Amanda-Users

Re: disk offline ?

2004-01-08 12:27:00
Subject: Re: disk offline ?
From: Oliver Simon <osimon AT picturesafe DOT de>
To: AMANDA <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:26:12 +0100
Hello again ...

Am Do, 2004-01-08 um 17.37 schrieb Frank Smith:
> --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 ? 

Yes, we have about 15 (SuSI´s/SLES/SLOX) hosts running with xfs. No
problem there.

>  Are the disks on all your clients xfs or just on the one new client?

The rest is 10 Solaris (ufs) and some other linux´ (redhat ext3).

>   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.

Thought, amanda examines it itself, and takes the correct version
(dump/xfsdump) from the clients ??

> 
> Frank


...olli
> 
> > 
> > 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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