I had this same problem on a SUSE8.1 box, brand new install. amcheck showed it was all good but the backups failed (and failed and failed and failed while I tore my hair out....). Problem was dump doesn't work on reiserFS. Found it in the client logs in /var somewhere. Same problem with another SUSE8.1 box with a RAID partition. Dump works fine on ext2 and ext3 partitions on SUSE8.1 but not on other file systems. GNUTAR was my friend.
Dana Bourgeois > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Lavigne > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:13 PM > To: 'Matt Hyclak'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: amcheck passed however amdump failed > > > Awesome, I found the docs in my ports dir > (/usr/ports/misc/amanda-server/work/amanda-2.4.3b4/docs) in > FreeBSD however it appears that the docs were not installed > during the install as they don't exist in the /usr/share/doc/ > dir (I do have this dir, just nothing about Amanda in there), > no biggie at all as I can read them as is. > > Thanks a bunch, now I can read more goodies about Amanda :D > > Jay > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Matt > Hyclak > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 4:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: amcheck passed however amdump failed > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:52:09PM -0500, Jason Lavigne > enlightened us: > > Could you point me to PORTS.USAGE? I have just found the docs at > > http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html and I haven't read > them yet, > > only the man pages and I don't recall PORTS.USAGE. > > > > * It's called PORT.USAGE, my bad. > > I don't know where it would be on your system, but it is > installed in the docs directory included with the amanda > package. On my redhat system it is in > /usr/share/doc/amanda-server-2.4.4p1. > > > Also there is a firewall between the server and client, > however it is > > setup the same for 6 other servers in the DMZ and none of these > servers > > are having any trouble. I will double check the firewall. However > > wouldn't amcheck fail if this is a firewall issue? > > > > No, amcheck passes since it uses the ports that are usually > allowed by the firewall. The problem is when the data stream > starts, it is on a port sent by the server, so unless the > firewall examines the packets, it doesn't know to allow those > through. If the others work and one doesn't, I would check > for a firewall installed on the failing machine itself, and > also double check that the client is compiled with the same > --udp-portrange and --tcp-portrange as the working servers. > > Matt > > -- > Matt Hyclak > Department of Mathematics > Department of Social Work > Ohio University > (740) 593-1263 > >
