 on Centos 5.2.
<br>>>
<br>>> any ideas?
<br>>>
<br>>> -Nick
<br>>
<br></div><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20616205Re: Backing up autofs/NFS shares2008-11-20T22:08:40Z2008-11-20T22:08:40ZYogesh HasabnisHello, Jon,<br> <br> Thanks for going through my long email. And thanks a lot for the suggestions.<br> <br> Regards,<br> Yogesh<br><br><b><i>Jon LaBadie <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20616205&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">jon@...</a>></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:37:41AM -0800, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote:<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Hi All,<br>> <br>> I referred the doc at http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_Partitions_Mounted_via_NFS<br>> <br>> I just need to confirm whether whatever I have understood from this doc is correct. What I understand is that I need to mount these nfs shares from 2 different servers on some Linux host on the network and modify the disklist of my amanda full backup configuration to include the new amanda client. For eg my disklist file would look like<br>> <br>> <amanda-client-1> /vol/vol1/home {<br>> root-tar<br>> estimate calcsize<br>>
}<br>> ## Above is the original config. Given below is the additonal config<br>> ## for backing up the nfs shares mounted on an nfs client<br>> <br>> <amanda-client-2> /nfs/project1 {<br>> root-tar<br>> estimate calcsize<br>> }<br>> <amanda-client-2> /nfs/project2 {<br>> root-tar<br>> estimate calcsize<br>> }<br>> <br>> ## end of disklist<br>> <br>> Would like to know whether my understanding is correct,whetehr this will work and whether all these DLEs can be backed up on a single tape media.</div><br><br>As far as I remember, that is it. I call them<br>"indirect" clients vs. "direct" clients that<br>have amanda software.<br><br>For about 2 years I had a diverse set of unix boxes to<br>backup, Solaris x86 & sparc, HP-UX, Tru-64, plus linux<br>systems. Not wanting to bother compiling all those<br>client amanda's, I NFS mounted them all on my x86<br>server and backed up
/net/<machine>/<start_directory>.<br><br>You can also do similar backups of smb/cifs mounts.<br><br>Two notes, you don't need to use a different direct<br>clients than your amanda server. And it might be<br>more network efficient to use the amanda server.<br>If a different direct client is used, the data<br>from the indirect client must travel twice over<br>the network, once to the direct client and then<br>to the server.<br><br><br>Anytime I start using the same definitions more<br>than once, I tend to make a new definition.<br><br>define dumptype calc-tar {<br> root-tar<br> estimate calcsize<br>}<br><br>define dumptype calc-nfs {<br> calc-tar<br>}<br><br><br><amanda-client-1> /vol/vol1/home calc-tar<br><amanda-client-2> /nfs/project1 nfs-tar<br><amanda-client-2> /nfs/project2 nfs-tar<br> <br>-- <br>Jon H. LaBadie <a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20616205&i=1" target="_top" rel="nofollow">jon@...</a><br> JG Computing<br> 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884<br> Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922
(fax)<br></amanda-client-2></amanda-client-2></amanda-client-1></start_directory></machine></amanda-client-2></amanda-client-2></amanda-client-1></blockquote><br><p> 
<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20615994Re: only one slot recognized2008-11-20T19:43:32Z2008-11-20T19:43:32ZJon LaBadieOn Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:32:55PM -0500, Nicholas Brockner wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Hi All,
<br>>
<br>> I have been banging my head against this all day:
<br>>
<br>> I have a superloader3 16 slot LTO3 unit I am trying to set up. For some
<br>> reason, the glue script only sees one slot (slot 1):
<br>>
<br>> -sh-3.2$ /usr/libexec/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -info
<br>> 1 1 1 1
<br>>
<br>> -sh-3.2$ amtape dailyfull show
<br>> amtape: scanning all 1 slots in tape-changer rack:
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>>
<br>> I am using 2.6.0p2 on Centos 5.2.
<br>>
<br>> any ideas?
</div><br>Same glimmer I always suggest.
<br>Amanda uses system utilities to do its work.
