On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 01:41:01PM -0400, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello amanda-users, > > I'm still working at this :-( > > I have the amanda server installed on a dedicated server. I'm trying to > backup a filesystem on one of my clients. > > I keep getting a data timeout on this client, and the filesystem does > not get backed up. > > The filesystem in question has about 26 gig of data, in about 2.5 > million files. > > The funny thing is that even though amdump reports a data timeout, I can > see gtar still running on my client I can also see sendbackup still > running. The active gtar is taking up nearly 97 meg of memory at the > time that amdump fails. > > I have dtimeout set to 7200. > > The client is a dual cpu P4, running at 866 Mhz each, with 1 gig of > memory. It is running RedHat 7.1. > > Both systems are running Amanda 2.4.4p1 > > There are no IP filters on either system. I can successfully back up > smaller filesystems on the client.
Might those other file systems be on the same disk drive and be getting dumped at the same time, thus causing a lot of contention for the drive and slowing down the individual dumps. This is the situation that the optional "spindle" number in the disklist is meant to avoid. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
