Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 04:19:52PM -0700, Kevin Till wrote:

Carl D. Blake wrote:

I am running a 2.4.2p2 amanda server which is attempting to backup a
machine with 2.5.1p1 amanda client (Debian Etch).  The server is backing
up several machines, but it seems to have trouble with the machines
which are running 2.5.1p1 client.  The symptom is that the server
reports that the sendsize failed.  The messages in the amdump log file
are:

...

the 2.5.1p1 client need to run auth="bsd" which is the only auth the Amanda 2.4.2p2 server understands.

Kevin,
does this mean that the 2.5.1 default authentication is different
than in the 2.4 releases and thus breaks backward compatibility
without some config changes?

Hi Jon,

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Thank you!
Kevin Till

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