Hi Gene,
first please apologize im not an native amarican speaker, so my english may be
odd at some points.
i use amanda at two sites with vtape-setups, so lets see if we can fix your
problems.
1.) what i found when amcheck complained about files/dirs not existing was i
had typos in the config-file or
the directorynames on the filesystem, so tripple-check the paths in amanda.conf
and on disk match.
(i never get that right at the first step.)
same for permisions. just set it to the expected values, even if they seem to
be correct.
2.) as for /var/backups/.ssh/id_rsa_amanda :
two possible solutions:
a) simplest solution: switch off the usage of ssh in amanda. as long as you trust your network you don't need that
extra-security.
on the amanda-server and every client
edit /etc/xinetd.d/amanda und replace the line
containing "server_args" with
server_args = -auth=bsdtcp amdump amindexd amidxtaped senddiscover
then create the file /var/backups/.amandahosts
with lines like
amanda.coyote.den backup amdump amindexd amidxtaped
this allows the server to connet to the clients.
b) (caveat: i never did it thisway, so my description my be falty)
create ssh-identitys on every involved host and distribute the public-key of
the server to all the clients:
this is complex and described in detail at
"https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Set_up_transport_encryption_with_SSH";
3.) as user backup "mkdir /buildbot/amanda/AMdb/DailySet1/curinfo"
that should fix most of your problems, give it a try and come back with whats
remaining.
;-)
hope it helps
Christoph
Am 11.08.2025 um 01:04 schrieb gene heskett:
On 8/10/25 14:47, gene heskett wrote:
su backup, ram
backup@amanda:/etc/amanda/DailySet1$ amcheck DailySet1
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
NOTE: tapelist file does not exists
it will be created on the next run
NOTE: Holding disk '/hold/DailySet1/': 767950848 KB disk space available, using
767848448 KB
Warning: Identity file /var/backups/.ssh/id_rsa_amanda not accessible: No such
file or directory.
Host key verification failed.
ERROR: directory '/raid/DailySet1' does not exist
ERROR: conf info dir '/buildbot/amanda/AMdb/DailySet1/curinfo' (Permission
denied)
ERROR: index dir '/buildbot/amanda/DailySet1/AMdb' (Permission denied)
Server check took 0.830 seconds
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
ERROR: amanda.coyote.den: selfcheck request failed: error sending REQ: write
error to: Broken pipe
Client check: 1 host checked in 1.062 seconds. 1 problem found.
(brought to you by Amanda 3.5.1)
That is actually 3 ERROR's & 1 WARNING
The first one above points at the /raid/Dailyset1, and has 40660 perms from the
/, owned by backup:backup.
The second also exists and is owned by backup;backup from the root, but curinfo
does not yet exist
Same thing with the 3rd error, 40660 perms all the way to it and owned by
backup:backup all he way.
What am I doing wrong? And what does it need to satisfy the .ssh warning, that
file and its parent dir does not exist.
Nothing above is telling me what I need to do next.
Thank you.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
