Re: hosts timing out on amdump but not amcheck

[Richard Morse]

Regarding the time outs, look in the logs on the client, for 
sendsize*debug (I think) -- see how long it takes to get the estimate 
for the various drives.  Then, check to see that your etimeout is large 
enough...

HTH,
Ricky
On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 12:20  PM, justin m. clayton wrote:

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, this has not proved to be the 
solution
to my problem. Suddenly, however, one of the machines (still on 
autoneg,
btw) began working, without any warning or me touching it. All others 
are
still timing out on amdump (though amcheck still works).

--Justin

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Amanda Admin wrote:

Justin,

This sounds like the symptoms others on the amanda list have 
attributed to
half/full duplex network interface and/or switch problems.

I seem to recall a posting just recently saying that (the built-in eth
interface on ??) Solaris had a particular affinity towards incorrect 
duplex
detection. Maybe a search of the archives on this topic wwill turn up 
some
details.

Doug

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Subject: Re: hosts timing out on amdump but not amcheck
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 at 9:15am, justin m. clayton wrote

First of all, thanks to all who helped me track down my NAK
problems from
last week. Having fixed that, all backup hosts pass amcheck
with flying
colors. However, when it comes time for the amdump, my log
report claims
"Request to <host> timed out" when I return the following morning.
However, if I run amcheck again, no hosts report problems.
This has been
going on for a number of days now. I am getting "Read error at byte
0...:Bad file number" on some hosts (via
/tmp/amanda/sendsize.*), and some
are reporting "amandad: dgram_recv: timeout after 10 seconds
amandad: waiting for ack: timeout, retrying" (via
/tmp/amanda/amandad.*).
Strangely, though, the symptom is the same for all machines.
What OS/distro?  Are there firewalls in the way?
The clients are Solaris 8, the server is stable Debian linux, both 
using
2.4.2p2. No firewalls in the way. This configuration has worked in 
the
past.

Justin Clayton
VLSI Research System Administrator
University of Washington
Electrical Engineering Dept
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
206/543.2523  EE/CSE 307E


Justin Clayton
VLSI Research System Administrator
University of Washington
Electrical Engineering Dept
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
206/543.2523  EE/CSE 307E