How to Prune, Recycle, and Drop Older Backups?
Amanda Enterprise (AE), a product of Zmanda, can prune, drop, and recycle aging backup data to free up your storage media and make it available for new backups. Amanda uses labels to iden...
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An Internal Error Has Caused the ZMC to Stop Functioning Correctly
This article is for all versions of Amanda Enterprise (AE) Issue Symptoms An internal error has caused the ZMC to stop functioning correctly.X ERROR code:2b3230373520596173756d692e706870 Issue D...
How to Download the Amanda Enterprise Server and Client Binaries?
This article is a step by step guide on how to download and install Amanda Enterprise Software and use the Zmanda Management Console (ZMC)....
FAILED [data timeout]
This article is for Amanda Enterprise (AE) Issue Symptoms: FAILURE SUMMARY section of the backup report either sent as an email or as viewed on the Report| Backups page shows errors such as: ...
How to Change the Amanda Server Source Port Range?
When a backup is performed, Amanda will use a source port on the Amanda server to connect with the client on the client's port, 10080. The backup of each of the different clients that Amanda conn...
Benchmark for MySQL With ZRM
This document provides backup and recovery benchmarks for MyISAM and InnoDB engines with logical, raw, and snapshot methods of backup available in ZRM for MySQL....
NDMP – Source creation is failing when the password is pasted
The creation/addition of NDMP sources fails when the password is pasted into the pop-up field. Work Around: The user can enter the password manually in the regular password field (not the popup), ...
Restore of a Few Small Files From a Large Backup Take a Long Time
Restoration of a small file or directory (e.g., only a few megabytes large) takes a long time from a large filesystem backup Issue Symptoms Restore of a small file or directory (e.g., only a few m...
Collecting Client Logs for Zmanda Support
The zm-support-client script on Mac, Linux and Solaris Amanda Enterprise clients generates an archive containing information needed by Zmanda Support team The zm-support-client script on Mac, Linux...
How to determine tape drive and tape changer device names in Linux
Amanda needs "tapedev" and "changerdev" names to use any Tape Library for backups. This article tells you how to determine them. This article is for Amanda Enterprise (AE) v. 2.6 Amanda needs "tape...