* Bort, Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Does it only ever get this error on level 0 backups, or does it happen on
> all backups ever since a certain date/event/upgrade? 
> 
> I suspect that the client 'tarsier' has a copy of amandad already loaded,
> and that copy thinks that it's in the middle of a backup, and won't talk to
> any server that wants to do another backup. 
> 
> The dirty fix I have used for this is to send a -HUP to the amandad on the
> client and hope it exits gracefully. You might also need to restart inetd if
> amandad is being called by inetd. 

I checked to see if there was an amandad process running on the remote
host and there wasn't, but I hadn't thought about inetd.  I HUPped inetd,
I'll see if it is happier tonight.  Thanks.

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