On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Steve Wray<steve.wray AT cwa.co DOT nz> wrote:
> I had seen some mention of broadcast being used by amanda to locate tape
> servers or something...

Not that I know of -- we've had vague ideas of supporting discovery of
clients using bonjour or something like that, but certainly nothing is
implemented.  Also, the Amanda server is the same thing as the tape
server, so there's no need for discovery.

> But this problem turned out to be a misconfiguration on one of the ISPs
> routers which was exacerbated by our amanda backup runs. They then proceeded
> to blame the backup process for the problem until I did a test run during
> the day while they were watching.

Glad that got straightened out.

Dustin

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