I would first take a look in /tmp/amanda/sendbackup.*debug on the client and find out how long actually it does take to do the backup of those filesystems. Then set "dtimeout" accordingly.
This is the file:
sendbackup: debug 1 pid 28647 ruid 33 euid 33 start time Mon Mar 22 04:02:35 2004 /usr/lib/amanda/sendbackup: version 2.4.2p2 sendbackup: got input request: GNUTAR /var 0 1970:1:1:0:0:0 OPTIONS |;bsd-auth; parsed request as: program `GNUTAR' disk `/var' lev 0 since 1970:1:1:0:0:0 opt `|;bsd-auth;' sendbackup: try_socksize: send buffer size is 65536 sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.37822 sendbackup: stream_server: waiting for connection: 0.0.0.0.37823 waiting for connect on 37822, then 37823 sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 127.0.0.1.37824 sendbackup: stream_accept: connection from 127.0.0.1.37825 got all connections sendbackup-gnutar: doing level 0 dump as listed-incremental to /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/whitehat_var_0.new sendbackup-gnutar: doing level 0 dump from date: 1970-01-01 0:00:00 GMT sendbackup: spawning /usr/lib/amanda/runtar in pipeline sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory /var --one-file-system --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/whitehat_var_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals . sendbackup-gnutar: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 28648
I can't see a time anywhere?
That's because it seems gnutar is crashed a little later. The last line of the file should be something like:
sendbackup: time 1234.123: pid 1234 finish time Mon Apr 1 03:04:13 2004
The "time 1234.123" is only added in later versions (2.4.3 I believe). But there should be a 'finish' line. Maybe you can find out something about the modification time of the file (or last access time, but before you take a look a the contents!). Any error message in runtar.* files? I would try to run the gtar command above by hand:
gtar --create --file - --directory /var ... \
--etc --etc \
--totals . | cat > /dev/null(Do not simplify this to ... --file /dev/null ... because then gtar will NOT do a normal backup.)
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