Re: Diagnosing an elusive fault on a critical system [long]

2002-09-03 Thread Jonathan Johnson
Dear Amanda users, This is a follow-up of responses and results from my first post on this list. You all helped me to navigate a very troublesome issue -- thanks, and may this discussion point other forlorn users toward happy resolutions. I will provide only the outline of my original message,

Re: Diagnosing an elusive fault on a critical system [long]

2002-08-19 Thread Jonathan Johnson
configs, but then the coordination of indexes, dump dates, etc. just gets needlessly complex. So I just bully around a single config. > Good luck, > Frank > > --On Monday, August 19, 2002 13:15:39 -0500 Jonathan Johnson ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: Diagnosing an elusive fault on a critical system [long]

2002-08-19 Thread Jonathan Johnson
Dear Adam (et al.), On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:41:49 -0700, Adam Lins wrote: > I had a previously-reliable RH7.2 server which (suddenly! > inexplicably!) kept failing during Amanda dumps. In the end, it > turned out to be the SCSI card--replacing the cheaper SymBIOS card > (sym53c8xx-based, whi

Diagnosing an elusive fault on a critical system [long]

2002-08-19 Thread Jonathan Johnson
Dear Amanda users, Life with Amanda is swell. The RH 7.2 localhost, an NT server and two RH 6.0 systems (one with strict ipchains firewalling) are all being backed up, and restores have been successfully carried out on each system. I love a backup system that allows me to do all these things, i