On Friday 25 September 2015 14:05:00 Seann wrote:

> On 9/25/2015 11:44 AM, Joi L. Ellis wrote:
> > Yes, an Amanda 3.3.3 server can properly backup an Amanda 2.5
> > client.  I have a number of such in my universe right now.
> >
> > I need to reinforce something here: Just because your iptables/ufw
> > firewall allows port 10080 UDP to reach into your client and server,
> > that doesn't allow for the TCP connection amdump is going to use to
> > actually transfer the data.  Amcheck doesn't check for TCP
> > connectivity so it will claim the configuration is correct.  On my
> > Centos 5.11 client, I do this:
> >
> > [root@copper ~]# lsmod | grep amanda
> > ip_conntrack_amanda     8901  0
> > ip_conntrack           53665  3
> > ip_conntrack_amanda,ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,xt_state
> >
> > [root@copper sysconfig]# grep amanda /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config
> > IPTABLES_MODULES="ip_conntrack_netbios_ns ip_conntrack_amanda"
> >
> > If you don't have ip_conntrack_amanda in your list of loaded kernel
> > modules, the amdump is probably going to fail.  Copper is one of my
> > mission-critical internal servers with public exposure, so it has a
> > very tight iptables firewall configured.  I had issues with it
> > failing to backup until I forcibly configured it to load
> > ip_conntrack_amanda.
> >
> > It would be a very useful addition to amcheck if it could somehow
> > test that the client and server can actually create an amdump TCP
> > connection, because it would illuminate the need to configure
> > ip_conntrack_amanda or lf_conntrack_amanda.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Seann [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 06:35 PM
> >> To: Debra S Baddorf <[email protected]>; Joi L. Ellis
> >> <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: Upgrade woes and eternal hanging of dumps
> >>
> >> On 9/21/2015 11:36 AM, Debra S Baddorf wrote:
> >>> YES!    I agree with the first and third of these tidbits.  I just
> >>
> >> couldn't remember them.  I've had issues with both of them. 
> >> Including the tricky firewall timeout part,  in Idea Three.
> >>
> >>> Here's hoping you have a network person who can add some skills or
> >>> ideas
> >>
> >> at that level.   Or,  just don't do client estimates,  as in the
> >> first suggested fix.
> >>
> >>> I think we had to allow trusted clients to initiate their OWN
> >>
> >> connections back to the server  (via a firewall rule),  so that
> >> they could still talk to the server even after that server-created
> >> conversation had timed out.   That might count as fix #3,  but it
> >> takes firewall skills. That might be a slightly different
> >> problem/situation  (it sounds a little different)  but I think it's
> >> in this same category, somewhere.  Network savvy people, can you
> >> translate my "generic English" description into what we actually
> >> did?
> >>
> >>> Deb Baddorf,  Fermilab
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sep 21, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Joi L. Ellis
> >>> <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >>>> I've just read through the long thread prompted by this
> >>>> particular
> >>
> >> post.  I'd like to offer a few points I didn't see mentioned
> >> before...
> >>
> >>>> Idea one: You upgraded from 2.5 to 3.3.  2.5 amdump only spoke
> >>>> UDP with
> >>
> >> a 'bsd' auth protocol, so that was the only action available. 
> >> Thus, inetd.conf didn't specify an -auth=bsd parameter.  3.3
> >> defaults to - auth=bsdtcp if you don't provide it.  Does your new
> >> configuration specify that those clients must be reached with
> >> -auth=bsd from the new server, rather than the server's new default
> >> of -auth=bsdctp?
> >>
> >>>> Idea two: If any of the involved machines are running iptables or
> >>>> ufw
> >>
> >> firewalls, verify the new configuration is still loading the
> >> correct kernel modules. At one point the /etc/default/ufw.conf file
> >> named kernel modules incorrectly after an upgrade, and/or the
> >> nf_conntrack_amanda module itself went missing.  (Some kernels
> >> change the name of this module, usually it's the first two
> >> characters.)  The symptom here is that amcheck thinks everything is
> >> fine, yet the actual amdump process fails because the UDP control
> >> conversation between the server and the client is allowed, but the
> >> TCP data stream amdump uses with -auth=bsdtcp is blocked.
> >>
> >>>> Idea Three: I run an Amanda 3.3.3 server, and I have experienced
> >>>> a
> >>
> >> similar problem to your own.  I've tried posting about it here in
> >> the past and got null response, so I gave up asking for help and
> >> figured out my own workarounds.
