Jason Frisvold wrote:
Hi all,
I've been happily using Amanda for some time now, but I seem to
have run into a recent snag. The backup server has multiple addresses
on a single interface and, for some reason, it has taken to using the
secondary IP as the source for Amanda communications. This becomes a
problem as I have firewall rules throughout the network that specify
the primary interface IP.
Is there a way to set the IP to use within Amanda? If so, can
someone point me in the right direction? I'm currently running Amanda
2.5.1, though I'm looking to move to 2.6.1 soon.
So what changed on your system? It doesn't just randomly decide to use a
different IP. That's all controlled by things like the hosts file. I
control how my Amanda server addresses its clients by putting explicit
entries in /etc/hosts that match the entries in Amanda's disklist. That
allows me to keep the backups on the private network, even though the
server and a particular client may both have IPs on the public network
as well.
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