When I have accounts on several machines on the same lan I often NFS mount the remote homedirs under my local home dir. My backups of the local home dir is failing when it encounters the NFS mount dir. It complains permission denied and exits with gnutars status of 2. Amanda then considers this a failed backup.
I understand why permission is denied, by default, remote roots have no special privs on NFS mounted filesystems. I can probably work around the problem with an appropriate exclude. But as I recall, gnutar is run with a "don't cross FS boundry" option. Shouldn't that cause gnutar to ignore the mount dir and what is under it? Here are the lines from the mailed report. Interestingly, it seems that after the dump failed, it tried the same DLE a second time. /-- butch Home lev 1 FAILED [dump (18773) /opt/csw/bin/gtar returned 2] sendbackup: start [butch:Home level 1] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/opt/csw/bin/gtar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/opt/csw/bin/gzip -dc |/opt/csw/bin/gtar -xpGf - ... sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz sendbackup: info end ? /opt/csw/bin/gtar: ./jon/mums: Cannot savedir: Permission denied ? /opt/csw/bin/gtar: ./jon/mums: Warning: Cannot open: Permission denied | Total bytes written: 4354682880 (4.1GiB, 3.3MiB/s) ? /opt/csw/bin/gtar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ? dump (18773) /opt/csw/bin/gtar returned 2 sendbackup: error [dump (18773) /opt/csw/bin/gtar returned 2] \-------- /-- butch Home lev 1 FAILED [dump (18901) /opt/csw/bin/gtar returned 2] sendbackup: start [butch:Home level 1] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/opt/csw/bin/gtar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/opt/csw/bin/gzip -dc |/opt/csw/bin/gtar -xpGf - ... sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz sendbackup: info end ? /opt/csw/bin/gtar: ./jon/mums: Cannot savedir: Permission denied ? /opt/csw/bin/gtar: ./jon/mums: Warning: Cannot open: Permission denied | Total bytes written: 4354693120 (4.1GiB, 3.0MiB/s) ? /opt/csw/bin/gtar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ? dump (18901) /opt/csw/bin/gtar returned 2 sendbackup: error [dump (18901) /opt/csw/bin/gtar returned 2] \-------- -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
