amanda is so last-century

what about rsnapshot or boxbackup ?

stan [st...@panix.com] wrote:
> I am in the process of upgrading various older OpenBSD machines to 4.5. As
> a part of this I am upgrading the Amanda clients on them. 
> 
> I have discoverd that (at least on 4,5) somewhere between Amanda version
> 2.50.p1 and 2.5.2p1, they changed something that is causing it to fail, on
> OpenBSD 4.5. here is the error message that I am getting:
> 
> 192.168.1.2:wd0f 0  dumper: [could not connect DATA stream: can't connect
> stream to 192.168.1.2 port 24376: Connection refused] (13:48:23)
> 
> This is on a network that consists of only a crossover cable to eliminate
> firewall issues. 
> 
> Amanda runs a daemon on the client, that runs as use amanda. This daemon
> and the Master Amanda amchine set up various streams of communications that
> pas data and cotrol signals back and forth. 
> 
> Is there some reason that the daemon could nut open a socket in this port
> range?
> 
> 
> -- 
> One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking
> zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
> programs.

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