On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 at 9:28am, Rivera, Edwin wrote > /backup2 is the filesystem and the directories below it are what i'd like > amanda to backup individually. > > here's my error from amreport: > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > amanda.us. /backup2/IDIR6008 lev 0 FAILED [disk /backup2/IDIR6008 offline > on amanda.us.lhsgroup.com?] > amanda.us. /backup2/DMPB5238 lev 0 FAILED [disk /backup2/DMPB5238 offline > on amanda.us.lhsgroup.com?]
What does 'ls -la /backup2' report about permissions? If I had to guess, I would say that the amanda user doesn't have permission to stat those subdirectories of /backup2. So amcheck is reporting the error. However, during an amdump, amanda runs tar via the setuid root runtar wrapper. So the amdump should still work. I just had a similar issue with subdirectories on a Linux client. I "fixed" it (so I wouldn't get a warning from amcheck every day) by giving the amanda user a secondary group membership with read permissions on those directories and putting "groups=yes" in my xinetd.d/amanda file. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
