Hi All

I have configured an open solaris 10 server & I want it to have amanda backup utility configured for backing up my all Desktop System's data onto this server. I have installed Amanda from source successfully but as I am new to Amanda so I am unable to configure my storage server (opensolaris) completely. I followed the tutorials given on zamanda site.

Can anyone suggest any easy to use tutorial for Amanda which help me in configuring Amanda Server to backup data on Hard Disks.

Thanks in advance & any help will be highly appreciated.

Regards
Sushant Chawla
Linux Administrator

Cool. My two favorite choices. Solaris and Amanda.

I typically use the Quick Start guide on the wiki. While following that, click out to other pages on the wiki for details and clarification. In particular, you will want to look at the How To: Set Up Virtual Tapes, and you will want to understand the FAQ on Backup Levels.

Are you using OpenSolaris or Solaris 10? X86 or SPARC? UFS or ZFS? If you are using UFS, then configure Amanda to use ufsdump. You can also use fssnap snapshots with ufsdump, but that's another level of complication that you could put off. I wrote a wrapper for ufsdump that does the fssnap when called from Amanda. If you are using ZFS, then I would use gnutar. While Amanda can use ZFS send/receive, those utilities will only do full backup and recovery of whole ZFS filesystems. They cannot be used to recover just a single file.

Feel free to ask more questions.

Hi

Firstly thanks a lot for considering my question & giving its answer. I am using Open SOlaris 10, X86, ZFS filesystem with RAIDZ1.

I am very new to this amanda as well as solaris. I am an expert of Linux but not solaris, thats why I was facing some problems configuring Amanda on Solaris. It would be great if you can suggest me some tutorials for Solaris Administration also :-))

Regards
Sushant Chawla
Linux Administrator

Check out the documentation sources I posted here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post3567429 and here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8/#post3653740. They're not exactly tutorials (much more in depth than that), but the System Administrator's Collection on docs.sun.com has sections with "tasks" interspersed with the explanatory sections. Those give step by step commands to do specific things.

Hi

Somehow I have managed to configure my solaris system but now when I run amdump DailySet1 command it throws a mail to me with an error as follows:

Hostname: stolaris
Org : ABCD
Config : DailySet1
Date : November 20, 2009

The next tape Amanda expects to use is: 1 new tape.
The next new tape already labelled is: DailySet1-10.

FAILURE DUMP SUMMARY:
stolaris /etc/ lev 0 FAILED "[no size line match in /usr/sbin/ufsdump output]"


STATISTICS:
Total Full Incr.
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00
Run Time (hrs:min) 0:00
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Output Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Original Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
Filesystems Dumped 0 0 0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- --

Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Filesystems Taped 0 0 0

Chunks Taped 0 0 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- --


NOTES:
planner: Adding new disk stolaris.kriti.kritikal.in:/etc/.
driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner


DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
-------------------------- ------------------------------------- -------------
stolaris.kri /etc/ MISSING -------------------------------------------

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.6.1p2)


Please help me as my CTO is dancing on my head for configuring this server very urgently.


Thanks
Sushant Chawla
Linux Administrator

Could you tone down the bold text? It's loud. If you wrap stuff like that in code tags, it's more readable, and that sets it off from the text of your message.

The pertinent thing here is that the ufsdump connection failed. Is that the full content of the email from Amanda? If so, it looks like you are starting out simple, just backing up the server itself. That's good.

I've not seen the particular error you are getting. What does `amcheck DailySet1` say? The troubleshooting guide is here http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Troubleshooting. You could look through the error logs in /tmp/amanda.

hmm. I seem to recall you saying ZFS. But the error you site above says ufsdump. Is it possible you have a ZFS boot drive, and you are trying to dump it with ufsdump? That won't work. If that is the problem, switch to using gnutar for the dumps. That is in /usr/sfw/bin/gtar. If you had your paths set right when you configured Amanda, it should have found that. Otherwise, you may have to go back to reconfigure and rebuild, so that Amanda will get the right version and the right properties of it. Then you would have to change your dumptype that is referenced in your disklist. If this is not the problem, then back to looking at the error logs and the troubleshooting guide.