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Hello ,

I am wondering if there is anything in Amada that can give me information on how old the backup of a DLE exists in the system and similar useful information. I do receive daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT when a job is finished but that doesn't tell me how old the backup of DLE is available for me to recover/restore.

How can I find this information ?

Upendra,

I use the # amadmin subcommands "due" and "find" for
this type of information.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:11:39AM -0700, upengan78 wrote:
Hello ,

I am wondering if there is anything in Amada that can give me information on how old the backup of a DLE exists in the system and similar useful information. I do receive daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT when a job is finished but that doesn't tell me how old the backup of DLE is available for me to recover/restore.

How can I find this information ?

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On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:11:39AM -0700, upengan78 wrote:
Hello ,

I am wondering if there is anything in Amada that can give me information on how old the backup of a DLE exists in the system and similar useful information. I do receive daily AMANDA MAIL REPORT when a job is finished but that doesn't tell me how old the backup of DLE is available for me to recover/restore.

How can I find this information ?

amoverview, or perhaps some amadmin options


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Thanks Jon and Brian

I will try amadmin, i did however try, amoverview. Do you know how to interpret the o/p from amoverview?

/opt/csw/sbin/amoverview monthlyfull

date 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03
host disk 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14

client.domain.com /location/EL E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/am E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/age E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/other/[a-m]* E E E E E E E EE E E E E EE E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/other/[n-z]* E E E E E E E EE E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/other/_rest_ E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/wer E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/st E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/ida E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/soc E EE EE EE EE EE EE EE E EE EE EE E E EE EE EE EE EE EE E

Upendra,

I found the amoverview man page on the web and it shows
the date headers and DLEs down the left side as your email
indicates but shows dump levels in the grid rather than the
"E" markings which the man page shows and ran into end of
tape .

Its more complicated than that, rather than repeat or risk
screwing it up in a summary I recommend you read the man
page yourself.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 08:00:48AM -0700, upengan78 wrote:
Thanks Jon and Brian

I will try amadmin, i did however try, amoverview. Do you know how to interpret the o/p from amoverview?

/opt/csw/sbin/amoverview monthlyfull

date 02 02 02 02 02 02 02 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03
host disk 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14

client.domain.com /location/EL E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/am E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/age E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/other/[a-m]* E E E E E E E EE E E E E EE E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/other/[n-z]* E E E E E E E EE E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/other/_rest_ E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/wer E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/st E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/ida E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
client.domain.com /location/soc E EE EE EE EE EE EE EE E EE EE EE E E EE EE EE EE EE EE E

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Thanks , I took a look at that man page just now. I tried some other options/switches for amoverview , I always got E or EE while my amanda backup reports were OK most of the times for all DLEs.

Just for the sake of trying I tried amadmin weeklyfull find and guess what ! this works a lot better and I wonder why because amoverview is actuallly supposed to run same command in background but it shows all E or EEs but amadmin works great and I will continue using that..

/opt/csw/sbin/amadmin weeklyfull find

date host disk lv tape or file file part status
2011-02-10 00:01:02 client.domain.com /etc 0 WF-2 2 1/1 OK
2011-02-11 00:01:02 client.domain.com /etc 1 WF-2 9 1/1 OK
2011-02-14 00:01:02 client.domain.com /etc 0 WF-3 7 1/1 OK
2011-02-15 00:01:02 client.domain.com /etc 0 WF-3 12 1/1 OK
2011-02-16 00:01:02 client.domain.com /etc 0 WF-3 21 1/1 OK
2011-02-17 00:01:02 client.domain.com /etc 0 WF-4 2 1/1 OK


So I can say isssue is resolved. Thanks for your quick reply and help! appreciate it!

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 08:42:52AM -0700, upengan78 wrote:
Thanks , I took a look at that man page just now. I tried some other options/switches for amoverview , I always got E or EE while my amanda backup reports were OK most of the times for all DLEs.

Just for the sake of trying I tried amadmin weeklyfull find and guess what ! this works a lot better and I wonder why because amoverview is actuallly supposed to run same command in background but it shows all E or EEs but amadmin works great and I will continue using that..


The output you showed for amoverview was the configuration "monthlyfull".
Before concluding that amadmin "works" and amoverview "doesn't", at least
try them on the same data.

/opt/csw/sbin/amadmin weeklyfull find

date host disk lv tape or file file part status
2011-02-10 00:01:02 client.domain.com /etc 0 WF-2 2 1/1 OK
2011-02-11 00:01:02 client.domain.com /etc 1 WF-2 9 1/1 OK
2011-02-14 00:01:02 client.domain.com /etc 0 WF-3 7 1/1 OK
2011-02-15 00:01:02 client.domain.com /etc 0 WF-3 12 1/1 OK
2011-02-16 00:01:02 client.domain.com /etc 0 WF-3 21 1/1 OK
2011-02-17 00:01:02 client.domain.com /etc 0 WF-4 2 1/1 OK

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Yes it works with monthlyfull as well. It so happened that I just ran amadmin on weeklyfull first so I posted o/p of weeklyfull in my last post while I should have actually posted o/p for monthlyfull. Sorry for creating confusion.

