We've been using Amanda continuously since 1999. Amanda has minimized our backup effort and headaches and it has saved us from serious data losses on several occasions. Brava!
I was delighted to see that 2.5.1 now supports ssh, and if I could just get it to work, it would be a godsend to us. I have done everything that docs/howto-auth.txt specifies for the use of SSH. Unfortunately, the best result I can get from amcheck is: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- WARNING: manche.coolheads.com: selfcheck request failed: EOF on read from manche.coolheads.com Client check: 1 host checked in 0.299 seconds, 1 problem found (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.1) So I think I'm connecting to the client OK, because it responds promptly. And, if I delete the auth "ssh" line from my dumptype, the response, after a 30-second delay, is: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- WARNING: manche.coolheads.com: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK Client check: 1 host checked in 30.010 seconds, 1 problem found (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.1) So I think the ssh is probably working OK. When using amdump, the dumps and reports from clients to servers are supposed to go through the same ssh connection that the server establishes to the client, right? If not, how is it supposed to work? The reason I need to use ssh is that it's the ONLY way I can get to one of the machines. (The way I have been backing it up is with a lot of attention and effort, using tar. Yuck.) Client and server are both running Linux 2.6.16-2-686. I configured/compiled Amanda on both the server and the client with the following options: ./configure --prefix=/usr/amanda --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/amanda --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security Anybody have a clue? Anything I should try? -- Steve Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant Coolheads Consulting Co-editor, Topic Maps International Standard (ISO/IEC 13250) Co-editor, draft Topic Maps -- Reference Model (ISO/IEC 13250-5) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coolheads.com direct: +1 540 951 9773 main: +1 540 951 9774 fax: +1 540 951 9775 208 Highview Drive Blacksburg, Virginia 24060 USA (Confidential to all US government personnel to whom this private letter is not addressed and who are reading it in the absence of a specific search warrant: You are violating the law and you are co-conspiring to subvert the Constitution that you are sworn to defend. You can either refuse to commit this crime, or you can expect to suffer criminal sanctions in the future, when the current administration of the United States of America has been replaced by one that respects the rule of law. I do not envy you for having to make this difficult choice, but I urge you to make it wisely.)