Hi Yogish. It would seem that the permissions on you holding disk are not
correct. Did you try "chown amanda:amanda /home/tmp" to give amanda
permission to write to the disk?
Regards..JPP



On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Yogish wrote:

> Hi
> I am a newbie with amanda,  I have configured amanda according to a book, 
> However when I try to amdump it gives me following error.I have also attached 
> the amanada.conf and disklist files.Can anyone please help me
> This was the error I ran into when I checked the log files
> START planner date 20030722
> INFO planner Adding new disk localhost:/home/.
> START driver date 20030722
> WARNING driver WARNING: ignoring holding disk /home/tmp: Permission denied
> FINISH planner date 20030722
> STATS driver startup time 14.803
> ERROR taper no-tape [not an amanda tape]
> FAIL driver localhost /home/ 0 [can't switch to incremental dump]
> FINISH driver date 20030722 time 28.470
>
>
> Regards
> Yogish
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