On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:46:27PM -0700, Robert Grey wrote:
> I am setting up Amanda on a Gentoo box with an Overland LoaderXPress and
> can't seem to get past an amcheck issue. The amdump operation works fine
> but amcheck gives this error:
amdump is working but amcheck is not?
I'd first check permissions on amcheck.
It should be root owned and setuid'ed.
> -----------
> Here is my amanda.conf:
> -----------
> org "daily"
> mailto "<removed>" # space separated list of operators at your site
> dumpuser "amanda" # the user to run dumps under
is amanda user or amanda's group allowed to read the tape device?
> #
> inparallel 4 # maximum dumpers that will run in parallel
> netusage 1000 # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec
>
> # a filesystem is due for a full backup once every <dumpcycle> days
"at least" once every dumpcycle
> dumpcycle 7 days # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
where is runspercycle?, i.e. the number of times in 7 days
you will run amdump.
> tapecycle 8 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
Assuming runspercycle is 7, not a lot of safety in 1 tape more
than a dumpcycle.
>
> bumpsize 20 MB # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1 -> 2
> bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level
> bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * (level-1)**bumpmult
>
> # this is a symbol link to "/dev/nsto"
Is this correct, or is it really nst"0" (zero not ohh)?
> tapedev "/dev/tape" # Linux @ tuck, important: norewinding
Typically I see this link as "ntape" -> nst0 and "tape" -> st0.
Make sure you are pointing to the correct device.
>
> tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx" # the tape changer script
>
> # this is a symbol link to "/dev/sg0"
> changerdev "/dev/changer" # the tape changer device
> changerfile "/etc/amanda/daily/changer" # the tape change status
>
> tapetype DLT-7000-IV # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes
> below)
> labelstr "^DAILY[0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all tapes must
> match
>
> # this is the local disk cache
> holdingdisk home {
> comment "cache disk"
> directory "/var/spool/amanda/backup-store"
> use 2000MB
> }
>
> # Amanda needs a few MB of diskspace for the log and debug files,
> # as well as a database. This stuff can grow large, so the conf directory
> # isn't usually appropriate.
>
> infofile "/var/spool/amanda/daily/lib/curinfo" # database filename
> logdir "/var/spool/amanda/daily/log/" # log directory
> #logfile "/var/spool/amanda/daily/log/log" # log filename
>
> # where the index files live
> indexdir "/var/spool/amanda/daily/lib/index"
>
> # tapetypes
> define tapetype DLT {
> comment "DLT tape drives"
> length 20000 mbytes # 20 Gig tapes
> filemark 2000 kbytes # I don't know what this means
space wasted between end of one file and start of next on the tape.
Only significant if you have lots of tape files.
> speed 1500 kbytes
> }
>
> define tapetype DLT-8000-IV {
> comment "Overland LoaderXpress DLT"
> length 38042 mbytes
> filemark 114 kbytes
> speed 5865 kbytes
> }
>
> define tapetype DLT-7000-IV {
> comment "DLT7000 with DLTtape IV uncompressed"
> length 35000 mbytes
You believe the manufacturer's rating huh?
> filemark 8 kbytes
> speed 5000 kbytes
> }
>
> # dumptypes
> ------
> and my changer.conf:
> ------
> firstslot=2
> lastslot=10
> cleanslot=1
> driveslot=0
>
>
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