>... Firewall is present between the client and amanda server. But we already ope
>ned a full hole for amanda traffic.
>...
> sugar /export/home lev 0 FAILED [mesg read: Connection reset by peer]
This says the client (or the firewall) closed this connection and dumper
on the server was not happy about that.
There are either two or three connections between the client and dumper.
The mesg one passes log message from the client back to dumper. It is
(usually) very low activity. The data path sends the actual dump image
and should be very active. The index path is optional and sends the
catalogue. It can either be high activity at the beginning (if you're
using dump) or sporadic (GNU tar).
>From above report, we can observe that amanda can perform backup on other dire
>ctories on the host 'sugar'. But it can't perform backup on the /export/home d
>irectory.
About my only guess is that the firewall timed out the connection.
There would be very little traffic on the mesg path. So you may need
to tweak the firewall configuration some more.
You might take a look at the /tmp/amanda/sendbackup*debug file
on the client that goes along with this file system (if you used
--with-pid-debug-files on ./configure or are running 2.4.2p2) and see
what kinds of timestamps it shows. Take a look at the last modification
time on the file as well (ls -l).
>Edward.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
