<quote who="Steve H">
> Hi Everyone.
>    I am having some touble doing a restore from a client.  I backed up
> /root on a remote debian box as a test, and it was a success.  When I
> login to the remote debian box, and try to do a amrecover, the client
> says:
>
> AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3. Contacting server on <client>
> ...
> amrecover: cannot connect to <client>: Connection
> refused

See the FAQs Top Ten:

http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2518896

Particularly:

.amandahosts


> What I am confused about, is the client thinking itself is the server.
> Where is this changed, and how should I have configured the client
> correctly in the first place?
>

No, the client is trying to connect to the backup server.

Again, see above.

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