On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:59:59PM +0100, Kristian Rink wrote:
> 
> Hello all,...
> 
> 
> ...now that amanda on my server finally is doing something, I am
> (unfortunately) stuck with the next strange thing. First of all: The
> file system I am about to back up is on an external RAID system and
> around 600 GB in size so I am using GNUTAR to back up the whole
> mess (since, at least as I read in various mailing lists, it's not
> possible to make amanda dump file systems across multiple tapes).
> Most of the things seem to work fine, amdump itself starts, spawns
> several dumper-processes and launches an amandad which starts
> sendsize and does a tar across the filesystem to be backed up. Some
> minutes later, all the processes ended again, nothing has been
> written to any tape, and I am grepping around the amanda
> documentation, being pretty clueless where to look at, now. Can
> someone enlighten me (again)? 
> 

First item is whether amcheck is giving you a clean bill of health.

Then several sources of reports and debug info should be looked at
and if not understood reported to the list for assistance.

1) an email report should come to the user listed in amanda.conf
   (amgetconf <config> mailto) these can be recreated with amreport
2) individual process debug files typically left in /tmp/amanda
3) several files in the log directory (amgetconf <config> logdir)

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