From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 18 15:25:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA05541 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:25:11 -0700 Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.127.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA05528 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:25:06 -0700 Received: by main.statsci.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0suoca-000r3vC; Mon, 18 Sep 95 15:25 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: Bob Willcox cc: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org (FreeBSD Ports) Subject: Re: Using amanda from ports In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:50:58 -0500." <199509182150.QAA17573@luke.pmr.com> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:25:02 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bob Willcox 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