All,
I am looking for a little direction on a problem that has cropped up for
me recently.
I have a backup set, that was created using Amanda 2.5 (default on
CentOS 5.11) and ran very well, both manually and from the cron job I
had set for it.
It has approximately 13 hosts to backup, from as simple as backing up a
single directory, to backing up the full system, and it ran with no
issues on CentOS 5.11.
The basic setup is using hard drives as the backup media, compressing
the backups to save space, using server compression, these also use
GNU-TAR as the archive format.
Fast forward to today, I have the system upgraded to CentOS 7, which
also upgraded to Amanda 3.3.3-13, and after some configuration file
re-writing, I got most of the backups to work.
Two systems, one backing up the web directory, the other backing up the
full disk, fail constantly.
When these two disklist statements are removed, the backup runs, and
takes approximately 2 and a half hours to run on the 8 other hosts (the
other 3 hosts are currently offline and not in scope).
When the CRON job kicks off at midnight, it runs for over 12 hours (I
have the etimeout set to one day, as the planner kept dying saying to
timed out).
This is the same basic error that I get with the two above mentioned
failing backups.
When the hung backup job is running, I see the dumpers and main dump
process running on the backup server, but nothing in the logs outside of
the "We started the backup job" type of log messages.
On all of the hosts, I don't see the client running, nor to I see any
TAR processes running.
There are also no clues in the logs on which host the server is waiting
on, and checking all the hosts in scope show they are all in the same
state, that is they have sent the estimate to the backup server and are
waiting on the next phase.
Any help on this would be appreciated, and also is there a better way of
making sense of the logs (such as using something like Graylog2?), and
on reporting for issues with Amanda 3.3?
Regards,
Seann
- Upgrade woes and eternal hanging of dumps Seann
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