On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 at 10:07am, Michael P. Blinn wrote > To reiterate the situation: Backup machine w/ a tape drive, holding disk, > and samba, is trying to back up a linux machine and an NT share on a > separate computer. - The linux backup works just fine - The NT share is what > is screwing up amcheck (or so goes my theory) - I can paste in my amandapass > and amanda.conf and disklist files again if you'd like, but they haven't
Looking back over them, there's one thing I see missing. What happens if you try to back up a local disk on backup? I.e. remove the NT share entries in the disklist, but put somethink like 'backup /etc user-tar'. This will narrow it down to being either a samba issue or an amanda client issue. > changed since my original 'help!' email to the list. - if I remove the NT > share disklist entry (the entry is: backup //ntserver/sys/users nt-comp > where nt-comp is a dumptype I made that is 'user-tar' and 'compress server > fast') then the backup of the linux machine and amcheck goes off without a > hitch. - if I leave it in, the tape server check takes 20 seconds and > complains about nothing.. then there's a 15 second wait and I get the > 'selfcheck request timed out. Host down?'. Do I have to mount the > //ntserver/sys share first? -- Is it Good and OK to pass a subdirectory to > the path to mount, or...? No, you don't have to mount the share first. But, according to some quick experiments I just did here, you can *not* back up a subdirectory of a share. You *must* back up the share itself. If all you want is /sys/users, you'll need to share that directory explicitly. But, again, this isn't the main problem, b/c you're not even getting that far. > No. There is ONLY the one file that I pasted into the last email to the > list.. it is /tmp/amanda/amcheck.{timestamp}.debug and it looks like this: > > amcheck: debug 1 pid 619 ruid 34 euid 0 start time Thu Oct 4 15:24 :37 2001 > amcheck: dgram_bind: sofket bound to 0.0.0.0.1008 > amcheck: pid 619 finish time Thu Oct 4 15:25:07 2001 My apologies. After a more careful examination, that is all that file contains after a successful amcheck. The issue is that there should *also* be an amandad*debug and selfcheck*debug. Did you, by any chance, ./configure amanda on backup with the --without-client flag? Does /usr/local/libexec/amandad exist? I'm starting to suspect that the amanda client stuff just isn't installed. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University