What does amcheck say, no logs may mean authentication failure between client and server.
Try running the client on the client side, as the amanda user, from the command line. You should get a log, on occasion I’ve seen failures that proved to be a path issue to the binary in the inetd.conf (or equiv). From: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:00 PM To: 'Chris Nighswonger' <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: Breaking DLEs up Client and server side? /var/log/amanda/ ? From: Chris Nighswonger <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:43 AM To: Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Breaking DLEs up ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. Oddly enough, /tmp/amanda is empty. On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:33 AM Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have been using a very similar setup for years, though I did not have any quotes in the first line of each DLE. I do NOT believe the quotes are an issue. What do the /tmp/amanda files show for these attempted dumps? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Chris Nighswonger Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:12 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Breaking DLEs up ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. I attempted this and it appears to not have worked. I'm not sure why. Here is the relevant portion of my DLEs: fileserver "/netdrives/CAMPUS/af" "/netdrives/CAMPUS" { comp-tar include "./[a-f]*" estimate server } fileserver "/netdrives/CAMPUS/gl" "/netdrives/CAMPUS" { comp-tar include "./[g-l]*" estimate server } fileserver "/netdrives/CAMPUS/mr" "/netdrives/CAMPUS" { comp-tar include "./[m-r]*" estimate server } fileserver "/netdrives/CAMPUS/sz" "/netdrives/CAMPUS" { comp-tar include "./[s-z]*" estimate server } Here are the corresponding lines from amreport for the last backup run: fileserver:/netdrives/CAMPUS/af 0 1k dump done (5:28:16), waiting for writing to tape fileserver:/netdrives/CAMPUS/gl 0 1k dump done (5:28:11), waiting for writing to tape fileserver:/netdrives/CAMPUS/mr 0 1k dump done (5:28:06), waiting for writing to tape fileserver:/netdrives/CAMPUS/sz 0 1k dump done (5:27:11), waiting for writing to tape Kind regards, Chris
