I got one response telling me to make sure that the tar was gnu tar. All that checked out. Any other ideas? I'm really stuck here...
Many Thanks, -Brian Peterson -----Original Message----- From: Brian G. Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:28 AM I am working on setting up Amanda to back up machines in the DMZ to an Amanda host on the internal network with a large raid array rather than a tape drive. I am running Amanda 2.4.4 compiled from source. My installation was compiled with the --with-portrange=10085,10090 and --with-udpportrange=850,859 The dump of all volumes that use dump succeeds, both locally and on the remote server (Amanda client), but the remote dump that uses tar fails while a local tar dump succeeds. The Router for the internal network is allowing all TCP and UDP traffic on ports 10080-10090 and 850-859 through to the Amanda server (this router does not filter outbound traffic). For testing, the internal iptables firewall on the Amanda server is off, and the iptables firewall on the DMZ host (Amanda client) is set to allow all traffic on all ports from the Amanda server. Can somebody please give me some pointers on what can cause the connection reset error? I can't find anything like this via Google or on the Amanda Faq-o-matic. Thank you, - Brian Peterson FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: ethos.brav hdb1 lev 0 FAILED [mesg read: Connection reset by peer] FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- ethos.brav hdb1 lev 0 FAILED [mesg read: Connection reset by peer] sendbackup: start [ethos.braverock.com:hdb1 level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -f... - sendbackup: info end ? sed: couldn't write 76 items to {standard output}: Connection timed out \-------- Monitoring the dump shows that it gets 55-85% of the way through the dump before hanging and eventually failing. Things likely to be relevant from amanda.conf: tapetype HARD-DISK # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes below) tapedev "file:/home/raid/backup/amanda-backup/" holdingdisk hd1 { comment "main holding disk" directory "/home/raid/backup/amanda-backup/holding" } reserve 20 # percent define tapetype HARD-DISK { comment "hard drive raid array tape simulator" length 15000 mbytes } define dumptype hard-disk-dump { global comment "Hard disk backup to RAID array" holdingdisk yes priority high index yes } #failed with holdingdisk set to no as well define dumptype hard-disk-dump-tar { hard-disk-dump comment "Hard disk backup to RAID array using gnu tar" program "GNUTAR" compress server best exclude list "/etc/amanda/excludelist" } # of note here is that the dump failed with # compress on the client as well The disklist looks like this so far: localhost hdb2 hard-disk-dump localhost hdb1 hard-disk-dump-tar ethos.braverock.com hdb1 hard-disk-dump-tar ethos.braverock.com hda3 hard-disk-dump ethos.braverock.com hda6 hard-disk-dump