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Re: disk offline ?

2004-01-08 11:23:32
Subject: Re: disk offline ?
From: Oliver Simon <osimon AT picturesafe DOT de>
To: Frank Smith <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:21:48 +0100
I can su to amanda and chdir to usr and everything else thats failling ?
Is it maybe because of the filesystem xfs on the target-machine ?
I think amanda wants to do a xfsdump there, right ? I tried to run it as
amanda and got it complaining to be root to run ... !?

Thanks in advance 

...olli

Am Do, 2004-01-08 um 16.39 schrieb Frank Smith:
> --On Thursday, January 08, 2004 15:51:21 +0100 Oliver Simon <osimon AT 
> picturesafe DOT de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Group !
> > 
> > Maybe anyone has a hint for me ?
> > We have about 30 Servers, all UNIX. They are all backed up with amanda,
> > which worked very good, until some problems occured.
> > 
> > I defined a TestSet an tried to put in a new host. But I don´t get it to
> > work. I want to do a dump of the following partitions, which are really
> > partitions on the target-host.
> > 
> > -<snip disklist>
> > daisy           /               comp-hd-dump
> > daisy           /boot           comp-hd-dump
> > daisy           /opt            comp-hd-dump
> > daisy           /usr            comp-hd-dump
> > -</snip>
> > 
> > If I put comp-hd-tar in here, all works fine ... !?
> > 
> > -<snip report>
> > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> >   daisy      /usr lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr offline on daisy?]
> >   daisy      /opt lev 0 FAILED [disk /opt offline on daisy?]
> >   daisy      /    lev 0 FAILED [disk / offline on daisy?]
> 
> Disk offline messages are generally a result of permissions
> problems (if the disk were really offline you would have much
> bigger problems).  Make sure your backup user is part of the
> correct group to have access to the disk.  Try to 'su - backupuser'
> and check if you can see those disks.
>    Tar works because Aamnda uses a suid runtar wrapper script that
> runs tar as root (although it isn't used by amcheck, so you would
> still get errors from amcheck even though amdump would work).
> 
> Frank
> 
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > DUMP SUMMARY:         DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS 
> > HOSTNAME  DISK  L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
> > -------------- --------------------------------- ------------
> > daisy     /           0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
> > daisy     /boot       0    6410   5472  85.4   0:023511.7   0:023484.9
> > daisy     /opt        0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
> > daisy     /usr        0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
> > 
> > </snip>
> > 
> > Why does /boot work ??? Ups, just saw it worked only the first time ...
> > Now its the same message ...
> > 
> > And, does comp-hd-tar eat more cpu ? I would think so, or am I false ?
> > Last Backup this night 
> > 
> > Were great anyone had a tip !
> > 
> >...olli


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