>After I run the command "amdump Daily", I hear the tape drive moving and the
>tape light on the drive blinking for a while then stopped. It seems that
>Amanda never start the backup process. ...
What version of Amanda are you using?
Are there any Amanda processes still running, either on the server or
any of the clients listed in your disklist?
Another of your comments implies you used "localhost" in your disklist.
I always recommend you not do this. Use the fully qualified host name
of the machine instead.
Did you kill the amdump or did it terminate by itself?
Did you get an E-mail report? According to your amanda.conf, it would
have gone to address "amanda".
If the report was lost and you want to regenerate it, cd to the directory
with the log.YYYYMMDD.NN files (should be /usr/adm/amanda/Daily according
to your amanda.conf) and run amreport again. You can either change the
mailto entry in amanda.conf to have it mailed again, or you can use the -f
option and have amreport write the letter to a file instead of mailing it.
If the most recent log file is log.20010714.1, it would look like this:
amreport Daily -l log.20010714.1 -f /tmp/amanda-report
Make sure you run this as the Amanda user (in particular, do **not**
run it as root).
>I ran "amcheck -lt Daily" and there' s no error.
It's good you used amcheck to look for problems. But you should probably
run it without any flags, e.g. "amcheck Daily". With "-lt" you did not
check anything on the clients (even "localhost" is a client as far as
Amanda is concerned), and that could be where the problem is.
>Also after I run "amstatus Daily" after "amdump Daily", I get this error
>"/usr/adm/Amanda/Daily/amdump:No such file or directory at
>/usr/local/sbin/amstatus line103"
Amstatus is usually used while amdump is running. If you use it after
amdump is done, you need to tell it what file to process. For instance,
"amstatus Daily --stats --summary --file amdump.1". The amdump.1 file
is always the most recent amdump run (amdump.2 is the second most recent
and so on).
>Desmond Lim
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
