On Saturday 25 January 2003 11:13, John R. Jackson wrote:
>>I'm not sure its possible to run concurrent Amanda's (at least
>> not without compiling different versions using different ports,
>> etc).
>
>It depends a little on your environment.  If you can partition the
> clients into separate groups (i.e. the same client is not in more
> than one Amanda configuration), you can run multiple Amanda
> servers at the same time. I used to do this quite a bit through
> our robot with several tape drives.
>
>If you cannot easily divide up the clients, then, as Chris Karakas
> says, there is a *high* probability multiple servers will go
> after the same client at the same time and only one will "win".
>
>We need to do this here for our end of semester checkpoint (full
> dump), so I wrote a very small patch to add a "servicename" entry
> to amanda.conf. It lets me tell a given configuration to use
> (e.g.) "amanda-alt1" instead of "amanda" as the service to
> connect to on the client.  This is essentially a runtime version
> of the AMANDA_SERVICE_NAME configuration time variable.  Then I
> have multiple inetd entries listening on all the potential
> services.  Works great.
>
>I haven't put this change into the source tree because it's a hack
> and I think the whole arrangement should be thought through
> again, but if anyone wants it:
>
>  http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu/~jrj/Backups/servicename.diff
>
>Or (since this web server appears to be down at the moment):

John, if you check bugtraq, a new, very virilent worm is about on 
the internet, taking control of MS SQL Server 2000 machines since 
about 3am this morning.  Doing its damage thru udp port 1434, its 
data flood is causeing routers all over the world to upchuck.  If 
you have any of those, get that port blocked at the firewall asap.

Actually, that would seem to be good advice of anybody running that 
software.  I don't know if there is a patchfix from MS yet or not.  
I think I saw it mentioned in one bugtraq message, but I wasn't 
awake at the time I read it, sorry.

>  ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/servicename.diff
>
>I don't recall what version of Amanda this applies to, but it's a
> trivial change that should be easy to tweak to fit.
>
>>Frank
>
>John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, jrj AT purdue DOT edu
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