There is a diagram in the Amanda wiki that shows how backup process works in Amanda. http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Software_architecture
There is information on how the ports used during backup process (bsd authentication). See http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/TCP/UDP_ports Reading Thanks, Paddy On 6/23/06, silpa kala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I am silpakala. I need one help. I want to understand the basic flow of amanda i.e., a. Planner explains about the configuration stuff. b. driver acts as an interface between the planner and dumper/taper. I understood that they are using the socket communication between the planner and dumper. Why it is required. c. Suppose the taper is taking the data from the holding disk to tape. Here Whether the socket communication is required between the dumper and taper. d. What is the noop request. e.Amandad service is connecting to the specific port 10080 in the client side. But the server side which module is directly interacting with the client. Basically i need socket communication between the client and server, where exactly the client is blocking to accept the server connection, Which server module is connecting to which client module, Why the dumper and taper executables are going into /usr/local/libexec (client-specific) directory. Mainly how the sockets are implemented. Suppose if i want to take the backup for the server itself then the socket connection is used for amanda. Is there any way we can elimintate the sockets if we want to take the backup only for the server. please provide the details. Please help me out in this. Thank you very much. Regards, Silpakala __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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