Am Sonntag, 25. Dezember 2005 23:57 schrieb Jon LaBadie:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:04:30PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I set up amanda to backup some of my workstations. Now I encountered some
> > strange issue: On one workstation amanda can backup /home but not /. The
> > permissions in /dev are the same. The user amanda is in the disk group.
>
> What backup program are you using. For tar the device permissions should
> not matter. For dump they do.
I have the option "program "GNUTAR" set.
>
> Are the entries in /dev symlinks to some other file, the actual device?
> On some OSs they are. Does "ls -lL" (both lower and upper 'ell') of the
> devices give the same results as "ls -l"?
Both ls's on the /dev/hda device and on the / directory show the same output.
Thanks for the hint but it didn't work out.
Regards,
Thomas
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