>My backups were working like a charm, and the other day I added "index yes"
>to the amanda.conf, and ever since then, it hasn't done a backup since.
You have multiple failures going on, and I don't think "index yes"
had anything to do with them.
The worst one is this:
> driver: FATAL infofile update failed (amanda,//sola/PAP2)
Take a look at your curinfo directory. One of the directories down to
PAP2 or the "info" file at the bottom probably has the wrong permissions
and will not allow your Amanda user to update it. Once you fix that,
Amanda should start completing normally again and this error:
> taper: FATAL syncpipe_get: w: unexpected EOF
... should also go away.
The most common cause for this problem is running amadmin as root
instead of as the Amanda user. Current versions of Amanda protect you
from doing this (hint, hint :-). Also, newer versions of amcheck test
and report this.
These errors:
> mail2 /dev/ad0s1a lev 0 FAILED [dumps too big, but cannot
>incremental dump new disk]
... mean you've added some new disks, but the estimated size of the
existing disks plus this disk won't fit on a tape, and because the disk
is new, Amanda cannot drop back to doing an incremental.
One way around this is to comment out all the old disks in disklist and
make an Amanda run of just the new ones to get past the initial full dump.
Then let Amanda work on re-balancing things for the next few cycles.
>-Gerry
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
