On 27 Apr at 12:17 Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com> wrote in
message <481460D0.8090402 AT zmanda DOT com>

> Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> > On 25 Apr at 13:22 "Stefan G. Weichinger" <sgw AT amanda DOT org> wrote in
> > message <4811CD00.5090002 AT amanda DOT org>
>>
>>   
> > > Tony van der Hoff schrieb:
>>>     
> > > > Using Amanda 2.5.1p1 under Debian Etch, my backups work fine, and I
> > > > can recover partitions from tape using dd, etc.
>>>>
> > > > However: tony@tony-lx:~$ sudo amrecover HomeDumps AMRECOVER Version
> > > > 2.5.1p1. Contacting server on localhost ... NAK: amindexd: invalid
> > > > service
>>>>
> > > > What does this message mean, and how to fix this?
>>>>       
> > > I think it means that you haven't read the docs on how to configure
> > > (x)inetd correctly.
>>>
> > > http://www.amanda.org/docs/install.html#id325457
>>>
>>>
>>>     
> >
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Quick_start#Configuring_xinetd_on_the_server
>>   
> > > Stefan
>>>
>>>     
> > Thanks for taking an interest, Stefan; that's what I thought, too. I
> > wish it were that simple. Maybe I'm missing something, but what is wrong
> > with this (3 seperate files, each with the same name as the service):
>>
> > # default: on # description: The amanda service service amanda { disable
> > = no socket_type    = dgram protocol        = udp wait              = yes 
> > user              = backup
> > group               = backup groups         = yes server            = 
> > /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
>>   
> add:  server_args             = -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped
> > }

Um, unfortunately the bit where I said the amanda service was running fine
(I can create perfect backups) got snipped at some stage. It is the amindexd
sevice that's failing to start. 

Anyway, I tried that, without success, I'm afraid. Thanks for the
suggestion, though.

>>   
>>
> > #default: on # description: The amanda index service service amandaidx {
> > disable             = no socket_type        = stream protocol       = tcp 
> > wait              = no user               =
> > backup group                = backup groups         = yes server            
> > = /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd
> > }
>>
> > #default: on # description: The amanda tape service service amidxtape {
> > disable             = no socket_type        = stream protocol       = tcp 
> > wait              = no user               =
> > backup group                = backup groups         = yes server            
> > =
> > /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped }
>>
>>
> > Oh, and all those paths are valid.
>>
>>   
>


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