Hi,
It looks like I have the same problem as Rob Flory (unfortunately I couldn't
extract his email address from the Amanda archives at Yahoo).
I use Amanda to backup 3 machines on my local network: callisto (PPC, Amanda
server, with DDS1 tape drive), cassandra (m68k) and leia (AXP). All of them are
running Debian Linux.
I'm no longer able to backup callisto. It always fails with:
| FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
| callisto sda8 lev 0 FAILED [Request to callisto timed out.]
| callisto sda5 lev 0 FAILED [Request to callisto timed out.]
| callisto sda1 lev 0 FAILED [Request to callisto timed out.]
| callisto sdb8 lev 0 FAILED [Request to callisto timed out.]
| callisto sdb7 lev 0 FAILED [Request to callisto timed out.]
| callisto sdb6 lev 0 FAILED [Request to callisto timed out.]
| callisto sdb5 lev 0 FAILED [Request to callisto timed out.]
| callisto sdb1 lev 0 FAILED [Request to callisto timed out.]
The other machines can be backed up fine.
Amcheck doesn't show any errors (except for the missing tape when I ran the
check):
| Amanda Tape Server Host Check
| -----------------------------
| WARNING: /amanda: only 307732 KB free (656384 KB requested).
| ERROR: /dev/nst0: rewinding tape: No medium found.
| (expecting tape DAILY08 or a new tape)
| NOTE: skipping tape-writable test.
| Server check took 30.114 seconds.
|
| Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
| --------------------------------
| Client check: 3 hosts checked in 2.381 seconds, 0 problems found.
|
| (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.1p1)
I've been using Amanda to backup my machines since more than 2 years.
First I thought the problem could be related to a problem with the network
configuration (A while ago leia (my firewall machine) had hardware problems so
I reconfigured callisto to connect directly to the outside world. When leia was
resurrected, I reverted to the old situation), but
- /etc/resolv.conf is the same on all machines
- /etc/hosts is the same on all machines (127.0.0.1 localhost only)
- /etc/hosts.* is the same on all machines
- all machines have valid forward and reverse DNS entries (leia is the local
DNS server)
- callisto:/etc/inetd.conf has
amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandaidx stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd
amidxtape stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped
- {cassandra,leia}:/etc/inetd.conf has
amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
- all machines are running amanda 2.4.1p1-12 from Debian.
- all machines have in /var/backup/.amandahosts:
callisto.of.borg backup
Anyone with a clue?
_Many_ thanks in advance!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
