On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:35:53PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A. enlightened us: > Greetings all! > > A little while ago, I suddenly started getting this error message in my > Amanda reports: > > ERROR: server: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (Where "server" is my server name, Not "localhost" or anything). Thus, > the server which actually runs AMANDA is not getting backed up! All the > others are, though. I did a search in the archives & did not find any > message pertaining to this problem. On Friday, 10/24, everything seemed > all right, but not until the next Wednesday did I get a report: > > *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY! > > These dumps were to tapes . > > I think around this time, we noticed that /var was FULL. I deleted as > much as I could, and continued with normal operation. But later that > day, I got the "access as backup not allowed" error. Ever since then, my > backup server has not gotten a good backup of itself. > > Any ideas what could cause this? I checked permissions in all the usual > areas, nothing looks like user "backup" does not have access to it. >
Your .amandahosts file was probably destroyed when the filesystem filled up. Check and make sure that all of the appropriate entries are in there. (Should be in ~amanda, wherever that is. It's /var/lib/amanda on my system). Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
