Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> > First, it should work. amrecover should get things off the holding
disk
> > or off tape as appropriate. When you say "came to realize", I
think we
> > need some more detail on what you mean by that. What errors did
you get?
> > How did you try? Did you use setdate to get the file you wanted
from a
> > particular backup?
Here's what I see when I use amrecover.
[root@ministryofinformation __designmac_design_resources_]# amrecover
Macs
could not open conf file "/etc//amanda/amanda-client.conf": No such
file or
directory
AMRECOVER Version 2.6.0p1. Contacting server on ministryofinformation ...
220 ministryofinformation AMANDA index server (2.5.2p1) ready.
Setting restore date to today (2008-09-23)
200 Working date set to 2008-09-23.
200 Config set to Macs.
200 Dump host set to ministryofinformation.
Use the setdisk command to choose dump disk to recover
amrecover> setdisk //designmac/design_resources/
200 Disk set to //designmac/design_resources/.
amrecover> setdate ---16
200 Working date set to 2008-09-16.
No index records for cwd on new date
Setting cwd to mount point
amrecover>
It does this for anything before 2008-09-19, which is for when I still
have backups still waiting in the holding disk. The file I want is
from the
16th however.
> > Did you try "history" in amrecover to see what it
> > thought you had after you had sethost and setdisk? Did you sethost to
> > where the samba share was mounted and backed up from? As opposed
to the
> > machine it originated on?
The backup server is the "ministryofinformation" (Brazil reference),
hence
all
samba shares on Mac OS X clients are backed up from being mounted by the
server.
ministryofinformation //designmac/design_resource_archive/ user-tar
ministryofinformation //designmac/design_resources/ user-tar
A history command shows the following:
amrecover> setdisk //designmac/design_resources/
200 Disk set to //designmac/design_resources/.
amrecover> history
200- Dump history for config "Macs" host "ministryofinformation" disk
//designmac/design_resources/
201- 2008-09-22-10-45-01 2
/dumps/holding-mac/20080922104501/ministryofinformation.__designmac_design_r
esources_.2:0
201- 2008-09-21-10-45-01 2
/dumps/holding-mac/20080921104501/ministryofinformation.__designmac_design_r
esources_.2:0
201- 2008-09-20-10-45-01 2
/dumps/holding-mac/20080920104501/ministryofinformation.__designmac_design_r
esources_.2:0
201- 2008-09-19-10-45-01 2
/dumps/holding-mac/20080919104501/ministryofinformation.__designmac_design_r
esources_.2:0
200 Dump history for config "Macs" host "ministryofinformation" disk
//designmac/design_resources/
amrecover>
As you can see, these are only dumps still in holding.
On the otherhand according to amadmin:
amanda@ministryofinformation ~]$ amadmin Macs find ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/
date host
disk lv
tape or file
file part status
2008-06-21 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-012
1 1/1 OK
2008-06-25 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-012
46 1/1 PARTIAL
2008-06-25 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-013
1 1/1 OK
2008-06-26 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-013
21 1/1 OK
2008-06-28 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-013
52 1/1 PARTIAL
2008-06-28 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-014
1 1/1 OK
2008-06-29 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-014
19 1/1 OK
2008-06-30 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-015
2 1/1 OK
2008-07-04 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-015
34 1/1 OK
2008-07-08 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-016
74 1/1 PARTIAL
2008-07-08 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-017
1 1/1 OK
2008-07-17 10:45:02 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-017
95 1/1 PARTIAL
2008-07-17 10:45:02 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-018
1 1/1 OK
2008-07-18 10:45:02 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-018
23 1/1 OK
2008-07-19 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-019
2 1/1 OK
2008-07-22 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-000
1 1/1 OK
2008-07-22 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-019
36 1/1 PARTIAL
2008-07-23 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-000
15 1/1 OK
2008-07-24 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 1
Macs-001
8 1/1 OK
2008-07-27 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-001
61 1/1 OK
2008-07-29 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-001
74 1/1 PARTIAL
2008-07-29 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-002
1 1/1 OK
2008-08-07 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-003
2 1/1 OK
2008-08-14 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-004
6 1/1 OK
2008-08-15 10:45:02 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-004
29 1/1 PARTIAL
2008-08-15 10:45:02 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-005
1 1/1 OK
2008-08-16 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-005
20 1/1 OK
2008-08-17 10:45:02 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-006
12 1/1 OK
2008-08-28 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-006
68 1/1 PARTIAL
2008-08-28 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-008
1 1/1 OK
2008-09-06 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-008
65 1/1 PARTIAL
2008-09-06 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-010
1 1/1 OK
2008-09-07 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-010
15 1/1 OK
2008-09-10 10:45:02 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-011
2 1/1 OK
2008-09-11 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-011
19 1/1 OK
2008-09-12 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
0 -- FAILED (driver) [can't dump required holdingdisk]
2008-09-16 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
Macs-009
12 1/1 OK
2008-09-19 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
/dumps/holding-mac/20080919104501/ministryofinformation.__designmac_design_r
esources_.2 0 -- OK
2008-09-20 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
/dumps/holding-mac/20080920104501/ministryofinformation.__designmac_design_r
esources_.2 0 -- OK
2008-09-21 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
/dumps/holding-mac/20080921104501/ministryofinformation.__designmac_design_r
esources_.2 0 -- OK
2008-09-22 10:45:01 ministryofinformation
//designmac/design_resources/ 2
/dumps/holding-mac/20080922104501/ministryofinformation.__designmac_design_r
esources_.2 0 -- OK
So it does appear that Amanda knows about the dump, just not under root.
