Re: strange behavior at NFS mounts

2010-09-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > It was permissions.  But ?strangely?, it was the permissions on the > mount point directory, not on the root directory of the mounted FS. Yeah, I've seen funny behavior there, too. I've never researched it, but perhaps the system uses the logi

Re: strange behavior at NFS mounts

2010-09-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:05:20AM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > ??? /opt/csw/bin/gtar: ./jon/mums: Cannot savedir: Permission denied > > I assume that mums is the mountpoint? I think that tar will need > permission on that directory j

Re: strange behavior at NFS mounts

2010-08-29 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: >  ? /opt/csw/bin/gtar: ./jon/mums: Cannot savedir: Permission denied I assume that mums is the mountpoint? I think that tar will need permission on that directory just to read it and determine that it is on a different filesystem -- similar to

strange behavior at NFS mounts

2010-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
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

using several NFS mounts as file tape

2005-05-25 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
I'm using the file driver for virtual tapes. The vtapes will live on several NFS mounts. It's easy enough to mount these on several mount points and link the tapes into a common directory. That's what I've been doing and it works fine. But, I was wondering if this is how other

RE: dump failing for nfs mounts.

2003-10-28 Thread Dana Bourgeois
in your config file to make this work. Dana Bourgeois > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Smith > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:46 PM > To: Tavis Gustafson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: dump failing fo

Re: dump failing for nfs mounts.

2003-10-27 Thread Frank Smith
--On Monday, October 27, 2003 19:03:22 -0800 Tavis Gustafson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to use amanda to backup nfs mounts. I get this in my sendsize > reports. Any ideas? > > sendsize: debug 1 pid 9385 ruid 34 euid 34 start time Mon Oct 27 17:37:10 > 2

dump failing for nfs mounts.

2003-10-27 Thread Tavis Gustafson
I am trying to use amanda to backup nfs mounts. I get this in my sendsize reports. Any ideas? sendsize: debug 1 pid 9385 ruid 34 euid 34 start time Mon Oct 27 17:37:10 2003 /usr/lib/amanda/sendsize: version 2.4.2p2 calculating for amname '/mnt/netapp/dat1', dirname '/mnt/netapp

Re: NFS mounts

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:08:47PM -0400, LaValley, Brian E wrote: > Can I list an nfs mounted disk in the disklist file? > > I only ask because I am having trouble compiling for Solaris 8. The disklist's contents don't affect compiling one way or the other. What's the specific problem you're se

Re: NFS mounts

2003-08-14 Thread Toralf Lund
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:08:47PM -0400, LaValley, Brian E wrote: > Can I list an nfs mounted disk in the disklist file? > > I only ask because I am having trouble compiling for Solaris 8. The disklist's contents don't affect compiling one way or the other. What's the specific problem you're seei

NFS mounts

2003-08-14 Thread LaValley, Brian E
Can I list an nfs mounted disk in the disklist file? I only ask because I am having trouble compiling for Solaris 8.

Re: NFS mounts

2003-08-14 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 16:08:47 -0400 "LaValley, Brian E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I list an nfs mounted disk in the disklist file? Yes. I know it will work if you use tar. Many (all?) dumps will have problems. Even if they can dump a directory (as opposed to a filesystem), they

Re: Howto exclude NFS mounts?

2002-06-13 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 13 Jun 2002 at 12:23pm, Mohamed Lrhazi wrote > I am saying this because I am worried I, or someone else, might mount > an nfs share "temporarily" somewhere beneath the root of a filesystem > that amanda would archive, and go down that road archiving tons of > gigabytes of nfs stuff... Amand

Howto exclude NFS mounts?

2002-06-13 Thread Mohamed Lrhazi
Hi all, Is there a way to tell amanda to tell tar to exclude any nfs mounted file? I mean other than actually listing all the directories? I am saying this because I am worried I, or someone else, might mount an nfs share "temporarily" somewhere beneath the root of a filesystem that amanda wou

amanda binaries, NFS mounts, and setuid root

2002-05-10 Thread John Koenig
Is there a general consensus regarding the use of an NFS mount to make the AMANDA binaries available to the clients? And if the consensus is, in certain situations, OK... Then can someone with more experience with network security specify what the acceptable conditions might be for allowing t

Re: nfs mounts

2000-12-04 Thread John R. Jackson
>I have amanada client with nfs mounts, does amanda backup >nfs mounts also. If it does is there a way to exlude it based on >file system type. You're asking the wrong question. Amanda does not back up anything. It runs some other program that does the backups. So it would

nfs mounts

2000-12-04 Thread Shakaib Sayyid
I have amanada client with nfs mounts, does amanda backup nfs mounts also. If it does is there a way to exlude it based on file system type. Shakaib Sayyid