<br>So you should confirm that you can operate
<br>your changer and its drives with mtx and mt.
<br><br>jl
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<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20614581Re: only one slot recognized2008-11-20T18:20:26Z2008-11-20T18:20:26ZJean-Louis Martineau-2What's in your changer config file?
<br>What's the output of : mtx -f /dev/sg? status
<br>What's in the debug file?
<br><br>Jean-Louis
<br><br>Nicholas Brockner wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Hi All,
<br>>
<br>> I have been banging my head against this all day:
<br>>
<br>> I have a superloader3 16 slot LTO3 unit I am trying to set up. For
<br>> some reason, the glue script only sees one slot (slot 1):
<br>>
<br>> -sh-3.2$ /usr/libexec/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -info
<br>> 1 1 1 1
<br>>
<br>> -sh-3.2$ amtape dailyfull show
<br>> amtape: scanning all 1 slots in tape-changer rack:
<br>> slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br>>
<br>> I am using 2.6.0p2 on Centos 5.2.
<br>>
<br>> any ideas?
<br>>
<br>> -Nick
</div><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20613961Re: Backing up virtual machines2008-11-20T18:00:58Z2008-11-20T18:00:58ZMichael Loftis<br><br>--On November 20, 2008 4:40:28 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20613961&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">jon@...</a>> wrote:
<br><div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:04:33PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
<br>>>
<br>>>
<br>>> --On November 20, 2008 2:51:24 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20613961&i=1" target="_top" rel="nofollow">jon@...</a>>
<br>>> wrote:
<br>>>
<br>>> > Just dipping my toe into virtual machines and
<br>>> > wondering how others are doing backups of them.
<br>>> >
<br>>> > I'm using VirtualBox with a host of Fedora 9.
<br>>> > My guest is WinXP Pro. The objective is to
<br>>> > no longer need to dual-boot this machine.
<br>>> >
<br>>> > The virtual guest does appear on my network as
<br>>> > a separate host and static IP when it is up.
<br>>> >
<br>>> > I can see two ways to backup it up;
<br>>> >
<br>>> > - backup the VBox files (*.vdi and others) on
<br>>> > the host Fedora file system
<br>>> >
<br>>> > - consider the virtual machine a separate host
<br>>> > and amanda client
<br>>> >
<br>>> > How have others dealt with this situation?
<br>>> > Or maybe both forms are used simultaneously?
<br>>>
<br>>> Both have problems.
<br>>> Backing up the vdi's requires the machine be down.
<br>>
<br>> Why is this a requirement Michael? Is it because the
<br>> VDI is changing while being backed up? Currently the
<br>> VDI is not on a FS that can be snapshot'ted. If it was,
<br>> for example an LVM file system on Linux, would the VDI
<br>> of a running virtual machine be suitable for backup if
<br>> taken from a snapshot (snapshot from the FS, not VBox).
<br>>
<br>> To my thinking, another major problem is the lack of
<br>> access to individual files within the VDI file.
</div><br>Yeah live filesystem live device live everything. Restores would be
<br>complicated to say the least. I've also had problems with VMWare disk
<br>images if you back them up/copy them live they ended up completely
<br>corrupted and unusable on restore - the VMWare tool being unable to repair
<br>the disk image. I'd imagine there's the same problem with vbox.
<br><br>>
<br>>> Backing up inside each VM requires you be careful not to overload the VM
<br>>> host during backup windows. For me, backing up inside each VM (each VM
<br>>> as an amanda client) was/is the only way to go, despite the pitfall.
<br>>>
<br>>
<br>> That is what I expect to do. I just hate windows backups with
<br>> all the hassle over "can't backup system and any in-use files".
<br><br>Yeah I know. Backing up windows is worse than herding cats. You've got
<br>files, then you've got the hidden registry component to backup too...and
<br>even with all that you might not be able to restore a windows box.
