On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 08:24:01AM -0700, John Hein wrote: > stan wrote at 07:35 -0500 on Mar 2, 2010: > > Sorry for my total lack of experience in the Windows world :-( > > > > I turned off the Windows firewall on the Seerver 2008 box, and ran an > > amchekck. Here is what I got for thta machine: > > > > ERROR: pbuild4.mcn.chs: Server validation Failed. Please register server > > with client. > > > > Our configuration is such that the amanda backup user on all clients is > > "amanda". I changed the name for the Windows client per the instructions on > > the wiki, ut I am still geting this message. > > > > What do I need to do to get past this error? > > I found that registering a name instead of an IP adress did not work > with the current version of the amanda windows client. > > There is also an outstanding issue where (at least) some people are > seeing incremental dumps doing everything (as if they were level 0). > I have seen no solution, explanation or workaround for that.
Ah, actually I forgot that I had to do that at all. I will go back and look at the wiki to figure out how I do that, thanks. In my case, as long as I am getting backups, all level 0 would be OK, but I do see sizes varying on my Windows clients. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction on this. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