> >>
> >>>> My amanda server is behind a corporate firewall, and some of the
> >>
> >> clients are in the DMZ, outside the firewall... and they are
> >> running amanda 2.5 due to the age of the client hosts.   I've had
> >> repeated issues with the corporate firewall interfering with the
> >> planner.
> >>
> >>>> The issue I see is that the amanda server planner fires off a UDP
> >>
> >> "connection" to the client, asking the client to provide estimates.
> >>  The client does so... BUT.  That blasted firewall has created a
> >> dynamic NAT rule that will allow the client to send back its UDP
> >> response.  IF the client's response doesn't appear before the NAT
> >> rule expires, the planner falls into a permanent wait state,
> >> waiting for a UDP response that will never arrive because the
> >> firewall has blocked it.  The client has no idea it failed, and its
> >> logs look entirely normal.
> >>
> >>>> If you dig into the server's logs, you will probably find TIMEOUT
> >>
> >> errors in the logs from the planner.  I don't have any recent logs
> >> that illustrate this error, so I can't quote an example.
> >>
> >>>> I worked around this in two ways (varies with the client
> >>>> situation:)
> >>>>
> >>>>    *) tell amanda to not use the client to create the estimate at
> >>>> all *) adjust the NAT timeout rules on the firewall to extend the
> >>
> >> timeout.  As I recall, it was initially set to 120 seconds.  We
> >> moved it up to 300 seconds at one point, but then began to
> >> experience issues with the firewall filling memory tables because
> >> rules weren't timing out fast enough.
> >>
> >>>> As I see it, the planner makes the (unsafe) assumption that IF
> >>>> its
> >>
> >> initial request-an-estimate packets traveled properly, the response
> >> will always do so.  If there is a firewall involved, the response
> >> might get lost, yet the planner will sit there forever, twiddling
> >> its thumbs and not backing up anything, until it receives the
> >> missing estimates package back from the client.
> >>
> >>>> To summarize, I suspect that the move from 2.5's UDP-only
> >>>> communication
> >>
> >> style to 3.3's default TCP-only style has broken something in your
> >> environment that you've overlooked.  Either the server, the clients
> >> (or both) or a firewall (either an external network firewall, or a
> >> kernel firewall on one of the hosts involved) are breaking your
> >> planner.  I've experienced very similar symptoms after version
> >> upgades.
> >>
> >>>> (And yes, I've seen my issues disappear when jobs are run
> >>>> manually, yet still fail when run over night.  Manual tests don't
> >>>> trigger the firewall issues because the windows I have open the
> >>>> to the client and server keep the darn firewall from timing out
> >>>> the dynamic NAT rules.)
> >>>>
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: [email protected]
> >>>>> [mailto:[email protected]]
> >>>>> On Behalf Of Seann
> >>>>> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 02:34 PM
> >>>>> To: [email protected]
> >>>>> Subject: Upgrade woes and eternal hanging of dumps
> >>>>>
> >>>>> All,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am looking for a little direction on a problem that has
> >>>>> cropped up for me recently.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have a backup set, that was created using Amanda 2.5 (default
> >>>>> on CentOS
> >>>>> 5.11) and ran very well, both manually and from the cron job I
> >>>>> had set for it.
> >>>>> It has approximately 13 hosts to backup, from as simple as
> >>>>> backing up a single directory, to backing up the full system,
> >>>>> and it ran with no issues on CentOS 5.11.
> >>>>> The basic setup is using hard drives as the backup media,
> >>>>> compressing the backups to save space, using server compression,
> >>>>> these also use GNU-TAR as the archive format.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Fast forward to today, I have the system upgraded to CentOS 7,
> >>>>> which also upgraded to Amanda 3.3.3-13, and after some
> >>>>> configuration file re-writing, I got most of the backups to
> >>>>> work.
> >>>>> Two systems, one backing up the web directory, the other backing
> >>>>> up the full disk, fail constantly.
> >>>>> When these two disklist statements are removed, the backup runs,
> >>>>> and takes approximately 2 and a half hours to run on the 8 other
> >>>>> hosts (the other 3 hosts are currently offline and not in
> >>>>> scope).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> When the CRON job kicks off at midnight, it runs for over 12
> >>>>> hours (I have the etimeout set to one day, as the planner kept
> >>>>> dying saying to timed out).
> >>>>> This is the same basic error that I get with the two above
> >>>>> mentioned failing backups.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> When the hung backup job is running, I see the dumpers and main
> >>>>> dump process running on the backup server, but nothing in the
> >>>>> logs outside of the "We started the backup job" type of log
> >>>>> messages. On all of the hosts, I don't see the client running,
> >>>>> nor to I see any TAR processes running.
