--On Wednesday, August 03, 2005 16:11:13 +1000 Ken Simpson <ken.simpson AT 
unichurch.org DOT au> wrote:

> Hi all, I have been struggling with this for a couple of weeks now and can't 
> figure it out.
> 
> I am trying to do a backup on my localhost for the files on that localhost.
> 
> I have set up amanda-server and amanda-client(2.4.5-1) in debian using apt 
> and then rolling my  own amanda.conf
> 
> I finally got most of it working, but now I get this (I still haven't managed 
> to do a backup...)
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>    planner: ERROR mail.unsw.org.au:  [access as backup not allowed from 
> backup@mail] amandahostsauth failed
>    mail.unsw. hda1 RESULTS MISSING
> 
> the .amandahosts is exactly
> 
> mail.unsw.org.au backup
> 
> mail.unsw.org.au is the FQDN of the server.

According to the error message Amanda is just picking up the hostname to 
authenticate with and not the FQDN
(I'm not sure how it requests the name from the system, if it uses the hosts 
file, dns, or what).  The error
message will always contain what it is trying to match in your .amandahosts, 
just put whatever follows the
'@' first, followed by the username preceding the '@'.

Change your .amandahosts to:
mail backup

and it should work.

Frank

> 
> Any suggestions VERY gratefully received
> 
> 
> I have searched the archives and found nothing quite like this. Most people 
> have had to modify amandahosts - but I think mine is right.
> 
> The amanda user that deb sets up is backup
> -- 
> Regards
> Ken



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