>You can just crank up MAX_DGRAM to 65535 in common-src/dgram.h and rebuild
>both your client and server. Or you could upgrade both to 2.4.2p2.
>And if you get there, I can (re)send you the patch that works around
>this problem completely.
i'm on debian, so i used 'apt-get source --compile amanda'. i
am not immediately sure how to integrate user patches into the
process (or rather, how to get apt-get to run modified source
package scripts other than through the initial apt-get source
command). is this a patch that segments the request into
multiple packets (i've heard talk of this), and if so, would
that break older clients?
>>but this seems to be due to amanda sending out two
>>lines for backups for each disk, one with the UTC origin date
>>(1970), and the other the apparently valid request. here's a
>>pair of lines:
>>
>>GNUTAR //winhost/profiles 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 1 exclude-list=/etc/amanda/exclude.
>>gtar
>>
>>GNUTAR //winhost/profiles 1 2001:7:24:7:33:5 1 exclude-list=/etc/amanda/exclud
>>e.gtar
>
>The first is a request for a level 0 (full) estimate, and the second
>is for a level 1. So they are not duplicates, and both are required.
>
>They could probably be abbreviated (level 0 always uses that same 1970)
>date, and the exclude list only needs to show up once), but that will
>require a protocol change (i.e. both client and server will have to know
>what the other is doing).
in all honesty, i cannot see any changes made to the disklist
or other files that would increase the size of the request, ie
i don't know why this just decided to happen the other day and
not from the get go. i also can't understand the two separate
size requests. why does it ask for a level 0 size *and* a
level 1 size? it seems that this is the only reason that it
is exceding the dgram capacity (ie, i suspect that that 1970-
stamped level 0 request did not happen before, OR at least not
in combination with the level 1 requests), since i haven't
added any additional 'disks' to backup on the host.
sorry if i am not being clear. do you understand what i am
trying to say about the dgram size issue?
thanks john,
-c
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