<br><br>>
<br>> jl
<br>> --
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<br>> Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
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<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20612992Re: Installing 2.6.0p2 on Ubuntu2008-11-20T16:14:12Z2008-11-20T16:14:12ZDustin J. Mitchell-3On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Matt Burkhardt <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20612992&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">mlb@...</a>> wrote:
<br>> AMRECOVER Version 2.6.0p2. Contacting server on ubuntu ...
<br>> [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK]
<br>>
<br>> Is there another configure directive to find the original files?
<br><br>This can be because amrecover is using the wrong auth mechanism to
<br>find the server (look for "auth" in /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf),
<br>or because something is wrong with your xinetd configuration -- is the
<br>executable that's pointing to still at that location?
<br><br>Dustin
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<br><a href="http://www.zmanda.com" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://www.zmanda.com</a><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20611393Re: Backing up virtual machines - Off topic question about LVM snapshots2008-11-20T14:27:02Z2008-11-20T14:27:02ZMarc Muehlfeld-2Jon LaBadie schrieb:
<br>>> Backing up the vdi's requires the machine be down.
<br>>
<br>> Why is this a requirement Michael? Is it because the
<br>> VDI is changing while being backed up? Currently the
<br>> VDI is not on a FS that can be snapshot'ted. If it was,
<br>> for example an LVM file system on Linux, would the VDI
<br>> of a running virtual machine be suitable for backup if
<br>> taken from a snapshot (snapshot from the FS, not VBox).
<br><br>It's a off-topic question, but I just ask out of curiosity (don't know
<br>much about LVM snapshots yet):
<br><br>If I do a LVM snapshot of a running VM (or e.g. databases, too) and backup
<br>it, what happens if I restore it later? The VDI was open while the backup
<br>was done (and the information inside the VDI show this too, I guess). If I
<br>start the VM after the restore, doesn't cause this problems? I guess
<br>applications expect files with finalized written data (from the previous
<br>shutdown) on startup.
<br><br><br>Regards
<br>Marc
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<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>>
<br>>
<br>> --On November 20, 2008 2:51:24 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20610602&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">jon@...</a>> wrote:
<br>>
<br>> >Just dipping my toe into virtual machines and
<br>> >wondering how others are doing backups of them.
<br>> >
<br>> >I'm using VirtualBox with a host of Fedora 9.
<br>> >My guest is WinXP Pro. The objective is to
<br>> >no longer need to dual-boot this machine.
<br>> >
<br>> >The virtual guest does appear on my network as
<br>> >a separate host and static IP when it is up.
<br>> >
<br>> >I can see two ways to backup it up;
<br>> >
<br>> > - backup the VBox files (*.vdi and others) on
<br>> > the host Fedora file system
<br>> >
<br>> > - consider the virtual machine a separate host
<br>> > and amanda client
<br>> >
<br>> >How have others dealt with this situation?
<br>> >Or maybe both forms are used simultaneously?
<br>>
<br>> Both have problems.
<br>> Backing up the vdi's requires the machine be down.
</div><br>Why is this a requirement Michael? Is it because the
<br>VDI is changing while being backed up? Currently the
<br>VDI is not on a FS that can be snapshot'ted. If it was,
<br>for example an LVM file system on Linux, would the VDI
<br>of a running virtual machine be suitable for backup if
<br>taken from a snapshot (snapshot from the FS, not VBox).
<br><br>To my thinking, another major problem is the lack of
<br>access to individual files within the VDI file.
<br><br>> Backing up inside each VM requires you be careful not to overload the VM
<br>> host during backup windows. For me, backing up inside each VM (each VM as
<br>> an amanda client) was/is the only way to go, despite the pitfall.
<br>>
<br><br>That is what I expect to do. I just hate windows backups with
<br>all the hassle over "can't backup system and any in-use files".
<br><br>jl
<br>--
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<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20613717only one slot recognized2008-11-20T12:32:55Z2008-11-20T12:32:55ZNick BrocknerHi All,
<br><br>I have been banging my head against this all day:
<br><br>I have a superloader3 16 slot LTO3 unit I am trying to set up. For some
<br>reason, the glue script only sees one slot (slot 1):
<br><br>-sh-3.2$ /usr/libexec/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -info
<br>1 1 1 1
<br><br>-sh-3.2$ amtape dailyfull show
<br>amtape: scanning all 1 slots in tape-changer rack:
<br>slot 1: time X label week1tape1
<br><br>I am using 2.6.0p2 on Centos 5.2.
