Hello all! I have numerous questions about amanda all leading hopefully
towards making it work. The short story is that now 'amcheck' runs w/o
errors but when I issue "amdump daily" it appears as if nothing happens and I
get the prompt back immediately. 'daily' is the name of my config. amlabel
is happy with my EXB-8500 as /dev/nst0.
The progression of events was as follows:
I installed amanda-2.4.2p1 as root on my TurboLinux 6.0 (WS) workstation (aka
my server at home) and had a really difficult time getting anywhere with it
failing at the amcheck step. I created, recreated, moved and chmod'd
directories and files trying to make sense out of what appears to be a
mixture of at least three standards for file locations in the README,
INSTALL, /amanda-2.4.2/eamaple/amanda.conf file and the chapter from W.
Curtis Preston's book "Unix Backup and Recovery" as posted at www.amanda.org.
I recognize this as a common 'Linux' problem so I did the best that I could
to resolve by couth and sleuth.
At some point noticed that there is an amanda-2.4.2 version and it appeared
as though it is no longer beta. So taking into concideration the comments
about running './configure' and 'make' as user amanda and then running 'make
install' as root (also found at www.amanda.org in the FAQ section), I did
just that after cleaning out as much garbage from the previous install as I
knew where it lived (read: the source directory and directories that I had
created). Amcheck still failed and still showed brought to you by Amanda
2.4.1p1 - is this a key indicator of my problem? I fianlly was able to get
amcheck to pass off my install as good. :)
What follows is what I had to do to get amcheck to run successfully. I had
to manually create and assign permissions for numerous files and directories
including, and I hope limited to (asuming I was thorough in my note taking):
/etc/amandates file, /etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf and disklist (where
amanda.conf was copied from /amanda-2.4.1p1/examples and edited, daily is the
name of my configuration and disklist just includes my server's "/" dir at
present), /var/amanda/curinfo and /index directories,
/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists file, /home/amanda/.amandahosts,
/etc/amanda/daily/tapelist file, added my user amanda to 'disks' group to
access /dev/nst0 and /dev/hd*, ran /amanda-2.4.2/client-src/patch-system
script to modify /etc/services and inted.conf files, added
PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH to /home/amanda/.bashrc, created /dumps/amanda,
usr/lib/amanda and copied to it /usr/local/sbin/amgetconf as getconf to make
amcheck happy. Now amcheck is happy.
When I run "amdump daily" the prompt returns immediately and nothing further
happens, including no messages or mail. Any ideas what is wrong here? And
you are not allowed to select 'Randy' as the answer to that question. grin.
Randy Cordell.
ps: tar cvf /dev/st0 /* works fine.
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