Jean-Louis,

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 12:08:13PM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> man amzfs-snapshot
> 
> You must give to the 'amanda' user the right to execute some zfs command.
> Use 'zfs allow' or set the 'PFEXEC' and 'PFEXEC-PATH' properties.

I found that I had errors in my definitions of PFEXEC-PATH and PFEXEC,
both in which modules I'd written them in and in my cutting and pasting/
partial editing, ie pfexec-path is NOT /usr/sbin/zfs

That helped but I still had permission errors, I can delve into those
if it will be of general help to developers or the list, but I did
ultimately use # zfs allow, which resolved the remaining errors and
has allowed me to produce snapshots !

I have successfully dumped one zfs partitons with snapshots so far,
I will test a little more extensively and then try a restore, then
I will be looking to push this server into production to replace
a machine which is largely a samba server at an alternate work site.

ZFS allowing me to better control samba usage by shares, moving from
several large/overcrowded spindles to a ZFS Raid2 config.

Once this is done, we recompile for x86 architecture and bring the
new (Sun/Solaris) x4500 server online as a new/replacement Amanda
server and samba server, replacing an SunFire 280R, which with a
100 MBit interface is NOT performing as needed for backups. Not
an Amanda issue, we just out-grew our capacity.

                                                thank you,

                                                Brian


> Brian Cuttler wrote:
> >Yes! leaving the /opt/sfw/lib out of the path entirely seems to have
> >done the trick, we linked against the correct library and I can now
> >proceed with the next level of errors.
> >
> >Could have sworn I saw something about this on the list last week
> >and I am checking the wiki now.
> >
> >ERROR: griffy: cannot create snapshot 
> >'griffyp/climsgl@amanda-_griffyp_climsgl-check': permission denied
> >  
> 
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