Thanks Josh and Toomas! You've both been a great help. Things seem to be working just fine now. The linux boxes are backing up and recovering like they should. I've still got a problem with the Solaris machine, but I'm sure its just a stupid configuration problem. Thanks again!
Rafe On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hi Rafe! > > On 21 Nov 01 at 11:10 you wrote: > > > > > I've been trying to configure an amanda client on a Sun box. When I do an > > > > "amcheck" the server checks out fine, but I get this warning from the > > > > client: > > > > WARNING: al-bundy.cs.ucla.edu: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? > > > The server is running Redhat linux 7.1. There's no firewall in between > > them except for the ipchains firewall on the server. But I opened up port > > 10080, so that shouldn't be a problem right? > > Wrong. > > In addition to UDP port 10080 (which is used for initiating the > backup session), amanda uses other TCP ports for actual > transfer of the backup image. By default these are random > non-privileged ports on the client and privileged ports on the > server. > > You need to compile amanda with the --with-portrange switch so that > it will use specific ports instead of random, and open up that > range of TCP ports in ipchains. > > I have done it and it works. > > There is an excellent write-up titled "How Amanda uses UDP and TCP > ports", by John R. Jackson, in the amanda-hackers archive. > > -- > Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > * I've got a life but it won't run on my operating system. >
