On Wednesday 25 June 2003 18:37, Brian G. Peterson wrote: >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...
Perchance have you got another older version of tar thats found first in the $PATH? Do a 'which tar' and see if that is the same one you checked. On the client of course. >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 -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.