Category: AMANDA
Anything related to the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, AMANDA.
Server side estimates in AMANDA
I wish I did this change ages ago. 50 minutes of waiting on estimates turned into less than 20 seconds of waiting.
Read More → Server side estimates in AMANDAGetting Bareos up & running on FreeBSD stable/12
I’m in the process of figuring out if Bareos can replace AMANDA in my shop. What is better than setting up a test server and do as many mistakes as possible before going live?
Read More → Getting Bareos up & running on FreeBSD stable/12AMANDA 3.3.9 as of r441897
misc/amanda-{client,server} as of r441897 fails to create the directory /usr/local/etc/amanda and an empty file named /usr/local/etc/amanda/security.conf. The client will fail during client checks and backup runs claiming: failed: planner: [Can’t get realpath of the security file ‘/usr/local/etc/amanda/security.conf’: No such file or directory] Here’s the remedy in the short run: There is one additional issue, pkg-plist […]
Read More → AMANDA 3.3.9 as of r441897Replacing drives on AMANDA server
I spent some days last week converting our 32-bit AMANDA server to a 64-bit counterpart using spare but aged hardware. The former AMANDA server ran on very aged hardware in comparison. Going 64-bit also ment turning to ZFS-based storage. Today, I replaced the two 320 GB first generation SATA drives with two 1 TB third […]
Read More → Replacing drives on AMANDA serverAMANDA 3.3.2 and #undef bool
I upgraded a stable/8 i386 system and switched from lang/perl5.16 to lang/perl5.20 only to experience problems with swig generated code for AMANDA. I have confirmed this behaviour on stable/9 amd64 too. I found 17 files containing these three lines: This results in error messages such as:
Read More → AMANDA 3.3.2 and #undef boolUp and running again late in December 2011
Sorry for the nearly two week absence. This web server’s 10 year old hard drive developed too many faults between December 9th and 10th, and the system became rather useless. The wonky hard drive was replaced with a brand new one this week. Nothing important got lost thanks to AMANDA and a fair number of […]
Read More → Up and running again late in December 2011