FC 2/3 Backup

[Oded Maimon]

Tim Holmes wrote:

>>Tim Holmes wrote:
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>>>>>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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>>>>>>>>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,
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>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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>>>>>>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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>>>>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
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>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
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>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
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>found
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>>>>out that one of the problems it was hitting was some missing
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>packages,
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>>>>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
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>try
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>>>>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
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>>>+ '[' 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
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>>/opt/VRTSralus/bin/beremote
>>what that script do? is it a script or binary?
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>[Tim Holmes wrote] 
>According to ls -l on that directory, it is a binary
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>TIM
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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?

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