On 1/8/05 3:14 PM, "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 January 2005 17:19, David Newman wrote:
>> 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.
Sorry, spoke too soon. The new configuration with amanda users passed
amcheck but attempts to dump the client machine ("Host B" from my first
email) still result in the "all estimate failed" error.
In disklist on the amanda server, I specify directories rather than
partition names to be backed up:
hostb.example.com /dir1 comp-user
hostb.example.com /dir2 comp-user
And on the client machine, the debug logs in /tmp/amanda are complaining
that /dir1 is unknown:
sendsize[5334]: time 0.015: calculating for device '/dir1' with
''
sendsize[5334]: time 0.015: running "/sbin/dump 0Shsf 0 1048576 - /dir1"
sendsize[5334]: time 0.017: running /usr/local/libexec/amanda/killpgrp
sendsize[5334]: time 0.044: dump: /dir1: unknown file system
Does amanda only back up entire partitions and not individual directories?
Curtis Preston's backup book suggests (p. 164) that disklist can contain
logical names like /usr (which in many Linux distros would be a directory
and not a separate partition). But the amanda manpage says it's gotta be a
mount point.
So -- does amanda work only on whole partitions, or is there some way I can
use it to back up only selected directories?
many thanks
dn
from amandad.20050108140343000.debug:
Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 001-005D0508 SEQ 1105221838
OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe0f;
/dir1 0 SIZE -1
/dir2 0 SIZE -1
----
from sendsize.20050108140343.debug:
sendsize: debug 1 pid 5332 ruid 1021 euid 1021: start at Sat Jan 8 14:03:43
200
5
sendsize: version 2.4.4p4
sendsize[5332]: time 0.009: waiting for any estimate child: 1 running
sendsize[5334]: time 0.010: calculating for amname '/dir1', dirname '/dir1',
spindle -1
sendsize[5334]: time 0.010: getting size via dump for /dir1 level 0
sendsize[5334]: time 0.015: calculating for device '/dir1' with
''
sendsize[5334]: time 0.015: running "/sbin/dump 0Shsf 0 1048576 - /dir1"
sendsize[5334]: time 0.017: running /usr/local/libexec/amanda/killpgrp
sendsize[5334]: time 0.044: dump: /dir1: unknown file system
sendsize[5334]: time 0.046: .....
sendsize[5334]: estimate time for /dir1 level 0: 0.030
sendsize[5334]: no size line match in /sbin/dump output for "/dir1"
sendsize[5334]: .....
sendsize: debug 1 pid 5332 ruid 1021 euid 1021: start at Sat Jan 8 14:03:43
200
5
sendsize: version 2.4.4p4
sendsize[5332]: time 0.009: waiting for any estimate child: 1 running
sendsize[5334]: time 0.010: calculating for amname '/dir1', dirname '/dir1',
spindle -1
sendsize[5334]: time 0.010: getting size via dump for /dir1 level 0
sendsize[5334]: time 0.015: calculating for device '/dir1' with ''
sendsize[5334]: time 0.015: running "/sbin/dump 0Shsf 0 1048576 - /dir1"
sendsize[5334]: time 0.017: running /usr/local/libexec/amanda/killpgrp
sendsize[5334]: time 0.044: dump: /var/named/etc/namedb: unknown file system
sendsize[5334]: time 0.046: .....
sendsize[5334]: estimate time for /dir1 level 0: 0.030
sendsize[5334]: no size line match in /sbin/dump output for "/dir1"
sendsize[5334]: .....
sendsize[5334]: estimate size for /var/named/etc/namedb level 0: -1 KB
sendsize[5334]: time 0.046: asking killpgrp to terminate
sendsize[5334]: time 1.051: done with amname '/dir1', dirname '/dir1',
spindle -1
sendsize[5332]: time 1.052: child 5334 terminated normally
...and then the same thing again for /dir2.
What's going on? The tape operator has read permissions on both /dir1 and
/dir2. And
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