Well, that got me a lot closer. I gave user backup read permission to
/etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf on the "backup" backup server. Now
when I run amrecover, I can do a sethost and a setdisk. But after doing
so, an ls gives me an empty list. No error message. It's just that there
are no files listed. On the real backup server, where the backups are
actually being made, I do get a list of files, just as normal. I checked
the permissions on the index and info files. They look right.
Actually, I moved the location of the indexdir and infofile to be on the
same remote nfs share as the virtual tapes themselves. So when I run
amrecover on the backup backup server, it is reading the same files as
it is when I run it on the real backup server. I think moving those
files to the remote nfs server was a good thing, not just for this use
but also, now amanda's index and info files are in another building. I
would still like to be able to use amrecover on two different hosts in
my buildijng though.
On 10/28/2016 10:52 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
It is the amindexd process that report the error.
Look at its debug file.
It is run as your amanda user, did it have permission to read
/etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf.
Jean-Louis
On 28/10/16 11:08 AM, John G Heim wrote:
I am using the ubuntu amanda-server and amanda-client packages
(3.3.6) on ubuntu server 16.04 to backup to virtual tapes on an NFS
mounted file system. Everything is great on the backup server. I can
run amrecover locally and recover files. But I thought I'd try
mounting the NFS share on a client machine to see if I could recover
files that way. I thought if the backup server ever goes down, I
might still be able to recover files on the client machine.
So I installed amanda-server on the client machine and copied the
contents of /etc/amanda/DailySet1/ to the client. Then I ran:
# amrecover DailySet1 -o auth=local -s localhost
That gives me the error message, ""501 Could not read config file for
DailySet1!". I amd doing this as root. Root does have permission to
open/read /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf.
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