When I upgraded my 6.2 box to 2.2.19 (with standard kernel, not
enterprise), I recompiled the kernel with the only differing options being
the enabling of NFS Version 3.0 filesystem support and server support.
Amanda hasn't complained about it...
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>
>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
>
>--
>Albert Hopkins
>Sr. Systems Specialist
>Dynacare Laboratories
>www.dynacare.com
>
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John Evans
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University of Maine
