>I had this problem and fixed it by specifying "holding-disk -1 local" in disklist for the partition holding ~amanda on the tape server, and specifying "-1 local" for the rest of the tape server partitions.
--> John Grover wrote:
--> --> > ? sendbackup: index tee cannot write [Broken pipe]
--> > ? index returned 1
--> > sendbackup: error [/usr/bin/tar got signal 13]
Clarifying -- I guess you had DLE's like:
host.domain /amanda holding-disk -1 local host.domain / comp-user-tar -1 local host.domain /home comp-user-tar -1 local
And with "comp-user-tar" instead of "holding-disk" on /amanda you would get the above error message.
"Holding-disk" results in backup to tape immediatly, bypassing the holdingdisk. Any idea how that could influence the index tee? Did the ~amanda also contain the holdingdisk? If yes, then it's obvious you had to specify it, otherwise tar could create a huge (infinite) backup image. Eventually you would run out of holdingdisk space.
Could it be triggered by the following sequence: Tar is reading some huge files, maybe compressing them too. This takes a long time; in the meanwhile the "index" tee times out in the server because the accompying index is only a few lines, and is still buffered in the client. But AFAIK there is no timeout on the index-tee, see dumper.c, line 1260 etc. Or there you should find some errors about "dup2", just before execlp the "gzip --best" for the index writer, or the gzip --best on the server crashed (how would you find out about this? there is no shell to log such a message). It could also be an output error in "gzip --best" because your disk got full. But then you should have found an message in the logs (or maybe not, because your disk was full :-) ).
Just trying to understand -- maybe we found some obscure bug.
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