On Monday 03 December 2001 12:07 pm, you wrote: > 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.
This might very well be the case... > > > > '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. But it says 'access as amanda not allowed' when I am doing it as ROOT! How does it think I'm running as amanda? > I hope this helps. Good luck to you. Sincerely... Ana Maria Thanks! -- Steve Szmidt V.P. Information Video Group Distributors, Inc.
