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.
