I help admin some machines on a small LAN and a couple of what I believe are minor issues, but the guy I work for is worried about them.
First of all, the backup server is an older 32-bit machine, with an IDE hard drive. Backups are to an external USB drive (2TB). The machine runs CentOS (5.9). We have Amanda version 3.2.0 installed. The machine is also the DNS, DHCP, and LDAP server for this LAN and it is used for little else. The first issue is when the daily amcheck is run, *sometimes* it gets a timeout when it checks itself -- I cannot manually reproduce this. This happens only ossasionally and it never has a problem backing itself up. The guy I manage this LAN for thinks there might be a problem. *I* don't think so, I think it is just a slow machine operating right on the edge of the timeout period. A typical message looks like: From: "Amanda user" <[email protected]> Date: Feb 4, 2013 4:43 PM Subject: 60 Village Drive AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE To: <[email protected]> Cc: Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 98976 MB disk space available, using 98876 MB slot 25: volume '60villagedrive-025' is still active and cannot be overwritten slot 26: volume '60villagedrive-026' Will write to volume '60villagedrive-026' in slot 26. NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Server check took 2624.707 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- WARNING: bach: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for REP Client check: 3 hosts checked in 95.344 seconds. 1 problem found. (brought to you by Amanda 3.2.0) The second issue is what Amanda is stating about the tape(s) it is expecting in the amdump report: "These dumps were to tape 60villagedrive-027. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: 60villagedrive-vault-023. The next new tape already labelled is: 60villagedrive-028." The 'vault' tapes are on a *different* virtual changer (full backups are vaulted there weekly and these vault tapes are burned to DVD-Rs from time to time). The guy I manage this LAN for thinks Amanda might be confused, but I don't think so. -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / [email protected] Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments
