> Tim Holmes wrote: > >>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 > >>>>>gettingthrough 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]# > >>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? > >> > >> > >> > >[Tim Holmes wrote] > >According to ls -l on that directory, it is a binary > > > >TIM > > > well you could use "strace" to know more, but if you are not familiar > with linux then the output will not be very informative for you.. > do you know what this executable should do? > > BTW > to know the file type use: file <filename> [Tim Holmes wrote] Ok -- here is the output [root@SRVFS-01 bin]# file beremote beremote: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped [root@SRVFS-01 bin]# login as: root root@xxxxxxxxxxxx's password: Last login: Wed May 18 17:11:41 2005 from mod3teacher.mcaschool.net [root@SRVFS-01 root]# strace /etc/init.d VRTSralus.init start strace: exec: Permission denied execve("/etc/init.d", ["/etc/init.d", "VRTSralus.init", "start"], [/* 24 vars */ ]) = 0 [root@SRVFS-01 root]# thanks again for all your help TIM
