Thank you, Scaglione, for a clever possible solution that I wouldn't have thought of on my own.
-Kevin Zembower >>> Scaglione Ermanno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/29/02 11:48AM >>> >>On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: >> >>- (This might seem like a stupid question to this group, but) I'm being >>- challenged by the folks who can't get my firewall setup to work with >>- Amanda that I should adopt a more "industry-standard" backup product. >> I solved my firewall problems using a cheap VPN over SSH, it is not fast but it works, this is a HOWTO for linux http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO.html but it should work with any unix (i did it on solaris). Our tape server is behind a NAT so the VPN needs to be used just for the restores, hopefully not too often. I installed the script from the howto with some minor adaptations and told everyone that the VPN should be started before using amrecover and stopped after that. Ok I didnt actually tried a big restore over it but everyone is more confident now that they see amrecover working and can browse through the backups .... :-) There are certainly alternatives, both commercial and free to this solution, I choosed it because port 22 was already open on the firewall.
