On Monday 27 October 2003 15:10, Paul Singh wrote:
>Hey guys, I've spent the last few days searching for answers on the
> web with no luck....
>
>basically, I think I have amanda up and running. Now when amdump
> starts, it fails to get to the device I want to backup(which is on
> the local machine also). I do have both a client and server running
> on this same machine. And just for test purposes, I'm running
> amanda as root.
>
You cannot reliably do that, amanda is designed to run as an 
unpriviledged user, and will suid when it needs to only.  It may even 
exit advising you of that if run from the cli, or at least amcheck 
does.

>here is the report I get...
>
>*These dumps were to tape DailySet101.
>*
>
>*The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.
>
>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>  beaker     /backups lev 0 FAILED [disk /backups offline on
> beaker?]
>
>
>STATISTICS:
>                          Total       Full      Daily
>                        --------   --------   --------
>Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
>Run Time (hrs:min)         0:01
>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 beaker:/backups.
>  driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner
>  taper: tape DailySet101 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 --------------------------
> --------------------------------- ------------ beaker      
> /backups    0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
>
>(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.3)
>
>*Any ideas what I might be doign wrong when I'm trying to access the
> directory I want to backup? The /backups directory consists of two
> seperatte directories which are both stored on their own
> partitions(sdb1 and sdb2).
>
>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>Paul

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