On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:20:53AM -0400, Michael Martinez wrote:
> I'm running amanda server and clients on redhat linux systems.
> 
> My tape server is a machine called "vision.csrees.usda.gov". It runs
> amanda 2.4.2p2 installed from rpm on Redhat 7.1.
> 
> My new tape client is a machine called "plone" (listed below) which runs
> amanda 2.4.4 installed from source on Redhat 8.0.
> 
> /usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1 gives the green light for "plone", but
> /usr/sbin/amdump produces the following failure:
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   plone.csre /boot lev 0 FAILED [could not connect to plone.csrees.usda.gov]
>   plone.csre / lev 0 FAILED [input: can't open: ?
>   plone.csre / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
> 
> Why is the backup failing?
> 

The message said:

  [could not connect to plone.csrees.usda.gov]

Looks like network connectivity/permission problems.

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