It worked! I got a backup on tape and amdump sent me a success email!
The last problem i found by looking at sendsize*debug as you suggested: it
showed that it didn't expect /etc/amandates to be a directory so i deleted
it and made a _file_ with that name instead. (amcheck didn't pick on this
problem.) I also made a couple other small changes, for the record, not
sure if they helped any.
But i have a question as to why, according to a tar on the tape afterwards,
only four out of the nine items in the directory to dump were actually
backed up. Here's the nine items in the dir:
# ls -l /home/amanda
total 44
drwx------ 3 amanda amanda 4096 May 4 13:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Apr 27 13:45 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 amanda amanda 46 May 4 13:09 .amandahosts
-rw-rw-r-- 1 amanda amanda 21 Apr 30 16:07 .amandahosts~
-rw------- 1 amanda amanda 2388 May 2 18:26 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 24 Apr 27 13:45 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 230 Apr 27 13:45 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 124 Apr 27 13:45 .bashrc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda amanda 333 Apr 27 13:45 .emacs
-rw-r--r-- 1 amanda amanda 3394 Apr 27 13:45 .screenrc
drwx------ 2 amanda root 4096 Apr 30 14:20 .xauth
What appears on the tape after the amdump:
# tar tvv
-rw-r--r-- amanda/amanda 230 2001-04-27 13:45 ./.bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- amanda/amanda 124 2001-04-27 13:45 ./.bashrc
-rwxr-xr-x amanda/amanda 333 2001-04-27 13:45 ./.emacs
-rw-r--r-- amanda/amanda 3394 2001-04-27 13:45 ./.screenrc
Also, am I supposed to create a info file and directory for every line in
disklist? For example, creating /var/log/amanda/curinfo/dellmachine/
_home_amanda/info was necessary to make an amcheck complaint go away.
thx again,
george
"John R. Jackson" wrote:
> >What causes missing results?
>
> Usually a timeout. Take a look at /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug on the
> client and figure out the total time (look at the first and last lines).
> Amanda allows five minutes per disk. If that's not enough, crank up
> the etimeout value in amanda.conf.
>
> >george herson
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
