Tony van der Hoff <tony AT mk-net.nildram.co DOT uk> wrote in message
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> Frank Smith <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com> wrote in message
> <BBB9A9EC938EDE7DACB78637 AT hoovers-59.hoovers DOT com>
> 
> > --On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 17:22:28 +0100 Tony van der Hoff
> <tony AT mk-net.nildram.co DOT uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have successfully installed and configured Amanda, and amcheck runs
> > > successfully, as does amdump.
> > > 
> > > However, amrecover (running as root) fails, with the message "cannot
> > > connect to tony-lx.magpieway.net: connection refused"
> > > 
> > > .amandahosts contains tony-lx.magpieway.net, which is the localhost,
> > > as well as the tape server, which user amanda can happily access to do
> > > the backups.
> > > 
> > > Evidently this is a permissions problem with root, but can anyone
> > > point me in the right direction to fix it? Runnig Mandrake 9.1.
> > 
> > Do you have amindexd and amidxtaped configured in (x)inetd on the tape
> > server? They aren't needed for backups, but are for restores.
> >    'connection refused' usually indicates a service isn't running, or
> > possibly firewall problems, .amandahosts problems generally give you an
> > 'access as foo not allowed..' message.
> > 
> 
> Thanks, Frank, for the suggestion. I didn't have them configured, so I
> have done so. Have you any reference to these services in the
> documentation? I have assumed they are datagram services.
> 
> Unfortunately, it has not had the desired effect :-(
> 
> Cheers,
> 
An update to that, FWIW. 

You were correct in your diagnosis of the problem; I hadn't got them
configured correctly. I found the instructions in the Using Amanda book from
Storge Moutain, and this time set it up correctly :-)

Thanks, once again, for your help.

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Tony van der Hoff       | mailto:tony AT mk-net.nildram.co DOT uk
Buckinghamshire England