> >>>>> There are also no clues in the logs on which host the server is
> >>>>> waiting on, and checking all the hosts in scope show they are
> >>>>> all in the same state, that is they have sent the estimate to
> >>>>> the backup server and are waiting on the next phase.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any help on this would be appreciated, and also is there a
> >>>>> better way of making sense of the logs (such as using something
> >>>>> like Graylog2?), and on reporting for issues with Amanda 3.3?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>> Seann
> >>
> >> It has been a while since I updated the few folk who have been
> >> following this thread.
> >>
> >> I haven't had much time to tinker with this, as it is on my home
> >> network, and my day job got in the way.
> >>
> >> To answer the questions from Joi:
> >> 1. Yes, I swapped the auth in the global section to use bsd for all
> >> of my hosts, unless overridden in the disk definition.
> >> 2. 70% of the clients don't run a firewall, and those that do,
> >> allow the UDP ports for Amanda 10080/udp by default.
> >> 3. All my clients are behind the same firewall as the Amanda
> >> server, so no firewall outside of the host firewalls are in play
> >> with this.
> >>
> >> Reading a few of the other threads on the list, there was the
> >> mention of xinetd being depreciated, and since my setup wasn't
> >> working in the first place, I flipped everything over to ssh.
> >>
> >> I used puppet to push SSH keys to the proper user's on the client
> >> machines, went through and ssh'd to each host by FQDN and accepted
> >> the host keys, and ensured the users worked on the client machines.
> >>
> >> When running amcheck on them now, what I get is this:
> >>
> >> WARNING: server1.tsukinokage.net: selfcheck request failed: EOF on
> >> read from server1.tsukinokage.net.
> >>
> >> To save some reading space, I have the log output near the end of
> >> the thread.
> >>
> >> Searching for anything on this has been nearly impossible, namely
> >> as to what the hel the 'EOF on read" is related to, and
> >> troubleshooting steps
> >>
> >>
> >> Ultimately I am stuck in a chicken and the egg situation, where I
> >> need to back up directories on some servers, to the backup server,
> >> prior to upgrading their operating systems from CentOs 5, to CentOs
> >> 7, and redeploying their configurations, but I can't right now
> >> because the 2.5 clients aren't working.
> >>
> >> This weekend, now that I am not on-call, I might tinker with
> >> compiling, from scratch, a 3.3x client on some of those servers, in
> >> order to test if it really is that, while not said outright, Amanda
> >> 3.3.3 is not backwards compatible.
> >>
> >> The clients log shows:
> >> amandad: debug 1 pid 12389 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Thu Sep 24
> >> 18:08:33 2015
> >> amandad: version 2.5.0p2
> >> amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.5.0p2"
> >> amandad:        BUILT_DATE="Thu Feb 23 08:03:44 EST 2012"
> >> amandad:        BUILT_MACH="Linux builder10.centos.org
> >> 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 02:14:55 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64
> >> x86_64 GNU/Linux" amandad:        CC="gcc"
> >> amandad:        CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure'
> >> '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu'
> >> '--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix='
> >> '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin'
> >> '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share'
> >> '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64'
> >> '--libexecdir=/usr/lib64/amanda'
> >> '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com'
> >> '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
> >> '--enable-shared' '--disable-static'
> >> '--disable-dependency-tracking'
> >> '--with-index-server=amandahost' '--with-tape-server=amandahost'
> >> '--with-config=DailySet1'
> >> '--with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists'
> >> '--with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient'
> >> '--with-dumperdir=/usr/lib64/amanda/dumperdir' '--with-amandahosts'
> >> '--with-user=amanda' '--with-group=disk'
> >> '--with-tmpdir=/var/log/amanda' '--with-gnutar=/bin/tar'
> >> '--with-ssh-security'"
> >> amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/bin" sbindir="/usr/sbin"
> >> amandad:        libexecdir="/usr/lib64/amanda"
> >> mandir="/usr/share/man" amandad:       
> >> AMANDA_TMPDIR="/var/log/amanda"
> >> amandad:        AMANDA_DBGDIR="/var/log/amanda"
> >> CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda" amandad:        DEV_PREFIX="/dev/"
> >> RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/r"
> >> amandad:        DUMP="/sbin/dump" RESTORE="/sbin/restore"
> >> VDUMP=UNDEF amandad:        VRESTORE=UNDEF XFSDUMP=UNDEF
> >> XFSRESTORE=UNDEF VXDUMP=UNDEF amandad:        VXRESTORE=UNDEF
> >> SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient" amandad:        GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
