Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:11:40 -0700 From: Blake Swensen <blake@pyramus.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: stupid sysadmin tricks (was: Amanda and Tapedev) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20000822085641.00bb62b0@mail.pyramus.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000822094905.00b05ec0@mail.utexas.edu> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000822065115.00b4de20@mail.pyramus.com>
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Well the problem was me just not pointing to the right config directory... doh!
Now I got another strange problem in the Amanda play-by-play (next time
I'll get Dennis Miller to do the color).
amdump runs but dies. Says that the particular drive is not allowed by
user bin.. ie.
hostname /dev/wd0s1a lev 0 FAILED [hostname: [access as bin not allowed
from bin@hostname.domain.com]
However, amdump will not run under any other UID.
At first, bin could not execute the dumper program because the dumper was
only executable by root:operator. Made bin a member of the operator group
and that seemed to solve that problem. Now I am getting the error (above).
So the question is, how do I give bin read access to the devices to be
backed up... at least I think this is the question.
Peace,
Blake
At 09:51 AM 8/22/00 -0500, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote:
>With Amanda, you definitely need to use "/dev/nrsa0", the non-rewinding
>device. Did you use amlabel to give the tape an Amanda label? If not,
>label the tape and then run amcheck to see if Amanda can read the tape
>correctly.
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>Oscar
>
>At 07:01 AM 8/22/00 -0700, Blake Swensen, you wrote:
>>I guess I just don't understand what Amanda is looking for in terms of
>>the tapedev parameter in the config file.
>>
>>I have set it to tapedev "/dev/nrsa0" and to tapedev "/dev/rsa0" (which
>>both work using mt). I have also set it to null hoping that amlabel will
>>just use the default.
>>
>>Amlabel reports: "rewindingamlabel: no tape online".
>>
>>The tape is an HP-T4000s Taravan SCSI tape, and it works flawlessly with
>>dump and tar.
>>
>>The tape definition to the following:
>>
>>define tapetype HP-T4000s {
>> comment "Hewlett-Packard Taravan 4GB SCSI Tape"
>> length 4200 mbytes
>> filemark 48 kbytes
>> speed 3.30 mbytes
>>}
>>
>>Any help on what amanda is looking for?
>>
>>Peace,
>>Blake
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