You might poke around in your messages file on the server and client to see if there are any hardware errors popping up around the time this backup is running. I had a similar issue in that all was well except when I attempted to move huge amounts of data. Amanda logs were similar to yours. Then I happened to be downloading some large files and the connection would freeze. I eventually caught the errors in the local messages file and it turned out to be a bad NIC that would only fail under heavy loads.
Hope this helps, Jim On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:07, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > Hello, > > I have a directory with which amanda experiences timeouts problems > after adding a *lot* of files and directories in it (something of the > order of 500,000). How can I increase the timeout value (and which one > is it?). I'm running Amanda 2.4.3b4-20020829 (soon to upgraded > to 2.4.4) on an O2000 with irix-6.5. > > The log tells me: > > FAIL dumper bullcalf /data/nihpd/nihpd1/data 20030401 1 [data timeout] > sendbackup: start [bullcalf:/data/nihpd/nihpd1/data level 1] > sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/freeware/bin/tar > sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/freeware/bin/tar -f... - > sendbackup: info end > > and the debug file for sendbackup: > > sendbackup: debug 1 pid 2096793 ruid 666 euid 666: start at Tue Apr 1 03:44:35 2003 > /opt/amanda/amanda1/libexec/sendbackup: version 2.4.3b4-20020829 > parsed request as: program `GNUTAR' > disk `/data/nihpd/nihpd1/data' > device `/data/nihpd/nihpd1/data' > level 1 > since 2003:4:1:1:22:58 > options > `|;auth=bsd;index;exclude-list=.amanda-gnutar-exclude-list.txt;' > sendbackup: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536 > sendbackup: time 0.003: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.16399 > sendbackup: time 0.004: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.16400 > sendbackup: time 0.005: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.16401 > sendbackup: time 0.006: waiting for connect on 16399, then 16400, then 16401 > sendbackup: time 0.008: stream_accept: connection from 132.206.178.5.16633 > sendbackup: time 0.009: stream_accept: connection from 132.206.178.5.16634 > sendbackup: time 0.010: stream_accept: connection from 132.206.178.5.16635 > sendbackup: time 0.011: got all connections > sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.336: doing level 1 dump as listed-incremental from > /opt/amanda/amanda1/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/bullcalf_data_nihpd_nihpd1_data_0 to > /opt/amanda/amanda1/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/bullcalf_data_nihpd_nihpd1_data_1.new > sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.426: doing level 1 dump from date: 2003-04-01 1:22:59 GMT > sendbackup: Can't open exclude file > '/data/nihpd/nihpd1/data/.amanda-gnutar-exclude-list.txt': Permission denied > sendbackup: time 0.542: started index creator: "/usr/freeware/bin/tar -tf - > 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/^\.//'" > sendbackup: time 0.543: spawning /opt/amanda/amanda1/libexec/runtar in pipeline > sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory > /data/nihpd/nihpd1/data --one-file-system --listed-incremental > /opt/amanda/amanda1/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/bullcalf_data_nihpd_nihpd1_data_1.new > --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from > /tmp/amanda/sendbackup._data_nihpd_nihpd1_data.20030401034435.exclude . > sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.546: /opt/amanda/amanda1/libexec/runtar: pid 2098589 > sendbackup: time 4347.481: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] > sendbackup: time 4347.481: pid 2094342 finish time Tue Apr 1 04:57:02 2003 > sendbackup: time 4347.485: 124: strange(?): sendbackup: index tee cannot write > [Broken pipe] > > thanks, > jf >
