Hi Jon, I will need some time to go through the logs. I would appreciate if you could reply to the users group instead of sending a personal mail, since this will help in finding solutions faster. :-)
Regards, Prashant On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 06:10:14PM +0530, Prashant Joshi wrote: > > Hi Jon, > > Have your level 0 backups been successful? What data are you backing up > > using ZWC? Can you please send us the server and client side logs to have > a > > look. > > Prashant, > > In 4 separate emails I'll send the collected logs. > Here I'll give you some details about what has been > happening and what systems are involved. It is more > than just the incrementals. I have two DLE that never > backup and two DLE that never increment. > > My amanda server (bigcow) is a Pentium III running > Fedora 13. There was no prebuilt version specific to > Fedora 13, so I've been using the one built for Fedora 12. > > I have 4 windows DLE from three different clients. > All pass amcheck with no complaints. > > 1. "lastchance" is a Pentium IV running Windows XP > natively. It has two partitions, C&D. The D drive > succeeds every amdump, but always at level 0. > > The C drive fails every dump (except as noted below) > with a message > "missing result for C drive in lastchance response". > > In some amdumps I have watched the Cdrive dump collecting > on the holding disk. It gets to the expected size and > sits there, finally failing with the above message. > > I have gotten lastchance:Cdrive dumps to succeed two > times by running an amdump just for that one DLE. But > even that fails more than it succeeds. > > 2. "mumsXP" is a virtual guest running Windows XP > on host "mums". "mums" is a Fedora 9 running on > an AMD dual core processor. This succeeds every dump. > > 3. "vostXP" is a virtual guest running Windows XP > on host "vost". "vost" is a laptop running Ubuntu 10.4 > with an Intel dual core processor. The network > connection is wireless. All the other hosts are wired. > "vostXP" has never succeeded, it has failed each dump > over a 30 day period. This DLE fails to return an > estimate. > > I've created the two virtual hosts using VirtualBox > software. > > As noted in my original posting, the two drives that > succeed each dump (lastchance:Ddrive & mumsXP:Cdrive) > have always dumped level 0's, no incrementals. > > Thanks for looking into this. Let me know any other > data you require. > > Jon > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] > JG Computing > 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 > Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax) > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] > JG Computing > 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 > Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax) > > Several times I've run an amdump from the cmdline > for just the lastchance:Cdrive. This has succeeded > 2 or 3 times. >
