Hi, Zoltan Kato, on Dienstag, 11. November 2003 at 20:50 you wrote to amanda-users:
ZK> Looks like the estimate has timed out after a 1/2 hour. I do not know why ZK> estimation takes so long. What is more interesting: after amdump has ZK> finished there is still a gtar process running. As Jay and Frank already have recommended, I think increasing the etimeout value is the way to go. According to your posting you have 300 seconds for that right now ... thatīs 5 minutes. This is the default value and seems too low for your situation. You have loads of files on that partition, so tar has lots of work to do, as your former posting of the output of top shows. The sendsize.debug files in your /tmp/amanda-directory (or whereever your amanda-installation puts its logfiles ....) tell you about the commands Amanda uses for estimating. You can find those commands by looking for lines containing something like > getting size via gnutar for /home level 0 Some lines later there follows something like > argument list: /bin/tar .... Run that command manually, maybe even using the time-command: # time tar ... This will run for a while, giving back the time it took. Set your etimeout somewhat higher and try a run again. --- Otherwise set it up to something like 3600 (one hour) and try that. --- Another way would be to split the /home-directory into some smaller disklist entries. But more on that later if necessary. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]