NFS strangeness

Hello all,

Just wondering if anyone might be able to shed some light on myproblem... we recently got a SnapServer on our network and would like touse our existing Amanda install to back it up via NFS but so far havebeen unsuccessful.


- FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE
- Amanda v2.4.4b1
- GNU tar v1.13.25

I have tried mounting the NFS shares onto the main Amanda backup host aswell as other servers being backed up via Amanda. I can manually, fromthe command line, read/write and tar up the attached NFS shares withoutissue, both as root and user Amanda. Yet when Amanda runs through it'sbackup process, nothing gets backed up from that share. I've checkedthe logs, and there are no errors showing. Running an amrecover showsthe root directory that the share is mounted on, but there are no filesor directories within to recover. I've tried changing the dump type inamanda.conf to both DUMP and GNUTAR for the partition in question. Nochange. I've also tried an NFS mount from an alternate FreeBSD machineto rule out the SnapServer. Same issue.


Here are the runtar and sendsize debug files:

runtar: debug 1 pid 49585 ruid 1002 euid 0: start at Fri Sep 813:41:26 2006
gtar: version 2.4.4b1
running: /usr/bin/tar: gtar --create --file - --directory /nfs--one-file-system --listed-incremental/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/phatb.boothcreek.net_dev_aacd0s2h_1.new--sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from/tmp/amanda/sendbackup._dev_aacd0s2h.20060908134126.exclude .

sendsize: debug 1 pid 50252 ruid 1002 euid 1002: start at Fri Sep 813:59:38 2006
sendsize: version 2.4.4b1
sendsize[50252]: time 0.005: waiting for any estimate child
sendsize[50257]: time 0.005: calculating for amname '/dev/aacd0s2h',dirname '/nfs', spindle -1sendsize[50257]: time 0.006: getting size via gnutar for /dev/aacd0s2hlevel 0sendsize[50257]: time 0.008: spawning /usr/local/libexec/runtar inpipelinesendsize[50257]: argument list: /usr/bin/tar --create --file /dev/null--directory /nfs --one-file-system --listed-incremental/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/phatb.boothcreek.net_dev_aacd0s2h_0.new--sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from/tmp/amanda/sendsize._dev_aacd0s2h.20060908135938.exclude .
sendsize[50257]: time 0.052: Total bytes written: 102400 (100kB, 3.1MB/s)
sendsize[50257]: time 0.053: .....
sendsize[50257]: estimate time for /dev/aacd0s2h level 0: 0.045
sendsize[50257]: estimate size for /dev/aacd0s2h level 0: 100 KB
sendsize[50257]: time 0.053: waiting for /usr/bin/tar "/dev/aacd0s2h"child
sendsize[50257]: time 0.053: after /usr/bin/tar "/dev/aacd0s2h" wait
sendsize[50257]: time 0.054: done with amname '/dev/aacd0s2h', dirname'/nfs', spindle -1
sendsize[50252]: time 0.054: child 50257 terminated normally
sendsize: time 0.054: pid 50252 finish time Fri Sep  8 13:59:38 2006

as you can see... it only sees the 100k of real test files that I havein the /nfs directory, and not the actual mounts that live under /nfs. ???

Am I missing something easy? Anything special I need to add to'amanda.conf'? or 'disklist'? I do just mount the NFS share to anexisting entry in my disklist, right? Rather then adding the NFS mountas a separate entry?I've check all the permissions on the share (no_root_squash, etc)...I'm at a loss. Digging around the net, I've been unable to find anyclear docs on what the proper setup might need to look like. Anyonehave any more suggestions about next steps?


Thanks a bunch,
-Steffan