Hi,
Multiple Problems here.....
1.) precompiled packages of amanda are evil. Too many local settings go into
the binarys at compiletime, and building amanda from source is as easy as
./configure --with-user=backup --with-group=backup
make
su
make install
and then edit the configurationfiles to siute your recomendations.
Steve schrieb:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I've tried to find another one like this in th archive without any luck.
> Hopefully someone knows the answer.
>
> As I'm running SuSE 7.3 I have amanda automatically installed. I can run the
> amcheck just fine. Also did backup fine by backing up locahost. I then tried
2.) amanda does not like localhost as backupname.
always use the FQDN of your hosts.
> to read the tape with tar but got an error 'tar: /dev/st0 Cannot read Cannot
> allocate memory'. Odd as I have 128MB and 66M free.
3.) amanda uses /dev/nst0 for access to the tapedrive
4.) you can't read an amanda-tape with pure tar.
use "dd if=/dev/nst0 ibs=32768" to see if something went to tape.
first dd should show you the tape-header,
second dd the header of the first backup-image
5.) can you use tar to write to /dev/nst0 and to read back from there?
are you shure /dev/nst0 refers to your tapedevice?
what sort of streamer do you use?
> So I looked up and discovered the backup log and so on. It all looks fine. So
> I thought I'd try the amrestore. Doing that results in error message:
>
> '500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from root@localhost]
> amandahostsauth failed'.
>
> The funny part is that I'm running as root, not amanda.
6.) and exactly that is amrecover telling you.....
to make amrestore happy go to the homedirectory of your amanda-user
and add the line
"localhost root"
to the file .amandahosts
Christoph
