On Thursday 01 October 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>So what failed when you ran the backup with your regular
>configuration?  Amanda shouldn't have any problem with this --
>usernames on the client are, more or less, isolated from usernames on
>the server.  The only interaction is in .amandahosts, which must list
>the server-side username.
>
>Dustin
>
Humm, so I edit Shop:/home/amanda/.amandahosts to look like this:
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coyote.coyote.den       amanda amdump amindexd amidxtaped
coyote                  amanda amdump amindexd amidxtaped
coyote.coyote.den       root amdump amindexd amidxtaped
shop.coyote.den         backup amdump amindexd amidxtaped
shop                    backup amdump amindexd amidxtaped
shop.coyote.den         backup amdump amindexd amidxtaped
localhost               backup amdump amindexd amidxtaped
-------------------------------
There are probably unneeded lines above, but I was trying to cover all bases.
An amcheck Daily from here on coyote, generates an error message in 
shop/var/log/amanda/amandad complaining it can't open its debug files in 
/tmp.  Aha!  They were still owned by amanda:disk, so a quick chown to 
backup:backup and an 'su amanda -c "amcheck Daily"' on coyote is happy.

Funny thing though, after all my messing around yesterday, backup.sh wasn't 
run last night.  I don't think, no printout, no email.

Running it again, and during the estimate phase I actually saw the user 
backup in the htop report.  But I got a printout in just a few seconds that 
it did backup the 4 dle's on  shop, but never touched coyote???

WTH?  my /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/disklist is an exact copy of the test 
disklist in /usr/local/etc/amanda/Shop/disklist!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In other words, my Daily/disklist is gone, all 29 entries.  And I only edited 
one disklist file when setting up the Shop test config.  Aha, for some reason 
I'd made a disklist-bak, and its a good one, so I now have a big grin and 
will re-run the backup again.

An amstatus says the estimates are coming in good, so I think its running on 
all 8 cylinders again.

Many many thanks for the hint, but it was confusing that it was the 
Shop:/home/amanda/.amandahosts file I fixed, and not the 
Shop:/home/backup/.amandahosts.

And that leaves my mind quite well confused about just who the heck owns what 
here.  And I don't think this is something I can blame on alzheimers even if 
I will be 75 on Sunday.

This bit of cross-correlation should be FAQ'd better, or a manpage on 
amandahosts written that covers all this.  I note that manpage is 
conspiciously absent. 

And this takes us back to amcheckdump & the fact I can't run it from a script 
anymore because it needs either a changer to pull up the correct (v)tape to 
check, or a switch to shut it off.  In my case Dailys/data is going to 
already be pointing at the correct vtape, so it has it.  Either that or re-
instate the ability to take a pair of numbers as arg(2) and arg(3) that give 
it the tape number to start on, and how many tapes to go over in case 
runtapes >1.  That is the old amverify syntax AIR.

Thanks Dustin, I owe you one if you ever get in my neck of the hills.

-- 
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