On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Frank Smith wrote:
> Does the vilbu user and group have read permissions on every disk?  Most
> likely it needs to be in the group sys (or disk, or whatever group owns
> your disks).  If vilbu is actual user and not a made-up name to run
> backups under, it will be a mess trying to secure things once the user
> no longer needs access to the machines (termination, promotion, whatever
> the event might be).

Yeah, for my install, this is the actual backup user, and belongs to the
'disk' group.  Just like when most people create a user 'amanda' I wanted
to go with a slightly more unique username.

> You might want to set your default tape device to the actual
> device.

I thought that's what I had done with --with-tapedevice=/dev/nst0

Thanks,
Stefan.