Hi listers:
I'm desperate and hope someone can help.
After several weeks I've almost got Amanda 2.4.2.p2 up and
running properly on a FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE box with a HP
SureStore 12000E DDS2 changer. I'm able to back up all but
one of my boxes without a glitch. Of course the boxes I
*can* back up all have small disks/volumes on them. These
boxes are several FreeBSD boxes and a few NT and '9x boxes.
Problem number one is that I can't seem to backup my one and
only Windows 2000 Professional PC with it's shinny new 60GB
HD, all on one big NTFS partition. I've removed as many
programs and data as I can from this box, but there's still
6.5GB or so to backup. I'm using DDS2 tapes with hardware
compression turned on. I don't use software compression
because the median speed of most of my PCs is around a
Pentium 133 (it's a home LAN)--it took forever to backup all
my boxes with software compression. Plus, I have tons of
tapes, so number of tapes used is not an issue for me.
Backups fail with the message:
//boxname/sharename lev 0 FAILED [too many taper retries]
It's not because of lack of space on the holding disk. I
went a bought a new 80GB drive just for this purpose. I
don't think it's chunksize, I have it set to 3GB just to be
safe. I can manually look at the holding disk during a
backup and see that files around 3GB are being created. But
they don't seem to get written. Is this because it's NOT
possible with the current version of Amanda to backup a
partition/volume/disk that's larger than a single tape
media? If so that would really suck.
I've thought of a few things to get around this. I could
create multiple shares on the box instead of just C$, for
example //boxname/winnt and //boxname/games. But the
problem with this is getting files in the root directory
backed up. The only way I see to do this is via C$ or
equivalent. No?
The second issue is more insidious and may/may not be
related to the first problem. After every single backup
attempt to the Windows 2000 box, a dialogue box pops up on
the 2000 box warning me of data corruption! There's been
different files involved each time. Today's dialogue box
message was:
The file or directory C:\cygwin\usr\share\terminfo\a\apple2e
is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility.
OUCH!
I'll run Chkdsk and it will find index-related errors. It
will successfully fix them. But the problem reoccurs as
soon as I try to perform another Amanda backup of it.
Weird, eh? The version of Samba I'm using is 2.0.9 from the
FreeBSD ports collection.
Any thoughts?
TIA,
Sean Noonan
