Re: failure strange dump
Hi thanks for your email, I'm sorry to be a pain but could you tell me if I can just add the amanda user to my root group. If not what permission does the new disk group need? Thanks for all your help so far. Jane. On Wednesday 14 August 2002 09:54, you wrote: Thanks for your email, if I want to change my amanda to run as a different user does this mean I have to re-install it? Jane. Uhh, what source did you use to first do it? The reason I ask is that there are rpms floating about, usually of a somewhat aged nature. amanda is a work in progress although nothing has been done that makes for version incompatibilities since 2.4.1 was released 2 or so years ago. I am personally running the latest snapshot of version 2.4.3b3 which is available as tarballs from the web site of a Mr. Martineau at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda This is unpacked as user root in the /home/amanda directory, and a chown -R amanda:disk amanda-2.4.3b3-20020805 is then done. Then I grab my configure script from the previous build and copy it into this newly unpacked directory. This script looks like this: - #!/bin/sh make clean rm -f config.status config.cache ./configure --with-user=amanda \ --with-group=disk \ --with-owner=amanda \ --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 \ --with-changer-device=/dev/sg1 \ --with-gnu-ld \ --prefix=/usr/local \ --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \ --with-tape-server=192.168.1.3 \ --with-amandahosts \ --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda --- You'll need to modify the obvious stuff above of course, but once this script has been used, it should be used for all subsequent rebuilds. Do a chmod +x on whatever you name this and it will run directly, or you can do a sh ./scriptname also. But first su yourself to be user amanda before running it. When thats done, make it. When thats done, exit back to root, and make install This will automaticly take care of all the various permissions bits for you, and amanda will then be run from the user amanda's crontab or by the user amanda if by hand. You will of course need to generate the user amanda and make amanda a member of the group disk. Such utilities as linuxconf make that an easy job. Last, your email agent is, in the spam filer 'Declude's eyes, (my ISP uses that utility for spam and viri killing) a broken one which caused my ISP to add a marker header, which in turn caused your message to be marked as read and moved to the local Junquemail folder for later forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I normally give it a quick scan before doing so and caught this one before I killed it. So you might want to see if its miss-configured or whatever. On Wednesday 14 August 2002 04:14, janebackup wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks for your reply, I don't use the email facility but I run a amreport and I get the following: FAILURE STRANGE DUMP dataserv / Results missing Amanda is running as root so I don't think its permissions. amanda doesn't like running as root, usually totally refusing to, but will get root perms when she needs to. amanda should be run as an unpriviledged user who is a member of group disk or maybe backup, and will do an suid when required. I'm compiling from source. I would be grateful if somebody could help me! The contents of this list usually get a recipe for building amanda from me about weekly, so you might want to look at the last couple of weeks worth to see one way of doing it that works here. Thanks in advance and for your help so far. Jane. jane, the disklist file looks fine. are you getting an email with errors? if so please send that and I can maybe help. If your getting disk offline errors it may be a permission issue. what user is amanda running as? are the filesystems (/dev/[sh]da[0-9]) owned by the group that amanda is running as? These are the first two things I would check. btw: I've had problems editing the group file by hand and adding amanda user to a group. It seems that the default group must be correct and amanda must be compiled with the correct options. Are you compiling from source or using an rpm? chrisj janebackup wrote: Chris, Thanks for your reply, yes I was trying to backup a single directory (thought I'd do this first just to test). If I have to backup the filesystem does this mean if I put the following entry in my disklist file?: dataserv/ always-full Cus I've already tried this and I still get the same errors. Is my disklist file wrong? Thanks for your help. Jane. jane Are you trying to backup a filesystem or a directory. Amanda is made to dump filesystems at the disk level and won't do
Re: failure strange dump
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:40:33PM +0100, janebackup wrote: Hi thanks for your email, I'm sorry to be a pain but could you tell me if I can just add the amanda user to my root group. If not what permission does the new disk group need? YMMV, this is my system. $ ls -lL /dev/dsk total 0 ... brw-r- 1 root sys 29,392 Jul 20 2001 c1t6d0s8 brw-r- 1 root sys 29,393 Jul 20 2001 c1t6d0s9 ^ ^^^ group read amanda must have this group permissions Seldom (in my experience) is the disk group the root group. Some systems allow only a single group membership at a time. In that case amanda should login as part of the disk group (sys for me). Other system allow multiple, simultaneous group membership. On those, amanda needs be listed as a member of the disk group (sys for me). 300 lines of email message for a 3 line question is overkill. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: failure strange dump
On Thursday 15 August 2002 09:40, janebackup wrote: Hi thanks for your email, I'm sorry to be a pain but could you tell me if I can just add the amanda user to my root group. If not what permission does the new disk group need? Thanks for all your help so far. Jane. I suppose so, here, 'disk' has amanda and root listed as alternate members by the linuxconf display. And, using linuxconf to edit things, its easy enough to fix either way. Your emailer is still miss-configured, so I had to rescue this from the Junquemail folder. My ISP uses the Declude spam/viri filter, and it doesn't like mail coming from localhost. I also note that a CC: was sent to the list, so I'll ignore any more of these in my personal inbox, and answer those on the list instead. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.11% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Re: failure strange dump
