I've had an Amanda system running successfully and mostly problem-free for the last five years. Because of some firewall issues, I compiled Amanda from source with some specific flags for ports used. About a year ago, the firewall issue were removed, and amanda continued to work without any problems or configuration changes. Just recently, I got a new server with RHEL4 instead of the Debian servers I normally run. I decided to try to convert my Amanda system to use the packages provided by the distributions, since I no longer needed the customization and, as one amanda-user wrote, the Amanda packages 'just seemed to work.'
I either deleted the amanda-owned files manually, or moved them out of the way. Then, I installed the amanda-client, -server and -command Debian sarge packages on the tapehost. Then, I moved the one's I thought I needed back into place, such as /var/amanda, /etc/amamda and /tmp/amanda. This was all on centernet (cn2), my Amanda tapehost. In general, the system seems to be minimally working, but I get this error: cn2:/tmp/amanda-dbg# su -s /bin/bash amanda '/usr/sbin/amcheck DBackup' Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /dumps/amanda2: 14596644 KB disk space available, using 14596644 KB Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 14473792 KB disk space available, using 14473792 KB NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Tape DBackup39 label ok Server check took 5.210 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- WARNING: centernet: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? WARNING: www: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 2 hosts checked in 34.333 seconds, 2 problems found (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p3) cn2:/tmp/amanda-dbg# date Thu Nov 30 15:00:59 EST 2006 cn2:/tmp/amanda-dbg# However, nothing's generated in the /tmp/amanda-dbg directory, and nothing of any use in the /tmp/amanda directory: cn2:/tmp/amanda-dbg# ls -ltr total 384 <snip> -rw------- 1 amanda disk 2054 Nov 29 18:11 sendbackup.20061129180201.debug -rw------- 1 amanda disk 206 Nov 29 18:21 amtrmlog.20061129182141.debug -rw------- 1 amanda disk 553 Nov 29 18:21 amtrmidx.20061129182141.debug cn2:/tmp/amanda-dbg# cd ../amanda cn2:/tmp/amanda# ls -ltr total 32 <snip> -rw------- 1 backup backup 184 Nov 30 14:30 amcheck.20061130142955.debug -rw------- 1 backup backup 184 Nov 30 15:00 amcheck.20061130150004.debug cn2:/tmp/amanda# cat amcheck.20061130150004.debug amcheck: debug 1 pid 12684 ruid 1001 euid 0: start at Thu Nov 30 15:00:04 2006 amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.856 amcheck: pid 12684 finish time Thu Nov 30 15:00:38 2006 cn2:/tmp/amanda# Can anyone help me trouble-shoot this problem, starting with where to find the debug files that would be useful? Right now, I'm not worried about getting the remote host www to backup. Thanks for all your advice and suggestions. -Kevin Kevin Zembower Internet Services Group manager Center for Communication Programs Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, Maryland 21202 410-659-6139
