--On Thursday, January 08, 2004 17:21:48 +0100 Oliver Simon <osimon AT
picturesafe DOT de> wrote:
> 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 ... !?
You must use the right version of dump for the filesystem. Was Amanda
built with support for xfsdump ? Are the disks on all your clients
xfs or just on the one new client? If you have a mixture of filesystem
types, I'm not sure how you configure multiple flavors of dump in one
setup, hopefully someone else here has done it and will say how.
Frank
>
> 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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