On Wed April 9 2003 12:02, Alex Thurlow wrote:
>At 01:56 AM 4/9/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>>On Tue April 8 2003 09:58, Patrick_Zulke AT peopleware DOT be wrote:
>> >Hi all,
>> >
>> >I'm trying to backup some samba shares from several different
>> > hosts. When i edit the disklist to do a backup from one
>> > machine, both amcheck and amdump run without error. Now when i
>> > add another entry in the disklist for the other host
>> > (balthazor) amcheck reports no errors but amdump fails (see
>> > below)
>> >
>> >------------------------------------------------------------
>> >*** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
>> >
>> >These dumps were to tape special2.
>> >The next tape Amanda expects to use is: special2.
>> >
>> >FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>> > driver: FATAL schedule line 3: syntax error
>> > localhost /home RESULTS MISSING
>> > localhost //balthazor/training$ RESULTS MISSING
>> > localhost //cvs/projects$ RESULTS MISSING
>> >
>> >
>> >STATISTICS:
>> > Total Full Daily
>> > -------- -------- --------
>> >Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00
>> >Run Time (hrs:min) 0:00
>> >Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
>> >Output Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
>> >Original Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
>> >Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
>> >Filesystems Dumped 0 0 0
>> >Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- --
>> >
>> >Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
>> >Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
>> >Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0
>> >Filesystems Taped 0 0 0
>> >Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- --
>> >
>> >
>> >NOTES:
>> > planner: Adding new disk localhost:/home.
>> > planner: Adding new disk localhost://balthazor/training$.
>> > taper: tape special2 kb 0 fm 0 [OK]
>> >
>> >
>> >DUMP SUMMARY:
>> > DUMPER STATS
>> > TAPER STATS
>> >HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s
>> > MMM:SS KB/s
>> >-------------------------- ---------------------------------
>> > --------- ---
>> >localhost -/training$ MISSING
>> > ----------------------------------- ---
>> >localhost -/projects$ MISSING
>> > ----------------------------------- ---
>> >localhost /home MISSING
>> > ----------------------------------- ---
>> >
>> >(brought to you by Amanda version
>> > 2.4.2p2)----------------------------
>> > ----------------------------------
>> >
>> >I can connect with smbclient to both machines with the desired
>> >account. /etc/amandapass is correct (which is confirmed by
>> > running amcheck). In short everything works fine UNTIL i add
>> > an entry for balthazor to the disklist. Then nothing works
>> > anymore.
>>
>>The docs have warnings about the use of localhost, and I'd
>> suspect its use is biteing you. Please use FQDN's exactly as
>> they exist either in the /etc/hosts file, or in the named
>> records if you are using a local nameserver.
>
>I just started using amanda backups over samba and am seeing the
> same thing. In the disklist file, I have tried using localhost,
Bad dog 99% of the time..
> and the FQDN of the backup machine, with entries in /etc/hosts to
> point that name to 127.0.0.1 and to the IP of the machine.
Another bad idea I believe. One should never alias the real machine
name to 127.0.0.1, but only to its real IP address and FQDN. Or am
I miss-understanding.
> It
> hasn't worked under any of these circumstances, so I don't think
> that's the problem. The sendsize file even shows that it can
> grab the size of the samba shares. I am using Redhat 7.3 and the
> rpm version of amanda-2.4.2p2-7. When I run amdump, a ps -fxa
> shows:
>
>19012 pts/0 S 0:00 \_ su amanda -c amdump
> DailyBackup 19013 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ /bin/sh
> /usr/sbin/amdump DailyBackup 19020 pts/0 S 0:00
> | \_ /usr/lib/amanda/planner DailyBackup
>19021 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_
> /usr/lib/amanda/driver DailyBackup
>19022 pts/0 S 0:00 | \_ taper
> DailyBackup 19027 pts/0 S 0:00 | |
> \_ taper DailyBackup 19023 pts/0 S 0:00 |
> \_ dumper DailyBackup 19028 pts/0 S 0:00 |
> \_ dumper DailyBackup 19029 pts/0 S 0:00
> | \_ dumper DailyBackup 19030 pts/0 S 0:00
> | \_ dumper DailyBackup 19031 pts/0 S 0:00
> | \_ dumper DailyBackup 19034 pts/0 S
> 0:00 | \_ dumper DailyBackup 19035 pts/0 S
> 0:00 | \_ dumper DailyBackup 19036 pts/0
> S 0:00 | \_ dumper DailyBackup
>
>The whole time. No dumpers run. The report shows:
8 dumpers running? That could be a bit excessive, I find that 2 or
maybe 3 is all that can run efficiently here. But thats both
hardware and number of clients variable.
> driver: FATAL schedule line 3: syntax error
> localhost /etc RESULTS MISSING
> localhost /var/lib/amanda RESULTS MISSING
> login.wond /etc RESULTS MISSING
> login.wond /home RESULTS MISSING
> backup.dom //lyris1/bktest RESULTS MISSING
> backup.dom //lyris1/Apache2 RESULTS MISSING
> backup.dom //lyris1/SQL_backup RESULTS MISSING
>
>Does anyone know what this means? My backups worked fine before,
> and if I remove the samba shares, they continue to work fine.
> Please excuse me if I'm not providing the right information. I'm
> a relative newbie at this.
>
>Alex Thurlow
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