>>>>> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:36:36 +0100, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/10/2006 8:14 AM, Andrus Naulainen wrote:
> > 
> >>> I got Permission denied error when bacula tried to write into the 
> >>> volume. VolStatus of this volume (name is varund0070) is Recycle and 
> >>> it's size is 1 byte. I have one pool with 100 volumes (varund0001 .. 
> >>> varund0100) each 4GB and they are on HD with free space 48GB. I'm 
> >>> probably missing some important information which helps to solve 
> >>> this, ask then. And log is here:
> >>>     
> >>
> >>
> >> The first thing is to determine exactly what permissions are wrong:
> >>
> >> 1) Look at the mode and ownership of the volume using
> >>    ls -l /mnt/varund/varund0070
> >>   
> > 
> > Login as a root gives
> > 
> >    varund:~# ls -l /mnt/varund/varund0070
> >    ls: /mnt/varund/varund0070: Permission denied
> 
> Not good.
> This might be selinux or ACL issue, linux capabilities also comes to my 
> mind. All this depends on the OS configuration, so, concerning these 
> ideas, you should ask the one who set up that system or have a closer 
> look into the documentation.
> 
> ...
> >> 3) Is /mnt/varund mounted for writing?
> >>   
> > 
> > 
> >    varund:~# mount -l
> >    ...
> >    /dev/mapper/vg-lv on /mnt/varund type reiserfs (rw)
> >    ...
> 
> ReiserFS tends to show such a behaviour in case of filesystem damage I'm 
> told. To verify this, unmount the partition and do a file system check 
> on it. Study the options for reiserfsck closely - IIRC, without special 
> invitation it doesn't do a very thorough check. in case of a rebuild 
> it's even possible you lose data, so usually I'd suggest to do a backup 
> prior to a file system repair :-(

I've also seen Permission denied from other filesystems when the disk has a
bad block (I/O error would have been nicer).

The console output or syslog might record this.


> Anyway, this is one more reason against disk based backups, I'm afraid...

Oh yes, tapes are so much more robust :-)

__Martin


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