Martin Apel wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> there has been some discussion on this list related to the size of a datagram
> which is sent during the estimate phase. The original 2.4.1p1 size was 8 KB;
> Alexandre and John both recommended increasing it to 64 KB if one machine
> has very many filesystems to estimate.
> One of my machines has 39 filesystems to back up, which seems to be too many,
> because the path names to each of these filesystem are rather long.
> If I reduce the number by a few everything works fine.
> Is there any problem in raising the maximum datagram size any further
> (Linux 2.2 for client and server) or is there any other recommended way
> to deal with this problem?
>
> Martin
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Hmmmm. Is there a limit on the number of file systems a single machine can back
up? The reason why I am asking is that I have a machine which is the backup
server (2.4.1p1 on Linux 2.2.17) and also a backup client and also runs samba
(2.0.7), so it is backing up all of the PCs. But it does not work well, and
I am pulling out my hair (what's left of it, anyway) trying to troubleshoot it.
I'd like to suggest an enhancement for a future version of amanda: if the same
machine is both server and client, that communications should be via pipes or
IPC instead of UDP. Then you don't have to worry about security, or inetd.
True, it makes the client and the server more complicated, but you get better
performance and reliability.
Jeff
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