On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 at 11:06am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I'm now running 2.4.2p2 and one of the partitions I have to backup > is 53GB. With the values etimeout=5000 and dtimeout=5800 it still > gives a data timeout. I was wondering what would be appropriate > values for these for these two settings (Allowing for future > expansion)? Is there a way of working this out or is it merly a case > of upping the value until the backup works, or is there some sort of > ready reckoner? > > It's worth noting that this 56GB partion is on the same host as the > amanda server i.e. localhost, so the speed of our network should > not come into the calculation.
You must be using some big tapes... Some more info would be helpful here: o OS of amanda server o dump or tar? o filesystem used on the 56GB partition Also, are they *always* date timeouts, or do you get estimate timeouts as well. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
