> > 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/ > > > > > > ---- > > > 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. > > > > -- > > Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, > > University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK > > E-mail : nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555 > > > [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 [Tim Holmes wrote] Here is the output of the command I have no clue what it means [root@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@SRVFS-01 root]#
