On Tuesday 14 March 2006 17:12, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:44:50PM -0500, Vytas Janusauskas wrote:
>>> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>>> --------------------------------
>>> ERROR: hal: [Can't open disk '/mnt/data06/Deforest3']
>>> ERROR: hal: [No include for '/mnt/data06/Deforest3_PART1']
>>> Client check: 5 hosts checked in 3.259 seconds, 2 problems found
>>
>> IIRC amcheck does NOT run some of its checks as root.
>> Thus if the amanda user running amcheck can not visit
>> /mnt/data06/Deforest3 and needed directories below that,
>> it could cause errors like that above when amcheck looked
>> for files.
>
>It's worse than that.  Include processing is performed before setuid
>root mode is started.  selfcheck, sendsize, and sendbackup all fail
>to include directories that the amanda user can't read.  You just
>lose and the directories don't get backed up.  Makes it hard to
>provide a backup service for machines that aren't centrally managed,
>which is more and more the way the world (for some of us) is going.
>
>-Mitch
Which brings up the obvious question Mitch, of howto grep the logs and 
discover precisely whats missing, and how can the amanda coders fix it?

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