On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 10:31, Marc Cuypers wrote:
> amlabel works. When I run amcheck it tells me the host is down (I used
> the machine name of the server and 'localhost', both give host down) Do
> I have to configure the server as a client of amanda? How is this done?
> I looked at amanda.org and found nothing about client configuration
> (probably an oversight of mine :-) ).
>From /usr/share/doc/amanda-common/docs/INSTALL.gz:
Section 2.1.F (Setting up the Tape Server Host):
F. If the tape server host is itself going to be backed up (as is
usually the case), you must also follow the client-side install
instructions below on the server host, INCLUDING setting up the
.amandahosts file so that the server host lets itself in.
This is a frequently encountered problem for new sites.
Cheers,
Eric
p.s.- using localhost as the hostname can cause problems. Use the
host's FQDN instead. Search the mailing list archive for copious
discussion on this topic (it comes up frequently).
