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Re: Installation Configuration: disk definitions & general questions
2006-03-16 11:45:36
Thanks you gentlemen all - for your comments and advice.
The advice to RTFM is understood and well taken.
The clarification as to the prepending of my exclude list especially...
My hosts are set up and the backups ran smoothly - all reports minus
"AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR BogusMonth 0, 0" ran fine. The 'bogus-month'
one doesn't seem to be able to see it's log file...
Anyway.
Went away to my client-hosts and was trying to run:
# amrecover misc_backups
and have errors from both hosts... (but it runs as one would expect it
to from the master-host (VEGA)
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[root@vega tmp]# /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover misc_backups
AMRECOVER Version 2.4.5p1. Contacting server on vega.scarceskills.com ...
220 vega AMANDA index server (2.4.5p1) ready.
200 Access OK
Setting restore date to today (2006-03-16)
200 Working date set to 2006-03-16.
Scanning /home/data/amanda/dumps...
200 Config set to misc_backups.
200 Dump host set to vega.scarceskills.com.
Trying disk /tmp ...
$CWD '/tmp' is on disk '/tmp' mounted at '/tmp'.
200 Disk set to /tmp.
/tmp
amrecover>
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[root@sabik etc]# /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover misc_backups
AMRECOVER Version 2.4.5p1. Contacting server on sabik.scarceskills.com ...
amrecover: cannot connect to sabik.scarceskills.com: Connection refused
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[root@SSPC20 /]# /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover misc_backups
AMRECOVER Version 2.4.5p1. Contacting server on SSPC20.scarceskills.com ...
amrecover: cannot connect to SSPC20.scarceskills.com: Success
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.amandahost on server:
vega.scarceskills.com amanda
vega.scarceskills.com root
sspc020.scarceskills.com root
sabik.scarceskills.com root
.amandahost on sabik / sspc020:
vega.scarceskills.com amanda
xinetd is enabled and running as a service while the configurations are:
on clients:
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service amanda
{
disable = no
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = amanda
group = backup
server = /usr/local/amanda/libexec/amandad
}
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on the server:
service amidxtape
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = amanda
group = backup
server = /usr/local/amanda/libexec/amidxtaped
server_args = amidxtaped
}
--------
service amandaidx
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = amanda
group = backup
server = /usr/local/amanda/libexec/amindexd
}
--------
service amanda
{
disable = no
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = no
user = amanda
group = backup
server = /usr/local/amanda/libexec/amandad
}
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Reverse nslookups work out fine (for SABIK - not SSPC020) as do pings.
iptables on all machines in question are turned off.
Any ideas? I searched the yahoo (crap... oh so crap interface)
archives for the list for occurances of 'amrecover connection' ,
troubleshooting amrecover, etc. to no avail.
I'm wondering how AMANDA knows where the master host is?
Are the request from amrecover just broadcast out as udp and
eventually find their way home?
>From the output on one I get 'success' as the output, yet 'connection
refused for the other. All of the machines are on the same subnet and
the same configure options were used for both clients at compile time.
When looking at the debug files for both:
SABIK-
[root@sabik amanda]# more amrecover.20060316154300.debug
amrecover: debug 1 pid 24150 ruid 0 euid 0: start at Thu Mar 16 15:43:00 2006
amrecover: stream_client_privileged: connect to 192.168.0.93.10082
failed: Connection refused
amrecover: cannot connect to sabik.scarceskills.com: Connection refused
amrecover: pid 24150 finish time Thu Mar 16 15:43:00 2006
*connection refused here would lead me to believe that the port's not
listening :
[root@sabik amanda]# netstat -nlp --udp | grep 100
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10080 0.0.0.0:*
22492/xinetd
:
But it is...
Why is it trying to connect to itself? Should the client hostname be
in $CLIENT/amanda/.amandahosts as well? Or is this a case of failing
to 'get out of the gate' as it were, and the request isn't getting
past my interface on it's way to the intranet?
SSPC020-
[root@SSPC20 amanda]# more amrecover.20060316155726.debug
amrecover: debug 1 pid 18471 ruid 0 euid 0: start at Thu Mar 16 15:57:26 2006
amrecover: stream_client_privileged:
gethostbyname(SSPC20.scarceskills.com) failed
amrecover: cannot connect to SSPC20.scarceskills.com: Success
amrecover: pid 18471 finish time Thu Mar 16 15:57:26 2006
:
[root@SSPC20 amanda]# netstat -nlp --udp | grep 100
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10080 0.0.0.0:*
28257/xinetd
:
Get "hostbyname" here I think fails because I haven't added this host
to named on our DNS server. Correct assumption?
(*that's why I added SABIK into the mix in the first place actually)
Any ideas? (*even links to the correct bit of documentation!) would be
much obliged.
-Peter Farrell
Cardiff, Wales - UK
On 16/03/06, Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:23:47AM +0000, Peter Farrell wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > Env - Fedora Core 4
> > Amanda Version: amanda-2.4.5p1
> >
> ...
> > Thanks very much for any input.
> > It's fun - but the learning curve feels similar to Nagios at this
> > point. (aka 'fiddly' :-)
>
> Peter I'll try to reply to your questions later as time permits.
> They are well organized and it is obvious that you have done
> some research on your own. So please don't take this as one
> of those "RTFM newbie" comments but as a pointer to some docs
> in case you overlooked them.
>
> On FC4 in /usr/share/docs/amanda are several docs including
> one on excluding.
>
> "man amanda" describes a lot of the amanda.conf parameters.
> In later versions these are broken out to their own man page.
>
> --
> Jon H. LaBadie jon AT jgcomp DOT com
> JG Computing
> 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159
> Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
>
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