Tapeless backup? Wheres the howto! the man pages! HELP!!

Joseph Young

Involved.com

There is not much documentation in setting up AMANDA to be backuped up to a Hard Drive. I checked web sites, the MAN pages, the mailing lists. And three weeks of trying to do this on my own, I need help.

I get the errors in the logs

    driver: adding holding disk 0 dir /backup/dumps size 296960
    reserving 296960 out of 296960 for degraded-mode dumps
    driver: start time 30.057 inparallel 4 bandwidth 2000 diskspace 296960 dir OBSOLETE datestamp 20021231

    driver: drain-ends tapeq LFFO big-dumpers sssS
    driver: result time 30.057 from taper: TAPE-ERROR [rewinding tape: Input/output error]
    dump of driver schedule before start degraded mode:

I know that this happens where a commment out tpchanger amanda.conf. I don't think that I should have "chg-manual".

HELP!!!( at the bottom are the steps that I went through)

joe

These are the steps that I followed. There are from http://www.asp.ogi.edu/~pchytil/linux/amanda/

amanda

./configure --without-client --with-index-server=server.backup.com --with-user=amanda --with-group=amanda --with-config=Involved --with-tape-server=server.backup.com --with-tape-device=file:/backup --with-gnutar=/bin/tar --with-gnutar-listdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda/gnutar-lists --with-amandahosts --with-buffered-dump --with-assertions --with-debugging=/var/log/debug --enable-shared
if you are going to use samba you have to add two following options: --with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient --with-samba-user=backup and create /etc/amandapass file with umask 400, containing path to winPC (//vega/c) + password for backup("blable")
make
make check
make install
mkdir /var/log/debug
chown amanda.amanda /var/log/debug
mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda
mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda/gnutar-lists
mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved
mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved/curinfo
mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved/log
mkdir /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved/index
touch /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved/disklist
touch /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved/tapelist
touch /usr/local/etc/amanda/Involved/exclude
chown -R amanda.amanda /usr/local/etc/amanda
touch /etc/amandates
chown backup /etc/amandates
chgrp backup /etc/amandates
vi /etc/inetd.conf and add following lines
- amandaidx stream tcp nowait bin /usr/local/libexec/amindexd amindexd
- amidxtape stream tcp nowait bin /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped amidxtaped

My amanda.conf has this

runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump
#tpchanger "chg-manual" # the tape-changer glue script
#tapedev "/dev/null" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
#rawtapedev "/dev/null" # the raw device to be used (ftape only)
tapedev "file:/backup/"

changerfile "/var/log/amanda/Involved/changer"
#changerfile "/usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/changer-status"
#changerfile "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf"
changerdev "/dev/null"

tapetype HP-DAT # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below)
labelstr "^Involved[0-9][0-9]*$"