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...y large bunch of data. Only Amanda [[application]]s know how to interpret the data in a dumpfile. This term is sometimes used ambiguously to refer to a single file on tape (which may only contain a part of a dumpfile). ...

...u have installed Amanda and are having trouble, you may also want to check the [[Troubleshooting]] section. * [[FAQ:What is the difference between Amanda and Zmanda?]] ...

The list of new features and changes in 2.5.1 release: ...he GNU tar format to store information about the incrementals has changed. Amanda 2.5.1 treats gnutar incremental files as opaque files. ...

...s have the choice of licensing their contribution under the UMD license or the GPLv2. ...nda Contributor License Agreement] first. No part of Amanda is covered by the GPLv3. ...

...file to {{man|5|amanda.conf}} in a particular configuration. It specifies the data that should be backed up on every run. See {{man|5|disklist}} for details on the format of the disklist. ...

...ate some temporary files. These files can cause ''strange'' results on the Amanda server: ...t1/index/hostname/_/20101206010001_0.gz.tmp: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory</pre> ...

...of the local machine where ''ZRM for MySQL'' runs. Default directory used is ''/var/lib/mysql-zrm''. ...er ''destination'' parameter in the [[mysql-zrm.conf]] configuration file. For example: ...

...alled vtapes. This name is still used quite often in documentation and on the mailing list. ...ans the same thing as "vtape". For Amazon S3 backups, we have always used the term "volume," because "s3tape" just sounds silly. ...

There are multiple ways to performs MySQL backups using Amanda. Which one you can and should use depends on your situation. ...before the Amanda backup is started. The dump file will be backed up using Amanda. ...

...as backed up -- if the restore operation is successful, amverify considers the dump verified. ...o ensure that the you know how to do a restore, so you'll be prepared when the time comes. ...

This feature is available from Amanda 3.3 ...r has to load and unload hard disks. Here is the amanda.conf configuration for removable hard disk changers. ...

...pe label, the diskdevice and the diskname as specified in the [[disklist]] file. ...pe]] - A perl script to print labels for Amanda backup tapes. Download the file and save it as '''amandatape''' ...

Zmanda has released a native windows service, the [[Zmanda Windows Client]], for backing up Windows systems. ...y using SAMBA. Please read the Windows client section of [[Backup client]] for more information. ...

A posting from the amanda-users mailing-list (amanda-users@amanda.org) asked: :"What, please, is a "DLE"? May it mean: Down Loadable Entity ??? Stupid. Do Less Errors ??? S ...

{{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...r chio, usually /dev/ch0), and `changerfile' specifies a filename in which the current slot number will be stored. ...

...ateurs qui sont peu familiers de son fonctionnement. Si vous avez installé Amanda et que vous rencontrez des problèmes, vous pouvez aussi parcourir la sectio ...ifference between Amanda and Zmanda?/Fr|FAQ:Quelle est la différence entre Amanda et Zmanda ?]] ...

{{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...can also be used with a single physical drive to write several tapes in an AMANDA run. ...

...ckup of only complete filesystems. Finer granularity of filesystem backups is not possible. ...t for a particular file. GNUTAR normally modifies the last access time of the files (using option --atime-preserve=system fix this issue). GNUTAR can bac ...

...e a simple system parameter (sizeof(int)), but the compiler flags added by the preceding glib detection are causing a failure. ...last compiler invocation in the "Core tests" section will show, in detail, what errors configure encountered. ...

...itative documentation on configuring authentication in Amanda, see {{man|7|amanda-auth}}. There are several authentication mechanisms available for Amanda, so which one should you choose? ...

No index records for host: ''hostname''. Have you enabled indexing? No index records for disk: ''disk''. Invalid? ...

...st, which can be confused with the tapelist file (which, naturally enough, is implemented in <tt>server-src/tapefile.c</tt>). ...abel, a colon, and a comma-separated list of file numbers on that volume. For example: ...

...e used in restore operations to determine which files are available and on what tapes they are stored. ...is not available, the tape can restored using {{man|8|amrestore}} or using the backup command (gnutar or restore) and dd command. ...

