The last couple days we have been getting the following errors (see below).
After some searching on the errors someone mentioned about doing am amcheck on
these hosts. Our Backups were working fine until a few days ago but I decided
to run amcheck on the host that had the errors just to be sure. Sure enough the
amcheck failed on these hosts.
One strange sequence of events was on machine hardy I ran amcheck and it
failed. A few minutes later when I ran it again it passed, and a few minutes
later it failed again. Hummmm
These hosts all run the same version of RedHat, and they are multi-homed; same
host name but they have different subnet/interfaces. I started wondering if the
multi-home could be causing the problem.
So I modified my disk list to use the IP address of the interfaces such as the
following:
hardy / remote-dump-bsd -1 enet100
100.210.30.54 / remote-dump-bsd -1 enet100
100.210.40.22 / remote-dump-bsd -1 enet100
I ran amcheck on each of the hostnames.
[99][amandabacku@hertz]:~/daily% amcheck -c daily hardy
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
WARNING: hardy: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK
Client check: 1 host checked in 30.006 seconds. 1 problem found.
(brought to you by Amanda 3.2.3)
[100][amandabacku@hertz]:~/daily% amcheck -c daily 100.210.30.54
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.104 seconds. 0 problems found.
(brought to you by Amanda 3.2.3)
[101][amandabacku@hertz]:~/daily% amcheck -c daily 100.210.40.22
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
WARNING: 100.210.40.22: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK
Client check: 1 host checked in 30.006 seconds. 1 problem found.
(brought to you by Amanda 3.2.3)
The amanda client on hardy is from the RedHat distrubtion. Just use what was in
the box.
Not sure why all the sudden I am getting the amcheck error on these machines.
Network wise nothing has been changed.
This only shows that amcheck works, it does not show that the backup will work.
Some options are to use the IP address in place of the name. Another is to make
a CNAME for the subnets.
Any comments or suggestions as to what might be going on or am I completely off
base.
Thanks
Robert
---------------------ERRORS-----------------------------------------
planner: ERROR Request to bohr failed: timeout waiting for ACK
planner: ERROR Request to hardy failed: timeout waiting for ACK
planner: ERROR Request to leibniz failed: timeout waiting for ACK
banach / lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry: [request failed: timeout
waiting for ACK]]
banach /boot lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry: [request failed: timeout
waiting for ACK]]
pythagoras / lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry: [request failed: timeout
waiting for ACK]]
pythagoras /boot lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry: [request failed:
timeout waiting for ACK]]
banach / lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 bytes instead of 32768]
banach / lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 bytes instead of 32768]
banach /boot lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 bytes instead of 32768]
banach /boot lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 bytes instead of 32768]
pythagoras / lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 bytes instead of 32768]
pythagoras / lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 bytes instead of 32768]
pythagoras /boot lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 bytes instead of
32768]
pythagoras /boot lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 bytes instead of
32768]
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Robert P. McGraw, Jr.
Manager, Computer System EMAIL: [email protected]
Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807
Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055
150 N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
