"Paul G. Allen" wrote:
> 

[SNIP]
> 
> So far though, it's backed up 6 tapes worth of data and is on the
> seventh. It's currently doing one of the NFS mounted drives (the largest
> one at over 11GB). When it's done I'll see about getting the xinetd
> problem resolved. To answer Gene's question, yes the .amandahosts file
> is setup on both machines, passwords sync'ed, etc. To answer another,
> when I look at it again I'll run tcpdump and/or iptraf and see if they
> are even attempting to talk. The machines are connected to a 10/100
> switch that has a cable/DSL firewall/router built in (Netgear RO318,
> latest firmware). Just to make sure, I disabled the blocking of the
> ports that Amanda is using, but it made no difference (as it shouldn't -
> the router should only block packets going to/coming from the cable
> modem, not traversing the internal LAN). I double and triple checked the
> firewalls on both machines (ipchains/iptables) and made sure they were
> not blocking anything.
> 

Well, I think I goofed. The backup finished, but not successfully. I ran
out of tapes, though I shouldn't have. I think the problem is that the
drive has hardware compression turned on (IIRC, it's a dip switch and I
have to take the cover off the changer to switch it off), and I was
using software compression to archive. That generally grows the data,
not to mention my ftp dir. has many .tgz files in it (so those probably
got REALLY big :)

So, I'll have to check the drive later today, reconfigure the backup,
and try it again The Right Way. I still need to look at the xinetd
problem though. All in due time.

The good news is, after writing my own changer script and changing the
scsi-changer and Amanda code a little, I can use this changer to back up
my systems.

PGA
-- 
Paul G. Allen
Owner, Sr. Engineer, Security Specialist
Random Logic/Dream Park
www.randomlogic.com