Setting Up the Amanda Community
This article illustrates how you can install and configure the Amanda backup server, set backup parameters, verify the configuration. Link to guide. ...
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How to Setup and Verify a Backup Solution for MySQL In 15 Minutes
For our 15-minute challenge, we will backup a MySQL 5.0 database on Linux. We will only use freely downloadable open source software for the solution. Link to guide. ...
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This article is for Amanda Enterprise (AE) Info Type: Tip Info Description: You receive this message because Amanda Enterprise Edition could not read the license file due to some error conditi...
I am seeing high memory usage while restoring files using ZMC on Solaris/Opensolar is
This article is for Amanda Enterprise (AE) Info Description: By default Amanda uses /tmp directory as a temporary directory during restoration and ZMC operations. In Solaris 10/OpenS...
Configuring Amanda for Parallel Backups
Amanda uses several parameters and settings to determine the number of parallel backups. In order to run parallel backups all of these settings must work in concert. This guide discusses these s...
MySQL Backup with ZRM Over the Internet
This document describes what to consider and how to configure ZRM for secure backup and recovery of the remote MySQL server, e.g. when it is hosted by the Internet Service Provider (ISP). ...
Enabling Changed Block Tracking (CBT) for VMWare Guests
This article is for Amanda Enterprise (AE) SummaryChanged Block Tracking (CBT) is the method VMWare uses to enable snapshots. The VMWare Host tracks all changes in the file blocks of the guest a...
How to modify the backup media block size
This article is for Amanda Enterprise (AE) The device BLOCK_SIZE parameter in Amanda configuration files determines the block size for backup images on the storage media (disk, tape, or clou...
SCSI tape error
This article is for Amanda Enterprise (AE) Error Message taper: fatal changer error: slot 4: mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes taper: changer problem: no slots available Error Description...
How to add or modify dumptype parameters?
This article is for Amanda Enterprise (AE) Info Type: Tip Note: This procedure should be used only when Zmanda support team provides instructions to do so. If users want to add dumptype...