--On Wednesday, February 09, 2005 15:16:15 -0500 Jingchun Chen <chen.666 AT osu 
DOT edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Greetings to everyone! I am new to Amanda, and new to this mailing list.
> 
> I got a planner failure and empty schedule. Amcheck seems to pass ok
> (except the two non-existing log dirs which I assume shouldn't cause 
> problem). The tape server and backup client are the same machine, and the 
> two disks to be backed up are NFS exported from another machine. We are 
> running Debian, kernel 2.4.28 on Amanda server (hostname coil) and kernel 2.6 
> on the NFS server.
> 
> Any clue? Thanks.
> 
> *******
> amanda logfile >
> DISK planner coil /home/home-am
> DISK planner coil /home/home-nz
> START planner date 20050208
> INFO planner Adding new disk coil:/home/home-am.
> INFO planner Adding new disk coil:/home/home-nz.
> START driver date 20050208
> START taper datestamp 20050208 label normal104 tape 0
> FAIL planner coil /home/home-nz 20050208 0 [disk /home/home-nz 
> offline on
> coil?]

Two possibilities I can think of:
First, are you trying to use dump  on the NFS mount?  If so,
you need to use tar.
Second, if you are using tar, is the NFS mount on the remote
host exported with the no_root_squash option (on Linux, it
has other names on other OSs, root= on Solaris and NetApps)
so that root on the NFS client has root access to the files.

Frank

> FAIL planner coil /home/home-am 20050208 0 [disk /home/home-am 
> offline on
> coil?]
> FINISH planner date 20050208
> WARNING driver WARNING: got empty schedule from planner
> STATS driver startup time 15.632
> INFO taper tape normal104 kb 0 fm 0 [OK]
> FINISH driver date 20050208 time 15.634
> 
> *****
> amcheck output >
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> amcheck-server: slot 4: date 20050208 label normal104 (active tape)
> amcheck-server: slot 1: date 20050201 label normal101 (exact label 
> match)
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> Tape normal101 label ok
> NOTE: info dir /var/log/amanda/normal/curinfo/coil: does not exist
> NOTE: index dir /var/log/amanda/normal/index/coil: does not exist
> Server check took 8.634 seconds
> 
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> Client check: 1 host checked in 8.518 seconds, 0 problems found
> 
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p1)



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