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* [[Selfcheck request failed]]
 
* [[Selfcheck request failed]]
 
* [[Why does amcheck fail while amdump succeeds?]]
 
* [[Why does amcheck fail while amdump succeeds?]]
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* [[Splitsize too small]]
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== amdump ==
 
== amdump ==
* [[Tar dumps every file in a level-1 backup after a hardware change]]
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* [[Tar level-1 dumps are the same size as level-0 dumps]]
 
* [[Amdump Only Creates Incremental Dumps in Holding Disk]]  
 
* [[Amdump Only Creates Incremental Dumps in Holding Disk]]  
 
* [[Amdump fails to create level 0 dumps]]  
 
* [[Amdump fails to create level 0 dumps]]  
 
* [[Amdump is terribly slow]]  
 
* [[Amdump is terribly slow]]  
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* [[Badly formatted response from (Zmanda Windows Client)]]
 
* [[Cannot overwrite active tape]]  
 
* [[Cannot overwrite active tape]]  
 
* [[Data timeout]]  
 
* [[Data timeout]]  
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* [[Infofile update failed]]  
 
* [[Infofile update failed]]  
 
* [[Memory allocation failed]]  
 
* [[Memory allocation failed]]  
* [[Mesg read: Connection reset by peer]]  
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* [[Mesg read: Connection reset by peer]]
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* [[No space left on device|"No space left on device" when writing to tape]]  
 
* [[Planner: ERROR amanda user is not allowed to execute the service noop]]  
 
* [[Planner: ERROR amanda user is not allowed to execute the service noop]]  
 
* [[Results missing]]  
 
* [[Results missing]]  
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* [[DUMP: Warning - block NNN is beyond the end of DEVICE]]
 
* [[DUMP: Warning - block NNN is beyond the end of DEVICE]]
 
* [[planner: ERROR Request to AMANDA CLIENT failed: timeout waiting for ACK]]
 
* [[planner: ERROR Request to AMANDA CLIENT failed: timeout waiting for ACK]]
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* [[dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump new disk]]
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* [[Taper log says: taper: critical (fatal): Can't locate auto/Amanda/Device/Device/swig_volume.al in @INC]]
  
 
== amflush ==
 
== amflush ==
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* [[No space left on device|"No space left on device" when writing to tape]]
 
* [[Tape Input-Output error]]
 
* [[Tape Input-Output error]]
 
== amrecover ==
 
== amrecover ==
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Amanda's error messages can sometimes be misleading; this section is indexed by the text of the message.
 
Amanda's error messages can sometimes be misleading; this section is indexed by the text of the message.
 
* [[500 Access not allowed]]  
 
* [[500 Access not allowed]]  
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* [[A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: Could not find a tape to use]]
 
* [[Access as localuser not allowed from remoteuser@remotehost]]  
 
* [[Access as localuser not allowed from remoteuser@remotehost]]  
 
* [[Addr 0.0.0.0: hostname lookup failed]]  
 
* [[Addr 0.0.0.0: hostname lookup failed]]  
 
* [[Amcheck cannot login as the amanda user]]  
 
* [[Amcheck cannot login as the amanda user]]  
 
* [[Amdump fails to create level 0 dumps]]  
 
* [[Amdump fails to create level 0 dumps]]  
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* [[changer problems|amtape: Could not load current slot.]]
 
* [[Can not read/write /var/lib/amanda/amandates: Permission denied]]  
 
* [[Can not read/write /var/lib/amanda/amandates: Permission denied]]  
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* [[Cannot open SCSI device /dev/sg... - Permission denied]]
 
* [[Cannot overwrite active tape]]  
 
* [[Cannot overwrite active tape]]  
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* [[changer problems|Changer problem: no slots available]]
 
* [[Client configured for auth=bsd while server requested 'bsdudp']]  
 
* [[Client configured for auth=bsd while server requested 'bsdudp']]  
 
* [[Client does not support DUMPER-API]]  
 
* [[Client does not support DUMPER-API]]  
 
