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I run a small-ish network. There is a 4-port firewall that seperates boxes
of various security levels which have different policies.
My backup server lives on the most secure network.
With one machine (a RH 7.2 server) I went through rebuilding with
port-ranges set and I adjusted the firewall. That backup is working fine.
Another network has two boxes (lox and nox). Both run NetBSD/i386 (1.5.2)
with amanda-client installed from pkgsrc. This was built on the backup server
and the pkg distributed. My notebook (a PIII-650) runs the identical code
without problem.
Until two weeks ago, lox was a P75 with 6Gb of disk, and nox is a K2-350
with 4Gb of disk. (Old systems).
I never got a good backup of lox, while nox has never failed.
No partition is larger than the raw size of the tape device.
As it was overdue, lox was upgraded to a PII-233 with slightly more disk
space. More importantly, it got a brand new /etc dir. (The previous one dated
to 1993...).
I got a single good backup from lox the following night. (a level 0)
I setup a new config for just that system. I ran it with tcpdump watching.
I never saw an attempt to connect to backup.
Some nights I've gotten "can't switch to incremental dumps".
With the seperate config with just that host, I always get a failure.
Even with just one disk listed in disklist.
I thought that was a FAQ, but it isn't.
From: System Operator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LOX AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR January 23, 2002
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [label DailySet120 doesn't match labelstr
"^LOX[0-9][0-9]*$"].
Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
Run amflush to flush them to tape.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
lox wd0a lev 0 FAILED [can't switch to incremental dump]
STATISTICS:
Total Full Daily
-------- -------- --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min) 0:00
Run Time (hrs:min) 0:00
Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Output Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Original Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
Filesystems Dumped 0 0 0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- --
Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00
Tape Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Filesystems Taped 0 0 0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- --
NOTES:
planner: Adding new disk lox:wd0a.
DUMP SUMMARY:
DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s
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lox wd0a 0 FAILED ---------------------------------------
(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2)
] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [
] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[
] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[
] panic("Just another NetBSD/notebook using, kernel hacking, security guy"); [
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