On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 12:18, amanda-users AT yahoogroups DOT com wrote:

> Message: 1
>    Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:49:22 -0500
>    From: Frank Smith <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com>
> Subject: Re: disk offline?
> 
> --On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 11:53:59 -0400 "LaValley, Brian E"
<BLaValley AT ALLEGROMICRO DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > I have not been able to backup anything on my local system.  AMANDA
reports
> > that it thinks the disk is offline.  Where should I start looking to
find
> > out what is wrong?
> 
> Make sure you're not trying to back up the raw device with tar.
> su - to your backup user and see if you can acces the device.
> Some (RedHat?) machines had problems mapping paths to device names
> if the fstab used labels for partitions.
> 
> If none of those help, try posting your OS, Amanda version, disklist
> and dumptype entry for the problem disk.
> 
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I've been meaning to coalesce some of my learnings for redhat users...

1 - /home/amanda/.amandahosts    (should have at the least)
<backup server> localhost
<backup server FQDN>    localhost.localdomain
(then make sure)
chown amanda.disk /home/amanda/.amandahosts

2 - add amanda to the 'disk' group in /etc/group
    (this should allow you to use the tape drive as user amanda)

3 - edit
/etc/xinetd.d/amanda
/etc/xinetd.d/amandaidx
/etc/xinetd.d/amidxtape

change disable = yes to no

4 - service xinetd restart

This should get you quite a ways past the redhat gotchas in amanda. The
rest is amanda configuration - good luck

Craig