Howto add a new host and disk to my Amanda backup server WARNING Host down! (emailserver).
Hi all I have just been asked to add our email server to our Amanda server backup. I have installed the Amanda version 2.4.4p2 rpm using SuSE SLES 9 Yast2 and added the email server to disklist as below: #/etc/amanda/DailySet1/disklist file: # hostname diskname or mountpoint dumptype # mounted as. myserver.co.co.uk / root-tar # backup all myservers / and sub directories (This works) emailserver.co.co.uk / root-tar # backup email servers / and sub directories. or have I for the emailserver list all the local dir after / i.e emailserver.co.co.uk /usr root-tar #/usr dir emailserver.co.co.uk /local root-tar #/local dir Thus enabled xinetd amanda, amadaidx and amidxtape. Thus checked that the emailserver can participate with the amanda backup server over the network exspecailly the amanda client utility amanda. amanda 10080/tcp # Amanda amanda 10080/udp # Amanda amandaidx 10082/tcp amidxtape 10083/tcp I have run amcheck and I get this error have I missed anything. Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: emailserver.co.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 2 hosts checked in 30.167 seconds, 1 problem found I have added the emailserver to my main backup server named myserver. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/amanda # less .amandahosts localhost amanda localhost root myserver.co.co.uk amanda myserver.co.co.uk root emailserver.co.co.uk amanda emailserver.co.co.uk root Also added emailserver to var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/amanda # less .amandahosts localhost root emailserver.co.co.uk amanda emailserver.co.co.uk root Chers for your help suggestions. Cheers -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Email chuck.smtl.co.uk Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830
Re: Howto add a new host and disk to my Amanda backup server WARNING Host down! (emailserver).
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Thus enabled xinetd amanda, amadaidx and amidxtape. Recheck the entries in /etc/xinetd.d (paths to binaries?) and make sure that you also restarted xinetd.
Re: Howto add a new host and disk to my Amanda backup server WARNING Host down! (emailserver).
Hi
I rechecked the /etc/xinetd/amanda file and the other two
# default: off
# description: Amanda backup client
service amanda
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= amanda
group = disk
server = /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/xinetd.d # ls -l /usr/lib/amanda/amandad (it's
there I did use rpm's)
and the same for the other amanda utilities and thus
run /etc/init.d/xinetd restart on both hosts added to /etc/hosts and run
chkconfig --list all amanda utilities are on.
Cheers
Chuck
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:19 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote:
Thus enabled xinetd amanda, amadaidx and amidxtape.
Recheck the entries in /etc/xinetd.d (paths to binaries?) and make sure
that you also restarted xinetd.
--
Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator
Chuck Amadi
The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL),
Princess of Wales Hospital
Coity Road
Bridgend,
United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ.
Email chuck.smtl.co.uk
Tel: +44 1656 752820
Fax: +44 1656 752830
Re: Howto add a new host and disk to my Amanda backup server WARNING Host down! (emailserver).
Hi got a bit further I had on the emailserver SuSE's default firewall
running thus disabled
Now get this error:
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
ERROR: ktinga.smtl.co.uk: [access as amanda not allowed from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed
Client check: 2 hosts checked in 10.190 seconds, 1 problem found
Thus I have add to the my new host
emailserver's /var/lib/amanda/.amandahostss file the main Amanada server
(myserver).
myserver amanda
myserver root
And guess what No problems!.
Cheers
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:44 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote:
Hi
I rechecked the /etc/xinetd/amanda file and the other two
# default: off
# description: Amanda backup client
service amanda
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= amanda
group = disk
server = /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/xinetd.d # ls -l /usr/lib/amanda/amandad (it's
there I did use rpm's)
And you use amanda:disk as AMANDA-user?
and the same for the other amanda utilities and thus
run /etc/init.d/xinetd restart on both hosts added to /etc/hosts and run
chkconfig --list all amanda utilities are on.
Does xinetd tell you (in /var/log/messages) that it has read and enabled
the amanda-related services? ALso check the permissions of the daemons,
they should be owned by the amanda-user and executable for it.
Eg.
# ll /usr/local/libexec/amandad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 31K Sep 28 21:06 /usr/local/libexec/amandad
Basically the error you get points to the fact that amandad doesn't get
contacted properly, either because it is not reachable or not started ...
Any firewall enabled between these hosts?
Stefan
--
Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator
Chuck Amadi
The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL),
Princess of Wales Hospital
Coity Road
Bridgend,
United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ.
Email chuck.smtl.co.uk
Tel: +44 1656 752820
Fax: +44 1656 752830
Re: Howto add a new host and disk to my Amanda backup server WARNING Host down! (emailserver).
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi got a bit further I had on the emailserver SuSE's default firewall running thus disabled Now get this error: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: ktinga.smtl.co.uk: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed Client check: 2 hosts checked in 10.190 seconds, 1 problem found Thus I have add to the my new host emailserver's /var/lib/amanda/.amandahostss file the main Amanada server (myserver). myserver amanda myserver root And guess what No problems!. I can't believe that ;) Good luck, proper restores, Stefan.
