Re: anyone played with amanda?
Stan Brown wrote: > Mmm, wierd. Have you check the debug files in /tmp/amanda? You did > build > --with-debuging, right? i'm using the amanda from debian..not sure how they built it. but i do have /tmp/amanda (didn't know about it before, thanks!) but it doesn't give much additional info: Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 000-B02F0508 SEQ 983235854 SECURITY USER backup SERVICE selfcheck OPTIONS ; DUMP hda7 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;compress-fast;index; GNUTAR hda6 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;compress-fast;index;exclude-list=/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar; DUMP md0 0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth;compress-fast;index; sending ack: Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 000-B02F0508 SEQ 983235854 bsd security: remote host fury.graphon.com user backup local user backup amandahosts security check passed amandad: running service "/usr/lib/amanda/selfcheck" amandad: sending REP packet: Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 000-B02F0508 SEQ 983235854 OPTIONS ; ERROR [can not access /dev/hda7 (hda7): Permission denied] OK hda6 ERROR [can not access /dev/md0 (md0): Permission denied] OK /usr/lib/amanda/runtar executable OK /sbin/dump executable OK /sbin/restore executable OK /bin/tar executable OK /var/lib/amanda/amandates read/writable OK /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/. read/writable OK /bin/gzip executable OK /var/lib/dumpdates read/writable OK /dev/null read/writable OK /tmp has more than 64 KB available. OK /tmp/amanda has more than 64 KB available. OK /var/lib has more than 64 KB available. amandad: got ack: Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 000-B02F0508 SEQ 983235854 amandad: pid 29397 finish time Mon Feb 26 17:05:47 2001 the one thing i have not tried is changing the dump method for the other 2 drives to match that of hda6. although it shouldn't make a differenceworth a try i suppose i'll try that when i get in tomorrow. any other ideas? thanks again! nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anyone played with amanda?
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > > Make certain Amanda (the user) is in the group that owns the disk > devices. i don't have an amanda user. i do have a 'backup' user which runs the amanda program according to xinetd: service amanda { socket_type = dgram protocol= udp wait= yes user= backup server = /usr/lib/amanda/amandad } and as i had in my original mail the user backup is a member of the correct group. also, it can't access 2 out of the 3 disks on the system, so it can access something..just not everything. all permissions are identical thanks nate
anyone played with amanda?
hi. i am messing around with amanda tryin to get it working. and am unsure why i recieve this error message: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check ERROR: mail-wa2: [can not access /dev/hda7 (hda7): Permission denied] ERROR: mail-wa2: [can not access /dev/md0 (md0): Permission denied] Client check: 1 host checked in 0.092 seconds, 2 problems found. (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.1p1) my disklist shows: mail-wa2 md0 always-full mail-wa2 hda6 comp-root-tar mail-wa2 hda7 comp-user i checked the permissions, /dev/md0 and hda7 have the same permissions as hda6 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/hda6 /dev/md0 /dev/hda7 brw-rw1 root disk 3, 6 Nov 30 07:22 /dev/hda6 brw-rw1 root disk 3, 7 Nov 30 07:22 /dev/hda7 brw-rw1 root disk 9, 0 Dec 11 21:03 /dev/md0 permissions seem to be ok? : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id uid=34(backup) gid=34(backup) groups=34(backup),6(disk),26(tape) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/dump -S /dev/hda6 35379200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/dump -S /dev/hda7 270146560 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/dump -S /dev/md0 1456024576 can't figure out why it can access /dev/hda6(mounted as /) but not able to access /dev/hda7(mounted as /usr) or /dev/md0(mounted as /var/spool) running debian 2.2r2 on both systems. apt-get'd amanda this afternoon. this is my first time playing with amanda, if you need more info lemme know. thanks nate