I had the same problem when I upgraded from amanda 2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2p2. In both versions the user was bin, but when I tried to retrieve data with the new version I found the directory structure but no files. I discovered amanda was just backing up only a fraction of what it was supposed to. For example instead of backing up a partition which was several gig it only backed up 250mb of the partition. I then noticed that when doing a du -sk on that partition as the user bin it reported 250mb. So I concluded amanda was only backing up what the user bin had permission to read and hence the directory structure being backed up with no files. So in short I don't think it's tar that's causing your problem I think it is a permission problem. Is the machine your trying to back up a new one? If so check your amandahosts/rhosts file set up properly. I did not understand this problem when I come up against it as I had only installed a more recent version of amanda which was configured using the exact same options. In the end I had to reinstall amanda using the user root which solved the problem but this is not recomended for security reasons.
If anyone reading this knows why this permissions problem occured I would be grateful if you could let me know. On 2 Mar 2002, at 11:26, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I'm trying something out and wonder if anyone has > seen this problem before. Before I investigate > too much more :) > > Just added a gnutar client (first one) and the > index's for that client contain only directory > names. None of the files names. Based on the > size of the image dumped to tape it does contain > the files. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) ----------------------------------------- David Flood Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 (0)1224 262721 Robert Gordon University School of Computing St. Andrews Street Aberdeen -----------------------------------------
