I'm not exactly sure what I've done to fix things, but backups and
amrecovers are now working properly.

For the record, on the backup server, the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file contains:

service amanda
{
        socket_type     = dgram
        protocol        = udp
        wait            = yes
        user            = amanda
        group           = amanda
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/libexec/amanda/amandad
        server_args     = amdump amindexd amidxtaped

        only_from       = 192.168.1.0
        disable         = no
        log_type        = SYSLOG daemon debug
}

and, again on the backup server, the /etc/amanda/amandahosts file contains:

# Machine-name for those hosts which are permitted to back up (fully-qualified
# is best).  An entry in /etc/hosts adds fail-safe against DNS death :-)
# |
# |                                     permitted user-name
# |                                     |

server                  amanda amdump
server                  root amindexd amidxtaped
client                  root amindexd amidxtaped

On the backup client, the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file is identical to
the server's.

On the backup client, the /etc/amanda/amandahosts file contains:

# vim: ts=4 sts=4 sw=4 noexpandtab:
# Machine-name for those hosts which are permitted to back up (fully-qualified
# is best).  An entry in /etc/hosts adds fail-safe against DNS death :-)
# |
# |                                     permitted user-name
# |                                     |

client                  amanda amdump
server                  amanda amdump
client                  root amindexd amidxtaped

I used the fqdn for the client and server names in the above files.

John Blinka

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