<br><br>any ideas?
<br><br>-Nick
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20609234Re: Backing up virtual machines2008-11-20T12:07:53Z2008-11-20T12:07:53ZBrian Cuttler<br>I've been backing up virtual hosts on Solaris.
<br><br>There are a couple of ways...
<br><br>If the virtual, er, lets use the proper vendor terms
<br>because they connote specific non-transferable things.
<br><br>In some cases I can backup my non-global zones from the
<br>global zone amanda client. This is fine if the whole of
<br>the non-global zone file system is visable from the global
<br>zone.
<br><br>For those systems where there are file systems within the
<br>non-global zone that are not visable from the global zone,
<br>for instance, ZFS file systems that are not-mounted by
<br>the global zone, then I do run an amanda-client within both
<br>the global and the non-global zones.
<br><br>I realize this is essentially what Jon said, but I had
<br>accomplished on another platform and wanted to say that
<br>"yes, this does work".
<br><br><br>On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:51:24PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Just dipping my toe into virtual machines and
<br>> wondering how others are doing backups of them.
<br>>
<br>> I'm using VirtualBox with a host of Fedora 9.
<br>> My guest is WinXP Pro. The objective is to
<br>> no longer need to dual-boot this machine.
<br>>
<br>> The virtual guest does appear on my network as
<br>> a separate host and static IP when it is up.
<br>>
<br>> I can see two ways to backup it up;
<br>>
<br>> - backup the VBox files (*.vdi and others) on
<br>> the host Fedora file system
<br>>
<br>> - consider the virtual machine a separate host
<br>> and amanda client
<br>>
<br>> How have others dealt with this situation?
<br>> Or maybe both forms are used simultaneously?
<br>>
<br>> jl
<br>> --
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<br><br><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20608992Re: Backing up virtual machines2008-11-20T12:04:33Z2008-11-20T12:04:33ZMichael Loftis<br><br>--On November 20, 2008 2:51:24 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20608992&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">jon@...</a>> wrote:
<br><div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Just dipping my toe into virtual machines and
<br>> wondering how others are doing backups of them.
<br>>
<br>> I'm using VirtualBox with a host of Fedora 9.
<br>> My guest is WinXP Pro. The objective is to
<br>> no longer need to dual-boot this machine.
<br>>
<br>> The virtual guest does appear on my network as
<br>> a separate host and static IP when it is up.
<br>>
<br>> I can see two ways to backup it up;
<br>>
<br>> - backup the VBox files (*.vdi and others) on
<br>> the host Fedora file system
<br>>
<br>> - consider the virtual machine a separate host
<br>> and amanda client
<br>>
<br>> How have others dealt with this situation?
<br>> Or maybe both forms are used simultaneously?
</div><br>Both have problems. Backing up the vdi's requires the machine be down.
<br>Backing up inside each VM requires you be careful not to overload the VM
<br>host during backup windows. For me, backing up inside each VM (each VM as
<br>an amanda client) was/is the only way to go, despite the pitfall.
<br><br>>
<br>> jl
<br>> --
<br>> Jon H. LaBadie <a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20608992&i=1" target="_top" rel="nofollow">jon@...</a>
<br>> JG Computing
<br>> 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884
<br>> Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
<br><br><br><br>--
<br>"Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors
<br>into trouble of all kinds."
<br>-- Samuel Butler
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<br>wondering how others are doing backups of them.
<br><br>I'm using VirtualBox with a host of Fedora 9.
<br>My guest is WinXP Pro. The objective is to
<br>no longer need to dual-boot this machine.
<br><br>The virtual guest does appear on my network as
<br>a separate host and static IP when it is up.
