On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 at 11:47am, Benjamin Gross wrote
> I've been having problems getting a successful level 0 backup from one
> of our servers. The amreport shows the following:
>
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>
> lopt /dev/hda1 lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]
> lopt /dev/hda1 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
>
> Here are some of the FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
>
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Feb 6 23:22:40 2002
> ...
> DUMP:Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Wed Feb 6 23:25:16 2002
> ...
> DUMP 2.42% done at 1455 kB/s, finished in 3:21
> ...
> DUMP: 61.83% done at 1543 kB/s, finished in 1:14
> --------
> This is were details ends. Incidently, it is about this far into the
> dump, when dump fails.
Let me guess -- this is a Linux client with a 2.4 kernel? There have been
numerous reports of date timeouts using dump on recent distros. Without
starting that flamewar up again (sorry John!), there are two solutions,
one of which may work and one of which will work:
1 (may work): Upgrade your dump/restore to the latest version available
from <http://dump.sourceforge.net>. I haven't used dump
with amanda in a while, so I have no idea if this will work.
2 (will work): Switch your dumptype to use tar instaed. Of course you
need to decide if this solution will work for you, but
it will get rid of the data timeouts. (Incidentally,
this is what I did.)
And, if I guessed wrong, then you need to look in your system logs for
anything strange going on with that disk.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
