--On Friday, June 17, 2005 17:04:20 -0500 Oscar Ricardo Silva <osilva AT 
scuff.cc.utexas DOT edu> wrote:

> I know this isn't necessarily an amanda question, but I have a user who's 
> setup two RedHat Enterprise 4 machines and used lvm.  Unfortunately, the 
> devices:
> 
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> 
> has permissions:
> 
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 100 Jun  6 03:58 /dev/mapper
> 
> brw-r-----  1 root disk 253,  0 Jun  6 03:58 VolGroup00-LogVol00
> 
> 
> and so amanda can't read these devices for backup.
> 
> 
> We tried manually setting the groups to disk but on reboot the permissions 
> get reset.   We tried editing  /etc/lvm/lvm.conf  with a umask of  002  and 
> setting the group "disk" on the directory on   /dev/mapper  but that didn't 
> stick on reboot.  Any
> thoughts on a permanent solution on setting permissions on these dynamically 
> generated devices?

A workaround would be to use tar for your backups, either permanently or just 
until
you figure out where the ownerships/permissions get set in RedHat's LVM.

Frank

> 
> 
> Any information would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Oscar
> 



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