I thought I would respond to the various suggestions in one message and
included my original message at the end for reference. I also realized
that I wasn't clear when I displayed the permissions
on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 device. When the machine boots,
permissions are:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Jun 6 03:58 /dev/mapper
brw------- 1 root disk 253, 0 Jun 6 03:58 VolGroup00-LogVol00
and we manually change permissions to:
brw-r----- 1 root disk 253, 0 Jun 6 03:58 VolGroup00-LogVol00
And I do appreciate the responses even though this isn't directly an amanda
problem.
Oscar
A workaround would be to use tar for your backups, either permanently or
just until
you figure out where the ownerships/permissions get set in RedHat's LVM.
Frank
Thanks for the suggestion but in my dumptype, I am using tar.
I have a similar situation, but instead of changing permissions of special
devices (particularly RAID devices), which may be protected by SELinux,
I list the directories I want to back up in the disklist.
Florian
In my disklist I'm referring to the mountpoints, not the devices themselves:
grapher1.gw.utexas.edu / DLT-tar
grapher1.gw.utexas.edu /var DLT-tar
define dumptype DLT-tar {
global
program "GNUTAR"
comment "No compression, using TAR"
compress none
maxdumps 2
}
define dumptype global {
comment "Global definitions"
index yes
record yes
holdingdisk yes
}
I know this isn't necessarily an amanda question, but I have a user who's
setup two RedHat Enterprise 4 machines and used lvm. Unfortunately, the
devices:
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
has permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Jun 6 03:58 /dev/mapper
brw-r----- 1 root disk 253, 0 Jun 6 03:58 VolGroup00-LogVol00
and so amanda can't read these devices for backup.
We tried manually setting the groups to disk but on reboot the permissions
get reset. We tried editing /etc/lvm/lvm.conf with a umask of 002 and
setting the group "disk" on the directory on /dev/mapper but that didn't
stick on reboot. Any thoughts on a permanent solution on setting
permissions on these dynamically generated devices?
Any information would be appreciated.
Oscar
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