When I run the dump though, it calculates what it needs to do, gets to the "driver: hdisk-state time xxx" line, and
Do you mean that the line is truncated after the time? It should look like:
driver: hdisk-state time 996.043 hdisk 0: free 22386164 dumpers 16
i.e. it should continue with a state of each holdingdisk. Is there a newline or not? (a newline, means: no holdingdisks) (Yes, it seems you don't use a holdingdisk, then this is normal.)
Just after it, there should be messages about the portusage of each client which connects to dumper.
$ ps -eo user,comm,pid,wchan | grep ^amanda
amanda amdump 9302 wait4
amanda driver 9315 do_select
amanda taper 9316 unix_stream_data_wait
amanda dumper 9317 unix_stream_data_wait
amanda dumper 9318 unix_stream_data_wait
amanda dumper 9319 unix_stream_data_wait
amanda taper 9320 pipe_wait
I would expect at least a "amandad" or one of its children be there to (if indeed the client is the same as the server). Is there a local firewall installed/activated?
amanda is just stuck, doesn't timeout, doesn't do anything, just sits there.
Or times out after a very long time?
$ cat normal/amanda.conf | grep -v ^\#...
runspercycle 0
Strange, but probably no error. Change into some real value to be very sure this is not the cause.
define dumptype tardump {
comment "uses GNU tar"
compress none
holdingdisk no
ignore no
index yes
program "GNUTAR"
record no
starttime 0001
}
I never tried the "starttime" option. Could this be the problem?
driver: hdisk-state time 100.388
Just after it, there should be messages about the tcp connections (the estimate were done in udp datagrams). Maybe some problem here?
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