On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 at 2:14pm, Giuseppe Sacco wrote
from what I understand, the amanda user should be able to read all files (when using gtar) or the device node (when using dump).
Yes on the latter, but not the former.
The system I am testing amanda on is SLES9 with reiserfs file system over LVM devices, so I think I cannot use the normal /sbin/dump command (since it is meant for ext2/3 only). In order to use gnu tar, I think I have to build amanda with --with-user=root, otherwise the backup will not be able to read all files. Is this true?
*No*. Backups using tar are kicked off by the setuid root 'runtar' binary. Do *not* configure with user=root.
-- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
