Re: Amanda backup of Read-Only NFS shares

It looks like tar is outputting the offending error notice, and the linesI provided in my original e-mail came back in the STRANGE summary for thatparticular mount. I will try 'record no' and see what happens.


Thanks to both of you!

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 Mark P. Hennessy
 mark AT cloud9 DOT net

--On Wednesday, June 01, 2005 16:49:12 +0200 Peter Mueller<peter.mueller.ls AT elimpex DOT com> wrote:

Hi Mark!

I have a read-only NFS share provided by a Windows 2000 server machine
and I want to back it up with my AMANDA cycle.  I keep getting these
errors though:

...
? gtar: ./foo/bar: Warning: Cannot stat: Permission denied
? gtar: ./foo/baz: Warning: Cannot stat: Permission denied
...

Is there anything I can do to effectively back up these files without
getting these warnings, a tar parameter perhaps (I couldn't find on in
the man page for tar)? Setting the NFS share to be read-write isn't an
option.


As you allready wrote, its read-only so tar cant set inode dates etc.
So you wont be able to do propper incremental backups.
You could baybe do full backups every amanda run, but as I dont use
this, I am not aware who to propper configure this.


You can set 'record no' in your duptype so amanda won't try to update
dumpdates, but as you note that limits you to full backups on every run.

Frank



Bye, Peter
WOTLmade




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