Re: Unable to backup clients

[Mike Heller]

Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote:

But the backups fail.  Checking the logs in /tmp/amanda (on the
clients), I see things like:
sendbackup: time 0.000: stream_server: waiting for connection:
0.0.0.0.33011
sendbackup: time 0.001: stream_server: waiting for connection: 
0.0.0.0.33012
sendbackup: time 0.001: stream_server: waiting for connection: 
0.0.0.0.33013
sendbackup: time 0.001: waiting for connect on 33011, then 
     

33012, then 
   

33013
sendbackup: time 29.991: stream_accept: timeout after 30 seconds
sendbackup: time 29.991: timeout on data port 33011
sendbackup: time 59.991: stream_accept: timeout after 30 seconds
sendbackup: time 59.991: timeout on mesg port 33012
sendbackup: time 89.991: stream_accept: timeout after 30 seconds
sendbackup: time 89.991: timeout on index port 33013
sendbackup: time 89.991: pid 1873 finish time Thu Jan  8 
     

01:05:15 2004
   

All hosts were configured with:

--with-tcpportrange=850,854 --with-udpportrange=850,854

So why am I getting connections on port 33011?  I have 
     

850-854 opened
   

on the firewall, but if it's trying to connect on 33xxx 
     

then of course 
   

it's not going to work.

On the server, my /etc/services has:

amanda          850/udp                         # amanda 
     

backup services
   

amanda          850/tcp
kamanda         851/tcp                         # amanda backup 
services (Kerberos)
kamanda         851/udp                         # amanda backup 
services (Kerberos)
amandaidx       852/tcp                         # amanda 
     

backup services
   

amidxtape       853/tcp                         # amanda 
     

backup services
   

The clients have:

amanda 850/udp
amanda 850/tcp
kamanda 851/udp
amandaidx 852/tcp
     

All I can tell you is that for me to be able to back up my firewall, I
had to create a rule that allowed my amanda server full access to all of
my high ports (>1023). I had this problem and this is what Joshua from
this listserv came back with. Worked like a charm. I would suggest
trying this.
 

I suppose that could be the next option, but it still does not explain 
why amanda is connecting on port 33xxx when I compiled with restrictions 
to ports 850-854.  I'm hoping someone can explain some of this to me.

Mike