Amanda questions

[Pete Templin <templin@jlink.net>]

A few questions about amanda, for anyone who might be familiar with it:

I've installed it on three relatively-stock Debian 2.0 boxes, and keep
running into several errors:

ERROR: /dev/nst0: reading label: Input/output error.
       (expecting a new tape)

So, how do I label a tape?


And:

ERROR: charlie: [access as backup not allowed from root@charlie.3threes.net]
ERROR: alpha: [access as backup not allowed from root@charlie.3threes.net]
ERROR: bravo: [access as backup not allowed from root@charlie.3threes.net]


How do I grant access?  The user "backup" is a member of the group "disk",
the "disk" group has rw perms on the necessary disk devices, root & backup
have .rhosts access to and from all three servers into the backup user,
and similar entries have been placed into .amandahosts.  Any guidance?


While I'm at it, I have a Dell-supplied (internal, in a PE 1300) Seagate
12/24GB DAT/DDS-3 drive.  Is the following suitable for having amanda
write to it?

tapedev "/dev/nst0"     # Linux @ tuck, important: norewinding
tapetype DAT            # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below)

define tapetype DAT {
    comment "DAT tape drives"
    length 12000 mbytes         # these numbers are not accurate
    filemark 100 kbytes         # but you get the idea
    speed 400 kbytes
}

Thanks in advance,


Pete

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