If i am not mistaken, then .amandahosts must contain all of the
users & machines that need access to that machine. So edit the
.amandahosts file on the BACKUP server and add lines to allow you to
access from the host recover-host with user root:

recover-host root
recover-host.domain root
192.168.0.xx root

(added all of the possible ways just to be sure that you get what you want
(it depends on amanda and machines conf, which of the lines gets to be
used, so i have all of them in my .amandahosts file)


Laas Toom

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Bartho Saaiman wrote:

> Hi All :)
>
> I am trying to restore from a tape using amrecover. If I use
> amrecover DailyBackup it says:
>  > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on localhost ...
>  > amrecover: cannot connect to localhost: Connection refused
>
> If I use the -s backup and/or -t backup I also get the same:
>  > AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on backup ...
>  > amrecover: cannot connect to backup: Connection refused
>
> I previously had a similar problem and rectified this by editing the
> /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts and added localhost root to the file. Tried
> this as I am running amrecover as root but still could not fix it.
>
> Any suggestions on what I am missing??
>
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> # Network Administrator
> # Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering
> # Tel :: 27 21 882 8820 x 215
> # Email :: bartho @ cae.co.za
>