Amanda Backup - cannot create file system

Setup, Configuration and Use Installation
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Hello!

I am using a Debian VM, which is running openhabian and i wanted to implement the automated backup solution for a while now.
I read the docs and followed some additional guides and was able to mount my smb share to /media/share (all users can write). The drive is also mounted after reboot.

If i use option 52 to launch the amanda install wizard i get an error but i think that amanda is able to write at the specified smb folder because before i get the error message a folder is created (called slots)

my error message:
Creating Amanda filesystem… host: ‘’ is not in legal name syntax (unexpected end of input)

What does that mean?

Thank you for your help!

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If you have really read the official docs you will have seen that to use a Windows SMB share for storage is neither supported nor trying to is recommended. It won’t work well.

Drop your idea to use an SMB share and use a NFS mount instead. Or attach local storage.

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Thank you.

ok i will try it another way.
i just want to access a folder of my host (mac mini) from the debian vm.

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Keep in mind Amanda backups run automatically so your server has to be there 24/7.

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Yes, it is.
It is the same machine virtualbox with debian runs openhab 3.
the mac mini is pretty power efficient (around 15 W) and i can also use it as a file server and for influx / grafana, docker etc.

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then just forward some of its local storage to the VM through virtualbox

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Thank you. I am on it right now. Just installed the guest additions.
I do not know, why i did not think of this in the first place …

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I got it working now.

But also only the dirty way with cifs as described here:

I had the same issue (symlinks it seems).
I tried the mfsymlink parameter trying to connect with the virtualbox functions but it crashed my startup completely and i had to undo it in recovery:

/etc/fstab looks like:

openhabian /media/share    vboxsf   uid=1000,gid=1000  0     0

this shows me the files and i am able to write but amanda-setup is not completing. only the folder is created. probably the symlink problem.

your code goes here

when i try to add mfsymlinks like that:

openhabian /media/share    vboxsf    mfsymlinks,uid=1000,gid=1000  0     0

it crashed my startup completely.

the working solution is:

//192.168.1.80/Backup/openhabian /media/share cifs vers=3.0,mfsymlinks,noauto,x-systemd.automount,_netdev,credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777  0	0
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Hello

i have an amanda-archive now at the specified destination.
is there a way i can verify that the content is ok?

The archive is only 94 kb in size.

Thank you

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That’s a broken statement as there is no such thing as a single “amanda-archive” file.

No. (well with 100K don’t bother means it’s empty)
Follow the openhabian Amanda documentation to restore your box to validate it’s working.

And new topic new thread please.

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Ok i will try, thank you.
I did not recognize the “slots” folder.
The amanda-backups folder is 240 kb and the slots folder 93 MB.
Looking good.