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Re: CPIO-SN #11980105: Amanda v2.3.0.4 Backup Software (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joey N.)
Tue Jan 13 00:24:40 1998
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:38:17 -0800
Reply-To: "Joey N." <joey@CORINNE.CPIO.ORG>
From: "Joey N." <joey@CORINNE.CPIO.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 23:10:10 -0500
To: "Joey N." <joey@corinne.cpio.org>
Subject: Re: CPIO-SN #11980105: Amanda v2.3.0.4 Backup Software (fwd)
Thanks for the updated copy.
>... The only known workaround at this
>time is to completely disable Amanda.
That's a little (OK, a lot) excessive. The problems you describe in
this particular report are with amindexd and amidxtaped. So all a site
has to do is disable them in inetd.conf. They are not needed for the
backing up that Amanda does, and restores can be done without them.