Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [amanda]

Amanda is Backup and Archiving software that protects multiple machines running various versions of Linux, UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It supports tapes, disks, optical media and changers.

Amanda is acronym of Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver. It is an archiving tool that is able to back up data on multiple computers on a network. The Amanda server contacts each client in the computer to perform a backup at a scheduled time. It uses native tools (such as GNUtar, dump) for backup and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix/macOS/Linux/Windows.

Key features of Amanda:

  • Centralized backups of systems on a network
  • Intelligent backup scheduler
  • Open formats for backup archives
  • Supported platform includes Linux, Solaris, Windows, macOS, and most UNIX platforms
  • Backup to Disk, Tapes, Tape Libraries/Changers or Storage Clouds
  • Optional Compression and Encryption Built-in

For further info, consult Amanda Wiki.

29 questions
1
vote
1 answer

Amanda: selfcheck fail, client times out

I'm testing an Amanda install on an ubuntu 10.04 server as a backup server for primarily OS X 10.6 clients. The server has been setup and has successfully run backups on specific local directories for about a week. I've installed and configured the…
lowkeyliesmyth
  • 31
  • 5
1
vote
1 answer

Does Zmanda support backup Event Scheduler?

I've been digging up the Zmanda Wiki, but cannot find out any option to backup the event scheduler (--events, -E). Does Zmanda support it?
quanta
  • 50,327
  • 19
  • 152
  • 213
1
vote
2 answers

Amanda: how to skip a tape?

I swapped out some tapes from our older Amanda system over the weekend. In doing so I was a bit over-eager and took out the first tape that Amanda was expecting to use for the weekly backup run. The next several tapes in the series are all present…
ethrbunny
  • 2,327
  • 4
  • 36
  • 72
1
vote
3 answers

Are old files in holding disk needed for incremental backup?

The holding disk contains the tape images, when a full backup have been made. Can these be deleted, or are they needed when creating incremental backups? Update Another way to ask the same. When a full backup have been made. How does Amanda know…
Sandra
  • 9,973
  • 37
  • 104
  • 160
1
vote
2 answers

Is a holding disk required for Amanda?

I have a tape drive connected directly to a server, which have a lot of static data. I.e. the data won't change during the backup window. Does Amanda still need a holding disk?
Sandra
  • 9,973
  • 37
  • 104
  • 160
0
votes
1 answer

AMANDA backup fails with: data read: recv error: shm_ring is cancelled

I have an AMANDA backup process running nightly. About a month ago, we pulled the config into AMANDA 1:3.5.1-build2 (ubuntu package) running on Ubuntu 18.04 (new hardware as well). In the past week the backup has failed twice with: data read:…
Server Fault
  • 3,454
  • 7
  • 48
  • 88
0
votes
3 answers

Amanda/Zmanda backup-recovery Local server

I am trying to recover some files from a tape on Linux, that were placed on there through an amdump. The problem is in order to use amrecover you have to set up the server. Which I do not really know how to do. Is there a walk around? or perhaps an…
A.Martinez
  • 43
  • 3
0
votes
1 answer

disable nagios apache monitoring and amanda client

I´ve cloned a Ubunutu 12.04 virtual Server. The original server uses Nagios for apache monitoring and amanda client for backups. On the clone I want disable both services. Whats the best way for this? (Someone else did the install, never used one of…
Anatol
  • 349
  • 2
  • 6
  • 19
0
votes
2 answers

amanda client 3.3.5 for RHEL 5 - dependency issues

Im working to update my various clients to use the latest version of Amanda. The installs work great for RHEL6 but fails on v5 with the following errors: # yum localinstall amanda-backup_client-3.3.5-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm Loaded plugins: dellsysid,…
ethrbunny
  • 2,327
  • 4
  • 36
  • 72
0
votes
1 answer

How to perform Amanda Incremental Backup

I had configured and backup some of windows clients I have a few questions: How can I check the incremental backup is performed or a full backup, I use (amdump server1) to backup all client systems, how to configure incremental backup, it is…
user175840
  • 1
  • 1
0
votes
1 answer

Amanda backup with SSH fails both client and localhost

I'm trying to get Amanda working with SSH auth. After I installed it on a server and did a basic configuration with harddisk as tape, I got it up and running, no client support though. But I did get backups on my localmachine at least. Then I…
Patrik
  • 7
  • 3
0
votes
3 answers

Possible to simulate a NDMP backup?

I like to try Amanda's and Bacula's NDMP backup features, but I don't wan't to try it out on the live NAS, just yet. Ideally would I like to find out which that suites me best, and get familiar with before trying to make a real NDMP backup from the…
Sandra
  • 9,973
  • 37
  • 104
  • 160
0
votes
2 answers

Amanda Backup, user-defined exclusion of directories

we are using amanda for doing backups at the company I work for. This worked fairly well for long time, but for various reasons the time for a backup run to complete grew quite large in the last few months. Unfortunately I cannot redistribute the…
ikso
  • 160
  • 1
  • 7
-2
votes
2 answers

amanda backup and take

I'm very new to amanda-backup and also linux I'm looking for the amanda-backup setting https://www.howtoforge.com/centralized-backup-server-with-amanda-on-centos I saw the "tape(?)" setting in this tutorial Create tape list: touch…
mina kim
  • 1
1
2