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When Bad Things Happen to Good Amanda Backup Server
Top Considerations for Implementing Secure Backup and Recovery
IDC Report: Open Source Backup and Recovery
Configuring Amanda for Parallel Backups
Advantages of Amanda Over Proprietary Backup

Technical Documentation

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ZRM 3.9
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Amanda Enterprise 3.6
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Amanda Enterprise

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vTape Planning Guide
User Manual for Linux Clients
Spectra and Zmanda Solution Brief
Introduction to Amanda Enterprise
Integration of Data Domain systems with Amanda Enterprise
How to write more than one backup image per tape
How To Use Zmanda with Wasabi
How to Setup Virtual Tapes
How to Reset Zmanda Admin User Password
How To Prune, Recycle, and Drop Older Backups
How To Find Login Details for ZRM on AWS
How to Download the Amanda Enterprise Server and Client Binaries
How to Create a Backup Set and Configure it to the Media
How to configure Amanda Enterprise on SELinux
How to change the Amanda Server source port range
How to Backup and Restore Microsoft DFS
Hardware Acceleration for Amanda Enterprise Backup
Data Protection for Microsoft Windows Environments
Configuring Sun StorageTek SL500 tape library for Amanda Enterprise
Configure Templates on Zmanda Windows Client
Configure AWS Storage Gateway with ZMC
An internal error has caused the ZMC to stop functioning correctly
After upgrade, a message with code ZDD, ZDT, or ZDU is seen upon login regarding finishing the upgrade

ZRM Enterprise

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ZRM Startup Guide
Top 5 Considerations While Setting Up MySQL Backups
NetApp Snapshots for Backing up MySQL
MySQL backups to Amazon S3
MySQL Backup with ZRM Over the Internet
Guide to MySQL Backup & Recovery
Benchmark for MySQL with ZRM.

Community

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Setting Up the Amanda Community
Introduction to Amanda Community
How to Setup and Verify a Backup Solution for MySQL In 15 Minutes
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NBU Agents | Knowledge Base | Zmanda

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NBU-MySQL-Backup appears to be already running and backups fail
How to send files to the Zmanda Support Team
How to run support script for NBU-MySQL running on Linux platforms