* [[Configuration keyword expected]]  
 
* [[Configuration keyword expected]]  
 
* [[Could not read config file]]  
 
* [[Could not read config file]]  
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* [[Could not run GLIB test program, checking why]]
 
* [[Data timeout]]  
 
* [[Data timeout]]  
 
* [[Disk offline]]  
 
* [[Disk offline]]  
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* [[Dump larger than available tape space]]
 
* [[Dump larger than available tape space]]
 
* [[Dump returned 1]]  
 
* [[Dump returned 1]]  
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* [[Dumps too big, but cannot incremental dump new disk]]
 
* [[Dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps]]  
 
* [[Dumps way too big, must skip incremental dumps]]  
 
* [[EOF, check amidxtaped.debug]]  
 
* [[EOF, check amidxtaped.debug]]  
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* [[Splitsize too small|fallback_splitsize of xx KB < 0.1% of tape length]]
 
* [[Infofile update failed]]  
 
* [[Infofile update failed]]  
 
* [[Memory allocation failed]]  
 
* [[Memory allocation failed]]  
 
* [[Mesg read: Connection reset by peer]]  
 
* [[Mesg read: Connection reset by peer]]  
* [[No index records for host-disk]]  
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* [[No index records for host-disk]]
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* [[No space left on device|"No space left on device" when writing to tape]]  
 
* [[Planner: ERROR amanda user is not allowed to execute the service noop]]  
 
* [[Planner: ERROR amanda user is not allowed to execute the service noop]]  
 
* [[Results missing]]  
 
* [[Results missing]]  
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* [[Sendbackup error: no backup size line]]  
 
* [[Sendbackup error: no backup size line]]  
 
* [[Tape Input-Output error]]  
 
* [[Tape Input-Output error]]  
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* [[Taper: unable to allocate buffers]]
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* [[Splitsize too small|tape_splitsize of xx KB < 0.1% of tape length]]
 
* [[Unexpected field value in snapshot file]]
 
* [[Unexpected field value in snapshot file]]
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= By Topic =
 
= By Topic =
 
== Filenames ==
 
== Filenames ==
 
* [[Amrecover: wildcard characters in filenames]]
 
* [[Amrecover: wildcard characters in filenames]]
 
* [[Amrestore: "$" character in the filename to be restored]]
 
* [[Amrestore: "$" character in the filename to be restored]]
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== Build / Installation Problems ==
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* [[Could not run GLIB test program, checking why]]
 
== Network ==
 
== Network ==
 
* [[500 Access not allowed]]
 
* [[500 Access not allowed]]
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* [[Not an amanda tape]]
 
* [[Not an amanda tape]]
 
* [[Numerical argument out of domain]]
 
* [[Numerical argument out of domain]]
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* [[Hardware compression]]
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== Tape Spanning ==
 
== Tape Spanning ==
 
* [[Memory allocation failed]]
 
* [[Memory allocation failed]]
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* [[Splitsize too small]]
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== Tar ==
 
== Tar ==
* [[Tar dumps every file in a level-1 backup after a hardware change]]
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* [[Tar level-1 dumps are the same size as level-0 dumps]]
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* [[FAQ:What versions of GNU Tar are Amanda-compatible?]]
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* [[Unexpected field value in snapshot file]]
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== Zmanda Windows Client ==
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* [[Badly formatted response from (Zmanda Windows Client)]]
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= Build Problems =
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* [[configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (int)]]
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{{Languages}}

Latest revision as of 14:55, 21 February 2018

Pages linked from here describe common problems with Amanda, their causes, and their solutions. The same article may be linked under several different categories for easier searching.

By Application

amandad

amcheck

amdump

amflush

amrecover

amrestore

Error Messages

Amanda's error messages can sometimes be misleading; this section is indexed by the text of the message.

By Topic

Filenames

Build / Installation Problems

Network

Restoring

Tape Drives

Tape Spanning

Tar

Zmanda Windows Client

Build Problems


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