FC 2/3 Backup

[Oded Maimon]

Tim Holmes wrote:

>>>Craig White wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 12:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
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>>>>>On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 10:54, Tim Holmes wrote:
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>>>>>>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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>>>getting
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>>>>>>through the process that you described (having cron tarbal the
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>>files
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>>>and
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>>>>>>move them) -- it sounds like a valid plan, I am just gonna need
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>>some
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>>>>>>help getting it done.
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>>>>>>As far as Amanda -- I have seen it when doing installs, but I
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>know
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>>>>>>nothing about it,  is it a backup server or a remote client,  any
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>>other
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>>>>>>info would be appreciated
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>>>>>Amanda generally wants to write directly to a tape drive on the
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>>machine
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>>>>>running the server.  If you are interested in an on-line disk
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>based
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>>>>>solution, look at backuppc:  http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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>>>>----
>>>>Amanada has both a client and server application. Thus on the
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>>computer
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>>>>that has the tape drive, it would need both. Any other system
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>would
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>>only
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>>>>need the client. Apparently there is a version in CVS that backs
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>up
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>>to
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>>>>filesystem and judging by my experience with Amanda, they are
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>likely
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>>to
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>>>>do a very good job at that. I don't believe that the version
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>>distributed
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>>>>with Fedora 3 will do that though.
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>>>>Craig
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>>>I'm running amanda 2.4.4p2 on FC2 and it backs up to disk just fine.
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>>It's
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>>>backing up RH9, FC1 and FC2 clients. It supports virtual tapes on
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>>disk,
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>>>but
>>>requires a fair amount of manual configuration for the "tape
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>changer".
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>>>It's a hairy-scary backup solution if you are used to a "real"
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>backup
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>>>system, though. It has it's idiosyncracies, but once you get it
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>setup
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>>you
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>>>can leave it to get on with it. I've not touched the setup in the
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>past
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>>6
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>>>months, it just silently backs-up the clients every night to a 250GB
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>>USB
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>>>drive. I wouldn't want to have to re-build a system from bare-metal
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>>using
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>>>an
>>>Amanda backup though.
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>>>--
>>>Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
>>>             University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
>>>E-mail :    nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
>>>Phone :     +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
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>>[Tim Holmes wrote]
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>>Ok Folks
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>>I am making what I think is progress here.
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>>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
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>installs
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>>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
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>>/etc/init.d/VRTSralus.init start
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>>it contemplates for a few seconds and then returns
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>>[FAILED]
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>>there are no error messages or pointers to logs created to help me try
>>to diagnose the problem.
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>>What should my next step be?
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>>I really want to solve this because its going to prove to be a
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>valuable
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>>learning tool for future problems, but I am not sure how to proceede
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>>TIM
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>>try (for debug):
>>sh -x /etc/init.d/VRTSralus.init start
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>[Tim Holmes wrote] 
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>Here is the output of the command 
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>I have no clue what it means
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> [root at SRVFS-01 root]# sh -x /etc/init.d/VRTSralus.init start
>+ '[' '!' -d /opt/VRTSralus ']'
>+ '[' '!' -d /etc/VRTSralus ']'
>+ '[' '!' -d /var/VRTSralus ']'
>+ CMD=start
>+ '[' -x /opt/VRTSralus/bin/beremote ']'
>+ echo -n 'Starting VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent '
>Starting VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent + rm -f
>/var/VRTSralus/ralus.pid
>+ rm -f /var/VRTSralus/ralus.errpid
>+ /opt/VRTSralus/bin/beremote
>+ PIDWAIT=30
>+ '[' 30 '!=' 0 ']'
>+ '[' -f /var/VRTSralus/ralus.pid ']'
>+ PIDWAIT=29
>+ echo -n .
>.+ sleep 1
>+ '[' -f /var/VRTSralus/ralus.errpid ']'
>+ '[' 29 '!=' 0 ']'
>+ '[' -f /var/VRTSralus/ralus.pid ']'
>+ PIDWAIT=28
>+ echo -n .
>.+ sleep 1
>+ '[' -f /var/VRTSralus/ralus.errpid ']'
>+ '[' 28 '!=' 0 ']'
>+ '[' -f /var/VRTSralus/ralus.pid ']'
>+ PIDWAIT=27
>+ echo -n .
>.+ sleep 1
>+ '[' -f /var/VRTSralus/ralus.errpid ']'
>+ '[' 27 '!=' 0 ']'
>+ '[' -f /var/VRTSralus/ralus.pid ']'
>+ PIDWAIT=26
>+ echo -n .
>.+ sleep 1
>+ '[' -f /var/VRTSralus/ralus.errpid ']'
>+ '[' 26 '!=' 0 ']'
>+ '[' -f /var/VRTSralus/ralus.pid ']'
>+ PIDWAIT=25
>+ echo -n .
>.+ sleep 1
>+ '[' -f /var/VRTSralus/ralus.errpid ']'
>+ PIDWAIT=0
>+ '[' 0 '!=' 0 ']'
>+ '[' -f /var/VRTSralus/ralus.pid ']'
>+ RETVAL=1
>+ echo
>
>+ '[' 1 = 0 ']'
>+ echo 'Starting VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent:
>[FAILED]'
>Starting VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent:
>[FAILED]
>+ exit 1
>[root at SRVFS-01 root]#
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Hi,
I'm not familiar with veritas, but i think that the problem is when he 
tries to run

/opt/VRTSralus/bin/beremote
what that script do? is it a script or binary?