Hi Mark

Whats does your clients debug file state.

amcheck.date.debug

Mine is configured in /tmp/amanda

I had a timeout issue thus had to increase my timeout using ipchains.

Cheers


On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 09:45 +0100, Mary Kennedy wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I know this has come up a lot with amanda, but I have followed what I have 
> read and still have issues backing up clients located behind a firewall.
> My server is in the internal network and the client is behind the firewall. 
> I receive the following error and very little else.
> /home  lev 0  FAILED [mesg read: Connection timed out]
> 
> My server is configured with the following config statement:
> ./configure --prefix /opt/backups --with-user=<amandaUser> 
> --with-group=<amandaGroup> --with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient 
> --with-gnutar=/bin/tar 
> --with-gnutar-listdir=/opt/backups/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/ 
> --with-index-server=<amandaServerName> --with-tape-server=<amandaServerName> 
> --with-tape-device=/dev/nst0 --with-portrange=850,859 
> --with-udpportrange=850,859
> 
> My Client is configured with the following config statement:
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/backups --with-user=<amandaUser> 
> --with-group=amandaGroup> --with-gnutar=/bin/tar --without-server 
> --with-portrange=850,859 --with-udpportrange=850,859
> 
> My firewall has the following ports open:
> 10080, 10082, 10083, 850  859 (UDP & TCP in both directions between client 
> and server)
> 
> The version of Amanda is Amanda-2.4.5p1.
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas of what I am missing here, please?
> 
> Thanks
> Mary.
> 
> 
> 
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