--On Thursday, January 08, 2004 17:21:48 +0100 Oliver Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can su to amanda and chdir to usr and everything else thats failling ? > Is it maybe because of the filesystem xfs on the target-machine ? > I think amanda wants to do a xfsdump there, right ? I tried to run it as > amanda and got it complaining to be root to run ... !? You must use the right version of dump for the filesystem. Was Amanda built with support for xfsdump ? Are the disks on all your clients xfs or just on the one new client? If you have a mixture of filesystem types, I'm not sure how you configure multiple flavors of dump in one setup, hopefully someone else here has done it and will say how. Frank > > Thanks in advance > > ...olli > > Am Do, 2004-01-08 um 16.39 schrieb Frank Smith: >> --On Thursday, January 08, 2004 15:51:21 +0100 Oliver Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi Group ! >> > >> > Maybe anyone has a hint for me ? >> > We have about 30 Servers, all UNIX. They are all backed up with amanda, >> > which worked very good, until some problems occured. >> > >> > I defined a TestSet an tried to put in a new host. But I donīt get it to >> > work. I want to do a dump of the following partitions, which are really >> > partitions on the target-host. >> > >> > -<snip disklist> >> > daisy / comp-hd-dump >> > daisy /boot comp-hd-dump >> > daisy /opt comp-hd-dump >> > daisy /usr comp-hd-dump >> > -</snip> >> > >> > If I put comp-hd-tar in here, all works fine ... !? >> > >> > -<snip report> >> > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: >> > daisy /usr lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr offline on daisy?] >> > daisy /opt lev 0 FAILED [disk /opt offline on daisy?] >> > daisy / lev 0 FAILED [disk / offline on daisy?] >> >> Disk offline messages are generally a result of permissions >> problems (if the disk were really offline you would have much >> bigger problems). Make sure your backup user is part of the >> correct group to have access to the disk. Try to 'su - backupuser' >> and check if you can see those disks. >> Tar works because Aamnda uses a suid runtar wrapper script that >> runs tar as root (although it isn't used by amcheck, so you would >> still get errors from amcheck even though amdump would work). >> >> Frank >> >> > >> > ... >> > >> > DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS >> > HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s >> > -------------- --------------------------------- ------------ >> > daisy / 0 FAILED --------------------------------------- >> > daisy /boot 0 6410 5472 85.4 0:023511.7 0:023484.9 >> > daisy /opt 0 FAILED --------------------------------------- >> > daisy /usr 0 FAILED --------------------------------------- >> > >> > </snip> >> > >> > Why does /boot work ??? Ups, just saw it worked only the first time ... >> > Now its the same message ... >> > >> > And, does comp-hd-tar eat more cpu ? I would think so, or am I false ? >> > Last Backup this night >> > >> > Were great anyone had a tip ! >> > >> > ...olli -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501