<br><br>I can see two ways to backup it up;
<br><br> - backup the VBox files (*.vdi and others) on
<br> the host Fedora file system
<br><br> - consider the virtual machine a separate host
<br> and amanda client
<br><br>How have others dealt with this situation?
<br>Or maybe both forms are used simultaneously?
<br><br>jl
<br>--
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<br> JG Computing
<br> 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884
<br> Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20608668Re: Backing up autofs/NFS shares2008-11-20T11:44:05Z2008-11-20T11:44:05ZJon LaBadieOn Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:37:41AM -0800, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Hi All,
<br>>
<br>> I referred the doc at <a href="http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_Partitions_Mounted_via_NFS" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_Partitions_Mounted_via_NFS</a><br>>
<br>> I just need to confirm whether whatever I have understood from this doc is correct. What I understand is that I need to mount these nfs shares from 2 different servers on some Linux host on the network and modify the disklist of my amanda full backup configuration to include the new amanda client. For eg my disklist file would look like
<br>>
<br>> <amanda-client-1> /vol/vol1/home {
<br>> root-tar
<br>> estimate calcsize
<br>> }
<br>> ## Above is the original config. Given below is the additonal config
<br>> ## for backing up the nfs shares mounted on an nfs client
<br>>
<br>> <amanda-client-2> /nfs/project1 {
<br>> root-tar
<br>> estimate calcsize
<br>> }
<br>> <amanda-client-2> /nfs/project2 {
<br>> root-tar
<br>> estimate calcsize
<br>> }
<br>>
<br>> ## end of disklist
<br>>
<br>> Would like to know whether my understanding is correct,whetehr this will work and whether all these DLEs can be backed up on a single tape media.
</div><br><br>As far as I remember, that is it. I call them
<br>"indirect" clients vs. "direct" clients that
<br>have amanda software.
<br><br>For about 2 years I had a diverse set of unix boxes to
<br>backup, Solaris x86 & sparc, HP-UX, Tru-64, plus linux
<br>systems. Not wanting to bother compiling all those
<br>client amanda's, I NFS mounted them all on my x86
<br>server and backed up /net/<machine>/<start_directory>.
<br><br>You can also do similar backups of smb/cifs mounts.
<br><br>Two notes, you don't need to use a different direct
<br>clients than your amanda server. And it might be
<br>more network efficient to use the amanda server.
<br>If a different direct client is used, the data
<br>from the indirect client must travel twice over
<br>the network, once to the direct client and then
<br>to the server.
<br><br><br>Anytime I start using the same definitions more
<br>than once, I tend to make a new definition.
<br><br>define dumptype calc-tar {
<br> root-tar
<br> estimate calcsize
<br>}
<br><br>define dumptype calc-nfs {
<br> calc-tar
<br>}
<br><br><br><amanda-client-1> /vol/vol1/home calc-tar
<br><amanda-client-2> /nfs/project1 nfs-tar
<br><amanda-client-2> /nfs/project2 nfs-tar
<br>
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<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20605946Re: stralloc -- green IT to save cpu cycles2008-11-20T08:13:40Z2008-11-20T08:13:40ZDustin J. Mitchell-3In fact, a simple strcpy() is fine there, as line is already
<br>terminated, and old_line is just as large as line.
<br><br>Committed in r1392. Thanks!
<br><br>Dustin
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<br><a href="http://www.zmanda.com" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://www.zmanda.com</a><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Dev-f455.html" embed="fixTarget[455]" target="_top" >Amanda - Dev</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20601330Re: Quantum SuperLoader 32008-11-20T05:41:40Z2008-11-20T05:41:40ZMarc Muehlfeld-2Nick Brockner schrieb:
<br>> it is this one:
<br>> EC-L2DAA-YF LTO-3 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br><br>The tapetype definition from my StorageLoader LTO3 I added to the wiki some
<br>time ago
<br><a href="http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions#Tandberg_StorageLoader_LTO3_.2820_Slot.29" target="_top" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions#Tandberg_StorageLoader_LTO3_.2820_Slot.29</a><br><br>I think this could work for you, too.
