Andreas Moser wrote:
./configure --with-user=amanda\
--with-group=users\
--with-group=disk is better and needed in case you want to backup
with dump instead of gnutar.
--with-configdir=/etc/amanda\
--with-config=daily\
--with-gnutar=/bin/tar\
--without-client
(Why bother to save to few bytes on disk by specifying --without-client
Besides you probably want to backup the server too? do you? The
server is a client to itself too. Just nitpicking here. You could
have valid reasons to omit the client.)
make make check make install
Just verifying: you did "su" before "make install". It needs
to be done as root!
...
Then I create a holding disk for AMANDA: /home/dumps/
Fine. But why not calling it "/home/holdingdisk"?
See below: you're mixing up "virtual tapes" with "holdingdisk".
They are both on disk, but they are a complete different beast.
Moreover, amanda likes to be only to write in the directory specified
by holdingdisk. She will complain about everyting found there that
is not a "holdingdisk file", even "virtual tapes".
Now it was time to configure the amanda.conf (I write an arrow before
every line, which I changed):
...
dumpcycle 4 weeks # the number of days in the normal dump cycle
->runspercycle 1 # the number of amdump runs in dumpcycle days
# (4 weeks * 5 amdump runs per week -- just weekdays)
you plan to do a backup once each four weeks?
->tapecycle 6 # the number of tapes in rotation
...
runtapes 1 # number of tapes to be used in a single run of amdump
->tpchanger "chg-disk" # the tape-changer glue script
->tapedev "file:/home/dumps/" # the no-rewind tape device to be used
See here you mixup the holdingdisk with the "virtual tapes".
Put them in a different directory.
...
holdingdisk hd1 {
comment "main holding disk"
-> directory "/home/dumps/" # where the holding disk is
Choose a different directory e.g. /home/amanda-hold
use 290 Mb # how much space can we use on it
That's not much!! Was that the default value?
[...]
Finally I tried the command su amanda -c "amcheck daily" to check my
current config. But I got two ERRORS.
How can I correct this ERRORS?
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
ERROR: program /usr/local/libexec/planner: not executable
Did you run "make install" as root?
Holding disk /home/dumps/: 19508000 KB disk space available, that's plenty
amcheck-server: slot 6: not an amanda tape
amcheck-server: slot 1: not an amanda tape
amcheck-server: slot 2: not an amanda tape
amcheck-server: slot 3: not an amanda tape
amcheck-server: slot 4: not an amanda tape
amcheck-server: slot 5: not an amanda tape
ERROR: new tape not found in rack
(expecting a new tape)
That's strange!! Can't see the error now.
We probably need more info. Or maybe it's a result of the
previous problem too.
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
ERROR: salty: could not resolve hostname
You clearly have a DNS-problem too, or maybe it's also the
a consequence of the first problem, that resulted in
planner not being executable.
I'm sorry. I describe a big part of my installation, but I think it is
easier to you to understand what I made.
I would first dig into the question what went wrong with installing
planner (and probably other programs too).
Planner has to be suid-root (other programs too). This can only be
correct if "make install" was done as root.
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