2005/5/20, Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:22:10AM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > > The problem I encountered yesterday with one of the clients continues: > > > > amanda cannot get the estimates (and the backups) from a particular > > client. There seems to be some sort of networking problem. > > > > The client is in the DMZ, protected by the firewall. I even > > recompiled amanda to make sure it is using a predefined set of UDP > > ports (850-859) and I looked at the firewall logs, no errors. I have > > checked the dumper.1 log and the dumpers are using the UDP port in the > > range specified. > > Don't know if this is your problem, I've never setup firewall environments. > But the first line of the "docs/PORT.USAGE" document says: > > Amanda uses both UDP and TCP ports during its operation. >
Yes Jon, we even opened up the firewall and still have the problem. Furthermore, there is progress: I have created a similar config, and tried to backup only a small portion of the host. It worked. Now, I have started a full dump of the whole host in the same config and so far, it works. Why ? I don't know ! Before trying this, I rebooted the amanda tape server, but I don't think that's what fixed the problem. Also, the new config is using ufsdump instead of tar for the / file system of the host. I'll switch to tar later and try to reproduce the problem. Problem started occuring on this host when I switched the / file system from ufsdump to tar, then issued an amadmin force for the / filesystem. Next run, it hung and refused to work ever since... Could it be the etimeout ? I really dont think so, according to the logs, the estimated takes a lot less time than 600 seconds ! I'll keep you informed Thanks
