Hello all!

I just noticed that on one of my machines having a hard time being backed up it 
was missing the last 'amandad' in the inetd.conf entry. What I mean is that it 
read:

  amanda dgram udp wait dumper /usr/local/libexec/amanda/amandad

instead of

  amanda dgram udp wait dumper /usr/local/libexec/amanda/amandad amandad

Would this typo prevent the machine from being archived? The amanda reports it 
as failed with a request timeout.

I suspect there are other problems because it's in our DMZ, while the backup 
server is in the LAN. If I understand how Amanda operates:
1) A TCP connection is made from server --> client effectively saying "backup 
now".
2) That connection is dropped while the client uses dump/tar/whatever.
3) When the client is done with dump/tar/whatever it establishes another 
connection to the 
   server (client --> server) and sends back data.

Is that the correct high-level process? If not, what have I missed?

-- 
David Olbersen 
iGuard Engineer
St. Bernard Software
15015 Avenue of Sciences
San Diego, CA 92127 
x2152