On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:15, Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote:
>> I know nothing of LVM, but I think it should still work.  What
>> backup tool are you using (dump or tar)?  If tar, amanda runs it
>> via the setuid root 'runtar' wrapper, so tar will run as root. 
>> amcheck may well fail, IIRC, but amdump should actually work.
>
>I'm using dump.  Basically it fails while trying to do the estimate.
>But if it can't do the estimate, I doubt it would be able to backup.
>
Warning, personal opinion.  Dump is a poor choice.  Either tar-1.13-19 
or tar-1.13-25 has many more bells and whistles than dump has. The 
majority of amanda features have been designed around using tar.

>But I really would like to fix the main problem which is that udev
> is not creating the permission of logical volumes correctly.

If amanda was built by the unpriviledged user (amanda is a good 
choice) but installed by root, the perms should be just fine.  If 
not, then file a bug against udev.  Greg K-H is actively working on 
it.

>I did put a bug in bugzilla for Fedoara for this, but who knows when
>someone might get to it.

It really is not a fedora bug, but a udev problem, tell Greg on the 
lkml.  udev is having some 'teething' pains it seems.  Just one of 
the reasons I've only updated one machine to FC3.

>I know that this is not specific to amanda,but since amanda is the
> only app giving me problems with this, I thought others might have
> also had the same problems and found a solution to it.
>
>Regards,
>Mike

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