> ...now that amanda on my server finally is doing something, I am > (unfortunately) stuck with the next strange thing. First of all: The > file system I am about to back up is on an external RAID system and > around 600 GB in size so I am using GNUTAR to back up the whole > mess (since, at least as I read in various mailing lists, it's not > possible to make amanda dump file systems across multiple tapes). > Most of the things seem to work fine, amdump itself starts, spawns > several dumper-processes and launches an amandad which starts > sendsize and does a tar across the filesystem to be backed up. Some > minutes later, all the processes ended again, nothing has been > written to any tape, and I am grepping around the amanda > documentation, being pretty clueless where to look at, now. Can > someone enlighten me (again)?
Not sure if you are having the same problem I did, but I was in a similar situation a while back. It was after I had switched to using gtar, and one of my machines kept hanging on sendsize. I'm still not entirely sure why, but sendsize was getting confused when backing up the / (slash) partition. So, I broke up the partition into smaller chunks in the disklist, (/etc, /var, /usr) and everything started working again. Hope this helps, --Charlie Wiseman System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science University of Tennessee, Knoxville
