--On Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:12:02 -0600 Yogish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi > I am a newbie with amanda, I have configured amanda according to a > book, However when I try to amdump it gives me following error.I have > also attached the amanada.conf and disklist files.Can anyone please help > me > This was the error I ran into when I checked the log files > START planner date 20030722 > INFO planner Adding new disk localhost:/home/. > START driver date 20030722 > WARNING driver WARNING: ignoring holding disk /home/tmp: Permission > denied You've said /home/tmp is your holdingdisk, but evidently your backup user doesn't have permission to write there, so it isn't used. > FINISH planner date 20030722 > STATS driver startup time 14.803 > ERROR taper no-tape [not an amanda tape] Looks like you forgot to label your tape or some other tape was left in the drive (man amlabel, probably 'amlabel normal normal01') > FAIL driver localhost /home/ 0 [can't switch to incremental dump] Since it couldn't find the correct (labeled) tape to write to, it would normally dump to your holding disk, but since that wasn't available either, it quit. Also, don't use 'localhost', use the fully-qualified name of the server (i.e., host.domain.com) instead. The use of 'localhost' will bite you sometime in the future during a restore. > FINISH driver date 20030722 time 28.470 Other comments: 1. Usually it is best to try 'amcheck <config>' before trying an amdump, as it gives meaningful errors for most config problems before wasting time doing estimates and dumps that might not work. 2. Your config is not quite right: dumpcycle 7 weeks runspercycle 5 weeks tapecycle 25 tapes dumpcycle is the max time between full (level 0) backups. 7 weeks seems like a long time, but maybe thats what you want runspercycle is how many times during the dumpcycle Amanda runs. It is just a number with no units of measure. I'm sure you are planning on running Amanda more than 5 times in 7 weeks. tapecycle is the total number of tapes to rotate through before over- writing the first one. It must be at least equal to runspercycle times runtapes, but you normally want twice that so you don't take a chance on overwriting your last full dump with a failed one, plus a couple extra to allow for a bad tape or two to be removed. For example, with a dumpcycle of 1 week, and runspercycle of 5 (for Monday-Friday backups), you need a bare minimum of 5 tapes but 12 would be much safer. 3. Mentioning your OS and Amanda version, as well as if it was installed from a package or source, often help people find your problem. It wasn't necessary for your current problem, but will if you have more subtle problems in the future. Frank > > > Regards > Yogish > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Yogish.G.K > American Healthcare Solutions Inc > 405, South Lincoln > Steamboat Springs CO-80487 > Ph-970-870-6232 ( EXT 106) (office) > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