/opt/csw/sbin/amadmin monthlyfull find

date host disk lv tape or file file part status
2011-03-14 00:01:17 client.domain.com /etc 0 /location/apps_raid5/amanda/holdingdisk2/20110314000117/client.domain.com._etc.0 0 -1/-1 OK
2011-02-23 01:15:02 client.domain.com /location/EL 1 MF-15 6 1/1 OK
2011-02-24 01:15:02 client.domain.com /location/EL 1 MF-16 6 1/1 OK
2011-02-25 01:15:01 client.domain.com /location/EL 1 MF-17 6 1/1 OK
2011-02-26 01:15:01 client.domain.com /location/EL 1 MF-18 6 1/1 OK
2011-02-27 01:15:02 client.domain.com /location/EL 1 MF-19 6 1/1 OK

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:10:07AM -0700, upengan78 wrote:
Yes it works with monthlyfull as well. It so happened that I just ran amadmin on weeklyfull first so I posted o/p of weeklyfull in my last post while I should have actually posted o/p for monthlyfull. Sorry for creating confusion.

/opt/csw/sbin/amadmin monthlyfull find

date host disk lv tape or file file part status
2011-03-14 00:01:17 client.domain.com /etc 0 /location/apps_raid5/amanda/holdingdisk2/20110314000117/client.domain.com._etc.0 0 -1/-1 OK
2011-02-23 01:15:02 client.domain.com /location/EL 1 MF-15 6 1/1 OK
2011-02-24 01:15:02 client.domain.com /location/EL 1 MF-16 6 1/1 OK
2011-02-25 01:15:01 client.domain.com /location/EL 1 MF-17 6 1/1 OK
2011-02-26 01:15:01 client.domain.com /location/EL 1 MF-18 6 1/1 OK
2011-02-27 01:15:02 client.domain.com /location/EL 1 MF-19 6 1/1 OK
Couple of questions:

I assume, that as a test, the "monthly"full config is being run daily?

Does amoverview work on weeklyfull but not on monthlyfull?

The amoverview output you show indicated errors for 3 weeks of daily runs.
What did the associated daily reports show? Were there errors?

Jon
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>Couple of questions:

>I assume, that as a test, the "monthly"full config is being run daily?

yes monthly full is being run daily.

>Does amoverview work on weeklyfull but not on monthlyfull?

no amoverview doesn't work on any of above. Always E.

>The amoverview output you show indicated errors for 3 weeks of daily runs.
>What did the associated daily reports show? Were there errors?

No errors in daily reports. Daily report was OK for all DLEs. Sometimes it was STRANGE when part was retried successfully.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 06:17:41PM -0700, upengan78 wrote:
Couple of questions:

...
Does amoverview work on weeklyfull but not on monthlyfull?

no amoverview doesn't work on any of above. Always E.

The amoverview output you show indicated errors for 3 weeks of daily runs.
What did the associated daily reports show? Were there errors?

No errors in daily reports. Daily report was OK for all DLEs. Sometimes it was STRANGE when part was retried successfully.

No, that should not cause problems. There were some problems with amoverview
when the C source was recoded to perl. But those problems were accompanied
by many error messages about uninitialized variables.

I assume you are using a recent release of amanda?

Jon
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>>I assume you are using a recent release of amanda?

I am sure this is not latest because I went with OpenCSW repository available for solaris platform instead of compiling amanda package myself from source.

3.1.1 is the version of amanda on this system, as shown below.

/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -a | grep amanda
gpg: Signature made Mon Mar 14 20:32:35 2011 CDT using DSA key ID E12E9D2F
gpg: Good signature from "CSW Distribution Manager <dm@opencsw.org>"
amanda CSWamanda 3.1.1,REV=2010.07.20 8.2 MB

Thanks for continuing the discussion and help!

Could it be because of trying to fill tapes(vtapes in my case) to 100%?

following is configured in monthlyfull and weeklyfull amanda configuration,


flush-threshold-dumped 100
flush-threshold-scheduled 100
taperflush 100
autoflush yes

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 07:23:38AM -0700, upengan78 wrote:
Could it be because of trying to fill tapes(vtapes in my case) to 100%?

following is configured in monthlyfull and weeklyfull amanda configuration,


flush-threshold-dumped 100
flush-threshold-scheduled 100
taperflush 100
autoflush yes

I wouldn't expect those settings to affect amoverview.
However, I've not played with them, leaving the first
three at the default 0. I do set autoflush to yes.

jl
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