"John R. Jackson" wrote:
>
> >I got all nine items of my /home/amanda directory archived, unlike when
> >amdump ran it with option --listed-incremental
> >/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/dellmachine_home_amanda_0.new. What
> >does this mean?
>
> I don't know what it means yet, except that tar is probably OK, it's
> just something about the way Amanda is calling it.
>
> What does amcheck have to say about your system?
Amcheck has no complaints, including with the write test, though it was
skipped below. (How do i put a tape back to inactive status? I tried
re-labeling, but couldn't: "tape is active".)
# /usr/local/sbin/amcheck Dell-Full
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 2205816 KB disk space available, that's
plenty
ERROR: cannot overwrite active tape Dell-Full010503
(expecting a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Server check took 12.971 seconds
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 1 host checked in 2.345 seconds, 0 problems found
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2)
> Does your Amanda user have sufficient permissions to create files in
> /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists?
That dir is amanda owned and operated.
> What are the complete contents a typical /tmp/amanda/sendbackup*debug
> file for one of the failed runs?
Don't have any from a failed run. Below is my only sendbackup*debug
file, which is from the successful run.
# cat /tmp/amanda/sendbackup*debug
sendbackup: debug 1 pid 17143 ruid 507 euid 507 start time Fri May 4
20:45:05 2001
/usr/local/libexec/sendbackup: version 2.4.2p2
sendbackup: got input request: GNUTAR /home/amanda 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0
OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;
parsed request as: program `GNUTAR'
disk `/home/amanda'
lev 0
since 1970:1:1:0:0:0
opt `|;bsd-auth;'
sendbackup: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536
sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.2865
sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.2866
waiting for connect on 2865, then 2866
sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 192.168.1.100.2867
sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 192.168.1.100.2868
got all connections
sendbackup-gnutar: doing level 0 dump as listed-incremental to
/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/dellmachine_home_amanda_0.new
sendbackup-gnutar: doing level 0 dump from date: 1970-01-01 0:00:00 GMT
sendbackup: spawning /usr/local/libexec/runtar in pipeline
sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory
/home/amanda --one-file-system --listed-incremental
/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/dellmachine_home_amanda_0.new
--sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals .
sendbackup-gnutar: /usr/local/libexec/runtar: pid 17144
sendbackup: pid 17143 finish time Fri May 4 20:45:05 2001
thx,
george
