On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:55:56AM +0100, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator 
enlightened us:
> Hi I have two amanda tape servers within the organisation I managed
> successful to do a disaster recovery exercise for main file server -
> worked accordingly but on the second tape server for our spin off
> company I get the the following I am able to run daily amdumps and
> amchecks with no error messages Thus please could you direct where I can
> find out whats causing the extract problem.
> 
> O/S SuSE SLES 9 Amanda version (2.4.4p2).
> 
> The makeup is identical and I checked the ~.amamdahosts file.
> 
> localhost amanda
> localhost root
> server.co.uk amanda
> server.co.uk root
> 
> 
> 
> Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host server.co.uk.
> 
> The following tapes are needed: DailySet110
> 
> 
> Restoring files into directory /
> 
> Continue [?/Y/n]? y
> 
> 
> Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host server.co.uk.
> 
> Load tape DailySet110 now
> 
> Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? y
> 
> cannot connect to server.co.uk: Connection refused
> 
> amrecover - can't talk to tape server
> 
> amrecover> 
> 

Looks like amidxtaped is not running on server.co.uk, or a firewall is
blocking access to tcp port 10083. Check your {x,}inetd configs and firewall
settings on server.co.uk

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
(740) 593-1263

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