On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 at 12:07pm, Steve wrote > On Wednesday 30 January 2002 09:05 am, you wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 at 8:49am, Steve wrote > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I had backup working on both the host and the guest. > > > Then I got an email saying: > > > > > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > > > pc16 hda6 lev 0 FAILED [Request to vg16 timed out.] > > > pc21 hda6 lev 0 FAILED [Request to vg21 timed out.] > > > > So you're saying that it *was* working, and now it isn't. And, let me > > guess, you didn't touch anything, right? ;) > > Never said that.. It's not been a perfect working setup yet. I did discover > that I have made amanda run as root, so I changed that to amanda today.
I gathered from "I had backup working" that amanda was working, then stopped. I see now that isn't the case. > > The question is what's in the amandad*debug (it if exists) from the time > > at which the backup failed (find it via the timestamps). Do these hosts > > still pass amcheck? > > No it doesn't. > log.20020130.0 says that the planner failed on the two due to timeout. > Well, that's dandy. I know to only change one thing at a time but I don't > recall having changed anything. Scary. What is the exact output of amcheck (run from the AMANDA server)? When you run amcheck, do any files get created in /tmp/amanda on the clients? What are they, and what are their contents? If no files are created, are there any messages in /var/log/messages on the clients? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
