Thanks. The latest release note (0.4b25) says:
Found a workaroung for the dump deadlock problem (3 childs stuck in pause(), father in read()). The workaround seems to work for me and several beta-testers. If it doesn't work for you, please report back. I didn't try it yet, but this looks like my problem. Vincent ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Baker-LePain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vincent GRENET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Amanda Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:30 PM Subject: Re: Dumper hangs > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 at 10:33am, Vincent GRENET wrote > > > Amanda dumper hangs sometimes; and backup fails with data timeout: > > > > I set dtimeout to 3600s; it hangs whether I use a holding disk or not. > > When the dump succeeds, it runs for 46 minutes. > > > > My configuration is a RHS 7.1 (amanda 2.4.2p2). > > Many people (myself included) have hit this issue with Linux dump (or > perhaps the combo of Linux dump and 2.4 kernels). You have two options. > You can upgrade to the latest dump/restore versions from > dump.sourceforge.net, and that may or may not fix the problem. It didn't > for me. Or you can switch to using GNUtar for your backups. This is what > I did, and haven't looked back. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University > >
