Fedora Users — Re: FC 2/3 Backup

Tim Holmes wrote:

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

try rning:

strace for /opt/VRTSralus/bin/beremote

if any one here is familiar with the veritas and know why this could happen then it will be better... :)