I didn't follow the earlier thread, so if this is
way off base, sorry.

I picked this out of your HTML posting:

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:52:15AM -0600, James Wilson wrote:
> ... . The servers that have amanda client installed backup fine. The
> amanda server and the other servers are in the same vlan.<br>
> <br>

Sounds like amanda client and server software are being installed
separately to each host as needed.  Just to be sure you are aware,
the server needs the client software to back up itself and to be
able to backup indirect clients (samba shares or nfs mounts).

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