I've just upgraded from 2.4.2p2 to 2.4.3b3, at the same time I've changed my amanda user from root to bin. I notice when I get the report at the end of a level 0 backup. It has backed up nowhere near all the data that exists.
For example: /export/home/staff has 11.8GB but is only backing up 235MB. Now when I do a du -sk /export/home/staff as user bin it reports (Guess what) 235MB. This happened before when I upgraded to 2.4.2p2 I could not get a solution so I swapped to user root which solved the problem. Some time after someone on the list said the solution was to configure and make as the same user your going to be using then do make install as root(obviously). So because it's not recommended to have the amanda user as root I thought since I was upgrading 2.4.3b3 I would kill two birds with one stone and put it back to bin. So again I find myself in this position. To give more detail, I'm using dump as my backup method and my tapeserver is Solaris 7. At the moment I'm only backing up the tapeserver i.e. localhost. It is not a tape space problem as I'm using DLT's and the report said the total original size was only 18GB. Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix it? If not what are the security issues with the amanda user being root? Thanks in advance David Flood Systems Administrator
