On Wednesday 09 February 2005 18:31, Jingchun Chen wrote:
>Thanks to all. I think both Frank and Joshua are pointing to the
> right direction. I am using GNU-tar, but root on NFS client doesn't
> have root privilege on exported partition.  Since this is kind a
> security measure, I probably will not change this. So I am going to
> set up a backup client on the NFS file server.
>
>Though this pose another issue. Amanda manual specificly mentioned
> that tar-1.13.9x may have problem on creating index list.
> Unfortunately the NFS server has a tar-1.13.93 on it. Actually this
> is one of the reasons I chose the host as the clinet, -- the amanda
> host machine has a tar-1.13.25, which is recommended by amanda team
> :). Just wondering if anyone did encounter this problem before. But
> anyway, I am going to get this resolved and use 1.13.25 for this
> task.
>
>Cheers,
>Jingchun

The last tar release 1.15-1, also works, I've been using it for about 
a month.

>On Wednesday 09 February 2005 15:52, Frank Smith wrote:
>> --On Wednesday, February 09, 2005 15:16:15 -0500 Jingchun Chen
>
><chen.666 AT osu DOT edu> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Greetings to everyone! I am new to Amanda, and new to this
>> > mailing list.
>> >
>> > I got a planner failure and empty schedule. Amcheck seems to
>> > pass ok (except the two non-existing log dirs which I assume
>> > shouldn't cause problem). The tape server and backup client are
>> > the same machine, and the two disks to be backed up are NFS
>> > exported from another machine. We are running Debian, kernel
>> > 2.4.28 on Amanda server (hostname coil) and kernel 2.6 on the
>> > NFS server.
>> >
>> > Any clue? Thanks.
>>
>> Two possibilities I can think of:
>> First, are you trying to use dump  on the NFS mount?  If so,
>> you need to use tar.
>> Second, if you are using tar, is the NFS mount on the remote
>> host exported with the no_root_squash option (on Linux, it
>> has other names on other OSs, root= on Solaris and NetApps)
>> so that root on the NFS client has root access to the files.
>>
>> Frank

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