On Thursday 15 August 2002 10:47, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:40:33PM +0100, janebackup wrote: Hi thanks for your email, I'm sorry to be a pain but could you tell me if I can just add the amanda user to my root group. If not what permission does the new disk group need? YMMV, this is my system. $ ls -lL /dev/dsk total 0 ... brw-r- 1 root sys 29,392 Jul 20 2001 c1t6d0s8 brw-r- 1 root sys 29,393 Jul 20 2001 c1t6d0s9 ^ ^^^ group read amanda must have this group permissions Seldom (in my experience) is the disk group the root group. Some systems allow only a single group membership at a time. In that case amanda should login as part of the disk group (sys for me). Other system allow multiple, simultaneous group membership. On those, amanda needs be listed as a member of the disk group (sys for me). 300 lines of email message for a 3 line question is overkill. Agreed. I aso got a private copy of this, and I took her question to be 'could I make amanda a member of group root' which I said I suppose so since the group 'disk' has amanda and root as alternate members here on my machine according to linuxconf. Is this not correct, Jon? -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.11% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Re: failure strange dump
Hi Chris, Thanks for your reply, I don't use the email facility but I run a amreport and I get the following: FAILURE STRANGE DUMP dataserv / Results missing Amanda is running as root so I don't think its permissions. I'm compiling from source. I would be grateful if somebody could help me! Thanks in advance and for your help so far. Jane. jane, the disklist file looks fine. are you getting an email with errors? if so please send that and I can maybe help. If your getting disk offline errors it may be a permission issue. what user is amanda running as? are the filesystems (/dev/[sh]da[0-9]) owned by the group that amanda is running as? These are the first two things I would check. btw: I've had problems editing the group file by hand and adding amanda user to a group. It seems that the default group must be correct and amanda must be compiled with the correct options. Are you compiling from source or using an rpm? chrisj janebackup wrote: Chris, Thanks for your reply, yes I was trying to backup a single directory (thought I'd do this first just to test). If I have to backup the filesystem does this mean if I put the following entry in my disklist file?: dataserv/ always-full Cus I've already tried this and I still get the same errors. Is my disklist file wrong? Thanks for your help. Jane. jane Are you trying to backup a filesystem or a directory. Amanda is made to dump filesystems at the disk level and won't do a single directory. Are you getting an email of the errors or looking at the logs? chris janebackup wrote: Hi, I'm still trying to get my amanda backup working, I have amanda 2.4.3b3 on a linux machine and I am just trying to backup that one directory on that one machine with no tar/compression just to test for the minute. But even that doesn't work the only error messages I get in amcheck are: WARNING: info file /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/dataserv/_tmp/info does not exist and in my report after I have ran amdump is: FAILURE STRANGE dump summary dataserv /tmp RESULTS MISSING and also: driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner I would be grateful any help! Jane. Jane Mattley Support Team Studio 2 Online Ltd Now Supplying Computer Hardware Software, Call for a Quote We guarantee to beat any Like for Like E-Commerce Quote Update your website for FREE with CMS Sales : 0116 2425811Support : 0906 756 0364 Email : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.s2o.co.uk/ Legal Disclaimer:- Internet communications are not secure and therefore Studio 2 Online does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee and therefore access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful, furthermore please contact the sender immediately by replying or by calling 0870 7417226 and delete this message and any attachment permanently from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Studio 2 Online. Although Studio 2 Online operates anti-virus programmes, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever that is caused by viruses being passed. Thank you for your co-operation
Re: failure strange dump
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 04:14, janebackup wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks for your reply, I don't use the email facility but I run a amreport and I get the following: FAILURE STRANGE DUMP dataserv / Results missing Amanda is running as root so I don't think its permissions. amanda doesn't like running as root, usually totally refusing to, but will get root perms when she needs to. amanda should be run as an unpriviledged user who is a member of group disk or maybe backup, and will do an suid when required. I'm compiling from source. I would be grateful if somebody could help me! The contents of this list usually get a recipe for building amanda from me about weekly, so you might want to look at the last couple of weeks worth to see one way of doing it that works here. Thanks in advance and for your help so far. Jane. jane, the disklist file looks fine. are you getting an email with errors? if so please send that and I can maybe help. If your getting disk offline errors it may be a permission issue. what user is amanda running as? are the filesystems (/dev/[sh]da[0-9]) owned by the group that amanda is running as? These are the first two things I would check. btw: I've had problems editing the group file by hand and adding amanda user to a group. It seems that the default group must be correct and amanda must be compiled with the correct options. Are you compiling from source or using an rpm? chrisj janebackup wrote: Chris, Thanks for your reply, yes I was trying to backup a single directory (thought I'd do this first just to test). If I have to backup the filesystem does this mean if I put the following entry in my disklist file?: dataserv/ always-full Cus I've already tried this and I still get the same errors. Is my disklist file wrong? Thanks for your help. Jane. jane Are you trying to backup a filesystem or a directory. Amanda is made to dump filesystems at the disk level and won't do a single directory. Are you getting an email of the errors or looking at the logs? chris janebackup wrote: Hi, I'm still trying to get my amanda backup working, I have amanda 2.4.3b3 on a linux machine and I am just trying to backup that