On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:41:04PM +0000, Peter Farrell enlightened us: > Thanks you gentlemen all - for your comments and advice. > The advice to RTFM is understood and well taken. > The clarification as to the prepending of my exclude list especially... > > My hosts are set up and the backups ran smoothly - all reports minus > "AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR BogusMonth 0, 0" ran fine. The 'bogus-month' > one doesn't seem to be able to see it's log file... > > Anyway. > Went away to my client-hosts and was trying to run: > # amrecover misc_backups > and have errors from both hosts... (but it runs as one would expect it > to from the master-host (VEGA) > --------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover misc_backups > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.5p1. Contacting server on vega.scarceskills.com ... > 220 vega AMANDA index server (2.4.5p1) ready. > 200 Access OK > Setting restore date to today (2006-03-16) > 200 Working date set to 2006-03-16. > Scanning /home/data/amanda/dumps... > 200 Config set to misc_backups. > 200 Dump host set to vega.scarceskills.com. > Trying disk /tmp ... > $CWD '/tmp' is on disk '/tmp' mounted at '/tmp'. > 200 Disk set to /tmp. > /tmp > amrecover> > --------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover misc_backups > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.5p1. Contacting server on sabik.scarceskills.com ... > amrecover: cannot connect to sabik.scarceskills.com: Connection refused > -------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover misc_backups > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.5p1. Contacting server on SSPC20.scarceskills.com ... > amrecover: cannot connect to SSPC20.scarceskills.com: Success > -------------------------------------------- >
The clients are trying to contact themselves for the index service. I suspect that means you are using distro-provided RPMs and they have localhost compiled as the index server. Try amrecover -s your.tape.server misc_backups If you find it annoying, rebuild amanda on the clients. If you're using an RPM-based distro, see http://www.math.ohiou.edu/~hyclak/casit/amanda/ for some hints. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
