Troubleshooting
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By Application
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amandad
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amcheck
- Access as localuser not allowed from remoteuser@remotehost
- Amcheck cannot login as the amanda user
- Configuration keyword expected
- Not an amanda tape
- Numerical argument out of domain
- Port NNNN is not secure
- Selfcheck request failed
- Why does amcheck fail while amdump succeeds?
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amdump
- Tar dumps every file in a level-1 backup after a hardware change
- Amdump Only Creates Incremental Dumps in Holding Disk
- Amdump fails to create level 0 dumps
- Amdump is terribly slow
- Cannot overwrite active tape
- Data timeout
- Disk offline
- Dump returned 1
- Dump larger than available tape space
- Dump size is the same regardless of the backup level
- Dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps
- Infofile update failed
- Memory allocation failed
- Mesg read: Connection reset by peer
- Planner: ERROR amanda user is not allowed to execute the service noop
- Results missing
- Sendbackup error: no backup size line
- Tape Input-Output error
- Unexpected field value in snapshot file
- DUMP: Warning - block NNN is beyond the end of DEVICE
- planner: ERROR Request to AMANDA CLIENT failed: timeout waiting for ACK
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amflush
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amrecover
- 500 Access not allowed
- Amrecover: wildcard characters in filenames
- Could not read config file
- EOF, check amidxtaped.debug
- No index records for host-disk
- Why does `amrecover` start over and over again, when I tell it to extract from tape?
- Why does amrecover erase files?
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amrestore
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Error Messages
Amanda's error messages can sometimes be misleading; this section is indexed by the text of the message.
- 500 Access not allowed
- Access as localuser not allowed from remoteuser@remotehost
- Addr 0.0.0.0: hostname lookup failed
- Amcheck cannot login as the amanda user
- Amdump fails to create level 0 dumps
- Can not read/write /var/lib/amanda/amandates: Permission denied
- Cannot overwrite active tape
- Client configured for auth=bsd while server requested 'bsdudp'
- Client does not support DUMPER-API
- Configuration keyword expected
- Could not read config file
- Data timeout
- Disk offline
- DUMP: Warning - block NNN is beyond the end of DEVICE
- Dump larger than available tape space
- Dump returned 1
- Dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps
- EOF, check amidxtaped.debug
- Infofile update failed
- Memory allocation failed
- Mesg read: Connection reset by peer
- No index records for host-disk
- Planner: ERROR amanda user is not allowed to execute the service noop
- Results missing
- Selfcheck request failed
- Selfcheck request timed out
- Sendbackup error: no backup size line
- Tape Input-Output error
- Unexpected field value in snapshot file
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By Topic
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Filenames
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Network
- 500 Access not allowed
- Access as localuser not allowed from remoteuser@remotehost
- Client configured for auth=bsd while server requested 'bsdudp'
- Port NNNN is not secure
- Reverse DNS Gives an Incorrect Hostname For My Server or Client
- Selfcheck request failed
- Selfcheck request timed out
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Restoring
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Tape Drives
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Tape Spanning
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