On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:05:57PM +0100, Yeates, Stephen [Heanet] wrote:
> Hi there,
>         Newbie question, I'm running amanda server on Debian Linux 
> amanda-server 2.4.2p2-4 
> 
> I get the above parse error 'parse of reply message failed'
> when backing up a Solaris 2.6 client running amanda-2.4.4
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this parsing error. 
> 
> A Google serch seems to suggest it's a problem with the client's version but
> I'm not sure, would appreciate any help or pointers.


My recollection is that a newer server can handle clients of all
previous 4.? clients.  However the newer versions added some optional
features that would stump older servers.  However if you do not use
these optional new features (not sure what they were :-( ) then you
should be compatible with new client and old server.

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