Hello,
I' ve just set up amanda on an almost Standard-PC in a small network.
I edited the sample files in /etc/amanda to fit my needs.
First I tried to do a Test-backup of my own Computer.
But "amcheck -c DailySet1" complains about (output follows):
>Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>--------------------------------
>WARNING: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
>WARNING: fire: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
>Client check: 2 hosts checked in 30.047 seconds, 2 problems found.
>
>(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.1p1)
>
Fire is a different Server in our network.
My own pc as well as Fire have the amanda-clients installed, but the
server does not seem to get a connection to them.
/etc/serveices seems to be OK :
>amanda 10080/udp # amanda backup
services
>kamanda 10081/tcp # amanda backup
services (Kerberos)
>kamanda 10081/udp # amanda backup
services (Kerberos)
>amandaidx 10082/tcp # amanda backup
services
>amidxtape 10083/tcp # amanda backup
services
/etc/xinetd.d contains (among others) the files amandidx and amidxtape.
In each of them I added a line "banner = /amandaidx.banner" (or
amidxtape.banner, respectively)
Each of the banner files contains only a message saying the service was
started.
But I never get the messages.
I tried the same trick with telnet, and there I got a message just
before the username question!
There is no output in /var/lib/amanda.
My Questions:
Is it true that You can't read from a port on Your loopback device You
are writing to?
A friend(a Win NT guru) told me so. If its true , what good is a
loopback device anyway?
Why are the amandidx and amidxtape services disabled by default(as
stated in their
respective files in /etc/xinetd.d)?
Why are there files for amandidx and amidxtape, but not for amanda
itself?
Do I have to run amanda as user operator or as root (i always tested
amanda as root.)
Any hints would be helpful!
Greetings
Dirk Engelmann