Amanda Enterprise FAQs

152

Zmanda Windows Client Reinstallation Process
Zmanda Uninstall Information Consolidated
Zmanda Client for Windows does not support System State restore to different hardware
xinetd/inetd (or amandad) does not appear to respond successfully to “amanda” service requests on this AEE server (localhost)
Windows NTFS backup object “include” property
Windows MS-SQL failed with error code 268
Windows Client: return error code 260
Windows Application backup failed with error code 268
When the Amanda server’s hostname or IP address changes
When starting ZBA, VM gives a kernel error about requiring x86-64 CPU
What network ports are used by Amanda Enterprise?
What is Amanda Enterprise Backup Staging Area?
Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
VSS Shadowstorage Space
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Errors
VMware ESX Backup fails with fault detail “FileFaultFault”
VMware ESX Backup fails with “missing size line from sendbackup” and “A file was not found”
Verifying Correct Tape Library Operation
Verifying Backups Created by Amanda Enterprise
Upgrading Client to Latest Version
Updating your AWS Keys
Unable to find DLE backup history. Can not continue.
Troubleshooting SQL VSS Writer Issues
To change the temporary directory and template location
Timeout waiting for ACK
The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2835.
TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No acceptable volumes found]
System State Restore Failed
System state restoration in Windows causes Amanda service to hang
Strange – Index Creation Failed with a Windows backup
Split or Spanning Dumps across Multiple Tapes
Shutting Down ZMC Completely and Cleanly
Setup of ssh transport for amrecover restores
Server validation Failed for Windows client
Server Not the Same as Index or Tape Server
selfcheck request failed: Connection refused
SCSI tape error
Restore to Windows Share using the Zmanda Windows Client fails
Restore of a few small files from a large backup take a long time
Preventing disk thrashing in Amanda Enterprise
PostgreSQL configuration check and/or backup fails
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Not enough holding disk space
Not allowed to use this program (crontab)
No writable valid tape found
NDMP Backup Configuration
Navigating to the hostname or IP address of the backup server does not load the ZMC login page
NAK error on client during Check Host/amcheck
MSSQL Semi-Cluster Aware Backups With ZWC
MSSQL Semi-Cluster Aware Backups With ZWC
Msexchange lev 0 FAILED [Writers status is not stable]
Monitor tab shows running backups however none in progress
Migrating ZRM older than 3.7 and ZMC 3.1.5 to ZRM 3.8 and ZMC 3.3.9
Linux/Solaris file system backup does not traverse file system boundaries
ISCSI Tape Library Initiator and Target Configuration
Invoking a Backup from the Command-line
Installing Amanda Enterprise on Scientific Linux 6.2
Incompatible ZMC MySQL DB version. Found v, but need v101.
I am seeing high memory usage while restoring files using ZMC on Solaris/Opensolaris
How to use the amrestore command to restore data from tape
How to use the amrecover command to restore data
How to use the amadmin command to find configuration information
How to use Solaris 10 Service Management Facility (SMF)
How to suppress strange lines from reports
How to setup NetBackup PostgreSQL Agent to be Cluster aware
How to send files to the Zmanda Support Team
How to run a script before and/or after a backup job
How to restore from tape using standard unix utilities
How to restore data from a vtape using the dd command
How to replace an archived tape with a new tape?
How to repair the Zmanda Management Console (ZMC) database-for-AE
How to reduce the Number of Virtual Tapes for a Backup Set
How to reduce the backup impact on an Amanda client when performing multiple dumps on the same client
How to recover from an Amanda archive file using system tools from command line
How to prevent more than one full backup per Backup Cycle
How to Perform Backups and Restores through SSH
How to Move ZWC MySQL folder to another directory
How to modify the backup media block size
How to install the license file on ZBA?
How to increase the size of backup disk on the Zmanda Backup Appliance
How to improve ZBA performance?
How to generate a self signed certificate in ZMC
How to generate a self signed certificate for backup encryption with ZWC
How to enable SSH authentication in Amanda Enterprise
How to determine tape drive and tape changer device names in Linux
How to configure ZMC’s Apache to listen on one IP address only
How to configure Amanda backups through a firewall (w/iptables example)
How to change Zmanda Management Console (ZMC) Apache ports after installation
How to backup standby instances in Oracle
How to backup a Linux HA cluster
How to back up network mapped drives on Windows clients
How to add or modify dumptype parameters?
How to abort a running backup
How does Amanda ZMC discover tape drives
How does Amanda ZMC discover tape changers
How does Amanda Enterprise backup to disk?
How do I recover from Amazon S3 Storage without using Amanda?
How backup scheduling works in Amanda Enterprise
How Amanda estimates backup size when compression is enabled
GLib: Cannot convert message: Conversion from character set ‘UTF-8’ to ‘646’ is not supported
Getnameinfo failed: Unknown error
Found 0 changer(s) usable by the ‘amandabackup’ user
Fallback_splitsize of 100 MB < 0.1% of tape length
FAILED [disk /cad, all estimate timed out] timeout waiting for REP
FAILED [data timeout]
ESX host check SOAP request error – possibly a protocol issue
ERROR: Writing label: tape is write-protected
ERROR: Unable to connect to event server. The ZMC services are not running.
ERROR: Cannot resolve `localhost’
ERROR: Can not open license file /etc/zmanda/zmanda_license
Error restoring the selected files
Error reading Amanda header: block size too small
Error messages when using Amazon S3
Enabling Changed Block Tracking (CBT) for VMWare Guests
Drive not ready after 120 seconds, rewind said “/dev/nst0: Input/output error”
Does Zmanda offer installation Quickstart help?
Does Amanda support differential backups?
Does Amanda support differential backups?
Degraded Mode errors
Creating SSL Certificate for Apache in ZMC
Could not run mtx binary at ‘mtx’
Could not resolve address ‘255.255.255.255’ — check resolver configuration OR file vhost.c, line 190, assertion “rv == APR_SUCCESS” failed
Could not read license information. Please contact Zmanda Support to resolve the issue
Configuring the amandabackup user so the password does not expire
Configure Amanda over IPv6
Compressed Folder Limitation in Windows Client
Collecting Zmanda Windows Client Logs for Support
Collecting Server Logs for Zmanda Support
Collecting Client Logs for Zmanda Support
Can’t switch to incremental dump
Can’t change “No Data Sent” and “Backup Estimate” timeouts
Can’t assign requested address
Can not use more space (xxxx MiB) than free (xxxx MiB)
Backup of VM on ESX server gives “Fault string: A specified parameter was not correct”
Backup of VM on ESX host fails with “stderr: VixDiskLibVim: Not licensed to use this function.”
Backup Failure: gtar terminated with signal 9 on Solaris
Backing Up Your Amanda Enterprise Server
Backing up PostgreSQL using Amanda Enterprise
Archiving Strategies
Applying Patches
amrecover [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK]
amrecover [request failed: recv error: Connection reset by peer]
amrecover [request failed: recv error: Connection reset by peer]
Amazon S3 : clock skew
Amanda Enterprise Server Enhanced Security Configurations
Amanda Enterprise / Zmanda Recovery Manager GUI Crash – Couldn’t release the accept mutex
Amanda Enterprise / Zmanda Recover Manager PHP Memory Exhausted
1 tapes filled; runtapes=1 does not allow additional tapes
[Can not execute /usr/bin/star: No such file or directory]
“EOF on read” when using SSH authentication method
“EOF on read” error from a client
‘staging’ must not be accessible to any group or user other than ‘amandabackup’

