Hi Mark Whats does your clients debug file state.
amcheck.date.debug Mine is configured in /tmp/amanda I had a timeout issue thus had to increase my timeout using ipchains. Cheers On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 09:45 +0100, Mary Kennedy wrote: > Hi All, > > I know this has come up a lot with amanda, but I have followed what I have > read and still have issues backing up clients located behind a firewall. > My server is in the internal network and the client is behind the firewall. > I receive the following error and very little else. > /home lev 0 FAILED [mesg read: Connection timed out] > > My server is configured with the following config statement: > ./configure --prefix /opt/backups --with-user=<amandaUser> > --with-group=<amandaGroup> --with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient > --with-gnutar=/bin/tar > --with-gnutar-listdir=/opt/backups/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/ > --with-index-server=<amandaServerName> --with-tape-server=<amandaServerName> > --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 --with-portrange=850,859 > --with-udpportrange=850,859 > > My Client is configured with the following config statement: > ./configure --prefix=/opt/backups --with-user=<amandaUser> > --with-group=amandaGroup> --with-gnutar=/bin/tar --without-server > --with-portrange=850,859 --with-udpportrange=850,859 > > My firewall has the following ports open: > 10080, 10082, 10083, 850 859 (UDP & TCP in both directions between client > and server) > > The version of Amanda is Amanda-2.4.5p1. > > Does anybody have any ideas of what I am missing here, please? > > Thanks > Mary. > > > -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Email chuck.smtl.co.uk Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax: +44 1656 752830
