Re: Amanda 2.5.1p3 gnutar permissions trouble

I would love to run AMANDA directly on our Netapp filer, but can't :(Root is not being squashed, and I'm able to successfully backup/tfs/common/thayer-images when thayer-images is the NFS mount-point(report attached below). However, when /tfs/common is the mount point, Ican backup /tfs/common, but if I specify the subdirectory/tfs/common/thayer-images Amcheck (and amdump) throws the permissionserror. I'm able to tar this directory manually as root.

Any ideas? Perhaps this is a NFS/NETAPP problem more than a AMANDAproblem? Or is AMANDA executing tar in such a way as would throw thiskind of error?


Thanks!

Jordan

These dumps were to tape archival-001.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Incr.
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:20
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:12       0:12       0:00
Output Size (meg)       28940.6    28940.6        0.0
Original Size (meg)     28940.6    28940.6        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --
Filesystems Dumped            1          1          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)     39557.7    39557.7        --

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:06       0:06       0:00
Tape Size (meg)         28940.6    28940.6        0.0
Tape Used (%)               7.2        7.2        0.0
Filesystems Taped             1          1          0

Chunks Taped                  0          0          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 76518.7    76518.7        --

USAGE BY TAPE:
  Label              Time      Size      %    Nb    Nc
  archival-001       0:06    28941M    7.2     1     0


NOTES:
  planner: Adding new disk ts:/tfs/common/thayer-images.
  taper: tape archival-001 kb 29635200 fm 1 [OK]


DUMP SUMMARY:

DUMPER STATS TAPERSTATSHOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-MB OUT-MB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SSKB/s-------------------------- --------------------------------------------------

ts       -yer-images 0   28941   28941    --    12:29 39557.7   6:27 76518.6

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.5.1p3)




Olivier Nicole wrote:

I'm running into a problem with permissions when backing up a nfs mount.
I'm using gnutar, and while I can backup the entire mount just fine, if
I try to put just a subdirectory of the mount in the disklist, I get
"Permission Denied" errors from amcheck and amdump. Any ideas as to what
I'm doing wrong? The OS is Ubuntu Linux 7.04. Thanks all!


Eventually, consider backuping directly from the NFS server. I am
afraid that backup though NFS is pretty unefficient.

I try to have my DLE corresponding to machines where the physical
disks are.

Bests,

Olivier