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Tim Holmes wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Craig White wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 12:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Charles -- I am more than willing to try anything at this point,
however, I am new to linux, and so I will need a little guidance
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<pre wrap="">getting
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<pre wrap="">through the process that you described (having cron tarbal the
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<pre wrap="">move them) -- it sounds like a valid plan, I am just gonna need
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<pre wrap="">help getting it done.
As far as Amanda -- I have seen it when doing installs, but I know
nothing about it, is it a backup server or a remote client, any
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<pre wrap="">info would be appreciated
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<pre wrap="">Amanda generally wants to write directly to a tape drive on the
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<pre wrap="">running the server. If you are interested in an on-line disk based
solution, look at backuppc: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/">http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/</a>
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Amanada has both a client and server application. Thus on the
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<pre wrap="">that has the tape drive, it would need both. Any other system would
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<pre wrap="">need the client. Apparently there is a version in CVS that backs up
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<pre wrap="">filesystem and judging by my experience with Amanda, they are likely
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<pre wrap="">do a very good job at that. I don't believe that the version
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<pre wrap="">with Fedora 3 will do that though.
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<pre wrap="">I'm running amanda 2.4.4p2 on FC2 and it backs up to disk just fine.
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<pre wrap="">backing up RH9, FC1 and FC2 clients. It supports virtual tapes on
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<pre wrap="">but
requires a fair amount of manual configuration for the "tape changer".
It's a hairy-scary backup solution if you are used to a "real" backup
system, though. It has it's idiosyncracies, but once you get it setup
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<pre wrap="">can leave it to get on with it. I've not touched the setup in the past
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<pre wrap="">months, it just silently backs-up the clients every night to a 250GB
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<pre wrap="">drive. I wouldn't want to have to re-build a system from bare-metal
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Amanda backup though.
--
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nmw@ion.le.ac.uk">nmw@ion.le.ac.uk</a>
Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
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<pre wrap=""><!---->[Tim Holmes wrote]
Ok Folks
I am making what I think is progress here.
I have examined the logs for the remote agent (called RALUS) and found
out that one of the problems it was hitting was some missing packages,
which I have dug about and found and installed. The agent now installs
without any complaints - either on the screen or in the logs. The
problem now comes when I try to start it. I issue the command
/etc/init.d/VRTSralus.init start
it contemplates for a few seconds and then returns
[FAILED]
there are no error messages or pointers to logs created to help me try
to diagnose the problem.
What should my next step be?
I really want to solve this because its going to prove to be a valuable
learning tool for future problems, but I am not sure how to proceede
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<pre wrap=""> sh -x /etc/init.d/VRTSralus.init start</pre>
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