> > If you look at the tape directly using OS utilities, the first
file on
> > the tape tells you what to do. There are detailed descriptions of
> > various approaches to reading the tapes here:
> > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Restoring_files, and if you scan
down
> > that page looking for dd, you will find how to do it without any
Amanda
> > tools.
Well seeing as I can use tar on this, I'll give that a shot. My users
are
ridiculously redundant most of the time so it's pretty rare that
something
actually needs restoration.
> >
> > If you need help with your configuration, you will have to post it.
Here it is, I see nothing obvious which would prevent indexing from being
recorded when backups are flushed to tape.
org "Macs" # your organization name for reports
mailto "danb AT zu DOT com" # space separated list of operators at your site
dumpuser "amanda" # the user to run dumps under
inparallel 16 # maximum dumpers that will run in parallel
(max 63)
dumporder "BTBTBTBTBTBTBTBT" # specify the priority order of each
dumper
taperalgo first # The algorithm used to choose which dump
image to
send
displayunit "m" # Possible values: "k|m|g|t"
netusage 10000 Kbps # maximum net bandwidth for Amanda, in KB per sec
dumpcycle 52 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
runspercycle 30 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
tapecycle 15 tapes # the number of tapes in rotation
bumpsize 20 Mb # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1
-> 2
bumppercent 20 # minimum savings (threshold) to bump level 1
-> 2
bumpdays 1 # minimum days at each level
bumpmult 4 # threshold = bumpsize * bumpmult^(level-1)
etimeout 600 # number of seconds per filesystem for estimates.
dtimeout 1800 # number of idle seconds before a dump is
aborted.
ctimeout 600 # maximum number of seconds that amcheck waits
tapebufs 128 # A positive integer telling taper how many
usetimestamps yes
runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a
single run
of amdump
tapedev "tape:/dev/st0" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
maxdumpsize -1 # Maximum number of bytes the planner
will
schedule
tapetype LTO3-400 # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes
below)
labelstr "^Macs-[0-9][0-9][0-9]*$" # label constraint regex: all
tapes
must match
amrecover_do_fsf yes # amrecover will call amrestore with the
# -f flag for faster positioning of the
tape.
amrecover_check_label yes # amrecover will call amrestore with the
# -l flag to check the label.
amrecover_changer "/dev/null" # amrecover will use the changer if you
restore
# from this device.
# It could be a string like 'changer' and
# amrecover will use your changer if you
# set your tape with 'settape changer'
holdingdisk hd1 {
comment "main Mac holding disk"
directory "/dumps/holding-mac" # where the holding disk is
use -100 Mb # how much space can we use on it
# a non-positive value means:
# use all space but that value
chunksize 2Gb # size of chunk if you want big dump to be
}
reserve 30 # percent
autoflush no #
infofile "/etc/amanda/Macs/curinfo" # database DIRECTORY
logdir "/etc/amanda/Macs" # log directory
indexdir "/etc/amanda/Macs/index" # index directory
tapelist "/etc/amanda/Macs/tapelist" # list of used tapes
define tapetype LTO3-400 {
comment "Dell PV124T LTO3 (hardware compression off)"
length 402432 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 71189 kps
}
define tapetype LTO2-200 {
comment "Dell PV124T LTO3 (degraded LTO2 tapes)"
length 201216 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 71189 kps
}
define dumptype global {
comment "Global definitions"
index yes
estimate client
holdingdisk required
record yes
fallback_splitsize 64m
auth "bsdtcp"
maxdumps 3
}
define dumptype user-tar {
global
program "GNUTAR"
comment "user partitions dumped with tar"
priority high
compress none
index
}
define interface local {
comment "a local disk"
use 1000 kbps
}
define interface le0 {
comment "10 Mbps ethernet"
use 400 kbps
}
define interface eth0 {
comment "1Gbps ethernet"
use 921600 kbps
}
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Dan Brown
monkeypants AT shaw DOT ca
