Comments on Centralized Backup Server With Amanda On CentOS
Centralized Backup Server With Amanda On CentOS This document describes how to set up a centralized network backup with Amanda. We will use virtual tape to store the backup.
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Some of the config you used appears to be outdated, or incorrect. Since I have seen other sites with the same blocks of config, I must assume outdated.
Great tutorial, but you might want to specify versions that it will [not] work with.
Just in case it might help someone, here is my dumptype, and tapetype definitions.
CentOS5:
amanda-2.5.0p2-4
[root@wt26 intra]#
define dumptype custom-tar {
program "GNUTAR"
comment "root partitions dumped with custom compression"
compress server custom
server_custom_compress "/bin/gzip"
priority low
}
define tapetype HARDDISK {
length 100000 mbytes
}
But as far as setting it up, awsome tutorial, much appreciated!
Thanks for clearing that up James, and thanks author for this nice how to.
Please help me, I always receive email report from amanda server like this:
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No writable valid tape found].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: intra-15.
STATISTICS:
Total Full Incr.
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00
Run Time (hrs:min) 0:00
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Output Size (meg) 4.3 0.0 4.3
Original Size (meg) 5.3 0.0 5.3
Avg Compressed Size (%) 82.1 -- 82.1 (level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped 1 0 1 (2:1)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 8794.5 -- 8794.5
Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Filesystems Taped 0 0 0
Chunks Taped 0 0 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- --
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- ------------------------------------- -------------
alpha -r/www/html 2 5420 4450 82.1 0:01 8781.8 N/A N/A
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