At 07:36 PM 4/9/2003 -0400, you wrote:

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
>> >

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>>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.

I just meant that I tried all possible configurations to get this to work.

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.

Thanks for the help,