>WARNING: backu.client.net: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
>
>Now I did the following
>   netstat -a | grep -i amanda
>the output is below
>   udp        0      0 *:amanda                *:*

I assume you checked this on the client (backu), not the server (the
machine you ran amcheck on), right?

If it's not a firewall problem as Hery suggests, it might be amandad is
dieing or hanging.  Are there any processes left laying around for your
Amanda user on the client?

Any messages in wherever syslog puts such things?

Is there a corresponding /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug file being created?
What's in it?

>Mozzi

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, jrj AT purdue DOT edu