On Tuesday 10 June 2003 02:56, Joseph Sirucka wrote:
>Hi All
>
>I have recently installed two amanda backup servers.
>
>One is a redhat 8 server with a six stacker dds 3 autoloader, and a
> debian unit with a single dds3 unit.
>
>I compiled amanda on both servers. They both have the same
> permissions and user privilages.

Can we assume they were unpacked and built by the user 'amanda', who 
is a member of group 'disk' or 'backup' or similarly high permissions 
rated group, and then installed by the user 'root'?

>The redhat server seems to be able to back itself and other servers
> up other than the second backup server.
>
>The debian unit does not seem to want to back it self up (it was
> only designed for backing itself up).

Is the 'lo' interface up? even when backing up itself, amanda uses the 
client/server model.

>In the /tmp/amanda the debug files show no errors and are the same
> amoung the two servers. THe debian server passes the amcheck but
> fails during the amdump.
>
>My error I get from the debian server is
>
>olbs2 /usr lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr offline on olbs2]

and I assume that 'olbs2' is an alias present and accounted for in the 
/etc/hosts, AND the ~/.amandahosts files?

>and the two errors amongst the redhat box is
>
>planner: ERROR olbgeNAK: amandad busy
>olbgen /export/home RESULT MISSING

It appears you have that process hung for some reason.  The question 
is why?  perms?

>I have looked upon the faq-o-matic with help from them
>
>regards
>
>Joseph

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