Joe,

Which version of Amanda are you using?

Please take a look at the log files in /tmp/amanda/ on the client
system. You might
have an idea which process exited and was not "waited" for (look for timestamps
in the logs).

Are you using compression or client side encryption?

Thanks,
Paddy

On 6/21/06, Joe Donner (sent by Nabble.com) <lists AT nabble DOT com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm running Amanda in a test lab, and every several days or so the backup
job to virtual tape fails because a process called amandad becomes
unresponsive on the backup client.  When doing an amcheck from the Amanda
server it tells me that amandad on the client is "busy".  When having a look
at the client with the ps command, it lists two diferent amandad processes,
with one showing as being "defunct".  I cannot kill this process, but when I
kill the other amandad process I can get rid of both, but then have to
reboot the client to get the backup job to work again.

Do you know how I can avoid doing this reboot, or what may be going on here?

I'd appreciate your help as I'm pretty new to Amanda and Linux, but have
been asked to look into Amanda as an alternative backup solution for our 5
Linux servers.

Thanks in advance!

Joe
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