Hi Gene, thank for your help. I used the rpm. Two questions, what is FQDN and does rsync only apply to non-rpm install?
Thanks, Trevor. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Trevor Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:55 AM Subject: Re: Amrecover:access not allowed. > On Thursday 01 August 2002 04:02, Trevor Fraser wrote: > >Hello all. > > > >Last night my boss gave me a test to see if I can recover lost > > files before copying everything from his computer to our amanda > > server( I know we could backup his computer too, but we've chosen > > to use samba to store files on a share here and backup this > > share). Anyway, so I couldn't do it, and obviously he isn't > > impressed. > > > >Anyway, the problem comes when I try 'amrecover' from the / > > directory. The error is: > > > >[root@merlin /]# amrecover > >AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on localhost . . . > >220 merlin AMANDA index server (2.4.2p2) ready. > >500 Access not allowed: [ access as amanda not allowed from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] amandahostsauth failed [ > > root@merlin /]# > > > >My amanda dumpuser is root, and in amanda, amandaidx and amidxtape > > are user = amanda. My .amandahost looks like this: > > > >merlin.systematic.lan root > >merlin.systematic.lan amanda > >localhost.localdomain amanda > > > >The file belong to root:root and has read and write privileges for > > the user owner only. > > > >I've read the FAQ's and saw a similar problem, but with regard to > > amcheck. I can amcheck and amdump fine. What is the next step > > in troubleshooting? > > > >Thanks, Trevor. > > Making sure that your setup is consistent as far as users and groups > are defined would be a good start. > > You didn't say whether you were using the rpm's or the tar.gz's, > which would also be helpfull. > > The first thing I do after unpacking a new amanda archive is to do > as root, "chown -R amanda:disk amanda-version-date" > > Then become user amanda, configure and build it. Then become root > again and do the make install, thereby automaticly setting all the > perms and such amanda needs to run for backups. For backups, it > must be run as the user of the user:group spec above, and will > refuse to run for user root. > > For recoveries, I think those functions must be run as root. Also, > using localhost@localdomain will come back to haunt you so please > remove that line in addition to the one with the root user > specifier. Use the FQDN of the machine when you add another > machine even if its the same machine its running on. > > One other item, samba doesn't keep all the file dates correctly in > its local copies. If you are going to do a local copy, and then > backup that local copy, rsync does a much better job of doing that > copy. > > -- > Cheers, Gene > AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M > Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M > 99.09% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
