I use amanda successfully to back up a number of systems remotely, one via VPN across the Internet. I'm having trouble, however, with my local system (also the amanda server host) where it seems to be difficult to get any backups to work. The box is running Gentoo Linux, xinetd, Amanda version 2.4.4p2, Linux kernel 2.4.20. A typical report shows: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: vishnu hdb2 lev 0 FAILED [disk hdb2, all estimate failed] vishnu hdb1 lev 0 FAILED [disk hdb1, all estimate failed]
... and the backup fails. This particular notice is from a test backup on a drive with 2 partitions, one ext2 and the other reiserfs. The dumptype on both is comp-user or comp-user-tar. All files and directories on both partitions are mode ugo+r. The amanda xinetd config contains 'only-from' entries for both the private IP address of the box and 'localhost'. /etc/amandahosts likewise contains entries for both the hostname of the box and 'localhost: $ cat /etc/amandahosts localhost amanda localhost root [snip snap!] vishnu.fmp.com amanda vishnu.fmp.com root Does anyone have any ideas what I might try to solve this problem? -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> http://www.fmp.com | |