On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:07:56AM -0500, Zembower, Kevin enlightened us:
> I'm trying to backup my RHEL4 host 'www' using my Debian amanda server
> 'centernet.' Centernet backs up itself successfully, but can't back up
> the remote host www. I installed amanda-common, amanda-server and
> amanda-client from the Debian sarge packages on centernet, and
> amanda-client-2.4.4p3-1 and amanda-2.4.4p3-1 from the RHEL4 packages on
> www. The information at the end of this post shows the tcpdump of
> packets received on www when I do 'amcheck -c DBackup', which shows that
> they seem to be arriving at the host, but I get 'port amanda
> unreachable'. netstat doesn't show the amanda port open, but I'm not
> sure if it should (this is the only remote host I back up, so no
> compar4ison is possible). The xinet.d/amanda file seems correct; the
> backup host on www is 'amanda' and the backup host on the tapeserver
> centernet is 'backkup,' but I think I've got the correct answers in
> /var/lig/amanda/.amandahosts. The amanda debug files from the tapehost
> don't seem to show anything odd.
> 
> Thanks for any help or suggestions in troubleshooting this problem.
> 

Did you run:

# chkconfig amanda on
# service xinetd restart

?

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
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