The AEE (Amanda Enterprise Edition) service controls the Zmanda backup server.
This article is for Zmanda Enterprise version 4.1
Analysis
The following issues would require a restart of the AEE service:
- setup-aee command reports any component as inactive or failed.
- Scheduled backups are not running.
- Continuous backup failures creating defunct amdump jobs.
Solution
The AEE service can be restarted using the command:
# systemctl restart run-zmanda-backup-server.service
After the service is restarted, wait for a few minutes for all the components to come up.
You can verify the service status using the command:
# setup-aee