I recently upgraded an amanda client (just the client, not the server)
RedHat's recent kernel release for version 6.2 of their OS. The version is
something like 2.2.19-enterprise... Anyway, one problem I had with the new
kernel was lockd not working with NFS mounts, but I was able to resolve that
by specifying the "nolock" option to mount. The other problem, still
unsolved, has to do with backups. The machine hasn't been getting backed
up. The amcheck command runs find, and indeed, when amdump runs on the
server, I can see tar running on the client. /tmp/amanda/sendsize.log
appears to be normal, i.e. it is getting estimages of the disk sets and
exitting correctly, but it doesn't appear that the information is getting
back to the server because amstatus still reports "Getting estimate" or
whatever for the disk sets. As a result the dump will hang indefinately
until I run amcleanup. But then NONE of my clients get backed up.
Reverting the client back to 2.2.16 seems to solve the problem.
I was wondering if anyone has been able to get amanda client running on
RedHat's stock 2.2.19 kernel or if they even were able to get it running on
self-compiled kernel and if so how.
tia,
Albert
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Albert Hopkins
Sr. Systems Specialist
Dynacare Laboratories
www.dynacare.com
