Hi,

see if the following wiki page helps:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Configuring_SSH_authentication



Steve Newcomb wrote:

We've been using Amanda continuously since 1999.  Amanda has minimized
our backup effort and headaches and it has saved us from serious data
losses on several occasions.  Brava!

I was delighted to see that 2.5.1 now supports ssh, and if I could
just get it to work, it would be a godsend to us.  I have done
everything that docs/howto-auth.txt specifies for the use of SSH.
Unfortunately, the best result I can get from amcheck is:

  Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
  --------------------------------
  WARNING: manche.coolheads.com: selfcheck request failed: EOF on read from 
manche.coolheads.com
  Client check: 1 host checked in 0.299 seconds, 1 problem found

  (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.1)

So I think I'm connecting to the client OK, because it responds

promptly. And, if I delete the

      auth "ssh"

line from my dumptype, the response, after a 30-second delay, is:

  Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
  --------------------------------
  WARNING: manche.coolheads.com: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for 
ACK
  Client check: 1 host checked in 30.010 seconds, 1 problem found

  (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.1)

So I think the ssh is probably working OK.  When using amdump, the
dumps and reports from clients to servers are supposed to go through
the same ssh connection that the server establishes to the client,
right?  If not, how is it supposed to work?  The reason I need to use
ssh is that it's the ONLY way I can get to one of the machines.  (The
way I have been backing it up is with a lot of attention and effort,
using tar.  Yuck.)

Client and server are both running Linux 2.6.16-2-686.

I configured/compiled Amanda on both the server and the client with the 
following options:

./configure --prefix=/usr/amanda --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/amanda --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-ssh-security

Anybody have a clue?  Anything I should try?

-- Steve

Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant
Coolheads Consulting

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Co-editor, draft Topic Maps -- Reference Model (ISO/IEC 13250-5)

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