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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Amanda Configuration for Asymmetric encryption Post 302317527 by choogendyk on Tuesday 19th of May 2009 08:19:58 AM

05-19-2009

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OK, since you now seem to be back to something that works, change only one thing at a time so that testing and debugging is easier.

When you change your amanda.conf, start by making a copy amanda.conf.works. Then don't delete or comment out anything, just add the lines as you had before to define the dumptype server-encrypt-fast (they look correct). I presume the "//while using this" is commentary you added here for the forum. It should not be in the amanda.conf file.

After you change amanda.conf, run `amcheck DailySet1`. Maybe even wait a day and let your backups run to see that you didn't break anything. Then change one of the entries in your disklist to use dumptype server-encrypt-fast (presuming everything else is configured).

Note that all the setup for encryption and your key management have to be done very carefully and tested at each stage. If you mess it up or lose your key, you will not be able to recover encrypted backups. Go back to the wiki page and the man page for amcrypt-ossl-asym(8) and check all your details.

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amcleanup

AMCLEANUP(8)						  System Administration Commands					      AMCLEANUP(8)

NAME

       amcleanup - run the Amanda cleanup process after a failure

SYNOPSIS

       amcleanup [-k] [-p] [-r] [-v] config

DESCRIPTION

       Amcleanup generates the Amanda Mail Report and updates the Amanda databases after a system failure on a tape server host. This cleanup
       process is normally done automatically as part of the amdump program, but if amdump cannot complete for some reason (usually because of a
       tape server host crash), amcleanup must be run some time later (usually during system boot).

       The amcleanupdisk program is run with the same [-r] and [-v] options.

       See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.

OPTIONS

       -k
	   Kill all process listed in the log file are their child. if there is no log file, then kill all amdump and amflush process and their
	   child.

       -p
	   Do the cleanup only if all process listed in the log file are already terminated.

       -r
	   Remove bad file in holding disk. This options is passed to amcleanupdisk.

       -v
	   Generate verbose output. This options is passed to amcleanupdisk.

EXAMPLES

       This example runs the Amanda cleanup process by hand after a failure.
       % amcleanup daily

       Putting the following line in a system boot script (e.g.  /etc/rc.local) runs the Amanda cleanup process as part of the reboot, eliminating
       the need to run it by hand.
       /usr/local/sbin/amcleanup daily

       If nothing needs to be done, amcleanup exits normally with the message:
       amcleanup: no unprocessed logfile to clean up.

SEE ALSO

       amanda(8), amdump(8)

       The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/

AUTHORS

       James da Silva <jds@amanda.org>

       Stefan G. Weichinger <sgw@amanda.org>

Amanda 3.3.3							    01/10/2013							      AMCLEANUP(8)