OK,
When I changed the disklist on the server to the mount points instead of the
devices (eg. /usr/local instead of hda6 or /dev/hda6), it works fine.
So first of all, thanks a LOT!
Is the reason for this:
a) because the computer we just fixed is running RedHat 7.0 as opposed to
Redhat 6.1 on the other....
b) because somehow when I compiled the client software I told it to use gnu-tar
instead of dump.... (compression is being done on the client side)
c) None of the above.
I'd like to know because I would like to keep the conventions consistent if
that's possible, and it looks bad to have a disklist where one linux box has
drive labels listed and the other has mount points.
Thanks for your efforts John, much *much* appreciated.
-Darrel
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> >Yes there is, and it is /dev/hda6, and amanda uses the default "/dev/"
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "amanda uses the default".
>
> Are you using the system dump program or GNU tar for these disks? Is
> hda6 (in some form :-) listed in /etc/fstab?
>
> What happens here is Amanda takes any of three forms in the disklist file
> (/some/mount/point, hda6 or /dev/hda6) and converts that into whatever
> is needed. For dump it is the disk name (/dev/hda6). For GNU tar it
> would be the mount point. I'm guessing something is going wrong with
> that conversion.
>
> >I think the reason this machine is failing is because the last guy tried to
> >upgrade the client-side software on it to 2.4.2, but he could never get it to
> >work, so i inherited his problem.
>
> If you're running a new version of Linux that uses /proc/mounts in
> preference to /etc/fstab, you'll have to get a recent version of Amanda
> to get the patches that make it aware of that.
>
> And unless you just happen to see the problem, to debug this much further
> you'll have to be able to regenerate some form of client side software,
> either what you're running or go ahead and get 2.4.2p1 and try it again.
>
> The first thing I'd do is:
>
> cd client-src
> make getfsent
> ./getfsent hda6
>
> That will try several standard Amanda conversions plus the one(s) you
> put on the command line and log the results.
>
> >-darrel
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
