Hi,
Is there a way to make amanda start a backup immediately after estimating
a patition? Rather than waiting until all estimations are done.
My intermittent problems with backups timing out occuring only during
dumps (amcheck finds nothing) is still happening. However, I jacked up
the dtimeout in amanda.conf and that clipped the number of clients that
time out to a lower average (of 2 from 5). There does seem to be a
limit to the positive effects, though. I increased the etimeout to a
ridiculous number (999999), and had a higher ratio of timeouts occur. I
am currently testing out the maxdumps value to see if that has any effect.
For those of you with intermittent timeouts, try increasing the timeout
values (dtimeout, ctimeout, etimeout). My guess is that etimeout would
have less of an effect than dtimeout, if estimations are going fine.
But that's just a guess.
I notice that the partitions most likely to timeout are those that finish
estimation first. I was wondering if there's a way to get amanda to
start dumping a partition as soon as estimating that partition is
finished. I'd like to test it so the dumps don't need to wait for the
slowest estimation.
There doesn't seem to be anything I could find in the FAQ or lists.
Thanks in advance,
Lalo
