Hi All One thing that I'm not all that sure about is how amanda goes about the process of setting up and tearing down connections. Could anyone verify that what I have surmised is correct. The reason that I ask is that I look after machines in a firewalled enviroment and would like to use amanda however connections can only be initiated from a more secure to a less secure level.
Amanda Server Planner sends a request to the amada client over UDP port num ? The client produces a summary that is sent back to server over UDP/TCP? port num? The client initiates the request. For the actual dumps does the following happen? Amanda serverside requests the client machine to initiate a dump The client then initiates a connection to the dumper process on the server. OR The dumper initiates a TCP connection to the client and initiates a dump on the client at the appropriate level using the current control connection as transport Thanks Ian
