On Wednesday 14 August 2002 04:14, janebackup wrote:
>Hi Chris,
>
>Thanks for your reply, I don't use the email facility but I run a
> amreport and I get the following:
>
>FAILURE & STRANGE DUMP
>
>dataserv / Results missing
>
>Amanda is running as root so I don't think its permissions.

amanda doesn't like running as root, usually totally refusing to, 
but will get root perms when she needs to.  amanda should be run as 
an unpriviledged user who is a member of group disk or maybe 
backup, and will do an suid when required.

>I'm compiling from source.
>
>I would be grateful if somebody could help me!

The contents of this list usually get a recipe for building amanda 
from me about weekly, so you might want to look at the last couple 
of weeks worth to see one way of doing it that works here.

>Thanks in advance and for your help so far.
>
>Jane.
>
>> jane,
>>     the disklist file looks fine. are you getting an email with
>> errors? if so please send that and I can maybe help. If your
>> getting "disk offline" errors it may be a permission issue. what
>> user is amanda running as? are the filesystems
>> (/dev/[sh]da[0-9]) owned by the group that amanda is running as?
>> These are the first two things I would check. btw: I've had
>> problems editing the group file by hand and adding amanda user
>> to a group. It seems that the default group must be correct and
>> amanda must be compiled with the correct options. Are you
>> compiling from source or using an rpm?
>> chrisj
>>
>> janebackup wrote:
>> >Chris,
>> >
>> >Thanks for your reply, yes I was trying to backup a single
>> > directory (thought I'd do
>
>this
>
>> >first just to test).  If I have to backup the filesystem does
>> > this mean if I put the following entry in my disklist file?:
>> >
>> >dataserv        /      always-full
>> >
>> >Cus I've already tried this and I still get the same errors. 
>> > Is my disklist file
>
>wrong?
>
>> >Thanks for your help.
>> >
>> >Jane.
>> >
>> >>jane
>> >>    Are you trying to backup a filesystem or a directory.
>> >> Amanda is made to dump filesystems at the disk level and
>> >> won't do a single directory. Are you getting an email of the
>> >> errors or looking at the logs? chris
>> >>
>> >>janebackup wrote:
>> >>>Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>>I'm still trying to get my amanda backup working, I have
>> >>> amanda 2.4.3b3 on a linux machine and I am just trying to
>> >>> backup that one directory on that one machine with
>
>no
>
>> >>>tar/compression just to test for the minute.  But even that
>> >>> doesn't work the only
>> >
>> >error
>> >
>> >>>messages I get in amcheck are:
>> >>>
>> >>>WARNING: info file
>> >>> /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/dataserv/_tmp/info does
>> >>> not
>
>exist
>
>> >>>and in my report after I have ran amdump is:
>> >>>
>> >>>FAILURE & STRANGE dump summary
>> >>>dataserv   /tmp RESULTS MISSING
>> >>>
>> >>>and also:
>> >>>
>> >>>driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner
>> >>>
>> >>>I would be grateful any help!
>> >>>
>> >>>Jane.
>
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