>... You see I am trying to
>fix this for a network that I am not familiar with. And the person who
>set it up has left.
Understood. That wasn't very nice of them :-).
>The server is running "Amanda-2.5.0-19990816"
>and the SGI clients "Amanda-2.4.2-19990203".
As I recall, that's the setup that does not work (2.5 server talking to
a pre-2.5 client). And I'm sorry, but I just can't handle digging into
it at the moment. It definitely needs fixed, though, since it will
be unreasonable to force Amanda users to upgrade everything at once
(or clients before server).
>I certainly don't want to be on the bleeding edge, but I'm not sure how
>much effort will be required to reconfigure the server and all the Sun
>clients to the earlier version. ...
I'm guessing it would not be too hard. There certainly aren't any major
differences in any of the configuration files. I think it would be worth
giving it a shot (make a tar copy of your config area before running
any of the 2.4.2 stuff, just in case). And if you run into trouble,
you know where to ask :-).
>> Actually, I suspect the fix is going to require some reasonably
>> good coding, C level and protocol debugging experience on your part.
>
>I'm afraid I can't spare the time to do this.
Also understood :-).
>Ross
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