On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Chris Dahn wrote:
> Hello, I attempted to access the FAQ-O-MATIC from amanda.org, but I get a
> Forbidden, saying I don't have access to cgi-bin/fom. Therefore, I'm going to
> post my question (which undoubtably has a very obvious answer) to the list
> and hope for the best. I'm setting up amanda for the first time on a Redhat
> 7.1 box. I did my backup, but it failed on most of the / directories such as
> /etc, etc. I wanted to try to do a restore of what it did backup, but when I
> run amrecover as root, it tells me that the connection is refused by
> localhost. I have the index server and tape server running under xinetd, and
> my hosts.allow will allow me to connect, so I'm really at a loss as to why I
> can't run amrecover. I'm thinking that I don't have the .amandahosts in the
> correct location, but I can't seem to find anywhere that says where it should
> go. Help!
.amandahosts goes in the home directory of whichever user your
backups are configured to run under. So if you configured them
to run as user "daemon" it would be ~daemon/.amandahosts; if you
configured it as user "amanda" it would be ~amanda/.amandahosts, etc.
Similarly, the backup server needs entries for root on your client
machines so they can do restores, and these go in the amanda user's
home directory on the backup server node.
Marc
