I've got my first LVM-based system to be backed up and I'm running into
permission problems. The client system is Fedora Core 4. I've
installed amanda there by 'yum install'ing the amanda and amanda-client
packages. I've enabled amanda in xinetd and reloaded xinetd. I want to
back up just one directory (so using tar) so I add that to my disklist.
The amanda xinetd setup on the client is set to use the 'disk' group.
Here's my debugging so far...
On the server....
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$ amcheck -c CIS client
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
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ERROR: client.cis.uab.edu: [could not access /var/lib/pgsql/backups
(/var/lib/pgsql/backups): Permission denied]
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.021 seconds, 1 problem found
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p2)
$
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On the client.....
# cat /etc/xinetd.d/amanda
# default: off
# description: The client for the Amanda backup system.\
# This must be on for systems being backed up\
# by Amanda.
service amanda
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = amanda
group = disk
server = /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
disable = no
}
# id amanda
uid=33(amanda) gid=6(disk) groups=6(disk)
# df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
31G 3.5G 26G 12% /
[snip]
# ls -l /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 Aug 21 11:03 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
#
So amanda is in the disk group, which is the same group as the logical
device which is the partition that holds the backup target. Everything
seems in order there. What else could be causing the permission
problem? Wondering if this might be related to LVM.
Thanks,
Fran
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Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
http://www.cis.uab.edu/
205.934.0653
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