Jeffrey A. St. Pierre wrote:

ERROR: <clientsys>: [could not access /export/rd01/mltipath/jpals
(/export/rd01/mltipath/jpals): Permission denied]
Client check: 5 hosts checked in 9.935 seconds, 1 problem found

However, if I change the disklist to backup the parent directory,
 /export/rd01/mltipath, everything runs fine.  The permissions on
the two directories are the same...

drwxrws---   19 <user>  mltipath     4096 Jun  4 13:39 \
/export/rd01/mltipath
drwxrws---   19 <user>  mltipath     4096 Jun  4 13:39 \
/export/rd01/mltipath/jpals/


So... what am I missing?

Lost the suid-root of runtar (in .../libexec/ )?

I guess when you backup the parent, that it skips the
subdirectory.  Have you verified the contents of the supposedly
succeeded backup?


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