ZRM FAQs

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ZRM: Monitor page does not update
Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL – backup failed
What should be done when MySQL server is being upgraded to newer version?
What should be done when MySQL server is being upgraded to newer version?
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Errors
Unable to use snapshot
umount failed
Timeout hit while waiting for nodes(s) to restart
The table(s) of the database will be backed up in logical mode since some of the tables use a transactional engine
The table(s) of the database will be backed up in logical mode since some of the tables use a transactional engine
Tar: s: unknown function modifier
Tar: s: unknown function modifier
Steps to follow when doing Remote MySQL Backup
Sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
Snapshot create failed
Retaining MySQL Binary Logs only as long as needed (ZRM)
Retaining MySQL Binary Logs only as long as needed (ZRM)
Restoration of incremental backups fail to a remote MySQL server
Restoration of Amazon EBS snapshot fails
Restoration of Amazon EBS snapshot fails
Restart of cluster node(s) failed
Replication data will not be backed up
ndb_mgm
Navigating to the hostname or IP address of the backup server does not load the ZMC login page
mysql-zrm appears to be already running
MyDumper: /usr/bin/myloader: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/myloader: undefined symbol: gzopen64
MyDumper: /usr/bin/myloader: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/myloader: undefined symbol: gzopen64
mail command failed
last backup directory is not valid
Info: Space requirement on the backup directory
How to upgrade to the latest version of ZRM
How to set up passwordless authentication for ZRM
How to set up MySQL user privileges for backup and restore
How to send files to the Zmanda Support Team
How to retrieve forgotten password for ZRM
How to repair a Zmanda Management Console (ZMC) database for ZRM
How to generate a self signed certificate in ZMC
How to create Sudoer configuration for snapshots
How to collect logs from ZRM running on Windows platform
How to cancel a ZRM restore job
How to Backup MySQL Triggers
Host ‘ZRMserver’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server
Got packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes when dumping table
Got packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes when dumping table
Errors found during verification
ERROR: Can not open license file /etc/zmanda/zmanda_license
Error stopping slave
error opening temporary file
Could not resolve address ‘255.255.255.255’ — check resolver configuration OR file vhost.c, line 190, assertion “rv == APR_SUCCESS” failed
Could not read file
could not delete in directory
Could not copy table
Could not copy database
Could not copy bin log file
copy-plugin exited with error
Collecting Server Logs for Zmanda Support
checksum for file does not match
Change the user that ZRM runs as
Cannot find bin log file
Can not open output file for writing
Binary logging is off
Backup Set directory not found
Backup failed: mysqldump: Got errno 28 on write
Amanda Enterprise / Zmanda Recovery Manager GUI Crash – Couldn’t release the accept mutex
“last_backup” is a reserved file name

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