Did you run the amcheck first (assuming inital installation)? Check that dumper is owned by root and the setuid bit is set for the usr (chmod u+s dumper)
should look something like this: -rwsr-x--- 1 root sys 909112 Jan 8 10:23 dumper amcheck should tell you if the daemons are talkin' to one another (thanks to the wise "John" for this insite) v Fabio de Oliveira wrote: >Hi, > >Sorry about my english. > >I have some douts about the messages that I'd got after run amdump > >This is the e-mail that the user amanda received: > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >THESE DUMPS WERE TO DISK. Flush them onto a new tape. >Tonight's dumps should go onto 1 tape: a new tape. > >FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > dumper: FATAL must be run setuid root to communicate correctly > dumper: FATAL must be run setuid root to communicate correctly > xxx.xx.xxx /PATH/. lev 0 FAILED [Request to xxx.xx.xxxxx.xx timed out.] > yyyyyy.yyy /xxxx/xxxxx/. lev 0 FAILED [Request to yyyyyy.yyyyy.yyy timed out.] > > >STATISTICS: > Total Full Daily > -------- -------- -------- >Dump Time (hrs:min) 0:00 0:00 0:00 (0:00 start) >Output Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 >Original Size (meg) 0.0 0.0 0.0 >Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- -- >Tape Used (%) 0.0 0.0 0.0 >Filesystems Dumped 0 0 0 >Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- -- >Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- -- > >? >NOTES: > planner: Adding new disk xxx.xx.xxxxx.xxx:/PATH/.. > planner: Adding new disk yyyyyyy.yyyyy.yyy:/PATH2/.. > driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner > >? >DUMP SUMMARY: > DUMPER STATS TAPER >STATS >HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s >-------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- >xxx.xx.xx -o/PATH/. 0 FAILED -------------------------------------------- >yyyyyy.y /xxxx/xxxx/. 0 FAILED -------------------------------------------- > >(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.1p1) > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >The tape is not ready yet, but I wanted to simulate a amflush. > >The host xxx.xx.xxxxx.xxx is the server tape > >The holdingdisk is in the server tape. > >Would anybody answer me: > > >Why all de "dumpers" failed ? > >Why the Request to server tape failed ? > > >Thank you for anyone. >_______________________________________________________________________________ > >Fabio de Oliveira. >Network Administrator. >