> >> COMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip" amandad:       
> >> UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip" LPRCMD="/usr/bin/lpr" amandad:       
> >> MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"
> >> amandad:        listed_incr_dir="/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists"
> >> amandad: defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="amandahost"
> >> DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1" amandad:       
> >> DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="amandahost"
> >> amandad:        DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="null:" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM
> >> amandad:        LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE
> >> amandad:        AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY RSH_SECURITY
> >> USE_AMANDAHOSTS
> >> amandad:        CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
> >> amandad:        COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
> >> amandad:        COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
> >> amandad: time 0.000: accept recv REQ pkt:
> >> <<<<<
> >> SERVICE noop
> >> OPTIONS features=ffffffff9efefbffffffffff1f;
> >>
> >> amandad: time 0.000: creating new service: /usr/lib64/amanda/noop
> >> OPTIONS features=ffffffff9efefbffffffffff1f;
> >>
> >> amandad: time 0.000: sending ACK pkt:
> >> <<<<<
> >>
> >> amandad: time 0.001: sending REP pkt:
> >> <<<<<
> >> OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffeffff07;
> >>
> >> amandad: time 0.040: received ACK pkt:
> >> <<<<<
> >>
> >> amandad: time 30.038: pid 12389 finish time Thu Sep 24 18:09:03
> >> 2015
> >>
> >> The server will check itself, and come back with no problems.
> >> The amandad log file on the server, for the client check to
> >> localhost shows:
> >>
> >>
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: pid 27610
> >> ruid 33 euid 33 version 3.3.3: start at Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> security_getdriver(name=ssh) returns 0x7f00865ac660
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: version
> >> 3.3.3 Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:    
> >> build: VERSION="Amanda-3.3.3"
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> BUILT_DATE="Tue Jun 10 01:33:40 UTC 2014" BUILT_MACH=""
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> BUILT_REV="5099" BUILT_BRANCH="community_3_3_3" CC="gcc"
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:     paths:
> >> bindir="/usr/bin" sbindir="/usr/sbin"
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> libexecdir="/usr/lib64" amlibexecdir="/usr/lib64/amanda"
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> mandir="/usr/share/man" AMANDA_TMPDIR="/var/log/amanda"
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> AMANDA_DBGDIR="/var/log/amanda" CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda"
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> DEV_PREFIX="/dev/" RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP=UNDEF
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> RESTORE=UNDEF VDUMP=UNDEF VRESTORE=UNDEF XFSDUMP=UNDEF
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> XFSRESTORE=UNDEF VXDUMP=UNDEF VXRESTORE=UNDEF
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient" GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> COMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip"
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip"  LPRCMD=UNDEF  MAILER=UNDEF
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> listed_incr_dir="/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists"
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:     defs:
> >> DEFAULT_SERVER="amandahost" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="amandahost" DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE=""
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: NEED_STRSTR
> >> AMFLOCK_POSIX AMFLOCK_FLOCK AMFLOCK_LOCKF
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> AMFLOCK_LNLOCK SETPGRP_VOID AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> KRB5_SECURITY RSH_SECURITY USE_AMANDAHOSTS
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> CLIENT_LOGIN="amandabackup" CHECK_USERID HAVE_GZIP
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: parsing
> >> 192.168.10.19
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> security_handleinit(handle=0x7f008761ded0, driver=0x7f00865ac660
> >> (SSH)) Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> security_streaminit(stream=0x7f008761e0e0, driver=0x7f00865ac660
> >> (SSH)) Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> authenticated peer name is 'amanda.tsukinokage.net'
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: accept recv
> >> REQ pkt:
> >> <<<<<
> >> SERVICE noop
> >> OPTIONS features=ffffffff9efefbffffffffff1f;
> >>
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: creating new
> >> service: noop
> >> OPTIONS features=ffffffff9efefbffffffffff1f;
