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

ZRM Enterprise

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

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How to run support script for NBU-MySQL running on Linux platforms
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Amanda Enterprise FAQs

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

ZRM FAQs

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

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