one directory on that one machine with no tar/compression just to test for the minute. But even that doesn't work the only error messages I get in amcheck are: WARNING: info file /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/dataserv/_tmp/info does not exist and in my report after I have ran amdump is: FAILURE STRANGE dump summary dataserv /tmp RESULTS MISSING and also: driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner I would be grateful any help! Jane. Jane Mattley Support Team Studio 2 Online Ltd Now Supplying Computer Hardware Software, Call for a Quote We guarantee to beat any Like for Like E-Commerce Quote Update your website for FREE with CMS Sales : 0116 2425811Support : 0906 756 0364 Email : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.s2o.co.uk/ Legal Disclaimer:- Internet communications are not secure and therefore Studio 2 Online does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee and therefore access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful, furthermore please contact the sender immediately by replying or by calling 0870 7417226 and delete this message and any attachment permanently from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Studio 2 Online. Although Studio 2 Online operates anti-virus programmes, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever that is caused by viruses being passed. Thank you for your co-operation -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.11% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Re: failure strange dump
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 at 2:54pm, janebackup wrote Thanks for your email, if I want to change my amanda to run as a different user does this mean I have to re-install it? Yes. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: failure strange dump
Chris, Thanks for your reply, yes I was trying to backup a single directory (thought I'd do this first just to test). If I have to backup the filesystem does this mean if I put the following entry in my disklist file?: dataserv/ always-full Cus I've already tried this and I still get the same errors. Is my disklist file wrong? Thanks for your help. Jane. jane Are you trying to backup a filesystem or a directory. Amanda is made to dump filesystems at the disk level and won't do a single directory. Are you getting an email of the errors or looking at the logs? chris janebackup wrote: Hi, I'm still trying to get my amanda backup working, I have amanda 2.4.3b3 on a linux machine and I am just trying to backup that one directory on that one machine with no tar/compression just to test for the minute. But even that doesn't work the only error messages I get in amcheck are: WARNING: info file /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/dataserv/_tmp/info does not exist and in my report after I have ran amdump is: FAILURE STRANGE dump summary dataserv /tmp RESULTS MISSING and also: driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner I would be grateful any help! Jane.
Re: failure strange dump
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 05:17:09PM +0100, janebackup wrote: Chris, Thanks for your reply, yes I was trying to backup a single directory (thought I'd do this first just to test). If I have to backup the filesystem does this mean if I put the following entry in my disklist file?: dataserv/ always-full Cus I've already tried this and I still get the same errors. Is my disklist file wrong? Thanks for your help. Jane. jane Are you trying to backup a filesystem or a directory. Amanda is made to dump filesystems at the disk level and won't do a single directory. Are you getting an email of the errors or looking at the logs? chris janebackup wrote: Hi, I'm still trying to get my amanda backup working, I have amanda 2.4.3b3 on a linux machine and I am just trying to backup that one directory on that one machine with no tar/compression just to test for the minute. But even that doesn't work the only error messages I get in amcheck are: WARNING: info file /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/dataserv/_tmp/info does not exist and in my report after I have ran amdump is: FAILURE STRANGE dump summary dataserv /tmp RESULTS MISSING and also: driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner I would be grateful any help! Jane. If your always-full dumptype uses tar and not some dump program it is fine. If always-full is using a dump program I believe that the disklist entry has to be the root directory of a file system or the device name for the file system. In the case that /tmp is a separate file system (my solaris system has this) your disklist is fine for either program. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Re: failure strange dump
jane, the disklist file looks fine. are you getting an email with errors? if so please send that and I can maybe help. If your getting disk offline errors it may be a permission issue. what user is amanda running as? are the filesystems (/dev/[sh]da[0-9]) owned by the group that amanda is running as? These are the first two things I would check. btw: I've had problems editing the group file by hand and adding amanda user to a group. It seems that the default group must be correct and amanda must be compiled with the correct options. Are you compiling from source or using an rpm? chrisj janebackup wrote: Chris, Thanks for your reply, yes I was trying to backup a single directory (thought I'd do this first just to test). If I have to backup the filesystem does this mean if I put the following entry in my disklist file?: dataserv/ always-full Cus I've already tried this and I still get the same errors. Is my disklist file wrong? Thanks for your help. Jane. jane Are you trying to backup a filesystem or a directory. Amanda is made to dump filesystems at the disk level and won't do a single directory. Are you getting an email of the errors or looking at the logs? chris janebackup wrote: Hi, I'm still trying to get my amanda backup working, I have amanda 2.4.3b3 on a linux machine and I am just trying to backup that one directory on that one machine with no tar/compression just to test for the minute. But even that doesn't work the only error messages I get in amcheck are: WARNING: info file /usr/adm/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/dataserv/_tmp/info does not exist and in my report after I have ran amdump is: FAILURE STRANGE dump summary dataserv /tmp RESULTS MISSING and also: driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner I would be grateful any help! Jane.
