Re: daily reporting of Amanda and ethernet card questions


Charles Stroom

email: charles at stremen dot xs4all dot nl


------- Original Message

on  Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:33:08 EDT
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
>
> On Friday 18 August 2006 05:38, Charles Stroom wrote:
> >on  Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:32:29 EDT
> >
> >Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:15:21PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I have recently installed Amanda version 2.5.1b1 on my SuSE 10.0 PC,
> >> > via an binary rpm.  After some struggling, I start to understand
> >> > how it works and backups are being made.
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> > Another question I have is why I should keep my ethernet card up
> >> > to run the backup.  My home PC is an Amanda server-client machine,
> >> > connected to a small home network with an ADSL router and a mail
> >> > server on an old PC, but the backup is done on this single home PC.
> >> > But if I bring the ethernet card down, amdump cannot connect to the
> >> > server and fails.  Of course, as recommended, my .amandahosts does
> >> > not contain "localhost", but is:
> >> >
> >> > corrente.localnet   root amindexd amidxtaped
> >> > corrente.localnet   amandabackup amdump
> >> >
> >> > Should I include "localhost"?
> >>
> >> You only have the amanda server as a client to backup, correct?
> >> And it will not be on the (a) network all the time.
> >
> >Correct (at least, for now; later I will add my mail server as well)
> >
> >> Sounds to me like you have found
> >> the exception to the rule
> >> "you shouldn't use localhost".
> >
> >I changed all occurence of "corrente.localnet" to "localhost" in
> >.amandahost, disklist and amanda-client.conf, but now amcheck
> >complains that it cannot connect and times out.
> >
> You must at least be consistent.  To have localhost time out would seem to 
> indicate that your /etc/hosts has had localhost sanitized out of it, this 
> is not generally a Good Thing(TM).

I do not fully understand what you mean by this, but here are the
entries of importance in my /etc/hosts file
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.1.250   corrente.localnet corrente
192.168.1.64    stremen.localnet stremen.xs4all.nl stremen

> 
> >Well, it is not that important, I can live with the situation as
> >it is.  Thanks anyhow
> >

Cheers,

Charles


Charles Stroom
email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.")