Charles Stroom
email: charles at stremen dot xs4all dot nl ------- Original Message on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:33:08 EDT Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 18 August 2006 05:38, Charles Stroom wrote: > >on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:32:29 EDT > > > >Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:15:21PM +0200, Charles Stroom wrote: > >> > Hi all, > >> > > >> > I have recently installed Amanda version 2.5.1b1 on my SuSE 10.0 PC, > >> > via an binary rpm. After some struggling, I start to understand > >> > how it works and backups are being made. > >> > >> ... > >> > >> > Another question I have is why I should keep my ethernet card up > >> > to run the backup. My home PC is an Amanda server-client machine, > >> > connected to a small home network with an ADSL router and a mail > >> > server on an old PC, but the backup is done on this single home PC. > >> > But if I bring the ethernet card down, amdump cannot connect to the > >> > server and fails. Of course, as recommended, my .amandahosts does > >> > not contain "localhost", but is: > >> > > >> > corrente.localnet root amindexd amidxtaped > >> > corrente.localnet amandabackup amdump > >> > > >> > Should I include "localhost"? > >> > >> You only have the amanda server as a client to backup, correct? > >> And it will not be on the (a) network all the time. > > > >Correct (at least, for now; later I will add my mail server as well) > > > >> Sounds to me like you have found > >> the exception to the rule > >> "you shouldn't use localhost". > > > >I changed all occurence of "corrente.localnet" to "localhost" in > >.amandahost, disklist and amanda-client.conf, but now amcheck > >complains that it cannot connect and times out. > > > You must at least be consistent. To have localhost time out would seem to > indicate that your /etc/hosts has had localhost sanitized out of it, this > is not generally a Good Thing(TM). I do not fully understand what you mean by this, but here are the entries of importance in my /etc/hosts file 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.250 corrente.localnet corrente 192.168.1.64 stremen.localnet stremen.xs4all.nl stremen > > >Well, it is not that important, I can live with the situation as > >it is. Thanks anyhow > > Cheers, Charles Charles Stroom email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.")