Re: SELinux attrs

2008-07-28 Thread Nickolas Gray
It works on my MLS test system On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:27 PM, C. Chan wrote: The GNU tar in RHEL 5 seems to have been patched to allow backing up ACLs and XATTRs. Has anyone actually tried using this new feature in GNU tar and been successful in restoring the ACLs/XATTRs? Also Sprach Albrecht

Re: why permission denied on /dev/nst0 ?

2008-07-28 Thread Kenji Lefevre
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:48:07PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Kenji Lefevre wrote: > > Hello, > > > >i'm trying to use amrecover but it doesn't work. > >I got this line in amidxtaped.20080728141244.debug > > > >Could not rewind device '/dev/nst0': tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/nst0: > >Permiss

Re: SELinux attrs

2008-07-28 Thread C. Chan
The GNU tar in RHEL 5 seems to have been patched to allow backing up ACLs and XATTRs. Has anyone actually tried using this new feature in GNU tar and been successful in restoring the ACLs/XATTRs? Also Sprach Albrecht Dreß: Am 28.07.08 15:08 schrieb(en) Nickolas Gray: New to list, looking for

Re: SELinux attrs

2008-07-28 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Albrecht Dreß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while ago I started to write a simple wrapper script for star (you have to > re-build amanda, as the "tar" application it calls is hard-coded in the > executable), but did not yet succeed. I probably have to look deeper

Re: SELinux attrs

2008-07-28 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Am 28.07.08 15:08 schrieb(en) Nickolas Gray: New to list, looking for a good solution to backing up SELinux systems with MLS policues The reference in the Amanda documentation regarding SELinux xattrs is a rather cryptic one-liner The problem is that amanda relies upon GNU tar which is not

RE: Encrypting backups

2008-07-28 Thread Johan Booysen
I'm very happy to report that I got amgpgcrypt to work as well. I'll run a proper test with that one overnight to compare how long the backups will take and what sort of increase in size it causes. Thanks very much for the replies and suggestions! Johan From: Paul Crittenden [mailto:[E

Re: why permission denied on /dev/nst0 ?

2008-07-28 Thread Paul Bijnens
Kenji Lefevre wrote: Hello, i'm trying to use amrecover but it doesn't work. I got this line in amidxtaped.20080728141244.debug Could not rewind device '/dev/nst0': tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/nst0: Permission denied could not open tape device /dev/nst0: Permission denied though i'm r

Re: Parameters problem

2008-07-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 at 7:22am, Marc Muehlfeld wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I want to offer to users the ability to recover any file (or version of file) for 10 days. What parameters are best suited for doing the trick ? dumpcycle 10 days Or do nothing. 10 days is default for dumpcycle.

Re: performance tuning, gzip

2008-07-28 Thread Ian Turner
Good luck at your new place. How do you like it? Was/is it hard to move your consulting practice so far? --Ian On Saturday 26 July 2008 23:17:44 Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:55:56PM -0400, Ian Turner wrote: > > Jon, > > > > I thought you were in Princeton. Did you move? > > >

SELinux attrs

2008-07-28 Thread Nickolas Gray
All, New to list, looking for a good solution to backing up SELinux systems with MLS policues The reference in the Amanda documentation regarding SELinux xattrs is a rather cryptic one-liner Does anyone have more information on Amanda and SELinux? This is something I am required to do. A

why permission denied on /dev/nst0 ?

2008-07-28 Thread Kenji Lefevre
Hello, i'm trying to use amrecover but it doesn't work. I got this line in amidxtaped.20080728141244.debug Could not rewind device '/dev/nst0': tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/nst0: Permission denied could not open tape device /dev/nst0: Permission denied though i'm running amrecover as roo

RE: Encrypting backups

2008-07-28 Thread Johan Booysen
Paul, Thanks for your advice - amcryptsimple works beautifully. I'm yet to test amgpgcrypt, but will do that since it seems to be the more secure option. : ) From: Paul Crittenden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 2008 21:17 To: Johan Booysen Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org Subj

Re: directory locations and dumpuser after new install of amanda 2.6.0p1

2008-07-28 Thread Doyle Collings
I recieved the following warnings after adding --with-maxtapeblocksize to my amanda.spec file and issuing the rpmbuild -ba amanda.spec command: WARNINGS: no user specified (--with-user) -- using 'amanda' no group specified (--with-group) -- using 'backup' + --with-index-server=localhost --with-