Hi Steve:
> 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
> 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.
>
It seems that having amanda automatically installed is not the best thing
that may happen to someone...I have heard in this list that most of this
distributions do not come with all the documentation and also you are not
forced to go to the amanda home page (www.amanda.org) to learn about the
program.
I would recomend you reading the book chapter at backupcentral:
(http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html) as it tells you much about
amanda configuration and operation.
> 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.
>
I think that the problem is with the .amandahosts file that lives into the
amanda user's home directory. In order to backup the localhost it must
give access to the amanda user, but for recovering it must give access to
root.
I hope this helps. Good luck to you. Sincerely... Ana Maria
