On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:57:42PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > * Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:11:11:59:30-0400] scribed: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:30:23AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > <snip /> > > > > As for the second problem, I don't see anything in the .debug files that > > > gives me a clue. The permissions for /etc/amandates look like this: > > > -rw-r----- 1 amandabackup disk 0 Jul 10 17:20 /etc/amandates > > > > My pre-built amanda server does use 'amandabackup' and 'disk' as the > > amanda user and group. Make sure your's does too and not something > > like amanda/wheel or some other combo. My amandates file's permissions > > are 664, not 640. If the owner is correct, maybe amanda expects to > > write to the file via group, not owner permissions. > > OK, I give up! > > What is /etc/amandates? I am running 2.5.0p2 ; and I have not found any > reference to this file ;<
You know what, on a quick search I don't either. Well, in some source files and changelogs, but ... You may or may not be familiar with traditional unix backup facilites, dump and restore and some filesystem specific variants, like ufsdump/ufsrestore, xfsdump/xfsrestore, etc. When asked to, and if run by root, they record the date and time and level of the dumps in a file /etc/dumpdates. This file then can be used by dump in the future to decide what needs backing up at various dump levels. Tar does not have this built-in, so amanda mimics it in /etc/amandates. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