New versions of Amanda can communicate with very old versions of Amanda, and to do so they use some old authenticaitons. This page builds on [[How ...s is the case for backward-compatibility reasons, and unless you have old (Amanda-2.4) clients, you don't want to use bsd auth. ...

{{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...line switch, unless it is set to an empty string or "/dev/null" (watch out for default values!) ...

{{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...ev/tty. So it cannot be used via crontab. Make sure you comply with any of the following. - Add statements ...

...ed|This changer, with its separate changerfile, is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...anger emulates a robot that uses virtual tapes instead of real ones, where the virtual tapes are real directories on a hard disk. ...

...d authentication. To set up an SSH authentication session, Amanda will run the equivalent of: to start the backup process. ...

...eat GNU tar messages as success or warning or errors. In case of warnings, the backup run will be marked as "strange". ...a Applications on a Client]] for a more general description of configuring Amanda applications. ...

== Amanda wins 2009 Linux Journal Reader's Choice award == ...this happen. See [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10451 Linux Journal] for more details. ...

...pe storage, this can cause dumps to fail badly, as Amanda cannot fit dumps for all [[DLE]]s on tape. ...ibing the previous dump as input, and produces a new index file describing the new run. ...

This question usually takes the forms: * "How do I make Amanda do full backups on Saturday and incrementals ... ?" ...

...s the mechanisms supported by all of the constituent elements, and selects the most efficient combination, adding "glue" code if necessary. ...le descriptor from which it should read. This might be used, for example, for an element that executes a compression application in a pipeline. ...

Amanda can optionally make use of the following packages to back up different types of clients or clients with di ...ar (some versions of 1.13 and 1.14) are [[FAQ:What versions of GNU Tar are Amanda-compatible?|known to have problems]]. ...

...amanda-changers}} for replacements. These changers are still available in the distribution, but will be removed in a future release. ...e to the more efficient chg-robot. See contrib/convert-zd-mtx-to-robot.sh for a useful conversion script. ...

...re the client to talk to the server. Put the following in <tt>/etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf</tt>: = Start the Recovery = ...

...te that an {{man|8|amvault}} operation is simply a recovery "glued" (using the [[Transfer Architecture]]) to a taper operation. ...configuration present at all. We'll cover these separately, starting with the simpler restore operation. ...

...of any sort quite easily by simply dumping it to a static file before each Amanda run. ...a consistent backup of such data files. However, it can back up a static file full of SQL or some other database-specific dump. ...

You are notified (or not notified) by amanda of a failure involving amdump or amflush (or ?) to this effect: taper: critical (fatal): Can't locate auto/Amanda/Device/Device/swig_volume.al in @INC... ...

...cripts that are available in the Amanda distribution. See [[Changer API]] for help writing a new changer script. ...PI. See {{man|7|amanda-changers}} in your distribution for information on the old and new changers available to you. ...

...ations on a Client]]. Note that the implementation of the Application API is [[Application API/Implementation|still in progress]]. Most of the useful content is held in subpages ...

This page tries to take you step-by-step through the process of designing a new transfer element. ...make sense to "pull" data from upstream, or should upstream "push" data to the element? Consult [[XFA/Xfer Mechanisms]]. ...

...' done is beyond the scope of this document. Also helpful is [[Installing Amanda on Mac OS X]] You will need Apple's XCode (download the latest version from Apple at http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/). If ...

...utar or gtar), so some versions of tar will not work with some versions of Amanda. ...kport] fixes to earlier versions. For example, RedHat's tar-1.14 contains the fixes that were published in tar-1.15.1. ...

...familiar with Amanda’s backup planning strategy and from letting Amanda do the planning. ...standard backup planning strategy avoids that problem and typically gives the best result. ...

...ut the "new", Perl Changer API, which was introduced in Amanda-2.6.1. For the old (pre-2.6.1) changer API, see [[Changer API (1.0)]]. ...ion, or other processes entirely, can reserve other volumes, assuming that the necessary resources are available (drives, SCSI IDs, whatever). ...

{{Deprecated|See [[Getting Started with Amanda]] instead}} In real life, errors happen, and after solving the problems, you want Amanda to resume normal tasks as soon as possible. ...

...nux OS that does not appear to be immediately compatible to the version of Amanda due to dependencies, or perhaps a windows client. I have developed this fro ...understand the scp utility, and have your amanda server up and running on the network with data to restore. ...

