I corrected the ~amanda .amandahosts access issue by changing amandas default home dir. I still get access Errors on the partitions for my newly added clients. I have tried using both hdg1 and /dev/hdg1 in the disk list. Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- ERROR: sunny3.neptune.com: [can not access /dev/hdg1 (/dev/hdg1): Permission denied] ERROR: sunny2.neptune.com: [can not access /dev/hda1 (/dev/hda1): Permission denied] sunny3 is running REDHAT 7.1 sunny2 is running REDHAT 7.0