2005/8/30, LaValley, Brian E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can someone please help me get to the bottom of this issue? I have Amanda > 2.4.4p2 on a Fedora Core 3 machine which is the tape server. It has no > trouble backing up itself and other Linux machines. The trouble comes with > a Sun Solaris 8 client which never completes its estimate. I tried to keep > increasing the etimeout value, but I am at 29600 and am wondering how far I > should go? Is there some other part I should be looking at? Thank you. >
Is ths sun box behind a firewall ? If so, there may be issues with the firewall. You have to increase some retention time parameters for UDP packets.
