[Gllug] Bash/Shell Script repository.

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Sat Feb 5 19:06:10 UTC 2005


On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 06:35:58PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Bruce Richardson writes:
> 
> >The main amanda protocol operates over udp.
> 
> Yikes! That's not even remotely sane when you need data integrity...

Ah, I should clarify: the backup images are transmitted via tcp but the
control communications between client and server use udp.   It's quite
complex and not at all easy to lock down or secure:

http://www.amanda.org/docs/portusage.html

-- 
Bruce

What would Edward Woodward do?
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