On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:38 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > I have recently added a set of disks (file systems) to my back-up set > > and that ended up with a failure due to "data timeout". I didn't even > > know there was a dtimeout value to be specified in amanda.conf. I have > > learnt that it is an idle time measured against the disks in question. > > > > My question is now, how is this idle time measured and where is it > > reported? > > > > Only by knowing what amanda sees of the idle time am I able to specify a > > reasonable dtimeout value. > > I may be totally wrong here, but I don't think it is tracking "idle" time. > I believe it is total time to dump. This would take care of "stuck" or > "runaway" dump scenarios.
The documentation says: dtimeout int Default: 1800 seconds. Amount of idle time per disk on a given client that a dumper running from within amdump will wait before it fails with a data timeout error. > -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
