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Tim Holmes wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 12:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 10:54, Tim Holmes wrote:
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
getting
through the process that you described (having cron tarbal the
files
and
move them) -- it sounds like a valid plan, I am just gonna need
some
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
other
info would be appreciated
Amanda generally wants to write directly to a tape drive on the
machine
running the server. If you are interested in an on-line disk based
solution, look at backuppc: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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Amanada has both a client and server application. Thus on the
computer
that has the tape drive, it would need both. Any other system would
only
need the client. Apparently there is a version in CVS that backs up
to
filesystem and judging by my experience with Amanda, they are likely
to
do a very good job at that. I don't believe that the version
distributed
with Fedora 3 will do that though.
Craig
I'm running amanda 2.4.4p2 on FC2 and it backs up to disk just fine.
It's
backing up RH9, FC1 and FC2 clients. It supports virtual tapes on
disk,
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
you
can leave it to get on with it. I've not touched the setup in the past
6
months, it just silently backs-up the clients every night to a 250GB
USB
drive. I wouldn't want to have to re-build a system from bare-metal
using
an
Amanda backup though.
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University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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[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
TIM
try (for debug):
sh -x /etc/init.d/VRTSralus.init start
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