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>>>>> "Ulrik" == Ulrik Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ulrik> 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.]
Ulrik> I had similar failures (using tar) and the reason was slow
Ulrik> estimates. I changed to dump and it worked. Then I split the file
Ulrik> system into smaller parts and went back to tar. It continued to
Ulrik> work.
I use dump everywhere that I can, and often plan my file system sizes so
that I can always get a level 0 on a single tape.
Ulrik> I also increased the timeouts for estimates in amanda.conf
Ulrik> (etimeout) to 1200 seconds per file system.
That's the kind of thing I was looking for...
Still 5 minutes per-file system ought to have bene enough.
Ulrik> Another thing to check is the network bandwidth limit (netusage),
Ulrik> which I believe can cause trouble if it is incorrectly set. Mine
Ulrik> is set to 8000.
Hmm. My backup server actually has a 10Mb/s NIC card on a 100Mb/s hub. I
can easily change this, but I'm skeptical about this. Mine is set to 600KB.
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