>Recently, one of my servers (a Linux RH machine) had its hard drive
>crash. We installed a new drive, Red Hat, then re-installed the AMANDA
>client, and just kept the same disklist, etc. on the backup server.
>After re-installing the client, AMANDA reported the following errors
>when trying to back up this server:
>
>%server%  /var lev 0 FAILED [[parse of reply message failed]]

So you're running some variant of 2.4.2?  And are you certain your *inetd
line is firing off the matching amandad?

What's in amandad*debug?  How about sendbackup*debug?

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