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:brian AT braverock DOT com]
>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

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