On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:18:49PM -0700, mindfuq AT verizon DOT net 
enlightened us:
> I started reading the "Setup the Backup Client Hosts" section of the
> Amanda docs, which immediately assumes that I have a folder
> "~dumpuser/".  It's telling me to create an ".amandahosts" file within
> that directory.  Portage did not create any such user.  Is this a user
> that I need in addition to the "amanda" user?  The client and server
> are the same machine in my case (for now).

I think "dumpuser" is just the generic term. In your case dumpuser ==
amanda. Other systems use backup or operator. 

Just replace ~dumpuser with ~amanda for your configuration.

Matt

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