On Sun, 5 May 2002, Niall O Broin wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 08:02:58PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > > > The three behind the firewall fail frequently, but not 100% of the time. > > I setup backups for just those hosts, and watch with tcpdump. I've built with > > the appropriate port ranges, but I never seen firewall failures, yet I get > > failures. > > Speak to me brother ! I've been posting about a similar problem here but > I've got no responses. Do you get messages like these in the report: > > serv1 /boot lev 0 FAILED [Request to serv1 timed out.] > serv1 / lev 0 FAILED [Request to serv1 timed out.]
I had similar failures (using tar) and the reason was slow estimates. I changed to dump and it worked. Then I split the file system into smaller parts and went back to tar. It continued to work. I also increased the timeouts for estimates in amanda.conf (etimeout) to 1200 seconds per file system. Another thing to check is the network bandwidth limit (netusage), which I believe can cause trouble if it is incorrectly set. Mine is set to 8000. -- Ulrik Sandberg
