Hello, I'm using Amanda 2.4.2p2 on a Red Hat Linux 6.2 box (Dell PowerEdge 4400, dual 733Mhz Pentium III). It works great for backing up about 15 different servers - except it won't back itself up 95% of the time.
The machine does have some larger partitions (36Gb), which are file shares but in general, these shares are excluded from backup because I backup them from a Macintosh client, so as to preserve Mac specific items (and since its easier to restore the files from the Mac side since there are also meta-files on the Linux side). However, I don't think the larger partitions are the cause of the problem. The specific error messages that I am seeing are (for each of the partitions - there are eight): acorn /mnt/web lev 0 FAILED [Request to acorn timed out.] During a backup session, the logs indicate that runtar executes for each partition but the problems show up in the logs for amandad: amandad: dgram_recv: recvfrom() failed: Connection refused amandad: waiting for ack: Connection refused, retrying amandad: dgram_recv: recvfrom() failed: Connection refused amandad: waiting for ack: Connection refused, retrying amandad: dgram_recv: recvfrom() failed: Connection refused amandad: waiting for ack: Connection refused, retrying amandad: dgram_recv: recvfrom() failed: Connection refused amandad: waiting for ack: Connection refused, retrying amandad: dgram_recv: recvfrom() failed: Connection refused amandad: waiting for ack: Connection refused, giving up! So apparently, something is timing out. I did have problems in the past with backing up clients on the other side of our firewall but that was resolved by specifying port ranges and increasing the tcp keep alive value on the backup server. However, this traffic is certainly never reaching the firewall, because its the local host thats being backed up. I thought maybe the problem was with the machine having two interfaces on different networks but it doesn't seem to matter which interface I specify - it still times out. Any ideas of what to look for? Thanks, Kevin -- Kevin M. Myer Systems Administrator Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (717) 560-6140