> >>
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: sending ACK
> >> pkt: <<<<<
> >>
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:58 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> tcpm_send_token: data is still flowing
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: sending REP
> >> pkt: <<<<<
> >> OPTIONS features=ffffffff9efefbffffffffff1f;
> >>
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: received ACK
> >> pkt: <<<<<
> >>
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> security_close(handle=0x7f008761ded0, driver=0x7f00865ac660 (SSH))
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> security_stream_close(0x7f008761e0e0)
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> security_handleinit(handle=0x7f008761ded0, driver=0x7f00865ac660
> >> (SSH)) Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> security_streaminit(stream=0x7f00876263e0, driver=0x7f00865ac660
> >> (SSH)) Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> authenticated peer name is 'amanda.tsukinokage.net'
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: accept recv
> >> REQ pkt:
> >> <<<<<
> >> SERVICE selfcheck
> >> OPTIONS
> >> features=ffffffff9efefbffffffffff1f;maxdumps=1;hostname=amanda.tsuk
> >>inokage .net;config=Tsukinokage-daily;
> >> <dle>
> >>     <program>GNUTAR</program>
> >>     <estimate>CLIENT </estimate>
> >>     <disk>/var/database</disk>
> >>     <auth>ssh</auth>
> >>     <compress>SERVER-BEST</compress>
> >>     <record>YES</record>
> >>     <index>YES</index>
> >>     <datapath>AMANDA</datapath>
> >> </dle>
> >> <dle>
> >>     <program>GNUTAR</program>
> >>     <estimate>CLIENT </estimate>
> >>     <disk>/etc</disk>
> >>     <auth>ssh</auth>
> >>     <compress>SERVER-BEST</compress>
> >>     <record>YES</record>
> >>     <index>YES</index>
> >>     <datapath>AMANDA</datapath>
> >> </dle>
> >>
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: creating new
> >> service: selfcheck
> >> OPTIONS
> >> features=ffffffff9efefbffffffffff1f;maxdumps=1;hostname=amanda.tsuk
> >>inokage .net;config=Tsukinokage-daily;
> >> <dle>
> >>     <program>GNUTAR</program>
> >>     <estimate>CLIENT </estimate>
> >>     <disk>/var/database</disk>
> >>     <auth>ssh</auth>
> >>     <compress>SERVER-BEST</compress>
> >>     <record>YES</record>
> >>     <index>YES</index>
> >>     <datapath>AMANDA</datapath>
> >> </dle>
> >> <dle>
> >>     <program>GNUTAR</program>
> >>     <estimate>CLIENT </estimate>
> >>     <disk>/etc</disk>
> >>     <auth>ssh</auth>
> >>     <compress>SERVER-BEST</compress>
> >>     <record>YES</record>
> >>     <index>YES</index>
> >>     <datapath>AMANDA</datapath>
> >> </dle>
> >>
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: sending ACK
> >> pkt: <<<<<
> >>
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: sending REP
> >> pkt: <<<<<
> >> OK version 3.3.3
> >> OK distro RPM
> >> OK platform CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
> >> OPTIONS features=ffffffff9efefbffffffffff1f;
> >> OK /var/database
> >> OK /var/database
> >> OK /var/database
> >> OK /etc
> >> OK /etc
> >> OK /etc
> >> OK /usr/lib64/amanda/runtar executable
> >> OK /bin/tar executable
> >> OK /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/. read/writable
> >> OK /dev/null read/writable
> >> OK /var/log/amanda has more than 64KB available.
> >> OK /var/log/amanda has more than 64KB available.
> >> OK /etc has more than 64KB available.
> >>
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: received ACK
> >> pkt: <<<<<
> >>
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> security_close(handle=0x7f008761ded0, driver=0x7f00865ac660 (SSH))
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad:
> >> security_stream_close(0x7f00876263e0)
> >> Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015: thd-0x7f0087613400: amandad: pid 27610
> >> finish time Thu Sep 24 18:14:59 2015
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Seann
>
> Joi,
>
> I agree with the additional checks in amcheck would be nice.
>
> With iptables loaded, or with all tables empty and default policy set
> to "allow" I still get problems, both from xinetd and ssh.
>
> SSH should bypass the multiple port setup issue.
>
> I have had a lot of hit or miss success with backing up the 2.5
> clients to the 3.3.3 server.
>
There is IIRC, an incompatibility between 2.5 clients and 3.3 servers as 
to how they exchange time. Any 2.5 install is over a decade old, and 
really really ought to be updated, the sooner the better, like 5 years 
ago. That will also change the security model, see the docs/changeLogs.
Nothing you can't fix with nano though.

> The fact that the logs aren't clear when they have data in them, that
> the free version Amanda has nothing in the way of good documented
> tracking scripts for progress, and the logs, when they do have data in
> them, are hard to correlate and don't give enough coherent data for
> folk who aren't backup platform guru's doesn't help

Hear hear!

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