So just backing up "localhost" isn't enough for you? Amanda has you covered! ...net. Oh, and the US still considered crypto software to be a "munition". Amanda's client/server authentication thus consisted of a username and some basic ...

...mirror dumps is deprecated, see [[How To:Write dump to multiple storage]] for better mechanism. ...How To:Stripe Dumps across Tapes using RAIT]] for a bit more background on the RAIT device and RAIT-related changers. ...

== Loading tapes manually (ancient, probably only useful for CentOS users) == Instead of letting amrecover use the changer, you can also do everything manually. ...

The {{man|8|ampgsql}} application uses the [http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/continuous-archiving.html co == Amanda Server Configuration == ...

...</tt>. Amanda serves as a sort of amanda-specific inetd, but adds support for multiple parallel communication channels, authentication, and lots of crazy ...ver where this page leaves off. Amandad is always on the receiving end of the [[Security API]], so a familiarity with that API will help in reading this ...

...ely won't have a consistent copy of the virtual machine, which may prevent the virtual machine from starting after a restore and/or may result in data los ...Amanda client in all your virtual machines and exclude the VMWare files on the host running VMWare Server. ...

...t of all, you should know that there are three ways to get at your data in Amanda: ...amrecover}}, which lets you restore particular files or directories and is the most automated ...

..., following the pattern below. This forms a more in-the-moment version of the [[Wishlist/Features planned]] document. ...to get started on any of these projects is to [[Fork Amanda on Github|fork Amanda]] and push your completed changes back. ...

..., so the source volumes are generally referred to as "secondary media" and the destination volumes as "tertiary media". The tool to use for vaulting is, appropriately enough, {{man|8|amvault}}. ...

...ted|This document only discusses the "bsd" auth; see {{man|7|amanda-auth}} for a more complete description}} ...e listening (also via inetd/xinetd) at well known ports on the tape server for TCP connections. ...

...utions. The same article may be linked under several different categories for easier searching. * [[Amcheck cannot login as the amanda user]] ...

Amanda tape-spanning support is a new feature in the 2.5.0 release, enabling single dump files to be strung across multiple tape ...writing to tape, allowing AMANDA to regard each individual piece as a dump file in its own right and following "tape full" semantics as it would a normal d ...

So now you have a working Amanda install (right?). What's it doing? ...k'', which stores data on disk. In particular it stores that data at <tt>/amanda/vtapes</tt>, in a set of four slots" ...

...can be executed once for each [[DLE]] or once for each client host. Uses for pre- and post-scripts include: * to stop and start database servers so that the binary backup is consistent. ...

Here is a Quick Setup for a test configuration with a virtual tape changer, emulating tapes on disk. ...nt. For a more complete description of virtual tapes and their use, see [[file driver]] and [[How To:Set Up Virtual Tapes]]. ...

...a developer-level description of the current Changer API. It is intended for authors of changer scripts. ...which it "inserts" volumes on request. For a typical tape robot, this is the natural mode. Other changers (e.g., [[chg-disk]]) emulate this behavior. ...

...aps more importantly, features, such as backup to Amazon S3 (introduced in Amanda 2.6). Amanda requires gnu make, and will fail if compiling with BSD make. Use gmake inst ...

...sequence of bytestreams on each volume, identified only by their on-volume file number -- even of non-tape devices. ...Device API also adds a number of new features not previously available in Amanda. These include: ...

* Support for multiple simultaneous writes to storage devices ** Works only with the new changer API. ...

{{Deprecated|See [[Getting Started with Amanda]] instead}} == Server configuration file - amanda.conf== ...

...bles par liens depuis ici décrivent les problèmes courants rencontrés avec Amanda. Un même article peut se retrouver sous différentes catégories pour une rec * [[Amcheck cannot login as the amanda user]] ...

...Needs a careful going-over and simplification, along with a description of the full syntax}} There are three ways of excluding data in an AMANDA backup: ...

...ontents of backups onto virtual tapes (vtapes) using the [[file driver]]. The vtapes can be located on any filesystem, even a remote one. ...t Up Virtual Tapes#Using chg-disk|How To:Set Up Virtual Tapes]] and get to the point where you run ...

