On Wednesday 19 May 2004 17:48, Kris Vassallo wrote: >AMANDA is starting to drive me nucking futs.. seems as if every week >something new breaks and I can't find the answer to why. >Here's whats going on... AMANDA sends me an email with the following >information: > >These dumps were to tape DailySet118. >The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. > >FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > bda2.berke //illustrator/BDA_Manual lev 1 STRANGE > venus.berk /home lev 1 FAILED [data timeout] >*SNIP* >/-- venus.berk /home lev 1 FAILED [data timeout]
Please note it says "data timeout" here. >sendbackup: start [venus.berkeley-da.com:/home level 1] >sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar >sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... - >sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz >sendbackup: info end > >Previously something else was broken and I set the etimeout a bit >higher. I have now raised the etimeout to 10000 and it didn't fix >anything. This backup was working last week and now all of a sudden > it doesn't. It is trying to backup a 266GB file system and the disk > that AMANDA is dumping to has 420GB available. Any idea on what > would be causing this? You need to raise dtimeout in this case. However, I'd investigate to see if a reason for the slowness of this client can be found. My one client usually beats the server in the amount of time it takes. A bad NIC, hub/switch or cable maybe? Something else hogging the bandwidth at that time of the night? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
