Great, clients can now perform their own backups. Thanks! -- Later, Darin
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]> wrote: > You must authorize a client to do its own backup. > > $ man amanda.conf > > dump-limit [ server | same-host ]* > Default: server. Specify which host can initiate a backup of the > dle. With server, the server can initiate a backup with the amdump > command. With same-host, the client can initiate a backup with the > amdump_client command. > > > The attached patch fix the warning. > > Jean-Louis > > > On 04/19/2012 10:52 AM, Darin Perusich wrote: >> >> Now that I have this setuid issue resolved running amdump_client >> {list,check} is successful on the client. "amdump_client dump: appears >> to be successful but nothing is backed up and the report I'm emailed >> says "planner: FATAL no DLE to backup" but I don't know what's causing >> that. >> >> There is the following warning in the client-side log, but I'm not >> sure if it's related. >> >> amdump_client: warning: Argument "DISK /var added\n" isn't numeric in >> numeric ne (!=) at /usr/sbin/amdump_client line 101,<GEN2> line 4. >> >> -- >> Later, >> Darin >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Darin, >>> >>> The 'amservice' binary must set suid root. >>> >>> Jean-Louis >>> >>> >>> On 04/17/2012 03:43 PM, Darin Perusich wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there any documentation on using amdump_client? Nothing comes up >>>> when searching the wiki other than mentions in release notes and the >>>> man page isn't proving very helpful. >>>> >>>> I've configured amdumpd on the server, per >>>> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amdumpd_protocol, and added my client >>>> to .amandahosts on the server so it can connect. Whenever I run >>>> amdump_client from the client as amanda, see amanda-client.conf below, >>>> it fails with permission denied when attempting to bind to the local >>>> ports, which are under 1024. Yet, when i try and run the program as >>>> root it fails because I'm not amanda. >>>> >>>> I'm stuck in a loop, what am I missing? >>> >>> >
