Hello, I have an issue that is very frustrating with one of my amanda client machines. I am implementing amanda and adding in live clients one by one in my datacenter.
I have three client machines working nicely with amanda so far. They are backing up to a psuedo autochanger configured on a hard disk partition on my backup server. This is working nicely while i wait for my new VXA Autochanger backup device to arrive. I have compiled the client software on the troublesome machine. It runs under xinetd as amanda:disk. The client runs a 2.2.16-22smp kernel and is based on redhat 7.0 amcheck reports no problems. However, when I attempt to rum amdump this client fails with a problem locking /etc/amandates. The error from /tmp/amanda/*size* is. sendsize: debug 1 pid 28239 ruid 515 euid 515 start time Tue Jul 30 15:32:56 2002 /usr/local/amanda/libexec/sendsize: version 2.4.3b3 could not lock /etc/amandates: Invalid argument sendsize: pid 28239 finish time Tue Jul 30 15:32:56 2002 The Amanda Backup report shows the following related to this. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: linux0.int /usr/local/apache/conf lev 0 FAILED [missing result for /usr/local/apache/conf in linux0.intranet response] linux0.int /var/named lev 0 FAILED [missing result for /var/named in linux0.intranet response] linux0.int /etc lev 0 FAILED [missing result for /etc in linux0.intranet response] linux0.int /home lev 0 FAILED [missing result for /home in linux0.intranet response] The permissions on /etc/amandates is as follows: -rw-rw---- 1 amanda disk 0 Jul 26 19:02 /etc/amandates I have even tried making this file 0666 to see if that would make a difference but the same problem occured. The same configuration works fine on an older RedHat based server (RH 6.x vintage) and on my newer RH 7.3 based servers I have seen few relevant posts on the subject in the archives or the FAQ-o-matic, so I am throwing this one open to the crowd. Any pointers to fixing this one would be appreciated. I am 99% certain my config is fine, so I think the fix/workaround is going to be a code patch with either amanda or the system. I am not going to be able to upgrade this server in the short term, but it will be rebuilt to 7.3+ within the next few months. However, since I am new to amanda I'll be happy for any suggestions. TIA, Steve Kelly -- ======================= Technical Manager Ilisys Internet Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================= New! Ilisys discussion forums http://forums.ilisys.com.au
