Re: Failed backup of / partition

2001-03-21 Thread Shreedeep Bhachech
--- "John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the moment I'll assume the patch Carey Jung sent you solves this. It solved it. Thanks for all the help, JRJ, CJ and all others. > JJ -Shreedeep. = -+> Shreedeep Bhachech [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Failed backup of / partition

2001-03-20 Thread Shreedeep Bhachech
> When you ran ./configure, did it say it found setmntent? I don't recall. > What do you get when you run this: > > grep SETMNT config/config.h #define HAVE_SETMNTENT 1 > What does your /etc/fstab line look like for /? What about > /proc/mounts? /etc/fstab: /dev/hda12 /

Re: Failed backup of / partition

2001-03-19 Thread John R. Jackson
>Funny you should mention that - I am using 2.4.2p1! When you ran ./configure, did it say it found setmntent? What do you get when you run this: grep SETMNT config/config.h What does your /etc/fstab line look like for /? What about /proc/mounts? >Shreedeep [EMAIL PROTECTED] John R. Jackso

RE: Failed backup of / partition

2001-03-19 Thread Shreedeep Bhachech
--- Carey Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We just ran across the same problem. It's fixed in > 2.4.2p1. Funny you should mention that - I am using 2.4.2p1! :-/ = -+> Shreedeep [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Y

RE: Failed backup of / partition

2001-03-19 Thread Carey Jung
We just ran across the same problem. It's fixed in 2.4.2p1. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shreedeep Bhachech > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 3:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sub

Re: Failed backup of / partition

2001-03-19 Thread Shreedeep Bhachech
Well, I found out the source of my problem through amcheck - dump was trying to stat /dev/root (instead of /dev/hdaxx) which didn't work, since /dev/root doesn't exist. Now that this problem is solved, though - anybody have some idea about this /dev/root and why dump sees that while df etc. see /

Re: Failed backup of / partition

2001-03-16 Thread John R. Jackson
>could it be that linux treats / partition (and >therefor the disk that / belongs to) treats >differently, as a result it doesn't let amanda "read" >it? No. What did amcheck have to say? What's in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug on the client? >Shreedeep John R. Jackson, Technical Software Special

Re: Failed backup of / partition

2001-03-16 Thread Shreedeep Bhachech
I tried, but it didn't fix the problem: possible reason being, in the same dump cycle, amanda backed up all the other disks EXCEPT for / - and / is listed at the top of the disklist. could it be that linux treats / partition (and therefor the disk that / belongs to) treats differently, as a resul

Re: Failed backup of / partition

2001-03-16 Thread Walt Reed
when this has happened to me, i find that a /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart command usually sets things correctly. run amcheck before and after to make sure it has been fixed. somehow the amandad stops accepting connections if there is a failure. reseting inet has worked for me. also, i have del

Failed backup of / partition

2001-03-16 Thread Shreedeep Bhachech
Hi! I am trying to setup amanda 2.4.2pl1 on two RedHat 6.2 boxes. The client has several HD partitions mounted, eg /,/usr,/home,/var etc. After I was successful in backing up one partition and restoring it, I scheduled a full dump of the client host. All of the partitions got backed up, except