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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. ...