On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 10:31, Marc Cuypers wrote:
> amlabel works.  When I run amcheck it tells me the host is down (I used 
> the machine name of the server and 'localhost', both give host down)  Do 
> I have to configure the server as a client of amanda?  How is this done? 
>   I looked at amanda.org and found nothing about client configuration 
> (probably an oversight of mine :-) ).

>>From /usr/share/doc/amanda-common/docs/INSTALL.gz:

Section 2.1.F (Setting up the Tape Server Host):

    F.  If the tape server host is itself going to be backed up (as is
        usually the case), you must also follow the client-side install
        instructions below on the server host, INCLUDING setting up the
        .amandahosts file so that the server host lets itself in.
        This is a frequently encountered problem for new sites.

Cheers,
Eric

p.s.- using localhost as the hostname can cause problems.  Use the
host's FQDN instead.  Search the mailing list archive for copious
discussion on this topic (it comes up frequently).