Hi all, thanks for your suggestions. I am at the point where I think the problem has shifted from being one of tape drive specification to communication between the Tape host server and the client. When I run amcheck this is the part of the message I get:
"WARNING: linux.local: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 30.016 seconds, 1 problem found" The logs in /tmp/amanda give amcheck: debug 1 pid 1316 ruid 37 euid 0 start time Mon Jun 16 04:51:42 2003 amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.626 amcheck: pid 1316 finish time Mon Jun 16 04:52:12 2003 Is the Amanda user supposed to have a uid below or above 500? Mine has one below and was created when I installed Amanda, i.e. the Amanda user was not directly created by me. Also in .amandahosts I have using root along with the hostname. Has anybody got an idea of what could be wrong? Thanks.
