This does *not* appear to be Gene's problem of several days ago. Yesterday, I reconfigured some disk, and reconfigured amanda to work with the disk changes.
For nearly one year, I have used the following as a top level dumptype, from which all others inherit: define dumptype global { comment "dat tapedrive, gnu tar" compress none exclude list optional ".amanda.excludes" holdingdisk yes index yes priority medium program "GNUTAR" record yes } Notice the `exclude list optional' line. So, last night, I added the second line to the following: bragi.private.network / server-compress bragi.private.network /home/mds/mail important-fast-compress bragi.private.network /home/mds/tmp medium-fast-compress bragi.private.network /usr important-fast-compress Now, since this addition, I get this: # sudo -u backup amcheck DailySet1 -cltw Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /space: 3704388 KB disk space available, using 3704388 KB Tape backup.015 is writable Tape backup.015 label ok Server check took 39.313 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- ERROR: bragi.private.network: [Can't open exclude file '/usr/local/home/mds/mail/.amanda.excludes': Permission denied] Client check: 2 hosts checked in 7.134 seconds, 1 problem found (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p1) Notice the _working_ exclude under /usr: # ls -l /usr/local/home/mds/mail/.amanda.excludes -rw------- 1 backup backup 59 Jan 28 01:00 /usr/local/home/mds/mail/.amanda.excludes # ls -l /usr/.amanda.excludes -rw------- 1 backup backup 23 Aug 4 09:33 /usr/.amanda.excludes When I comment OUT the `exclude list optional' line from conf, then I get *NO* amcheck errors -- which is what I did for last night's backup. What is the problem here? What is the solution to that problem? What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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