Thank you! Sounds like I have some homework to do revamping my Amanda
configurations.
I should note that I have often used the wiki as a guide (I assume others do too), and there is no
mention of the permission requirements in either of the following pages:
https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Exclude_and_include_lists
https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Split_DLEs_With_Exclude_Lists
I suppose once I get my configuration straightened out, I could jump in and edit the wiki a bit.
Haven't done anything there for a while.
On 4/13/16 3:15 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
On 13/04/16 03:11 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
program "GNUTAR"
read the description of include in the amanda.conf man page, it clearly state amanda need read
privilege.
amgtar do not have this limitation, you should try it.
Jean-Louis
On 4/13/16 1:46 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
Chris,
You are using the "GNUTAR" program or the amgtar application?
Jean-Louis
On 13/04/16 12:32 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
This is puzzling and seems almost too elementary to be a puzzle.
So, I have a directory on the server that belongs to a faculty member and has 750 permissions.
The group ownership is his research group.
Amanda had been backing this up just fine. However, it had gotten well over 600GB, so I decided
to break it up into two pieces using include and exclude. Then, running amcheck, I got an error
that it didn't have access. I've seen this before. I added Amanda to the research group, and
then amcheck worked. So, basically, Amanda needs access to items referenced in the disklist,
and being in the disk group and backup group don't suffice. Whatever Amanda does in the way of
suid doesn't seem to suffice either.
Then, as I was looking through my backup reports to see when the last full was on another
research directory that I had broken up into 5 pieces, I saw them repeatedly showing up in the
reports with a size of 10. Looking through the notices at the top of the backup reports, I saw
tar claiming that a subdirectory did not exist. But it does, and it has about 300GB of data.
The permissions are 750.
What is it about include and exclude that seems to be breaking the permissions
for Amanda?
What do I need to do to make these work without going through a bunch of hoops in /etc/group
and/or messing with Amanda's proper permission set?
I'm running Amanda 3.3.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on this particular server.
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