<br><br>Regards
<br>Marc
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<br>Lochhamer Str. 29 - D-82152 Martinsried
<br>Telefon: +49(0)89/895578-0 - Fax: +49(0)89/895578-78
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<br><br>it is this one:
<br>EC-L2DAA-YF LTO-3 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br><br>Thanks!
<br><br>-Nick
<br><br>Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Nick Brockner schrieb:
<br>>> Is anyone here using a Quantum Superloader 3 (I know at least one
<br>>> person is) and care to share your config details with me?
<br>>> Specifically, how did you set up amanda.conf to use it.
<br>>
<br>> What kind of drive is in it? I take a look at the specification, but it
<br>> seems that is autoloader is available with different kind of drives (e.
<br>> g. DLT, LTO-2/3/4):
<br>>
<br>> ER-SL1AA-YF DLT VS160, 8 Slots /1 Magazin
<br>> ER-S21AA-YF DLT VS160, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>> EC-SL6AA-YF DLT-V4, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>> EC-S26AA-YF DLT-V4, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>> ER-SL2AA-YF SDLT 600, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>> ER-S22AA-YF SDLT 600, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>> ER-LL4AA-YF LTO-2 HH, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>> ER-L24AA-YF LTO-2 HH, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>> EC-L2DAA-YF LTO-3 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>> EC-LLDAA-YF LTO-3 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>> EC-SL3AA-YF DLT-S4, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>> EC-S23AA-YF DLT-S4, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>> EC-SL3AC-YF DLT-S4 nFC, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>> EC-S23AC-YF DLT-S4 nFC, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>> EC-LL8AC-YF LTO-3 nFC, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>> EC-L28AC-YF LTO-3 nFC, 16 Slots/ 2 Magazine
<br>> EC-LLEAA-YF LTO-4 SCSI, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>> EC-L2EAA-YF LTO-4 SCSI, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>>
<br>>
<br>> Regards
<br>> Marc
<br>>
</div><br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20601070Backing up autofs/NFS shares2008-11-20T03:37:41Z2008-11-20T03:37:41ZYogesh HasabnisHi All,<br> <br> I use amanda 2.5.0p2 for our backup requirements with RHEL3 Linux being the OS of the amanda server. Till now we have been backing up only one directory on our fileserver which contains the home directories- say /vol/vol1/home. More importantly, the backup client and the backup server are the same machine ie the amanda server backs up a directory on itself. We have been using daily incremental backups and monthly full backups using 2 different backup configurations - say backdaily and fullback respectively. Now I need to change the backup configuration of the monthly full backups such that it not only backs up /vol/vol1/home on this original amanda server/client machine but also the nfs shares of a netapp network storage device and one other autofs/nfs Linux server. <br> <br> I referred the doc at http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_Partitions_Mounted_via_NFS<br> <br> I just need to confirm whether whatever I have understood
from this doc is correct. What I understand is that I need to mount these nfs shares from 2 different servers on some Linux host on the network and modify the disklist of my amanda full backup configuration to include the new amanda client. For eg my disklist file would look like<br> <br> <amanda-client-1> /vol/vol1/home {<br> root-tar<br> estimate calcsize<br> }<br> ## Above is the original config. Given below is the additonal config<br> ## for backing up the nfs shares mounted on an nfs client<br> <br> <amanda-client-2> /nfs/project1 {<br> root-tar<br> estimate calcsize<br> }<br> <amanda-client-2> /nfs/project2 {<br> root-tar<br> estimate calcsize<br>
}<br> <br> ## end of disklist<br> <br> Would like to know whether my understanding is correct,whetehr this will work and whether all these DLEs can be backed up on a single tape media.<br> Hope I have described my query clearly. Kindly advise.<br> <br> Thanks in advance.<br> Yogesh<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <p> 
<p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20597287Re: how large must the data volume be...2008-11-20T00:15:28Z2008-11-20T00:15:28ZGeert UytterhoevenOn Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Olivier Nicole wrote:
<br>> > ...so that tape drives become more cost-effective than storing
<br>> > everything on HD's?
