*Matt - sorry didn't mean to respond to your personal address.
-pf

On 16/03/06, Peter Farrell <peter.d.farrell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Nice one Matt :-)
> I compiled from source... but I'll rebuild it with the option that
> points each client to a predifined index server. Thanks for the tip...
>
> Is this output correct?:
> =============================================================
> [root@sabik sbin]# ./amrecover -C misc_backups -s
> vega.scarceskills.com -d misc_backups
> AMRECOVER Version 2.4.5p1. Contacting server on vega.scarceskills.com ...
> 220 vega AMANDA index server (2.4.5p1) ready.
> 200 Access OK
> Setting restore date to today (2006-03-16)
> 200 Working date set to 2006-03-16.
> Scanning /home/data/amanda/dumps...
> 200 Config set to misc_backups.
> 200 Dump host set to sabik.scarceskills.com.
> Trying disk /usr/local ...
> Trying disk md0 ...
> Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD '/usr/local/amanda/sbin'
> amrecover>
> ============================================================
> -peter
>
>
>
> On 16/03/06, Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:41:04PM +0000, Peter Farrell enlightened us:
> > > Thanks you gentlemen all - for your comments and advice.
> > > The advice to RTFM is understood and well taken.
> > > The clarification as to the prepending of my exclude list especially...
> > >
> > > My hosts are set up and the backups ran smoothly - all reports minus
> > > "AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR BogusMonth 0, 0" ran fine. The 'bogus-month'
> > > one doesn't seem to be able to see it's log file...
> > >
> > > Anyway.
> > > Went away to my client-hosts and was trying to run:
> > > # amrecover misc_backups
> > > and have errors from both hosts... (but it runs as one would expect it
> > > to from the master-host (VEGA)
> > > ---------------------------------------------
> > > [root@vega tmp]# /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover misc_backups
> > > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.5p1. Contacting server on vega.scarceskills.com ...
> > > 220 vega AMANDA index server (2.4.5p1) ready.
> > > 200 Access OK
> > > Setting restore date to today (2006-03-16)
> > > 200 Working date set to 2006-03-16.
> > > Scanning /home/data/amanda/dumps...
> > > 200 Config set to misc_backups.
> > > 200 Dump host set to vega.scarceskills.com.
> > > Trying disk /tmp ...
> > > $CWD '/tmp' is on disk '/tmp' mounted at '/tmp'.
> > > 200 Disk set to /tmp.
> > > /tmp
> > > amrecover>
> > > ---------------------------------------------
> > > [root@sabik etc]# /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover misc_backups
> > > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.5p1. Contacting server on sabik.scarceskills.com ...
> > > amrecover: cannot connect to sabik.scarceskills.com: Connection refused
> > > --------------
> > > [root@SSPC20 /]# /usr/local/amanda/sbin/amrecover misc_backups
> > > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.5p1. Contacting server on SSPC20.scarceskills.com 
> > > ...
> > > amrecover: cannot connect to SSPC20.scarceskills.com: Success
> > > --------------------------------------------
> > >
> >
> > The clients are trying to contact themselves for the index service. I
> > suspect that means you are using distro-provided RPMs and they have
> > localhost compiled as the index server.
> >
> > Try
> >
> > amrecover -s your.tape.server misc_backups
> >
> > If you find it annoying, rebuild amanda on the clients. If you're using an
> > RPM-based distro, see http://www.math.ohiou.edu/~hyclak/casit/amanda/ for
> > some hints.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > --
> > Matt Hyclak
> > Department of Mathematics
> > Department of Social Work
> > Ohio University
> > (740) 593-1263
> >
>