On Monday 18 July 2005 16:28, LaValley, Brian E wrote:
>I have just decided to give AMANDA a try and am learning as I go. I
> have gotten as far as trying a manual amdump, but it seems the
> estimate is failing and nothing gets backed up. What could this be?
>
Did you first run, as amanda, the "amcheck /nameofconfig/" program.
I would not expect it to return without errors in this case.

And don't forget that amdump itself will not run as the user root 
either.

All this is in the FAQ.

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