Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:25:02 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org (FreeBSD Ports) Subject: Re: Using amanda from ports Message-ID: <m0suoca-000r3vC@main.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:50:58 -0500." <199509182150.QAA17573@luke.pmr.com>
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Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> wrote:
> I am having trouble getting amanda configured and running here. I have
> an Exabyte 8200 tape drive connected to an NCR 53C810 based adapter and
I was doing exactly the same thing last night...
> am running -stable as of 9/9. The problem I'm having is getting amanda
...but I'm using 2.0.5R.
> to label a tape (via amlabel). It always complains thusly:
> #amlabel pmr VOL001
> rewinding, writing label VOL001amlabel: rewinding tape: Input/output error
I think I did this
mt blocksize 32768
to avoid that. Whether or not that's the correct thing to do is another
question.
> an amcheck evokes the following response:
>
> #amcheck pmr
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> /usr8/amanda/work: 906638 KB disk space available, that's plenty.
> ERROR: /dev/nrst1: not an amanda tape.
> (expecting a new tape)
> NOTE: skipping tape-writeable test.
> Server check took 37.242 seconds.
>
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> WARNING: obiwan: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
I got that too and did some poking around. Seems it needs an entry in the
/etc/inetd.conf to fire off the /usr/local/libexec/amanda/amandad daemon. I
think I also added an entry to the /etc/services file for it. I found hints
about the services file entry in the log file that got created from just
running amdump to see what happened. Hmmm...shouldn't the pkg_add process take
care of updating system config files like those?
That said, I haven't quite gotten it to work yet, but I'm further along. I'm
running this on a home system, so there's one system with a few discs to back
up and no space for a holding disk. I haven't figured out if this is
reasonable or even possible yet, but I wanted to see what amanda did. I'll
probably end up punting back to dump or tar or cpio or whatever given the
small scale of things here.
Hope this helps a little...
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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