Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Zanga Chimombo
rant i have a problem with setting up amanda but more of that later. i have the following configurations: AMANDA_DBGDIR=/var/log/amanda CONFIG_DIR=/etc/amanda i have been looking in /var/log/amanda for clues to my problem to no avail. i have only just discovered log files in

debian issue solved

2008-07-11 Thread Jeremy Mordkoff
It was permissions chown backup:backup /usr/lib/amanda/dumper.d/ fixed it Thanks all, especially Ian Jeremy Mordkoff ZeeVee, Inc. (formerly Zazzle Technologies, Inc.) 1 Monarch Drive, suite 200 Littleton, MA 01460 978-467-1395 x233

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:55:57AM +0200, Zanga Chimombo wrote: rant i have a problem with setting up amanda but more of that later. i have the following configurations: AMANDA_DBGDIR=/var/log/amanda CONFIG_DIR=/etc/amanda i have been looking in /var/log/amanda for clues to my problem to

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-07-11 08:55, Zanga Chimombo wrote: rant i have a problem with setting up amanda but more of that later. i have the following configurations: AMANDA_DBGDIR=/var/log/amanda CONFIG_DIR=/etc/amanda i have been looking in /var/log/amanda for clues to my problem to no avail. i have only

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-07-11 08:55, Zanga Chimombo wrote: my backup server is 192.168.0.1 and the client is 192.168.0.60. as a check, i am also backing up /etc on the server and that seems to go ahead without any problems. maybe my desired setup is unusual: all that i would like to do is a nightly backup

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Zanga Chimombo
i should've said that my rant is against the documentation not the design rationale. They may have a substring in the name having the letters log, but during the history of amanda, they are used for much more then the initial purpose of logging only. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Log_Files

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Zanga Chimombo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the following line in amdump.X seems to give a clue: dumper: stream_client: connect to 192.168.0.60.46830 failed: No route to host why is the server trying to dump to the client? Since Jon and Paul have addressed the

Re: debian client

2008-07-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Ian Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's not there, you'll can look at the contents of the libamanda.so shared library using the strings command. That file will name a directory called AMANDA_TMPDIR; the client should create a subdirectory 'amanda' of that.

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Zanga Chimombo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i should've said that my rant is against the documentation not the design rationale. ..it *is* on a wiki, nudge nudge. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com