amanda report

A few questions about my report. I have a cron set to force level 0 dumps a minute or two before the actual backup goes into place so that I can get a full level 0 on each tape. I understand can't switch to incremental dump because it was forced to be dump 0, right? But why would the entire

Tape scan

Does anyone know of a utility to scan tapes for bad blocks, filemarks, etc? I am trying to narrow down an error that causes my backups to fail and I'm curious as to if it can be attributed to old/bad tapes. Thanks, -Michael Blinn

smbclient signal 11

I randomly get these messages - what does smbclient signal 11 mean?? -Michael Blinn FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost //ntserver/businesswork lev 0 FAILED [/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient got signal 11] FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- localhost //ntserver/businesswork lev

Prevented bump?

I have a daily backup routine that I have changed around (duh me) and now does not want to complete its daily cycle. I believe it gets stuck on backing up an NT partition using user-tar and compression on the server. Could this be a faulty tape or have I just jimmied something incorrectly? The

Re: Backup of NT share

Looking back over them, there's one thing I see missing. What happens if you try to back up a local disk on backup? I.e. remove the NT share entries in the disklist, but put somethink like 'backup /etc user-tar'. This will narrow it down to being either a samba issue or an amanda client

Re: Backup of NT share

OK, it's not even trying to launch selfcheck. Does /usr/local/libexec/selfcheck exist? What do your /etc/inetd.conf (or /etc/xinetd.d/am*) entries look like? How exactly did you ./configure amanda on backup? selfcheck exists inetd.conf: amanda dgram udp wait backup

Re: Backup of NT share

First off, many thanks for the help! when I run amcheck confname, in /tmp/amanda/ it creates an amcheck.{timestamp}.debug, however the contents of that are only three lines: amcheck: debug 1 pid 619 ruid 34 euid 0 start time Thu Oct 4 15:24 :37 2001 amcheck: dgram_bind: sofket bound

Follow symbolic links?

I set up a /backup directory with links to everything I'd like to back up -- Amanda doesn't seem to be following my symbolic links. Is there a way to force this? Or a better way to get this done? -Michael Blinn People Places, Inc.