Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-14 Thread Zanga Chimombo
issue sorted. thanks everyone. i had to sort out /etc/sysconfig/iptables!

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Zanga Chimombo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i should've said that my rant is against the documentation not the design > rationale. ..it *is* on a wiki, nudge nudge. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Zanga Chimombo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the following line in amdump.X seems to give a clue: > "dumper: stream_client: connect to 192.168.0.60.46830 failed: No route to > host" > why is the server trying to dump to the client? Since Jon and Paul have addressed

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Zanga Chimombo
i should've said that my rant is against the documentation not the design rationale. They may have a substring in the name having the letters "log", but during the history of amanda, they are used for much more then the initial purpose of logging only. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Log_File

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-07-11 08:55, Zanga Chimombo wrote: my backup server is 192.168.0.1 and the client is 192.168.0.60. as a check, i am also backing up /etc on the server and that seems to go ahead without any problems. maybe my desired setup is unusual: all that i would like to do is a nightly backup o

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-07-11 08:55, Zanga Chimombo wrote: i have a problem with setting up amanda but more of that later. i have the following configurations: AMANDA_DBGDIR="/var/log/amanda" CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda" i have been looking in /var/log/amanda for clues to my problem to no avail. i have only jus

Re: Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:55:57AM +0200, Zanga Chimombo wrote: > > i have a problem with setting up amanda but more of that later. i have > the following configurations: > AMANDA_DBGDIR="/var/log/amanda" > CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda" > > i have been looking in /var/log/amanda for clues to my probl

Why are there log files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1?

2008-07-11 Thread Zanga Chimombo
i have a problem with setting up amanda but more of that later. i have the following configurations: AMANDA_DBGDIR="/var/log/amanda" CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda" i have been looking in /var/log/amanda for clues to my problem to no avail. i have only just discovered log files in /etc/amanda/DailyS