Project:Amanda Enterprise 3.0 > ZMC Users Manual > Verify
Table of contents
- 1. Verifying Backups
- 1.1. Installation
- 1.1.1. How to Verify Installation
- 1.1.2. Messages
- 1.1.3. Clear Output
- 1.2. End to End test
- 1.2.1. Introduction
- 1.2.2. How to run End to End Test
- 1.2.3. Success Message
- 1.2.4. Clear Output
- 1.3. VERIFY SERVER
- 1.3.1. Introduction
- 1.3.2. How to Verify Server
- 1.3.3. Success Message
- 1.3.4. Clear Output
- 1.4. Verify clients
- 1.5. Links to Zmanda Knowledge Base
- 1.1. Installation
Verifying Backups
The Verify tab consolidates all verification tasks that can be performed from the Zmanda Management Console. Select a verification method by choosing an option from the drop down box.
Installation
- Verify Installation tab is used to verify the installation of the Amanda Enterprise Edition.
- Verify installation action has to be performed whenever Amanda Enterprise Edition is installed or upgraded.
- It need not be done whenever a new backup set is configured.
How to Verify Installation
- Click the Verify Installation Button (labeled No. 1 above) to start the process.
- The text in Upper Right hand Rectangle (labeled No. 2 above) will change to indicate that the Installation Verification process has started.
- Further progress messages/ error messages will then appear in Rectangle 3.
Messages
- After a successful verification, ZMC displays the following message:
- On Solaris 10 servers (both x86 and sparc architectures), Verify installation will fail due to lack of xinetd support. This failure can be ignored. Error message will appear as shown in the figure below.
Clear Output
- To clear old messages, click the Clear Output link present at Upper Right Hand corner in Rectangle 2.
- Clicking it will restore the page to a initial clean status from where the Verification process can be re-started.
End to End test
- Verify End to End test performs backup/restore test on the backup set zmc_test_quick to a local disk. This is a temporary backup set that can not be used for any other purpose.
- It allows you to verify that the Amanda server can be backed up as its own client.
Introduction
- Amanda Server is routinely backed up as its own client.
- End to End test option allows user to conduct a quick test that an Amanda server can be backed up as its own client.
- The test creates a "test" backup set.
- The test backup set contains a file on the local machine (Amanda server) that is backed up to a local disk.
- The test does a complete backup, restoration and compare of the restored file contents.
- Run an End to End test whenever
- when new ZMC software is installed or upgraded.
- when the distribution/OS is upgraded.
- Users need not run an End to End test whenever they make a new backup set configuration.
How to run End to End Test
- Click the "Perform Test" Button (labeled No 1 above).
- The text in upper right hand rectangle (No 2 above) will change to indicate that the Configuration Verification process has started.
- Further progress messages/ error messages will appear in Rectangle 3 above.
Success Message
- Success has the following message:
Tip: Success implies that it is technically feasible to backup data on Amanda Server while treating it as an Amanda Client. Nothing is implied that this is an optimal overall way to organize user's backup needs.
Clear Output
- To clear old messages, click the Clear Output link present at Upper Right Hand corner in Rectangle 2.
- Clicking it will restore the page to a initial clean status from where the End to End test can be re-run.
VERIFY SERVER
- Verify Server checks the feasibility of running backup set configuration that users have created.
- Before running Server verification, please ensure that correct backup set has been selected as the check is backup set specific.
Introduction
- Run Verify Server whenever you configure or change a backup set. configuration.
- Do this specially if the change was on Backup Where /Holding Disk pages.
How to Verify Server
- Click the Verify Server Button (labeled No 1 above).
- The text in Upper Right Hand rectangle (labeled No 2 above) will change to indicate that the Server Verification process has started.
- Further progress messages/ warnings /error messages will appear in Rectangle 3 .
Success Message
- Success has the following message:
Clear Output
- To clear old messages, click the Clear Output link present at Upper Right Hand corner in Rectangle 2.
- Clicking it will restore the page to a initial clean status from where the Verify server test can be re-run.
Verify clients
This feature is now performed from the Backup What page. To verify the Amanda client configuration, visit the Backup What page and click Check All Hosts.
Links to Zmanda Knowledge Base
- When the term 'localhost' is used in a DLE instead of fully qualified domain name, and if IPv6 is enabled on Amanda server and Linux kernel does not have IPv6 kernel module loaded, the ZMC server configuration verification will fail with "Address family not supported by protocol" error message.
- To fix the problem, change "flags=IPv6" in /etc/xinet.d/amandaserver file to "flags=IPv4".
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