Re: Problems configuring DLE for ZWC

Jose M Calhariz <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Apr 2021 05:00:52 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hi,

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 07:21:02AM -0700, Neil Richardson wrote:
> Greetings.  I've been trying to set up Amanda with the Zmanda Windows
> Client (ZWC) for weeks and keep hitting various random problems, and would
> *greatly* appreciate help.  I'll try to start with a couple of basic
> things, in the hopes that the rest are due to some configuration error I've
> introduced while trying to fix the initial ones.
> 
> (Before everything else, I guess I'll ask: Where are people supposed to go
> to get info on Amanda?  I've been looking at wiki.zmanda.com for months,
> finally found forums.zmanda.com (appears to be read-only even after
> registration) and the SourceForge project, but only in the past few days
> found the GitHub site--and even amanda.org/about.php says that the source
> is on SourceForge!  (I tried to look at amanda.org/docs/README.txt to see
> if there's more info, but it gave an HTTP 403 error.)
> 
> 
> My first (technical) question is: Is it still true that ZWC only supports
> the `exclude` and `exclude append` directives, but not the `import` one?
> 
> 
> My second question is: is there a way, using planner or something, to get a
> preview of what Amanda will back up based on my DLE?  Some of my runs are
> taking 10+ hours, which is a VERY long time to wait just to get an error at
> the end.
> 
> 
> My third question is: When I go to check what was actually backed up using
> `amrecover`, one of my DLEs frequently reports:
>       500 "/" is an invalid directory
>       No index records for cwd on new date
> 
> When this happens, the output of `ls` is empty.  I have verified that the
> host and date match a date from `history` and my dumptype has `index yes`
> specified.  I believe this output is trying to say that there was no data
> backed up from that DLE (perhaps because nothing changed in between
> debugging runs) but if a DLE didn't get scheduled (or there were no changes
> to be backed up) shouldn't it "superimpose" the results from the last
> backup onto the date I've selected?  Otherwise, I'd have to keep stepping
> backward into every backup run to see when it was actually backed up...what
> am I missing?

The ZWC generates a zip file, so amanda does not understand what files
are inside the backup.  For restoring your only option is to recover the
ZIP file from the tapes and run an unzip, pkzip or 7-zip or other zip
software to restore the backup.

Personally I gave up to use ZWC todo backups windows machines.  Try to
talk with Betsol, the owner of amanda and maybe they have a better
solution for the use of ZWC.




> 
> 
> Thank you for your time,
> -Neil


Kind regards
Jose M Calhariz

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