Author: "LaValley, Brian E" <BLaValley AT ALLEGROMICRO DOT com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:28:00 -0400
I have just decided to give AMANDA a try and am learning as I go. I have gotten as far as trying a manual amdump, but it seems the estimate is failing and nothing gets backed up. What could this be?
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:31:01 -0400
Brian, You said manual dump, the amcheck succeeded ? Even if the client == server this must be done. -- Brian R Cuttler brian.cuttler AT wadsworth DOT org Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wa
Author: "LaValley, Brian E" <BLaValley AT ALLEGROMICRO DOT com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:44:00 -0400
Yes, amcheck passed. Brian, You said manual dump, the amcheck succeeded ? Even if the client == server this must be done. -- -- -- Brian R Cuttler brian.cuttler AT wadsworth DOT org Computer Systems
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:44:45 -0400
Brian, If amcheck said you where ok talking to the client then all of those issues should be ok. I take that back, if amcheck said your client was ok you should have had files in /tmp/amanda at that
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:07:18 -0400
Did you first run, as amanda, the "amcheck /nameofconfig/" program. I would not expect it to return without errors in this case. And don't forget that amdump itself will not run as the user root eith
Author: "LaValley, Brian E" <BLaValley AT ALLEGROMICRO DOT com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:49:38 -0400
I do have some things in different places. What files should be in /tmp/amanda? I already had a username of amanda at this location, so my AMANDA username is "backup" Here is my amcheck run: backup@b
Author: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:21:43 +0200
LaValley, Brian E wrote: I do have some things in different places. What files should be in /tmp/amanda? I already had a username of amanda at this location, so my AMANDA username is "backup" the com
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:57:57 -0400
Somethings definitely wrong here, but from this I've no idea what. It should not take a tape drive over 5 minutes to locate and load the next correct tape. My server check is usually a very small fra
Author: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:02:13 -0400
Brian, Gene, couple of things, 1st, I'm thinking that if there is a jukebox involved (tape loaded from slot 3) then perhaps a 5 minute delay to load the tape isn't necessarilly a problem. 2nd, I'm st
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:42:11 -0400
Maybe not a problem, but I recall my robots were generally only a 2 to 3 minute lag, back when I was using them. Seagate 4586n's, admittedly pretty cheap though. I saw that too, and figured somebody
Author: "LaValley, Brian E" <BLaValley AT ALLEGROMICRO DOT com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:04:57 -0400
I am all set now. Thanks for all the ideas. It turned out to be one of the helper programs running as "amanda" instead of "backup" as a username. "amanda" is a regular user on my systems. I just comp
Was that due to a manual install rather than the "make install" done as root with programs built by you from the amanda sources? If the latter, some part of the install procedure needs to be checked.
Author: "LaValley, Brian E" <BLaValley AT ALLEGROMICRO DOT com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:57:06 -0400
I had AMANDA installed as an RPM through synaptic, so I'm sure it had all kinds of default options. I tried to just change the dump user wherever I could find it. I noticed that some apps were still