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Disk Based Backups With Amanda On Debian Etch This document describes how to set up Amanda (The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) on Debian Etch. For this tutorial I chose Ubuntu v7.04 as a backup-client. The resulting system provides a flexible backup-system with many features. It will be able to back up multiple hosts via network to various devices. I chose the disk based backup for this howto.
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Hi, I'm following your guide to set up Amanda on Ubuntu. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 but everything so far has gone well in the installation except when I get to the last step in 3.2 where it says:
We have to label the virtual tapes to make them usable for amanda:
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do /usr/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-${i} slot ${i}; done
When i enter this command having followed every step of the guide to the letter, I get the following output:
$ for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do /usr/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1-${i} slot ${i}; done
labeling tape in slot 1 (file:/storage/amanda/DailySet1):
rewindingERROR: /storage/amanda/DailySet1/data/ (No such file or directory)
ERROR: /storage/amanda/DailySet1/data/ (No such file or directory)
amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: file:/storage/amanda/DailySet1: Input/output error
labeling tape in slot 2 (file:/storage/amanda/DailySet1):
rewindingERROR: /storage/amanda/DailySet1/data/ (No such file or directory)
ERROR: /storage/amanda/DailySet1/data/ (No such file or directory)
amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: file:/storage/amanda/DailySet1: Input/output error
labeling tape in slot 3 (file:/storage/amanda/DailySet1):
rewindingERROR: /storage/amanda/DailySet1/data/ (No such file or directory)
ERROR: /storage/amanda/DailySet1/data/ (No such file or directory)
amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: file:/storage/amanda/DailySet1: Input/output error
labeling tape in slot 4 (file:/storage/amanda/DailySet1):
rewindingERROR: /storage/amanda/DailySet1/data/ (No such file or directory)
ERROR: /storage/amanda/DailySet1/data/ (No such file or directory)
amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: file:/storage/amanda/DailySet1: Input/output error
labeling tape in slot 5 (file:/storage/amanda/DailySet1):
rewindingERROR: /storage/amanda/DailySet1/data/ (No such file or directory)
ERROR: /storage/amanda/DailySet1/data/ (No such file or directory)
amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: file:/storage/amanda/DailySet1: Input/output error
labeling tape in slot 6 (file:/storage/amanda/DailySet1):
rewindingERROR: /storage/amanda/DailySet1/data/ (No such file or directory)
ERROR: /storage/amanda/DailySet1/data/ (No such file or directory)
amlabel: tape_rewind: rewinding tape: file:/storage/amanda/DailySet1: Input/output error
amlabel: could not load slot "7": illegal slot
Is this just because I'm using Ubu 8.04 instead of Dapper?
Your ubuntu installation uses /storage/amanda/... in stead of /dump/..... that is used in the example. Adjust the commands in the tutorial to ues /storage/.... instead
Ahh, looks like the step I missed was to configure amanda.conf to look in the right /amandatapes/ dir
Many thanks for the guide! :)