Hi, I'm using version 2.4.2p2 of Amanda. For a particular client on
which I use tar with Amanda to back up a single directory, this entry
has worked fine until I aborted an amdump several days ago (at least I
think these are connected). The next amdump (or one very soon
afterward) would show a "no estimate" with an amstatus for this machine
and finally a "FAILED" for the email report. Amchecks started coming
back with "NAK: amandad busy" for this machine. Investigating this, I
noticed that two processes from the amanda user were running on the
client, an amandad and (likely, in retro) a
/usr/local/libexec/amanda/2.4.2p2/sendsize. I killed these but an
amcheck only started two new ones--amandad and
/usr/local/libexec/amanda/2.4.2p2/selfcheck--which would continue to
run until I would kill them. One time I let them run over a
night or two to see if they would ever finish or be cleaned up. Alas,
it would seem they would run forever if I let them. If I kill them, an
amcheck will start them again and subsequent amchecks will give me the
dreaded "NAK: amandad busy" message.
I looked this up in the mailing list's archive and found other people with
similar problems but no good answers. It appeared that one guy had the
same problem although he wasn't even able to kill the processes like I
am able to.
The above might imply that a process is still running on the client
from the aborted amdump but a ps and grep for the amanda user will
only ever show the processes mentioned above which are clearly from a
recent amcheck itself (and show nothing if I kill these first).
The amandad.*.debug nor selfcheck.*.debug files don't offer any clues
that I can see, in fact, it would appear from these alone that
everything is fine.
Gauging from this, other experiences since I've upgraded to
2.4.2p2, and from other people's comments in the list's archive, such
problems appear to be related to this latest version of amanda.
--
Paul Yeatman (858) 534-9896 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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