On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 at 1:45pm, Sebastian Kösters wrote

> Hi,
> 
> i got a Problem with amrecover.
> 
> If I try to connect to the backupserver I got this error:
> 
> AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p4. Contacting server on 192.168.10.95 ...
> amrecover: cannot connect to 192.168.10.95: Connection refused

Are you running amrecover as root?  You should be.  And, thus

> .amandahosts look like this (on server) :
> 
> localhost amanda
> localhost.localdomain amanda
> backup amanda

you need an entry for root from the client in the server's .amandahosts 
file.

You also need to make sure that hosts.allow on the server allows amindexd 
and amidxtaped from the client.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University