Jörn Rübel wrote:

uups, here it comes: the machines run under sles7 with reiser fs. the
error message i got is something like this

something "like" this  :-)

ERROR: server.any-host.de: [can not access
/data/any-directory/exports/home.nis
(/data/any-directory/exports/home.nis): Permission denied]

Is "/data/any-directory" a NFS-mounted directory? (just in case :-) )
Is you DLE dumptype using GNUTAR? (There is no dump
for a reiser fs, IRC).
Have you tried running the gnutar command by hand as root user
(you can find the complete command line in /tmp/amanda/*).

And in /tmp/amanda/*debug, on the client, you probably find
lots of other useful info too.

the data directory has 770 and the any-directory 700 rights. i also

Yes, but who owns it.  Root I guess?

tried to run amcheck under root but amanda returned the smae results.

No use to run amcheck as root.  It connects client-server
with tcp to amandad, which is started by (x)inetd and there
runs with amanda-priviledges anyway. (But that starts dump
or tar with a suid wrapper to have the power to backup.)
Do you have lost your suid-bits on those programs? (rundump, runtar etc)

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