Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:32:22AM -0800, Mike Heller wrote:

I fixed the problem of the "high server load" by installing amanda version 2.4.4p1 on the server and the clients.

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But the backups fail. Checking the logs in /tmp/amanda (on the clients), I see things like:

sendbackup: time 0.000: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.33011
sendbackup: time 0.001: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.33012
sendbackup: time 0.001: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.33013
sendbackup: time 0.001: waiting for connect on 33011, then 33012, then 33013
sendbackup: time 29.991: stream_accept: timeout after 30 seconds
sendbackup: time 29.991: timeout on data port 33011
sendbackup: time 59.991: stream_accept: timeout after 30 seconds
sendbackup: time 59.991: timeout on mesg port 33012
sendbackup: time 89.991: stream_accept: timeout after 30 seconds
sendbackup: time 89.991: timeout on index port 33013
sendbackup: time 89.991: pid 1873 finish time Thu Jan  8 01:05:15 2004

All hosts were configured with:

--with-tcpportrange=850,854 --with-udpportrange=850,854

So why am I getting connections on port 33011? I have 850-854 opened on the firewall, but if it's trying to connect on 33xxx then of course it's not going to work.

Note, I'm speaking from a position of ZERO experience on this:

From the PORT.USAGE document:

  Pick the max of (2 * inparallel) and (3 * largest maxdumps).
  Allocate at least that many ports in the unprivileged
  (1024 or larger) range.

Three questions:

Did you allocate sufficient number of ports?

Are they in the unprivileged range?

http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/139.html

Is the proper syntax for the option ...=N1,N2 or ...=N1-N2?

So the command I used --with-tcpportrange=850,854 should be correct.

Mike