Steve Wray wrote:

Hi there,

I've been reading this thread;

http://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users AT amanda DOT org/msg27491.html

which is interesting because we've been experiencing a very similar problem since upgrading 2.6.8 to 2.6.9 on a small cluster here.

The amanda connection tracking is all built into the kernel, not modules; but it was like that when the backups worked.

CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP was disabled in both the amanda-working and non-working kernels.

In fact, there don't seem to be a lot of differences between these kernels. I'll attach the diff here in case it helps! The ones prefixed wth '-' is the non-amanda-working config, the ones with the '+' are the amanda-working config.

I'm hoping that we can get this going without having to install a new kernel...

Any ideas?

I found a woody backport of amanda 2.4.4p3 here;
http://www.localguru.de/debian/woody/amanda/

and applied this to the backup server; everything now works.