A moment of introduction: I'm the UNIX administrator for a branch of Science Applications International Corporation. I've been using amanda quite happily now for ~6 months to feed an HP SureStore Ultrium 1/20 ( that's 2TB native ) backing up a data center of RH7.1 and HPUX 10.20 boxen.
The problem: Extending this system now to back up ~100 windows lusers. Half of these are mobile laptops. To compensate for the on again, of again nature of all the laptops, I've written an nice awk/bash script to autogenerate /etc/amandapass and append the lusers to /etc/amanda/Daily/disklist on the fly, just before amcheck and amdump run. I'm pretty sure the scripts run flawlessly. One of the features of the scripts is to append a cylinder label ( 100, 101, 102... ), the same to each windows host. ( to keep the 16 dumpers from hitting the same poor laptop ) This also seems to work well during test runs. The problem, adding the whole list of 60 or so clients, the whole dump run aborts. The logs in /tmp/amanda/*$(date +%Y%m%d).debug all check out, look fine, with no errors. The logs in /var/lib/Daily are another matter: [amanda@amanda Daily]$ tail amdump.1 process6.mtg.saic.com / 0 1 2001:11:20:22:15:7 271 18 process6.mtg.saic.com /stand 0 1 2001:11:20:22:58:8 20 0 morpheus.mtg.saic.com /stand 0 1 2001:11:20:22:15:37 14 0 -------- driver: schedule line 10: syntax error driver: adding holding disk 0 dir /var/lib/amanda/dumps size 97819744 reserving 97819744 out of 97819744 for degraded-mode dumps taper: DONE [idle wait: 629.108 secs] taper: writing end marker. [AL5853 OK kb 0 fm 0] amdump: end at Mon Dec 3 17:15:42 EST 2001 and [amanda@amanda Daily]$ tail log.20011203.0 FAIL planner amanda.mtg.saic.com //wiggin_jo/C$ 0 [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump new disk] FAIL planner amanda.mtg.saic.com //win2klinux/C$ 0 [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump new disk] FAIL planner amanda.mtg.saic.com //jagoe_d/C$ 0 [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump new disk] FAIL planner amanda.mtg.saic.com //saic37/C$ 0 [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump new disk] FAIL planner amanda.mtg.saic.com //dan_ny3/G$ 0 [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump new disk] FAIL planner amanda.mtg.saic.com //esri-1/D$ 0 [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump new disk] FAIL planner amanda.mtg.saic.com //perkins_d/D$ 0 [dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump new disk] FINISH planner date 20011203 FATAL driver schedule line 10: syntax error INFO taper tape AL5853 kb 0 fm 0 [OK] Where can I debug the 'schedual line 10: syntax error' in both of these files? -Dan Garthwaite
