In a message dated: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:13:04 EST
Joshua Baker-LePain said:
>On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 at 2:07pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>
>> I'd prefer to use tar to perform backups, primarilly for portability
>> of restores. However, amanda is running as user 'backup' which
>> doesn't seem to have read permissions in many places.
>
>Amanda calls tar via the setuid root 'runtar' wrapper. So when it runs
>the backups, it can get everything. If amcheck is complaining, it's
>because selfcheck doesn't run setuid root.
Nope, amcheck runs just fine, but the dump report states that the
backup of that 'drive' FAILED.
I assumed that it was a permissions problem, but since runtar is suid
(which I checked after you mentioned it) then that's not the issue.
I'll have to dig into the *.debug files more. Any ideas what could be
the issue?
Thanks,
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Seeya,
Paul
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