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Re: all estimate failed error on amanda client
2005-01-08 17:42:43
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 06 January 2005 21:25, David Newman wrote:
Greetings. I have installed Amanda on two FreeBSD 5.2.1 boxes, Host
A and Host B. Host A is the Amanda server, and has the
amanda-server package installed from ports. Host B has the
amanda-client package. I've added a couple of Host B's partitions
in Host A's disklist.
I'm getting this error in the nightly Amanda reports:
hostb /usr/home lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr/home, all estimate failed]
hostb /var lev 0 FAILED [disk /var, all estimate failed]
The backups on host A are working fine. On the client (host B) I've
followed the directions here:
http://amanda.sourceforge.net/docs/install.html#id2539781
There is no firewall or other external impediment between the two
boxes.
Both boxes run amanda as user "operator" which by default in FreeBSD
has no home directory. I have placed identical .amandahosts files
in the root directory of both boxes.
Any clues as to why backups of Host B are failing?
thanks
dn
Are there any logs being generated on host B from amanda's activities?
You may have to change the operator to a user with a valid home dir.
I've always, from day one, had a user amanda, who was a member of
group disk.
Thanks, I think this was the problem. I've created "amanda" accounts on
both machines and they now communicate.
Note to those installing from the BSD ports collection: You'll need to
modify the amanda-server Makefile to list "amanda" (or whomever) as your
tape operator.
However, the problem may also have been that I was using a CNAME rather
than the canonical hostname for the client in .amandahosts. I don't know
which of these two fixed the comm problem.
By the way, I set up the same password for the amanda accounts on both
machines. Is this required? I don't see anything in the commands about
passwords being used at all.
dn
And is host B using inetd or xinetd?
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