...sent unecrypted. See "SSL" below, or [[How To:Set up data encryption]] for amanda's encryption options and procedures. ...S3 device interfaces with the Device API, and as such is only available in Amanda-2.6.0 and later. ...

For an Amanda 2.5.0 server and later: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ...

...<tt>/home/[a-o]*</tt> and <tt>/home/[p-z]*</tt>. A more extended example is provided below. ...ller single dumps so that Amanda can continue the backup of other dumps on the next tape, if need be. ...

...ndad, then it processes its REQ packet and produces a REP packet for the [[Amanda Protocol]] as described in [[Amandad Service Protocol]]. All of the interesting specification of which data to send comes on the control connection, below. ...

...se the BSD-version of make, usually /usr/ccs/bin/make. Add /usr/ccs/bin to the path before running configure. ...s and utilities in /usr/sfw and /opt/sfw and some people prefer to install the most recent versions in /usr/local or /opt/local. ...

** truncate the file when overwritting a label * tapelist file ...

...the API itself resides on the client. The operations listed below are from the perspective of backup clients. ...single argument, the subcommand, and a number of additional options. So, for example, a simple '''support''' invocation might look like ...

* new --with-security-file configure option ** It set the default security file ...

...platform that uses native Win32 API and uses Volume Shadow Services (VSS) for backup. * Uses open format for backup images ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format) ZIP64]) ...

...AQ:What versions of GNU Tar are Amanda-compatible?|the GNU Tar FAQ entry]] for other undesirable behaviors. ...1.15, 1.15.1, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 1.22.90, 1.23, and the current git HEAD (e21d54e8c). ...

...]], tracking dumps with ''amadmin - find'', and finding the required tapes for restore operations. ...re the most recent backup is kept in the [[curinfo|curinfo database]], and is read by "amadmin xx info"). ...

Compression in hardware, i.e. in the tapedrive itself, is not done by writing the bits in a higher density, or by using more tracks, or using both sides of the tape. ...

...package, as it is not installed by default on most Linux distributions. It is possible to find compiled versions of dump on most Linux sites and CD-ROMs. ...fixed by cleaning up outdated entries in /etc/dumpdates, but your best bet is probably GNU-tar. ...

...'Quick Start' is neither quick nor up to date. See [[Getting Started With Amanda]] instead.}} == Installing Amanda == ...

Amanda has been tested on Mac OS X Panther (10.3), Tiger (10.4), Leopard (10.5) an ...will work "out of the box". See [[Mac OS X Extended Attributes Support]] for more information. ...

Let's jump right in. Presumably you have Amanda-3.2.0 or higher installed already! ...bly "amandabackup" or "amanda" or "backup", depending on how you installed Amanda. We'll use "amandabackup" here to avoid ambiguity. As root: ...

...configuring a firewall using iptables for use with Amanda. The recipe here is minimalistic, in that we open only ports that '''need''' to be opened, with ...ailed information about port usage by "bsd" authentication can be found in the [[TCP/UDP ports]]. ...

...here are alternatives available, the recommended changer for virtual tapes is ''chg-disk''. ...n, better a specific physical harddisk to the task of keeping your vtapes. The use of a dedicated disk will speed things up definitely. ...

{{Deprecated|See [[Getting Started with Amanda]] instead}} == Amanda client configuration file == ...

...note that this list is very old - many of these items are now available in Amanda!}} AMANDA Core Team ...

{{deprecated|This changer is deprecated; see {{man|7|amanda-changers}}}} ...documentation", written by an unknown contributor, and replicated here in the hopes it can be useful.'' ...

{{Needs Attention Header|This is just a collection of notes; it needs testing and writing out as a [[How Tos ==What is needed to recover encrypted tapes == ...

{{Deprecated|See [[Getting Started with Amanda]] instead}} ...o restore files backed up with Amanda either with or without Amanda tools. The section has been presented as multiple examples. ...

...ases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of Unix Backup & Recovery by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material. For environments of all sizes and budgets, this unique book shows you how to en ...

If you don't find exactly the tapetype you need, you may be able to customize an existing definition. Or The program will fill a scratch tape twice with random data. ...