On Fri, 9 May 2003, Eric Sproul wrote:

> Is there anyone using AMANDA to back up pairs or clusters of
> high-availability boxen running Linux?  I've got my first HA pair

Not Linux, but a FreeBSD/freevrrpd/rsync HA pair.

I'd normally just point my server to the virtual IP address and backup
whichever is live at the moment....but since my HA pair is in the PSN/DMZ
of my firewall all return traffic to the amanda server must come from the
same IP that I connect to.  Since the virtual IP is an alias, and amanda
replies from the "main" address of the machine, the firewall blocks the
traffic.

If you don't have a firewall doing this, then this should work fine.

Until I, or someone, hacks amanda-client to reply from the same IP as it's
contacted with (or a configured IP) I just setup a /etc/hosts entry that
points to my current master machine...if they fail over for any period of
time I'll have to manually change the hosts entry.

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