Two days ago, backups for one of the directories on my samba server started failing. Nothing was changed in the amanda configuration and this problem only affects the one directory. Total size of the directory is about 7.5 G. Unfortunately this is a shared drive exported to windows users via samba and suffers 'unintentional' deletions about twice a month.
I've included the relevant parts of the e-mail and sendsize, sendbackup and runtar debug files. The only problem I can see : sendbackup: bind_portrange: port 909: Permission denied but this only happens on this one drive. Anyone know why? ==== From email: /-- thames /export/common lev 0 FAILED [data timeout] sendbackup: start [thames:/export/common level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/gtar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gtar -f... - sendbackup: info end \-------- ==== From sendsize.debug: sendsize: calculating for amname '/export/common', dirname '/export/common' sendsize: getting size via gnutar for /export/common level 0 sendsize: spawning /usr/local/libexec/runtar in pipeline sendsize: argument list: /bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null --directory /export/common --one-file-system --listed-incremental /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/thames_export_common_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from /export/common/.exclude . Total bytes written: 7442524160 (6.9GB, 253MB/s) ..... sendsize: getting size via gnutar for /export/common level 1 sendsize: spawning /usr/local/libexec/runtar in pipeline sendsize: argument list: /bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null --directory /export/common --one-file-system --listed-incremental /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/thames_export_common_1.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from /export/common/.exclude . Total bytes written: 130897920 (125MB, 18MB/s) ==== From sendbackup.debug sendbackup: debug 1 pid 7739 ruid 250 euid 250 start time Thu Apr 4 06:04:02 2002 /usr/local/libexec/sendbackup: version 2.4.3b2 sendbackup: got input request: GNUTAR /export/common 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;index;exclude-list=.exclude; parsed request as: program `GNUTAR' disk `/export/common' lev 0 since 1970:1:1:0:0:0 opt `|;bsd-auth;index;exclude-list=.exclude;' sendbackup: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536 sendbackup: bind_portrange: port 909: Permission denied sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.57536 sendbackup: bind_portrange: port 909: Permission denied sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.57537 sendbackup: bind_portrange: port 909: Permission denied sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.57538 waiting for connect on 57536, then 57537, then 57538 sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 192.168.124.25.39935 sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 192.168.124.25.39936 sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 192.168.124.25.39937 got all connections sendbackup-gnutar: doing level 0 dump as listed-incremental to /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/thames_export_common_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 /export/common --one-file-system --listed-incremental /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/thames_export_common_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from /export/common/.exclude . sendbackup: started index creator: "/bin/gtar -tf - 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/^\.//'" sendbackup-gnutar: /usr/local/libexec/runtar: pid 7742 ==== From runtar.debug: runtar: debug 1 pid 7742 ruid 250 euid 0 start time Thu Apr 4 06:04:02 2002 gtar: version 2.4.3b2 running: /bin/gtar: gtar --create --file - --directory /export/common --one-file-system --listed-incremental /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/thames_export_common_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from /export/common/.exclude . -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services) 310-342-3602 [EMAIL PROTECTED]