>i work at a sercurity company. and was told to configure a backup for the
>company's data.
Now *that* sounds like a good plan :-).
>When I start amcheck on the server now, the service "amanda" on the clients
>gets shut down with following error:
>
>Feb 8 13:25:04 client [767]: amanda service was deactivated because of looping
>Feb 8 13:25:04 client [767]: recv: Bad file descriptor (errno = 9)
I *think* the second message ("recv") is just a side effect of the first
problem, but you might want to report it to the xinetd folks anyway.
That's coming from them, not Amanda.
What does you Amanda xinetd.conf file look like?
Does /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug get created on the client?
What happens if you run this on the client:
su AMANDA -c "/PATH/TO/amandad"
It should just sit there for 30 seconds and then terminate. It should
also create a /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug file that ends with a "timeout"
error (which is normal for this test).
>In your archive i found that I should add this entry to my
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd:
>
> EXTRAOPTIONS="-loop 100"
I don't think that would help. It will just make xinetd keep trying,
but the real problem is that amandad is terminating.
>The amcheck out produces a second error.
>I do not know whether this error depends on the shut down of the client:
>...
>ERROR: localhost NAK: amandad busy
>
>WARNING: IP_OF_MY_TESTCLIENT: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
You said you are just testing with the client and the server. I take it
those are two different machines? And do you mean that you have entries
for both "localhost" and the client in your disklist?
One minor point first. You should not use "localhost" in disklist.
Use the real host name of the server. Amanda remembers backups by their
host name and disk. If you need to move things around at some point,
"localhost" may point to some other machine.
The "NAK" error means an amandad was still running on "localhost" when
you tried to run amcheck. I assume you didn't try to run two amcheck's
at the same time?
Look for any stray amandad processes running on "localhost" and kill them.
Then try the amcheck again.
>Leonie
>
>P.S: Sorry, I know, my English is ugly ((-:
Your English is just fine. You should see some of the things my colleagues
write who have lived here their whole life :-).
>i.A. Leonie Nuenighoff
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