<br>>
<br>> >From my past experience, 50GB SLR100 tape costs $100 while for that
<br>> price I can have a 500GB disk...
<br><br>Recently I asked our sysadmin at work how much an LTO tape (800 GB, i.e. 400 GB
<br>native) costs, and I was quite surprised. I had expected O(100 EUR), but it was
<br>much less.
<br><br>But now let's start talking about the price of an autoloader... IIRC that's
<br>something like 3000 EUR.
<br><br>If you're a SOHO-user, you can probably get away with a few removable hard
<br>drivers (and bring some of them offsite).
<br><br>Pricewise, I guess you can get to the point were a bunch of HDs is still
<br>cheaper than an autoloader with tapes, but it becomes more of a hassle to
<br>manage your hard drives.
<br><br>Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
<br><br> Geert
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<br><br>In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
<br>when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
<br> -- Linus Torvalds
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Users-f456.html" embed="fixTarget[456]" target="_top" >Amanda - Users</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20596674Re: stralloc -- green IT to save cpu cycles2008-11-19T23:58:24Z2008-11-19T23:58:24ZGeert UytterhoevenOn Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
<br>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<br>> <<a href="http://www.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=post&post=20596674&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow">geert@...</a>> wrote:
<br>> > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Urs Schürer - sitb - wrote:
<br>> >> + strncpy(old_line, line, (size_t) STR_SIZE);
<br>> >
<br>> > strncpy() alert. old_line is not guaranteerd to be zero-terminated.
<br>>
<br>> No, but line is, and line is the source of this copy.
<br><br>And line fits in STR_SIZE? Sorry, I didn't check the code, it's just my
<br>strncpy() detector that got off.
<br><br>Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
<br><br> Geert
<br><br>--
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<br><br>In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
<br>when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
<br> -- Linus Torvalds
<br><p>From forum: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Amanda---Dev-f455.html" embed="fixTarget[455]" target="_top" >Amanda - Dev</a></p>tag:www.nabble.com,2006:post-20595898Re: Quantum SuperLoader 32008-11-19T22:41:07Z2008-11-19T22:41:07ZMarc Muehlfeld-2Nick Brockner schrieb:
<br>> Is anyone here using a Quantum Superloader 3 (I know at least one person
<br>> is) and care to share your config details with me? Specifically, how
<br>> did you set up amanda.conf to use it.
<br><br>What kind of drive is in it? I take a look at the specification, but it seems
<br>that is autoloader is available with different kind of drives (e. g. DLT,
<br>LTO-2/3/4):
<br><br>ER-SL1AA-YF DLT VS160, 8 Slots /1 Magazin
<br>ER-S21AA-YF DLT VS160, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>EC-SL6AA-YF DLT-V4, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>EC-S26AA-YF DLT-V4, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>ER-SL2AA-YF SDLT 600, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>ER-S22AA-YF SDLT 600, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>ER-LL4AA-YF LTO-2 HH, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>ER-L24AA-YF LTO-2 HH, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>EC-L2DAA-YF LTO-3 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>EC-LLDAA-YF LTO-3 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>EC-SL3AA-YF DLT-S4, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>EC-S23AA-YF DLT-S4, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>EC-SL3AC-YF DLT-S4 nFC, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>EC-S23AC-YF DLT-S4 nFC, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br>EC-LL8AC-YF LTO-3 nFC, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>EC-L28AC-YF LTO-3 nFC, 16 Slots/ 2 Magazine
<br>EC-LLEAA-YF LTO-4 SCSI, 8 Slots/1 Magazin
<br>EC-L2EAA-YF LTO-4 SCSI, 16 Slots/2 Magazine
<br><br><br>Regards
<br>Marc
<br><br>--
<br>Marc Muehlfeld (Leitung IT)
<br>Zentrum fuer Humangenetik und Laboratoriumsmedizin Dr. Klein und Dr. Rost
<br>Lochhamer Str. 29 - D-82152 Martinsried
<br>Telefon: +49(0)89/895578-0 - Fax: +49(0)89/895578-78
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