On Tuesday 14 March 2006 17:12, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: >On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:44:50PM -0500, Vytas Janusauskas wrote: >>> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check >>> -------------------------------- >>> ERROR: hal: [Can't open disk '/mnt/data06/Deforest3'] >>> ERROR: hal: [No include for '/mnt/data06/Deforest3_PART1'] >>> Client check: 5 hosts checked in 3.259 seconds, 2 problems found >> >> IIRC amcheck does NOT run some of its checks as root. >> Thus if the amanda user running amcheck can not visit >> /mnt/data06/Deforest3 and needed directories below that, >> it could cause errors like that above when amcheck looked >> for files. > >It's worse than that. Include processing is performed before setuid >root mode is started. selfcheck, sendsize, and sendbackup all fail >to include directories that the amanda user can't read. You just >lose and the directories don't get backed up. Makes it hard to >provide a backup service for machines that aren't centrally managed, >which is more and more the way the world (for some of us) is going. > >-Mitch Which brings up the obvious question Mitch, of howto grep the logs and discover precisely whats missing, and how can the amanda coders fix it?
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