Re: amrecove does not connect

2007-11-27 Thread Charles Stroom
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:51:38 -0500 Jean-Louis Martineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can't set the 'conf' in the CONFIG_DIR/daily/amanda-client.conf, > because it can't read the file before it knows the config. > 'con'f must be set in CONFIG_DIR/amanda-client.conf > > Jean-Louis That s

Re: amrecove does not connect

2007-11-27 Thread Charles Stroom
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:53:20 +0100 Charles Stroom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:11:35 +0100 > Marc Muehlfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Must a user root added somewhere? [in the xinet.d files] > > > > No. Amanda runs as user. You configured amandabackup:

Re: amrecove does not connect

2007-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Charles Stroom wrote: I tried Jean-Louis's suggestion: " fiume:~ # amrecover -oauth=bsdtcp AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2p1. Contacting server on localhost ... [request failed: recv error: Connection reset by peer] " the reply is different now and instantaneous. So I checked a bit further and my aman

Re: amrecove does not connect

2007-11-27 Thread Charles Stroom
I tried Jean-Louis's suggestion: " fiume:~ # amrecover -oauth=bsdtcp AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2p1. Contacting server on localhost ... [request failed: recv error: Connection reset by peer] " the reply is different now and instantaneous. So I checked a bit further and my amanda-conf file did have th

Re: amrecove does not connect

2007-11-27 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
your amanda service is configured for bsdtcp auth, which auth are you using in amrecover, the default is 'bsd', you can set it in amanda-client.conf or using '-oauth=bsdtcp' as argument to amrecover. Jean-Louis Charles Stroom wrote: Hi all, today I tried to restore a couple of files, but amr

Re: amrecove does not connect

2007-11-27 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Charles Stroom schrieb: Must a user root added somewhere? No. Amanda runs as user. You configured amandabackup:disk for this. But this is what I don't understand. Amanda backup runs as user "amandabackup", but amrecover must run as root! You have to run amrecover as root, to make sure, th

Re: amrecove does not connect

2007-11-27 Thread Charles Stroom
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:11:35 +0100 Marc Muehlfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Stroom schrieb: > > fiume:~ # amrecover -s fiume > > AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2p1. Contacting server on fiume ... > > [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK] > > " > > Run amcheck and have a look for errors. "

Re: amrecove does not connect

2007-11-26 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Charles Stroom schrieb: fiume:~ # amrecover -s fiume AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2p1. Contacting server on fiume ... [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK] " Run amcheck and have a look for errors. Has this anything to do with the 3 files in the xinet.d directory amanda, amandaidx, amidxtape?

amrecove does not connect

2007-11-26 Thread Charles Stroom
Hi all, today I tried to restore a couple of files, but amrecover failed to connect to the index server (I believe). This is on my server PC fiume: " fiume:~ # amrecover -s fiume AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2p1. Contacting server on fiume ... [request failed: timeout waiting for ACK] " Backups work per