Joi et al:
> (I'm not positive about the read-write, but it definately needs read.)
It appears that AMANDA must write to:
* its config directories
* /etc/dumpdates (if you're using dump)
* /etc/amandates
* /usr/adm/amanda or wherever you've set the log directories to
* /tmp
If it can't write to any of them it can simply die silently. No error.
Nothing - especially if /tmp fails. amrecover and the index server seem
to be the most susceptible to non-writable directories, although amandad
and almost anything else that logs to /tmp can fail silently.
I'm inclined to hack the source and stop it from dying without a trace;
maybe a syslog of messages.critical saying there is no AMANDA logs would
be better than being stuck without a backup!
I must confess - although I've found AMANDA an excellent backup system
and I've restored from it a number of times - I find that its error
reporting is absolutely woeful and/or non-existent.
DL
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