Yes, the Amanda user has permissions to read the raw devices (remember, the backup is working correctly on the server itself);
Strangely, the dump sizes (and the size of the dump images) are consistent with the df output ... which would seem to indicate the data is there ... so why can't I see it -Mike Martinez -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:45 PM To: Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: My client backup is populating directory names, but not files On Mon, 6 May 2002 at 1:00pm, Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote > On the other client, the backup procedure seems to go well - log files show > okay. The problem comes in restoring. When using "amrecover", it errors with > "connection reset by peer" (as recorder on the server debug file). When > using "amrestore", an image is restored, and this image contains the first > level (top level) directories from the client, but these directories are not > populated with files! > > Any idea why files are not getting populated? > > I'm using a stock amanda install; with "dump" instead of tar, on RH 7.1 Are you sure the amanda user has permission to read the raw devices? Are the dump sizes reported by amanda consistent with the sizes reported by df? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
