Hi Santiago, On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:03:43AM -0700, Santiago wrote: > > Hello. I am new to amanda, so please forgive any newbie questions. I > have done my best to RTFM for all of the docs I can find googling > amanda. My question relates to the hostname lookup performed by amanda > - I have put the correct machine name/IP in /etc/hosts. There is no > DNS resolution for this machine (or many other machines that I will be > backing up). How do I correct this error and get amanda to resolve > hostnames correctly (from my /etc/hosts file)? > > TIA, > Santiago > > Yes, the machine resolves to /etc/hosts first.
I had this problem too. You have to make sure that the client can look up the server as well. So I guess scratchy needs an entry in /etc/hosts for the backup server :-) Hope that helps, Simon
