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choogendyk
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specifying with-user and with-group
Published (2009-11-05 05:24:00)
I edited the wiki page so that the useradd references are correct now. Of course, the specific numerical uid you choose for the amandabackup user will depend on what's available on your machines. I've standardized on 55 across my machines.
paddy
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Zmanda backup sucks man
Published (2009-11-02 10:49:00)
I'm not sure what your server distribution is. All linux distributions have /bin/mail installed. The package is usually called "Mailx". Paddy
celiowin
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specifying with-user and with-group
Published (2009-11-02 21:35:00)
I'm configuring amanda-2.6.1p1 on opensolaris from source and it displayed a warning. WARNINGS: no user specified (--with-user) -- using 'amanda' no group specified (--with-group) -- using 'backup' Are the packaged amanda-server, user and group setup as amandabackup?
trghpy
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Labeling Problem
Published (2009-11-03 14:07:00)
After giving up, taking a breather and re-trying I found the issue. The HP tape library has 2 tape drives, I was talking to drive 2 and it was putting tapes into drive 1. So that brings up a follow-up question.. Does anyone have a working dual tape drive configuration? Thanks -Mike
dustin
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Labeling Problem
Published (2009-11-04 06:14:00)
Chris's suggestion is a good one, but rememeber that RAIT *stripes* (or mirrors) across drives, so while it will use both drives simultaneously, it will not schedule them separately. Also, chg-zd-mtx will probably collide with itself; that is, it will try to load a tape into drive 1 while already loading a tape into drive 0. Chg-robot, in the next release, does a better job.
dustin dustin is offline Super...
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Labeling Problem
Published (2009-11-04 06:14:00)
Chris's suggestion is a good one, but rememeber that RAIT *stripes* (or mirrors) across drives, so while it will use both drives simultaneously, it will not schedule them separately. Also, chg-zd-mtx will probably collide with itself; that is, it will try to load a tape into drive 1 while already loading a tape into drive 0. Chg-robot, in the next release, does a better job.
choogendyk choogendyk is offline...
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Labeling Problem
Published (2009-11-04 05:02:00)
I don't know the direct answer to that, but if you look at http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-changers.7.html and scan down to the middle where it talks about chg-rait, it mentions having two different chg-zd-mtx changers that access different tape drives. You might be able to figure something out from that. It could lead to a variety of other complications and confusion around Amanda's planner figuring out what tapes to use and so...
kekiku
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holding disk
Published (2009-11-06 12:37:00)
i have a similar issue. my holding area is not empty after a run completed. the holding area has a directory with the run date and a list of files which correspond to some of my dles for the run. these files are empty. here is a sample: rwx------ 2 amanda backup 79872 Nov 4 10:17 20091104072538 -bash-3.00$ cd 20091104072538/ -bash-3.00$ ls -ltr total 0 -rw------- 1 amanda backup 0 Nov 4 07:35 172.31.2.214._export_nfsshare00_ -rw------- 1...
  

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Started 9 months, 3 weeks ago (2009-01-19 15:13:00)  by pyeatman
What consists of the 9.9g of data? Paul
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Started 1 week, 2 days ago (2009-11-03 04:42:00)  by choogendyk
I haven't used the packages, but it appears that they do use amandabackup as the user. See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Ama...ge#Amanda_u ser . Since you're building from source, you can do whatever you want. It's an issue of standard practices. I have built from source on all my systems and used the name amanda for both user and group. Then, in one department, I had a person whose name ...
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Started 1 week, 3 days ago (2009-11-02 05:10:00)  by choogendyk
Did you resolve this? Seems weird. What version of Amanda are you using? I presume you configured the tape library so that you can move tapes around manually with mtx and that all works? Then you integrated that into your Amanda configuration, which is named HPTapeLibrary, using the chg-zd-mtx changer script? And confirmed that that works? Are you watching the changer and seeing what it is doing ...
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Started 1 week, 3 days ago (2009-11-02 19:47:00)  by choogendyk
Did you resolve this question? The Amanda user is a configure option (the first step in building Amanda from source). That is necessary because there are many things that have to be installed with the proper ownership to work. See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Ins..._Amanda_Sou rce , or see http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Quick_start for a broader overview. So, yes, you would have to ...
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Started 1 week, 3 days ago (2009-11-02 18:36:00)  by choogendyk
Did you resolve this? It looks like you have a tape cycle of 25, and you have only labeled the first 9 tapes. So, at present, it thinks it cannot run a backup, because it cannot recycle any of the available labeled tapes. You can get around this problem by labeling the remaining unlabeled tapes (vtapes). Then you will have to show what happens after that. Without seeing the errors, I'm ...
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Started 2 weeks, 6 days ago (2009-10-23 08:55:00)  by zmanda_jacob
I did not see your original post. What was it? The amreport command can be used to generate reports and you could schedule something like this through cron. The command format would be: amreport backupset -l log.timestamp.0 -f report.txt It would then process log.timestamp.0 and generate a report in report.txt that you could view.
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Started 1 week, 3 days ago (2009-11-02 05:21:00)  by choogendyk
I presume you went somewhere else and found the right forum for asking those sorts of questions? I would go to linuxquestions.org. Lots of activity there and lots of people who could answer your question. There might be someone here who could answer your question, but it's not really pertinent to this forum.
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Started 1 week, 3 days ago (2009-11-02 05:17:00)  by choogendyk
Did you resolve this? Your message provides almost no detail. The email address that reports go to is in amanda.conf in your configuration directory. What version of Amanda are you using? What OS is it installed on? Can you send mail from the command line on that machine?
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Started 1 year, 6 months ago (2008-04-28 08:18:00)  by dustin
What version of Amanda is this?
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Started 3 weeks, 6 days ago (2009-10-16 11:17:00)  by paddy
Amanda can do scheduling jobs, can maintain attributes in backups. You can restore files when requested by clients. Amanda requires a Solaris or Linux (Unix) server. I'm not sure what you mean by "copying directories". Does "5 accounts" mean five different clients or user accounts? You can download latest and stable packages from http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php Paddy
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Started 1 week, 3 days ago (2009-11-02 05:10:00)  by choogendyk
Did you resolve this? Seems weird. What version of Amanda are you using? I presume you configured the tape library so that you can move tapes around manually with mtx and that all works? Then you integrated that into your Amanda configuration, which is named HPTapeLibrary, using the chg-zd-mtx changer script? And confirmed that that works? Are you watching the changer and seeing what it is doing ...
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Started 1 week, 2 days ago (2009-11-03 04:42:00)  by choogendyk
I haven't used the packages, but it appears that they do use amandabackup as the user. See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Ama...ge#Amanda_u ser . Since you're building from source, you can do whatever you want. It's an issue of standard practices. I have built from source on all my systems and used the name amanda for both user and group. Then, in one department, I had a person whose name ...
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Started 9 months, 3 weeks ago (2009-01-19 15:13:00)  by pyeatman
What consists of the 9.9g of data? Paul
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