On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:35:53PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A. enlightened us:
> Greetings all!
> 
> A little while ago, I suddenly started getting this error message in my
> Amanda reports:
> 
> ERROR: server: [access as backup not allowed from backup@server]
> 
> (Where "server" is my server name, Not "localhost" or anything). Thus,
> the server which actually runs AMANDA is not getting backed up! All the
> others are, though. I did a search in the archives & did not find any
> message pertaining to this problem. On Friday, 10/24, everything seemed
> all right, but not until the next Wednesday did I get a report:
> 
>  *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY!
> 
> These dumps were to tapes .
> 
> I think around this time, we noticed that /var was FULL. I deleted as
> much as I could, and continued with normal operation.  But later that
> day, I got the "access as backup not allowed" error. Ever since then, my
> backup server has not gotten a good backup of itself.
> 
> Any ideas what could cause this? I checked permissions in all the usual
> areas, nothing looks like user "backup" does not have access to it.
> 

Your .amandahosts file was probably destroyed when the filesystem filled up.
Check and make sure that all of the appropriate entries are in there.
(Should be in ~amanda, wherever that is. It's /var/lib/amanda on my system).

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Ohio University
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